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grenades. president obama whisked to a hospital by motorcade because of a persistent sore throat. good morning. i'm randi kaye. >> victor blackwell. middle of the night landing by osprey military aircraft. >> through complete darkness. >> a fierce fire fight with militants armed to the teeth as drones and fighter jets circled overhead. those are some of the stunning details we're learning this morning about the mission to try to rescue american luke somers and fellow hostage pierre korkie in yemen. three navy s.e.a.l. teams fought off the captors. >> it was the second attempt in ten days to rescue somers, who had been held prisoner now for 15 months. we have more from washington this morning. good morning. what are you learning at this

hour? >> reporter: good morning. this is the second mission president obama ordered in just two weeks and the second that failed, this time tragically. we're told the president monitored the mission at the white house, following along in real time with every tense moment. the mission extremely risky and made urgent when u.s. intelligence shows american luke somers would be murdered by saturday morning. by mid-morning friday the president authorizes the rescue, giving no hint of the drama about to play out. just a few hours later, according to u.s. officials, two v-22 ospreys under cover of darkness touched down in a remote area of yemen, some six miles from the compound where the hostages are held. about 40 special force co-man dose, mostly navy s.e.a.l.s move undetected over the rough terrain. suddenly everything goes wrong when 300 feet away, they're exposed, maybe by a barking dog. a fire fight breaks out.

as a u.s. drone watches overhead, one terrorist runs back inside and shoots both hostages. u.s. forces kill five aqpu terrorists, the rest flee. a combat medical team needs to spend a tense half hour on the ground, trying to stabilize the two gravely wounded men. finally, they are flown back to the uss macon island off yemen's coast. one dies on the way and the other dies on the ship. >> you have to look at this from a very surgeryical point, like a heart surgeon or brain surgeon. some will live, some will die. >> as word of the failed rescue mission leaks out, president obama calls somers' killing barbaric murder. >> the women and men who are special forces, who were engaged in these two rescue missions, did an incredible job and

inflicted serious damage on the captors, but this time -- this time they were unable to save luke. >> u.s. officials say this mission ultimately failed not because of operational error but because the element of surprise was taken away. victor and randi? >> thank you. >> so much to talk about this morning. let's bring in harris, managing director of the quilium found day, a counterextremism think tank. first off, good morning. do you think the obama administration should have known more about korkie, that these negotiations were apparently under way, even though he was south african? >> i think this raises a philosophical question around what we should do when our western terror citizens are held captive and held hostage.

i think there was good intelligence luke somers was going to be killed yesterday morning and the president had no choice. he knew where they were. he knew what the situation on the ground was and he gave an order to actually go in and rescue an american citizen that was going to be killed. irrespective of any other nation or anybody else was negotiating, with them, i think he had no choice. we must in the west stop negotiating with these terrorists when they capture our citizens. by negotiating with them, by giving them something they want, we're encouraging them to capture more people. this is a wider philosophical question i think we in the west need to actually ask ourselves and our governments need to realize and ask themselves. the home secretary has made it illegal for any insurance companies to pay ransoms for any

brit zit -- british citizens. this is a clear message that needs to be sent out. we will not negotiation with any terrorists. >> the ammo over the last five years has been to extraining hostages for ransom. "the new york times" say they've raised $125 million or so in exchanges. we use negotiations when discussing korkie. could there have been something else on the table, some other option in these negotiations or was this just a cash for hostage? >> i think usually it is cash for hostage, but sometimes there are other demands al qaeda have made. for example, al neusri, have mae certain demands that they are, for example, removed from the terrorist list. clearly, we're not going to do that. but other than money, there are

a number of things that can be negotiat negotiated, the release of prisoners, it can be weapons and arms, a whole range of things. usually for aquip, the main things they're after is cash. even though these south african governments have said they have not paid out cash in the past, there are ways -- a back door channel negotiations with cash in some cases has been made -- has been paid out. as you said, over $25 million have been raised. >> i would like your analysis on another development this morning. we're hearing six detainees from guantanamo bay, the facility there, have now been transferred to uruguay. the president saying they were accepted as a humanitarian gesture. we know president obama signed executive order in the first week, his first week as president, to start the process to close down guantanamo bay. he is likely in the process of

accomplishing that with the lowest numbers of detainees there since it opened in 2002? >> i think president obama said right from the beginning he was going to close gitmo down. one of the things we do know is we are getting intelligence and have been getting intelligence or he's been getting intelligence from prisoners in guantanamo bay which have been held illegally. i think that's the point. i think what he should do is start to release hostages, in this case, where he has via uruguay. we have to be careful because some of the hostages that have gone to qatar have been involved in fighting alongside terrorist organizations. he's sort of caught in a situation where he doesn't really know what to do. he wants to release prisoners, but some of these prisoners will actually come back and cause problems. let's not forget baghdadi, the leader of isil, who calls himself the ka leaf of the

so-called islamic state was one of the prisoners president obama released when he first came into office. i think this is a very tricky situation and a balancing act that needs to be undertaken to make sure these people that have been released don't come back in an even stronger way and either cause us problems in the u.s. and the uk or in the region itself, but certainly one of the other things i think he should consider is going through the due process. if there is intelligence, if there is enough information, why not start more prosecutions for people that are held in guantanamo bay. that may be something he's considering. >> we appreciate your context this morning. thank you. >> my pleasure. now to another big story we're following this morning. bricks, pipes and flaming objects were used by protesters against cal police last night.

take a look at this dramatic scene in berkeley after 1,000 people filled the streets. it escalated when a small group of masked vandals broke car windows and broke into stores police say they were forced to use smoke and fear gas after crowds refused to let up. at one point, other protesters tried to restore peace. one woman even stood in front of a broken window to prevent looters from vandalizing a store. >> why are people looting? there's no need. we're peacefully protesting. we shouldn't take from stores that aren't bothering us. why do you feel you need to guard the window here at trader joe's. >> because people are taking things. i'm sorry, they're not fighting quens us. >> this morning the berkeley police department says crowds are thinning out.

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california. police responding with tear gas after a small group of protesters threw rocks and bricks at them. two officers were hurt. looters also hit local businesses. in other parts of the country from oklahoma to atlanta, protests have largely been peaceful. >> officials with pakistan say a high-ranking al qaeda was killed in a suspected u.s. drone strike. he was believed to be head of al qaeda operations in pakistan and afghanistan. he decide along with four other suspected militants. the northern philippines is bracing for typhoon hagupit's fury. this cyclone is moving at only 9 miles an hour and drenching this area, dropping tons of rain. now authorities worry hagupit will cause disastrous mudslides because it's headed to a mountainous region and it will likely endanger 40 million people. earlier the typhoon slammed into

tacloban with winds of over 100 miles an hour, damaging homes and businesses. the government says two deaths are blamed on hagupit. north korea is denying involvement in recent hacking at sony pictures but pyongyang is praising. news agency says the hack might be righteous deed by dpk supporters. the seminals manage to end up this game with 37-35 win over georgia tech to take the win last night. alabama and tcu easily won their games. and they hope -- they hope they also won over the playoff selection committee. that panel today will decide which teams play in the

inaugural college football playoff. >> did you get to watch any of that yesterday? >> no. college football not my thing. >> really? >> no. >> they say it was a pretty good game. thanks for starting your morning with us. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. president obama promises to narrow the trust gap between african-americans and police. >> too many ameri americans fee unfairness when it comes to the gap between our professed ideals and how laws are applied on a day to day basis. >> the election is over but not the partisan sniping. >> the more the president talks about his ideas, the more unpopular he becomes. >> the new washington is full of old tensions, including tea party complaints that republican leaders just aren't bold enough. >> i would urge to every republican wpe