austin was detained hold important clues. they visit al-khatib prison, where nazar's team has discovered some graffiti that the tice family is convinced was written by austin. deborah has been stealing herself for this moment for weeks and is intent on seeing it for herself. >> okay. >> take a minute. take a minute. take a minute. okay. you cannot. >> okay. >> okay. >> you want to hold that for me? okay. i'm going to take this. >> hold the light for you. >> yes, yes, yes, yes. >> i'll hold the light for you. okay. okay, i'll go in first. okay it's very small in here. okay. okay. >> thank you. >> the tice family asked us not to show the graffiti itself out of respect for their privacy. >> i'm going to stay in here for a minute, okay? okay. i just want to be here. in here for a minute. just for a minute? >> sure. >> i hardly even know what to say about that experience. it was beyond anything i could have imagined. these pictures don't even begin to tell you how. and. unbelievably, unbelievably horrible. awful, terrible nightmare they are. >> at a press conference the next day, deborah talks about her experience visiting the pri

nizar, the prisons where they believe austin was detained hold important clues they visit al-khatib prison, where nazar's team has discovered some graffiti that the tice family is convinced was written by austin. deborah has been stealing herself for this moment for weeks and is intent on seeing it for herself. >> okay. >> take a minute, take a minute, take a minute. okay. >> take a minute. >> okay. okay. you want to hold that for me? okay. i'm going to take this. >> hold the light for you. yes. >> yes, yes, yes. >> i'll hold the light for you. okay. okay, i'll go in first. okay it's very small in here. okay. okay. so here. >> the tice family asked us not to show the graffiti itself out of respect for their privacy. >> i'm going to stay in here for a minute, okay? okay. i just want to be in here for a minute. just for a minute? >> sure. >> i hardly even know what to say about that experience. it was beyond anything i could have imagined. these pictures don't even begin to tell you how. unbelievably, unbelievably horrible, awful, terrible nightmare they are. >> at a press conference the next day, deborah talks about her experience visiting the prisons.

journalist austin tice. taken at a regime checkpoint in syria in 2012, he has been missing ever since. one of many thousands who disappeared in the prisons of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. six weeks after assad's ouster. deborah is now going back to damascus, joined by the head of hostage aid worldwide, nizar zaki, who is coordinating the search. >> almost ten years. when was the last time? which year? the last time i was here was in 2015. in may. >> wow. >> at the hotel in damascus. a group of journalists eagerly await her arrival. but for now, there are more questions than answers. it's hard for me to think. about how. how what is my way forward here? you know, austin has been held by the syrian government. all this time. who who is holding him now? where is he? how what is the approach? i mean, it's like it's first grade again. and where where do you think he is? what do you know? what can you share? i feel like he is still in syria. and i do think it's most likely he's in a safe house. are you saying

fascinating story about not only tulsi gabbard and sean penn, but also austin tice.7, a member of representative gabbard's traveling party was led by the syrian regime to meet an american prisoner who that colleague of miss gabbard, later identified as austin tice, the missing american journalist who was abducted near damascus in 2012. >> this report became a thread of intelligence that ultimately reached the trump administration's lead hostage negotiator. a couple of years later, it was explored. but it's just remarkable that miss gabbard didn't know about it at the time. according to our reporting, she was told about it a couple of years later. but a spokeswoman for her denied that she'd received this information, that she'd received actionable intelligence. otherwise she would have acted on it. so it's sort of emblematic of the world of intelligence that she would have to sift through if she were confirmed to be the director of national intelligence. >> well, and what is would be so surprising to many. shocking to so many is the fact that that sighting and that in

. >> do you have an update on austin tice in syria and whether or not he's -- pres. biden: the answer is i'm not going to respond to that because that's an ongoing issue. you know my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad and i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> one question on pardons and commutations. can you give us a sense of what of their pardons and commutations you are considering in your last 10 days? pres. biden: the answer is no because two things. one is that it depends on some of the language and expectations that trump broadcast in the last couple days here as to what he's going to do. the idea that he would punish people for not adhering to what he thinks should be policy related to his well-being is outrages but there's still consideration of some folks but no decision. >> have you decided what kind of role you will have post-presidency, sir? do you plan to speak out after you leave washington or will you follow more of the bush model where you're kind of out of sight, out of mind? pres. biden: i will not be out of sight or out

austin was detained hold important clues. they visit. al-khatib prison, where nazar's team has discovered some graffiti that the tice family is convinced wasy austin. deborah has been stealing herself for this moment for weeks and is intent on seeing it for herself. >> okay. >> take a. >> minute, take a minute, take a minute. >> okay. take a minute. okay. >> okay. >> okay. >> you want to. >> hold. that for me? >> okay. >> i'm going to. >> take this. hold the light for you. >> yes yes. >> yes, yes. >> i. >> hold the light for you. >> okay, okay. i'll go in first. >> okay. >> it's very small in here. >> okay. >> okay. >> the tice family asked us not to show the graffiti itself out of respect for their privacy but they gonna stay in here for a minute, okay? >> okay. >> okay. i just want to be here. in here for a minute. just for a minute? >> sure. >> i hardly even. >> know. >> what to say. >> about that experience. >> it was beyond anything i could have imagined. >> these pictures. >> don't even. >> begin to tell you how. >> unbelievably, unbelievably horrible, awful. >> terrible nightmare. >> they are. >> at a press conference the next day.

fascinating story about not only tulsi gabbard and sean penn, but also austin tice.er of representative gabbard's traveling party was led by the syrian regime to meet an american prisoner who that colleague of miss gabbard, later identified as austin tice, the missing american journalist who was abducted near damascus in 2012. this report became a thread of intelligence that ultimately reached the trump administration's lead hostage negotiator. >> a couple of years later. >> it was explored, but it's just remarkable that miss gabbard didn't know about it at the time. >> according to our reporting, she was told about it a couple of years later. >> but a spokeswoman for her denied that she'd received this information, that she'd received actionable intelligence. otherwise she would have acted on it. >> so it's sort of emblematic of the world of intelligence that she would have to sift through if she were confirmed to be the director of national intelligence. >> well, and what is would be so surprising to many. shocking to so many is the fact that that sighting and that

look, on austin tice, all i can tell you is this. not a day goes by where we're not out there trying to obviously find him or get information about what has become of him. and i don't have anything to report beyond what we've already said. but we have people throughout syria who know the importance that we attached to this. and are leaving no stone unturned to find austin. so he and his family remain in my thoughts, all of our prayers, but mostly we're working this any way that we can to find him and of course if we have any further information we'll share that or the next administration will share that. look, on panama, on the panama canal, we have a treaty. we have a settled policy of many years and that's not going to change. as i've said before, it doesn't warrant spending a lot of time talking about it. now, when it comes to the resilience of our supply chains, when it comes to making sure that we can get what we need and we don't have risk with it, including from countries with which we have challenged relations, that is import

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. >> do you have an update on austin tice? whether or not he -- >> i'm not going to respond to that that's ongoing issue. you know my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> one on pardons and commutations. can you give us a sense of what other pardons and commutations you are considering in last 10 days? >> the answer is no, two things, one is that it depends on some of the language and exceptions that trump broadcasts in the last couple days here as to what he's going to do. the idea that he would punish people for not hearing to what he thinks should be policies related to his well-being is outrageous. but, there is still consideration of some folks that -- but no decision. >> thanks, everybody. >> can you talk about what. [shouting questions] >> what kind of role will have you post presidency, sir? do you plan to speak out after you leave washington or are you going to kind of follow the bush moto out of sight or out of mind. >> i'm not going to be out of sight o

amna: on to syria, i need to ask you about austin tice.elf travel to syria after the assad regime had fallen. in the month plus since the assad regime has fallen, have you learned anything else about where he was held or where he might be? mr. carstens: after damascus fell on the eighth we were able to find more information and were able to take information we had for years and overlap it to get a sense of where he might be held. we came up with a list of about six places we believe t might be or had some relation to, and from december 8 two about the 20th, we were working with people who could go to the prisons, the secret prison sites , and conduct investigations. we had a chance to look at a jail sale that we believed had a high probability of having held him. we looked for dna samples and gathered evidence along with a wonderful team from the fbi and what we are doing is seeing tons of information from people on the ground that will eventually inform our search once we are able to put boots on the ground in the coming days or weeks. >>

. >> do you have an update on austin tice in syria and whether or not he's the answer is i'm not going to respond to that because that's an act ongoing issue. >> you know, my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad, and i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> just one question again, back on pardons and commutations. can you just give us a sense of what other pardons and commutations you're considering in your last ten days? >> well, the answer is no, because two things. one is that. it depends on some of the. language and expectations that. trump. broadcast in the last couple of days here as to what he's going to do um, the idea that he would punish people for not adhering to what he thinks should be policies related to his well-being is outrageous. but there's still consideration of some folks that nothing but no decision. >> all right. thanks, everybody. have you talked about what kind of post-presidency? >> what kind of have you decided? >> what kind of what kind of a what kind of role will you have? >> post-presidency. sir, do you plan to speak out after you l

. >> do you have an update on austin tice in syria and whether or not he's. >> the answer is i'm not going to respond to that because that's an active, ongoing issue. you know, my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad, and i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> just one question, again, back on pardons and commutations. can you just give us a sense of what other pardons and commutations you're considering in your last ten days? >> well, the answer is no, because two things. one is that. it depends on some of the language and expectations that trump broadcast in the last couple of days here as to what he's going to do. the idea that he would punish people for not adhering to what he thinks should be policy as related to his well-being, is outrageous. but there's still consideration of some folks that nothing but no decision. >> all right. thanks. have you talked about what kind of post-presidency? >> what kind of have you decided? >> what kind of what kind of a what kind of role will you have? post-presidency. >> sir, do you plan to speak out after you leave wa

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to suggest that this guy austin tice this guy, this is a guy who has his own very macho ideas about what it means to be a warrior. >> i don't think that it's necessarily in keeping with u.s. policy with regard to women or behavior of how we act as soldiers in combat, which is that we act within rules. and he's his time says, you know what, too many rules. this is about a killing machine. i think that's very upsetting to a lot of people. >> okay, so we can agree you have to be someone of service in the military, and you have to serve on tv, too. you need both qualifications. >> well, actually, actually you don't actually, the only qualification for this we learned today is that you have to be a civilian, a civilian. >> and and we have had to waive that in the past. but he has both. he has civilian service. he has military service. he's highly educated. and, you know, there's not too many people in the world who have managed whatever, 3 million people at a time. >> there's a whole team. there's a whole team that manages the pentagon. >> hold on. okay. i'm glad you made that point, because

and we have, uh, our people on the ground looking for austin tice right now, i work with united against nuclear iran as a senior advisor on hostage affairs and i am i've kind of, i would say, dedicated my my, my, my life to thinking about hostages all over the world. it's part of my dna. and, um, those 444 days of misery made a real impact in my life. and i want to make certain that others don't go through the situation that we did. >> eva mckend you were there. bring us, bring us to the scene. as former president carter's casket leaves the carter center for the u.s. capitol. >> pam, sometimes it's easy to forget all that goes involved. >> all that is involved. when a president transitions. but for president carter, it is truly fitting. it matches. i think, the outpouring of love and admiration that we have seen from all corners across this region for over a week now, right now, this is a ceremony in the circle of flags here at the carter center. this is primarily carter center. employees that are saying final goodbyes as this is the final ceremony here in atlanta before the body and th

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