amsterdam is one of those rare airports in europe throughout the world where a small number of u.s. immigration advisory officials are stationed. these officers can ask an airline not to board a passenger who will be prohibited from entering our country upon arrival. those whose visas have been this was another missed opportunity to stop mo tall ab. another mised opportunity to stop him apparently occurred at the national counter terrorism center. the president has stated that there was amp intelligence on him to warrant his inclusion on the no fly list, yet, this did not occur even after his father's warning. it did not oh cur because other streams of nferings intelligence mentioned by the chairman were not connected until it was too late. a basic question about this missed opportunity is, why did the intelligence community fail to analyze all the available information related to him? some intelligence experts tell me that outmoded computer systems are a factor. despite the vast improvements in information sharing since 2001 and particularly since the bill that we autsrd in 2004, o

michelle kosinski, nbc news, amsterdam. >> those questions certainly lingering. >>> i'm alex witt.or watching. contessa brewer will be back at noon eastern tomorrow, 9:00 am out west. up next, "andrea mitchell reports," talking to haley barber about the future of the republican party here on msnbc news. nature knows just how much water vegetables need. so, to turn those vegetables into campbell's condensed soup, we don't boil it down, our chefs just add less water from the start. ♪ so many, many reasons ♪ it's so m'm! m'm! good! ♪ >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," 2 million people displaced, more than 700 dead, with that toll expected to rise in chile today. unlike haiti, strong inf infrastructure reduced the potential widespread devastation. secretary of state hillary clinton will be traveling to the region tomorrow, take with her emergency communications equipment. a live report, straight ahead. >>> in washington today, the president prepares his last-ditch strategy for getting a vote on health care, as he faces his own health update. overall, his health is good. but he

did find out information about him, understood that he was nigerian background, have flown in from amsterdamtely e-mail traffic began from detroit to our national joint terrorism task force here in washington and thereby various agencies, department of homeland security, and ctc and the intelligence community about what information we had, and that correspondence to read through the afternoon. approximately 2:00, a little bit before, a little afterwards, our agents went to the hospital and determined to try to interview abdulmutallab, with the specific objective of finding out whether there was any immediate threat of additional bombs on other planes or additional persons on that plan who might constitute a threat and spend up to an hour interviewing abdulmutallab. as has been pointed out, the determination was made not to provide miranda warning some the believe this was information necessary to determine public safety and so that interview was conducted along those lines. we continued to obtain information from the various entities in the intelligence community throughout the afternoon and

>> there was a dutch bank named dsand they are in amsterdam-based bank.ed run on this bank. they lost all their money, went out of business and they were the main sponsor of the u.s. speedskating team, because, to the dutch, speedskating is their super bowl. >> jimmy: yeah, of course. it is, sure. >> and so they had no one to sponsor them. and i called up the head of speedskating and said, "what if my fans sponsored you. not me, no money from me. [ laughter ] what if my fans sponsored you?" and they said what -- "how much money can you guarantee? we nd $300,000." i said, "i can guarantee you zero dollars." and they said, "we'll take it." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: but it worked. colbert nation raised the money and -- >> $10,000. >> jimmy: that is so cool of you to do that. >> we fielded our own team to the olympics. >> jimmy: that's right, you have your own team. >> we're going up there and we're gonna defeat the world. >> jimmy: we'll be rooting for you. i know you have to go. >> actually, i have to go do my show. >> jimmy: i'll walk you out. >> great. sure.

the high potency marijuana that is available today that comes to us through the breeders in amsterdam, that marijuana started with seeds from, among other places, southeast asia. very high potency cannabis types because of the equatorial growing conditions where canada's predominates. also from afghanistan, the mountains of tibet, getting her afghani varieties. but the we that was available in vietnam and thailand, laos, far exceeded the quality and potency what was available to americans in america at the time he. i know that from personal experience. the other question i've got is both in frank lucas' movie, american gangster, and in the movie about charlie wilson, concerning the afghani adventure. and in the documentary about charlie wilson, all three places, none of the drugs are mentioned at all. and yet, we know that the majority of the money that funded afghanistan was from hair when. not from the u.s. congress provided by charlie wilson. could you speak to that? >> thanks. i think that gets to the point, earlier about public knowledge is not very good. because these kind of po

that might have done in their system, versus how it was carried out across the globe through the amsterdamrocesses that the suspect went through. our approach to multiple layers of security and utilizing our officers in those multiple layers is exactly what we are trying to do similar ra -- similarly to the israelis. >> i represent dwi -- bwi airport. i have seen a lot of advancement in your personnel. i think some of the systems seem to be somewhat repetitive and redundant. i think a lot of that is the technology. excuse me. [laughter] thank you. ms. rossides, ross is for a very useful afternoon a testimony -- thank you for a very useful afternoon of testimony. >> i tremendously appreciate what you and the committee do. we are very appreciative of this. >> in that vein, we started out together. before the department was created, we have been laboring over this for a while. we will miss your expertise. you have been a very competent manager. you have demonstrated today and knowledge of these subjects. we will miss you and want to say thank you again for your long service. where are you goi

. >> as cdp officer in amsterdam. >> so now that information would go immediately to that person from the embassy? >> he goes from the embassy to our tax system as well refer to our national targeting center for aggregation if he will with all the other information that we have an unmet information and total total is passed on to our officers stationed. >> is there a filter -- i'm going to give you extra time. is there a filter applied at that time quite standards of what should be included? i think we all agree looking back his father came in, respected man, should've gone right on the watchlist. but in it's possible somebody could've come in, didn't know him well, that he was acting suspicious. >> given the same situation, any kind of derogatory information related to terrorism by the department of state is now put into our system. that's a positive refusal that is now captured and provided to our officers. >> towheaded finish her statement. >> engendered ten, 2010, began prescreening to non-immigration advisory program location. officers assigned to original carrier liaison groups

. >> if you can't get on a plain and go to amsterdam, here we are.ere in orange county. what a pleasure. >> reporter: daniels first planted tulip bulbs in his front garden 30 years ago. he's a retired biology teacher and figured out how to make tulips thrive where they don't belong. you have to sort of trick these flowers into thinking they're in a colder climate. >> you have to produce an artificial environment that they would have in their natural or normal habitats, right. >> reporter: he produces that artificial climate in the back of his garage by sticking the bulbs in an old refrigerator for a couple of months. it's a secret he willingly shares. >> i could do this. >> you certainly could. >> i'll tell me husband to get his beer out of the fridge. >> make room for tulips. >> reporter: but chilling the bulbs is is the easy part. the official flower of spring doesn't just spring from the soil. each one has to be planted. >> this isn't wild flowers. this is one hole, one tulip. one hole, one tulip. >> reporter: this year daniels planted more than 3

did find out information about him, understood that he was nigerian background, have flown in from amsterdamdiately e-mail traffic began from detroit to our national joint terrorism task force here in washington and thereby various agencies, department of homeland security, and ctc and the intelligence community about what information we had, and that correspondence to read through the afternoon. approximately 2:00, a little bit before, a little afterwards, our agents went to the hospital and determined to try to interview abdulmutallab, with the specific objective of finding out whether there was any immediate threat of additional bombs on other planes or additional persons on that plan who might constitute a threat and spend up to an hour interviewing abdulmutallab. as has been pointed out, the determination was made not to provide miranda warning some the believe this was information necessary to determine public safety and so that interview was conducted along those lines. we continued to obtain information from the various entities in the intelligence community throughout the afternoon

a combination of oakland and amsterdam. after a trip to that city and seeing how marijuana was openly sold there. >> some people cannabis is like a religion. >> reporter: until now, full legalization had never really been taken seriously by voters, but lee sees an opening with the state budget crisis, and the tax revenue it would bring. possibly hundreds of millions of dollars a year. according to a california field poll taken last year, more than half, 56% of californians, support legalization. opponents realize they have some work to do, and concede they'll be outspent, but think their arguments are too powerful to ignore. >> why would earth would we want to add yet another mind-altering substance to the array of legal substances that compromise a person's five senses, where we know they're going to make bad decisions, some criminal? >> reporter: richard lee said it's about adults making their own decisions. 20 years ago, a final cord injury put him in a wheelchair. he says he smokes cannabis medically and for recreation.

what might that have done in their system versus how it was carried out across the globe for the amsterdam where the suspect went through. our approach through multiple layers of security and utilizing our officers in those layers is what we're trying to do similar to the israelis where isn't just focusing on the passengers coming through. >> a represent the airports. -- are represented -- i represent bwi airport. i see the way public is treated. you wonder where people were work -- where people work and a lot of that is the technology. [phone beeps] >> excuse me. thank you for a useful afternoon of testimony. good exchanges that are helpful to us. and for the outstanding quality of your service. >> thank you. we enjoy and are appreciative of the tsa. >> we started out together. >> yes, sir. >> when the department was created. we have been laboring over these things for a good while now. we will miss your expertise. you've been a competent manager. you have demonstrated today your knowledge and we will miss you and we want to say thank you again for your lawn service. where are you going?

start to fit together, maybe you are checking with the airport before he takes off from brussels or amsterdam. fortunately he had a mistire and it didn't work. but he could have killed not only all the people on that airplane but a whole lot of people on the ground in detroit and detroit mission's got enough problems right now without having somebody blowing up an airplane over their city. and god bless them. mr. mccaul: if the gentleman will yield. it was preventble. there's a lot of information coming in and we have a lot of good men and women working the counterterrorism. they have a tough job. a lot of information coming in. but we had these two major focal points that were never acted upon and never put together and the -- in the christmas bomber case and mr. hasan, my god, how many points of error popping up on him? how many red flags are popping up? and why weren't they acted upon? i think it goes back to your original point. we didn't want to hurt someone's feelings. and you know what? we see this in the federal government. they kind of promote and move on somebody rather than having

you get off the plane in amsterdam, and there's a train to anywhere in europe.ow, you just walk down the hallway, and it's there. so i'd say transportation netherlands, france and germany, they have those great high-speed trains. but japan is the best. >> host: conservation. >> guest: conservation of national resources? >> host: yes, sir. >> guest: i would guess the united states is because we have these very strong requirements. if you cut down an acre of trees, you have to plant an acre of trees. other countries don't have that. i'm sure we have more protected wilderness area than any country, and we certainly have the best national parks i've ever been to, so i'm going to vote u.s. best conservation. >> host: education. educational system. >> guest: well, we have such a great democratic educational system in which everybody is entitled to as good a education as we can give them. i think that it's pretty good. the japanese system, of course, is famous for training kids particularly at science and engineering. japan and china have this incredibly complicated wr

you get off the plane and amsterdam and there is a train to anywhere in the year up. just walk down the hallway. i think transportation, of france and germany have the great high-speed trains but japan is the best. >> host: conservation? >> guest: of natural resources? i would guess to the united states because we have these very strong requirements if you cut down 1 acres of trees you have to plant that. other countries do not have that. i am sure we have more protected wilderness area than any country and certainly the best national parks. >> host: educational system? >> guest: we have such a great democratic educational system in which everybody is entitled to as good of an education as we can give them. it is pretty good. the japanese system is famous for training kids particularly in science and engineering prepared japan and china have the incredibly complicated routine system with thousands of two from letters of chinese characters. and japan is 99% literacy and even china is over 80% with the very complicated system. they are doing something right about teachi