we need that. a family friend, luis vazquez. austin hightower is a student at university of massachusetts and dartmouth and knows julian, tamerlan s sparring partner. let me start with you austin,some of dzhokhar s friend have been saying in the last week they cannot understand what on earth happened to make him do this, that he was a good guy. a friendly guy. a normal guy. you ve heard all this all week. there must have been some sign to some of his friends, surely. that something wasn t quite right. mr. morgan, the only thing i can think of is we add conversation probably two months ago, i saw him in the dining hall. he looked a bit detached from when i had seen him before. probably a week or two before that. he looked a bit sadder.
i said, i think i know him. we lived next to him last year. he said, tell the fbi. well, i said, i know who he is and so i don t think he is the guy. and besides they said it is the gy from brown university. so i left it at that. i assume that someone heard our conversation and told the u-mass police. and after that they shut down the school and we know what happened next. austin hightower, thank you for joining me. any time. thank you. now to julian pollard. you were a boxer and roomed with tamerlan during tournament. what was he like? well, during that trip, i noticed tamerlan was a bit after flashy guy. sharp dresser. confident in his abilities as a boxer. he was good boxer? he was. he had some skills. he had some punching power. good hand speed. he won a couple fights in
but he is able to communicate, he is talking to investigators or has talked to investigators, and so far, according to this government official, there has been some serious information that he has been able to offer. jake tapper, thank you very much indeed. now i want to bring in two men who knew the tsarnaev brothers, austin hightower is a students at the university of massachusetts dartmouth and he knows dzhokhar well, and julian pollard, tamerlan s sparring partner in a boxing gym. let me start with you, austin hightower. so many of dzhokhar s friends have been saying in the last week they cannot understand what on earth happened to make him do this, that he was a good guy, a friendly guy, a normal guy. you ve heard all this all week. there must have been some sign to some of his friends surely that something wasn t quite right. mr. morgan, the only thing i can think of is we had a conversation probably two months ago or something in the dining
umass police officers outside my door asking me questions. had they been monitoring your facebook? no. i had mentioned it to someone, i had mentioned it to my roommate, i said i think i might know him, i think he lived next to us last year, and he said well, tell the fbi. i said well, you know, i know who he is so i don t think besides, they said it was the guy from brown university, so looking at that, i m assuming that someone had heard our conversation and perhaps mentioned it to the umass police. soon after that, they of course shut down the school and we all know what happened next. austin hightower, thank you very much for joining me. any time. thank you. we ll turn to julian pollard. you were a fellow boxer who roomed actually with tamerlan during a tournament. what was he like? well, during that trip, i noticed tamerlan was a little bit of a flashy guy, really
0 wireless is limitless. this is piers morgan live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. dzhokhar tsarnaev should be tortured to save more lives. his initial court appearance was today in his hospital room, he could only speak one work, no, when asked if he could afford an attorney. he now has a public attorney, he is mentally competent and lucid. degree development for the investigators, he is able to cooperate and he appears to be listed. what does he come up with today? most important and the national security scope is the fact that he is apparently telling officials and this is from a government source that it was just he and his brother, that there was nobody else involved, that there was no foreign entity telling them what to do or communicating with them in any way. in effect, they were virtual self jihadists, he has said his brother was the ringleader of all of us. but like you said, there really are going to need to check everything and they