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Present. nine months after he comes back from the chechen region he pulls off the largest terror attack since 9/11. >> theres also lots of talk today about the way the fbi first handled the case of tamerlan tsarnaev and we have reported fbi agents interview tsarnaev back in 2011 at the request of the russian government. russians believed that he was a follower of radical islam. he was also interviewed but no action was taken and there was also no follow-up after his six-month trip to russia last...

Welcome back, everyone. the fbi says in 2011 its agents interviewed bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev on suspicion that he was a follower of radical islam. in the end authorities said they did not find any ties to terrorism. >> according to the "new york times" the contact was enough for homeland security officials to deny his petition for citizenship. now one member of congress wants to know what, if anything, the fbi missed. >> its all about the interviews right now. the government hasnt said ...

Just who are the two brothers implicated in this horrible week of violence? dzhokhar and his brother came here from the chechen region. the fbi asked to investigate them with ties to the extremist groups, and he died friday in the shootout with police. the brother escaped that shootout and managed to elude police until he was found in a boat last night. he is in stable condition in the hospital. when tamerlan was interviewed overseas by the fbi as a follower of radical islam. here is joe johns. ...

Internet he was doing. they were watching every step of him and telling today, this is a terrorist act. >> reporter: the fbi confirmed in 2011 they interviewed the older brother and family members, but it did not say how many times. it was at the request of russian intelligence ak considereding the a senior u.s. official. the fbi said that the request was based on information that tsarnaev was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer and had changed drastically since 2010. they said the...

Think is a follower, she thought was nice and kind. >> tucker: talked about the extremism and radical underpinnings of the family. you could tell that the mom was influenced by the older son, the 26-year-old. talk about the 9/11 conspiracy. she says this. this is what alyssa says in her opinion piece for foxnews.com. she writes this shouldnt surprised me because she was increasingly religious in college. and she mentioned allah and lesson of the quran. she was telling me that 9/11 was created by...

Police until he was found in a boat last night. he is in stable condition in the hospital. when tamerlan was interviewed overseas by the fbi as a follower of radical islam. here is joe johns. >> well, they found nothing incriminating and the fact that tamerlan was interviewed by the fbi two years before the bombings, was already stirring up controversy before the bombing in watertown. the chairman of the security committee. >> if they let him out of their sights, then that is an issue for me. >>...

The republican chairman of the house homeland security committee. >> if he was on the radar and they let him out of their sights, thats an issue certainly for me. >> reporter: tsarnaevs contact was made public by the mans mother who suggested agents had been harassing her son for years. >> they knew what my son was doi doing. they knew what sites on internet he was going. how could this happen? they were watching every step of him. but this is a terrorist act. >> the fbi confirmed that in 2011 i...

Oh, by the way, military commissions which have not secured any convictions, really, against anyone since 9/11, there is a right to council and there procedures, too. all of which keep getting tested. dont work. >> enemy combatant has nothing to do with the military commissions. >> dzhokhar tsarnaev could be deemed enemy combatant and still tried in a civilian court, which is what happened the w jose padilla in the past. its not done often and justice department is in unchartered waters for how ...

Information that the older brother was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer. he had changed drastically since 2010 and they believe he traveled to russia to join an unspecified group. what we know based on this, the f.b.i. did a review of tamerian tsarnaev background and they didnt come up with anything that was terrorist activity. let me explain why that is important now. the same year the russian government, what do you know about this guy? we think she radical islamist. this is t...

They will walk him through the entire thing very carefully. they dont want to it alienate him and they will try to establish rapport and get him to start to talk to them and establish areolationship with them and establish a bit of trust. based on that, look this is not gait that traveled to russia. his brother traveled to are you you sha and was probably the one that got recruited. if they are able to determine that this brother was recruit by the other brother who is essentially is follower, i...