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There, how are you feeling, he says, are you able to answer some questions? the defendant nods affirmatively. that's what he had done in response to several questions, nodding affirmatively. that is the official court transcript that has just been released. jeffrey toobin, our senior legal analyst is here with us. let's go through this, point-by-point. first of all, the notion that affirmatively to some questions about understanding the miranda rights, that he has the right to an attorney, the right to remain silent, as read by the magistrate who was there. that's pretty significant, right? >>...

Is usually prosecuted at the state level. the shooting of officer collier may simply not be a federal crime and it may be that the massachusetts authorities will prosecute him for that crime. but those are the kind of decisions that are likely months down the road, but at this point, they are not -- the feds are not charging a violation of federal law in connection with the murder of officer collier. >> if there were state or local charges filed against this suspect, fran, the federal charges take precedence. they will be adjudicated first, right? >> that's right. and as jeff says, look, you c...

As the fbi released their pictures, that according to the tsarnaev brothers' aunt. she spoke to cnn from her home in the capital of the russian republic of dagestan. nick's joining us now with more on this partrepublic. so what else did the suspect's aunt tell you? >> well, interestingly, she did point out something we didn't know before which is the family fled when tamerlan was just 11 and his formertive part in his life. they ran away from the bombing in chechnya that began in the second war there in 1999. but she also recounts how he returned here last year from the united states and was a...

When that provision that you don't have to give miranda rights is used, that -- you have to show a connection to al qaeda. in this situation, we at this point have no connection to al qaeda whatsoever. so the other issue is, this is an american citizen. when you have an american citizen, you have rights. pursuant to our constitution. at this point, this event occurred in boston, and they were indicted by the courts. and let's talk about the issue. i think you have to take each case as it occurs. i think we've had about maybe a handful of cases tried in military court. i think one was thrown ou...

Initially thinking the two incidents were connected. we later learned they are not connected to one another. we actually started to conduct our investigation. it was nearly an hour later we then got a report of a carjacking. obtained information from people that went into the shell station and were able to link it up back to what, we think, was the homicide. still very much under investigation. at this point, still suspects in that case, as well. >> where was sean collier, the m.i.t. police officer? >> he was situated beside an m.i.t. building monitoring traffic at the time this incident took ...