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Diplomatic relations. we will continue to work with their law enforcement or intelligence authorities, just to follow up. that is what i call connecting the dots and i want to make it very clear. this does not take away from the very fine police work and the work of the fbi and the expedition and really stunning capture, one by death, and another one that is now captured, for last week. but we must ask the hard questions and connecting the dots is the same terminology, we used after the/11. >> y...

Tamerlan left the country in 2012 but secretary of homeland security janet napolitano yesterday told u.s. senators that her department did. lets watch her testimony. >> was your department aware of his travels to russia, and if you werent, the reason? >> yes, the system pinged when he was leaving the united states. by the time he returned, all investigations had been -- the matter had been closed. >> that discrepancy raised an issue for some republicans, including congressman michael mccaul, cha...

Yesterday. senator grassley, good to have you here today. >> thank you very much, martha. martha: we took a look at that back and forth and your question about why tsa would not have been picked up, would not have picked up on this young man. what troubles to you about the answer here? >> well we may have a 9/11 situation all over. and i heard you use, the term, maybe the dots are not being connected. martha: yee. >> is homeland security talking to fbi? now, this person left the united states ja...

To be asked and answered and it should not be taken from an accusatory position. because we cant get information if you have to stand back and be soft on the questioning or be soft on the probative needs that we have. weve got to be able to find out why the dots were not connected. >> and congresswoman, i know your bridging was classified, so you cannot share in detail what happened, but our own pete williams brought up the issue and one of your points that continues, and that is specifically, s...

Security committee and of course he was also in congress during the 9/11 attacks. congressman, good morning. >> thank you, chris, for having me on. >> within the last hour here on msnbc we heard from the chairman of the intelligence committee about this. let me play what he said. >> when i was briefed by the fbi, they told me they had no knowledge of his overseas trip to the chechen region and when in fact the secretary then testifies and says that they got pings and there was a flag that went u...

Security committee. lets listen to him. >> when i was briefed by the fbi, they told me they had no knowledge of his overseas trip to the chechen region. when, in fact, the secretary then testifies and says that they got pinged, that there was a flag that went up that did indicate that he was traveling to russia and to the chechen region. you know, we talked a lot about connecting the dots and stove pipes after 9/11. and here we are 12 years later, and the fact remains that its still not -- its n...

And i think what was most troubling, megyn was that, you know, yesterday we heard from secretary napolitano that she was aware of his foreign travel to rur vureb that when the fbi had been saying for days that they had no idea he was going to russia. so we have very conflicting reports here and when you look at after 9/11, we talked about connecting the dots. you know, sharing information, and the idea that homeland security had this information, did they share it with the fbi? did the joint ter...

>> we dont know the answer to that question, but that is the question because when i was briefed by the fbi, they told me they had no knowledge of his overseas trip to the chechen region and when the secretary then testifies and said they got pinged. that there was a flag that went up that did indicate he was traveling to russia and to the region. thats very important because this russian intelligence communique warns about this individual travels outside of the united states to join extremists ...

Leave the united states and join an underground extremist group. so the idea when that flag went up, what was done with that information? the department of homeland security was created after 9/11 to make sure we didnt have this happen again, that the dots would be connected, that people would communicate and the problem is, dhs has this information and presumably the man on the jttf knows about this and the question that cant be answered right now when asked the director, is did the fbi know ab...

>> the idea that a ball was dropped, the idea that maybe dhs did not share that information with the fbi, after all weve been through after 9/11 and talking about connecting the dots and just maybe, if they did know that, wouldnt they have reopened that lead that they closed? now, i was told that the case was closed, theres nothing derogatory. but it seems to me if you know hes traveling back to russia after russia has warned the fbi of his behavior, it seems to me you could have reopened that l...