floor. when the tsarnaev brothers phone was accessed and it was run against the numbers, there was some suspicion that additional terrorist activity of woke place in new york and that wasn t the case there weren t the connections made. so far, senator rand paul threatening to force the patriot act to expire has not spoken. we will monitor this throughout the afternoon and bring you updates. five taliban militants released by the u.s. last year in exchange for u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl could be free to travel within hours. ever since their release from guantanamo bay last may, they have been living in cater under surveillance but their one-year travel ban is to about expire. the worry for the u.s. of course they could return to the battlefield in afghanistan. cnn s nick valencia is here with more on this. so the talks about this have been ongoing all weekend. according to senior administration officials, this he have been talking all weekend with the governments of afghani
metadata out of the government s hands to the phone companies where the government would have to request access to it and that enough to help the concern you and others have had in the u.s.? the answer is yes and no. i think moving the data out of the government is a an important step, and i have been lobbying for two years just for that step and the problem i have currently drafted, it has no problem that the phone companies hold the data for a particular period of time. i think it s really important for people to understand we are not talking about the content of phone conversations here. nine out of ten people i talk to on the street say i don t want nsa listening to my phone calls, and that s not what we are talking about. it s the numbers called and not any content. for example, the tsarnaev brothers who bombed boston they
pakistan. that in this struggle this lonely struggle in the u.s. is where his extremist views really found a new way, a new form. let me go to you. in terms of a pattern we re seeing obviously each of these suspects is different. but the pattern in terms of it s usually a pair of young men. one of whom seems to be more radicalized and offers a sort of radical tutelage to a younger or another man, whether it s a brother, as in the tsarnaev brothers or the koachi brothers or in this particular case. tell me what you think about that model as far as something the fbi or counterintelligence services may now be working on. i believe most lone wolf operatives or individuals who might become disenfranchised have to find some sort of support system or some sort of backup. and they find that with their peers, whether their peers
deliberations on a much tougher question. should tsarnaev be put to death for this? this really gets to the heart of the debate over whether we should have a death penalty in this country at all. after all, there is no question here of guilt. and the scale of tsarnaev s deeds is about as wicked as you could imagine. if we re going to have a death penalty in this country, this would seem to be the kind of case to use it on. and yet there are plenty of voices saying no. my heart goes out to the families here but i don t support the death penalty. i think that he should spend his life in jail no possibility of parole, he should die in prison. in fact a majority of people in boston the city that was terrorized by the tsarnaev brothers, seems to agree with that. 62% of bostonians saying they want tsarnaev to get life in prison without parole. but some longstanding death penalty opponents are also reconsidering in light of this case. former boston mayor ray flynn writing in the boston h
this has been a painful emotional day in the courtroom. the prosecution is moving to retell the story they put together in over 15 days of testimony which they called 92 different witnesses. they re showing heartbreaking images graphic images of the deaths and and devastation that followed in the path of tsarnaev brothers the prosecution alleges. they re trueing to tell a narrative in which dzhokhar was an equal partner with his brother. in the closing statements the prosecution doing everything they can to tell the jury he participated in a number of crimes. we re talking 30 different charges. they want the jury to go back in the room to deliberate and consider the brothers as equal partners because just one is able to stand trial for these crimes. so key to their case. we ll be watching with you in key moments. alex thank you. the state s closing arguments