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Presentment of the suspect before a judge or magistrate might actually happen. we heard as recently as yesterday that authorities were contemplating a terrorism charge, most likely relating to use of weapons of mass destruction. there's also a possibility of a state murder charge as well, as well as a firearms charge, perhaps use of a firearm in commission of a felony, conspiracy certainly is out there because authorities allege that this suspect worked on all of this with his brother, wolf. >> and i want you to show our viewers, joe, some of the new video of the suspect's dramatic capture fri...

Contemplating a terrorism charge, most likely something relating to use of a weapon of mass destruction. also, in all likelihood, some type of charge relating to use of a fire arm and commission of a felony. conspiracy certainly also possible because authorities allege that the suspect worked on this with his brother. a number of different charges all possible, and they could come as early as today, though it's not certain, wolf. >> you have, joe, some new video that has just come in of the suspect's dramatic capture friday night. what does it exactly show? >> let's take a look at it. this is ...

Story in washington for us. what are officials telling you, joe, what can we anticipate? >> well, first, on that point were you just making, the rules say that when a person's charged with a federal crime, they need to be informed as soon as practicable but it is not clear whether that would mean this suspect would have to be notified today. our sources have told us it's possible we could see charges today but there's no guarantee and it's also likely we won't see charges today. we've heard as recently as yesterday that authorities were contemplating a terrorism charge, most likely something r...

That we're using for this pressure cooker bomb? >> well, you can use it. under the wmb statute, a bomb of that can be considered a wmb. >> i did not know that. >> there's your terrorism charge, potentially. so, i personally believe terrorism is a form of criminali criminality, should be treated as so. that's not to say there are other tools in the toolbox that should be discounted. for example, if you have something that's considered a national security investigation, you get authority to do things like fiza, national security letters, things like that. those are all valuable intelligence coll...

Title 18 of the u.s. code has a whole list of federal statutes that fall under the auspices of terrorism. for example, what we saw in boston, the reason, i think, why it was easy for people to come out early and say it's terrorism, you had a weapon of mass destruction that was used to kill people. that's -- >> weapon of mass destruction, is that specifically the term that we're using for this pressure cooker bomb? >> well, you can use it. under the wmb statute, a bomb of that can be considered a wmb. >> i did not know that. >> there's your terrorism charge, potentially. so, i personally believ...