gravity of a situation like this. and they did not intentionally or knowingly destroy evidence. reporter: denial of guilt after three of tsarnaev s friends from umass dartmouth, azamat tazhayakov, and robel phillipos, and dias kadyrbayev, are charged with helping to covering up the deadly attack. each facing a maximum between five and eight years behind bars if convicted. he was a good kid. definitely a good kid. i guarantee you that, most likely hadn t, had no knowledge of what he was doing. he made a stupid decision because he he knew the guy. reporter: meanwhile abc news learned that tsarnaev s deceased older brother and alleged co-conspirator in the bombings, tamerlan talked to his wife on the phone shortly after the surveillance photo of him was released. the fbi hoping to learn what he and catherine russell discussed and if it could help with the investigation. russell maintained she had no knowledge of her husband s alleged role in the attacks. her attorney says she is
reporter: more than a decade after the worst terrorist attack in our nation s history, it seems the u.s. immigration system that allowed the september 11th hijackers to enter the kunly legally is still very flawed. some lawmakers question whether tamerlan tsarnaev should have been so easily admitted back into the u.s. after his trip to russia, chechnya, and dagestan last year. after all, in 2011, the russian government warned both the fbi and the cia that they were worried that tamerlan had become an extremist and would be traveling to meet with underground groups. the fbi investigated and found nothing, but should immigration officials have been told more? now another concern. three friends of alleged bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev have now been arrested for their alleged involvement after the boston marathon attacks. 19-year-old dias kadyrbayev, azamat tazhayakov, and robel phillipos all went to school with tsarnaev at the university of massachusetts, dartmouth. two are accused of removi
patrick reassuring people in and around boston that the new arrests do not mean that the threat continues. this should not raise any concerns in anyone s minds about continuing threat to the public. this is about getting out of the way to the bot the ontom of the brian todd is live in boston following the latest developments. brian, what more do we know about these three suspects and their relationship with dzhokhar? we know that the two students, difficult as kadyrbayev and azamat tazhayakov kind of became close friends with dzhokhar tsarnaev when they started attending u mass dartmouth in 2011 and according to one of their attorneys who told us previous to these arrests yesterday that at least his client, dias kadyrbayev, had become close with dzhokhar because they spoke the same language. dzhokhar had been in the united
the guy involved in the bombings, but, deb, the attorney for one of these young men says, no. where exactly do the stories differ? well, the stories differ if you listen to their lawyers or if you read the criminal complaints. the criminal complaint says, in fact, when one of the suspects who really was questioned and even before his friend dzhokhar tsarnaev was caught, one of the suspects, dias kadyrbayev, he saw his friend on the television, texted him, and they exchanged a couple of messages, then he went to the dorm room. and he said to the other friends, let s go to the dorm room. that s when they found the backpack with the fireworks, which had been emptied of the black powder, powder that was used to build this particular device, also a laptop, so they took it. they tell investigators that, according to the criminal complaint, they thought that they wanted to help their friend, protect their friend, but also realized that he may have had something to do with
dzhokhar tsarnaev, you are being arrested now. come out with your hands up and elevate your hands. dias kadyrbayev and tazhayakov were friends and taken away by police that day. the yearbook picture shows tsarnaev and the third suspect, robel phillipos, friends of his in high school. the three charged in federal court with lying to investigators and obstructing justice. prosecutors said they conspired to hide and destroy evidence linking dzhokhar tsarnaev to the deadly attacks. two of the suspects photographed with dzhokhar in times square in 2012 believed to be the next target for tsarnaev and his brother, tamerlan, was a conspiracy. also tonight, victimized because of the boston bombings, a taxi driver says he was attacked for being a muslim.