suspicious buying fireworks? how many well, i will say this. how many people have bought ar-15s illegally, and used them to commit a heinous crime or a mass shooting in this country? you re implying that everyone going to a gun show is purposely trying to get around a background check from a dealer who has to give you a background check. no. i m not. you look at newtown. hold on, look at newtown. would a background check in newtown have fixed the problem? no, it wouldn t have. we know that factually now. in aurora, colorado, wouldn t have fixed that. you have mental health issues. i m not saying we should background check for fireworks or background check every single person if i m going out to buy a .22 rifle for my uncle. right. but what you are agreeing with me about is that there is a clear need, and you would be perfectly in favor of it, for if somebody suspicious turned up to buy fireworks in one of these
of all of the trades at these gun shows, nobody cares. nobody asks who he is. whether he s a criminally minded person, has a criminal record. may be mentally ill. what is the difference between that scenario and somebody being suspicious buying fireworks? how many well, i will say this. how many people have bought ar-15s illegally, and used them to commit a heinous crime or a mass shooting in this country? you re implying that everyone going to a gun show is purposely trying to get around a background check from a dealer who has to give you a background check. no. i m not. you look at newtown. hold on, look at newtown. would a background check in newtown have fixed the problem? no, it wouldn t have. we know that factually now. in aurora, colorado, wouldn t have fixed that. you have mental health issues. you want to have a mental health registry?
and this is what he bought. two of these locked and load kits. it s about $200 worth. these are reloadable mortar kits of firearms. you have to register with an i.d. the store owner went back to his records and found this for place and went back to the police a few days ago with the information that said he was there. and the police say that one of the things that he found in search of their apartment was pyrotechnics. the dorm room of the young one, they found pyrotechnics. you could use this. you could use the powder inside. you could test with the powder. most say we probably wouldn t use this for the actual pressure cooker bombs because this wasn t strong enough, et cetera. but it does show that he was buying fireworks. not only buying fireworks, but not afraid to show his i.d. and
the youtube. he was speaking out at his moderate boston mosque. a few months later, buying fireworks, fireworks maybe had a part to do with that boston bombing. bill: clearly this is moving quickly too. greg palkot, stay on it, live from london on our coverage there today. martha: we have some brand new information about exactly what we ve been talking about because moments ago homeland security secretary janet napolitano has now weighed in on the suspect s trip to russia and why federal agencies were not keeping an eye on the older brother when he came back into the country from his six-month trip. here is what she just said moments ago. they are vetted from the time they apply to the time between when they re told they re going to be a citizen and they actually take the oath at a ceremony. so we re continually revetting, going back, check, checking, checking, checking. in this instance in boston the systems contained no derogatory information as to
is state and local government employment fell actually in this report, which is something we re concerned about because we know state and local governments are still in a very severe budgetary situation. they can t pay to hire at this point. we ll be interested to hear what the president says 45 to 50 minutes with you at his side. thank you very much, dr. christina romer. great to be with you. msnbc is getting an inside look at the suspect, faisal shahzad. he s seen buying fireworks intended to trigger the makeshift bomb. video at his connecticut apartment reveals a little more than dumbbells, air mattress and a book about the quran. pete joints us live. good morning to you, pete. what does this video tell us? not much that, in terms of the apartment. you put the two things together, it s quite clear. when he returned to the u.s. on