al qaeda is al qaeda. well, that is ok, but what do you mean actually by al qaeda? i went looking for that definition amongst all of the statements that have been made by this administration, including the head of the cia, security, homeland and a whole range of other folks to see if there was a clear public definition of what constitutes al qaeda itself, rather than the fillets or adherents. the result is i could not find a clear definition. -- and ig at things should say i cannot find a clear definition until january of 2014. by sort of piecing things together from these statements and from the way that this, the current u.s. government the u.s.d the role of in the world, i was able to come up with what i believed was the official definition, and in january of this year that was actually confirmed the by a public statement by matt olson in his testimony before congress. that definition is that al qaeda is sometimes called, consists of all of those people who participated in some way in 9/11. al qaeda core consists of all those people who participated in some way i

we can flee to al qaeda core and court al qaeda meeting al qaeda corporation, a group in pakistan, the senior leaders that we generally think of as al qaeda and scored al qaeda, being as individuals who acted on 9/11 now dispersed across the globe all ascribing to al qaeda etiology and fight for this vision. and they can say this simply because he was in yemen that he was not part of al qaeda corporation when he is heading into does a 7-8. he has always been there. he is simply not formally part of the al qaeda core hierarchy. that to my think, is a very key point to make. if we are looking for guys to it there plenty of people is to get there head. begin finding out who has more power, al qaeda corporation, hq ap to my as is, but at the end of the day it is not who has more power. they are all fighting for the same thing long-term which is will we really need to be addressing. >> just a brief technical note on the regular warfare aspect of this. i also lawless look at who believes they need to cover their faces and who has no trouble at all showing their faces as an expression of conf

there were some 900 al-qaeda -- 300 al-qaeda activists publicly calling for the death of the u.s. ambassador. at the very same time the state department is denying security for that ambassador. they also knew that the private life of ambassador stevens was known and used as a targeting device by al-qaeda. who some of his friends and associates were if benghazi, his jogging schedule was posted on al-qaeda's facebook page. all in this this utterly ignored. and we have sort of a minute-by-minute account of the attack and the immense value that glenn doherty and ty woods had in saving the lives of more than 40 diplomatic security personnel in benghazi. so they didn't also -- i don't think they had to die. the ambassador and sean smith died in the first half an hour of the attack. they were separated in a small building which was, they were suffocated to death. the attackers knew exactly where the diesel fuel was hid on the u.s. embassy grounds, or the u.s. diplomatic outpost grounds. they were able to break into those drums and set the building on fire where the ambassador died of smo

. >> next, a discussion about al qaeda and the -- al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and efforts by the u.s. and its allies to eliminate the threat will stop this is 40 minutes. 2. >> "washington journal" continues. is philip mudd, who served as the fbi deputy director on national security and the cia deputy director on counterterrorism. thanks very much for being with us. guest: good morning from on having -- from manhattan. host: airstrikes in yemen killing 40 al qaeda militants in two days. what is happening. -- happening? guest: i think you are seeing a fundamental transition in the war on terror. responsibilities were point targets. individual operational leaders of al qaeda in the western parts of pakistan. what is happened is a transition from the small group to this broader movement of the al qaeda .deology what we're seeing with the strikes in yemen is strikes against this larger revolutionary movement that grew out of the small al qaeda group that we were focusing on 13 -- 14 years ago. strikese these drone effective? what is your response? we have to ask ourselves what is the

affiliate al qaeda in the peninsula. yemeni units on the ground backed by drones from the skies. two separate groups targeted senior members of the group. though american officials have refused to comment, the u.s. is the only company known to operate in yemen. >> sorry i don't have more to share with you about high-rampging groups on the target list, believed to be with them ibrahim christmas day underwear bomb and more recently suspected of refining shoe bombs to get them past airport security. no identity hes of those killed have yet to be confirmed. >> they inspired the boston bombers. the fact that the administration now is going aggressively against these terrorists, i think it's a very positive sign given the prior narrative that al qaeda is on the run and this was all over. >> reporter: the drone strikes come a week after cnn aired this video, showing a large and bold gathering of aqap in broad daylight near to where the current operations are under way. u.s. intelligence considers the group a direct and growing

there are al qaeda prisoners to press charges. turned out to be false in the seals were exonerated at trial but the trials went on for a year and half before they are exonerated. once they were found not guilty this was a case in which s.e.a.l. team 10 captured the al qaeda leader at volusia responsible for hanging before american bodies off the bridge in fallujah the infamous atrocity that was seen around the world. the cameras feasted on. five years later the s.e.a.l. team -- it was a flawless operation. it reads like a thriller. there's a chapter on how they did it. carl higbee said you are in big trouble. why? the prisoner has a bloody lip and that led to a year and a half of legal charges of abuse of a prisoner. the seals were exonerated many men decided after they had been suggested to this degree of legal scrutiny they didn't want to sign up for another tour. taxpayers lost millions of dollars a training investment. this is something we really need to think about. yes we need to protect human rights of prisoners but we also

al qaeda in the peninsula is considered the most dangerous al qaeda affiliate.qap leaders with drone strikes but the group now em boldened. >> the bomb maker is believed to be responsible for several attempts against the u.s., including the failed 2009 christmas day underwear bomber attack. he is not seen in the video, which emerged on jihadist websites. he remains in hiding and intelligence experts say he and other leaders have gone back to usi using couriers to communicate making it harder to figure out what he may be up to next. >> his message to the united states is very much the same as bin ladens. we're coming after you. >> so the question really remains here, did the u.s. not know about this meeting of 100 al qaeda fighters? could they not get a drone there in time to attack? or was there some other intelligence reason the u.s. decided not to attack to pass it by? we don't know the answer. wolf? >> good reporting, barbara starr. important reporting as well. thank you. let's get some reaction now from the chairman of the house intelligence community repres

as al wahishi has said as a threat to the united states. >> as you bring up all those different al qaeda affiliates, al zawahri, focusing on syria to strike the west. we have talked in the past as al qaeda is holding more territory than ever, from yemen to syria and where al qaeda is apparently holding that part of the country and really dominating it, is that where we need to focus the most more than these guys in yemen? >> it's clear that these outliers in yemen are gaining support from what's going on inside of syria. i would add to your list, the sanctuary in western iraq as well. that area between western iraq and syria the area that isis the islam ick can state of al shalam, is creating this petrie dish, central command and control is coming out of there. capability is coming out of there it's going to yemen, it's going to lebanon, it's going all around the region. >> these guys have been the only al qaeda affiliate that has really tried launch attacks against u.s., until recently they have not succeeded. some of the faces were blurred out. we know that they have a very creative bo

al qaeda? >> yes, make people support al qaeda, yes. >> reporter: the drone strikes have not been occurring nearly as often as in the past, and david, we don't know if it had anything to do with that tape that was rpd. >> in the meantime, martha, what are your sources telling you about the people inside that vehicle? do we know anything? >> there was said to be a radical preacher and some al qaeda recruiters according to a yemen i official and probably some regular al qaeda foot soldiers but not that top leader we saw in the video tape. >> martha raddatz tonight, martha will be hosting "this week" with much more on this first thing in the morning. thanks. >>> we turn next to the desperate search for hundreds of people still missing after that ferry disaster off south korea. the somber images of bodies being pulled from the water. divers now risking their own lives, struggling against treacherous conditions, current so strong they are ripping the masks from their faces. new underwater video as t

we finished with al-qaeda and decimated al-qaeda by september 2001 and stuck around to nation build and al-qaeda will go back there, too. >> speaking of afghanistan, there is a new report, the washington times running a new report of a confidential u.s. assessment showing that afghanistan is not ready to govern yet on its own. your response? >> are are we surprised? a it is not what they said but who said it. this is the united states. and aemgs for develop: that is the group that likes foreign aid and they believe in foreign aid and in doing things and helping new governments to form and group if they are coming out and saying that the afghan government and agency after agencies unable to govern not only because of incompetence but corruption that says something. we will leave afghanistan by the end of the year. it will be civil war and everybody will run to their swiss bank accounts and hammid karzi will be the last guy on the plane out. >> at this point what do we do? >> hiding that this is a real utand they are finding no good news to report over there. what is the next step? >> in

al qaeda is not the problem. al qaeda is a manifestation of the problem.roblem is islamism and radical islam. osama bin laden and al qaeda were a product, a manifestation of the problem. they are not the problem incarnate. >> but i see a complete shift. and with all due respect to your analogy about the gophers on your property, leslie, i mean, al qaeda is a little more serious. i see this video and i think to myself for the years that we've been covering al qaeda, especially since 9/11, they don't make videos like this where they show you who they are. the number two in command. for gosh sakes, we were looking for osama bin laden in caves for years. he wasn't showing his face. so i don't really get it, leslie. >> well, we did see a couple of videos with bin laden. of course we've seen -- >> not out in the public. >> on different sites from al qaeda. i will agree with something chris said regarding al qaeda. it's not just al qaeda that's the problem. but one of our problems is our dependency on foreign oil. remember, they feel that we're exploiting their o

it could be senior al qaeda members but it could be women and children. >> what's happened, al qaeda has gone off cell telephones, which means that most of these strikes are so-called signature strikes. a drone will see somebody with a couple guys with weapons. they'll assume they're al qaeda and hit. but more off than not, these are simply tribal groups that are armed and they kill more civilians than they do al qaeda members. >> okay. bob baer, we appreciate that. good to seek with you. >> thanks. >>> after last year's tragic bombings, boston is ready to run the marathon again. >> coming up after the break, how the u.s. city is putting a little muscle into that motto, boston strong. >>> it is that time of year again for boston, and boston is apparently ready to live up to its motto of "boston strong" as it prepares to host its annual marathon today. >> more runners and more security. a little more than a year ago two bombs exploded at the finish line, killing three people and wounded more than 260. >> so this year as you can imagine, security beefed up with double the number of pol

americans are directed by al qaeda in pakistan or al qaeda in yemen. let's also not forget the state department ignored amp warnings about the deteriorating threat environment in libya and rejected requests for additional security reports from officers in the ground in benghazi. the defense department failed to posture itself to protect facilities in harm's way. despite ample warnings. benghazi highlights our failures and signals our future. we know the location of some of the benghazi attackers and we have the capability to and the capacity to get them the administration has done neither and we will unfortunately the longer this goes the more risk they pose and the wrong message it sends to reinforce to those who perpetrated the attack. they refuse to act on what we know is true. al qaeda is a greater threat today than it was on september 10, 2001. and it is most highlighted by the sheer volume of threat stream targeted at aspirational and in some case operational details to attack americans and westerners, our allies. our nation must redouble its eff

and yemeni-led attacks against al qaeda. and my sources are telling me this is a response to a video that was released by aqap in the last week, showing a lot of aqap leadership meeting in this part of yemen. that video was seen as a real embarrassment to both the u.s. and the yemeni governments. and as far as counterterrorism efforts over the last few years and trying to vanquish the leadership of al qaeda. so, my sources tell me they wanted to really send a message, go in and strike hard at the core of al qaeda militants in yemen and show them they're going to do all they can to really put down that organization once and for all. alison? >> was this deliberate provocation by using this video in the way they have? >> reporter: well, that's a very good question, because aqap has been a lot more silent this past year than it usually is as far as how provocative they are, as far as the types of attacks that they claim they will carry out. but it looks, at least by what i'm hearing from the yemeni government and the officials t

that al qaeda wasn't defeated. everybody on this committee, both sides knows that the global war on terror was not or. that was the narrative of the white house and the run-up to the presidential election. how weird that that ultimately was reflected in the talking points against all knowledge from people on the ground and knowledge that this committee had. that's why we're upset. because the american people from my perspective, were intentionally mislead by this administration as to what happened in benghazi. >> chairman, can i respond? i would make two point, ma'am. number one, the narrative that the attack evolved spontaneously from a protest was a narrative that intelligence analysts believed, not just cia but intelligence community analysts. that turned out to be incorrect but that is what they believed at the time. so there is no politics there whatsoever. that's point number one. point number two is let met actually give you the facts of what the state department changed in those talking points and what the

most worrisome, on right, nasser al wuhayshi the leader of al qaeda in yemen and number two for al qaedal aide to osama bin laden. in the video he vows to attack the u.s. on the left, a former guantanamo bay detainee, now the group's main theologian. the u.s. believes the video was shot in march, weeks after the u.s. government warned airlines to watch for terrorists attempting to hide explosives in shoes. >> they have tried to build explosives that can get around security. we've been concerned about that for many years now. >> reporter: the chairman of the house intelligence committee telling wolf blitzer, the group has gone underground in their communications, even as plotting may have increased. >> the more they believe that they can get away with plotting, planning, organizing, as you saw there, finance, training, all of the things they need to do to strike a western target, they're going through that process including bringing sophisticated people to devise new devices to try to get around security protocols at airports and other places. >> reporter: why not a u.s. drone strike? wel

again, al qaeda-types.o what happened shortly after the iraq war, after they were put on the run, during the surge, because of the syrian war, one of the most important new elements over the last several years that has not been confronted, these people have a base of operation and they are operating and they're destabilizing that part of the world, and now threatening the united states again. >> it looks like from the video they're pretty bold. out in plain sight. not worried about drone strikes or anything like that. so very simple question is, then, now what, what do we do? >> well, look, again, it's very difficult to have a pinpointed targeted fight against one group. it comes as a whole when the u.s. had the surge in iraq, it started to tamp down that whole al qaeda in iraq, al qaeda in mess po tam ya, that whole group of people. there were many fights by the west, by the u.s., and that started to put them on the run. they've got a new afghanistan, if you like. they had it under the taliban in the early

unconcerned he could be hit by an american drone. >> this is quite an extraordinary video, the leader of al qaedaarabian peninsula nasir al wuhayshi addressing over 100 fighters somewhere in yemen taking a big risk in doing this. >> in his speech, wuhayshi makes clear he is going after the u.s. saying we must eliminate the cross. the bearer of the cross is america. u.s. officials believe the highly produced video is recent. with some fighter's faces blurred, some worry it signals a new round of plotting. >> surprised that such a large group is assembled together including the leadership and somehow they didn't notice. >> al qaeda in the arabian peninsula also known as aqap, is considered the most dangerous. the cia has repeatedly killed the leaders with drone strikes. the group now emboldened. >> the main problem is they now have bomb makers that can put bombs on planes without being detected. >> that bob maker is believed to be responsible for several attempts including the underwear bomber attack. >> that man, the master bomb maker in yemen is one man that doesn't appear in the video. he is bel

not every military-age male is part of al qaeda in yemen. so i think the u.s.ent tends to avoid that discussion. >> and when it comes to drones, peter, and you look at the obama administration and the bush administration, do you see a difference in their approach? >> it's huge, randi. on to president bush, there was one drone strike in yemen. under president obama, there have been around 90 drone strikes and about 15 cruise missile strikes. president obama has launched incredibly aggressive campaign in yemen. and that's because most people agree that the threat from al qaeda and yemen is the one most troubling to the united states right now. >> all right. peter bergen, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you, peter. >>> an international deal to ease tensions in the ukraine sparked in ukraine rather, sparked hope this past week that a solution to the crisis was in sight. but escalating violence and pushback from pro-russian demonstrators have a lot of experts worried, diplomacy will not be enough. >> candy crowley is the host of "state of the union" and jo

in the islamic peninsula, al-qaeda in the lavant, al-qaeda in iraq, al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, but what it would appear that he is trying to do is bring these tribes, these franchises together into one centralized organization again answering to him in the field and al zwhari in pakistan. >> would be a threat not only to the nations in the region, to the rulers in the region but also as he, himself, has said, states. >> as you bring up all of those differentaffiliates, that raises the question. he is said to be developing a long-term plan and apparently focusing on syria as a base to strike the west and, you know, we have talked in the past about how al-qaeda now is holding more territory ever as you said from yemen to somalia to libya and now, of course, syria especially in the north and eastern parts of the country where is apparently, you know, holding that part of the country and really dominating it. is that where we need to focus the most? yemen? >> well, it's clear that these outliers in yemen and elsewhere are gaining support from what's going on inside of syria. i wou

the al qaeda video showed up on the day that they announced the al qaeda disbanded looking into localuslim activities before the terrorist activities. the government of ukraine has failed to establish control over the eastern part of the country. pro russian gunmen captured on video in the eastern city of donestk. they have taken over administration buildings in ten cities. the pro russian separatists also today come man deered six ukrainian vehicles with their crews and they hoisted russian flags as ukrainian soldiers offered no armed resistance. ukrainian soldiers admitting freely they've defected to the russian side. and as some 40,000 russian troops remain on the border, nato today promised to increase flights over the balance particular nations. joining us now, retired four star army general, general jack keene. also fox news military analyst. general, thanks for being here. let's start with the ukraine. this seems to be an unending trail of rhetoric that is simply swept aside by putin and as the obama white house persists but to no effect. is that likely to change? is it soon to

this time it's a video of fighters from al qaeda's dangerous affiliate al shabaab.tacks. recently posted on the internet, it's clearly a problpaganda and recruiting video. this time, the threat? we will blow you up until we finish you off. a chilling reminder of the assault on nairobi's west gate mall that killed 67 people. these men say it's not that westgate was enough, there are still hundreds of men who are wishing for such an operation. >> we certainly can't dismiss their ability to carry out those kinds of terrorist atax. >> reporter: al shabaab is in the u.s. cross hairs. in january a drone strike failed to kill the orderer. last october, navy s.e.a.l.s under heavy gunfire had to abandon a compound in southern somalia when civilians got in the way. the s.e.a.l.s had been sent to get a senior planner for al shabaab. he was seen in this video first broadcast by cnf. wahashi is number two if al qae qaeda. u.s. officials tell cnn it's believed this daring gathering was shot in the remote mountains of southern yemen, an al qaeda strong hold. wahashi coordinates al

al qaeda was not defeated.everyone on both sides of the aisle knows that the global war on terror was not over. of thes the narrative white house in the run-up to the election. how weird that that was ultimately reflected in the talking points against all knowledge from people on the ground and knowledge this committee have. that is why we are upset. the american people, from my perspective, were intentionally misled by this administration as to what happened in benghazi. >> can i respond? i would make two points. thatr one, the narrative the attack default spontaneously from a protest was a narrative communityligence analysts believed. not just cia analysts, intelligence community analysts. that turned out to be incorrect. but that is what they believed at the time. there is no politics there whatsoever. that is point number one. point number two, let me give you the facts of what the state department changed and those talking points and what the white house changed. the white house changed three things -- the

. >> at the washington offices, aei hosted a discussion about al-qaeda.this is an hour and a half. >> good morning, everyone. [inaudible conversations] or just the very beginning of good afternoon. i think we can get going if we can break up some conversation over there, a little bit? thanks. okay. i want to thank everyone for coming out on a beautiful day, coming inside to the windowless -- well, we have windows, but we covered them for some reason, i'm not entirely sure of, but thank you, all, for coming out to talk about our usual happy topic, i'm fred, the director of the critical project, and we've been working on al-qaeda, and especially on the various al-qaeda affiliated movements around the world for a number of years now, and this, unfortunately, is a topic that does not show any sign of diminishing in importance, and it is getting evermore complicated to understand because, unfortunately, what we're finding is that a lot of the affiliates and associates are ramifying in their local areas, and both expanding and interacting with one another in ne

in this case, it is showing the heart and soul of al qaeda and their main affiliates such as the al qaeda and yemen, they are still after us and out there and recruiting. they still want to get us. as phil mentioned, they are in a number of countries and several contine continents. they are still out there and still trying to kill americans. >> phil, to tom's point, you and i have had previous conversations about the senate intelligence report with the black sites and subjects you know a great deal about. you expressed to me concerns looking through 2014 lens at behavior in a more immediate post-9/11 world. might this change in that the actions and the former colleagues actions are evaluated? >> i don't think so. i expect there will be an intense debate in the next weeks or months. i expect the senate report to be released. my view is bring it on. i talked to the senate. i talked to the congress. i talked to the white house. i talked to the department of justice. they told us what you are doing is fine. it is legal. it is u.s. policy. it represents the correct interpretation of the u.s. l

with al qaeda. this was a mix of groups. this was a mix of people some of them were affiliated with al qaeda. i like you know except we wipe the al qaeda guys were there. i don't away the rest of them they are and why they decided to do the attack when they did. i don't know what motivated the timing. we won't know that until we talk to them. >> i yield back mr. chairman. >> thank you mr. chairman. i would like to if i could change directions a little bit based on some of the other things he said. i think we have gone over at naseem these talking points and quite frankly we have all the stages of what the e-mails were back-and-forth and what you testified to at what you intended. i don't think you are a liar. i don't think you're a dishonest person. i think there were some mistakes you said you made. there is clearly political things going on in these e-mails whether people want to have knowledge that are not. i mean it is what it is. we are all human. you might say the people that work for the nati

yemen says dozens of al-qaeda fighters have been killed.acks were part of a joint effort with the us. three al-qaeda leaders are said to be among the 55 killed. >>> vice president joe biden is in kiev tonight. expected to announce an package to kiev. >>> hundreds of people have been massacred in south sudan and they were targeted for their ethnicity. many were hiding in churches, mosques, and schools when they were killed. >>> in south korea, the president is condemning the captain and crew of the ferry that sunk last week. in total six crew members and the captain have been arrested. investigators are still trying to determine what happened. divers have pulled up to 87 bodies so far. hundreds are still missing. >>> and today thousands of runners took part in the boston marathon. the first since last year's fatal bombing. many honoring those kills and injured. and an this man was the first american to win the race in more than 40 years. "america tonight" is up next. and check out our website. >> on "america tonight." was it murder? amid the

when you say al qaeda? what do you think the definition of al qaeda is today? >> i think it's funded by iran and it's throughout the world and by the way if i don't think they are emboldened, did you hear the latest idea that's come out of the al qaeda leader? >> who are they? >> the al qaeda leader. i can't remember the guys name. >>s he's hiding up in the mountains. >> instead of killing westerners, take americans hostages. >> they use it as a franchise. >> i think it's both. i think it's turned into a desegmented movement but it's also organized in other ways. there's a naivete on the left if you believe that if you are nicer to the radical islamists -- >> that's not what we believe at all. >> it was a bunch of butt kissing and in fact that made it worse. actually, that made it worse. that ignited radical islam. it gave radical islam green light to organize knowing they have a president -- >> bob, don't say it. think of ponies, little ponies. there you go. that was a close one. i saw the swear jar exploding. >> we were going to get to another topic but you a

first of all this didn't strike many people as the jv team of al qaeda. the prepros nows team of al qaeda which is on the run which obviously is not running from anyone right now. what do you make of this? >> first of all deal with the horrible characterization of the jv team. i mean that means the jv team burned down our consulate and killed our ambassador in benghazi and tragically three others and forced the evacuuatin of a ciaiaase that was al qaeda affiliate organization. by the president's definition the so-called jv team. this organization here publishing videos, that is the most brazen thing i've seen in some time. we haven't seen videos like that going back to prior to 9/11. and the factfact that al wuhayshi exposed himself in the video shows confidence they have. i'm not sure what his motivations are. we can speculate the fact that al qaeda, lou really increased influence and control over territory at large in northeast africa, speaks to confidence seeing in the video. secondly, may possibly be that the leader here wants to gain a stronger posit

i mean, this guy is not only the leader of al qaeda in yemen he's the number two in al qaeda overall,rom this video there are any civilians in the sequence. they wouldn't take a shot if there were civilians in the area but these all appear to be members of al qaeda. this guy is number two in al qaeda worldwide. to me it doesn't make any sense they wouldn't take the shot if they had it in their sights. >> it's also interesting -- this is a group that's been careful about its communications. given that, why would they have a public gathering like this, make a video and then have it out there? >> i mean that, is very puzzling, anderson, as barbara said. this group is relying on couriers and know from news stories in the past that their electronic communications are intercepted. that's why we have a lot of u.s. embassies closed last year as a result of nsa intercepts. so they're being very careful, so this sort of flies in the face of being careful because clearly they felt that they could do this with some impunity. >> and clearly felt that it had some sort of propaganda value, some sort

, but none were in al qaeda's senior leadership. portion of yemen. it is not clear who was behind the strike yet, but the u.s. is the only known country to have conducted drone strikes in yemen. so what is the significance of the attack? let's bring in jamie reuben, former u.s. assistant secretary of state and visiting scholar to oxford university. jamie, in your view is this drone strike strategically important? >> well, i think al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is a significant organization that has tried to attack the united states in the past, and we've seen in recent weeks indications that they are revving up for efforts to strike the united states. i don't think we should exaggerate their capabilities. their capabilities are not like al qaeda was in afghanistan, they're not like the bin laden organization was prior to 9/11. but they do pose risks to the united states in terms of having individuals who are prepared to come to the united states, plan to perhaps put a bomb in a car or get activity on an airplane. so it is very im

this that was a maneuver to avoid al qaeda's attack on a u.s. interest right before the election which would have changed the narrative to al qaeda is on the run, and no, they're still dangerous, oh, we had four americans killed because we weren't protecting them. i don't know that mike morell really, as you heard from the sound bites before from our chairman asking him. did you coordinator with the white house, i don't know if we'll be able to prove or disprove whether or not that's true, but it's clear to me from all of the e-mails that we've read and all of the documents that politics was at play at every level from the state department to the white house, with regard to how is this going to look and what is it going to mean. that much, too me, is clear. and, you know, it's going to be up to the american people, and probably in the next election, whoever the nominee is on the democratic side, as to whether or not they're going to buy into that and believe that that's the way we should act across the globe, moving forward. >> with that being s

in yemen, al qaeda is under attack. at least 30 militants have been killed in strikes across a mountain ridge in southern yemen. this comes after a drone strike saturday and at least 13 people were killed. a yemeni official said it was a joint u.s.-gemmeni operation. u.s. officials do not comment on drone strikes. >>> vice president biden landed in ukraine. it is a country on edge after a weekend of deadly violence. in eastern you krahn, protesters say six people were killed at a barricade in a shootout sunday. a deal to resolve the crisis is largely being ignored by pro-russian supporters refusing to lay down the arms. thousands of russian troops remain near the border. >>> the fbi's looking into a teenager's claim that he flew from san jose, california all the way to hawaii in the wheel well of a jumbo jet. the 16-year-old was found wandering the tarmac in maui dazed and confused. if the story pans out, he would have flown almost five hours at altitudes reaching 38,000 feet without oxygen and under sub-zero temperatur

the way i talk about this is that we are still at war with al qaeda, very much at war with al qaeda and did not war both sides have had a great victory. our great victory has been the decimation and near defeat of the al qaeda leadership in pakistan but al al qaeda's great victory has been the spread of its ideology across a very wide swath of the muslim world from northern nigeria into the sun hell across darth africa in the east africa in syria, in iraq and so both sides of had this great victory and the threat to americans remains very significant and congressman i'm deeply concerned that the thread is actually going to grow in the years ahead. >> and do you think the fact of whether or not in the beginning it was inspired by the news media from the protest or whether it was a planned attack at this point? would that make any difference on the focus of finding terrorists are dealing with the situation as it occurred in and benghazi? >> there is no doubt in my mind and there was no doubt in the analyst mind although they said extremists rather than terrorist that there is no doubt in

and al-qaeda a threat. respect accuses the administration of being to kind. >> focus on the ones who kaeshd out terrorist attack. al-qaeda is on the run. osama bin laden is on the run. today osama bin laden is no mort. today al-qaeda is on the rupand osama bin laden is dead. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition inharge™. [ bottle ] ensure®. i cthis year aloneore places offi hit new york...ist. and texas! see, hotwire checks the competition's rates every day... so they can guarantee their low hotel prices. ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com [ children laughing ] ♪ ...is the smell of salt in the air. ♪ it's the sound a seashell makes. [ seagulls calling ] away...is a place that's beyond your imagination, yet well within your means. find your away. for a dealer and the rv that's right for you, visit gorving.com. coming up on the real stor

we know al-qaeda uses mosques. it uses cultural centers from the shoe bomber, to the head of al-qaeda iny men, these individuals have always used the cover of community institutions to plot their attacks. to deny this is absurdity. >> linda, i'll come back to you. jamie, does there have to be some probable cause for this not to be profiling? >> no, probable cause comes in to play when you make an arrest. the police and law enforcement community credit weather it be local, state or federal can do this kind of investigation legally without probable cause, and even without reasonable suspicion. there is an interesting tension here that each of your guests raises between liberty on the one hand, and security on the other. and it is true that this led to no leads, but it is also true that we really don't know because this was a secret program. what it may have led to behind the scenes. it is true that the police said it led to no leads, but there is always that dubious question of what might had happened had this progra

i would like to see it to yemen to the massive concentrations of al-qaeda in syria and killing al-qaedasyria is not helping assad and helping keep america safe. al-qaeda still wants to kill americans and sorry pacifist of the world the argument is kill them first. ncornell. thank you. ralph peters, in washington. could be a game changer in the short term of the country. as you pointed out. we are back to boston in a moment. first here is elizabeth in new york. >> and what caused a experienced sky diver with jumps to his death. a runner who finished his third boston marathon. ♪ ♪ and i got the tools ♪ to do it my way ♪ i got a lock on equities ♪ that's why i'm type e ♪ ♪ that's why i'm tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ i can do it all from my mobile phone ♪ ♪ that's why i'm tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ if i need some help i'm not alone ♪ ♪ we're all tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ we've got a place that we call home ♪ ♪ we're all type e ♪ test v. >>> the fda is looking into why an experienced skydiver fell to his death yesterday in a new jersey backyard. the 49-year-old brooklyn man was wearing a wing suit which lets you

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al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, also known as aqap is considered the most dangerous al qaeda affiliated aqap leaders with drone strikes, but the group now emboldened. >> the main problem about this group is that it has a bomb maker who can put bombs on to planes that can't be detected. >> reporter: that bomb maker, inham al asiri is believed to be responsible for several attempts against the u.s., including the failed 2009 christmas day underwear bomber attack. he is not seen in the video, which emerged on jihadist websites. he remains in hiding. and intelligence experts say he and other aqap leaders have gone back to using couriers to communicate to avoid detection, making it even harder to figure out what wuhayshi may be up to next. >> and his message to the united states was very much the same as bin laden's. we're coming after you. >> reporter: so the question remains, if al qaeda in yemen is such a serious threat, did the u.s. not have any intelligence that this meeting was about to take place, or did they know and simply decide to pass it by? erin? >> >>> well, we talk now about

so it is technically classified to say al qaeda. they made other changes, but i don't quite remember. i don't remember there were any significant changes. they then coordinated it with the rest of the national security committee. they sent it to the state department, to the department of justice, the department of state, and the white house national security staff. there were a number of changes made. >> to you and david petraeus? >> they send them to dave, but not to me. >> so you never saw them? >> not at that time. they're being coordinated in the inner agency. changes are being suggested. the only substantive changes are being suggested by the fbi and state department. the white house suggest two changes, both of them editorial. when the director saw them, he asked that they add two things. he asked that they add language reflecting the significant warnings that we have provided in the months leading up to the attack and benghazi. we had been writing for months that the security situation in eastern libya in general and in bengh

. >> al qaeda's chief bomb maker is believed to be killed in an ambush. his name is ibrahim, hassanal has ry. he would be the most senior member of al qaeda since osama bin laden in 2011. his streak was attacked by special forces dropped in by a helicopter. 68 al qaeda forces were killed in yemen air strikes. making it the biggest strike on al qaeda since 2012. >>> a new nuclear test while the south is preoccupied with the ferry disaster. they say activity at the testing site has increased. the country's most recent nuclear test was last february. since then the u.s. and south korea have upped surveillance on the north. just yesterday the south korean military activated a special crisis management task force. president obama is meeting with japan and south korea leaders later this week about the north's nuclear threats. fresh focus this morning on the sharp turn made by the south korean ferry before it sank. investigators now say it made a gradual j shaped turn not a sharp turn as data first indicated as two more crew members are in custody detained overn