knew at the university of massachusetts dartmouth was involved with the boston marathon bombing. he has cooperated fully with the authorities and looks forward to the truth coming out. reporter: a month before the marathon tsarnaev told two of his friends over lunch that he knew how to make a bomb and according to the criminal complaint, one of those friends, the friend saw vaseline in his dorm room, he thought that it was used to make a bomb. we ve been talking to experts and we re told that vaseline was likely used on the pressure cooker lid to prevent sparks which couldexplosives. how did the suspect know that vaseline was used to make a bomb. interesting piece of knowledge to have there. begs the question, who are these new suspects? a friend of robel phillipos says there s no way he would be involved. robel is a very good kid himself. he went to school, never got in
violation. the third man, robel filipphil is an american citizen. he is as shocked by the violence as the rest of the community is. he did not know this individual was involved in a bombing. my client, azamat tazhayakov is as shocked and concerned that someone he knew was involved with the boston marathon bombing. he has cooperated fully with authorities and looks forward to the truth coming out. reporter: and interesting to note, christine and john, that according to authorities, one month before the marathon, tsavraev apparently told two of his friends over lunch that he knew how to make a bomb and that in the criminal complaint, it says one of the now suspects saw vaseline in tsavraev s dorm room after the attack and he knew then that the vaseline was used to make a bomb, we spoke to bomb
experts and we re told that vaseline may have been used on the pressure cooker lid to prevent sparks which would set off explosives. john, christine. thank you, pamela. who are the new suspects, a friend of robel philipos said no way he would be involved. robel is a very good kid himself. went to school, never got in trouble, took care of his mom. played basketball. quiet kid. that s about it. massachusetts governor deval patrick reassuring those in and around boston, saying they don t need to worry about more attacks related to the case. this should not raise any concerns in anyone s mind about continuing attacks. this is about getting all the way to the bottom of what happened at the marathon. brian todd in boston for us this morning, following the latest developments. what more do we know about the three suspects and the relationship with dzhokhar tsavraev? well, we know that they
fireworks in a backpack with the black powder emptied out, vaseline, and a laptop. authorities allege the three took the evidence out of the dorm room to protect tsarnaev. the complaint also say the men then took the items back to an apartment in new bedford, wrapped it in a garbage bag and put it in a dumpster along with some of their own trash. the bag with the fireworks later recovered by investigators after a two-day search at a local landfill. unclear whether the laptop has been recovered. this cnn exclusive video shows two of the men being taken into custody at the time on immigration violations. the third man, robel phillipos, is a u.s. citizen. at court hearings on wednesday the three agreed to waive bail. their lawyers say they did nothing wrong. he is just as shocked and horrified by the violence in boston that took place as the rest of the community is. he did not know that this individual was involved in a bombing. my client azamat tazhayakov feels horrible and was shoc
connection, joining of the cause. i don t buy that these are three kids that are helping a friend. and one of the students apparently also knew vaseline was somehow used in making explosives to me isn t a common piece of knowledge that everyone has. not common at all and they tell you a month before that they know how to make bombs. a bombing in boston. you make the connection right away. obviously, mayor, you were in law enforcement a lot longer than politics. there has been a suggestion, alan dershowitz, these aren t giant charges. prosecutors and investigators want to get more from these guys. what more do they want? they want to know the whole network, look, it s hard to believe that they did this all on their own. two brothers. pulled off the bombing too effectively. the whole escape plan was ridiculous. but the plan for doing the