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You have another terrorist screening database with 423,000 names. tsarnaev was said to be on that list. then there's a select d list with 14,000 names. a no fly list with 10,000 names and the kill list, we don't know exactly how many names are on that. does it make sense to have all of these lists? >> so, look, i think most of these lists are to be used as references. they're not generating leads, open investigations. it depends on how they're used. they can be useful just as a resource for some organizations, but again, i'm not exactly sure how all of those databases interact at this point. >...

Have securityingsefn that issue, let them look at that. i'm trying to describe how the process works. >> i understand that. i know there are a bunch of different groups, you said it is completely transparent, according to you, that they're sharing information. i am trying to figure out where the buck stops, in ig happens. the president says the buck stops with me. this type of information, what agency, who does the buck stop with? >> well, there are many. you could say the director of national intelligence, the president of the united states, for that matter. you have a lot of different agenci...

Citizenship but had a green card, lived here a long time and was unhappy as an american. these folks are closer to home grown terrorists than they are what we normally think of as foreign terrorists. that doesn't -- i think they're in some ways that's the tough one, right? they didn't have a track record. no prior record of doing this. they didn't have any affiliations with organizations. i think the u.s. has done a very good job in the decade plus after 9/11 in targeting organizations abroad, following what's happening abroad, following people that have a record, a track record or have statem...

This issue before senate committee. >> i think the fact there senator is that the fbi text alert on him at that point was more than a year old and had expired. >> not only have we learned that tamerlan tsarnaev himself was listed on this tide list, so was his mother. joining us from memphis is fill mudd from the new american foundation. he used to be counterterrorism official for the fbi and cia. and, mr. mudd, welcome. now that we know that this elder slain brother and his mother were both on this tide list, let me back up and ask you, how should lists like this work in the first place? >> yo...

Ago, put information like date of birth, you know, over time if an analyst wants to look up whatever the u.s. government knows about someone that was vaguely suspicious years ago, they can go to the tide list. let's separate out a watch list and a list that simply is a compilation of identity information about suspected people. >> so then, with, let's say this tide list, which we knew tamerlan tsarnaev and his mother was on, what is the red flag let's say for anyone on the list what is the red flag for investigators to say something is not right here? >> i would say violence, something that su...