and that is how we discovered he was on the kill list but anwar awlaki is a u.s. citizen. first bombing that happened december 17, 2009 or president obama directly authorized the strike was on this village in southern yemen. 46 people were killed, including two dozen women and children in that strike. what rick and i did was we went down to the heart of where these strikes were happening, and met with people on the ground and interviewed survivors of these missile strikes. we gathered evidence and actually found the cruise missile parts. the u.s. did not claim responsibility for the strikes. in fact, the yemeni government claimed responsibility. we know from the released wikileaks cables that general david petraeus conspired with senior yemeni officials including the former president of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in what would become a rapidly expanding u.s. bombing campaign inside of yemen. this administration has continued to pummel yemen. earlier today, they claimed for probably the doesn't time for the past couple of years to have killed one of the leaders of the

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newly released document show clare anwar al-awlaki was bigger player in 9/11 attacks than previouslyine herridge is standing by with breaking details. what can you tell us? >> thank you. good evening. within weeks of the 9/11 terror attack in 2001 that killed 3,000 americans the f.b.i. suspected the american cleric anwar al-awlaki purchased tickets for halftimers in the months leading up to the attack. according to newly released f.b.i. records exclusively reviewed by fox news and obtained by judicial watch, the bureau of investigation of the visa transaction showed purchases for muhammad antaw on august 13, 2001, for american west airlines flight from washington, d.c., to las vegas, nevada, to miami, florida. according to the joint congressional inquiry to 9/11 this is one of his final crucial surveillance flights. on august 13, 2001, he flew a second time across country from washington to las vegas, on a boeing 757 seated in first class. returning on august 14 to fort lauderdale. the record also show purchases for halftimeer in july of 2001 for a flight from fort -- hijacker in jul

. >> jon: you are getting new information about the late radical cleric anwar al awlaki? >> within day was the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001. the fbi suspected the american cleric anwar al awlaki may have purchased tickets for the hijackers in the months leading up to the attack. according to heavily redacted fbi records obtained by fox news and obtained by judicial watch. the visa transactions showed purchases for mohammed at that on august 13th, 2001 for an american west airlines flight from washington, d.c. to las vegas to miami. according to the joint congressional inquiry to 9/11 this is one of atta's final crucial surveillance flights. the records also list the names of others and they appear to be muscle hijackers. >> just a few months later, al awlaki is brought into the pentagon for a meeting as part of a muslim outreach program. not only do the documents show that he was buying tickets for the hijackers, it shows he was the central focus of the fbi's investigation of 9/11. >> in a statement a short time ago, the fbi cautioned against drawing conclusions about th

the suit followed a drone strike that killed a leader anwar al awlaki. >>> there's a new death count in the syrian civil war. the u.n. says more than 60,000 people have been killed in the 21 months since the uprising began. yesterday a syrian jet bombed a gas station in a damascus suburb. dozens were reportedly killed. >>> an american journalist is missing in syria. james foley was working when he disappeared. he was abducted by unknown gunmen on thanksgiving day. two years ago he was held by gunman in libya for six weeks. we'll take a break on this thursday. when we come back, a final tune. we'll remember '50s pop star patty page and her memorable songs. this is "morning news." nof splenda sweeteners, discover nectresse. the only 100% natural, no-calorie sweetener made from the goodness of fruit. the rich, sweet taste of sugar. nothing artificial. ♪ it's all that sweet ever needs to be. new nectresse. sweetness naturally. aww man. [ male announcer ] returns are easy with free pickup from the u.s. postal service. we'll even drop off boxes if you need them. visit usps.com pay, print,

of hours explaining to them what had actually happened and i had maximum had too much stress from anwar sadat and he was generous than the other was stingy. i told the truth about the whole situation. jack i found out later was taking meticulous notes and it was supposed to be off the record. [laughter] >> he would go into the restroom. [laughter] >> i did not realize it at the time and jack called midair to later and asked if he could report what i said. i said if you don't screw may. with words and to that effect. [laughter] i think when i was president i used better language. >> i think so word was embarrass me. [laughter] i don't know what the records said that he did right in meticulous detail but i did trust jack. i knew i dunno every reporter in the world but others that i would have trusted with my knife. i knew he would tell the truth and was courageous enough even under the most tremendous pressures and i read the book and i remember two or three times jack did back down on a story and regretted it until the end of his life. but those events were extremely rare and sometimes t

a strike in yemen that killed anwaral can i the cleric born in the u.s. their home nearly wiped away by super storm sandy now the apartment since they have been sayi staying in may be taken away from them as well. it will no longer fpay for it. that leaves them with no place to go. >> fema called us to remind us our time is up that our checkout date is on the 13th of january. >> they are currently in a fight with their insurance company over money to make repairs to their house. >>> it would make famous the classic movie you remember foied of dreams. >> it remind us of all that once was good can be again. >> oh, people will come, ray, people will most definitely come. >> it was a great movie. that is the hope by the way with new plans for the 193 acre field in iowa. hall of famer wade bogs part of a group of investors buying the land for $3.4 million, the group plans to develop the all star ballpark "heaven" a baseball and softball complex that will have 24 different fields. that by the way is your 5@5:30. sounds like a good idea. >> president obama makin

. >> and by the way, the history of anwar sadat and shimon peres and rabin, people who have fought thed wars, and eisenhower, if you will. >> and learned the lessons. >> and thank you, peter and joan. >>> up next -- this prompter is a little slow. two kennedys, former congressman patrick kennedy and his cousin christopher kennedy lawford, join us to talk about addiction and guns. this is "hardball," the place for politics. some brokerage than ordinary sweat. it smells worse, and it can happen any time -- to anyone! like when i ran to catch the train to work and a draft blew my skirt up and everybody here saw my unmentionables. yeah, and they aren't even cute. hello, laundry day. no... stress sweat can happen to anyone, anytime -- and it smells worse than ordinary sweat. get 4x the protection against stress sweat. introducing new secret clinical strength stress response scent. ♪ >>> in 1933 franklin delano roosevelt was sworn in as president for the first of his four terms, and with these words he delivered an inaugural address that's been called the most important american speech of th

kill the american-born cleric anwar al awlaki in yemen despite having never charged him with a crime. in upholding the obama at the ministration's right to secrecy, u.s. district judge colleen mcmahon expressed misgivings about the drone program itself writing -- the alice-in-wonderland nature some of the first details have emerged on the white house's effort to tackle gun control in the aftermath of last month's shooting massacre in newtown, connecticut. the washington buzz reports the task force overseen by vice- president joe biden is mulling proposals include some reinstatement of the expired ban on assault weapons and high- capacity magazines, universal background checks for all gun buyers, a database to track the trajectory arms nationwide, more detailed mental health checks, and harsher penalties for carrying a gun near a school or giving one to minors. the administration is reportedly hoping to counter nra opposition by convincing gun retailers such as walmart that the new measures would help their profits. news of the proposals comes after yet another shooting in aurora, colo

brennan's role in the government, targeting americans that we thought were involved in terrorism, such as anwar al-awlaki, jamie. >> jamie: thank you so much for the look there. thank you. and as peter mentioned the federal court of appeals did unanimously ruled that president obama violated the constitution when he bypassed with a recess appointments that involved three vacancies to the national labor relations board. a tactic both parties used to keep presidents appointing people they don't like and the president claims he acted properly because the senate was away for the holidays, but the federal court didn't agree, instead that the senate was still technically in session. what does it mean for the country's labor board and union battles that are raging across our country? well, coming up, we're going to take a very interesting look at this with jay sekulow and one of the attorneys arguing that the administration had violated our constitution. he will join us live just moments away. >> now more than ever we must do these things together as one nation and one people. my fellow americans, we

2011 for the legal justification of these targeted killings, including the drone strike that killed anwarl alaki, an american citizen living in yemen. the white house denied that request for purposes of national security. the judge approved the administration's right to keep that information classified, but still questioned the drone program, writing, "i can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive brarchg of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret." the judge went on to write in her ruling, "the alice in wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me." let us take a look down the rabbit hole. joining us now from washington is former state department spokesman and former assistant secretary of state p.j. crowley. p.j., always great to have you on the program. >> hello, alex. >> let's talk about the use of drones, which is something that has remained largely outside of debate until re

and to tell them exactly what did happen between me -- among me and anwar sadat. and to take some time to do it in detail. and so i invited jack and this other reporter over to the white house to have supper with me. and i spent a couple of hours. explaining to them what had actually happened and how i had maximum -- almost too much trust and did not trust me and all. and help sell was generous. things of this kind. i really told the truth about the whole situation. and then jack was taking -- i found out later, to accuse notes. suppose to be off the record. and then -- >> she was actually running into the restaurant. >> yeah. but i didn't realize it at the time. and if i remember correctly jack call me a day or two later and asked if he could reporter and said. and basically i said, well, if you don't screw me. [laughter] words to that effect. when i was president i used better language. >> don't embarrass me. >> it and know what the record said. anyway, the fact is, he did write what he wanted to. i did trust jack. and to be an honest person. in nine -- knocking

i'm glad we have kerry now as the same reason i'm glad there was an anwar sadat, a yitzhak rabin. of the disastrous suez campaign.

. >> and by the way, the history of anwar sadat and shimon peres and rabin, people who have fought theand eisenhower, if you will. >> and learned the lessons. >> and thank you, peter and joan. >>> up next -- this prompter is a little slow. two kennedys, former congressman patrick kennedy and his cousin christopher kennedy lawford, join us to talk about addiction and guns. this is "hardball," the place for politics. but way too many aren't. some of the ones that push mutual funds with their names on them -- aren't. why? because selling their funds makes them more money. which makes you wonder -- isn't that a conflict? am i in the best fund for me, or them? search "proprietary mutual funds". yikes, it's best for them. then go to e-trade. we've got over 8,000 mutual funds and not one of them has our name on it. why? because that's not the business we're in. we're in the business of finding the right investments for you. e-trade. less for us. more for you. [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes o

throw in the name anwar sadat.hrow in the name of the president of israel, a great man, i love the guy, shimon peres. they understand what you're talking about, peter, and i think we all do. >> and not only that, but meir dagan. there's been a revolt in israel against bibi netanyahu. talking too casually about war with iran. >> the white house isn't exactly hiding the ball on this one. we quoted an administration official who said very forthright one of the reasons they want chuck hagel is he articulates the world view that war should be the absolute last resort, that you must exhaust all options. for a lot of people, that seems common sense, but for a good part of the foreign policy establishment in d.c., that's not exactly something they want to hear. so, yes, they are bringing hagel for that exact purpose that peter illustrated. >> i have been reading -- i try to read everything, "washington examiner," everything, i have to tell you i get the feeling there's some people pushing for a much more aggressive stance

. >> and by the way, the history of anwar sadat and shimon peres and rabin, people who have fought theisenhower, if you will. >> and learned the lessons. >> and thank you peter and joan. >>> up next, this prompter is a little show. two kennedys, former congressman patrick kennedy and his cousin christopher lautner kennedy join us to talk about addiction and guns. this is "hardball," the place for politics. eisenhower, if you will. for politics. look what mommy is having. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. >>> inform 1933 franklin delano roosevelt was sworn in as president for the first of his four terms and with these words he delivered an inaugural address that's been called the most important american speech of the 20th century. >> let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> of that voice rings true. anyway, f dsmth r's first inall ral has the last to be healed in march. the 20th amendment rat

he's restrained, skeptical of what war can achieve, like anwar sadat, yitzhak rabin. the g.i.s have to do the actual fighting. so when you watch the hearings, think of the americans out there on post tonight all alone in a place far from home. give some thought to the possibility they'd like to have a pentagon chief who knows just what that's like. and that's "hardball for now," thanks for being with us. the ed show with ed schultz starts right now. >> good evening and welcome to new york. the republicans are whining about the president's choice for defense secretary. tonight a reminder of who won the election and why this is the perfect guy. let's get to work. >> chuck hagel is the leader that our troops deserve. he is an american patriot. >> president obama nominates chuck hagel as defense secretary, and conservatives are fuming. >> positions that he has taken over the years will be, i think very much a matter of discussion. >> this is an in-your-face nomination by the president. >> if hagel is nominated, it is very difficult to imagine circumstance in which i could

i'm glad we have kerry now as the same reason i'm glad there was an anwar sadat, a yitzhak rabin. and out of the disastrous suze campaign. i'm glad the hawks aren't going to be able to stop chuck hagel, because the people who have seen war, felt it, been in it, hurt by it body and heart are the very people i want deciding on when and whether we go to another. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts right now. >> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. republicans want immigration reform, but for only one reason, to protect their political hides. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i believe we are finally at a moment when immigration reform is in our grasp. >> the president is pushing for citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants as forces on the right line up to stop him. >> obama is seeking political victory. >> tonight karen finney and e.j. dionne on the president's historic proposal and the republican pushback. >> just remind everybody, obama is not going to be president forever. >

i'm glad we have kerry now as the same reason i'm glad there was an anwar sadat, a yitzhak rabin.e disastrous suze campaign. i'm glad the hawks aren't going to be able to stop

anwar a al lackey, killed in a cia strike in september 2011. without due process. that is the came time they were advocating the 9/11 suspects be transferred to federal court in new york city with full constitutional rights and presumption of innocence and these are two strategies impossible to square, martha. martha: we'll hear a lot more in these hearings. catherine, thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome. bill: on top of all that you have hillary clinton on benghazi too. so watch for it. >>> a startling new statistic how complicated it is to do your taxes and how much you pay in the end after all of that. how many hours a year would you say americans spend on paying their fair share? we'll tell you. plus the push to simplify things and whether or not that goes anywhere. martha: a whole industry counts on that, right? lessons on libya. how the terror attack cast as shadow on the future of afghanistan. bill: this is a public health emergency in a major american city, one of our largest after the deadliest flu outbreak we've seen in a decade. >> a strain

anwar al-awlaki killed in a cia strike in december of 2011 without due process. administration advocated at the same time for the 9/11 suspects to be transferred to a federal court in new york city with full constitutional rights and the presumption of innocence. so there's a clear conflict in those strategies, jenna. jenna: topics we'll watch for in the weeks ahead. catherine, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. >> every time we started kissing it got a little more escalated. >> and with regard to the physical contact beyond the kissing was there any of that? >> clothes never came off. you know, at some point, she was kissing my neck. i was kissing hers. but, clothes never came off. jon: well some intriguing testimony there in the jodi arias murder trial from a man who says he had a date with her just hours after she killed her ex-boyfriend in 2008. prosecutors say arias had one last tryst with travis alexander, killed him in a ferocious and gun and knife attack and headed off to see her new romantic interest, ryan burns, the man you just heard testify. fred

what also separates al qaeda in yemen from the other franchises is the american cleric anwar alaki, first american targeted for death by the cia though he was killed in a drone strike in september of 2011 he remains the figurehead for the operation. he continues to inspire homegrown terrorists here in the united states as recently as last month, jon. jon: so this threat, what is unusual about it? going out via twitter is kind of strange? >> reporter: they really rely on twitter as well as social media as the new lifeblood. i have called it the digital jihad. that seems to be their primary method of communications. analysts who track al qaeda in yemen are questioning why the group would so publicly draw attention to its call for targeting the american ambassador and group called memri middle east research institute, says a part of the message has been deleted. they said the original message contained a photo or reference to many a ambassador chris stevens killed in the benghazi terrorist attack on september 11th along with three others positions and positioned along with ambassador stevens

in your piece, you talk about anwar al aleak awlaki and his 16-year-old son. do you think the shift might prove to be problematic for him or not? >> he has -- at the white house, he has apparently acted as a break for the cia. >> how do you mean? >> there was a big conversation over this summer about basically whether the drone program should be sort of centered in the cia or in the white house through the department of defense. he has been a proponent of sort of shifting the center of the drone program to the white house, and the military. now he's going to the cia. but the thing about john brennan is that he has made -- argued quite persuasively for drones. i don't see him sort of putting on the brakes at all at the cia. >> what about the opposite of putting on the brakes. you see speeding up? >> wherever he has gone, he has sped up the program. he is the spokesperson for the drone program. i cannot see him all of a sudden turning back on that. >> what about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, ie waterboarding. brennan says he's never supported it,

and of course, all of this stuff is made a little more complicated because you take a guy like anwar no doubt about it. and if you use a policy to get after a bad guy, then you never review the policy because the outcome was a bad guy. but we need to review this policy and start getting our hands around it to say does america want to be a country that abandoned the rule of law that abandoned the geneva convention, that doesn't have any reviewability, that doesn't -- executes its own citizens. do we really want to be without due process of law. i think the answer is no. i think it's time to draw attention to this problem so we can get some real debate going on it. >> bill: that doesn't get to the issue of all of the expansion of drones for the purpose we're talking about in this country. police departments already have them. fire departments, some of those uses again are justifiable. and applaudable right? then others, you've gotta wonder about. congressman keith ellison. paying new ground here. not for the first time on the issue of drone policy. your questions your comments on any i

ike created nasa created anwar de demilitarized antarctica.to go around and talk about surplus because he had a second term. ronald reagan. i'm tire of hearing about iran-contra. diplomacy with gorbachev was a big deal. >> so you're not worried about the second term. >> not only am i not, the president can't be. >> make sure his team is focused the agenda and getting things >>> good morning. sun and clouds around today. it's going on a chilly one, but not as cold as four years ago. 34 now in town. 28 across the bay. good looking day today. inauguration day. sunshine, some clouds, breezy, chilly, some late afternoon flurries and snow >>> there's a record number of women in the new congress however, they are still far outnumbered by the men. we'll ask three female senators just why they think that is ahead on "cbs this morning" from washington. we'll be right back. thn this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 is brought to you by sponsor with an inside story on shingles. the soreness was excruciating. it was impossible to even think about dancing. wh

in his second term by sending troops to little rock and standing up for civil rights, by creating anwars largest wildlife refuge. eisenhower demilitarized antarctica or people would be feuding over military rights in antarctica and kept it as a peace zone. it's not that much for president obama to talk about climate change. how many sandies do we need or record breaking temperatures? forests are burning in wyoming and colorado and mexico. this is a big problem and others have shown leadership on climate and i think the president joined them yesterday. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, they squared off on jeopardy and now chris matthews and robert gibbs face off again. and getting drunk here at the dublin in washington d.c. matthews versus gibbs straight ahead, plus the mayor joins the celebration. we'll be right back. twins. i didn't see them coming. i have obligations. cute obligations, but obligations. i need to rethink the core of my portfolio. what i really need is sleep. introducing the ishares core, building blocks for the heart of your portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large p