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Fbi official, chuck rosenberg, frank figliuzzi and michael steele. chuck, we know that roger stone and mike flynn both were in touch with these extremists. mike flynn is a former general, how that is possible is for us to someday understand. but they were in touch with these extremist leaders. they talked to mark meadows, the chief of staff, and were trying to get these groups worked in with the president but they never we don t know that they made the connection. we don t know. i think you re right, it s a really important question, andrea. there s a difference between something that s correlated and something that s causal. you know, smoking and drinking alcohol might be correlated, people do both, but smoking doesn t cause drinking. ....
Scene in the region. with from we conducted criminal investigations where appropriate as we are still doing today. or disclose it or not. this man disagrees. as a retired journalist who conducted research into the new nazi scene for the local newspaper. he believes that extremist leaders knew the terrorists and appeared with them in public before the latter went underground. once the police identified the three suspected perpetrators over bernhardt be added chipper and over mentals in twenty eleven the any us who claimed responsibility in a cynical video sent by mail except for one copy that arrived at how about fierce newspaper but which they couldn t have got here by mail because there was no stamp . meaning. he always was and i think the d.v.d. was left in our mailbox by someone from the nuremberg scene of his life was not. ....
That continues to this day. i was politicized from the police s perspective i would like to stress that we did everything of the time to investigate the rightwing extremist scene in the region in little from we conducted criminal investigations where appropriate as we are still doing today in the war or disclosure here. or not. this man disagrees. as a retired journalist who conducted research into the new nazi scene for the local newspaper. he believes that extremist leaders knew the terrorists and appeared with them in public before the latter went underground. once the police identified the three suspected perpetrators over bernhardt be added and over mentals in twenty eleven the n.s.u. claimed responsibility in a cynical video sent by mail except for one copy that arrived at habit fears newspaper but they couldn t have got here by mail because there was no stamp. ....
Ideology, but that s not that has nothing to do with my faith. what about the point that it s only the mosques that have the extremist leaders? megyn, the mosque that she was just talking about, the one in boston has thousands of muslims of americans working very hard in that area. we have lawyers, doctors, engineers, civil society, everybody is working hard to be good american citizens. and to think that, you know, just because there was a few people that may have been associated with terrorism that came to that church, that does not give you the permission to shut down. go ahead. it s not a few people. it s not a few people. it s the founder of that mosque that is in prison right now today for plotting terrorism. and not to mention the one that followed after him. it s no different than a christian church or a mormon church. you had the doj investigate mormon churches. why go after the individual as opposed to the mosque? go after the individuals is the argument. ....
reporter: investigators want to know if tamerlan met with any of the notoriously fierce extremist leaders there. tamerlan was a changed man when he returned to the u.s., swearing off tobacco and alcohol, linking to extremist jih jihadist videos saying, i don t have any american friends. i don t understand them. a neighbor said he expressed anger about america and christianity. he said the bible is cheap copy of the koran. he said most american wars are excused with the bible. reporter: the mother of the two brothers told abc news from russia that tamerlan was always the leader of her two boys and that after the bombing, he called her to say, everything is okay, thanks to allah. authorities say the initial assessment now is this is not something ordered from chechnya or al qaeda, more the twisted thinking of a radicalized young man whose only real help was his younger brother. brian ross, abc news, boston. ....