much embraced by him when he came in 2009 heavily used around border area of afghanistan and pakistanld point out not clear if it happened in afghanistan or pakistan. he certainly allowed grand expansion of much of this program and recently has begun to review it tightening of the rules. one of the key issues i think, which has come under great scrutiny something called signature strikes where behavior, military age males in areas known to be high al qaeda presence often enabled a strike to be used. they have been much that remains confidential. the question will be given he has said neither of these two american al qaeda members or leaders were in fact specifically targeted by this strike what was it that led them to believe this attack was necessary and exactly what did they know in full about who was in that compound jake. >> that's right. good questions. if they didn't know these two high-value targets -- being targeted were going to be in the strike zone who did they think was there. those are questions that undoubtedly we'll be asking the white house and national security offici

the remnant of al qaeda central are basically positioned between afghanistan and pakistan. the u.s. t success in breaking the backbone of al qaeda central there both afghanistan and pakistan. most of the damage that the united states has been able to achieve is basically by relentlessly attacking al qaeda central lieutenants in both afghanistan and pakistan even though a nerve center. the most dangerous theaters now are no longer -- i know this might come to you as a surprise. it's now yemen where al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and other branch of al qaeda in iraq and syria libya now, the so-called islamic state or isis has a this ises where the fight is now. yemen, iraq syria somalia and to a lesser extent now libya. so the reality is the complexity of the fight, the struggle itself, because you have so many raging fires and you have civil wars and, again, al qaeda and its supporters basically are nourished in conflict zones where basically civil wars and sectarian struggles and social and political struggles tend to unfold. >>> professor, i want to with your permission read the

drone strikes along the afghanistan-pakistan border. cnn's chief congressional correspondent dana bash is on capitol hill with senator john mccain, who's been very vocal on the u.s. drone program. dana it will be interesting to hear what he has to say. >> that's right. thank you so much jim. you're the chairman of the armed services committee. you obviously are very well versed in the drone policy. given what happened should the drone policy be revisited? >> i think what happened should be revisited, obviously, because a terrible thing happened when two innocent people were killed one american one italian. so the whole process has to be revisited and reviewed. but to do away with the drone program, of course would deprive us of an enormously important tool that we use to take out the leaders of these terrorist organizations. >> given the fact that it seems as though our intelligence clearly failed us this time -- >> yes. >> the u.s. intelligence didn't detect there were two american civilians. >> yes. and so what went wrong? why didn't

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,

counter terrorism operation targeting an al-qaeda compound in the afghanistan pakistan border regionidentally killed warren and geeovany this past wednesday. as a husband and father i cannot begin to imagine the ang lish that the families are enduring today. i realize that there are no words that can ever equal their loss. i know that there is nothing that i could ever say or do to ease their heart ache and today i simply want to say this. as president and commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all of aur counter terrorism operations including the one that inadvertently tooks the live of these men. on behalf of the united states government i offer our deepest apologies to the families. as soon as we determine the cause of their deaths i directed that the existence of this operation be declassified and disclosed publicly. i did so because the families deserve to know the truth. and i did so because even as certain aspects of our national security efforts have to remain secret in order to succeed, the united states is a democracy, committed to openness in good times and in

and our disengagement, as i indicated earlier, from afghanistan and indeed from pakistan after the soviet defeat is instructive. we can look at iraq for a parallel, but we find the example right there in afghanistan decades earlier. and as zal and ron have said, this is in our national interest. but there's something else too. and the argument i think for moving from a calendar-based timetable to a conditions-based timetable where i've long argued we've needed to have been in iraq and certainly need to be in afghanistan, this is the intersection of american interests and american values. and we i think are unique after major states as a nation founded on values, interweaving them with our policies. it is very, very difficult at times, as we all know. and we're seeing some of that of course today around the world. iran cited the newest greatest generation in afghanistan. the afghans who have come of age post-taliban exemplified by the graduates of the american university of afghanistan. they are like no other generation afghanistan has ever produced. open to the world. plugged in. wired up

strike inside afghanistan, pakistan earlier this year, dr.inestein, he was inadvertently killed in that air strike and in that same strike an italian hostage killed as well and the white house saying they did not know the american and the italian were present when this strike took place, but they were unfortunately killed in that strike. in addition to those hostages the american and the italian, in that strike an al qaeda leader was killed and an american who has been a spokes man for al qaeda, a messenger, he was killed in a separate strike in january. tkpwau dawn really a remarkable story. he was from california jewish and christian background and converted to islam and became a messenger, and he was killed in a second air strike. really the headline here in addition to his death, inadvertently by accident an american air strike killed an american hostage as well as an italian hostage. the white house saying this was classified information but that the president decided to declassify it and share that information with the american public t

. >> the american and italian aide workers were held near the pakistan/afghanistan border. senior correspondent jim acosta has more for us. >> reporter: president obama was forced to face one of the most harsh realities on his war on terrorism that even precise drone strikes can go horribly wrong. >> it is a cruel and bitter truth that in the bog of war certainly and foit against terrorists sperkly. mistakes sometimes deadly mistakes, can occur. >> one of those mistakes happened in january when the cia conducted a drone strike near the afghanistan/pakistan border that interadd vertantly killed two hostages. u.s. government contractor warren weinstein captured from his home in pakistan and held by al qaeda since 2011 and italian aide worker, giovanni lo porto. >> as president and commander-in-chief, i take full responsibility for all of the operations. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government, i offer our deepest apologies to the families. >> the obama administration says weinstein and lo porto died in the first two of drone strikes. order

of course it happened on the border between afghanistan and pakistan. dr.einstein taken from his home in pakistan some three years ago. >> mike this happened in january, why do you think it took so long for this acknowledgment to be made by president obama and why now? >> reporter: first of all, yes, it takes a while to get confirmation especially considering the fact that the united states doesn't have a lot of assets boots on the ground will you will in that region that border land there between afghanistan and pakistan and as we were gist discussing a military offensive by the pakistani army cracking down on the tribal regions in northwestern pakistan has driven many of these fighters over the border into afghanistan, and that coupled with the withdraw of forcing fighting in afghanistan, they are trying to keep this area under control, while planning their gradual withdrawal. so evidently it has taken some three months. there are probably other considerations that go into this. but obviously i think they want to be absolutely sure that it was the two who

counterterrorism operation targeting an al qaeda compound in the afghanistan-pakistan border region accidentally killed warren and geeiovanni this past january. >> what we know about the drone program that accidentally killed two hostages including an american. then the clinton campaign under siege for multiple clinton cash stories is responding for the first time. and ted cruz and marco rubio have one message for voters and an entirely different message for their billionaire donors. "all in" starts now the. >>> good evening, from new york i'm chris hayes. an unprecedented moment in american history this morning. president obama appeared on camera in a surprise address to announce the stunning news that two al qaeda's hostages warren weinstein, an american and giovanni lo porto, an american were accidentally killed in a u.s. drone strike. >> based on information and intelligence we have obtained we believe that a u.s. counterterrorism operation targeting an al qaeda compound in the afghanistan-pakistan border region accidentally killed warren and giovanni this past january. as president and as c

but they could see far worse coming in afghanistan if we pull pitch in pakistan and afghanistan. we have to be very, very careful with that. >> i guess that means i have to respond to the other two questions that you guys walked around. >> piece of cake, ron. >> on iran, first of all, i'm not sure that iran -- in fact i tend to think that iran does not see afghanistan as anywhere near in the same category that it sees iraq. iraq has been -- or the geographic space occupied by mesopotamia has been a threat to the shi'a world since at least the battle of karbala. the years i was in iran under the shah every year, tabriz in the west every year the iranian army drilled its retreat from the iraqi invasion and its regrouping and pushing back from that invasion. so their view of iraq as a potential strategic threat is very deeply engrained. there is no similar view of afghanistan partly because afghanistan hasn't really had that level of threat maybe since it held off the last siege of iraq, and that was over 100 years ago. iranians are neuralgic about what we may do with iraq. and afgh

he's been held in pakistan and afghanistan since 2011. let's go to london for all the details. >> reporter: yeah george this story breaking just now, we're getting some of the details through about this kind of terrorism operation. talking about the border region between afghanistan and pakistan. the focus of so much of the american and coalition efforts over the past decade. two separate incidents that the white house is referring to. but the first of those incidents took place in january and it's in this incident that the two innocent hoss stajs were killed. one of them is dr. weinstein and the other one is an italian national held by al qaeda and clearly this poses all sorts of complicated legal ramifications. given that in any circumstance the u.s. must seek special legal permission in order to conduct a strike or countrier terrorism operation that might result in the death of an american. in this particular incident they're saying the white house is saying they did not know these individuals were there. >> and we also know in that sa

officials had seen only four people enter or exit the suspected al qaeda compound near the afghanistan-pakistan border. none, they believe, were civilians. on that basis the c.i.a. ordered what's known as a "signature strike," which targets a location rather than specific people. the agency was shocked when two more bodies were pulled from the rubble. later identified as aid workers warren weinstein and giovanni lo porto. their deaths came despite this promise from the president two years ago. >> before any strike is taken, there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. >> reporter: today, white house press secretary josh earnest defended the near certainty protocol. by the standards you expressed there's never any guarantee that there won't be a civilian casualty of some kind. >> absolute certainty is just not possible in that environment. >> reporter: in his first term, president obama ordered an estimated 280 drone strikes in pakistan to protect u.s. forces in afghanistan and kill al qaeda leadership. but as u.s. troops have withdrawn from the region, the number of

he said they were targeting an al qaeda compound near the afghanistan/pakistan border. but u.s.elligence didn't intercade hostages were there. the white house also announced that two other american who were members of al qaeda were also killed in u.s. anti-terror raids. 36-year-old adam gadan worked as an al qaeda translator and a spokesperson. he converted to islam when he was 17. during his time with al qaeda, he posted plop gan da -- propaganda videos on arab websites. the u.s. offered a $1 million reward for his arrest. >>> back here in the bay area, we are following a developing story of an officer-involved shooting in sonoma county. sheriff's deputies shays chased a suspect from winder to the sebastopol area overnight. they say they had no choice but to shoot the suspect when the individual allegedly tried to run them over. alex savidge has been on the scene. and we just learned the suspect was a woman. >> reporter: yeah. we just confirmed that. the driver of the car shot by sheriff's deputies is a woman. according to investigators this woman tried to ram or i should say d

drone strike targeting al qaeda militants along the afghanistan/pakistan border killed two western hostages including an american aid worker the u.s. had spent years trying to free and an italian aid worker. their deaths happened in january but were publicly revealed today by president obama. we also learned today two other americans working with al qaeda were also killed. we have two reports and start with peter alexander at the white house. peter? >> reporter: lester, good evening. the president today said that he deeply regrets the loss of two innocent lives and that he demanded the information be declassified insisting the victims' families deserve to know the truth. in an extraordinary statement, president obama today confessed that the u.s. accidentally killed two hostages,including an american they had been trying to free for years. >> as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility. >> reporter: dr. warren weinstein, an aid worker from maryland, was kidnapped by al qaeda in pakistan in 2011, gunmen breaking into his house. the 73-year-old grandfather appealing for

i cannot deploy troops on someone in afghanistan and pakistan.o that point, sir. as we know we have killed lots of al qaeda leaders via drone strikes. we have cost ourselves a lot of anti-american sentiment that we have galvanized throughout the middle east. so is it worth it? >> well i think, first of all, i myself as an american i don't think it's worth it. it's illegal. the united nations says the attacks are illegal. human rights organizations, i mean amnesty international, all of them, they say they are legal. hundreds of civilians have been killed. anti-american is deeply embedded now in pakistan, in yemen, and other places. yes, technically they're effective. but the question is you have also to balance the legal and the political and long-term effects of such attacks. yet really to me it's very surprising that the president stood up and took responsibility. one has to respect this president for doing so. yet i mean many people in the world where i am and other places in the world, they say the administration has been basically buried its

afghanistan, pakistan and nigeria. many of these al qaeda taliban and bookka haram are anti-vaccine. in 2014, there were outbreaks in somalia with al shabaab, cameroon syria south sudan and madagascar. the likelihood for cross border infection particularly in con contiguous nations, consequently into regions with growing allegiances and affiliations with organizations poses a risk to irradication strides made over the last 40 years. if polio is not effectively managed, the resurgence of polio could paralyze more than 200,000 children worldwide every year within a decade. while there's no such thing as a microbial manifesto terrorists that are rejecting polio vaccination on behalf of their children are functionally turning their children into -- it could be labelled as passive bioterrorism. terrorists are intentionally disrupting vaccines, as well as sacrificing children to the disease. anointing them as martyrs should they succumb to illness or death. this insidious form of bioterrorism doesn't mimic the effects of an

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correspondent jim sciutto. >> reporter: it was in this mountainous border region between pakistan and afghanistans. drone strike killed two western hostages held by al qaeda, including one american, warren weinstein, abducted in pakistan in 2011. al qaeda compounded been under surveillance for hundreds of hours. what the u.s. did not know it is that weinstein and giovanni were held and hidden inside. in this proof of life video, weinstein, an aide worker, pleaded for his freedom. >> it seems i have been totally abandoned. >> today president obama apologized for a fatal mistake. >> we believed that this was an al qaeda compound. that no civilians were present and capturing them were not possible. >> demanding answers from washington, staying we do understand that the u.s. government will be conducting an independent investigation of the circumstances. we look forward to the results of that investigation. killed in the same attack was al qaeda leader faroq. also from a new branch of the terror group attempting to hijack navy vessels last september. >> in the framework of america's war on so-called

the white house announcing a counterterror operation on the afghanistan/pakistan border accidentally american and an italian, both aid workers held by al-qaeda. good morning, everybody i'm jenna lee. jon: lots of details to get to and still some questions about this strike. jenna: absolutely. jon: president obama expressing sorrow and offering condolences to the families of the two men. american doctor warren weinstein and giovanni lo porto an italian aid worker. also killed in a separate strike was adam gadahn, the american who became a prominent media adviser for al-qaeda and had been on a target list for a decade or more. peter doocy

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it was in this mountainous border region between pakistan and afghanistan that a u.s. led two western hostages held by al qaeda including one american warren weinstein, abducted in pakistan in 2011. the al qaeda compound had been under surveillance for hundreds of hours. what the u.s. did not know was that weinstein and the italian giovanni lo porto were being held and hidden inside. >> i again appeal to you -- >> reporter: in this proof of life video weinstein, an aide worker pleaded for his freedom. >> it seems that i have been totally abandoned. >> reporter: today president obama apologized for a fatal mistake. >> we believe that had had was an al qaeda compound that no civilians were present, and that capturing these terrorists was not possible. >> reporter: weinstein's wife in a statement blamed his kaptors for his death but also demanded answers from washington saying we do understand that the u.s. government will be conducting an independent investigation of the circumstances. we look forward to the results of that investigation. killed in the same attack was al

hostages, an italian aid worker, and giovanni porto were killed during a drone strike at the afghanistan-pakistan border. and now an investigation into exactly what went wrong. mike marza joins us from washington and what do we know about the operation and what the u.s. is doing to help the families? >> reporter: well, the white house said that the president didn't sign-off on the attack, but he appeared in a hasty event in the white house situation room and talked about the inadvertent it deaths of captives wienstein and porto and what they won't say is a long list of questions that many people have, including the nature of the attack. was it a drone attack, a commando raid? an aircraft launch attack? they did not say the timeline, other than to say that they started to get information in the week after the attack -- remember this took place in january -- that wienstein and porto may have been present at the attack. and they won't say where if happened, other than to say that it was in the remote areas of the afghan-pakistan bored and they won't say how many were killed other than the two captiv

the family didn't know he was on the border there between afghanistan and pakistan? >> we expected, you know, he was captured in pakistan, and we suspected he was in that region, but you know, we didn't know where he was. which was incredibly frustrating. >> let me get to the whole geopolitics of this and the whole use of drones. you know all this about changing protocols and everything, if we're going to use drones aggressively, if we're going to use them as our main firepower in that part of the world to go after terrorist groups and knock them out at the lieutenant level, is there a way of being more careful and still getting the job done? >> i would like to enlargen that. i don't think it's just a question of drones. a few months ago, they launched a special forces operation and accidentally killed a south african hostage who wassing with held by them and we didn't know he was there either. >> but that's essential -- how do you know -- first of all, hostages are kept by the captors. if you go to kill the captors, you're going to kill, you know -- we watch in ever

the men under arrest are also accused of carrying out and financing attacks in pakistan and afghanistan. claudio lavongo has more from rome. >> on friday, italian police conducted a nationwide major antiterrorism sweep that led to arrests of nine people, seven are believed to have returned to pakistan already. now all of them were pakistan afghani nationals who moved here in 2005. they blended in with local communities, some of them were business men well regarded but behind the scenes, investigators believe that these people were raising funds to finance terrorism operation. back in afghanistan and pakistan and took part in some attacks, including the bombing in peshawar which killed more than 200 people. people were believed to have had close ties to the network that protected osama bin laden two people were asking about his health in particular. but the most shocking revelation perhaps was that investigators believed that this network was organized some kind was planning some kind of attack to the vatican at the time when pope benedict rm 63 was still in xvi was till in office. that

counterterrorism operation targeting an al qaeda compound in the afghanistan/pakistan border region accidentally killed warren and giovanni this past january. yesterday i spoke with warren's wife elaine and the prime minister of italy. as a husband and father, i cannot begin to imagine the anxious anguish that the families are enduring. there are no words, there is nothing that i can ever say or do to ease their heartache. and today i simply want to say this. as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warp and warren and giovanni. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government, i offer our deep he is poll isest apologies to the families. as soon as we determine the cause their deaths i directed the existence of the operation be declassified and disclosed publicly. i did so because the weinstein and la porto families deserve it know the truth. and i did so because everybody as certain aspects of our national security efforts have to remain secret in

the american and italian aid worker were being held at an al qaeda compound near the pakistan/afghanistan border. senior white house correspondent jim acosta has details. >> president obama was forced to face one of the harsh realities of this war on terrorism that even precise drone strikes can go horribly wrong. >> it is a crew and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally and in the fight against terrorists specifically mistakes, sometimes deadly mistakes, can occur. >> one of those mistakes happened in january when the cia conducted a drone strike near the afghanistan/pakistan border that inadvertently killed two host aemgs. u.s. government contractor warren weinstein and italian aid worker giovani la porto. >> i simply want to say this. as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations. i profoundly regret what happened on behalf of the united states government. i offer our deepest apologies to the families. >> the obama administration sains says weinstein and la porto died in the first of two counterstrikes after hundreds

the attacks were launched in january, over the afghanistan/pakistan border.ear-old dr. warren weinstein, an american aid worker held hostage since 2011, and italian aid worker, giovanni lo porto, kidnapped days after he arrived in the region to help with flood recovery in 2012. today, president obama took full responsibility for the tragedy. >> as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. 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. what we did not know tragically, is that al qaeda was hiding the presence of warren and giovanni in this same compound. >> the strikes also killed two american al qaeda members, though neither were specifically targeted. today, weinstein's widow released a statement on behalf of the family saying "those who took warren capti

rallying to the banner of isil, the islamic state which has been set up for operations in afghanistan and pakistan. >> right so there have already been reports that there is some sort of isil presence in afghanistan and pakistan. how would it work? how might they be gaining or strengthening their good hold in the country? is it about getting new recruits or persuading people who are already part of the taliban to change their allegiance? >> well, that's the difficult part for them. isil and the taliban with are not natural allies even though they share a common enemy in the government of afghanistan. they both draw on different political-religious differences. whereas isil fights very hard against shia muslims. taliban, while also a sunni group, has been fighting primarily against other sunni muslims that's divided from for ethnic linguistic, and other reasons. it would be very hard for them, really, to gain a foothold in afghanistan. >> you say that, but then the taliban leaders has not been very visible in the last few years, has he. and we know the taliban leadership is somewhat fragmented. so

we are talking about the afghanistan/pakistan region. this region of the world that is remote. and the president talked about the speech in may 2013, al-qaeda figures hide out because they are remote. and they know that local forces in some cases don't have the will or capacity to go after them. and you are talking about a circumstance like that. and the other thing they know it is not feasible. >> and when we are talking about an entertainment like this. it is absolutely for example, in this case. we can conduct surveillance of a compound. and we know that near continuous surveillance was conducted in the days leading up to the operation. and that based on that surveillance and other forms of intelligence, the intelligence community a certained that it was a compound frequented by al-qaeda leaders. also they a certained no civilians were there and at risk if the operation was carried out. we know that al-qaeda considers these kinds of hostages to be extraordinarily valuable. they try to conceal the location of the hostages. and that is why, unfortunately, that near certainty a

the men are also accused of carrying out and financing attacks in afghanistan and pakistan. claudio lavagna has more from rome. >> on friday, police conducted an antiterrorism operation that led to the arrest warrants of 18 people across italy. now nine of those people were arrested who two of them are suspected of still being at large, seven have believed to be returned to pakistan, moved to italy in 2005 about they blended in with local communities most of them were business men well regarded. but behind the scenes investigators believe that these people were raising funds to finance terrorism operation back at the border between afghanistan and pakistan and even took active part in some of the terrorist attacks including the bombing of a market in peshawar in 2009 which killed more than a thousand people. believed to have close ties with those who protected osama bin laden, telephone conversations where two people were asking about his health, in particular. investigators believe this network was organized some kind -- was planning some kind of attack to the have it vat v

and italian giovanni lo porto, accidentally killed in a january 14th cia drone strike on the afghanistan-pakistanwe had obtained at the time, including hundreds of hours of surveillance, we believed that this was an al qaeda compound, that no civilians were present. >> reporter: two american al qaeda members were killed. ahmed farouk, a leader in al qaeda, taken out in the strike that killed weinstein and lo porto. and in a separate operation adam gadahn, a california native who served as a spokesman for the terror group. the white house said gadahn and farouk were not the intended targets. >> these two al qaeda leaders were frequenting an al qaeda compound that had been identified by the united states. >> reporter: shortly after the january strikes the u.s. had indications that non-combatants were at the target locations, but it wasn't until this month when there was high confidence that weinstein and lo porto were killed. the weinstein family said yesterday they believe the people who took him captive are the ones that are ultimately responsible for his death. the white house said that the u.s.

. >> reporter: the drone attack occurred in january in a remote area in the afghanistan pakistan border. >> based on the intelligence that we had obtained at the time. including hundreds of hours of surveillance. we believe this was an al-qaida compound. that no civilians were present and that capturing these terrorists was not possible. >> reporter: that intelligence was flawed and the president ordered an investigation. the family of weinstein echoed that. >> it is beyond collateral damage. it is something that should never happen. >> reporter: the incident raises new questions about u.s. drone policy in the war against terrorism. but civil rights groups such as the aclu saying the u.s. literally didn't know who it was killing. the white house did say that key al-qaida members were killed in the attack including farouk an american citizen and in a separate drone attack, american turned al-qaida spokesman ada gadan was killed. the topic today however, the loss of innocent life due to a drone. >> only makes the loss of these two men especially painful for all of us. >> reporter: the whi

went wrong, why we didn't know there was an innocent american hostage at this compound on the afghanistan/pakistan border. the speaker of the house john boehner is telling people quick to criticize the president for making this mistake, wait until we know the rest of the story. >> as president obama indicated, this is not a time for excuses. president announced an independent review is under way and i think that is entirely appropriate. >> this is a tough day for the family of warren weinstein who now says we were so hopeful those in the u.s. and pakistani governments with the power to ache action and secure his release would have done everything possible to do so. there are no words to do justice to the disappointment and the heartbreak we are going through. inside in the briefing room right now, the press secretary josh earnest not going much further than the president went in terms of details. he said he doesn't know if there was ever a mission ordered to try to rescue this american hostage warren weinstein. he also says the family of weinstein and the italian will be paid some sort of compensa

the strike was aimed at al qaeda fighters along the afghanistan pakistan border. >> the work you provide is vital for me being able to make good decisions. >> attempts to rescue other hostages offer more difficulties that the president highlighted. the case of james foley and stephen sotloff. >> my name is luke summers. i'm 33 years old. >> and attempt to rescue luke summers, was also thwarted, when his captors were tipped off and killed him. >> it highlights the challenge that our counterterrorism officials confront every day in terms of balancing the need to use our significant capabilities to protect the american people with the need to carry out these operations consistent with the values we hold dear in this country. >> dr. dane egley is a senior advisor for hostage accountability. dr. egley, thank you for being here. >> thanks lisa. >> something going on that is changing the reliability of intelligence-gathering? >> no, i don't think there's any significant change. you are seeing all the elements of the fog of war. the remarks by president obama reflect his confidence in the progra

what the president also made clear in the speech was that the afghanistan-pakistan region is one that is unique from other regions where the department of defense is carrying out counterterrorism strikes that includes the use of drones. this region is previously home to a large number of core al qaeda leaders. they have been decimated, but there are still a number of dangerous core al qaeda leaders that are hiding, friendly, in this region of the world -- frankly, in this region of the world. by hiding there, they pose a unique threat to american military personnel that are currently stationed in afghanistan. there are about 10,000 u.s. military personnel in afghanistan right now, and there is a special need to ensure that data to try to ensure their safety. it means and this is something the president acknowledged in the speech, it means that there is -- there are some different rules that apply to our ongoing efforts, a difference have the of policies and procedures that apply to our counterterrorism efforts in that region of the world as opposed to other regions of the world where

intelligence failure again and again and again but especially in a remote area melissa like afghanistan pakistanre it's even hard to get special forces near the area where you need the most information you. >> said it was right for him to come out. this happened in january. obviously time has gone by, obviously this is a big news day that isn't good for hillary clinton. am i wrong to be suspicious about the timing of this? if you watched all of the cable news channels they were all talking about what was on the front page of the "new york times." talking about the big story about hillary clinton and they all turned to this. >> our job is to be suspicious right? we should be skeptical. and should ask questions, and i think people will say those questions are out of line given the tragedy, the human tragedy that we've seen. i think it's natural to ask those questions and seen the white house try to manipulate the news -- rhythms of the news cycle before. it's not out of the question they're doing it again. melissa: not out of the realm of possibility, they obviously had the information, they were

they raised fans here in italy to finance some terrorist operations at the border between afghanistan and pakistanpart in some of them including the bombing of a market in peswar in october 2009 that killed 100 people and two of the men are believes to have close ties to the network of people that knew where bin laden was hiding in there and asking about his health over the phone to these people. and the most shocking revelation for italians is that the investigators believe they were planning some kind of attack to vatican in 2010 when pope benedict 16 was still in office and the vatican issued a statement saying that they kind of down played that threat saying it was five years ago but nevertheless the italy and the vatican are still a target of some organizations such as i.s.i.l. so the state is still very high for alert. >> the latest there from rome and thanks. armenians marking 100 years since the massacre of ancestors in the territory during the first world war, the country president and the first lady laid a wreath in the capitol and joined by world leaders and french and russia psha presi

they look at future relations with afghanistan and pakistan. hosted by the middle east institute, this is an hour and a half. >>> welcome this afternoon to the middle east version of the three tenors. the washington version is three ambassadors. and we're very pleased to have the same level of talent that you got from three tenors. i'm delighted, really, to begin this session. this session which is part of the series sponsored by louis hughes who is sitting down front here. and where we have been able to have a -- really, i think, a fine production of presentations over the years. and again, lou, thank you for making this possible. [ applause ] our three ambassadors are indeed well known. ryan crocker, to my left here, was ambassador in afghanistan. and more recently than our other two participants but well known not just for his service in afghanistan, but elsewhere. and so we're delighted that he could be with us. he is dean at the texas a&m university presently. and zalmay khalilzad to his left is at the center for strategic international st

this happened in january along the border between afghanistan and pakistan. u.s. forces apparently were unaware that weinstein and an italian national were being held at the location targeted in that strike. alison: and the charles severance trial is moving to fairfax. severance is accused of killing three people in alexandria. and for the first time today a potential motive. the prosecution says he randomly killed nancy dunning, ron kirby and ruthanne lodato because of a prior custody dispute. after that they say, he turned his anger towards people that he calls utopian elite. leon: holdup on day two of the john hinckley freedom hearing. prosecutors and lawyers are at odds over what condition should be imposed if he's allowed to leave a mental hospital for good. hinckley, as you know tried to kill president ronald reagan in 1981 and he's been undergoing treatment at a mental hospital ever since. hinckley's lawyers are asking he be allowed to live at at his mother's home in virginia full time. the pro -- prosecution has rested in the sentencing phase of the boston

. >> there is no doubt it is a significant blow against al qaeda central in the afghanistan, pakistanf english language propagandist. somebody who in recent years was urging loan wolves in the united states to launch gun attacks, for example, and farouk was the deputy leader of this new al qaeda affiliate al qaeda in the indian subcontinent. a group back in september had a failed attempt to hijack a pakistani navy vessel and use it to attack an american warship. so it's a significant blow against the group. these are two key figures. two americans at the pinnacle of the organization over there. >> phil, quickly if you would. the white house said they did not know that gudawn or farouk was at the al qaeda calm pountds either. though they knew they were high value al qaeda leaders present. obviously, there were necessary protocols for targeting an american that were nobble followed in this case. the aclu and other civil liberties groups not so sure that the administration is being forth right. what's your take? >> this is washington, d.c. if somebody had some certitude there were americ

counter terrorism operation targeting an al qaeda compound in the afghanistan-pakistan border regionjanuary. >> tonight, what we know about the drone program that accidentally killed two hostages including an american. >>> then, the clinton campaign under siege from multiple clinton cash stories is responding for the first time. >>> two new reports proving ted cruz and marco rubio have one message for voters and an entirely different message for their billionaire donors. >>> "all in" starts right now.

the white house announcing a counterterror operation on the afghanistan/pakistan border accidentally killed two innocent hostages in january, an american and an italian, both aid workers held by al-qaeda. good morning, everybody i'm jenna lee. jon: lots of details to get to and still some questions about this strike. jenna: absolutely. jon: president obama expressing sorrow and offering condolences to the families of the two men. american doctor warren weinstein and giovanni lo porto an italian aid worker. also killed in a separate strike was adam gadahn, the american who became a prominent media adviser for al-qaeda and had been on a target list for a decade or more. peter doocy live at the white house with more details for us. peter? >> reporter: the words that we heard from the podium in the last hour like painful, cruel and bitter are not words that you normally hear from an american president. but president obama is taking responsibility and saying sorry to the families of two innocent hostages killed by an american drone; american warren weinstein and italian giovanni lo porto.