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Going to the north caucuses. this is hotbed of regional instability in russia, north caucuses. you will have 500,000 western athletes traveling to that region. this part of the russia that is major hotbed of russian instability and unrest. jon: you say this could be the most dangerous olympics in 40 years. back to the surveillance he russians did alert the united states to keep an eye on this guy. was that before or, you know, during the time he was, he was in russia? or did that warning come af...

Difference? if the fbi, the jttf, everybody in the intelligence community, had known about that trip in russia, known he was gone for six months, knew that he went to dagestan, a hotbed of islamic radicalism, then perhaps when he came back in the summer of 2012, some more follow-up, some more monitoring, might have been tone. they might have noticed that youtube account where he had set up with all these radical jihadi postings. and then at a minimum, even if it wouldnt have stopped the bombing,...

Set off enough red flags for our guys. we know how hard many people work. certainly not to take away anything from that. im curious if youre frustrated as the first head of the department of homeland security and all the controversy went into the patriot act being l being able to tap into somebodys cell phone, watch what theyre doing on line. this guy was in the right age range. he was putting jihadist videos on line. traveling back and forth to a very dangerous hotbed of terrorism. why on earth...

Earlier who is also in dagistan. theres a mosque that is a hotbed of radicalism. the question that remains, did the older brother have any connections with that mosque. did he attend. were still trying to find out information about that. appreciate your reporting. a lot more to talk about globally, as well as locally. joining us now is former massachusetts homeland security adviser, juliet kayyem. we know the fab and cia were aware of the elder brother. and yet he was available to plan an atta...

They obviously want to talk to the wife about what she knew. theyre asking questions about income, where he got his money, was he subsidized. did he do it as investigators are looking at, did he sell drugs? there are all kinds of loose ends that they have to look. they have to look at themselves and make sure their information, they were sharing information in the appropriate ways and this just didnt get stove piped as we call it in washington. that was supposed to end on 9/11. >> talking to nic...

Tamerlan tsarnaev. he was born in 1986 as a chechen refugee in curring stan. in 2001 his family moved to dagestan, and a year later the family, with younger brother dzhokhar moved to the united states. but tamerlan only moved to the u.s. in 2003, and there his passion was boxing. in 2009 he competed in the golden gloves tournament, losing in the first round. and even then he considered himself a devout muslim. but by 2011, his religious fervor had grown. he was praying five times a day, but also...

If the right direction. and the tone of his speech at the city club of chicago was also striking. >> we are a land of immigrants. i grew up just two hours north of i-90 in southern wisconsin where my family taught me about the melting pot, about how this country is made great by the people whos come to this country in search of a better life, in search of a dream. im the product of a wave of immigration just like current immigrants are. >> ryans support gives house speaker boehner tons of cover ...

Happened to be chechens. who happened to be from a place in dagestan where there happened to be a lot of radicals. and putin could say, ah, look at this, these are -- its a hotbed of extremists but they are different kinds of extremists. >> thats right. we have the chechen nationals who would want to attack moscow then you would have general global jihadists who are motivated by chechnya, by pakistan, by syria, by palestine, and want to attack the west, the united states, israel. and these two b...

And specifically since 1994, but i cant recall a time when they actually trained and deployed somebody to come to the u.s. to conduct an attack here. we just havent had that. so you would triage based on was he going back to an area which is a hotbed of terrorism, of people who have sent people to the united states to commit an act or have attacked the u.s. embassy or consulate overseas? but in this case, none of those organizations have directly come after the united states. >> and i want to co...

Public thats part of russia, and thats also a hotbed of discontent with economic and religious ferment. so, you have to look at their experiences there. and then theyve been in the united states for many, many years. so, chechnya and the turmoil, the decades of turmoil, all the years of conflict, maybe plays a tangential role in all of this. >> its interesting i thought, and maybe im reading too much into it, and im wondering what you think about it, justin, that his uncle yesterday, who was obv...