al-awlaki, that american cleric and recently a former intelligence official told me there are a hundred americans who are followers of awlaki and he s gone operational and is a talent spotter for the network and we fellow our reporting he did meet directly with the 23-year-old nigerian. megyn: catherine her img, thank you very much, getting exclusive details. new reaction to the tv smackdown between joe biden and his predecessor chick chen dick cheney, the two men in a heated exchange over who is toughest on terror. today mr. cheney s daughter liz came to her father s defense, accusing the obama administration of ignoring the al-qaeda threat and saying the administration mishandled the suspected christmas day bomber. i think what the administration is trying to do here is divert peoples attention from what happened on christmas day, which is that we took the terrorists off the plane, he was questioned by local fbi officials, with no information about al-qaeda