0 looks for terrorism connections. finds nothing. goes to the house. interviews tamerlan and the family. comes up with nothing. goes back to the russians and says, you know, we got nothing here. what else do you have? the russians don t respond. the fbi a second time asks them for something. then in september of 2011 the russians make exactly the same request, but this time they go to the cia. perhaps thinking they ll get a different response. the cia sends that over to the fbi. the fbi says we ve already looked into this. there isn t anything. but, again, they say they asked the russians what more do you have? give us more, we ll chase it down. again, they say, the russians don t respond. as a result of these two requests to the fbi and cia, his name did go into a terrorism database. the sort of master terrorism tip database. so that when he did fly to moscow last january, the government knew about that. but it didn t take any action either when he left or when he came back because th
0 many members of congress are saying, well, should there have been some ways to follow up? for example, some way to sort of yellow flag him and maybe look continue to look at what he s posting on his social media site, which when he returns from russia, takes a very strong turn toward radicalization with, you know, violent jihadist material on his website. should that have required another look? that s what they re asking. you know, it s a reasonable question. it s a good question. it s also a difficult one. because the fbi gets something like 20,000 of these tips a year from foreign governments to check out people in the u.s. the average agent who s assigned to these cases gets 100 of these a week. so how do you prioritize and decide which ones are the right ones? but it does seem to me these are the questions that members of congress are understandably asking. well, let s go through it again. the fbi said they didn t know tamerlan left the country in 2012 but secretary of homela
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2010. i m shepard smith. good of you have to have us in tonight. we re all back tomorrow for studio b, noon pacific, 3:00 eastern. who is next? bill: the o reilly factor is on. tonight: i think trying khalid sheikh mohammed in new york is a big mistake. i don t think the former vice president dick cheney listens. a verbal war breaks out between vice presidents. who has the stronger argument about terrorism and who came across better on tv? brit hume and bernie goldberg will analyze. we don t have the money to pay y all bills. the largest state in the union california is in desperate shape. whose fault is that? we will tell you. sarah palin is a [bleep] retard. and they just won t leave her alone. the satire boys continue to pound governor palin. it s satire. [ laughter ] bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone from los angeles. the factor begins right now. bill: hi, i m bill o reilly. reporting tonight from southern california. thank