described the man and his influence on the older brother in an interview with cnn. there is a person who knew corn vert into islam, both frommer armenian descent. this person took his brain, brainwashed him completely. tamerlan is off now. there is no respect his own father. that concerned me big time. unbelievably. reporter: more pieces fit together in a telephone interview wolf blitzer did with the ex-brother-in-law of the two suspects. he said he had met misha twice, introduced to him by tamerlan. he said he didn t witness misha actually turning tamerlan into a radical islamist but he surely did have influence and did teach him things that would make tamerlan, you know, go away from the people and go more into the religion and maybe, maybe that s possible that he suggested him some
unbelievably. reporter: more pieces fit together in a telephone interview wolf blitzer did with the brother-in-law of the two suspects. he said he d met misha twice, introduced to him by tamerlan. he didn t witness misha actually turning tamerlan into a radical islamist. but he certainly did have influence and did teach him things that would make tamerlan go away from the people and go more into the religion. maybe it s possible that he suggested to him some radical ideas. he said tamerlan tsarnaev had told him he d quit boxing and listening to mainstream music because misha taught him that in islam it s not good those things. asked suspected misha was a terrorist group. i didn t suspect him in terror group or having terrorist ideas, but i know that they had
been introduced to him by tamerlan. he said he didn t witness misha actually turning tamerlan into a radical islamist but but he surely did have influence and did teach him things that would make tamerlan go away from the people and go more into the religion and maybe that is possible that he suggested to him some radical ideas. he said tamerlan tsarnaev had told him he d quit boxing and listening to main stream music because misha taught him in islam it s not good to do those things. asked if he suspected that misha was connected to any terrorist groups i didn t suspect either him or tamerlan being connected to terror groups or having terrorist ideas. but i know that they had a lot of conversations about just, you know, islam and how islam is