dedications. for those of us who will ride and run, we will do so for those who are no longer with us. for a family member with cancer, for our great city, and for countless other causes. for those of us who will crowd the route, we'll embrace roles as motivators and emotional catalysts. and for our guardian angels, let them hear us roar. let's show them they live on in our bonds of family, friendship and community. and in the infectious thursday we'll feel on the third monday in april for years to come. i'm so proud to be a bostonian because i'm so proud to be connected to all of you. [ applause ]

that was patrick downes, 30 years old, survivor of the marathon. he and his wife moved to a more accessible apartment because he lost his leg below the knee as did she. as an enduring statement of our commitment to peace. welcome back, this is "ronan farrow daily." we have live coverage of the ceremony and we'll take the much remarks from another survivor, coming up next is david yepez and his son luis, speaking about their experiences. let's take a listen. >> vice president biden, governor patrick, mayor walsh, mayor menino, first responders, and distinguished guests, today marks one year from when our lives were changed forever. a change that none of us wanted nor change we would wish on

anyone else although each of our paths to recovery have been unique and we all travel at our own pace, we continue to move forward. today i will not focus on the past but be mindful of our successes and thank those that have helped us take our first steps and reclimb our first mountains and reclaim our lives. to the first responders, for running into harm's way and giving ugs the aid that we needed, to the doctors, surgeons and their staffs who completely gave of themselves to ensure that the most severely injured were given a chance to live again. to all law enforcement agencies who worked tirelessly and quickly to make our city secure again, to the physical therapists and counselors who continue to support us physically and emotionally to

the boston athletic commission and countless others who gave us the strength to recognize each day as a new beginning and hope for a brighter tomorrow. thank you for your love, compassion and generosity. you have touched our hearts in a way that many times our gratitude could only be expressed through our tears of joy. [ applause ] >> thank you for your leadership during one of the city's darkest moments, you're symbols of strening and compassion. during the early days you gave us the opportunity to mourn, to grieve, and to reflect in private on boyleston street and through the creation of the one fund you immediately provided

critical and much needed financial and emotional support. barbara thorpe, lori van dam and entire one fund staff, thank you for your tireless commitment to the survivors and families. you have been pro active in anticipating our needs, and are completely devoted to each and every one of us on a personal level. to the survivors although your journey has not been easy and the road is still long, your inner strength and determination and resolve displayed during the past 12 months have made you an inspiration to many. each step forward is a step away from the past and step towards a new tomorrow. thank you all for exemplifying the highest qualities in man kind and bless those that lost their lives as a result of this tragic event. be proud of what you've accomplished and be proud you've

decided to take control of your life and be proud that you've chosen to live and know that each of you are making a difference in the lives of others. in the words of our president, barack obama, one year ago, stated that even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had and we carry on and finish the race we finish the race because of who we are and we know that someone around the bend, a stranger, has a cup of water, around the bend someone is there to boost our spirits. and on that toughest mile, just when we think we've hit a wall, there will be someone there to cheer us on and pick us up if we fall. this day next year on the third monday, the world will return to this beautiful american city to run harder than ever to cheer

louder than before for the 118th marathon and bet on it. president obama was right. here we are one year later, we're all boston strong and see you on monday. [ applause ] >> talking about their experiences being caught in the middle of the horrific bombing one year ago today. we heard from the son, david about his experiences and we heard from the father about the strength of boston. we're now about to hear from adrian haslet davis, a ballroom dancer who lost her lower leg. >> good afternoon. one year ago my husband, major adam davis, had just returned from afghanistan where he was fighting the war on terror uninjured. we talk a long walk into sunny boston and in a matter of seconds, our world was changed

forever. it is difficult to believe that it has only been one year. it feels like only a few weeks and we have a long road yet to walk. i stand here today as a proud bostonyan, although adam and i moved to boston three short years ago, the city has stood by us and supported us and helped us heal. together we held each other in the face of terror and we grieved in the face of tremendous loss and we grew in the face of adversity. our survivor community is not something any of us have chosen to be a part of. yet we are just that, a community. there were many moments we could have not made it through had it not been for one another. we find peace in finding a shoulder to cry on and hand to hold in the crowd. we know just by eye contact what the other is feeling.

i am thankful for our friendships. as i look back on this past year, i think of the lessons that we have learned and have had to relearn that no milestone is too small to celebrate, even walking into a nonhandycapped bathroom stalling for first time doing a happy dance. [ applause ] >> it's the little things moods are contagious, our first responders and surgeons and physical and mental therapists would not and will not let us fail. and their unwavering demotion to strength is why we stand here boston strong today. i have learned it is okay to not be okay. that we still have to let ourselves grieve. we can stay in bed even for a few days. yet it is that boston strong attitude that gets us back out.

when we cannot find the strength to do it ourselves, we have those around us that lift us back up. my wish if i were allowed to grant one, is that we use this day, not as just a day of remembrance but a day of action. i wish that everyone who is facing adversity today would have the support that we have had. if anyone is wondering what they can do, what you can do, i would answer, look around. people in your community need your support. they need your patience and they need your time in dealing with similar situations such as ours. let april 15th be a day when we all work together to make this world a better place. the biggest lesson of all of the lessons that i have learned over this past year is that something in your life in anyone's life can go horrifically terribly wrong in a matter of seconds. yet, it is up to us to make every single second count after

because believe me, they do. thank you. [ applause ] >> you've been listening to survivors tell their story adrian describing doing a happy dance the first time she walked into a nonhandicapped bathroom and the strength of the community and also it not to be strong all the time. it is an understandably difficult day in boston as the city remembers one of its darkest hours, the attack at the marathon's finish line one year ago today. we'll take a listen to a moment to the musical part of this event and we'll go live to vice president biden in just a few moments. ♪ that people come in our lives

for a reason ♪ ♪ bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow ♪ ♪ if we let them and we help them in return ♪ ♪ well i don't know if i believe that's true ♪ ♪ but i know i'm who i am today because i knew you. like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the sun ♪ ♪ like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the woods ♪ ♪ who can say if i've been changed for the better but

because i knew you ♪ ♪ i have -- >> that is ren ease king singing, beautiful musical number. obviously the responders gathering together, 3,000 guests and dignitaries gathered now. they are paying tribute to those who answered calls for help when the two bombs exploded. those who continue to fight back from the unthinkable are there. and those who lost their lives that day are remembered. today's tribute began with remembrances to the three who were killed and remarks from the man who led the city through that moment. >> this day will always be hard. to gather close to the finish line or or gather close to the place where our lives broke apart. will always be hard the part in

all of us that wish it were someplace else. >> as we await the vice president's remarks on this day, let's go to nbc's ron mott live in boston's copley square. ron, tell ugs what is the feeling like in the city today? >> reporter: hey, there, ronan, a lot of emotions. a beautiful moving ceremony, a lot of emotions coursing through bost boston. three of them lost their lives on boyleston street and the fourth, the officer from m.i.t. this day is to honor and remember them and this is a day of triumph, a day of success, a day of overcoming for a lot of these survivors, 260 some odd people, some severely who clearly could have been among those who lost their lives if not for the heroism of spectators who leaped into action and first respondsers and firefighters and police officers and extraordinary teamwork at the hospitals that we saw that helped save a lot of lives.

a lot of those folks are back here to say thank you as we've seen today. this is a day that people will always remember here in boston. patriot's day of course is the day we run the baoston marathon on monday. as we all know from those famous words about david ortiz, this is our city and i think there's a spirit of how dare you bring this kind of violence. we will not be broken. >> this is our city is a sent. that a lot of us are feeling. appreciate it. one year ago the finish line of the boston marathon became a symbol of carnage and pain. it's clearly something much different, a symbol of a city ha has shown so much strength through adversity. president obama paid tribute to the victims in a statement saying this, one year later we stand in awe of the men and women who continued to inspire us learning to stand, walk and

dance and run again. joining me now is bruce mendleson, he was at the scene when the bombs went off and helped the injured and scott helmand, author of the book "the long mile home" and captain of the men's hockey team when it e defeated soviet union, miracle on ice and resident of boston. i want to start, bruce with your personal story. you were there when you heard the bombs. you help the hurt. what was the day like? take us inside that moment. >> that's right. i was right down the street, it's really emotional thing to be back here now, i haven't been back here since. i'm not an army medic, i received -- and that -- 20 years

later when i was fortunate enough to be on the scene and save the life of a young student at northeastern, what mike and patrick and adrian said, this is a resilt yent city and we will overcome. that's the takeaway from that day for me at least personally. >> and bruce, after the brothers were identified and on the run, they killed an m.i.t. officer as well, sean collier. you have a connection to him, don't you? >> yes, i saw sean on thursday night and i used to work in washington, d.c., the national law enforcement officers memorial where all of the names of fallen law enforcement officers are indescribed. i saw sean and i was kidding with him, stay safe. he liked to work nights because that's when the action was. and you know, who would have known on our little campus that such a thing would have happened. it compounds the tragedy and makes me feel even more close to the whole episode. it was overwhelming, it's too

much. for many other people in the city and area, it's almost too much tragedy. and so when you talk about group therapy, it's going to be 26.2 miles of therapy on monday and i'm going to run it. i can't wait. >> i want to come back to you on that because i think everyone felt it was too much tragedy and you are running again which is so moving to so many. i want to go to you, scott, in your book, you chronicled the apprehension of the brothers on the run and took another life. it was a pretty distinctive and i found quite chilly moment how you described their identification in footage during these events. tell us about that moment. >> yeah, i mean one of the great ironies of all of this, were something like this to have to happen, this is in some ways an ideal spot not just because of world class medical facilities nearby but because it is the busiest area sidewalk of the city. you have untolled numbers of security cameras pointed at that spot. investigators starting from monday night were poring through

billions of pixels looking for something suspicious. it was early wednesday morning about 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning that finally fbi headquarters they hit on dzhokhar tsarnaev, the younger suspect. there was something that was very chilling as you say. and that was they saw him put the back pack down and saup the explosion happen and unlike everybody else, he did not turn and react. he just kept walking to them that was a giveaway and that led to the break in the case. >> a chilling moment there of everyone reacting one way and one person in the crowd not reacting. there's been some reporting that federal authorities had enough information on the tsarnaev brothers beforehand they even went so far as to consult russian intelligence sources about it but didn't do anything. do you think they should have in light of all they knew? >> you know, i think, we've already seen a lot of hearings and investigations into this since the bombing. it's a natural thing that should happen. we should look at the possible

intelligence failures and we know now that tamerlan may have been involved in this triple murder outside of boston in 2011. i think there are certainly missed opportunities, at least to pay closer attention to these guys, whether or not that would have prevented the bombing, i think is really hard to know. >> well, it's something we all hope we look forward to, time when we do look at the intelligence thoroughly to prevent this tragedy from happening again. mike, let's go to you now, you grew up in the boston area and went to boston university. you're a sports icon. this this is home to the red sox, bruins, many of those teams paid tribute to the victims and been involved in the recovery. does the unique sports culture boston has contribute to its resilience? >> no question. i think you know, see the reactions of the players, the response of the teams, the

national anthem that was played at the bru inz game, to me, i've been to many places where the national anthem has been sung and it's been overwhelming, this is the greatest one i've ever seen when everybody start singing and when the red sox brought the world championship trophy and put it on the -- it was just unbelievable to see the response. that makes the city so great. today is a great day and yet a sad day. a great day as we honor the military and state police and responders and yet we pay tribute to the people that lost their lives and people who sacrificed limbs and so much damage that they have had. i think again, like you said to the question was about our city sports teams, you couldn't ask for a stronger city and better sports community than the city of boston. >> you still live in the area, of course, you even coach your own kids' hockey team.

how do you see boston having changed since that day a year ago? >> you know what, boston has always been a great city and close city and has it become maybe even closer. our sports teams are value even more now as people see how important they are not only to the wins and losses but what the city means. i've always felt it's a great city and close city. but i think this maybe has made them even closer and made us all closer and made us all appreciate how fortunate we are to live in such a great place as boston. >> all right, thank you so much for that. thank all of you, appreciate your joining us. we're going to come back to you because we have more live coverage of the events today and we are again awaiting any moment now vice president's remarks at this tribute in boston as soon as they happen, we'll bring you those live. but first, up next, we are going to go to international news, the cold war may be over, but a in

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and helped the injured and scott helman part of the pulitzer prize coverage team, keeping the country riveted. scott, tell us, do you expect any actual policy guidance points from biden during the rarksz. do you think he'll address the concerns about the fbi response to the event a year ago and how we're going to strengthen our security apparatus? >> i don't know, ronan, but my sense is that's not the tone that anyone is going for today so i would be surprised especially knowing biden and how emotional he can be and how important boston has been to him. i would be surprised if he went there. today is more about honoring the victims and the city and looking forward. i would be surprised if we saw much in that direction. >> bruce, what do you think people who are looking at this today and wondering what they would do if they were caught in the middle of a crisis like this

should think? what's the first response when you hear bombs like this and how do people muster the strength to help others as you did? >> well, the first national response is to run away. i guess i'm a little crazy that i didn't but i really feel it's my responsibility as a citizen of this great united states to contribute to my society in any way that i possibly can. that's a small way that i was able to contribute. i wasn't the only one, mind you. there were a tremendous amount of other people whose stories weren't told and captured like mine is and being told now. those people are also heroes and they should be commended as well, the first responders and cops and firefighters. these guys do this stuff day in and day out. i ashoe the title of hero, i was in the wrong place at the right time quite frankly. >> we're going to see vice president biden start at any moment -- scott, i'll come back to you but first, let's take a listen. he's coming to the podium right

now. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, please. i in my career i've been part of or witnessed some incredible tributes, but i have to say in my friend he had markey, i've never ever like i've heard today. jill and i -- [ applause ] jill and i are honored to be asked back and let me say to

those, quote, survivors, my god you have survived and you have soared. it was worth -- it is worth it. i mean this sincerely, just to hear each of you speak. you are truly, truly inspiring. i've never heard anything so beautiful as what all of you just said. i really mean that. [ applause ] you're dangerous, young man. you are really good. i'm serious, it's just absolutely remarkable. governor, mayor welsh and mayor menino, you always speak well and tommy, i can tell you one thing, there's not a single person in here whose heart you did not speak to. they understood every single

word you said. every single word that you said. [ applause ] >> you've been my friend for a long time and they reason they heard is is your heart is as big as this city, it's an honor to be with you. [ applause ] >> tom, boston athletic association, what -- first of all, thank you for having jill and me, but what an incredible job you've done and in the one organization. this is an important day an important day for the survivors and you bostonians don't understand, it's an important day for the nation and america and families of martin and cristal and officer collier, this was a bittersweet moment

for all of you. you know, those of you and many of you have gone through your own sorrows know that the anniversary that is quote celebrated and paid tribute, it brings every memory back and is such sharp relief that in a sense, you almost would rather not have it happen. but as i said to you when we talked in the back of the auditorium, thank you for your courage. thank you for your courage because -- i hope you take some solace, again, from the outpouring of love and affection of all of the people of this great city and the country. but it's still difficult. it's -- i know that no memorial, no words, no acts can fully provide the solace that your

hearts still yearn to acquire. i hope it eases your grief a little bit. as i said, it takes incredible courage for you to be here. i wants you to know you're an inspiration without knowing it to people all across this country who suffered tragedies and going through tragedy. they'll see you, they hear you. they know of you. and the fact that you're here, i promise you, gives them hope that maybe, maybe they can overcome what they are facing right now. it's the one thing i think you vastly underestimate about what you're doing for so many people in dealing with your own grief with such courage. you inspire them and we owe you for just being back. and to patrick and adrian, luis, david and all of the survivors here and elsewhere, you're

living prove that america can never never be defeated. you are the proof of that assertion. so much has been taken from you, but you never, never have given up. all of the other survivors not here, not even those tough days in your lying any hospital bed -- i remember staring at the ceiling, god, i don't know how i can do this anymore, i don't want to do this anymore. and wondering how much more can you take. but you've musterred the courage and got up and kept going and brought an awful lot of people with you as you walked on on that prosthetic leg. and you're here. you're unyielding. that stubborn perseverance the mayor spoke of in the faith of

unfathomable challenge, that's just courage. my mom -- they kid me because i talk a lot about my mom. she was a great old irish lady and told us from the time we were kids, she would say to each of my siblings to me, joey, you're defined by your courage and redeemed by your loyalty. the four of you are the purest example of my mother's standard i have ever met. you are defined by your courage and you're redeemed by your loyalty. you just didn't say take care of yourselves, you've reached back to help so many people and the loyalty you've inspired in this great city and even though i'm not a boston fan, i love you guys, man. what an incredible city. it really is. you are an incredible, incredible city. and i know politicians aren't supposed to say that, that

you're not a red sox fan, but where i come from, the neighborhood i was in, if you were for the red sox, you got the living hell kicked out of you. there was a reason not to be a red sox fan. you know, you have become the face of america's resolve, not unlike what happened in 9/11. you've become the face of america's resolve for the whole world to see. i travel around the world and traveled over 900,000 miles just being vice president around the world. people know all about you. they know who you are. they know your pride. they know your courage. they know your resolve. they know who you are. they know that's why the twisted cowardly terrorists who acted here and other places do what they do. they try to instill fear and try to instill fear so that we will

jettison what rewe value the most and what the world most values about us, an open society, our system of justice, our freedom of religion, our access to opportunity, the free flow of information, ideas and people across the country. the willingness and capacity to gather anywhere and any numbers and say what we believe. that's their objective. that's what they tempted to do indirectly in boston is to make us afraid. not just boston afraid, to make america afraid so that maybe maybe we begin to change our ways. that's the objective. the very souls who we are, they figure if they instill enough

fear, we will change and it infuriates them that we refuse to bend, refuse to change, refuse to yield to fear. you are boston strong. but america is strong. they are not unlike you. all around america. that's what makes us so proud of this city and this state, what makes me so proud to be an american. it's that we have never ever ever yielded to fear, never. just look what you've done over the past year to recover from the attack. you've formed support groups and established foundation and set up scholarships and local business have supported charity drives and houses of worship provided healing and comfort. and so much more. your organizations like the one

fund, have gone above and beyond to raise millions of dollars to help the families of the victims of survivors and city recover and rebuild. and you've taken greater pride in the community that stood by you, protected you. pride in the world's greatest doctors, nurses, emts, national guard, members of the national guard, veterans, teachers. of course, pride in the world's greatest police officers and firefighters that we've mentioned repeatedly today. [ applause ] last year i had the great honor of asking to speak at the service for officer collier at m.i.t. when i arrived on that field at the campus, thousands of men and

women in uniform stood in line as far as the eye could see. it was incredible. they showed up because they share a fundamental obligation to serve and unbreakable sense of duty. it's not just what they do, it's who they are. it's who sean collier was, patrolling and protecting the campus of the community he loved and what officer dennis simmons, who put his life on the line last year in the shootout, to hunt down the killers, he suffered a severe head injury and also mentioned by the mayor, with the firefighters, michael kennedy and ed walsh recently, recently had to deal with when they responded to engine 33 responded and their grieving families, knew every time they

responded to an alarm, something like this could happen. yet we know there's not a single moment, not a single moment of hardship that america has not been transformed by, made stronger by. we know this with certainty because it's the history of the journey of america. it's written not just in the brave men and women we've hon honored today in uniform but it's anchored in the undaunting courage and uncommon resolve of ordinary americans. that's the incredible thing about america. we teach our children this in schools, that these are qualities engrained in our national character, stamped into our dna. they animate our national identity and continue to define who we are. last year's marathon, the whole

world witnessed ordinary citizens, ordinary citizens doing extraordinary things. delivering blankets and water and doctors running through the finish line to the hospital to care for the people who have been wounded. residents and store owners opening doors to folks for shelter. and what has become an iconic photograph, carlos, carlos in his cowboy hat, pushing jeff bauman -- [ applause ] >> off the scene after having both legs. that photograph, that picture, is hanging on walls around the world. carlos did what you bostonians do and americans do. carlos ran to him rather than from him. the normal human instinct is to

run from, not to. he wasn't a firefighter or trained medic. he wasn't a police officer. but yet he instinctively ran to. that's what bostonians do and what they did and what the whole world saw. that's what america does. and next monday, on patriot's day, when i'm told up to 36,000 people line up to start the marathon, you will send a resounding message around the world not just to the rest of the world but to the terrorists, that we will never yield. we will never cower -- [ applause ] >> america will never ever, ever stand down. we are boston. we are america.

we respond. we endure. we overcome and we own the finish line. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. [ applause ] >> that was vice president biden with a rousing speech saying we are boston, we are strong, we will overcome. he pointed to boston as the face of american resolve. back with me now to discuss this bruce mendhelson and scott helman part of the pulitzer prize winning team who covered the bombing. he said we are boston and the rest of america is like this and shares this resolve. you in many respects embody the qualities he was talking about. you were a first responder and showed that resilience and running this year. what do you think the rest of the country can learn from boston? >> i think it's a great question. i would say that everyone has the capability within them to

contribute. one need not be a civilian first responder such as i was. one can console a victim. what can help someone with their physical therapy or donate to a charity, run a bake sale for one fund boston or whatever charity. everybody can get involved. when everybody gets involved, that lifts up our entire community and entire society. that's what makes this country great. >> scott, how do you think the community will react to what may be the next beat in this drama, the trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev. we don't know what defense he's going to advance or how it will play out. how do you think boston will react to that since you chronicled the reaction of so many to the initial drama? >> it feels like that's a few steps away. today is one step then we have the race next monday, of course, that will be a special day when we try to reclaim this kind of magical tradition that is existed in the city for 118

years. i think the trial if it happens this year, clearly that's going to be a very emotional day. you're going to have -- weeks it will go on, no doubt. you'reon, no doubt. people feel differently about it. splf them -- some of the survivors are really going to want to see him and face him. they're going to want to be there. others are going to want nothing to do with it and will try to be as far away from that courtroom as possible, but i think, look, i mean, that's -- this is obviously one of the big things on the horizon. particularly because it's a death penalty case, as you know, and death penalty cases are very rare here. the death penalty is very unpopular here, but i have heard somebody say if ever there were a case that deserved the death penalty, it's this one. >> thank you both, bruce, scott. appreciate your commentary on this. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we're going to close this hour with a look at the people

behind this tranl. the tsarnaev brothers. >> tamerlan studied martial arts. it's a robust martial arts culture there. we're going to take a closer look at the collaboration with the data mining start-up. >> this is fight night in the chechen capital of graznia. ♪ >> translator: i think mma is the sport of the peoples, of the caucuses, and for the chechens.

>> reporter: in america kids play basketball, football, and baseball. in chechnya and dagastan, they wrestle and do martial arts. fighting is a way of life. for few people here so is extremism. this is one of the many fighters here trying to use his sport as a way out. >> translator: it's in our blood, fighting, battles, wrestling, all of it. it's in or genes. tirchlgts it was in tamerlan tsarnaev's blood. tamerlan descended into islam after his olympic dream ended. was one outlet replaced bit other? we don't know. what we do know is that for many people here mma is like a religion. >> translator: this building is the holiest of holies.

grazny tried to absorb. the biggest bombardment since yetsen ordered his troops in. >> reporter: this region has been ravaged by two wars and a steady stream of terror attacks. in this place that gave rise to the infamous black widow sprid bombers, even the little girls learn to wrestle too. >> translator: the bad tempered times have stayed in our blood, and now we need to transform it into something. ♪ >> reporter: on mma forums around the world analysts find that the number of messages and postings about fighters from the caucuses has increased exponentially over the last three years. in the past few years islan and others from the region have flooded mma leagues from the smaller circuits to the big octagon on american cable tv, the ufc.

notice beslan's ear. that's what happens in this sport. you get hit a lot. the fighters wear it like a badge. >> translator: here we are like the world of animals, the strongest survive. >> oh. >> reporter: three years ago rasul was a rising fighter with a 5-0 record when he pumplged a 19-year-old outside a club in moscow. the man died from his injuries. he spent 15 months in prison for manslaughter. >> translator: i thought it was a dream. sometimes i still wake up and look at the ceiling and wonder if i'm still asleep. ♪ >> reporter: he recently went with him's visited his grammar school in dagastan. he is still seen as a hero here. he used wrestling and fighting to find a way out of a place now

perceived by many as a breeding ground for terrorists. >> translator: a common opinion about us has become very negative. that we are all extremists and bandits. no, we are like everybody else. >> reporter: compared to war, these fighters, the ring is not all that frightening. >> translator: we have bombs going off and gunshots every day. it's hard to even compare what goes on in the gym to all that noise. >> reporter: not all the fighters here are so impartial. makmudav believes the bombings in boston were a conspiracy. >> translator: i feel sadness and pain for the people in boston who suffered. at the same time i feel sadness for the tsarnaevs who were used as scapegoats. i don't think the act was carried out by the guys that are blamed for it. >> translator: every nation has its own crazies. >> reporter: this is russia's female olympic wrestling coach based in the capital city.

he says the tsarnaev brothers sht representative of dagastan. >> translator: it's hard to explain what the tsarnaevs want, what their angle is. the guys that did this at the boston marathon, this could happen at any sporting event, one where even i could be somewhere in dagastan. there are no guarantees. >> all right. thank you to our partners at vocativ for that report. that wraps things up for today's edition of ronan farrow daily. up next "the reid report" with more special coverage of the one-year anniversary of the boston bombings. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. helping me stay more like me. [ female announcer ] boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a delicious taste. grandpa!

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