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witt." luke somers has been killed in a failed rescue attempt. president obama just issued a statement on the operation which reads in part the united states strongly condemns the barbaric murder of luke somers in partnership with the yemeny government. summers a. photo journalists was abducted back in september of 2013. let's bring in nbc news white house correspondent, jack jacobs. what do we know about this raid? >> reporter: president obama calling this killing beautiful this morning, alex. he is shedding more light on his decision to authorize that raid.

we have more of the statement he released within the past hour, and he says earlier this week a video released by his terrorists captors announced luke would be killed within 72 hours, and other information also indicated that luke's live was in imminent danger, and as soon as there was a reliable intelligence, i authorized the rescue of luke and any other hausages held in the same location as luke. the president saying the killing under scores the need to fight against what the president called its evil ideology. hagel offered a similar statement condemning this attack and also saying another person, a non -u.s. citizens was killed in the attempted raid. and mr. somers was kidnapped last year, and the white house

authorized a rescue attempt a month ago, and the special forces got there and somers was not there when they arrived. we spoke about that attempted raid earlier this week, and he confirmed that that did in fact happen. in terms of this group, alex, and i know you will get into a little more detail about this with journcolonel jacobs, but i the strongest branch of al qaeda and is based in yemen. >> quickly, i want to clarify, is there a connection between al qaeda and isis? >> that's a big question. that's one of the things we have been discussing at the white house all week long, what the white house says about that is they don't know if there is a direct link right now, an intelligence link between isis and aqap, but the white house

says that there is what is called a legacy connection between these two groups, alex, and what that essentially means is that they believe, officials here believe they share a similar ideology and goals and so both groups, an incredible concern to the white house and obviously today's tragic killing of luke somers underscored that. >> colonel, kristin was talking about this is the second rescue attempt to get mr. somers, and the first operations was before thanksgiving. that's a quick turn around. you try one and then do another, and is that typical? >> it is if you have good intelligence. good intelligence is the independent variable makes the decision whether or not you are even going to conduct the raid. the intelligence was not so good the first time around because somers had been moved but we got

intelligence that he was at a specific location, and that guarantees that you can launch another operation before they move him again. often, because of good intelligence, they will move several times within a quick byrd period of time. >> there was a drone strike today, and any conclusions we can draw from that? >> it's a lawless area. there are lots of bad guys in the region. we conduct both drone strikes and raids all the time in that area, so it's not surprising that there was one. there were probably many more and they were closely related. >> what do we know about aqap and the threat it poses to americans in the region? >> it's very strong in the region, because the area is quite lawless. they have come to the conclusion, the best way they can exercise their strength is to capture westerners, and hold them for ransom, for political leverage, and trade for other

hostages, al qaeda people who have been taken hostage, so it's an extremely difficult area in which to operate effectively because the yemen government is not strong in that region, and they are a threat to all westerners in the region, including people who are not necessarily westerners but related to the west, and they have taken turkish hostages, and indeed, there were at least one turkish hostage kept with somers during the time that he was in yemen. >> i know we have chuck hagel who will be holding a news conference later. do we expect more from the president on this? >> we expect to hear more from chuck hagel about this when he holds the briefing, and i anticipate we will be getting updated about this rescue attempt by the white house throughout the day, and if we will hear from the president at this point, i have no indication

that we will hear from him, but i wouldn't rule it out. i have been talking to white house officials all morning long and we saw statements coming out from the defense department and the state department and the white house within succession, so this is what they are focused on today, and certainly rule it out hearing from the president, but no word that we will hear from him on camera today. clearly we will get updates throughout the day. >> yeah, and we will get more on this story from richard angle, and he will speak with us at the bottom of the hour. thank you both so much. also in that region, the u.s. embassy in abu dhabi is warning americans after a american schoolteacher was stabbed to death earlier this week. she died thursday after she was attacked by a veiled woman in the bathroom of a shopping mall. the suspect is in police custody. and we are joined to talk about this. what is the latest on this

investigation? >> reporter: well, the latest, really, is ryan's husband, paul, ex-husband, paul, he says that he is horrified by what has happened and he is saying the police here are telling him that they believe this was a lone wolf attack, in other words, this woman was acting a woman, this woman that you say, alex, is now in custody. at gunpoint police arrest a woman accused of killing american mom. they say the 47-year-old kindergarten teacher was stabbed because of her nationality. on surveillance video, a veiled woman is seen calmly entering the mall on monday and police say she stabbed the teacher in the bathroom leaving a trail of blood and then she is accused of making a primitive bomb with

ingredients found at her apartment to target an american egyptian doctor, and the aim is to spread fear. >> and ryan's ex-husband is now here to abu dhabi to look after his twin children. he describes them as beautiful children and he said i want to make sure they have a sense of who she was and i want to protect them as much as possible. >> as you report, the police say this is a lone attack, but we are getting word that jihadists posted on a website and u.s. authorities said beware of this, that they were calling on attacks of specifically american teachers in the region. can we put any sort of connection to that? >> well, we can't make the connection specifically, but we know that was being posted, that american teachers were being talked about as a target online,

and police believed this attack was motivated simply because ryan was an american citizen, so that is what the investigation is trying to establish, but what it does raise, alex, is this really concerning question across this region about instant americans being targeted simply because of their nationality, and it connected to an earlier story in yemen, and that, of course s. al qaeda, but there is more and more concern that people, even just acting alone, might see something on the internet and then go out and try and find american citizens, and that said, ryan's ex-husband who is here says that he considered it to be a safe country, and the fact that the arrest happened so quickly under scores that. >> the third straight night,

protests over in new york over the death of eric garner erupted in new york city. macy's flagship store had protests with them shouteding i can't breathe. >> today is a good day for a revolution. >> 20 people were arrested, meanwhile there were several protests across the country, people in boston, chicago, miami, took to the streets calling for change. we will have a full report on the protests later in the hour. and the latest cyber attacks on sony warn the employees, and they said not only you but your family will be in danger. there is speculation that the attack is north korea's retaliation for the new comedy, "the interview." a frightening ride on a

amtrak train in michigans, a man stabbed the conductor. >> i was, like, oh, my god, he is punching the guy, and i noticed there was something in his fist resembling a knife blade or something, and i saw him bring it down, and he stopped stabbing the guy in front and he lurched forward towards the two women who were sitting two rose back from the conductor. >> the police officers tasered the suspect and the victims were taken to the hospital. and a top al qaeda leader was killed in an early morning raid and hiding in a local compound. he was responsible for plots to attack targets in the united states and united kingdom, including new york city's subway system. and a hail mary in the

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harsh. mary landrieu is dead and everybody knows it except for landrieu. wow. >> it's hard to find people that wanted to vote for her. and democrats are not popular in the state of louisiana anymore, especially president obama and especially the current democratic senate. she has tried her darnedest to turn up support, but it's not going to happen it looks like. she had her push a few days ago to get the keystone pipeline authorized, and that fell short because she couldn't convince her own colleagues to help her out. she is only going to be head of the committee, and a big part of her re-election argument was

taken away when republicans won the majority. >> the keystone pipeline vote, she took that because she had the confidence it was going to win and it lost just by one. it was so close. this is a woman who survived two tough races before. it is all about the obama factor? >> i think that's a big part of it, if you talk to democrats, they say he has become so unpopular in louisiana and republicans did such a good job of tying her to him, even though their politics really don't line up, that much at least on the concerned louisianans. cassidy has gotten a lot of help from the national republican

party and outside groups. and then katrina, that started driving out certain populations that would have voted for democrats, and they moved to texas or atlanta and other places and she has not been able to rebuild that support. they were hoping to bring out 30% of the vote, and she would win 30% of the white vote, and it's the white vote that would be difficult for her to find. three weeks ago right before the election, she told chuck todd that part of it is because she thinks certain voters in louisiana don't like the president because of the color of his skin. you talk to democrats privately, and they would say they agree with her on that. >> and democrats no longer hold a senate seat across the south. how do democrats recover from this? >> that is a big question go into the next few cycles. i think they believe they can be helped to some extent in 2016, is that the presidential

elections voters turn out in groves, and then they have to find democrats somehow willing to run and can appeal to voters in the states that have turned their back on the democrats for cycles over the last 20 years. landrieu was able to hold on in part because of her family's name. her father was a governor and her brother is now the mayor of new orleans, but it doesn't seem to have helped. kay hagan, she lost narrowly in north carolina. if you want to talk geographically, the only guy left is nelson in florida. it's going to take finding people like bill nelson, who might have pro business or military back grounds, and plus are socially liberal, and that's going to be very difficult because there are very few democrats left on the bench in those states that are willing to step up and do this.

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clouds and showers in the forecast. more on the showers. parts of the radar around the country lit up like a christmas tree towards the west. we had heavy rains in parts of california, and nobody wants to deal with the rainfall, but they have been desperate for the precipitation, and they are getting some at high elevation, and 4,000 feet and higher, and they are switching it over to snow. that snow is like money in the bank. the rain is going to move up through portions of cascades and central rockies, and on the east coast, what we are watching, parts of the deep south all the way up into the great lakes, and that is going to grow legs and make its way towards the east. the rain drops we are getting here this morning, alex, what we are going to see, some of the instability is going to be get zapped into the system we see if from the west, and that could bring snowfall over the next several days in the northeast,

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during a rescue operation conducted by u.s. forces in yemen in partnership with the government, on behalf of the american people i offer my deepest condolences to luke's family and loved ones. joining me here in the studio, richard engel. i am happy to have you here. this was the second attempt in as many weeks essentially. talk about that. was he in a dire situation? >> he was in a very dire situation. he had been held for just about a year in yemen. he went to yemen like a lot of young people do these days, they want to go abroad and experience a new career and he started out with teaching, and when political troubles started in yemen he began as a photo journalists and he was picked up, and an easy target a. lot of bad characters operating in the yemen capital.

he had been held for about a year. then, there was a rescue operation. it turned out to be a failed and tragic mission took place. a desperate attempt to save an american hostage in yemen that ended in tragedy. luke somers was abducted more than a year ago in sama. and al qaeda terrorists murdered him during the operation. his sister told the associated press today, we ask that all of luke's family members be allowed to mourn in peace. summe somers pleaded for help earlier this week. >> i was born in england but i carry american citizenship and have lived in american for most

of my life. >> al qaeda threatened to kill him by this weekend if the u.s. did not meet their demands. they tried to rescue him before, and somers was not there and they tried again. >> they tried again, and we were talking during your report there, and you say that the chances of a successful operation are low, always. >> it's incredibly difficult. this part of yemen is very remote. it's central yemen. you can hear vehicles or helicopters coming from miles away, and there's not a lot of sound, ambient noise, and they are expecting that you are coming, and you have the hostage in a secure location of your choosing, of the hostage taker's choosing, and there already has been a failed rescue attempt and you know they expect another one, so yes, the chances are

incredibly low. think about how difficult it would be. you have a group of armed men and one single hostage who is defenseless, and they are ready, and it's a location -- they nknw well, and you have to get there quickly and over power them and you have to get to the hostage and get him out and do this without losing any of the american special operators who are trying to do this. incredibly hard. but do you not do it? what are you going to do? you can say, we're not going to do it, and he was facing a deadline to be killed this weekend. you do nothing and let him die. which would be the risked choice, and it puts no americans lives at risk. >> you yourself was a hostage --

>> i thought about this. i was there, and i remember being blindfolded and sitting in a dark room and thinking, are they coming? are they not come stphg if they do come and anybody hears the slightest sound, we're all dead. but i'll take that risk. better than getting killed, you know, in a horrible and atrocious way and a way they can put it on the internet, and at least there is a chance. >> wow, you should know about the cheer that went up when we heard about your rescue. >> unfortunately, there are other hostages, and these groups, these special operators are not just in the business of rescuing americans who get into trouble, and they do that and do it at a great risk to themselves, and unfortunately it doesn't aultz work. >> do you worry about

retaliation? >> retaliation from al qaeda? al qaeda is a group that is determined to act. al qaeda, like isis, is determined to carry out attacks by the united states. they already said they were going to attack. they always will try and attack. i don't think it's necessary something you would be worried about, they are going to be angered. >> i believe there were ten al qaeda operators killed. >> yeah. i don't know the exact number of operatives of al qaeda members who were killed in this. one other hostage, nonamerican, was killed, and the question would be did they take any lives? the americans went in there, and what you do is you land not on the location, and you land a short while away. actually, you have colonel jack

jacobs coming up, and he has details about this specific situation. you land away from the target so they don't hear you, and you have to walk, going on foot to this house. but they were planning to take people away, so the question is, do they grab any al qaeda operatives? something interesting to know, and they are not going to make that public if they did. >> richard engel, glad to have you here very much. and then protests going on, and now it's expanded to include other controversial cases. krist krist kristin is with us. >> there were bigger crowds in boston, in miami and chicago

where they shut down lake shore drive. in new york suburbs, marchers had a message. their complaints go well beyond what happened in the choke hold death of eric garner, or ferguson's michael brown. >> we can talk about dj henry that was shot, and we want to push for a special prosecutor. >> in cleveland, where a grand jury was empaneled after 12-year-old rice was shot by police for brandishing what turned out to be an air pistol, the family has filed a wrongful suit against the officers and city. a grand jury will now hear evidence in the killing of a 28-year-old girlie, an unarmed man shot and killed by police two weeks ago. >> all his hopes and dreams are taken away from him, so

innocently. it's not right. i need justice for my son. >> but in the wake of ferguson and garner decision, some are questioning the grand jury decision. >> the system itself is clearly problematic and ridden with conflicts when it comes to investigating police officers. >> some legal experts say secret see allows those that are not indicted to move on without bias. and new york's governor said what the system has now is a perception problem. >> people have to believe they are represented by the justice system or we have a fundamental societal problem. >> and the prosecutor did release some of the material presented to the grand jury in attempted transparency, and a lot of people, alex, watching closely to see what happens in some of the other cases now. >> very true.

thank you so much. as the protests continue across the country, yesterday the naacp finished its 120-mile march from missouri to jefferson city. and hundreds gathered where they chanted black lives matter and demanded a meeting with the governor. and joining me now, the president of the naacp, and cornell brooks, and i want to hear about the march, whether you consider it a success and whether your feet are sore, sir? >> alex, good to be here, and i am exhausted and exhilarated, too. we would like to believe we marched into the conscience of the citizens of missouri and the nation. what we were trying to do, really, two things, one, seek justice on behalf of michael brown's family, and more broadly

to seek fundamental policing in the country, and one of the best ways to do that, we believe the most morally and strategic way to do that was through non-violent protests and where we have 1 out of every 4 young african-american men being mistreated by the police, or young men being 21 times more likely losing their lives at the hands of the police, and we have racial and ethnic group and religious minorities, a fundamental problem. the good news is, we have laws, we draft laws around the country that can be put on the books. we have attempted to push the governor, the attorney general, the citizens of missouri, and

not only this state, but really the country, and in the course of this march, alex, we encountered some very difficult days, i mean, marching through a town where literally we had african-american college students and african-americans, and civil rights activist and white children and a multiracial band of marchers who were inundated by threats to their lives. we had the window of our bus, and it appears to have been shot out, and that was 1% of the people we met. the other 99%, i believe, want to see a constructive response to this problem, and a fundamental systemic that is data driven, and they want to see this problem undress into levels of the white house, and

the state legislators. and in standing with the coalition of conscience, it really expands the entire nation. i will do that. we believe we can do it, because it reflects our deepest and moral and constitutional volumes. >> i know you hoped to meet with the governor nixon, and the protesters did at the end of the long march, and he traveled for other events but you did get to speak with him on wednesday. what did you hear from him and what did you want to hear from him? are they one in the same? >> those are good questions. what we wanted to hear from nixon was that he was going to make a commitment to a comprehensive response to racial profiling. that is to say not a piecemeal response, and but rather a comprehensive response in a

quick manner. he did not make that kind of a commitment, and he apologized, interestingly enough, for the actions of a group of people really that threatened us in rosebud, missouri, and that was heartening to hear. he was listening and well informed on the issue and clearly had given it a lot of thought, and we pressed him hard for looking for any legal strategy whereby a special prosecutor could be appointed so that michael brown's family might seek some or receive some form of justice at the state level. i believe that the governor well understands the scope of this problem. is that to say it's not going to away. we need to be clear. we have a generation of young practitioners of democracy who may have engaged in nonviolent protest, and day by day, the grand jury process in missouri,

in michael brown's case, it becomes more and more clear that it lacks credibility. the >> quickly, what came down was the nonindictment in the garner case while you were on the march. did you have a palatable affect from that? >> absolutely. absolutely. when you are marching day in and day out, and in the midst of ice and cold, and the rain, and in the midst of this experience, we received the news that a young man who was choked to death with a banned choke hold that literally died on the side of those that were sworn and protect police officers, and those taken an oath to heal, emss, and then a grand jury doesn't indict, it was

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"rolling stone" in a stunning move is backing away from an article alleging a gang rape at university at virnlg against a woman named jackie. in the face of new information, there now appears to be discrepancies in jackie's account and our trust in her was misplaced. we were trying to be sensitive to the shame many women feel after a sexual assault.

we're taking this seriously and apologize to anyone affected by the story. erin, what's "rolling stone" saying here? >> trying to throw the alleged victim under the bus. i think this is a black eye for journalism and black eye for "rolling stone" and sad day for rape survivors. we know that "rolling stone" didn't do its job, whether it's contacted the alleged assailants or independently verifying other details. we don't know what traumatic event happened but there are certain processes of journalism that they failed to follow. >> any said they didn't do it because they didn't want to bring further humiliation or shame upon this girl or potential retribution. in that, there was a moral stance in essence that they took. >> yes, but there is also the "washington post" reported that jackie asked to be taken out of the story and they didn't defer to that wish. there's something a little disingenuous saying we were

trying to be victim centered. it's not victim centered to go forward with the story the victim doesn't want. there were details that could have been verified such as did the lifeguard -- was there a fraternity member who worked as a lifeguard. did they have a party that night? >> if you're going to include details like that, that can be independently fact checked without putting the victim at risk and the piece will come out and people will know about it. that's a responsibility they have to say we're putting our name on the story. >> here's a problem though, it's going to potentially make other women hesitant to come forward because people can say, maybe you're lying like jackie was lying. it's going to get so muddled here. >> the majority of rapes are not reported according to reputable studies, people don't want to believe that nice boys can do things like this. again, we don't know what happened. that remains to be seen. there's a criminal investigation ongoing and open at the request

of the university of virginia. the other thing that remains, the crux of the story was the institutional response at uva is problematic. no one has been expelled for sexual assault and university is under compliance review and that's what the story is about. >> we do know the president is taking great steps to change that now, which we applaud. thanks very much. >> that's a wrap, everyone, join me again at noon eastern. straight ahead, quts up with steve kornacki. you don't need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. ring ring!... progresso! it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken.

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potential indictments in bridge-gate. ♪ good morning, thanks for getting us with us this saturday morning. that big chris christie report you may have heard something about in recent days it's been eclipsed by even bigger chris christie news, more on all of that in just a moment. also, demonstrations continue to