his name is aimen dean, living with and spying on al qaeda for years. the terror group was unaware that their once-loyal foot soldier had switched sides. how terrifying it must be to stay in and try to be on the one hand a part it have and the other hand to be giving information. >> i imagine absolutely it's terrifying and you must wonder have i made a mistake? how will i be tomorrow? >> if your cover is blown while you are there, no help is coming. >> reporter: dean's extraordinary story is revealed in this book, "nine lives, my time as the west's top spy inside al qaeda." he wrote it with cnn terrorism analyst paul crouickshank. >> why have you decided to tell your story? >> i thought the time right now. the time of the narrative is the extremists. they're shouting loud. i think it's time to shout back louder. >> reporter: but going public comes with great risks because ten years ago dean's former al qaeda comrades discovered his betrayal and made it clear they want him dead. and do you not worry that there are still people out there from your old lif

al qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. on the back. hard i'm your home more money than my despite mullah omar's restrictions on bin ladin the relationship between the taliban leader and the al qaeda leader appeared to be strong even though they had no need. other for only a few years it was a relationship noticed by a pakistani journalist who had interviewed bin ladin again to have done what i did want to but i came odd him alone went out in the woods jesse loved that while they were pointing at the beheaded belly me look at them and look like jesse molina with jesse entrance with the will put to me when i was in the can you would eliminate say you don't know what i thought it was just that i why i have something but i got up out of look but i. saw this it but the many x. so i got up i gave him a loan. the collaboration between the taliban and al qaida seem to benefit bin ladin the. definition of the most of them was. the law then while benefited more because of the near shelter charitable bordered on he was the man and they laid. thei

from its shelter in afghanistan al qaeda sought revenge for the u.s. cruise missile attacks it chose a daring strike against a symbol of american power. you know told the truth fellas and a small boat charged with explosives was driven into the u.s.s. cole will ship off the yemeni port of aden. the suicide bombers were killed along with seventeen american sailors. bin laden's showdown with america was intensifying . back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight he had called on muslims to kill americans including civilians. but he's animosity to america dated back eight years. earlier when u.s. forces deployed in saudi arabia following iraq's invasion of kuwait in ninety nine bin laden accused the americans of desecration what he called holy arab soil he said i'm opposed to the presence of foreign troops in saudi arabia for two reasons the reasons and feel trivial because he said i don't want my homeland to be occupied by foreign troops secondly islamic reason because there are. you know the you know the holiest places for muslims and we don't want th

he and his brother said now became an al qaeda sleeper cell..s. intelligence learned that one of the kouachis had visited yemen, and alerted the french, who started monitoring them. but they discovered nothing of the charlie hebdo plot. surveillance resources were already stretched, and the number of european extremists was about to surge. (explosion) >> narrator: in 2012, the war in syria dramatically changed the european security landscape. (shouting) it spawned a new jihadist movement, isis, which set out to be even more brutal than al qaeda. in 2014, the group formally split from al qaeda and declared a caliphate, or islamic state, and summoned all muslims to join them. (speaking spanish) >> (translated): and the effect of that call is brutal. it's... well, extraordinary. our investigations multiplied extraordinarily. >> narrator: dolores delgado is the chief counterterror prosecutor of spain's high court. as spain's liaison to france and belgium, she worked closely with her european counterparts to monitor the exploding numbers of isis rec

and kouachi of al qaeda. how was the association between al qaeda and isis even possible? realized it's simply a question of relationships. it's just that they knew each other. personal connections sometimes go beyond a group's strategy. they may fight each other in syria, but can still do things together in france. >> narrator: as france reeled from the charlie hebdo attacks, another plot was being uncovered across the border in belgium. (shouting, gunfire) on the 15th of january, belgian police raided a house in the town of verviers, kiing two terrorist suspects and wounding one. u.s. and french spy agencies had helped track their return from syria. investigators found evidence that they were part of an isis cell deployed by the young belgian extremist abdelhamid abaaoud. >> because of the verviers case, abaaoud came very clearly in the picture. >> narrator: eric van der sypt is a belgian counterterror prosecutor. >> we realized that he was active in the recruitment of people from france, from belgium and he trained them, and he was responsible for sending back people to

a number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan continue to grow without trial without a paper that said they were. ever talked or screamed would be beaten again the quest for a better life but ended in a concentration. of one town about twenty two this time on al jazeera. hello again i'm a horror and these are the top stories here it out as they are chinese president xi jinping is met north korean leader kim jong il and for a second time in two months chinese state media reports that they met in the northern city of delhi on the pad held talks in beijing in march in kim's first foreign trip as leader kim is expected to meet the u.s. president donald trump later this month i mean he is new prime minister nicole passion young has addressed supporters after being elected by palm and after weeks of anti-government protests the mass demonstrations were sparked by the decision to appoint the ex-president said siennas prime minister the outcry forced resignation last month the protest says didn't leave seeking the a

that is, al-qaeda, t taliban and isis. we ought to be debating what continuing war authorities are necessary for those groups. instead, john and i argue for a war powers reset. restoring, sunsetting the aumf, keeping it separate from a debate about new war authorizations and restoring america's default setting to peace, not war. the president decides that al-shabaab or boko haram, for example,, , represent serious long-term threats to our national security, they will be free to make that case to the people's representatives and secure new authorization for war in the way the constitution envisions. but we're told in this debate, for example,, in the corker-kaine resolution that numerous nonstate terrorist groups now pose a grave threat to the united states. but when the dreamers crafted the constitution with its initial allocation of war powers, they were in a pretty bad neighborhood. the united states was a small front to republic on the edge of the continent occupied by periodically hostile great powers and indian maraud

the united states not in fact arming al qaeda in syria. or are happy you know you know rebels. a little bit i think you could talk about the colors i would rather colors of as far as i can keep up with what you don't think i'm the other. dynamic thing this is it also and this is very scary it a lot of debate happened because you know who the president can detain that kind of a perpetual war right so the may. also decides a new route for adding to that list i just mentioned right so the president can add to that list he can say this new group over a year that i don't like they can be on the list he can do that but congress says that he has to write to them first he has forty eight hours to write to them saying i want this new group as part of the you i'm out and then congress can debate it all and they're trying to say this is a check and balance to take away power from the presidency but how many are it let's say that they don't like the group that he that he that he put forth right ok so then they're going to say ok they're going to vote

al qaeda and the way al qaeda operates, our b bureaucracy is a shadowy membership base were organizationsand individuals within the organization have, in many cases known themselves each other for decades. you have these issues where bin laden says essentially let us think about it before they're actually allowed in as a full-scale entity and you have al qaeda primarily operating in these shadowy web forms and you have aces operating out in the wide open and operating a social media campaign and attempting to build a movement that's not built on these long-term plots that can be devastating on the scale of 911 but that are also susceptible to disruption at multiple points and these homegrown violent extremist type threats. on one issue after another, the u.s. government is not properly equipped to deal with it. dealing with the online threat is really difficult. we have the first amendment we can't go out and say this contact that we find offensive but doesn't break any laws need to be taken down. that something we can't legally do. even if we could it would be hard to do. you can kind of

now top al qaeda leaders have actually referred to bill a dual kareem as our media man furthermore we have seen videos with him in which he stands next to suicide bombers and talks about the explosive belts that they're wearing and kind of goes over them now he says that on five different occasions he's been targeted by u.s. airstrikes now the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka med dunn who is the bureau chief of al-jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders and he's also faced similar scrutiny in allegations so these are the two individuals in question they've interviewed top al qaeda leaders they seem to have connections with leaders of al qaeda and al knows a little of dual karim in particular has been criticized for his reporting that they say is really uncritical in the way he describes al qaeda he seems to report on their activities of al qaida and al nasra in almost a sympathetic way above the term. is one we're hearing you know more and more just pricked out done for this. while it refers to a program a computer program cal

and logistical support a priority is the fight against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and isis in yemen . support. reports now on the pentagon's mixed messages concerning its role in the conflict in the. this latest development contradicts the pentagon statements that indicated that u.s. military assistance to the saudis in yemen was limited to intelligence logistics and aircraft refueling but so far what we do know is that a team of a few green berets apparently arrived on the south of the u. many border sometime last year and according to the pentagon they've only been there to protect the border however reports suggest that they've been helping them destroy people with sick missile launch sites and it's worth mentioning that even though this war has been going on for a few years saudi arabia hasn't been successful in quelling the who is the resistance so it's fair to say that maybe u.s. involvement will help the saudis do just that but thanks to the saudi onslaught the conflict in yemen has morphed into the world's worst humanitarian crisis and there's been some domestic backla

that is what al qaeda was betting on. now, in the 1990s the joint staff and these are the professional planning staff at the pentagon who prepare the real policy for the joint chiefs and they are very important part of the government and in the 19 '90s they had a clichÉ and an old saying that terrorism is a small price to pay to be a superpower and not that it is moral but you can understand what they meant when they were coming from with that and a truck bomb goes off and blows up in africa or their has been an attempt to knock down the world trade center but only six people were killed and so what will you do and will give up your empire and when it is a small price to pay at least from that point of view. they succeeded in taking down the world trainers center when it was only 3000 and they stood for an hour and a half or so before they started falling down. it could've been 20 or 30000 people killed that day. then again blowback in secret foreign policy and mysterious circumstances surrounding the event and because th

to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka mad as a don who is the bureau chief of al-jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he has done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology is employed to have or actually resulted in unjustified killing of innocent people they call this an arbitrary and capricious action by the agency and they say that the united states constitution and international law is being violated and it refers to a program a computer program called skynet and apparently this computer program uses algorithms it follows a person's location and the communications that they're having and uses a computer algorithm to determine whether or not they are a terrorist now it's not known exactly what is all that is included but it is possible it's alleged that this computer program essentially would determine whether or not the person to be killed in a drone strike this is this progra

isis and al qaeda denied the worth and dignity of an individual. here is how osama bin laden once put it. "we love death, the americans love life." that is the big difference between us. today we still the toll this bloody ideology has exacted upon the world. it is responsible for the death of iraqis, syrians, afghans, and on 9/11, close to 3000 innocent people from countries around the -- from 90 countries around the world. it's followers have enslaved women and girls, beheaded some on television, burned people alive, thrown them from the tops of buildings and drowned them. our enemies are not shy. they reject religious liberty and all liberty as they seek to rule by constant bloodshed. they reject equality and seek to empower themselves at the expense of those they regard as their inferiors, and they reject rejectsm because they any other religion or tradition within islam itself a crime that carries a death sentence. so, as we confront terrorists on the battlefield, in courts of law, and in other theaters, we must confront their twisted -- as th

isis, al qaeda, and other terrorist organizations continue to radicalize and recruit. over the last 20 years, this call for violence has resonated in the middle east, asia, africa, europe, and in the united states. our military successes, young men and women across the globe are still being convinced to join isis or al qaeda, or commit acts of barbarism in their name. the united states and their partners must engage them otherwise. like to talk about american values and the threat posed to them by terrorist ideology, then some of our this contest, in and what we in the counterterrorism bureau and state department generally are doing to promote american values and interests. the contest of ideas is not unique to our fight against terrorism. american conflicts have often had ideological dimensions. during the cold war, our objective was to contain and rollback the soviet empire. but we had to go beyond that. we have to show the ideology on which the soviet system was based was false and its teachings ran counter to the basic human desires of freedom and dignity. so we en

our officers are out there fighting extremist al qaeda and the taliban. we have 125 stars on our memorial wall now, many of those it's shocking how many stars we have added. i believe we added seven stars to our wall last year. perhaps i could cite one personal example of an officer who worked for me, she was the most extraordinary woman, she was our number one al qaeda expert, i worked with her in the counterterrorism center. she was having her third baby in those days following 9/11, but we needed her because she had such deep expertise. she later worked for me on terrorism issues in a foreign capital and then she went to afghanistan and she and six colleagues were murdered by a suicide bomber who penetrated our base. these are very real sacrifices, these are my friends and colleagues. all of us at cia have a commitment and an honor bound obligation to uphold the memory of those officers, mothers who have left their children to go to the field and sometimes have given them their all in service of this country. >> thank you, senator cornyn. senator reid.

to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka med dunn who is the bureau chief of al-jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders and he's also faced similar scrutiny in allegations the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology is employed to have or actually resulted in unjustified killing of innocent people they call this an arbitrary and capricious action by the agency and they say that the united states constitution and international law is being violated it refers to a program a computer program called skynet and apparently this computer program uses algorithms it follows a person's location and the communications that they're having and uses a computer algorithm to determine whether or not they are a terrorist now it's not known exactly what is all that is included but it is possible it's alleged that this computer program essentially would determine whether or not the person to be ki

al qaeda was behind the bombings of the u.s. embassies in nairobi and dar es salaam in august nine hundred ninety eight. as he had promised bin ladin was taking the global war to america. the americans understood that al qaeda could attack at any place and at any time. but some experts raised the possibility that the attacks were masterminded more by the egyptian militants than by bin laden himself. on twenty years august before the attack i received a phone call from the government as a variety and he spoke in english as he's very fluent in english and he told me that bin laden is sitting next to him but since he cannot communicate in english so he was sending the guards and doctors are why he told me that. mr bin laden is denying his involvement and there's involvement in the bone beings of the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania so he wanted me to convey this message through the media he said things like. i did not know ramzi yousef before the world trade center bombing which left open the question that they met afterwards b

you on how sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaeda but what is their real affiliation to al qaeda other been some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka med dunn who is the bureau chief of al jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders and he's also faced similar scrutiny in allegations the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology is employed to have or actually resulted in unjustified killing of innocent people they call this an arbitrary and capricious as. action by the agency and they say that the united states constitution and international law is being violated it refers to a program a computer program called sky net and apparently this computer program uses algorithms it follows a person's location and the communications that they're having and uses a computer algorithm to determine whether or not they are a terrorist now it's not known exactly what is all that is included but

to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka mad because they've done. is the bureau chief of al-jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology is employed to have or actually resulted in unjustified killing of innocent people they call this an arbitrary and capricious action by the agency and they say that the united states constitution and international law is being violated it refers to a program a computer program called skynet and apparently this computer program uses algorithms it follows a person's location and the communications that they're having and uses a computer algorithm to determine whether or not they are a terrorist now it's not known exactly what is all that is included but it is possible it's alleged that this computer program essentially would determine whether or not the person to be killed in a drone strike this is this pro

in the arabian peninsula al-qaeda and syria the hakani network and al qaeda in the islamic magreb and mike and i was in my mind but where is the united states not in fact arming al qaeda in syria. or are happy you know you know rebels. a little bit i think we got the colors i would rather colors of that's why i can't keep up with what you don't think i'm the other. dynamic thing this does is it also and this is very scary it a lot of debate happened because you know who the president can detain that kind of a perpetual war right so the may. also decides a new route for adding to that list i just mentioned right so the president can add to that list he can say this new group over a year that i don't like they can be on the list he can do that but congress says that he has to write to them first yes forty eight hours to write to them saying i want this new group as part of the you i'm out and then congress can debate it all and they're trying to say this is a check and balance to take away power from the presidency but i want to all right let's say that they don't like the group that he

seems to almost glorify that people have said he's an extremist propagandist we do know that top al qaeda clerics have said he's there he's they've actually referred to him as our media man furthermore we've seen him reporting with potential suicide bombers are showing off the equipment the suicide belts or vests that they wear despite all of this criticism it's important to note that the little of jewel karim has been featured in mainstream american media you know on the scenes. i'm. not going to spend some. time on this stuff to go through with. you on how sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaida but what is their real affiliation to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka mad because they don who is the bureau chief of al jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al qaeda leaders and he's also faced similar scrutiny and allegations the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology i

seems to almost glorify that people have said he's an extremist propagandist we do know that top al-qaeda clerics have said he's there they've actually referred to him as our media man furthermore we've seen him reporting with potential suicide bombers are showing off the equipment the suicide belts or vests that they wear despite all of this criticism it's important to note that the little of dual karim has been featured in mainstream american media behind the scenes. i'm. not going to spend some. time on the stuff that goes with. me on how sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaida but what is their real affiliation to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka med dunn who is the bureau chief of al-jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology is employed to have or actually resulted in unjustified killing of innocent people

coalition with intelligence your military advice and logistical or priority is the fight against al qaeda and you arabian peninsula and isis in yemen extent of our support is refueling and sharing and samir khan reports on the pentagon's mixed messages concerning its role in the conflict in. this latest development contradicts the pentagon statements that indicated that u.s. military assistance to the saudis in yemen was limited to intelligence logistics and aircraft feeling but so far what we do know is that a team of a few green berets apparently arrived on the south of the u. many border sometime last year and according to the pentagon they've only been there to protect the border however reports suggest that they've been helping them destroy the ballistic missile launch sites and it's worth mentioning that even though this war has been going on for a few years saudi arabia hasn't been successful in welling the hooty resistance so it's fair to say that maybe u.s. involvement will help the saudis do just that but thanks to the saudi onslaught the conflict in yemen has morphed into the w

a backlash for what some have called uncritical reporting on al qaeda and al nusra but despite that he was given a platform by some western media outlets you know. i'm. sorry. the stuff that goes with. out sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaida but what is their real affiliation to al qaida other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the two journalists deny any links to terror and say the program hasn't considered that profession they went on to say the methods of skynet could result in the unjustified killing of innocent people and that their inclusion has violated the u.s. constitution and international law we've discussed the case with an international criminal lawyer. we don't really know what's going on even in this case it would seem that the whole case has been predicated on this thing skynet or or these things that this kill list so to speak that they have raised that they actually cannot prove if this is true there are some problematic issues that this does raise not just the fact that may or may not exist but how this case would proce

seems to almost glorify that people have said he's an extremist propagandist we do know that top al qaeda clerics have said he's there they've actually referred to him as our media man furthermore we've seen him reporting with potential suicide bombers are showing off the equipment the suicide belts or vests that they wear despite all of this criticism it's important to note that the little of dual karim has been featured in mainstream american media you know i'm now seeing some of them. i'm. not going to spend some. time on the stuff that goes. on sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of al qaida but what is their real affiliation to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you the other person who filed in the lawsuit is aka mad because they don who is the bureau chief of al-jazeera in the city of his lama bad now he's done interviews with top al-qaeda leaders the two journalists say that they have no links to terror they deny their links their official complaint says that the methodology is employed to have or actually resulted in unjustified killing

the head of isis is the fourth leader of al qaeda -- is the forced leader of al qaeda. what does that suggest to any americans strategist -- american strategist? this group will come back unless retreat circumstances on the ground. -- ground that do not enable them to come back. what does it mean? it does not mean declaring victory and pulling out. andck obama do that in 2011 i do not know if anyone notice, but we still have a lot of troops. we need to leave folks on the ground. not to keep fighting, but to ensure the security is there to enable the sunni parts of iraq to rebuild were isis was. happens, we can say goodbye. host: this is from arkansas on independent line, paul, go ahead. the iran deal is unconstitutional. that is the problem. the u.s. constitution says the president has authority to make treaties. what does that require? two thirds confirmation by the u.s. senate. away from take a vote the constitution. obama should be impeached retroactively. host: thanks. guest: this is an argument that was had. i am smiling because the caller reminds me of someone who

former bureau chief for the media outlet is there in pakistan and has conducted interviews with al qaeda members however the other man on the list probably caused suspicion for videos like this. are now hearing to leave the city of aleppo now if you can get a little bit closer here and you will see what this is this is an explosive belt top al qaeda clerics have even described abdo karim as the terror group's media man karim has faced a backlash for what some have called uncritical reporting on al qaeda and al nusra but despite that he was given a platform by some western media outlets. no the seats. i'm. not even with the snow. and stuff to. keep. out sometimes you will hear someone say that they are part of. what is their real affiliation to a. romantic notion to be honest with you the two journalists deny any link to terrorism and say the program hasn't taken their profession into consideration they went on to say the methods of skynet could result in the unjustified killing of innocent people and that their inclusion has violated u.s. and international law we discussed the case with

our officers are out there fighting extremists, al qaeda and the taliban. we have 125 stars on our memorial wall now. many of those, it's shocking how many stars we've added. i believe we added seven stars to our wall last year. perhaps i could cite one personal example of an officer who worked for me. she was the most extraordinary woman. she was our number one al qaeda expert. i worked with her in the counter terrorism center. she was having her third baby in those days following 9/11, but we needed her because she had such deep expertise. she later worked for me on terrorism issues in a foreign capital, and then she went to afghanistan, and she and six colleagues were murdered by a suicide bomber who penetrated our base. these are very real sacrifices. these are my friends and colleagues. all of us at cia have a commitment and an honor-bound obligation to uphold the memory of those officers, mothers who have left their children, to go to the field and sometimes have given their all in service of this country. >> i thank senator cornyn and senator reid. >

al qaeda network now they were held in these sites in. in romania and in lithuania as well as others the list you anian cite with getting a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this this hearing now if prisoners were kept in blindfolded all time they were put in solitary confinement and they were forced to wear leg shackles at all times but we got to more of a gruesome take on what was going on there at this hearing is a statement from it was read out in detail what was done to him. they unchained my hands from the bars and chained them with short chains to the chains that were around my legs which kept me in a bowing position at all times they brutally dragged me to the cement wall he started brutally banging my head in my back against the wall i felt my back was breaking due to the intensity of the banging he started slapping my face again and again meanwhile he was yelling and then he pointed to a large black wooden box that looked like a wooden casket he says from now on this is going to

suspects one of the suspects was according to the cia a key al qaeda figure no charges brought against him as part of his interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times it said he also lost his eye to due to cia torture the other detainee was also subjected to the agency's enhanced interrogation program according to the cia he led al qaeda is gulf region operations both still held in the notorious guantanamo bay prison the hearings revealed the conditions under which the two suspects were kept peter oliver now reports the applicants have been held in these facilities and the domestic authorities have been aware that the cia would subject them to treatment contrary to the convention now what we have put is a little bit about the conditions in which they were kept in lithuania insight we've gotten a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this. earing know it prisoners were kept in blindfolded all time they were put in solitary confinement and they were forced to wear leg shackles at all times as a beta gave an account of what was done t

we got valuable information from debriefing of al qaeda detainees. i don't think it's knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that. >> thank you. >> senator cornyn. >> i note that one prominent national security expert has said that if president obama had nominated you to be director of the c.i.a., it would be an easy decision to support your nomination. so it strikes me that you are being treated much differently than director brennan was, which senator cotton noted he was voted out of this committee by a vote of 12-3 and confirmed by a vote of 63-44 to be c.i.a. director. so it strikes me -- this is not a question for you. this is an observation by me, that you and this president are being held to a double standard. and i think that's regrettable. i also remember that president obama in 2009, when he declassified the office of legal counsel memos that have been referred to here, promised the men and women of the c.i.a. that, quote, we will protect all who acted reasonably and relied upon legal advice from the department of justic

whatever the hell that means well or whoever the hell that means which as of right now includes al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. syria the hakani network and al qaida in the islamic magreb and mike and i was in my mind but where is the united states not in fact arming al qaeda in syria. or are happy you know you know rebels. a little bit i think we got the colors i would rather colors of as far as i can keep up with what you don't think i'm the other. dynamic thing this does is it also and this is very scary it a lot of debate happened because you know who the president can detain that kind of approach war right so the mayor. also decides a new route for adding to that list i just mentioned right so the president can add to that list he can say this new group over a year that i don't like they can be on the list he can do that but congress says that he has to write to them first he has forty eight hours to write to them saying i want this new group as part of the you amount and then congress can debate it all and they're trying to say this is a check and balance to take away power from

justice senior al qaeda members residing in tehran. today, we ask the iranian people , is this what you want your country to be known for? for being a co-conspirator with hezbollah, hamas, the taliban and al qaeda? the united states believes you deserve better. and i have an additional point for the iranian people to ponder. here in the west, president rouhani and the foreign minister are often held apart from the regime's unwise terrorists and maligned behavior. they are treated somehow differently. the west says, if only they could control ayatollah khomeini and suleimani, then things would be great. yet, they are your elected leaders. are they not the most responsible for your economic struggles? are these two not responsible for wasting iranian lives throughout the middle east? it's worth the iranian people considering. because instead of helping their own citizens, the regime continues to seek a corridor stretching from iran's borders to the shores of the mediterranean. iran wants this corridor to transport fighters and weapons sy

for being a co-conspirator with hezbollah, hamas, the taliban, and al qaeda? the united states believes you deserve better. and i have an additional point for the iranian people to ponder. here in the west presidents are held apart from the terrorist behavior and treated differently. the west says only if they could control atolla khomeini, and others it could be great. yet, they are your elected leaders. are they not the most responsible for your economic struggles? are these two not responsible for wasting iranian lives throughout the middle east? it's worse the iranian people considering. because instead of helping their own citizens, the regime continues to seek a corridor stretching from iran's borders to the shores of the mediterranean. iran wants this corridor to transfer fighters and weapons to israel's door steps. in recent months, they've flown an armed drone into the golan heights from syria. our steadfast ally has asserted the sovereign right of self-defense in response, a stance the united states will unequivocally support. and the jcpoa was a bad

i was on the front lines in the fight against al qaeda.ce to be confirmed as bipartisan support roles in. ♪ todd: their nightmare is over. three americans held captive on their way to walter reed medical center returning to the us just hours ago, at joint base andrews giving the peace sign. donald trump leading them off the plane with secretary of state mike pompeo embracing them. >> nobody thought we could be on this track. >> i'm very honored, crane people. todd: the diplomatic victory, for the pres.'s high-stakes met with kim jong un. this is a world leader is coming face-to-face in singapore early next month. >> my moral compass is strong. i would not allow the cia to undertake activity i thought was immoral even if it was technically legal. i would absolutely not permit it. todd: gina haspel tackling her senate confirmation hearing head on. jackie ibanez with the highlights. >> reporter: the highly anticipated testimony lasting just under 3 hours where she was grilled about her 3 decade undercover career with the cia, refusing to back

isis and al qaeda deny the worth and dignity of the individual. here is how osama bin laden once put it, we love death. the americans love life. that is the big difference between us. indeed it is. today we see the toll this bloo bloody etiology is enacting on the world. on 9/11 close to 3,000 innocent people from 90 countries around the world. its followers have enslaved women and girls from their families. they beheaded sons on stel vision. they burned people alive. thrown them from the tops of buildings and drown them. our enemies are not shy about the ideas that inspire them to this brutality. indeed, all liberty, as they seek to rule by constant blood shed. they reject equality and seek to empower themselves at the expense of those they regard as inferior. they regard any other religion. it's a crime that carries a death sentences. and so as we confront terrorists on the battlefield, in courts of law and in other theaters, we also must confront the twisted ideas they use to justify their violence. we have allies in this effort. many allies. a

our officers are out there fighting extremist al qaeda and the taliban. we have 125 stars on our memorial wall now. many of those it's shocking how many stars we've added. i believe we added seven stars to our wall last year. perhaps i could cite one personal example of an officer who worked for me. she was the most extraordinary woman. she was our number one al qaeda expert. i worked with her in the counterterrorism center. she was having her third baby in those days following 9/11, but we needed her because she had such deep expertise. she later worked for me on terrorism issues in a foreign capital, and then she went to afghanistan, and she and six colleagues were murdered by a suicide bomber who penetrated our base. these are very real sacrifices. these are my friends and leagues. all of us at cia have a commitment and an honor-bound obligation to uphold the memory of those officers, mothers who have left their children to go to the field and sometimes have given their all in service of this country. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman.