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A customs agent took me into a back room dragging my suitcase with me. he says, take off your shirt. and then what do you have under the cast? i says, nothing. i am shouting to him -- >> im injured. >> he feels that i am tightening my stomach and he says, loosen up, loosen up. and i dont. and he slaps me in the face. i thought, oh, this is serious. he gets out these pliers and he feels a rustle. he shouts -- >> drugs. drugs. >> and a doctor comes and he just cuts the cast off.

And so, i kept thinking, i ought to go back to south america and get some more coke. i had put casts on people with broken limbs and while i was doing it one day i thought, why couldnt i put cocaine in a cast? no customs agent would ever check that. and i thought, yes. it has to work. my plan was to fake having a mountain climbing accident with a broken shoulder. i would then put the cocaine in my arm under a shoulder cast. i also had forged x rays. i had false medical receipts

A little slow at the uptake, when he first went over the border and then it caused this big dustup, were told there was a customs official who was ready to bring him back to the united states, it was an accident, no foul no play so go back. that a mexican soldier on the scene overruled the customs official and said, he is not going back. was there anything that your son did or said that -- or that the he revealed that might have escalated tensions accidently? >> no. clearly when he accidentally ...

The secondary inspection because he was missing a front license plate, which, as you know, in california you are required to have front and back and that he was going to let him go at that point but he had to go over there. again, the atmosphere from the video shows that customs agent retrieved a jacket from his truck and gave it to him. that you see him pointed to where his guns were in the back of the truck because of course it had been parked and they didnt want it to be stolen. only after an...

For appropriate patients, who are not responding to conventional therapies, then cannabdoids who have been properly recommended in the proper doses are entirely reasonable and most of my colleagues believe this is an entirely acceptable way of treating patients. >> reporter: but again here in the uk, the law havent caught up with the attitudes of those doctors, forcing jamies journey. so you were nervous the first time? >> yes, completely. >> reporter: he declared his medical marijuana to the cu...

Patients is, who are not responding to conventional therapies, then canibanoids, i think is entirely reasonable and most of my colleagues believe this is an entirely acceptable way of treating patients. >> but here again in the uk, the law hasnt caught up with the attitudes of those doctors, forcing jamies journey. so you were nervous the first time? >> yes, completely. >> he declared his medical marijuana to the customs agent and was allowed to bring it back here. so this is your medicine now? ...

Saw fireworks in a backpack with the powder emptied out, he knew tsarnaev was involved in the bombing. so to help him avoid trouble, kadyrba why ev and two others removed the bag and threw it away off campus. there are also very big questions this morning about why the suspect was even allowed in this country because he left school on january 4, which should have invalidated his student visa. but he reentered the country two weeks later on january 20 and officials said the customs agent didnt kn...

>> brian: this morning we know exactly who knew what about the boston bombers and why the information went nowhere. details i find frustrating. maybe you do, too. joining us, the man in charge of finding out what happened, former f.b.i. guy, congressman mike rogers. chairman, we found out a customs agent was alert -- did alert someone in the joint terrorist task force in the new england area that tamerlan came back from russia. but that information never got to the f.b.i why? >> well, were still...

To "the boston globe," there was one customs agent that did realize that he came back and did alert the boston joint terrorist task force who did not tell the f.b.i., who would have then said, wait a second, maybe we should talk to him again. but it didnt happen because they stopped communicating to each other. >>gretchen: the alibi or defense of that right now is theyre claiming even if they would have been notified that he was in the country after being away for six or seven months in a bad re...

So he shows up at the airport in 2012. customs officers notice that hes on this list, and apparently that triggered an e-mail to the customs agent who was actually assigned to this case in the joint terrorism task force in boston, but then that agent reportedly told officials that he gets hundreds, hundreds of these kinds of e-mails, doesnt remember that one in particular. does it make you stand back and say systemically there might be something wrong because if somebody is getting hundreds of t...