over at the mosque interviewing people there who knew these two brothers. mosque officials tell us some of the leaders of the mosque have been interviewed by members of the fbi. interestingly enough, too, they tell us the night that dzhokhar tsarnaev was captured, people at the mosque volunteered to go over to that watertown location and try to talk him out of the boat peacefully. i doubt anything was followed up, police were there and talking to them at the time, but the people at the mosque volunteered to do that. brian todd, thank you very much for that report. this is cnn breaking news. all right. we re just getting this in. the new york times has just released the transcript of the exchange that a federal magistrate had today at the bedside of this 19-year-old terror suspect over at the beth israel medical center, including the reading of his miranda rights, the reading of the formal charges, the presentation
of the public attorney that will represent dzhokhar tsarnaev. this transcript is not very long. it s about eight pages, double spaced, but it does show the defendant, the suspect in this case, nodding affirmatively to several series of questions, and at one point when he was specifically asked, do you need a public defender, do you have enough money to pay for an attorney, he said when he was asked about the money part, he said he uttered the word no, according to this affidavit. you can see there, can you afford a lawyer, the defendant, no. this is a transcript according to the new york times that has been released by the united states district court, district of massachusetts, united states v. dzhokhar tsarnaev. let me read to you some of the exchanges that occurred, then. the court, this is the judge who s at the bedside. i will ask the doctor whether or not the patient is alert. you can rouse him. dr. odom, the physician on call
states. mr. thick, who s the attorney that represents tsarnaev. good morning, your honor, william thicke for mr. tsarnaev. the court, that s the judge magistrate, and you have had an opportunity to speak with him. mr. thicke says very briefly, your honor. the judge, so you have your lawyers here? and then the defendant nods affirmatively, according to this transcript. then the judge says, mr. tsarnaev, i am the magistrate. this hearing is your initial appearance before the court. we are here because you have been charged in a federal complaint. at this hearing, i will advise you of your constitutional and legal rights. i will tell you about the charges against you and the penalties that the court could impose if you are found guilty. you have been charged with, one, use of a weapon of mass destruction in violation of 18 united states code section 2332-a and malicious destruction of property resulting in death in violation of 18 united states
i don t know what s in the transcript. the transcript we just read it to our viewers, it s simply the judge reading the miranda rights, making sure that the suspect in this case fully understands he has the right to remain silent and all of that. also noting that public defender has been appointed to represent him as attorney. it was just standard stuff like that. no details about the alleged plot. you re right, there was suggest in the car they started speaking in a foreign language and the driver, the person who was hijacked, carjacked, if you will, thought he heard the word manhattan. what i hear you saying, federal authorities, terrorism authorities, have not said to you anything along the lines these two guys were ready to take a pressure cooker bomb into manhattan or anything along those lines. that has not been conveyed to
clearly, he nods most times in this transcript, but he does say the word no, so we know he can speak. and at the end of the transcript, the judge makes the observation on the record that he is competent, he s lucid, and that he s alert. also very important in terms of understanding the defendant s condition. if i can just make another point tom fuentes go ahead, jeffrey. it s just that william thick is the defense lawyer and not only is he highly regarded, he spent six years working in russia and he s fluent in russian, which i think could come in very handy in the course of this investigation. plays a role in this, both of these suspects, including the one, the 19 year old who has survived this whole ordeal, if you will, he was a young boy, only 8 or 9 years old when he came to the united states from russia, but certainly russia plays a role.