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Six months. it's where his parents live. it's a hub of jihadist recruitment generally. "the new york times" wrote yesterday. back home in the u.s., tsarnaev became more radicalized. the "boston globe" reports he disrupted conversations at his local cambridge mosque with outbursts of radical theology and created a youtube page. how did this lead up to the boston marathon a week ago? richard engel is nbc news' chief foreign correspondent. david is editor of the "new yorker" magazine. i want to start with richard, then to david. richard, why did the russians let him in if he was a problem for the...

South asia. that's where you're going to see the argument. >> i think it would be a terrible result to let what happened in boston derail what most people in the country think is a good project, with i is immigration reform. as joy said, this part of the world when dagestan and chechnya, it's time to do something about that and i think most people in the republican party and democratic party agree on that. >> yeah. >> i'm just saying in terms of general attitudes towards immigrants, one thing can get con flated with -- >> and that's the danger here. >> let me play devil's advocate here. we jus...

but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don't keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they don't. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he's kept 37% of those promises. he's working on 23% of them. he's broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn't kept. some of those broken promises can be blamed on congress. they are stalled because you...

Considered campaign contributions or not because of the vagueness of the definitions in the law, it's hard to say somebody knowingly violate the law. i think secondly david's point is exactly right, what they are really going at is the what we call the 1,001 misrepresent taeurbgs the lies to the federal investigators as the vicious was being done. my response to david on that is if should not have been dealt with in a criminal context to begin with. yes you can make the case on the false statements to federal investigators that is an actionable offense criminally but this should not be in the ...

shot wound to the hid. she's made remarkable recovery, but she's stepping down to focus on it. there was a call to action in the house and senate who have gotten precious little done lately. we'll talk with a senior advideser for the house. first, though, here are key moments from tonight's speech. >> we are not going to settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do well while a growing number of people barely get by, a weak can restore an economy where every gets their fair shot, their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules. i will oppose any effort to return ...