ronaiah tuiasosopo's uncle- who gave us thess pictures of himmas a child- teels us tuiasosopo is peligiousi aabaad at hii father's church."it's hard for me because i knoo the kid all hiis ife- and it's the first time i hearddsomethhng piie that."deadspin says tuiasosooo and manni teeo know each other.notre dame's athletic director, who hired pnvestigators in ttisscase, was asked iffttey're cousins or family friends:"that characterization does not - squaar wiih my information, but i'll llt the te'os aadress it."we could not reach maati te'o, his parents or his agent for comment.tuiasosopo is a former player himself-- seen hhre as a quurterback at antelope valley high school. he's got relltives who've played college nd pro football.(ssandup)"i spoke on the phonn with marques tuiaaosopoo a former & raiders and new york jets. marques saad hees a distant cousin of ronaiah tuiasosopo. marques diin't want to tape n interview. he said he can't say nything about this story, doeen't know ronaaah well. but marques did say that he and his family know the te'o family."who's the woman depicted in social

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ronaiah tuiasosopo. but what might drive someone to attempt such an elaborate hoax?both a very weak ego and a definite character distorter with a tremendous need to manipulate. >> reporter: the daily news" reports tuiasosopo's attorney insists his client was just a person trying to reach out and communicate and have a relationship. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >>> and coming up here, are you ready for the super bowl? and are you ready for the fact there's a shortage of one of these foods? oh, no. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds good. it's amazing what soup can do.

so if tuiasosopo's lawyer was saying it was just tuiasosopo, that means either he's telling the truth or perhaps he's covering for two other people. >> he wants to take the fall for everybody. >> perhaps. and, again, everything here is theoretic. >> we don't know. katie couric pressed him on leading people to believe that he had met lennay in person. let's listen to what he told her. >> i wasn't as forthcoming about it, but i didn't lie. i never was asked, did you see her in person? and so through the embarrassment and the fear of what people may think, that i was committed to this person who i didn't have the chance to meet and she all of a sudden died, that scared me. and so to avoid any further conversation, i kind of wasn't as forthcoming as i should have been. >> to say he didn't lie, it's sort of semantics. he told you it never occurred to him to go visit his dying girlfriend in the hospital when they were both in the same city. i found that really hard to believe. >> well, he said it was more complicated than that. there were arrangements made. there had been previous contact a

i got ronaiah tuiasosopoed? no! >> wow, somebody looks like an idiot. >> jon: thanks, guys. b)%p welcome back. not only was today barack obama's inauguration, it was also martin luther king day. for his thoughts on this historic occasion we're joined by senior black correspondent morgan freeman. >> thanks, jim. that's okay. sorry. >> jon: i got it. wait. the president was inrawing ated today >> jon: yes, that's right i guess i was so busy being angry about having to work on martin luther king day, i didn't realize i was also missing the second inauguration of the first black president which now makes me even more angry. thanks, jon. >> jon: sorry. it's okay, jon. look, as long as we're celebrating dr. king's birthday, i would like to make one request. can we as a nation please, please stop using martin luther king as a prop in our own petty political arguments >> jon: you mean about race? no, jon. about everything. listen to what the chairman of national gun appreciation day said last week >> i believe gun appreciat

the woman he called the love of his life was a figment of tuiasosopo 's imagination.ay kekua's character, he and the woman who spent countless hours on the phone with te'o acting as lennay kekua called te'o. the jig was up. >> said, it's lennay, and so we carried on that conversation and i just got mad and i just went on a rampage. >> reporter: lennay kekua was imaginary but tuiasosopo's alleged script for his imaginary character suffered a coma in a car crash then died of leukemia mirrored his own reality. one eerie example, tuiasosopo 's father posted on facebook that his son and his band survived a horrific car accident last march and even more bizarre, at about the same time the fake lennay was diagnosed with leukemia, tuiasosopo 's real-life cousin was diagnosed with the disease. tuiasosopo had a knack for tugging at heartstrings. ♪ carry on my wayward son >> reporter: during an audition for the singing competition "the voice" he reportedly came up with a similar sob story about a near fatal crash that left another cousin nearly brain dead. last night we tried to

perhaps noted mantei teo prankster ronaiah tuiasosopo tuiasosopo! stop it with this cold!osopo! our lips are turning blu-asosopo. we'll catch the flu-asosopo. because i have a kind of weak immune system because i'm a jew-asospo. [ laughter ] i'm going to be sorry to see this guy go quite frankly. here we are, listen two days since barack obama's inauguration speech in which he may recall you gave an unapologetic defense of the social safety net and addressed the criticism of entitlement. >> the commitments we make to each other through medicare, medicaid and social security. these things do not sap our nation, they strengthen us. [cheers and applause] they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. >> jon: that's interesting. the president is using a rhetorical device in this speech that is -- what is it we're talking about help me out vanquished vice presidential candidate paul ryan, what is he doing? >> that rhetorical device he uses over and over and over a straw man. >> jon: actually you know what a straw man is when

diane o'mera said today that ronah tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge - when tuiasosoporeated the fake girlfriend - using the name lannay kekua. o'mera says tuiasosopo called her last week, confessed to the scheme, and apologized. o'mera and tuiasosopo went to high school together but o'mera says they were never close. >> she says that for five years, tuiasosopo "has literally been stalking my facebook and stealing my photos." manti t'eo maintains he was tricked into an online romance with the fictional lennay kakua, and until late last month, t'eo says he believed his girldriend died of lukemia back in september. we'll continue to follow developments in this bizarre story. >> jacqueline: meanwhile, changes with the increasing clouds. cooler temperatures. the rain is expected for late tomorrow and noticed temperatures are going to get that much cooler. not very much cold air with temperatures in the 50s for the most part. dry conditions on thursday but the chance will return to the forecast for friday. first, let us talk about tomorrows for this plume of moisture from th

cnn has not confirmed the tweet or tuiasosopo's involvement.e went to tuiasosopo's home, but the person there would not comment. >>> let's stick with sports. in part two of lance armstrong's interview with oprah winfrey, he teared up when he talked about telling his son not to defend his record anymore. he also told oprah how fighting cancer helped him cope in the wake of that damning 1,000-page usada report. >> i've been to a dark place that was not by doing, i've been to a place where i didn't know if i was going to live, a month, six month, a year, five years, ten years. it's helped me now. i mean, this is not a good time. but it isn't the worst part of my life. >> ed lavendera joins us now from armstrong's hometown of austin, texas. ed, armstrong, as you saw, talked about these dark places and going to these dark places. he told oprah that he's in therapy now. we've seen in social media, in traditional media, the backlash. what else is he seeing in terms of fallout? >> reporter: well, i think many people are still trying to figure out exact

and tuiasosopo may have been duping people for years.uty queen says this lennay kekua contacted her in 2008. >> i think what made her seem real is just being consistent at the same time. >> reporter: she says when they were supposed to meet, someone else showed up. ronaiah tuiasosopo. but what might drive someone to attempt such an elaborate hoax? >> it's a weak ego with a character disorder with a tremendous need to manipulate. >> reporter: the daily news reports tuiasosopo's attorney insists his client was just a person trying to reach out and communicate and have a relationship. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> maybe the issue is not manti's psychology and state of mind, but the hoaxster's state of mind. >> think how elaborate this hoax was. he's calling him, on the phone for eight hours. a thousand phone calls. texting family members and speaking to family members. if that's happening to you, i suspect you would believe it, as well. >> katie couric does believe he was duped after doing that interview. it was a very good intervi

-- i keep messing up his name, tou tuiasoso tuiasosopo, he's not talking.ody has been able to talk to him yet, right? >> we have had his number since the weekend. he's not answering our calls. he is not answering our texts, and maybe in his best interest, you know, to finally step up and talk to somebody. because he's coming out as the bad guy in all of this. and it's very possible he is the bad guy. you know, he just kind of wants some answers. we know he has been doing this sort of lennay kekua pretending to be a woman online for a very long time. and we know that manti te'o is in no way the first victim of that scheme. what we don't know is what any kind of possible benefit that tuiasosopo could have for engaging in this kind of charade. >> tony, you have been following college football for many years. have you ever encountered a story like this in. >> no, there's never been another story like this. there's a lot of bizarre things that happen in college football, of course, we're about a year removed away from the jerry sandusky story at penn state, whic

who perpetrated it deadspin.com, that broke the story, pointed to a man named ronaiah tuiasosopo, and deadspin citing friends and relatives of tuiasosopo spread it online. >> they said he's been doing the fake profile for several years and he's caught other people in his trap but they caught on way earlier than manti te'o did. >> reporter: cnn cannot confirm tuiasosopo's involvement. we went to addresses and called numbers in southern california listed for ronaiah tuiasosopo and could not reach him. we caught up with his father, titus, a former football player at usc now a pastor at a place called the oasis christian church of the antelope, he's seen here on facebook. he wouldn't speak on camera but told us the truth will all come out. god knows our character. ronaiah tuiasosopo's uncle who gave us pictures of him as a child says that he's religious and plays in a band at his father's church. >> i know the kid all his life, and this is the first time i heard something like that. >> reporter: deadspin said tuiasosopo and manti te'o know each other, the athletic director asked if they w

deadspin.com points to a young man named ronaiah tuiasosopo.btained a yearbook photo of him when he was a senior in lancaster, california. deadspin, citing friends and relatives of tuiasosopo's, says he created the girlfriend and spread the myth online. >> they told us he's been doing the lennay kekua fake online profile for several years and he's caught other people in its trap. but that they caught on way earlier than man take tati te'o. >> reporter: we went to addresses, called numbers in southern california listed for ronaiah tuiasosopo and could not catch up with him. he wouldn't speak on camera, but told us the truth will all come out. god knows our character. ronaiah's uncle who gave us these pictures of him as a child told us tuiasosopo is religious, and plays in a band at his father's church. >> hard for me because i know the kid all his life, and this first time something like that. >> reporter: deadspin says tuiasosopo and te'o know each other. >> that characterization does not square with my information. but i'll let the te'os addre

he showed him an apology reportedly from tuiasosopo.e went to his home in california, but the person who answered the door did not comment. joining me now on the phone is our gary tuchman. gary, overnight, you spoke with espn's jeremy schap, who did this interview. what was manti te'o's reason for never actually meeting this girl, who he thought was his girlfriend? >> first of all, i'll tell you that jeremy schap is a good reporter, a good guy, and graciously let me ask him a couple questions. when he was done whiz interview, and things i was most curious about, one question you just mentioned, why did te'o never want to see this girl? certainly something i was dying to know. love but never saw her over a appeared of years. and jeremy schap said the answer was, te'o very much wanted to see her, made arrangements to see her, but each time he made arrangements, something would fall through, the girl couldn't do it, and the meeting would never happen. you would think maybe you would fall out of love with somebody that would keep blowing yo

ronaiah tuiasosopo lured him in with fake pictures. one of the most intriguing questions now, who was at the other end of those phones calls? who was the football great talking to for hours, into the middle of the night? manti te'o said that mystery voice he thought was a girlfriend, was acted mostly by a female accomplice of ronaiah. te'o also revealed to espn, he was so in love with lennay that he lied to his friends and his parents that he met her. even held her hand. even though he only knew her over the phone. >> i even knew that it was crazy that i was with somebody that i didn't meet. so, i kind of, you know, tailored my stories to have people think that, yeah, he met her. before she passed away, so that people wouldn't think that i was some crazy dude. >> reporter: they put her through a near-fatal car crash. then, in the fall, killing her off with leukemia. which manti te'o announced to the world. then in december, he got a call from ronaiah tuiasosopo. a big lie finally unravelled. >> they said it's lennay. so, we carried on

i knew it it's noted uber-prankster ronaiah tuiasosopo! tuiasosopo, i knew it was you-asosopo from that clue-asosopo. for i am rubber and you are glue-asosopo. there's an american sew mowan delegate on the foreign affairs committee. i wanted to do four straight days of that bit, you know, carry it through-asosopo. i'm going to piss that story. as the big take away from the day appears to be an out of context sound bite. >> was it because of a protest or guys out for a walk one night because they decided to go kill americans. what difference does it make? >> jon: she's saying there's no reason to investigate the cause of the attack. that's going to get traction. >> it makes a huge difference. she appeared it doesn't matter who is behind the attack. >> it makes the difference who has been watching this, following this, trying to figure out who knew what and when. >> the reason we're there is because we don't know what happened still today. >> jon: exactly. this inquiry is to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it fro

the lawyer representing this guy, ronaiah tuiasosopo admits that he imperson ated the voice of lennay. >> there's some controversy over that as well. the post is reporting that it was, in fact, ronaiah tuiasosopo's cousin. >> when do you think people have had enough of this thing? >> people are more done with it than we are. i think folks are ready to move on. >> what's fascinating about it is sort of the question of how much do we live our lives online and how much are we willing to sort of suspend reality when it comes to certain things? in this case you saw a very, perhaps, naive young man who got duped, the dupe of the century. >> wow, dupe of the century. >> if, in fact, tuiasosopo guy is the person on the other end of the phone, can you imagine the sickness, pretending you're someone else for that long? >> apparently he has done it before. >> and apparently the two did meet. there was video of the two at a game. >> ronaiah and manti te'o. >> the more you hear, the more confusing it gets. >> yeah. >> we haven't reached much clarity. there has been a question floating out there. i

it may not have been bon yeah at all but noted mantei te'o prankster ronaiah tuiasosopo.uiasosopo. say it didn't tru'e. [ laughter ] maybe beyonce lip synced who gives a (bleep). she's a phenomenal singer. did you see clarkson, brought game! ♪ great god our king >> jon: boom! [cheers and applause] woman has game! either way it's still better than what we would have had if romney won. ♪ from sea to shining sea yeah ♪ [ laughter ] >> jon: nailed it. [ laughter ] it was all part and parcel of the pomp and circumstance of president barack obama'sel second inauguration. -- obama's second inauguration. yesterday's events had everything a new inaug-ofile would love. the large crowds, the swearing in, the walking, the waving, a fairytale style ball and the grandest of american traditions the peaceful transfer. today's celebrated barack obama breakout star was none other that charles schumer who hosted the fest activities. he was able to enhance the rit yiment with shah bat service announcements. >> the theme of this year's inaugural is faith in america's future. >> jon: speaking