with trump seems to go back decades. how significant is it that lawmakers are looking deeper into the president s past dealings with russian than previously known? i think this is very important. and i think that was a very well-done package that a lot of serious work went into, to find the videos and the photos to illustrate it. but we don t know nearly enough about the 30 years that the russians have been courting donald, his repeated trips there, and when i say russians, i don t mean just people in moscow, i mean, russian-speaking people. donald s been involved with people from ka zach stan and georgia and other people. these relationships have much deeper than we have had any public awareness of, and i m sure there are many more names are of significance to the people running the mueller investigation and hopefully running the house investigations into donald trump and his involvement with the russians. david, i want you to listen to my colleague, this is anderson cooper talkin
department of homeland security source with firsthand knowledge of this investigation and i am told the two students who were arrested a couple of weeks ago who were held in custody a couple weeks ago on visa charges have now been arrested for making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice. we know now there s a third suspect arrested in this case. all i m told at this point is that that third suspect is a u.s. citizen and sources tell us that is not katherine russell, the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev. they are not able to elaborate on who that suspect is other than saying it is a u.s. citizen. we know these two students from ka zach stan were arrested a couple of weeks ago. initially authorities thought dzhokhar tsarnaev was hiding out in their apartment in watertown.
obstruction of justice. are these the two that face a court hearing this morning? it s our understanding according to the source that they were the same two students from ka zach stan that faced a hearing this morning on immigration. these are the two students that have been held on the visa violations. very, very weak charge. it s really a category charge. it s very hard to prove obstruction of justice. it doesn t carry particularly harsh criminal penalties. if that s the best the feds have now, then they re just squeezing. it doesn t sound like they have very much new here. again, when i talk about the squeezing that we talked about earlier, this is really
if it wasn t, then there may be somebody who dropped the ball. reporter: tsarnaev s name had also been misspelled in a u.s. database that looks for suspicious activity. a redundant system picked him up. more briefings today up on capitol hill. the house intelligence committee is going to be briefed by authorities. is that true? yeah. that was my understanding the last time i checked. all looking into many of these questions. and a lot of them still unresolved as it stands right now. joe johns reporting for us. we re still continuing to try to reconnect with the exbrother-in-law of the tsarnaev brothers. he s in ka zach stan right now. you heard him suggest that perhaps other people were
assistance, either technical assistance or financial assistance in building those bombs? no audio. i don t know if we ve lost contact with you. can you hear me? unfortunately, we have lost contact. he s on a cell phone. he is joining us from al ma di. that s the capital of ka zik stan. we ll try to reconnect. you just heard him say he does believe others were involved with these two brothers in potentially radicalizing them and maybe even providing assistance. we ll try to reconnect with this former brother-in-law. he is 26-years-old. once again joining us from ska zach stan. let s move on and check out some other developments. the u.s. wants to question the bombing suspects parents at