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That window of time because theyre not getting anything from him? >> thats a good question that i wont speculate on without a legal background. ill leave that one up to the master pete williams. but i can imagine theres got to be some sort of gray area there that some lawyer could look at. on that point, though, i think its interesting, where weve gone now from, alex, is weve gone from this, all right, what exactly happened, to these real sort of questions surrounding the national security of th...

Under the public safety exception, however, i do believe that the fbi has a period of time to try to determine what threats are there today. we dont know if theres other devices. we dont know if theres other people. i think mirandizing him up front would be a horrible idea. >> so there are really a series of questions there. first, should he be treated as a criminal -- excuse me, as a -- i want to make sure i get it right, as an enemy combatant. that question we know the answer to at this point....

Investigation, im joined by michael. first things first with regard to when some charges will be filed against tsarnaev and the things hell be charged with. do you have any timeline for that? >> well, very good question, alex. ive been told this morning that we could expect charges possibly as early as noon. obviously thats come and gone. my latest information is that they are hoping to file the charges today. not definite that they will. theres further work, im told, that needs to be done relat...

As one. so your thoughts on that? >> i dont think that thats going to happen. the obama administration has been clear, theyre distancing themselves from that concept. youve got an american citizen. we dont have dzhokhar going abroad in training. his brother apparently did. but dzhokhar didnt. and dzhokhar is going to be tried as an individual on his own right. so i think the chances of this ending up as an enemy combatant are very small. >> but youve heard that because of high security concerns ...

The fbi and sources so far in the u.s. government have been a bit -- say they didnt get a lot of detail from the russian fsb about what it is that the russians thought was suspicious about tsarnaev. so thats clearly a big question here. and then also, a very big question is what -- who did he meet with while he was in chechnya? were there radical elements, radical jihadi figures that he met with and communicated with. because we do know that as soon as he comes back from russia, he creates that ...

What youve seen in the past, is this something that a couple of guys, a couple of brothers would be capable of doing, or was it too sophisticated? i mean, they pulled this off. they had both bombs go off, in all likelihood, exactly as planned, and in all likelihood from some remote location. >> well, thats a very good question. i dont know how difficult it is to build a pressure cooker ied. im not convinced that they have acted alone. certainly they plotted this, although it wasnt very sophistic...

Dzhokhar tsarnaev. and that relates to in miranda question that youve been talking about today. were trying to get a better understanding of how its impacted by what were learning, which is the fact that he cant communicate right now because of injuries to his throat. and at this point, its really unclear exactly what impact that hasmz it appears that after he is first able to communicate, at least the justice department would argue, they can speak to him before giving him his miranda rights. >>...

Where did they assemble the components of the bomb. how did they buy them? where did they build them? were there any practices? secondly, what happened when the brother, tamerlan, the older brother who was shot to death thursday night, what happened when he went to russia last year for six months? was he in contact with any terror groups? did he get bomb training? were there any other people working with them? did they have other plots that they planned? and i must say that it does seem fairly l...

Course, they are very interested in talking to whoever they have been in touch with. i think the best way to put it is theyve found no evidence that anyone else was cooperating with them or in any way involved in the boston marathon bombing. theyre certainly exploiting all their e-mails, all of their cell phone calls, and the process of all of that has not come up with any associates or people that have thought to have conspired with them. >> weve been talking about this period of time under whi...

Circle of people with whom tamerlan hung out or visited? has that been established or were they merely sightings because of the unique character and physical description that you started with at the beginning of your report? >> reporter: well, there has been one report, which we really havent been able to verify yet, that he did maybe meet some people of questionable character. but in general, he actually hasnt been sighted very much in the area that we would have expected to see him. for instan...