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National correspondent catherine herridge reports the fires were stoked again over the weekend. >> reporter: the white house counterterrorism john brennan stirred the pot sunday. >> they are going out there and they're unknowing of the facts and making charges not anchored in reality. >> reporter: he said four senator republicans and the ranking member of the intelligence committee were briefed christmas night on the attempted bombing of flight 253. specifically that the 23-year-old nigerian abdulmutallab was in f.b.i. custody. >> they know -- and f.b.i. custody means there is a process you fo...

Acts as talent spotter in yemen. we know the 23-year-old nigerian suspect was in contact with al-awlaki who was born in new mexico before the attempted bombing of flight 253. sources tell fox the two men met in person. yemen is believed to be where abdulmutallab got his training and also got that bomb material, shep. >> shepard: of course this has become a political thing as everything in washington seems to become. the republicans are saying the feds are releasing with it too many details about this interrogation, right? >> that's right. in a letter today to the president, the senior republic...

Was made was that the pilot didn't have training in a key piece of safety, at least didn't have hands-on train anything a key piece of safety equipment that was on board that plane. the first officer, rebecca shaw, had basically flown all night from seattle where she had to live with her parents because she basically didn't make much money, flown all night from seattle to pick up this flight out of new jersey into buffalo. is any of that changing as a result of this accident? >> well, the fatigue issue, there's going to be a rule on fatigue, but i don't think it's going to reach into the commu...

Plane to crash outside buffalo last year. fifty people died when flight 3407 plunged to the ground. one in a house that was obliterated. the crash also raised concerns over pilots' vulnerability to fatigue. the national transportation safety board is meeting today and preparing to release the probable b cause of the crash, it will likely make safety recommendations. let's talk about it with john golia, a former ntsb board member. a lot of people complain that despite what has already been learned about this accident, there hasn't been much done this the way of safety improvements. do you agree...

Reporting, it is this american citizen anwral anwar al-awlaki. he's one of the key sort of foundational pieces of this group al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. this is the group that claimed responsibility for flight 253, and it's now well documented he is linked to the 9/11 hijackers, also fort hood. he was, if you will, the spiritual adviser to the alleged shooter, and now flight 253. and this week i was able to interview charlie allen, considers one of the legends within the u.s. intelligence community, and he told me that he believes that anwar al-awlaki personally met with the alleged chr...