and then there is al qaeda. i first saw al qaeda's grip on yemen three years ago, while filming for frontline. i went to ja'ar, a town al qaeda had taken control of in 2011 with little resistance from the army. the yemeni government had been receiving arms, training, and intelligence from the united states to help fight al qaeda growing in yemen. ja'ar is in the south, not far from the gulf of aden. as we reached the edge of town the flag of al qaeda, a clear sign i had entered their territory. >> al ahmad: our contact was a fighter and political officer who called himself fouad. he was a member of ansar al sharia, the local affiliate of al qaeda. the united states considers this branch of al qaeda among the most dangerous in the world. it has been behind plots to attack the united states. fouad said u.s. drones and the yemeni air force often attack them. >> al ahmad: he agreed to take us on a tour of ja'ar. he wanted to show us how al qaeda effectively governed an entire city. back then, three years ago attacks

al qaeda, the taliban, isis in syria. you kill civilians on the ground that helps drive people to these groups. from ra tribal perspective, your brother, relative killed in a strike like this you would feel an obligation to join the group. you've seen that. even going back to donald rumsfeld a decade ago, he asked the question are we killing them faster than they are recruited. i'm paraphrasing here. this has been a calculation not just the obama administration has had to make but the bush administration. to be fair when we speak specifically of drones remember it's the obama administration that greatly ramped up the number of drone strikes by a significant factor from the bush administration. it's been a favorite tool of this president. >> it certainly has. jim sciutto, thank you for the reporting. the white house beginning the statement saying it is with tremendous sorrow they make this announcement. let me hand it over to my colleague in washington as we wait for the president to speak. jake. >> thanks poppy. good morn

and al-qaeda fighters and in this case al-qaeda leaders. and it is targeted. and there were no names attached to that. >> that's correct. we were targeting an al-qaeda compound. it was maintained by al-qaeda and frequented by the al-qaeda leaders. >> there is another story i want to get you on quickly. revelations of the clinton foundation and take the second part first. in hindsight given what has happen with russia was it a mistake to allow a russian company to corner the market on uranium in the united states? was it a mistake to allow them to control a fifth of the uranium supply in the united states. >> i can take your question and get back to you on the specific transaction that you are talking about. >> memorandum of understanding that governs hillary clinton's dealing financial dealings of the administration and her husband's speaking fees can you make that memorrandum public? i don't think we have seen it. >> this resides in the state department and ask them about that policy. >> we have asked them. in the interest of transparency can we see that memo

a very big blow to al qaeda.ny others have talked about how messy war can be. i recall that when it came to drone strikes of this sort the president of the united states was briefed nearly every morning for many years by our current director of the cia been on his national security team going through and making judgment calls about people on our hit list people targeted and lookinglook g looking at potential collateral consequences. each of the calls by the president he tilted towards trying to have as little collateral impact as possible. you could hear to some degree the anguish in president obama's comments as he kind of revealed the human face and revealed the mistakes made in this particular case. while this was a very important al qaeda target there are always another isis target or another that we have been in the process for many years of essentially taking out the leadership and commanding control of the terror groups. we had this on the day that we began bombing in syria. we went after a number of al qa

compound that was frequented by al qaeda leaders or at least an al qaeda leader. there is one other element of the near certainty standard that applied to the first operation. the one that resulted in the death of ahmed furouq and that is there were hundreds of hours of surveillance against that particular al qaeda compound. and this surveillance included near continuous surveillance in the days leading up to the operation. and that is what led to the near certain assessment that it was an al qaeda compound frequented by an al qaeda leader and did not include or that civilians would not be included in an operation against the compound. obviously, the latter assessment was incorrect. >> we know the strikes took place in january, but you said in your statement this morning that the u.s. recently confirmed what had happened and that these individuals had died. can you tell us when exactly was that? are we talking days weeks, months ago? and how long did you wait after coming to those conclusions before informing the families of these hostages? >> josh this is a good

that operation did result in the death of al qaeda fighters and al qaeda leaders who were in this al qaeda compound. >> would it have been illegal to intentionally target those owe two men? >> there's a separate procedure and protocol for specifically targeting american citizens. this is the protocol that was followed in the targeted operation against yemen. there's a separate procedure and protocol for doing that. >> if it was not adam gadahn targeted in one strike and farouq in the other strike who was being targeted? >> what was targeted was what the intelligence community assessed with near certainty was an al qaeda compound that we assessed with near certainty was being frequented by al qaeda members, al qaeda fighters and in this case al qaeda leaders. >> there was no who, no specific al qaeda leader or leaders that were targeted? it was a compound. >> what was targeted was this specific al qaeda compound. >> in both cases? >> in both cases. >> and no names were attached to that? >> that's correct. we were targeting specifically this al qaeda compound based on this near certain

al qaeda in the arabia peninsula is the most dangerous branches of al qaeda in the world. >> the bigan, the breakdown in yemen is going to provide a cauldron of bad actors without u.s. eyes to watch what they are doing and where they are going and what they are plotting against the west. >> reporter: that is right. al qaeda has been keen on exploiting the chaos their right now. really we see these houthi rebels taking control in a large part. when you look at the eastern part of the country. it is a large part of the country where al qaeda can roam and operate without any regard to the government or to any other security forces. they really have control over that large part of that area. it is a great concern for western governments especially because they had to withdraw the forces they were operating against in al qaeda. they were also training government forces who were helping them conduct the operations against al qaeda. all of that has been put on hold. something that al qaeda is keen on exploiting. >> ian lee, thank you so much for that this morning. 200 al qaeda linked prison

that american was an al qaeda subcommander who happened to be in the house, in this al qaeda safehouses another drone strike in the same region of pakistan near the border. and in that second drone strike yet another american was killed. also working for al qaeda. a man named adam gadahn. that was the adopted name he used when he was one of al qaeda's top spokesmen. so big revelations from the white house today. a tragedy for italy, a tragedy for the united states that in these two separate drone strikes in mid-january, an utalan hostage was killed -- an italian hostage was killed an american hostage was killed and two other americans, both of them working for al qaeda. susan? >> our chief foreign correspondent, richard engle, thank you very much. >>> let's stay overseas with friend of the show chief of contemporary middle east studies at the london school of economics. thanks for joining us today. >> it's a pleasure. >> we just heard richard talking to us about some of the reaction on the ground in italy. we know, unfortunately, this terrible tragedy involved an italian citizen. what

al-qaeda held both men for years even has warren's health deteriorated.d grief that is unimaginable i pray that these two families will find some small measure of solis by remembering the legacy of these men. their families are in our thoughts and prayers today, especially warren's wife elaine their daughters alicia and jennifer, and their families and the shining example of these two men will shine as a light to people the world over who see suffering and answer with compassion who see hatred and offer their love who see war and work for peace. may god bless these two brave men, and may he watch over and comfort their families for all of the years to come. >> good morning, and welcome to al jazeera america i'm randall pinkston we're hear following breaking news from the white house. president obama just held a news conference identifying two hostages that u.s. counter terrorism forces accidentally killed in january. warren weinstein was held by al-qaeda since 2011, and an italian aid worker held since 2011, both men kidnapped in pakistan. and president o

he was akbducted by al qaeda back in 2011.ated by the news. here's what his wife said in a statement. we do not yet fully understand the facts surrounding warren's death, but we do understand the u.s. government will be conducting an independent investigation of the circumstances. and we look forward to the results of that investigation, but those who took warren captive over three years ago bear ultimate responsibility. former ambassador dan simpson met warren weinstein in central africa back in 1968. they've been friends ever since. dan, great to have you on. i want to extend our thoughts here at cnn to you and warren's family on what must be just a very difficult and sad day. >> thank you very much for asking me to be on. i welcome the opportunity to pay tribute to warren. this was a man who basically dedicated his life to service, to people in general, but especially to people in countries where the standard of living was low and difficult. i met him first in africa but his most recent experience had been in pakistan. it's

warren weinstein, an american held by al qaeda since 2011. an italian, held by al qaeda since 2012.hey also believed two other americans recently killed in u.s. government counterterrorism operations in the same part of that country. they include ahmed faro u.k., american al qaeda leader killed in the same operation that resulted in the deaths of dr. weinstein and giovanniy3 laporto. they concluded adam gadahn, american from california became prominent member of california, also killed in january likely however in a separate u.s. government counterterrorism operation. the president will address this in minutes. we'll take you live to the press briefing room at the white house when that happens. quick break here. back in a moment. when laquinta.com sends craig wilson a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what he becomes? great proposal! let'stalk more over golf. great. how about over tennis? even better. a game changer! the ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com. hi, i'm henry winkler and i'm here to tell homeowners that are sixty-two and older about a great

michael: isil grew out of al qaeda and iraq. it was an al qaeda franchise. it was knocked down about 90% through the iraq war. it decreased on the end. multiple leaders have been taken off as well. between the pumping of 2006 -- between the period of 2006 -- there were others through 2010 before the current leader. it is always hard to drive these groups down to zero. a lot of the leadership and some of the alliances they made were already in syria. and then the civil war opened up a space for them. and then the combination of disenchantment with the sunni population in iraq. charlie: they were disenchanted with the shiite government in iraq. michael: from the period of the uprising through 2014, when they really did their tax. they were able to attract recruits in syria. syria came into it than ever went into iraq for the u.s. forces and the iraqi government. charlie: it includes isil. michael: the rate of flow was to do three times. of it is from 90 countries all over the world. fighters come from everywhere and they will join whatever group is there. they

affiliate al qaeda in the indian subcontinent.ack 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 americans there in the wake of killings of other americans like anwar al-awlaki in yemen years ago. that would leak in about 45 minutes. the number of people who know what goes on in these operations has got to be in the hundreds. i'm not saying the cia, military or government is perfect. that would l

>> they was the deputy emir of al-qaeda of the indian subcontinent, a spin-off of the al-qaeda networkhe was seep as one of the more up and coming leaders within the al-qaeda network and interestingly, his name came up in the abbottabad raid documents. his name came out. jenna: it's interesting that you mentioned the raid, because we were actually looking through some of the letters that were just released recently in court. and in some of these letters written to bin laden the drone strikes were mentioned by al-qaeda operatives. and here's what they had to say about it. apparently, the drone strikes were effective from their point of view saying we don't have any effective solutions to the espionage issue. here's what else they had to say: our current view of the situation, we need to reduce operations and activities, focus on preserving and survival while we will be focusing on defensive security, counterespy knack, striking the spy plane bases using special operations and using patient, persistent hiding as well as decreasing our presence. as you look through these letters they saw

says were al qaeda leaders. >>> money trail. hillary clinton facing new questions about who gave big money to her family foundation and why while she was secry of state. >>> nbc news exclusive. dr. oz one on one as more physicians come out against him. tonight why he says the "dr. oz show" is not a medical show. >>> and without warning. a volcano dormant for decades suddenly erupts, exploding six miles high. a state of emergency declared as evacuations are ordered. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. it is a war seemingly without end as we were reminded today with word a u.s. 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

he played an integral part in al qaeda's media machine.o incite jihad in pakistan. adam has been with al qaeda well over a decade. he headed the main media machine. in 2004 adam specifically said american streets will run with blood, be revenge taken against the united states for actions against afterghanistan and iraq. he was a top leader from southern california who pretty much headed the media machine. he's been is successful recruiting a bunch of individuals. >> according to the president, they were not targeting these two men. they did not know they were there. >> no. according to the white house press secretary, they were not. they tarthsgeted the compound but were not sure who was there. they denied having knowledge of the two hostages weinstein and lo porto. >> thank you for that. chris coops joins me now. senator, thanks. as a member of the committee, i'm sure you have the same questions how did this happen? >> andrea that's right. first, i want to convey condolences, heart felt condolences to weinstein family and those that have

war against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. al qaeda in yemen, once those u.s. troops that had been based there for so long had to leave, what would happen to that war. and because of that unanswered question, it was kind of a big deal and kind of strange and definitely intriguing when reuters reported this little squib yesterday. that for the first time since this big war started in yemen and all the american personnel were pulled out of that country for the first time since all that happened, there was somehow for some reason what appeared to be a u.s. drone strike in yemen yesterday. i thought we weren't doing that anymore. this intriguing report yesterday from reuters, nobody really knew what it meant. and then today the other shoe dropped. "can i afford it?" in the arabian peninsula put out a distraught press statement today expressing their outrage that what they called a crusader drone strike had killed their spiritual leader, had killed this guy who the bush administration had released from guantanamo in 2006 and who the obama administration had just ass

that is the movement al qaeda rather than the actual group al qaeda which has been damaged. these folks have probably never met an al qaeda person. they have very limited contact with al qaeda. 15 years ago we would have worried about somebody like this going to train in pakistan. today, more and more of them are saying hey, that's really difficult to do it's hard to get over there, law enforcement's gotten better. why do we bother to do that. why not stay out of the law enforcement net by avoiding communications by avoiding travel and staying home. tougher to catch these people even if they are as incompetent as these two women are. >> phil mudd thank you so much. >>> coming up the gunmen reportedly separated the muslims from the christians and then proceeded to slaughter the christians. more than 100 now confirmed dead in a horrific terrorist attack on a university. that's next. >>> plus brand new information on the germanwings co-pilot's online searches in the days before the crash. one official is saying his actions account -- amount to premeditated murder. so,as my pers

also an american who had turned al qaeda. according to the president and others we are talking to the u.s. had no idea that those two americans and the italian were at that location. in a secondary strike not clear which was on the 14th or the 19th adam gadahn who served as al qaeda spokesman for years and was very adept at getting al qaeda's message out to the western world because he was an american who spoke english and was long considered a target by u.s. military but american officials are saying they didn't know that gadahn was at that location when the cia drone strikes were launched. and the president said the u.s. was confident in its intelligence that this was, these were in fact legitimate al qaeda targets but that these four individuals who we find out today were killed, it was not known that they were at these locations. >> the cruel and bitter truth, sometimes deadly mistakes happen. this happened in january. we know this was classified information since then until now. the president spoke about this speaking wi

drone settled its crosshairs on an al qaeda compound in pakistan. u.s. intelligence says the terrorist was a high-ranking terrorist, and they did not know two hostages were with them. 73-year-old warren weinstein, an aid worker from maryland, had been kidnapped nearly four years ago. giovanni loporto of italy, who worked for a humanitarian agency, had been held since 2012. we also learned today that two more americans were killed, but both of them were members of al qaeda. in an unexpected announcement the president called it a tragedy. >> i take full responsibility for all our counter-terrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government, i offer or deepest apologies to the families. >> pelley: the president went on to say it was a cruel and bitter truth that deadly mistakes happen in the fog of war. david martin has learned what went wrong. >> reporter: the drone strike happened in january, but it wasn't until april that the c.i.a. rea

because they were behaving like al qaeda.there a problem with these signature streaksikes? and what needs to be fixed to make sure this doesn't happen again? >> signature strikes are more risky because, again, you don't know who they are. it turned out it was an al qaeda headquarters. it turned out the very top al qaeda people were killed. to that extent this was successful. the fact that there were americans being held hostage, i don't know what we could have done to know they were there. other than fact -- it's a terrible tragedy, again if they're thought visible, if there's no way they can be seen. if there's no intelligence on the ground they're being held there and you monitor for hours and hours, maybe 100 hours and you see no evidence of anyone other than al qaeda, then to me that is a signature strike that should be taken. otherwise we would never attack anyone on a signature strike because there's no way of knowing who could be being held below ground who could be held -- again, you know in a way they can't be detect

>> isil grew out of al qaeda and iraq it was an al qaeda franchise. it had been knocked down through the iraq war about 90%. so its strength decreased by 90%. >> and they had gotten their leader. >> right, multiple leaders had been taken as well between the period of 2006. you're referring to al czar carry, but then there were others as well through 2010 before the current leader. and but what saved them, essentially, it's always hard to drive these groups down to zero or completely take them apart is the syrian of war so, a lot of the leadership had-- some of the alliances that they made with former bathists and others were already in syria and the syrians opened up a lot of space for them. and then the combination of disenchantment with sunni population and iraq then allowed them-- . >> rose: the sunni population in iraq was disenchanted with the shi'a government. >> particularly as time want on. from the period of the uprising to 2014 when they really did their attacks across iraq. >> rose: what happened with the coming of the syrian civil war? >>

, al qaeda in iraq.rian: who was that? jessica: his name was zarqawi. he formed a group that started beheading, i mean, one of the things people don't realize is that isis was not the first organization to use beheading. he was beheading westerners, beheading shiites, and also filming his beheadings. but he had very low production value. he didn't get the same kind of attention that isis has. with its very revolting videos. brian: we have videos of zarqawi . i wanted to ask you to pay attention to the translation at the bottom. brian: if mohammed was here today, what would he think of that based on what you have read in the koran and other writings? jessica: i am a bit uncomfortable answering that question. i do not believe that isis is islamic. i believe that they are, they take passages of islamic teachings, and taxed, and use it to justify violence in the same way identity christians do that. but very few christians would recognize identity christians, which is a neo-nazi sect, as christian. very few

the same strike kills a top american al qaeda figure and a separate killed a born al qaeda mouth piece. the fact that the people ordering the strikes did not know who they were hitting and that the hostages were in harm's way has prompted questions about the drone war. more tonight from jim sciutto. >> it was in this mountainous border region between pakistan and afghanistan that a drone strike kill twod western hostages held by al qaeda, including warren weinstein, app ducted in pakistan in 2011. the al qaeda compound was under investigation for hundreds of hours but the u.s. did not know that weinstein and the italian were being held and hidden inside. >> in this proof of life video, weinstein, an aid worker pleaded for his freedom. >> it seems i have been totally abandoned. >> today president obama apologized for a fatal mistake. >> we believed this was an al qaeda compound and no civilians were present and that capturing these terrorists was not possible. >> weinstein's wife in a statement blamed his captors for his death and demanded answers from washington saying we do understand

officials said the strike also killed an american linked to al qaeda while another american al qaeda member was killed in a separate strike. obama apologized to the families of hostages worn weinstein and giovanni lo porto. >> i want to express our grief and condolences to the families of two hostages. one american, dr. worn weinstein , and an italian, giovanni lo porto, who were tragically killed in u.s. counterterrorism operation. 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 warren and giovanni. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government, i offer our deepest apologies to the families. amy: the u.s. counterterrorism operation has reportedly accidentally killed two hostages that were being held captive by al qaeda. again, u.s. government contractor worn weinstein and italian giovanni lo porto. we're joined now by jameel jaffer, the deputy legal director as the aclu. we welcome you to democracy now! talk about this latest revelation. >>

we know that there has been a level of coordination between al-qaeda elements or al-qaeda units and in some cases to fight together against the houthies. but in aden itself, we don't see a presence, a visible presence of al-qaeda. for the time being the main concern for the houthies and the saleh alliance. they can see on the other side of the coin like al-qaeda, but the main concern is the houthies and asal saleh. >> we'll have more later in the program. we're expecting five or ten minutes from now. we'll be across that. >>> two kenyans and two foreigners have been arrested over the al-shabab attack on garissa university in north of kenya. they named the mastermind of the attack and there is an award for his capture. 147 people most of them christian students were killed in the attack. many went on friday to help identify the decease. itthe president has been widely criticized for dismissing advice. now we're live from garissa. we'll get on to the scenes and the grief of the relatives in garissa in a moment, if we may but what more of these arrests? >> we heard from security force tha

targeting only al qaeda leadership. two years ago president obama pledged to scale back the drone campaign. >> before any strike is taken there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. >> reporter: but so-called signature strikes have continued. that's when the cia fires a missile base odd an pattern of behavior of people on the ground even if it does not know who i killing. of the 3800 people killed by drones since 2011 11% have been civilians. >> a lot of these stories you hear about in terms of oh, my goodness hundreds of civilians have been killed. a lot of that is propaganda put out by the elements opposed to the u.s. coming in and helping. >> reporter: just 14% of pakistanis view the u.s. favorably. meanwhile in washington this week and on the campaign trail arc deafening silence. rand paul staged a 13-hour filibuster two years ago to protest u.s. drone policy. this time his campaign issued just a sentence. it is a tragedy that these hostages lost their lives. my prayers and thoughts are

have you targeted locations for al-qaeda in yemen during the last few days? we haven't mentioned things related to al-qaeda during the last few days. by dear brother the objectives of the decisive storm were clear. we didn't say that we are going to hit this or that. we all know that there is an international coalition against isil in iraq and syria and saudi arabia, but when it comes to decisive storm, let me say that our goals are determined to support the legitimacy of president hadi the yemeni president, support the efforts in order to bring stability to yemen, prevent the houthis from hurting the yemeni citizens or hurting the neighboring countries. these are the goals of the decisive storm, and we have achieved them all, god willing. >> you are listening to michael stevens from -- i beg your pardon from middle east studies from the think tank the royal united services institute. you were interested in that last question, weren't you? >> yeah. >> because they brought up the question of al-qaeda and the feeling is while this battle between the houthis and

two americans fighting for al qaeda. right now, "on the record" live team coverage from washington to pakistan we begin with fox white house correspondent kevin corc. kevin? >> greta, good evening. it was a very somber morning here at the white house listening to the president. i have seen him in a number of different happy and quizive. and as a matter of fact. first time since covering the white house. i noticed that he was really struck very emotional president today talking about the accident that cost the lives of not only an american hostage as you pointed out warren weinstein but also an italian hostage held by al qaeda giovani laporto. the two men were killed in a drone strike carried out by the cia. we're told, greta that happened back in january. many the among questions we had not only for the president but also for the press secretary josh earnst, for the record the president didn't take questions but josh did. why the delay? why did it take so long to tell the american people when in effect they didn't know f

al qaeda compound, and the government had near certainty that al qaeda leaders would be be present at that compound. it was a somber and emotional president obama that appeared in the briefing room today. >> we know that selfians were not present. and we before that it did take out dangerous members of al qaeda. but what we didn't know, tragically was that al qaeda was hiding warren and giovanni in this compound. >> and then, this took place in january and the white house only learned in the last several days that dr. wienstein and lo porto were there and it is a remote area in the tribal areas in the pakistan area, boring afghanistan and it's difficult to get assets on the ground there. and it took a long time for them to ascertain and confirm these two deaths. >> and tony, how are the victims families reacting to the news. >> well, president obama called dr. wienstein's wid he on wednesday, giving her his condolences, and ever since he was held captive and remember, he was an aid worker took some three years ago from pakistan, and he was set to return home to the washington area jus

including a senior al qaeda inmate held for years. we have these stories covered the way only cnn can. let's begin with cnn's sony meethu, joining us from nairobi. good morning. >> what we have right now, the situation is still unfolding. we are yet to confirm the number of casualties as you rightly reported. however, "reuters" talking to the police claim that at least 14 people have been killed. and according to the garissa hospital they have still about 40 people who are in hospital. and are saying they will fly some of the critically injured to be treated here in nairobi. so we're still waiting to see how the situation is. according to one of my friends on the ground they say on and off you'll hear some gunfire, and see smoke coming out. explosions have been heard as well. the quiet moments are the scary moments for them. those on the ground they say they're aware there are still some students still some victims in there and they have no idea what the situation is the police are being very guarded with the information they're given

and now ali abdullah saleh al-qaeda will reappear. we've seen a jail break a year ago, and then the phenomenon of isis in iraq when several people broke out. now according to fears we can see isis material eyeing and alcid taking al-qaeda taking a lot of territory in the country. >> thank you. >> the iranian president has addressed the nation and promises to stick to the framework of the deal between iran and six world powers including the united states. barack obama believes it will keep the world a safer place. but it has also been criticized by the israelis. >> arriving back to a hero's welcome, iran's foreign minister zarif was greeted by supporters for many here work was achieved in lausanne is the beginning of the end of iran's international isolation. president rouhani promised a new era of cooperation. >> in from the day of agreement new corporations end in other areas of the world and will start a new phase with the world world. >> but there are powerful conservative critics in the nuclear deal, andrea than any and are a hawn

. >> exactly, and that has always been a pattern for al qaeda where there is total chaos, al qaeda thrives on that chaos. in happened in iraq and syria and now it's happening in yemen. however, al qaeda has been in these areas for a long time. yes, it has been checked by the yemeni army when yemen was more of a single state and the army is disintegrating al qaeda has shown it can strike back and gain ground. also there are fears in yemen that probably even isis can have a foothold in yemen if this continues. >> sorry to butt in. i was hoping you would give us the details of this seizing by al qaeda of an army base. what do you think of that? >> we have only preliminary reporters. some news agencies have reported this. yesterday they broke into a jail and they were able to free some of the prisoners there. they say that they have actually seized an army base. that could be more -- the army base could have -- actually the army base could be empty because of what's happening in yemen, so we don't know exactly whether they fought against the army or whether there was a resistance by the army o