classes and turned over the tape to the fbi. the fbi says that professor s actions proved crucial to their investigation some six years later. on a hunch, la blanc asked agents to show ha video of him to sa save. from that video he was able to make on identification. reporter: on 9/11, his mother, who doesn t want to be named, says he called home for the last time. he called me and said did you hear what happened, so on, so on. they said they put it on the muslims. i said yes. i tell him do not come. and do not come. because the all against the muslim people. he was arguing with me. he say no, i didn t do nothing. i will come. don t worry about it. reporter: his mother adamantly denies her son is directing al qaeda attacks. but when i asked about the admitted times square car bomber, she said this.
and he was arguing with me. he said, no, i didn t do nothing. his mother adamantly denies her son is directing al qaeda attacks, but when i asked about the admitted times square car bomber, she said this. sometimes you have to do something very alarming for the people to wake up. it s not because you hate them or you want to destroy them or you want to hurt them. that was our susan candiotti. general james clapper is the new director of national intelligence. he is the fourth dni since the job was created five years ago. general clapper will oversee 16 intelligence agencies. other big stories, the jobs report for july is out today. the economy overall cut 131,000 positions last month. much of that could be tied to the loss of temporary census positions. the private sector gained 71,000 jobs, enough to keep the jobless
looking at all the muslim people. he started arguing with me. no, i didn t do nothing. i will come. don t worry. after this. after that i don t hear about him. reporter: his mother adamantly denies her son is directing al qaeda attacks. but when i asked about the admitted times skwar car bomber she said this some time you have to do something very alarming for the people to wake up. it is not because you hate them or you want to destroy them or you want to hurt them. is there anything that you would tell your son about what he should do or not do? no. i don t have nothing to tell him. he have his own guide and his own heart. reporter: for the fbi, it is all about staying one step ahead. where will al qaeda and he strike next. he s definitely focused on attack being the united states an other western countries. looking for people? recruiting people, deciding on targets. absolutely.
he went to trinidad and london, by june 2001, afghanistan. on 9/11, his mother, who doesn t want to be named, says he called home for the last time. he called me and he said, did you hear what happened? they said they re putting it on the muslims. i said to him, do not come because all the muslims and he was arguing with me, no, i didn t do nothing. i will come. reporter: and after that? after that, i didn t hear about him. reporter: his mother adamantly denies her son is directing al qaeda attacks. but when i asked about the admitted times square car bomber, she said this sometimes you have to do something very alarming for the people to wake up. it s not because you hate them
young soldiers out of recruiting at a recruiting station. what happen with the times square car bomber. what has happened with the attempted underwear bomber. every bit is islamic jihadism. sean: in every case there s this rush by the administration to tell everybody there is no terrorist connection. this is a lone wolf. every time they turn you out to be wrong. mike: this is the polar opposite where we had a conspiracy theory every time when an assassination and we said there was a conspiracy turned out they can only pin it on the loan assassin sin in this case it is part of eight er network of pure evil and we have to call what it it is. sean: because of their you unwillingness to do so and their lack of willingness to address there s a real war with a real enemy we have really identified, radical islamists, here s the question, does that weaken, does that