. >> this issue in pakistan, unlike afghanistan or iraq, where the u.s. does not acknowledge the actions it has , atn, responsibility for it least in afghanistan or iraq there is some sort of compensation to civilians who are killed as a result of being collateral damage. your sense of the reaction in congress as you put together the film and attempted to have a hearing about the issue? strong, action was very emotional briefing. generally they are pretty boring, but people were moved, there were tears flowing. i think the congress people, staffers, and thanks to many in the media, more are aware that this is a policy that you cannot hide behind classified information. it makes no sense. the cia says you are wrong in your film. we know the real information that we are not going to give it to you. codepink, they wrote an interesting piece headlined " $40 million allocated for drone victims never reaches them." can you explain what this fund is? >> i am not sure anyone can. i think that was part of the point of what they released. they discovered all of thes

>> if you look at the global war on terror in afghanistan or iraq, a number of civilians killed his huge -- is huge. in yemen, an investigation has published some statistics about cooperations on the ground. it seems that commandos, special forces -- [indiscernible] i'm not sure it is as evident as we think. >> let's bring in scott bates. why did they become so popular with this president? >> it was a search for the method of the use of force that would not violate sovereignty in a way that a full-scale invasion would like in iraq. or raids used selectively. it's an effort to limit collateral damage in a kinetic war. the president of the u.s. doesn't do these because he wants to. there is the authorization of the use of force that congress passed in 2001. but the biggest challenge is, it's been 12 years since 9/11. an unconventional war into the second decade and in a sustainable fashion. we need allies to prosecute that war. >> drones are a more humane weapon. is that the arguments that they are more humane? >> i think they are more effective and there can be less collateral b damage. i

what would you feel like if you were still in afghanistan or iraq and this situation was unfolding back> you know, i was actually in iraq in 2011. so there was an issue there about whether or not we were going to get paid. i think it was a situation where one week, you know, we had to work for free for one week and we'd get it a week later. it kind of hurts, right? you're out there putting your life on the line. you have the smallest percentage ever in the history of our country serving in a time of war, about 1% of the population. it's been a long drum beat to this point. whether it was the 2011 issues when i was there in regards to the budget issues and the debt ceiling. and then we had a sequestration. a lot of these -- there was an issue earlier in the year about military kids missing the first five days of school this year. we've been tossed around like a political chip for a very long time. that's why we struck back so hard with the ad from the world war ii veteran says i've never seen this stuff in my lifetime. some stuff has to be above reproach. the federal government and using

except in a country like afghanistan or iraq.ting a war, then the operational commander is authorized to conduct raids like this and the president is not involved in any of the decision making. here, he is involved in a decision making, particularly when we're putting boots on the ground in somalia or libya. he certainly knew the target, knew generally what the time frame would be and generally speaking, who was going to do all of this. i'm sure he probably did not get too involved in any of the details of the operation and also, obviously, he would be briefed almost immediately on the results. you know, we're seeing more information, it's like flying at 37,000 feet and we're getting a better idea of what's going on. tell me about this weekend and the war on terror. where we had success, where we didn't. >> i hope this is an indicator that the administration is going to take a tougher stand. it's really indisputable that the radical islamists have taken advantage of the arab spring. they're not the catalyst for the change sweepin

it doesn't need to be in afghanistan or iraq. any sort of traumatic event can happen and i imagine the school district there in sparks is going to have a lot of work to do to help a lot of these students. how did the ones you met, how did they seem? >> reporter: well, jake, to me, they seemed sort of shellshocked. like you said, there is a post-traumatic stress from some event like this. i know the school district has told me it's going to be bringing in a lot of additional counselors. some of the students, though, were just somewhat relieved to be able to go home with their family members, because they were still uncertain exactly what their friends' status was and if they were going to be okay, and it's not just the students. i know i talked to a school board member as well as a superintendent, pedro martinez. it's been a difficult day for everyone. they had teary eyes and it appears a student, the suspected gunman, and a teacher have lost their lives here, plus two more students who went to school today are now at the hospital

troops kill civilians, presumably accidentally in afghanistan or iraq, there's a process under which these individuals can be compensated to a degree. i think one of the points that is being made here is because these drone -- the justification for these drone strikes is kept top secret, there's no way for these people to seek any sort of redress for their grievances. >> well, that's a fair point. i think that's something that we should think about. but i think we should also think about the way these operations are conducted. and that is first of all, they are all on video and that actually promotes accountability. that allows us to take that video and show it to members of congress who oversee these operations. and every single one of these operations, they have been briefed to our congress and have been briefed to those who oversee the operations and they can actually see the video. the second thing that's important about the way these operations are conducted is that up to the very last moment, they can be called off. i'm personally aware of operations where a woman or child has

swenson will be the sixth living medical of honor recipient for actions in afghanistan or iraq. >>> terror judge in new york today. anas al libi is to be arraigned on bombings. because of a severe case of hepatitis c he was brought to new york for medical treatment. >>> another dry ice bomb exploding at l.a.x. airport, the second in 24 hours. the blast went off last night in a restricted area in the tom bradley terminal. no one was injured. los angeles police say two undetonated devices were also found. there's no apparent link to terrorism. the fbi is investigating a dry ice bomb that exploded in the restroom of another l.a.x. terminal on sunday night. >>> we're learning more about a utah woman struck twice by trains. you see her car on the tracks. it has already been hit by one train. as police close in to help, another train is approaching. that slams in to her car, as well. the woman suffered bumps and bruises but police say she is lucky to be alive. >> she ran the railroad crossing. her vehicle went under the railroad arms and that's when she struck the first train. >> that is what is

we have veterans who lost an arm or leg in vietnam or iraq or afghanistan, in two weeks won't get benefitsore. what happens to retiree benefits. you heard general shinseki testify, he's been very vocal about the backrepublicans in congress put a lot of pressure about the claims that have happened through ptsd or agent orange and these backlogs and claims are going way up. there's a tremendous amount of issues. the only way to fix the issueses towelfy fund the entire government immediately. veterans are affected by all departments. >> kelly, this "wall street journal" op-ed by paul ryan, why people believe this may be an olive branch or something. he says the president is giving congress silent treatment. that's a shame to break the deadlock both sides should agree to common sense reforms of the country's entitlement and tax codes and he goes on to talk about entitlement reform but does not focus in on kelly, we we know has been the rallying cry for a lot of conservatives which is the president's health care law. our first read team seems to believe that may be a light at the end of the tun

al -- >> and with that kind of social pedia savvy, don't expect to see more land wars like afghanistan or iraqofficials say, this is the new face of the war on terror, small,lettal lightning raids by u.s. special forces. kate. >> all right. barbara, thank you so much. >>> let's go around the world now, starting in nairobi, kenya, where investigators have now identified some of the suspects in that deadly shopping mall attack. >> reporter: we now have new information link one of the most wanted al qaeda terrorist cells in east africa with that nairobi west gate shopping attack. one of the west gate mall attackers is related, cnn has discovered, to one of the men killed by the u.s. back in 2009 for his role in the 1998 u.s. embassy bombings. now in other breaking news, the authorities have relowsed the images of two men that bought the car used to transport the attackers to that shopping mall attack. they are asking for any and all information that could to lead to their arrests, back tourks kate. >> thank you so much. to members xo now, where a monster truck went out of control, killed and doze

we will talk to him about iraq, afghanistan, and how he came back from near death. >> pinhead or patriot? >> i like him. >> you like him. >> i like him. >> you don't know who the vice president of the united states is. >> no. but i know the president though. >> you should be proud. >> also up ahead watters world pinhead and patriots. >> that's a very seductive look. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. thanks for watching us tonight. i don't want to know. that is the subject of this eveningens talking points memo. as we reported last week there are at least half a dozen major controversies inside the obama administration that the president apparently didn't know anything about. today in the "wall street journal" front page headline says obama unaware as u.s. spied on world leaders.

he's joining us now live hi there you go or so tell us more about what sergei lavrov had to say well according to the foreign minister not only afghanistan but iraq as well maybe used to work out the use of chemical weapons so you know i would have said that they have information that terrorist or taught how to use chemical weapons in afghanistan in tory's not controlled by the government while also they have information that the front one of the most radical syrian rebel groups is going to deliver chemical weapons to iraq along with specialist for possible attacks of their so they're saying that terrorists are taught to basically in afghanistan while we practice or are planning to practice in iraq and all of this is organized by third countries according to the foreign minister which third countries exactly he didn't specify just to remind you soon of dorry's have signed up for the international convention on chemical weapons which basically bans their use aiming to bring international control over their chemical arms arsenal. all right artie zero percent of live from moscow thank you very much indeed. and a new report human rights watch has cla

level of incompetence whether it's going to war against syria whether it's starting wars in iraq or afghanistan whether it's the war on drugs whether it's sequester ation whether it's going over the physical cliff you have a bunch of incompetent and inept people hiding behind this barrier that we are congressmen and senators and everything is under control the whole world is laughing at america. can i say i though i would make the observation in a certain way because there are probably in the last year we used to. be the americans saying that this was going to have any effect on their economic reputation i think they're going to be in for a big big surprise particularly when the credit rating agencies start to review u.s. government credit i think it's going to lead to a as it may agency and it's going to lead to demean you shown in the strength of the dollar so basically i just want to say or doing our case of excluding are paying more attention to the patient scores than to the diminishing of credit ratings on the world market but what they see coming out of washington is a clown show by ever

all radical or syrian rebel groups is whining according to him to deliver chemical weapons to iraq along with specialist for a possible future attacks or basically their training in afghanistan well could start practicing in iraq. the foreign minister also said this is organized by third countries although he didn't specify which state exactly just to remind you the syrian government earlier signed up for the international convention on chemical weapons which bans their use in order to establish international control over their arms arsenal. is going to live there you go thank you very much indeed for that. and a new report a human rights watch has claimed rebels in syria killed at least one hundred ninety civilians in early august it says over two hundred hostages were seized in a military offensive on pro assad alawite villages the study says the operation may have been financed by private golf based donors and the reports reveal the coordinated nature of their tongue suggests that it was premeditated and organized based on the scale of the offense so the authors say the crimes were systematic and part of a criminal policy human rights watch is calling on all states to ens

every serviceman or woman who has lost their life serving in iraq or afghanistan, we have done a personalizednd the army national guard has come and picked those quilts up and they deliver them to the families. it makes you feel like you're a part of something greater than yourself. i think i've switched from being "it's all about mitch" to realizing that there's a lot more out there and i left a lot of damage in my wake that i need to fix. i've been working trying to do that. >> mr. swallows, outstanding. that's all i can say about him. he's been down a long time. no anger, nothing, just doing what he's supposed to be doing. >> there you go. >> thank you, mitch. have a good night. >> appreciate it. >> see you first thing in the morning. >> all right. >> as you can see, they're really children's scissors. but we do thousands of quilts with them. last year, we did over 1,000 quilts. the year before, 916. we made some great quilts. to the gentlemen's credit, they do it with these. it's unbelievable. >> still at the end of the day, even children's scissors are safely secured. >> all scissors cle

asylum seekers from afghanistan, iraq, myanmar fly to jakarta, or they take a boat - depending on travelocuments. they hook up with a people smuggler. there's a lot of people smugglers reactive here. they pay thousands and in the middle of the night they arrive at a beach. they've been transported from a safe house to get here. many make it. they'll be transported by small boat and many are intercepted by police. like a group of 230 rohinga who tried to reach this place and failed, as you can see in our report. >> this man was arrested, transporting around 230 ethic rohinga seeking refuge from myanmar. he was taking them to a boat when authorities stopped them. the police intercepted six trucks full of asylum seekers. this was the only person arrested. he said he was trapped into becoming a smuggler. >> translation: i was afraid when i saw the people going into the trucks. i told them i was not going ahead with this. the men who ordered the transport screamed that they'd burn my trucks and threatened me with a gun. >> police are looking for the head of the syndicate. a police officer is

singing for other trauma patients, as a patient herself, many, many people freshly back from iraq or afghanistan transformed her. >> is she on the phone? >> she is. dedicated to her work and on the phone with us. theresa, how are you? >> hi! i'm great. how are you? >> you sound awesome and we are so looking forward to meeting you on's thursday, but what's going to happen, you're going to make history here now, theresa. i don't know how many times we've done this. we're up to about 50 "everyone has a story" that we've done. you're the very first one that's actually going to sing the song david and i have written for you. we're so excited about that. >> oh, i am thrilled beyond belief and grateful beyond words and so is my family. >> glad you don't have to travel too far. looking forward to seeing you. >> me, too. see you soon. >> thank you. god bless. >> favorite things, you guys. if you buy one book, one book, buy this one. "david and goliath." by malcolm gladwell. i saw it at the airport. picked it up. it's about how the little guy can beat the big guy, whether a ragtag basketball team that bea

excuse is now over, if he is, if his great achievement is to be somewhat nicer or more polite and get out of iraq or afghanistan and. >> rose: and to talk more. >> and talk more and listen more which he is good at listening, other people -- >> ros most of the leaders you hear in terms of whatever -- >> everyone's cellphones conversations -- >> rose: no, no. >> it is always a notion with respect to america that, you know, they don't respect us, enough so that they listen to us. >> i think a lot of other leaders see obama as somewhat detached from things, you look at what happens in the middle east and the a arab spring and you compare what happened with the arab spring and obama and what happened in eastern europe opened up with george bush senior and you don't see a guiding hand. you don't when you get to asia you don't get a sense that china immediately knows what is going on, the americans, and the chinese now, henry kissinger, at least, it doesn't seem to be jetting through as much and i think the other bit is, even regions you would expect america to there some sort some sort of clout in, like latin america

and then in fact, as we look it is the world, whether in afghanistan or iraq or it's in south or central america or in africa, in many nations women experience violence in relationships in their home. but, mr. speaker, if we can just end that violence in the home, then we would do a lot to make certain that children are growing up healthy and able to have healthy relationships and that women are able to achieve their fullest potential. and so i join you today in calling attention to domestic violence awareness month and to redoubling our commitment to end domestic violence, and a especially thank you and salute to an organization that i started now, i don't know, 15, 20 years ago, the national network to end domestic violence , and all of the network of advocates around the country who are committed to the same things that we are, and if only we can provide the resources that they need to do their work, i'm convinced that we can end this scourge and with that i yield. mr. green: thank you for your testimony, it's something i believe will benefit a good many persons viewing this today. i

operate under its own military authorities to go not not ungoverned areas, war zones, afghanistan, iraq, somalia or horn of africa but to go into an urbanning commercial area, in downtown tripoli and actually take someone off the street. that tells me number one he was a very high risk mission but high payoff and high reward. two, that we had pristine intelligence and three that we probably did have some cooperation from the lubbian authorities. >> woodruff: that was my question, margaret. was there a question of legality here? >> warner: well, that was one of the questions debated internally, the legality because there-- this is one of the governments united states hopes succeeds but does not have the capacity, capability, and maybe not the will right now to did an operation like this. i am told that there was at least an understanding or discussion that if the libyan government failed to take a guy out who was hiding in plain sight as al-libi was, that the united states might act on its own. now that's all remains murky. they don't want to embarrass the will be yen government. the tate department

justifies a military response my concern with iraq is that it constituted a diversion away from achieving the goal of completing the military mission in afghanistan or in my judgment has substantially extended the duration of our involvement in afghanistan and it was predicated largely on the allegation that their weapons of mass destruction in iraq were over of being utilized on very short notice. i was very suspicious as to whether those weapons existed or not and i believe the failure to find any such weapons. then became my suspicion yeah but if you said yourself that saudi arabia was potentially complicit in the attacks why target afghanistan i mean just a fine one man. well. we targeted afghanistan because that was where the entity. led by one man but with. thousands of followers and many of those being more hardened. veterans of the war in afghanistan against russia and incidents such as the attack against two u.s. embassies in africa. that was that was the place from which the attack against the united states and emanated. must be again i believe the appropriate target of our attack but there was no relationship between iraq and the attack a

so, it's now a matter of if you are a veteran, you don't have to be iraq or afghanistan. veteran, all right? that feels that this track chair enhances -- will enhance your situation, you have got to go to the independence fund. the independence fund checks it all out. inspects not like i want a chair you have got to provide documentation and they do the investigation and so on, correct? >> what's really interesting, bill, this is all volunteer as you know. it was started by american airlines pilot a guy why the name of luker. all of his volunteers are essentially either wounded vets themselves or the wives of wounded vets. so they know how this works. >> there is no bureaucracy and there is no money being siphoned off by anybody or anything of that. >> >> absolutely not. >> finally you went to a wedding involving a track chair. there is me varnes and very touching moment for me. you went to a wedding that involved the track chair, right? >> this is amazing story. sarah and mike -- sergeant of the 82nd airborne got married last week in rhode island. they were given a track

>> everybody who comes back either from iraq or afghanistan, any kind of combat situation is pretty much labelled with ptsd. if you have been in any kind of action or even heard of the guys going out there, getting some action, oh, no, i have got ptsd now. and that is the problem that the government is getting into, is labelling everybody with ptsd. and it has just become an excuse. >> sometimes when somebody dies in a horrific and tragic way, it is hard to remember, to focus on how they lived their lives, you end up focusing on how their life ended. jeff, do you find yourself thinking about how chris' life ended? >> it definitely stays with me. but i don't dwell on it, you know, because i was fortunate enough to know him for 35 years. i can remember a lot more than just that one day. >> you, obviously, as well? >> there -- i don't think often about the way that he died. i actually think a whole lot about the way that he lived. i feel him with me. my kids feel him with us. i certainly miss him like crazy. and yet, there was such a magnetism and such a strength about his being, his love,

so, it's now a matter of if you are a veteran, you don't have to be iraq or afghanistan.all right? that feels that this track chair enhances -- will enhance your situation, you have got to go to the independence fund. the independence fund checks it all out. inspects not like i want a chair you have got to provide documentation and they do the investigation and so on, correct? >> what's really interesting, bill, this is all volunteer as you know. it was started by american airlines pilot a guy why the name of luker. all of his volunteers are essentially either wounded vets themselves or the wives of wounded vets. so they know how this works. >> there is no bureaucracy and there is no money being siphoned off by anybody or anything of that. >> >> absolutely not. >> finally you went to a wedding involving a track chair. there is me varnes and very touching moment for me. you went to a wedding that involved the track chair, right? >> this is amazing story. sarah and mike -- sergeant of the 82nd airborne got married last week in rhode island. they were given a track chair by

you're talking about, are things that you and president bush did in terms of funding or not funding the iraq and afghanistan wars, in terms of the medicare prescription drug benefit and in terms of the tax cuts. are you and president bush not also responsible for the deficit? >> well, in terms of prescription drug benefits for seniors, that's something the president campaigned on before i ever got involved. i think it was a good program. >> without taking issue with the policies of iraq and afghanistan wars and medicare prescription drug benefit or the tax cuts, i think the question is how are they being paid for. >> well, what we tried very hard to do, first of all, i believe tax cuts are an appropriate part of the policy to achieve economic growth, that in fact there's jack kemp kind of republican i believe that important to leave as much as we can with the individual wage owner and business so that they can invest and create more jobs and that in and of itself creates more tax revenue down the road. so i'm not opposed to that proposition at all. >> what about paying for the wars, paying for the medicare

swenson becomes the sixth living recipient of the medal for actions in iraq or afghanistan.ers in the garden state head to the polls wednesday. they will elect a new u.s. senator to replace frank lautenberg who died in june. the race pits democrat cori booker and republican steve lonagan. both sides took age at each other launching personal attacks. >>> thursday a treasure trove of historical documents from reverend martin luther king, jr. hit the auction block. handwritten notes from dr. king and a page of his "i have a dream" speech are part of the collection. maud valou is selling the documents with proceeds going to alabama state university. >>> also on thursday, millions of people will prep for the billing one. the great shake out. are earthquake drills held from coast to coast. it is all part of the effort to make people more aware of what it do when an either quake strikes. and that's your weekly five. >> thank you, rosa. >>> the fight over the washington redskins name. should it be changed? the owner says no. but pressure may be mounting. well talk about it more with

they could be going off to iraq or afghanistan.e's a whole other issue here about whether the age is where it needs to be. the feds got heavy handed with the auto moneys a couple years ago. otherwise that might be the case. i can see it both ways. i hear all the condemnation, and i'm just saying there are two sides to this. >> okay, michael. thank you so much. so what does your gut tell you? do you think maryland's attorney general had a moral obligation to stop those teens from partying? go to facebook.com/newsnation. that does it for us. see you tomorrow. "the cycle" is up next. [ both cheer ] got it! i...did not get it. [ female announcer ] you may not be the best with a smart phone but you know what's best for your kids. so we listened when you said gogurt should have only natural colors and flavors and no high fructose corn syrup. thanks, mom. you feel...congested. beat down. crushed. but sudafed gives you maximum strength sinus pressure and pain relief.

i mean, i have seen similar in iraq or afghanistan where we have these neighborhoods under control.that's absolutely correct. a lot of what we do, we do employ a lot of counter insurgency. >> counter insurgency in new jersey means boots on the ground. 401 police officers up from 250 with federal assistance. >> your presence has made such a difference. >> and high tech. when a gunman fired 17 shots at a school bus in broad daylight, a system of microphones called shot spotter gave police his location within nine feet. with no phone calls from a neighbor. [gunfire] shepard, one out of five buildings in camden is abandoned. the police chief told me if he could just tear down these abandoned buildings, he thinks he could cut the drug trade in half. >> shepard: i guess they don't have the money to do that. >> they don't have the money. they have had a battle with the police force too. they have laid off a number of policemen. the old union under the old union the police force one out of three policemen each day on an average day didn't even show up for work. they are absent. they have a

>> everybody who comes back either from iraq or afghanistan, any kind of combat situation is pretty much if you have been in any kind of action or even heard of the guys going out there, getting some action, oh, no, i have got ptsd now. and that is the problem that the government is getting into, is labelling everybody with ptsd. and it has just become an excuse. >> sometimes when somebody dies in a horrific and tragic way, it is hard to remember, to focus on how they lived their lives, you end up focusing on how their life ended. jeff, do you find yourself thinking about how chris' life ended? >> it definitely stays with me. but i don't dwell on it, you know, because i was fortunate enough to know him for 35 years. i can remember a lot more than just that one day. >> you, obviously, as well? >> there -- i don't think often about the way that he died. i actually think a whole lot about the way that he lived. i feel him with me. my kids feel him with us. i certainly miss him like crazy. and yet, there was such a magnetism and such a strength about his being, his love, his laughter, his hu

this problem because of the prove mendus number of people coming back from iraq and afghanistan is to made it one point six or one point seven million people suffering from this problem and no real good treatments out there are there early signs of busy or spouse of someone's going home of this problem definitely bad silly insomnia nightmares jumpiness easily triggered by very little things apparently flashbacks memories of being back on the battlefield and also sometimes a kind of numbing and withdrawal all of these are telltale signs of p.t.s.d. you are then not shot by the suicide sadistic no i'm very saddened by it but given how much suffering these people endure it is not surprising how you study the effects of transcendental meditation on this on this disorder what is or i remember doing shows on in years ago what does t.m. it's an easy practice to do you learn how to use a sound or a montrealer. and think that sounds twenty minutes twice a day while sitting comfortably like all. it's it's sort of like that but i can't exactly tell you what my mantra is or it wouldn't be very special were it but it's no