the two students are seen with dzhokhar tsarnaev in this picture in times square from sometime last year. now, here are the facts as asserted by the criminal complaints against these three released just moments ago. on thursday, april 18th, three days after the bombing, after the photographs of the suspects were released by the fbi, kadyrbayev was driving home when phillipos called him and told him to turn on the tv because one of the suspects in the boston attacks looked familiar. he did so and agreed one of the bombers looked like tsarnaev. he texted, have you seen the news? he told him the tv news was showing photographs of tsarnaev and identifying their friend dzhokhar as one of the terrorists. as their apartment the two looked at photographs of tsarnaev broadcast by cnn. kadyrbayev then texted the third
kadyrbayev decided to remove the backpack from the room he says in order to help his friend avoid trouble. he decided to take tsarnaev s laptop as well and his explanation for this is he did not want tsarnaev s roommate to think he was stealing or behaving suspiciously by just taking the backpack. kadyrbayev and the other two returned to the apartment of the two with the materials. phillipos later recalled all three of them, quote, started to freak out because it became clear from a cnn report they were watching that dzhokhar was one of the boston bombers. he says they decided collectively to throw the backpack and fireworks into the trash because they didn t want tsarnaev to get into trouble, unquote. phillipos says he didn t understand what the other two were talking about because they were speaking in russian. should we get rid of the stuff or words to that effect as phillipos recalled. he said do what you have to do. they put it all with some trash in a big black trash bag and thre
friend phillipos and told him to go to dzhokhar s dorm room where the other two met him. between 8:43 p.m. and 8:48 p.m. thursday night kadyrbayev texted the alleged bomber tsarnaev and told him he looked like the suspect on television. tsarnaev s return text contained lol and other things he interpreted as jokes such as you better not text me, and come to my room and take whatever you want. the three did go to his room and at tsarnaev s apartment the three noticed a backpack containing fireworks that had been opened and emptied of powder. kadyrbayev said he, quote, knew when he saw the empty fireworks that dzhokhar, his friend, was involved in the marathon bombing. he also found a jar of vaseline in the room and told tazhayakov he believed tsarnaev had used it to make a bomb about one month before the bombing tsarnaev had told the two students he knew how to make a bomb.
these complaints that suggests these guys were part of a broader conspiracy. not yet. jeffrey toobin, thank you so much. we re waiting now for a news conference with the defense attorneys. we will bring it to you live. cnn s pamela brown was inside the boston courtroom where the hearing happened. she joins us now live. pam, give us a play by play of what went down. reporter: well, jake, the hearing for phillipos just ended moments ago and was very similar to the first hearing for the two new bedford students that had been held for immigration issues for the past nearly two weeks, kadyrbayev and tazhayakov both hearings very similar. in the last hearing the judge told phillipos who has been charged with making false statements, federal charges here, that he better pay attention and not look down. this is the same judge miriam boller, who administered the miranda rights to dzhokhar
a.m. the three saw news reports identifying the tsarnaev brothers as the terrorists and reporting that tamerlan tsarnaev, the older brother, was dead. on april 26th, phillipos confessed and law enforcement recovered tsarnaev s backpack from the landfill in new bedford. let s bring in cnn s legal analyst jeffrey toobin to go through all these details because there s a lot of information and there are some unanswered questions. jeffrey, thanks for joining us. shortly before 9:00 p.m. tsarnaev according to one of the suspects arrested today jokes that they should come to his room and take whatever they want. minutes later the three go to the apartment and collect incriminating evidence. are we supposed to really believe that these are unrelated? there remains no admission in this text from the criminal complaint that that was an instruction to take the incriminating evidence but it seems to speak for itself. what do you make of that, jeffrey? well, if down the line this winds up going t