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An associate of mohammed emwazi. he spent time in somalia. they were involved in equipment to somalia to under take terrorism activity. it is emerged a former rapper grew up close to emwazi. last year his father pleaded guilty to charges related to al qaeda's bombings of u.s. embassys in africa. they often questioned emwazi but failed to stop him leaving. many are now asking why. >> meanwhile, a former teacher at emwazi's school told the bbc that he underwent anger management therapy, alex whilst he was at high school. but she says that was a success. she said he did not come from a troubled b...

Experti expertise, what do you make of the fact that while we have no direct evidence released publicly pointing us one direction or another, authorities continue to say that this is a criminal gaix and ma we know what happened, that left turn that was made, was a criminal act? what do you take from these statements? >> i take from the statement that i'm hoping they have something else. because what is publicly available is a lack of evidence. there is just an absolute silence from any kind of terrorism activity, criminal sabotage. there's no intelligence coming over the wires. if they cleared...

In where the president started off, and i was at the speech. and i saw him grappling with the civil liberties issues and the need for security. and i felt he had a level of emotional investment in the speech that i haven't seen in a long time. i think he's hearing us. but i don't think he can go far enough as president because if he does anything that stops these programs, the next president can come along and reverse them. so congress has to change the law. >> one of the challenges i think we have associated with the notion that you're not going to retain the data, if we announce to nation st...

Connection or the brothers involved in this attack and i'm wondering whether authorities are now -- whatever they're saying publicly, privately are trying to look at that now more pronounced? >> oh, yeah. i think they're trying to figure out in great depth what happened in russia, or what happened in dagestan. he went to russia, but then immediately went to dagestan, met with people there. did he get training there? did he expand his ambitions there? how many other people were involved in it? where did the financing come from? all of this is being investigated. >> neil: this region from dagest...

The same time, craig. >> there are new questions being raised about the mother of the suspects. what do we know about that? >> reporter: well, of course, investigators have been focused on her for the last week. certainly they want to know what her connection to any of the ties may be. she has, of course, been adamant about not being tied to anything. and even though she was added to the u.s.'s government database, being on that database is not proof of any terrorism activity. so they're looking at that. they're also looking at other possible leads, the russian intel that they've been received...