understanding of what russia knew, what they told us and what we did about it? what s the current balance of understanding? first of all, the u.s. government is not saying or the fbi is not saying that there was absolutely no connection. they re saying there is none that s been established as of now. there is no connection known. and if there is going to be a connection made in russia of what tamerlan did during his visit there, that s going to have to come from the russians. now, so far this week they revealed that they were intercepting conversations of the mother, they said one conversation where the word jihad was used. they don t give more detail or context than that with the son tamerlan. so the next question is what were they looking at in terms of the mother. we know they have been looking at the group the abu dujan cell of terrorists. they killed him in december and his successor just this week over the weekend. so the question is how long did they have electronic
about relying on the family for information and what is our best newest information about any meetings that may have taken place with the now dead suspect when he was in russia? reporter: well, of course the fbi is not eliminating anyone from and qualifying the interviews that they have been doing with family members and for that matter with anyone else who has had contact with the two brothers. they re casting a wide net here talking to people both here and of course overseas. and one of the things that they learned just within the last few days, and we can t understand of course they can t understand either why the russians didn t reveal this before was this intercepted phone call that was made according to two sources with knowledge of this information and the investigation. an intercepted phone call between one of the bombing suspects and his mother who was in russia at the time in 2011.
mention newdy dimension when he returns. because of all the cold war hysteria that precedes the relationship, are we getting the right kind of dynamic between the u.s. and russia right now moving forward? what are you hearing? i think so. and in the past they have been very cooperative. i ran the organized crime program and international program. and we worked closely with the mvd, which is their police basically and the fsb which handles serious crimes, organized crime, complex financial crimes. they have been very cooperative in the past. we have had successful joint investigations with both services over there. so it s not a question that they have not cooperated with the fbi. the fbi opened the office in moscow in 1994 and there have been many, many dozens if not hundreds of cases where the russians and the americans
surveillance on the mother and who else was she contacting. we have calls between her, at least one call between her and her son, but who else? was she in touch with other terrorists there in the region, was she somehow involved in supporting them? that we need to know, as well. more will come out about what the russians were looking at. it seems as though the focus on their part is tamerlan going to come to russia, join up with abu dujan s group or somewhere related to his group and attack russia. that s their focus. when they hear from the fbi that there is no connection to others in the u.s. that appear to be terrorists, is not funds raising in the u.s. to support the dagestani terrorist cell, then they have had enough. the fbi says give us more if you want us to keep looking at him. they appear to be at that time satisfied, okay, that was their
he had to be mirandized under the law of the u.s. once public safety was no longer an issue, they were able to go the first mistake wasn t setting up a meeting between the judge and the fbi and the doctors and everybody else in the room that day. the first mistake was whether the united states paid close enough attention from the warning they got from russia. that s when you have to go back because russia doesn t pick up the phone russia does not pick up the phone. you better take it seriously when they do. you have to have this person on the radar to track their