for the man who killed chris kyle and his friend, chad littlefield many of those reacting are navy s.e.a.l.s. a friend of chris kyle joins us tonight. clint, thank you very much for being with us. tell you about your relationship with chris. >> just like with the relationship with all of the other men an opportunity to serve with, their families, you get to know them and get to know the people that created them like wayne and debbie kyle. and and you know we're called to do this thing chris was called to do. like on that relationship with great affection and great inspiration. >> yes. i mean just what was your reaction when you see what happened you look at the skill and intense training you go through as navy s.e.a.l.s. >> one of the things we do is just kind of get to go with whatever the mission is. the mission in that moment is just come around him and his family, and come alongside them and do what we do which is thank them forgiving us an opportunity to serve alongside such an amazing guy and love them through the next hours and days and months and years. after we all have to reconcile

for the man who killed chris kyle and his friend, chad littlefield many of those reacting are navy s.e.a.l.s. a friend of chris kyle joins us tonight. clint, thank you very much for being with us. tell you about your relationship with chris. >> just like with the relationship with all of the other men an opportunity to serve with, their families, you get to know them and get to know the people that created them like wayne and debbie kyle. and and you know we're called to do this thing chris was called to do. like on that relationship with great affection and great inspiration. >> yes. i mean just what was your reaction when you see what happened you look at the skill and intense training you go through as navy s.e.a.l.s. >> one of the things we do is just kind of get to go with whatever the mission is. the mission in that moment is just come around him and his family, and come alongside them and do what we do which is thank them forgiving us an opportunity to serve alongside such an amazing guy and love them through the next hours and days and months and years. after we all have to reconcile

for the man who killed chris kyle and his friend, chad littlefield many of those reacting are navy s.e.a.l.sriend of chris kyle joins us tonight. clint, thank you very much for being with us. tell you about your relationship with chris. >> just like with the relationship with all of the other men an opportunity to serve with, their families, you get to know them and get to know the people that created them like wayne and debbie kyle. and and you know we're called to do this thing chris was called to do. like on that relationship with great affection and great inspiration. >> yes. i mean just what was your reaction when you see what happened you look at the skill and intense training you go through as navy s.e.a.l.s. >> one of the things we do is just kind of get to go with whatever the mission is. the mission in that moment is just come around him and his family, and come alongside them and do what we do which is thank them forgiving us an opportunity to serve alongside such an amazing guy and love them through the next hours and days and months and years. after we all have to reconcile not

for the man who killed chris kyle and his friend, chad littlefield many of those reacting are navy s.e.a.l.s. a friend of chris kyle joins us tonight. clint, thank you very much for being with us. tell you about your relationship with chris. >> just like with the relationship with all of the other men an opportunity to serve with, their families, you get to know them and get to know the people that created them like wayne and debbie kyle. and and you know we're called to do this thing chris was called to do. like on that relationship with great affection and great inspiration. >> yes. i mean just what was your reaction when you see what happened you look at the skill and intense training you go through as navy s.e.a.l.s. >> one of the things we do is just kind of get to go with whatever the mission is. the mission in that moment is just come around him and his family, and come alongside them and do what we do which is thank them forgiving us an opportunity to serve alongside such an amazing guy and love them through the next hours and days and months and years. after we all have to reconcile

. >>> and did brian williams exaggerate stories about his time with navy s.e.a.l.s?ns about what he said about special ops teams as more moments from his past are scrutinized. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm poppy harlow. john berman and christine romans have the morning off. 30 minutes past the hour. before the ukraine cease-fire talks take effect this weekend, there are concerns about whether the agreement will hold. the obama administration remains skeptical saying more work needs deal was reached after marathon talks between france germany, russia and ukraine. french and german leaders are warning that russia could face more european union sanctions if the cease-fire is not respected. so what is russia's take on the prospects for lasting peace in ukraine? our matthew chance joins us from moscow. what is the sense today, matthew? >> reporter: the sense here poppy, is russia got much although not all, of what it wanted in the negotiations. a cease-fire agreed. it goes into force on saturday night, sunday morning at midnight local time. the forces ha

>> reporter: well despite the so-called professional rivalry between navy s.e.a.l.s and the marines, earl says the chris kyl he knew really was one of the good guys. >> he was older, so it was kind of an older brotherly figure. and i found comfort in that. >> reporter: when marine sniper scout earl met navy s.e.a.l. chris kyl in iraq in 2004, he says the context wasn't the greatest. >> my interactions with navy s.e.a.l.s were not the best at that particular time nor afterward. so chris offered a different, very fresh perspective. >> i just want to get the bad guys. >> reporter: kyle is portrayed by bradley cooper in the film "american sniper" which earl feels got chris right. >> i think coop der a great job of showing his almost naive patriotism that he completely and utterly believed in what we were doing. >> reporter: he says in their three weeks together, chris dooil treated marines as equals. >> he said to me on the rooftop outpost, he said, you're tough, you're hard. you may even be harder than us meaning s.e.a.l.s. >> reporter: the scene that hit earl the hardest is the call to

navy s.e.a.l.s were successful in saving captain phillips. just a couple of years ago, navy s.e.a.l.s rescued two americans held in somalia. at the time the obama administration called that rescue, quote, a daring raid that will be the hallmark of future u.s. military missions. when we are successful at going in, and saving american hostages, it's an amazing success, and they're stories that we tell forever. but sometimes that kind of rescue operation fails. one of the most harrowing new details that was just reported today in the wake of that isis propaganda video and the murder of that pilot that we all saw the film of yesterday, one of the most horrifying things reported today concerning isis and the remaining hostages that they hold was this detail. the obama administration apparently divided internally about whether to try to launch raids to free the remaining hostages if they can find them. given that relevant history about our success, in terms of freeing american hostages, and what happens when we fail, there is reportedly a debate in

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navy s.e.a.l.s killed osama bin laden. in preparation for the raid, the cia stent a local doctor in bin laden's home. the man claimed he was conducting a hepatitis program. some even believed vaccines are part of a plot to sterilize muslim children. now pakistan's government has launched a nationwide program to inoculate 35 million children for polio. the world health organization says the number of pole yoel cases in pakistan has now reached its highest level since 1999. >>> san francisco police are increasing patrols at delores park after vandals cost thousands of dollars in new damage. they hot wired a construction cart and did doughnuts on a field recently planted with grass. they damaged a new irrigation system, tagged a cement roof at a new storage facility and lit a fire to make smores. it all happened in the midst of a renovation project. >> we want people to use it, have a good time. but don't trash it. don't vandalize it, don't demolish it. don't respect it. >> police made two arrests in the weekend incidents. th

we're like -- i look at black re-enactors as like the navy s.e.a.l.s of the civil war. we've got a big, big, big navy. we've got very few black s.e.a.l.s. probably 300, 400, maybe. out of all of the hundreds and thousands of guys that do this and enjoy the history and it's worldwide, it's not just nationwide. i've met guys from ireland, germany, canada, and they provide a wealth of knowledge and they enjoy it. we've even got one re-enactor in hawaii by himself. >> yeah. >> so, hey, he's having fun. i'm happy for him. but, you know, black re-enactors. we're a bit of a premium and there are not a lot of us. so we get requested for a lot of events and a lot of things here in the southeast because it's just us, the 13th u.s. color troops, and in chattanooga, tennessee, it was the 44th u.s. colored troops. and they just recently marched with us in the veteran's day parade here in nashville. we do a lot together here locally. >> this will be our final question. >> oh, perfect. >> question for nicole. nicole, you mentioned working with children earlier. i wondered if you could

existed for only two years but its spirit lives on in the green beret, army rangers, even the navy s.e.a.l.sn all of today's special forces. for decades after the war ended, the story of these canadian and american heroes and how they helped save the world was classified top secret. but now we know. and on behalf of the congress of the united states, and freedom loving people around the world we say thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the majority leader of the united states senate, the honorable mitch mcconnell. [applause] >> sometimes truth can be more impressive than fiction. when it comes to the heroes we honor today, that's certainly the case. members of the elite devil's brigade excelled in rock climbing and amphibious assault. they advanced on skis and through the air. they survived by stealth and trained in demolitions. some of their more daring mission plans would have made james bond blush. and through it all, they helped save a continent in chaos. they helped defeat some of the greatest menaces the world has ever known. but this isn't a hollywood script. it's a true sto

states putting the fruits of the bin laden raid to gad use, declassifying now eight documents that navy s.e.a.l.se bin laden raid back in 2011. the one on the left accused of bombing the u.s. embassy in africa and theer plotting to blow up the new york subway system. british intelligence officers have worn wigs and wakeup so they don't blow their cover. al qaeda has used virtual disguises of r of their own posing as women to avoid their decision. but a secret roster found in the raid in london could seal their fates. so what did you find out. >> i found out that the government planned this a long time ago. what happened, before the raid on bin laden's compound they had a personal there who was designateded to edto get all the information and be prepared to testify in court, and that's where we are right now. so that is called in legal terms, chain of custody. what does that mean. >> a china of custody means the person who gathers the evidence and has control of the evidence in each step of the way, for example when they did the raid, this man gathered all the evidence, then put it in a safe locke

the weekly standard reports more than 1 million documents and files were captured by the navy s.e.a.l.s's safehouse in may 2011. the administration has been slow to release them. the standard goes on by saying one year later in may 2012 the obama administration released 17 of them including one in which an al qaeda operative asked for permission to go to training witing we are awaiting confirmation to move and agreed on this destination and then distributing them and the world. the document suggests iran was far more than just a safe haven for terrorists. the weekly standard reports that in 2012 the u.s. treasury noted iran helps move money documents, pass ports, weapons and even recruits to pakistan and afghanistan. all these disclosures come against the back drop of netanyahu coming to congress in which he is expected to voice life and death concerns about tehran and any possible arms deal. >> iran threatened to destroy the state of israel numerous times. if they had a nuclear capability i am afraid they would use it against israel and us. >> reporter: would they favor a future relshz

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everybody talks about navy s.e.a.l.s and the success and really it's the army navy air force and analystss an entire team. a lot of preparation, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of work. >> and it's a very dangerous mission for the troops right? >> certainly. you know i've said before on cnn, you know the men and women who sacrifice for freedom and to rescue folks realize some things are more important than fear and i've said it before. every american's important and, you know our hearts go out to kayla's family and all innocent people who are impacted by this terrorism. >> do you think that the united states should pay ransom to isis to release prisoners? >> you know i really don't think so because if you do it becomes an open season. you know it's just like five high level terrorist leaders exchanged for a desserter, it just emboldens the enemy and it works and they're going to look for more opportunities to find their terror. >> so is the only answer that humanitarian aid workers not go to places like syria to help those desperately in need? >> you know she certainly had -- i think as we find

. >> reporter: well earl says despite the so-called professional rivalry between the navy s.e.a.l.s and the marines, he says chris kyl always treated him as an equal. live in wayne, i'm doug shimell "nbc10 news." >> back here at home police arrested the man they say physically and sexually assaulted a wok at a septa station. police charged reginald green with attempted rape robbery and assault. they say he and a woman were walking and talking in center city when he led her to the jefferson septa station on 10th and market station monday afternoon. he walked her to a remote area and allegedly tried to rape her. she fought him. >> basically pummeled her. he beat her with his fists, kicked her repeatedly, she suffered injuries to her face. >> reginald green is no stranger to police. he's been arrested several times before. we're checking into his past now. we'll have more coming up in a live report at 6:00. >>> it really felt mild outside especially when we consider what's to come. >> mild being, what, 30s? bitter cold, another chance of snow is in the forecast too. let's talk to nbc10 fir

the a-10 warthog air controllers, navy s.e.a.l.s and a strike. >>> governors from all over the country are in washington tonight for the winter meeting. and that is providing very fertile ground for several governors who are looking at a job upgrade in 2016. chief political correspondent carl cameron looks at a weekend filled with presidential postures. >> president obama addresses the national governor's association conference in washington sunday. and will be on hand hoping to showcase and contrast the leadership records. scott walker comes amid controversy and protests back home over his proposed cut to the university of wisconsin's $6 billion overall operating budget. now, add to that a new expedited push to pass and sign statewide right to work legislation as soon as next week. democrats called both moves political stunts to run for president. and conservatives are taking notice and expressing approval. john kasich will be a no-show at the conference. in south carolina this week, he dismissed conservative criticism in his state of the controversial national education standards kno

we learned from the osama bin laden raid that when the navy s.e.a.l.s went in and recovered those documents, the thing that helped bin laden recruit more than anything is when we called it the global war on terror. when the president came along, made a speech in cairo, had a more conciliatory tone and didn't sort of justify their islamic identity, he was having a hard time recruiting -- >> bin laden didn't like the 2009 cairo speech because i guess he thought it was too charitable towards muslims and wanted to use it as a recruiting tool. >> but cloaking themselves in islam -- >> but even now -- you've got general keane, the former -- you've got all these people coming out and saying you really need to call it what it is, which is a war on radical islam. listen to this from the atlantic in an interesting piece called what isis really wants. they just did -- the writer said the reality is is that the islamic state is very islamic muslims can reject the islamic state, pretending that it isn't actually a religious group with theology -- back foolish schemes to counter sglit i read that article

navy s.e.a.l.s and commandos move in by helicopter to an abandoned oil refinery near raqqa, syria.y get to a build bring they think the hostages are being held. no one is there, but they find strands of hair believed to be mueller. a firefight ensues. former s.e.a.l. john mcgwire was not on that raid but knows how risky it was. >> intelligence, we do the best we can with what we have. the situations and the training are not exactly perfect. >> reporter: even with all the risks involved, they have told reporters they failed kayla mueller's family. because despite their efforts, she wasn't returned home safely. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> former cia operative and current cnn security analyst bob baer joins us to talk about this. kayla mueller possibly paired with an isis fighter while in captivity. how unusual is that, considering these are jihadists on a so-called religious campaign? >> well, if it's true, it would be highly unusual. for instance, the doctors without boarders female employees were taken hostage were treated very civilly in the sense they were hostages. and i kn

i've worked with on a lot of shows including the show for nbc the wanted where we had a group of navy s.e.a.l.ss who knew him well i think the film is an accurate portrayal of his perception of what happened through his book and his wife and people around him. it's important to recognize what we're trying to do is tell a balanced story, that everybody doesn't have to be this hero that came back from the war or this victim who's totally broken. i think this film does a spectacular job of telling an even an honest version of who chris was and what chris faced going to war. because the truth of the matter is after world war ii i had millions come home and the economy surged on the back of highly trained and respected soldiers who we as taxpayers spent a fortune sending over there. now they come back and survey after survey shows that americans think it's a burden on the economy that we have veterans coming home which is a tra vesty, when you consider taxpayers spent a lot of money to get the guys not to be a burden. about the also they just spent this time supporting our country and they are built

we learned from the osama bin laden raid that when the navy s.e.a.l.s went in and recovered those documentsg that helped bin laden recruit more than anything is when we called it the global war on terror. when the president came along, made a speech in cairo, had a more conciliatory tone and didn't sort of justify their islamic identity, he was having a hard time recruiting -- >> bin laden didn't like the 2009 cairo speech because i guess he thought it was too charitable towards muslims and wanted to use it as a recruiting tool. >> but cloaking themselves in islam -- >> but even now -- you've got general keane, the former -- you've got all these people coming out and saying you really need to call it what it is, which is a war on radical islam. listen to this from the atlantic in an interesting piece called what isis really wants. they just did -- the writer said the reality is is that the islamic state is very islamic muslims can reject the islamic state, pretending that it isn't actually a religious group with theology -- back foolish schemes to counter sglit i read that article. it's a f

the defendant, eddie ray routh, has already confessed to the killing of two navy s.e.a.l.s, includingt of "american sniper." but routh, a war veteran himself, pleaded not guilty to the murders this morning by reason of insanity allegedly due to post-traumatic stress disorder. what's the latest? we're expecting to hear from chris kyle's widow coming up today. >> yes taya is on the stand right now giving emotional testimony about her husband, what he was doing, and talking about the rough creek lodge and shooting range where they died. testimony began this morning after opening arguments. in the opening statements prosecutors say kyle and littlefield were killed by eddie ray routh at that shooting range. they were trying to help him through his emotional stress of being in the military. the range is about an hour and 45 miles southwest of dallas. no one knows what the three men talked about on that long drive out there, but it was revealed today that about an hour and 30 minutes into that drive, chris kyle who was driving his ford pickup truck to the range, texted his friends chad littl

the back and side and head by eddie ray routh, who stole kyle's weapon that was issued by the navy s.e.a.l.s. took that and his pickup truck and got away. the other thing that stands out is that chris kyle and his best friend chad littlefield picked up eddie ray routh in dallas and drove him to this shooting range to try to help him. that's about a two-hour drive. what did the two men talk about? what did the three of them talk about? and what did they think of eddie ray routh? we didn't know anything until today. the defense brought up some evidence that was in chris kyle's cell phone. it turns out that about an hour and a half into the drive, chris kyle picked up his cell phone, he was driving, and texted his friend sitting next to him in the front seat. he said quote, this dude is straight up nuts. and chad littlefield replied, he's right behind you, watch your six. now, it's interesting that that information was revealed by the defense because they're trying to prove that he was nuts that he was insane at the time of the killing. they hope that the jury will believe that and find him not

army rangers, green berets navy s.e.a.l.s, delta force, marines capable of operating at night. >> i knowo say. they're going to say there needs to be boots on the ground whether it be u.s. boots on the ground or arab boots on the ground but somebody needs to fight isis face to face. they're also going to say in these countries with unstable governments there's really no way to defeat isis because that's the problem, those unstable governments, and we're not really helping those governments become stable are we? >> well i don't think that we should have any type of occupation whatsoever. there should be no enduring ground presence. when we debate whether or not there should be troops on the ground in one respect you can say we already have troops on the ground. we have -- i had one gentleman show me a picture of their grandson from baghdad. he's in the air force. he was carrying a rifle. he was wearing boots and they were on the ground. we have special operations forces capable of operating at night and turning nighttime into daylight. they can come in at night. they can take out a high v

the weekly standard reporting that more than a million documents and files captured by navy navy s.e.a.l.sen's compound in pakistan. in fact goes onto say a year later in may 2012 the obama administration had released just 17 of them. further more, the document suggests iran provided much more than shelter for terrorists. the weekly standard reporting that in 2012 the u.s. treasury noted iran helped move money documents, passports, weapons, even recruits to pakistan and afghanistan. all these disclosures coming against the backdrop of netanyahu's coming speech to congress in which he's expected to voice life and death concerns about tehran. >> iran has threatened to destroy the state of israel numerous times. if they had a nuclear capability, i'm afraid they would use it against israel and us. >> and so now the question is will the obama administration favor a future relationship with tehran more than it values a long standing relationship with israel? shannon. >> all right our thanks to kevin. our next guest says the revelations remind us who the u.s. is dealing with in tehran. a veteran

why wouldn't the requirements be the same for that detail for secret service as, like say the navy s.e.a.l.s or the rangers? i mean it should be that protective an aspect, does it not? and the chart that went up there sis disgraceful, see the application not being the type of application. do you agree? >> i think the panel agrees that we need the best of the best in this role and that that has been historically the culture and belief of the service and i think we hope our recommendations will help them return to that point. >> yield back. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. we will now recognize the gentlewoman from new jersey, ms. watson coleman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning to you. and thank you so very much for the work that you've done. i did take the opportunity to read the briefing that i had last night and it was quite extensive and a little bit scary. um, for the record, i just want to ask a question. is this a part of the fence that was a compromise? for the life of me i can't see how you scale a fence that is skinny like this and this long. >> the fence in the pack g

and as always -- >> emotional reaction from family and fellow navy s.e.a.l.s pouring in this morning.hearing the emotional testimony from chris kyle's wife, taya. >> i called and didn't get an answer. then i texted are you okay, i'm getting worried. it's hard not to put some of it together that i haven't heard from him and i'm worried. and i haven't heard from him and a police officer shows up. >> the tape remained under wraps until this morning. >>> meanwhile, what makes this critic of wisconsin governor scott walker different from all the rest? she collects her salary from taxpayers. isn't that interesting? we got a busy two hours kibing off right now. you're watching "fox and friends" live from new york. >> you're watching "fox and friends," the number one morning cable news show in america. >> welcome to studio e live. >> we're going to get right to that fox news alert for you. the man who murdered chris kyle and his friend found guilty by a texas jury. what can you tell us this morning? >> elizabeth, good morning, i can tell you emotions ran very high inside that courtroom yester

a volunteer force has given us the iconic navy s.e.a.l.s and countless young men of courage but the trecheryf edward snowden and private bradley manning soured the taste for war. worse, our commander of forces in iraq and afghanistan, general david petraeus may be indicted for passing classified information to his mistress. his cronies are rushing to his defense and insist the married general's affair didn't happen while still in the army. but after he left the service and took over at cia. if they're wrong then petraeus would be guilty of adultery under the uniform code of military justice. the most egregious case of perfidy is sergeant bowe bergdahl who walked away from his unit in afghanistan and spent five years as a prisoner of the taliban. since bergdahl's release last may, president obama welcomed his hippie parents to the rose garden and dispatched his incoherent national security advisor susan rice to describe the deserter as having served his country quote, with honor and distinction. we eagerly await the long-delayed final reports on petraeus and especially bergdahl. it's unlikely

forces are an elite fighting force that include among others the army rangers, green beret and navy s.e.a.l.s. they are deployed on special rescue missions. mcdonald is a west point graduate hand picked by president obama to clean up a veterans affairs department plagued by scandal. last november he told scott pelley about trying to repair the v.a.'s image. >> we are simplesticly talking about people who violated our values. >> and those values are what? >> integrity. it's advocacy. it's respect. it's excellence. these are the things that we try to do for our veterans. >> so far the president is taking mcdonald at his word that this was an on the fly misstatement and mota pattern of exaggeration. veterans tend to grow highly suspicious of claims of service in the special service. >>> much of the south is caught in the grip of an icy storm this morning. millions are waking up to another arctic blast plunging from canada. wind chills are well below 0 in the northeast. >> take a look at how ice is blanketing jackson, mississippi this morning. the biggest threat is in the atlanta area. >> reporte

that letter was found when navy s.e.a.l.s attacked bin laden's compound in 2011 and killed him. >>> ine "los angeles times" president obama wrote an op-ed piece. he said our campaign to prevent people around the world from being radicalized for violence is ultimately battle for hearts and minds. >>> declaring early would give the kentucky republican an edge over rivals to begin raising money directly for his cam paint associates say only family doubts could change his mind at this point. >>> alex rodriguez has apologized to his fans. he posted his two-page handwritten statement on major league's baseball website. don dahler is at yankee stadium with a mention that came out a few days before spring training. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. alex roll rod regez alex rodriguez apologized and the yankees offered him the opportunity to issue a public apology at the press conference. but instead of facing cameras and questi issue an apology to his fans with this happenedwritten letter. >> were you guilty of any of these charges? >> no. >> did you do anything wrong? >> no. >> did you

special forces are an elite fighting force that include among others rangers, green beret and navy s.e.a.l.s. they are deployed on special missions like rescuing hostages. mcdonald is a west point graduate hand picked by president obama to clean up the veterans affairs department. after he took over, he admitted the v.a. gave poor care to service members and covered up the wait times for medical appointments for more than 100,000 veterans. last november, he told scott pelley about the department images. >> those values are what? >> integrity. it's advocacy and respect. it's excellence. these are the things we try to do for veterans. >> reporter: so far, both president obama and defense secretary ash carter say they accept mcdonald's explanation. this was just on-the-fly misstatement. he is a veteran respected in the community. >>> wyatt, thanks. it is warming up in the west while a huge winter storm gripping the south. people from texas to north carolina are dealing with rain snow or ice and windchills below zero across the northeast. even in the south, many cities are below freezing. >> loo

force existed for only two years but its spirit lives on in the green beret army rangers even the navy s.e.a.l.sd was classified top secret. but now we know. and on behalf of the congress of the united states and freedom huf loving people around the world, we say thank you. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the majority leader of the united states senate, the honorable mitch mcconnell. >> sometimes truth can be more impressive than fiction. when it comes to the heroes we honor today, that's certainly the case. members of the elite devil's brigade excelled in rock climbing and amphibious assault. they advanced on skis and through the air. they survived by stealth and trained in demolitions. some of their more daring mission plans would have made james bond blush. and through it all, they helped safe a continent in chaos. they helped defeat some of the greatest men asaces the world has known. but this isn't a hollywood script. it's a true story about a fearless group of young canadian canadians and americans including many kentuckians, who were willing to put their lives on the line in the tru

graduate but he did not serve in special forces, a tight-knit highly trained group which includes navy s.e.a.l.s and green berets, some of whom called mcdonald out for making that claim. overnight, mcdonald admitted his error in a statement saying i incorrectly stated that i had been in special forces. that was inaccurate and i apologize to anyone that was offended by my misstatement. i have great respect for those who have served our nation in special forces. the apology was quickly acknowledged by the white house. we take him at his word and expect that this will not impact the important work he's doing to promote the health and well-being of our nation's veterans. while mcdonald seems to have the backing of the white house it is the veterans whose support he needs and making claims when he was in an elite group when he was not could hurt that. george. >> we'll watch, thanks. >>> we turn to health news and what could be a game changer in fighting the recent explosion of peanut allergies. a study shows feeding peanut products to infants can cut the risk of developing the allergy and we bring in

among the other items, prosecutors say the navy s.e.a.l.s.s to al qaeda operatives including a letter updating them on operations in the works, a letter discussing plans for terror attacks in new york the u.k. as well as copenhagen which the defendant was allegedly involved in. prosecutors say the e-mails describe how al qaeda used coded electronic messages with female sounding e-mail addresses to communicate about their attacks. the messages spoke of a marriage or wedding. prosecutors allege he was really talking about the terror plot when he wrote about choosing a wife or woman to marry. he was allegedly discussing his thoughts about choosing which bomb to use. the same kind of coding prosecutors found in messages that led up to the september 11th attacks in 2001. >> joe johns, thanks very much. >>> president obama issues a new appeal for the muslim world to unite against the terrorists and jekt reject their lies. he spoke for the second day in a row on preventing extremist. it stirred up controversy. let's go to jim acosta. he has the late

. >> reporter: july 2014 navy s.e.a.l.s and delta force commandos move in by helicopter to an abandonedhe isis stronghold of roqqa. they get to a building where they think mueller and james foley and other hostages are being held. no one is there but they find strands of hair believed to be mueller's. a firefight ensues. the mission lasts two hours. former s.e.a.l. john mcguire was not on that raid but knows how risky it was. >> intelligence we do the best we can with what we have. it's never perfect. it's not a perfect world. the situations and the training are not exactly perfect. >> even with all of that and with all the risks involved both the congressmen and senator mccain have told reporters they feel they failed kayla mueller's family because despite those exhaustive efforts, she was not returned safely to her home. >> were senator mccain and the congressman satisfied with the way the obama administration actually handled the kayla mueller case? >> for the most part they say they were. they both acknowledge that the administration had limited intelligence because of the situation

army rangers, green berets, navy s.e.a.l.s, marines delta force. when we talk about boots on the ground we're not talking about an enduring occupation. no one is talking about that. i don't support that. i'll tell you what i do want. for a member of isis to sleep with one eye open because they fear an army ranger may be visiting their house or their fellow terrorist's house to put a round of lead wean their eyes. we have to cut off logistics, command and control. we have to find the funding streams to figure out how to cut them out. we need to increase our intelligence gathering abilities. these are all critically important. american exceptionalism isn't about strategic patience right now. american exceptionalism is about instilling fear in an element that does not respect weakness they only respect strength. understanding that if we wait five years, what we're going to be up against is going to be 100 times greater than what it is right now. i want to support the president's use of force. i also want to do my due diligence. i want to know how many

army rangers, green berets, navy s.e.a.l.s, marines, delta force. when we talk about boots on the ground, we're not talking about an enduring occupation. no one is talking about that. i don't support that. i'll tell you what i do want. for a member of isis to sleep with one eye open because they fear an army ranger may be visiting their house or their fellow terrorist's house to put a round of lead wean their eyes. we have to cut off logistics, command and control. we have to find the funding streams to figure out how to cut them out. we need to increase our intelligence gathering abilities. these are all critically important. american exceptionalism isn't about strategic patience right now. american exceptionalism is about instilling fear in an element that does not respect weakness, they only respect strength. understanding that if we wait five years, what we're going to be up against is going to be 100 times greater than what it is right now. i want to support the president's use of force. i also want to do my due diligence. i want to know how ma

>> the prosecutors will start out by emphasizing the bravery of the two navy s.e.a.l.s, who were slaughteredathy for them and build up something very important, the rule of law. they fought in the middle east about the rule of law. the rule of law says in texas if you understand the consequences of your act, you understand was right or wrong, you are not legally insane. and they will be emphasizing to jurors that everything the defendant said in this case indicated he knew what he was doing was wrong and therefore he was not legally insane. >> the jury i hope they don't like the two-tiered system for being mentally ill in this society. it's not good enough to be mentally ill, you have to prove it to a legal certainty in those circumstances, that goes to where we are culturally and the stigma of mental illness. but it's still the law. and joey jackson, this is narrow. there's another law that says if the prosecutor shows by the way you were high and you did that volume tearily, that negates your insanity defense. >> we need to address the burden. the burden that the defense has is to show tha

the navy s.e.a.l.s have the resiliency conferences.at along with their spouses. i think the resources are there. it's that sometimes military families don't always take advantage of those. >> i'm curious about marriage at the center of the relationships when you have military men and women serving overseas. how important is it to connect with the families? how important is marriage to the couples? >> i think it's very significant. that is their support base. one of the things i encourage the millennial spouses is what they're doing on social media. it if they're posting things or tweeting or instagram and some of those things may concern their spouse, then that spouse can get distracted. when there's distractions there can be accidents. and when there's accidents there can be loss of life. that's how significant it is for spouses to be able to hold it together while their military member is deployed in harm's way. and what i say is when they come home they get to change the diapers, you go for a mani peddy. it's important to hold it to