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anguish that the weinstein and laporto families are enduring. i realize there are no words that can equal their loss. i know there is nothing that i can say or do to ease their heart ache. today i want to say this. as president and as commander in chief i take full responsibility for all our counter terrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. our initial assessment indicateathize operation was fully consistent under guidelines which we conduct which has been our focus for years because it is the home of al qaeda's leadership. based on the intelligence that we obtained at the time including hundreds of hours of surveillance we believed that this was an al qaeda compound that no civilians were present and that capturing these

terrorists was not possible. and we do believe that the operation did take out dangerous members of al qaeda. >> president obama announced two americans who have become high level members of al qaeda have been killed. kasie hunt joins me from the white house. we start with you, jim. what more do we know about the operations here and specifically what more did the cia not know when approaching this counter terrorism attack? >> senior officials tell nbc news there were two separate air strikes, the first on january 14 and the second on january 19. and in an effort at clarification we are being told that it occurred in the rugged hindu mountainous areas along the afghan/pakistan border. we are getting conflicting information about exactly where it may have occurred but it was

certainly along the rugged border between afghanistan and pakistan. the first strike the american warren weinstein was killed along with an italian aid worker giovani laporto. also an american who had turned al qaeda. according to the president and others we are talking to the u.s. had no idea that those two americans and the italian were at that location. in a secondary strike not clear which was on the 14th or the 19th adam gadahn who served as al qaeda spokesman for years and was very adept at getting al qaeda's message out to the western world because he was an american who spoke english and was long considered a target by u.s. military but american officials are saying they didn't know that gadahn was at that

location when the cia drone strikes were launched. and the president said the u.s. was confident in its intelligence that this was, these were in fact legitimate al qaeda targets but that these four individuals who we find out today were killed, it was not known that they were at these locations. >> the cruel and bitter truth, sometimes deadly mistakes happen. this happened in january. we know this was classified information since then until now. the president spoke about this speaking with dr. weinstein's wife. why was this announcement made on this day? >> still learning the details of exactly why this happened today, this announcement was made today. the president stood at the podium and said he had broken the news himself to the families personally yesterday. we have heard from the family of

mr. warren weinstein, the american hostage who was unintentionally killed. they say they blame those who took warren captive. you did hear the president saying that this was something that was considered a legal operation, that met all of the criteria of what would normally institute an operation the united states would take and they were confident they were not able to capture those terrorists in any other way. it is clear this is a blow for this program and something that will spark debate here in washington about what the country should be doing overall with these drone strikes. you are starting to hear early reaction from capitol hill. i spoke briefly on the phone with senator mccain who said he was still digesting the information. it is clear the administration kept this closely held until

making this announcement. we have just heard from senator dianne feinstein who was the long time chair woman of the intelligence committee. she says that while she was largely defensive of the program and says that the united states still needs to be very aggressive in counter terrorism operations she called for an annual report on the number of deaths that are caused by the drone strikes programs. she wants to know how many combatants are killed by strikes and how many civilians. that is the question we are all wrestling with today. >> a setback with use of drones. thank you so much. we'll check back in a little bit later as we continue our coverage this morning. as kasie mentioned the weinstein family released a statement we do not yet fully understand all of the facts surrounding warren's death but we do understand the u.s. government will be conducting an

independent investigation of the circumstances. those who took warren captive bear ultimate responsibility. i can assure you he would be alive and well if they allowed him to return home after his time abroad wurnging to help the people of pakistan. tougher to take knowing he just celebrated a going away party when he was kidnapped. joining me now is john delaney. thank you for being with me. in that statement the family thanks you. can you tell us about your relationship with the weinstein and when you last spoke with them? >> the last time i spoke with elaine was last evening. i have had the privilege of developing a really close relationship with elaine and the daughters around this matter. it has been my top priority since i have been in the congress in terms of constituent matters. warren is a constituent of mine. i have grown to have tremendous respect for the family. we have become very close.

my heart and our prayers are out for the whole family as they deal with this terrible tragedy. it's a really sad day. and we are all just heart broken over this. >> congressman, i want to share another part of the family statement. unfortunately, the assistance we received from other elements of the u.s. government was inconsistent and disappointing over the course of 3 1/2 years. we hope that my husband's death and other whose have faced similar tragedies prompt the u.s. government to take responsibility seriously and establish a coordinated and consistent approach to supporting hostages and their families. what was she referring to? what have they told you about it? >> we worked very closely with her over the last couple of years on this matter. i agree with everything elaine is saying. in addition to being a wonderful, loving wife of warren

and is a wise person. in my opinion and we have been saying this for a long time our efforts as a nation to identify our hostages that are held overseas is way insufficient. we need to be doing a much better job finding these people. it should be our absolute top priority. we saw specific examples where we had to get involved where the resources of the government were coordinated as well as they should be to really bring to bear all of the capabilities and resources and talents and expertise the u.s. government has. this needs to become a much bigger priority for our country. we cannot let americans be held overseas and not be finding them. what happened here there needs to be an investigation about what happened specifically around the events that caused warren's death. the key is we didn't find him. we had several years to try to find him and we didn't find him. we were involved in this tragic

accident that resulted in his loss of life. his country let him down. >> would you go so far to say negotiations need to happen to gain back u.s. hostages? >> i don't necessarily disagree with our policy around negotiations with terrorists. i don't think we should negotiate with terrorists. we have tremendous resources and tremendous capabilities in the country. we need to put them to work smarter to find these people. i'm really focusing on why we can't find these people in an area where we are investing a tremendous amount of money, tremendous assets and lots of partners who need to be helping us in this effort. we have a lot of czars in government. we should have a hostage czar. someone who wakes up every day and has complete access to all resources of the u.s. government to find americans who are held hostage. >> an independent from maine believes there needs to be a review of what happened.

you agree and especially with the president saying we want to confront what happened and learn from these mistakes and make sure they do not happen again. >> that's right u. >> how do we do that? >> we called for an independent review not just on the event of january 14. that has to be looked at to see if we could have done more on the intelligence side to know whether there were two -- warren we are most concerned about but the italian aid worker our hearts to his family as well. the second question that i think is as important is are we doing enough to find our hostages? is it an absolute top national priority the way i think it should be and so many others. i think this investigation has to be much broader and we have been working on this for some time and other people are, as well to make sure there is resources and focus in our government to find americans who are held hostage. that is the tragedy here.

>> do you agree the tragedy is when you bring up a name like dr. warren weinstein that may not ring a bell to the american public but when you speak of adam gadahn those are the ones we remember as far as fighting terrorism and remembering those who were out there for it as far as u.s. citizens? >> sometimes hostages held overseas a kept in confidence. i don't think that is as relevant. you want the american people to be praying for our military men and women overseas but anyone in harm's way that is an american citizen. what i am focused on is making sure extraordinary capabilities that this government has are fully brought to bear on finding every american hostage. the identification of the hostages how you get them back is a different question. where i find the shortcoming is that we can't find some of these people. we weren't able to find warren

which was always shocking in meetings and conversations i was in and various things we tried today do which a lot i can't talk about it was so amazing that we couldn't find these people when you consider capabilities that we have. that is the discussion that i think has to happen. we need to investigate what happened on january 14. was the intelligence sufficient enough to give the confidence to make the order that they did that resulted in these deaths. also the broader question. there are a lot of other americans held overseas. many we don't know the names of because it is held confidential. >> we found out their names and know their names after the fact. >> a sad day for warren's family and i know we are all praying for them on this terrible day. >> we appreciate your perspective and time for being with us this afternoon, this morning. i would like to bring in a former cia counter terrorism

analyst. we want to ask you here. president obama promised changes will be made. listen in his words. >> it is a cruel and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally and our fight against terrorists specifically mistakes sometimes deadly mistakes can occur. . but one of the things that sets america apart from many other nations, one of the things that makes us exceptional is our willingness to confront squarely our imperfections and learn from our mistakes. already i have directed a full review of what happened. we will identify the lessons that can be learned from this tragedy and any changes that should be made. we will do our utmost to ensure it is not repeated skpd will continue to do everything we can to prevent the loss of innocent lives, not just innocent americans but all innocent lives in our counter terrorism

operations. >> when the president is speaking of lessens to be learns do you think that equates to rethinking the drone program as it stands now? >> it is a bit of a myth that the united states intelligence community has a lot of information or perfect information when the they attack certain places in pakistan afghanistan, elsewhere. we are working with limited information. therefore we have this drone capability. people in the government have to make a choice whether to strike a place or not to strike. this is based on as the president said hundreds of hours of surveillance. somebody really has to make the choice. the question is using drones to attack a specific place but rather to check out whether the choices that are made and the responsibilities made are in the right place. >> how is that done knowing this is the limits?

they are going after clusters of al qaeda operatives, hopefully targeting. how can that done -- this is all from the air. what more can be done to make it more effective in that sense? >> one of the things is you have to have some sort of matrix to see whether you would actually strike a specific target. the united states has had a target list and a target capability for a number of years now, almost 11 years since the first drone strike in 2004 in afghanistan. another thing we have to realize is that it is not like the drones fly around and destroy the place. there is a lot of information before that whether through human intelligence signal collection or other drones collecting surveillance on specific areas. so it's not exactly -- what we see is when something blows up when a car blows up or a

compound. there is a lot of information that goes into that before you have the final act. unfortunately, in this case tragedy sort of occurred. >> we have heard from former cia counterterrorism analyst. stay with us here as we continue our coverage of this deadly counterterrorism attack that and a report from italy on the italian hostage. we will be right back. eals. yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day 50+. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports physical energy with b vitamins. one a day 50+ introducing the citi® double cash card. it's a cash back win-win. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn on puchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided.

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[ inaudible ] he was an experienced aid worker. he previously worked in haiti, central africa and worked twice in pakistan before he returned there and was kidnapped. now, on the same day he was kidnapped by four armed men with another colleague and german aid worker. this german aid worker was freed last october and told authorities that the two were separated and laporto was moved to another location and he had no news of him. he certainly wasn't the only one not to have news of him because learned very little about him since his kidnapping about three years ago. this is not unusual by a government. usually they kind of with hold

the information not to hinder negotiations or deliberation of hostages. so far we don't know whether the negotiations were taking place in the first place or if the italian government knew what happened to him or who was holding him. now, the italian prime minister has released a statement about half an hour ago and offering condolences for the loss of life, an italian who dedicated his life to help others. >> thank you for that. of course we will have more on this story ahead as well as the other big stories. i'll talk with baltimore's mayor as new protests are planned over the death of freddy gray. at northrop grumman, we've always been at the forefront of advanced electronics. providing technology to get more detail... ♪ ♪ detect hidden threats...

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protesters continue their calls for answers and accountability in the death of 25-year-old freddie gray. this morning we are learning five of the six officers involved in his death have provided statements to police. it's not clear why the sixth officer has not given a statement. it is not clear four days after gray's death how tea suffered the fatal spinal cord injury. the attorneys say he believes gray was injured riding in the police van after his arrest. as baltimore police continue the internal investigation officials said they were interviewing the person inside the police van with gray. however, since he is considered a witness they are not revealing his identity. the president of baltimore's police union with a statement about the protests saying the images seen on television look and sound much like a lynch mob and that they are call frg immediate imprisonment of

officers without the due process. >> maybe i should reword that. i don't want it to turn into a lynch mob. when you are trying to put somebody in jail before the facts are in and investigation hasn't been completed that is wrong. >> i am joined by the mayor of baltimore. mayor, thank you for being with us this afternoon, this morning. >> when you hear the words from the police union's president and the words there, what is your take on that? >> i know his words were -- he is already acknowledged inappropriate. my focus is on making sure as mayor that i protect the community's right to be heard. they have a right to be heard. i am working very hard to keep the tradition that we have in baltimore of peaceful and respectful protests even when

things are heated. they don't need to devolve into violence. i'm working very hard to protect the protesters that have come out to rally as well as the rest of the community. that's going to be my focus, not on any ill chosen words. >> let me ask you about that. many say before this death that there was a culture of mistrust there even with them. we now know the justice department launched the civil rights investigation. there is a lot of criticism raised over the police department's internal investigation saying we have no confidence the city or police department is going to fairly objectively investigate this case. according to the baltimore sun you have frustrations about this investigation particulary since officers have not provided statements. why should family and protesters

believe this will be fair? >> there are a few reasons why. i have made it clear that expect the police department and they have to work with the independent state's attorney on this investigation. we announced from the outset that there will be an independent investigation. i have welcomed independent eyes on incidents like this one in the past where we have had police involved shootings and police involved death and other instances where the community had serious concerns about the vurasity of the reporting. i have asked outside eyes to take a look at it. we made it very clear that there would be an independent panel to look at this investigation y. welcome the department of justice civil rights division to do their work because i am looking for way we can give confidence and support that we are providing justice. >> do you want that

investigation to come but why the delay when it comes to something as simple as police statements and getting five out of the six. why the delay? >> i'm not sure what you mean yet to be revealed? >> the details of the statements that the police department gave? >> because there is an investigation that is going on. i have been very clear that i'm putting out as much information as fast as we can so long as it doesn't impede the state's attorney's investigation. we have to be very careful. i don't want us to be in a position where we have pushed out the information but it is in a way that will make it difficult for us to hold those accountable if there is a determination that there was wrong doing. it's a balancing act that we have to do. >> it's a tough balancing act. the gray family attorney billy murphy appeared on this show on tuesday where he had this to say about your handling of the case suggesting that politics may be

playing a role. i want you to listen to that. >> she knows what time it is. she knows that there has been a sorted history in baltimore city of police brutality and she knows what needs to be done about it. the problem we are having with her as we have had with previous mayors is that when you are looking at higher political office that keeps you from immediately doing the right thing and causes you to make calculations. so is higher political office the goal here? are you playing politics? >> i think mr. murphy's comments were regrettable. i have known him since before i was born. he knows my father. he knows the history that i come from and it is a family that has fought for civil rights. he knows i am a former defense attorney. he knows if i put my political aspirations before doing the right thing for the community i wouldn't have fought so hard to

strengthen and reform the law enforcement officers' bill of rights. i was one of the few elected officials, highest profile in our legislature fighting almost by myself to try to get stronger reform to hold officers accused of wrong doing accountable. i wouldn't have gone against the police union and rr formed pension. my track record doesn't reflect any of the things that he says. >> for those protesters and members of the african-american community say i don't feel like you are on our side. what do you say to them? >> this is a tense time and i understand your frustration and i even understand why they would say that but i would ask them to take a look at my record before ferguson we were working on issues around police brutality and reforming our police department before it was

a national issue we have been having these conversations and moving to reform the police department. we put in addition training. what you see in baltimore because of the reform efforts that i have made is a reduction in the number of lawsuits against the baltimore city police department. it was the headline of our news department today. we have seen discourtesy complaints go down. we have made progress. i'm not doing this just for me. i'm doing it for the community that i serve. i know that they are tense time and heated conversations. i hope that my record will continue to speak for me and i am going to make sure we get the answers that the gray family deserves. >> as more protesters and rallies expected today. mayor of baltimore, thank you for being with us. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. developing now in just

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every someday needs a plan. talk with us about your retirement today. as a husband and as a father i cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the families are enduring today. i realize there are no words that can ever equal their loss. i know that there is nothing that i can ever say or do to ease their heart ache. and today i simply want to say this. as president and as commander in chief i take full responsibility for all of our counterterrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. >> more on breaking news. two hostages held by al qaeda were accidently killed by u.s. drone strikes during a counterterrorism operation in afghanistan earlier this year. joining me now is former cia

counterterrorism analyst and military analyst and medal of honor recipient colonel jack jacobs. i want to start with you colonel jacob jacobs. it was really telling when you hear the president in his words of profound regret and offering his deepest apologies and really sending the message the lives of the hostages lost but heard very little about the two americans turned al qaeda operatives. what is your take away that he didn't mention or speak about them? >> the intelligence we use to get these guys is imperfect. we don't know as much about the operatives as we thought we did or as we want to know. there will be more information coming as we develop the intelligence on the ground. it is really interesting to note how focused the president was in talking about the hostages and

it was a profound surprise when they discovered this was the case that they were there. they didn't know they were there. >> what does that tell you when it comes to reassessment of counterterrorism efforts and reassessment of use of drones? would you call this a setback as far as counterterrorism missions for the united states? >> there is a lot of publicity so a public face of the operation and then the secret private operational face of it. i don't think this has an effect on the program. at the end of the day when you launch an operation like this it is an imperfect information. you can have very good information, really rotten information. if we act on rotten information the fallout is terrible. the program isn't worth anything. if you wait until you have perfect or nearly pflt information you will never launch anything. everything therefore is a compromise and from time to time these things happen. >> i want to bring in what we

know and don't know about adam gadahn. his face should be familiar from previous al qaeda videos. how significant and how far up the al qaeda chain did the united states get? >> well there are two ways of looking at it. we killed faruk, an al qaeda commander and adam gadahn. he has been in the organization for a number of years and made many, many videos over the course of the last 15 or so years. however, if you look at the fbi's most wanted or the rewards for justice that we only put a $1 million bounty on this guy's head which suggests he is important but really not that important. a lot of other al qaeda individuals have been asked for for 2.5, 5, 10 $25 million. the master mind of 9/11 had a $25 million bounty on his head.

he is actually relatively low down on the operational list. he was the public face. i wanted to say one thing about what the president did not say which is there were two separate strikes in the afghanistan/pakistan region. we didn't say who we were targeting. we know the outcome that they killed the two al qaeda operatives who were american sittens and two hostages but who was the united states targeting? that is a giant question that we should be asking right now. >> let's talk about that. if we are not knowing who we are targeting and we happen to get faruk and adam gadahn by chance does that focus into reassessing and looking more into how we are going about in the hundreds of surveillance taken, figuring out where the drones are going? >> it requires a great deal of exercise to figure out whether or not you are going to go in the first place and who you are going after. frequently we attack targets in

which we have been told compounds for example in which we have been told there is a high value target. who it is is not entirely clear. when we were to get the -- we weren't entirely certain that he was there. it was not suggested necessarily that he was there. just that there was an extremely high valued target. >> how do we change that or how does the united states assess it and be more clear with intelligence on knowing who is inside a particular compound? >> it is really interesting. we focused our attention on electronic means of determining who is where. we have relied heavily on the accuracy of our ability to determine who is at any particular spot. at the end of the day you're not going to be sure or nearly sure unless you have intelligence on the ground from people on the

ground and if you rely only on electronic means there is always a great deal of doubt. the only way to do it is get better and develop our intelligence capabilities on the ground that takes money and time and people. i don't think we are ready to do it. >> it's a cruel and bitter truth, the fog of war. mistakes, sometimes deadly mistakes happen. we thank you for that. right now attorneys for michael brown's family are announcing they are filing a wrongful death lawsuit. this is happening right now. let's take a listen. >> broad day light in the middle of the street and we know he didn't have a weapon but officer darren wilson. we are here today simply to present our case. we have seen the case being presented by the state. we have seen the case being presented by the federal government. obviously, we take dispute with the way those cases were presented.

we have stated from the very beginning that presentation of evidence is key. the emphasis placed on certain evidence, the way it is highlighted, the inflections on certain aspects of it is very critical to shaping any kind of conclusion or any kind of findings as a result of what happened on august 9, 2014. the evidence has not changed, but the presentation of that evidence will. we expect to put on evidence that you have never heard about before and never seen. and to be quite frankly honest with you we don't have to go very far from darren wilson's statement himself. we have stated and we are steadfast on the belief that his initial statements to his supervisor describing what happened that day was sufficient to indict him. we know he is up to his fifth

version. it has been refined and perfected. now he wants us to believe that he was a 5 year old sitting inside of a police car, trapped inside -- >> the attorneys of the family of michael brown announcing the wrongful death lawsuit for the city of ferguson. i want to bring in criminal defense attorney john burris with me now. we can get started with this and knowing the attorney said the evidence has not changed, the presentation will. will that lead to a successful lawsuit and ultimately justice for this family? >> certainly from my point of view i think it could. presentation is important but you have to remember there are different witnesses who will testify on both sides of this table. the burden of proof in a civil case is substantially less not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. that can be proven. there were real issues that suggested when final shots were

fired that michael brown was in a position that he was not a threat to the officer and the officer had other alternatives. i believe those are critical issues at the end. the initial shots in the car are probably valid. they want to deal with the question of whether the force was excessive or not and did he have alternatives that were reasonable to take. it is still a tough case from my point of view because the officer was in a position where he believed his life was in danger so a jury will have to make a determination whether that is true or not. i think the plaintiff can win this case and i think it is appropriate that they are bringing the case based upon civil rights violations. >> the department of justice declined to charge officer wilson but the damning report that shows the bias within the police department. thanks so much for that analysis. also developing the senate is about to begin a vote to

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