VIDEO: Reporter John Miller Reveals Details of Boston Bomber on CBS THIS MORNING

CBS News Senior Correspondent John Miller broke the news that alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a hand-written note on the boat where he was captured in which he called his brother Tamerlan "a martyr," in a report only seen on CBS THIS MORNING (7:00-9:00 AM) today, May 16, 2013 on the CBS Television Network. Watch his appearance below!

Miller told co-hosts Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell that in the note, Tsarnaev says he "does not mourn his brother Tamerlan, that Tamerlan was a martyr now and that he was in paradise, that he expected to join him there soon." Miller continued that the note called the bombings "retribution for the U.S. crimes against Muslims in places like Iraq and Afghanistan," and said that the victims of the Boston bombing were "collateral damage."

Miller added that the note was essentially a "claim of responsibility" and said that the statements would likely be admissible in court proceedings.

Excerpts from the interview are below.

Charlie Rose: We have new evidence to report in the Boston Marathon bombing. It is a story you'll see only on CBS THIS MORNING.

Norah O'Donnell: Our Senior Correspondent, John Miller, is here to break the news. He is a former assistant FBI director. John, tell us what you've learned.

John Miller: So, a very interesting note found in the boat where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured by police. He was in the boat, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds, and he found a pen. There was no paper, so he began to write on the interior wall of the cabin. Basically the note says that he does not mourn his brother Tamerlan, that Tamerlan was a martyr now and that he was in paradise, that he expected to join him there soon. That the bombings were retribution for the U.S. crimes against Muslims in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and that the victims of the Boston bombing were "collateral damage," the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world, summing up that when you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims. And what he has done there is basically written that claim of responsibility, the thing that investigators never found anywhere else after the attack.

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