engel: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in p strong support of h.res. 714 and yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. engel: let me start by thanking my colleague from american samoa, mr. faleomavaega, for offering this resolution and let me also thank him for his many years of distinguished service here in congress. especially moving for me because eni and i were both elected to congress that first time on the same day and started to serve the first day, elected in november of 1988 and we both served starting january 3, 1989, and as the jargon is here in washington, we are classmates. and we've sat next to each other on the foreign affairs committee for so many years, all those years, and had good chance to travel together and to have our families get to know each other, our spouses, our wives, it really has been a pleasure to be a friend and colleague of mr. faleomavaega's. we're going to really miss him but i know he will grace our presence and come bac

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engel: mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of h.res. 758 and yield myself sum time -- such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. engel: mr. speaker, after the cold war, we all hoped russia would emerge as a modern power, governed by democratic norms, the rule of law and respect of human rights. regrettably, things didn't turn out that way. it's time to recognize the fact that russia, under the leadership of vladimir putin is a threat to european security and to u.s. interests in the region. we must be clear that our concerns are not directed toward the russian people. in fact, as putin tightens his grip, his own citizens i are among those suffer -- citizens are among those suffering the most. base the media has become a mouth priest for putin and his cronies and as russia continues its aggression in the ukraine, international sanctions are hitting home, dragging down russia's economy. nevertheless, we have hopes for those inside russia who seek a brig

our report tonight from chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: emirate police dubbed her the ghost, but today they said they caught her. releasing dramatic police video and laying out their evidence she murdered an american teacher and tried to kill more u.s. citizens. key to their case, surveillance video. here, the suspect is seen monday heading to a shopping mall bathroom. inside american teacher ibolya ryan who moved to abu dhabi with her twin sons. friend nora field talked with her there. >> she was so positive all the time and helpful and a great friend. we did feel safe there. i think there's some fear now. >> reporter: witnesses at the mall say they heard screams as ryan was stabbed to death. then the ghost fled, but she wasn't finished. in her bag police say is a bomb. she wheeled it into a nearby apartment building, placed a homemade explosive in front of an american doctor's apartment and then left the building, suitcase empty. the police strung all the video together even adding dramatic music to what came next, the takedown. emirate police raiding a home,

richard engel starting us off here in new york tonight. richard, thanks. >>> the electronic attack on sony pictures took a potentially violent turn late today that's being described in terms of terrorism. the group that has infiltrated the company's computers today made a threat of a 9/11 type attack on movie theaters that choose to show the new movie from sony, a comedy that depicts the assassination of north korean leader kim jong-un. no one is laughing at this. and tonight the u.s. department of homeland security was compelled to say they're aware of the threat but unaware of any credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters. nbc's joe fryer has the latest from los angeles. >> reporter: the hackers started releasing their so-called christmas gift today, another huge batch of data stolen from sony pictures. but with this delivery, the hackers sent an ominous message that goes beyond hollywood. a threat to movie theaters that show the upcoming sony film "the interview." the message says, the world will be full of

. >> reporter: this is richard engel. we've heard the term before, a lone wolf, a terrorist who strikes out on his own. in sydney it was a muslim extremist with a loose grip on reality and a long rap sheet. a self-promoter who craved media attention. it's people like him, loners, outcasts with delusions of glory and revenge who are most susceptible to the propaganda posted by groups like isis. >> they're saying you don't need to travel to syria to be effective, to be a warrior for us. you can take the fight to the citizens in your own country. >> reporter: in the west, deadly incidents are happening with alarming regularity. in canada in october a gunman who shot soldiers in parliament was inspired by isis. days later in new york, a man whose social media profile was full of isis propaganda, attacked police with a hatchet. and the tsarnaev brothers in boston, inspired to kill americans by a radical islamic ideology. >> people are worried we're going to see these kind of lone wolf attacks in the united states. but we alrea

we get our report tonight from nbc's richard engel. >> reporter: american journalist luke somers had been missing for 13 months, kidnapped by al qaeda in yemen until last month just before thanksgiving, military sources say there was a break. u.s. special operations forces tracked him to a cave in hadhramaut in central yemen. a first rescue mission was launched on november 25th. u.s. commandos killed three to five guards, rescued several arab hostages, but somers was gone. and now al qaeda was angry. on december 3rd they released a new video of somers. >> it's now been well over a year since i was kidnapped. >> reporter: and threatened to kill him within 72 hours. u.s. military sources tell nbc news, american special operations forces tracked him down again. he'd been moved to shabwah, but not to a cave this time but an al qaeda compound. eight buildings surrounded by a berm. 100 to 200 militants inside. on saturday in a highly risky mission, several dozen navy s.e.a.l.s. landed seven miles away from the compound and walked to the target. >> rescue operations like this succeed far le

we get our report tonight from our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: this was a well-planned massacre, a bloody eight-hour rampage executed without mercy. as the wounded arrived at a nearby hospital, they describe the horror. >> translator: we locked our classroom door from the inside, says amir, but three attackers shot their way in and then shot at us. shah was hiding under a desk and watched in horror as his teacher was killed. she tried to stand up to the gunman. they shot our teacher, he says, then burned their body. this reporter was at the scene of today's massacre. >> the assailants look advantage of the broken barbed wire, infiltrated the school, then went on to kill over 130 students. >> reporter: survivors say there were at least seven militants. once inside, they entered an auditorium packed with high school-aged students. one detonated a suicide belt. the others opened fire indiscriminately then fanned out through the classrooms, firing as they went. pakistani commandos arrived within an hour, but the militants had booby-trapped the school compound.

here's our chief foreign corresponde correspondent, richard engel. >> reporter: it's become the weapon of choice in the war against islamic terrorists. a u.s. drone flies over a target thousands of miles away. the cia tracks the location, receives authorization, pushes a button, and a small missile is fired. but some are asking whether years from now we'll debate drones the way we're debating torture. >> the use of these unmanned aerial vehicles that you refer to as drones in the counterterrorism effort has done tremendous work to keep this country safe. >> reporter: the cia's clandestine fleet of armed drones has become central to its counterterrorism mission. the secretive nature of the program means no one can tell for sure how many of the estimated 3500 people killed mostly in pakistan and yemen were insurgents and how many were innocent civilians. >> in u.s. public opinion, there is greater support for killing people than torturing them. >> reporter: why? >> it's hard to know why. i think we believe that individuals we can see with this high technology precise discriminate weapons

richard engel, thanks very much. erica?ead of that typhoon that's set to hit the philippines we're taking a closer look at what could be heading their way. sheinelle is following that story. >> good morning. more than half a million people are now evacuating this morning ahead of this powerful and massive typhoon. nbc's jim maceda is on the ground in the philippines with the very latest. >> reporter: i'm coming to you from the city that is the capital of alby province northwest of samar where a few hours from now typhoon ruby is expected to make landfall and veer towards us and more to the point, towards the city of 175,000 people. and it's packing a punch. ruby is forecast to be just short of super typhoon strength, but with sustained winds of 120 plus miles an hour, gusts of 150 miles an hour. you can perhaps hear or see the winds beginning to kick up around me here. this is just the outer edge of the approaching storm. you'll notice, perhaps, that we're quite high above the city. that's because a 15-foot high storm surge

chief foreign correspondent richard engel. as luke just referenced, john mccain gave a very powerful, historic speech on the floor today. let's roll a bit of that. john mccain talking about why torture is ineffective. >> i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. i know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. i know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. most of all, i know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights which are protected by international conventions the united states not only joined, but for the most part, authored. >> to mccain's point, the report finds that torture did not produce useful intelligence. do you think that's accurate? >> well, the cia says that it's not accurate. i would n

. >> i got this tweet from william engels alerting me to an comcast error. the company changed their billing system recently and now your bill may look different and you may have been hit with this erroneous fee, a late fee that was misapplied and it's for $9.50. william engels scrutinizes every bill he gets, that is how he caught this mistake on his comcast statement. >> found a weird charge for $9.50 and hecalled the cable giant to ask about it. >> he knew about it, and she would credit him for the mistake. it was coming up a lot but was not doing anything to correct it unless people called in to tell them about it. >> it's really irritating. >> comcast admits it made the mistake on its customers november statements, but they quickly identified the problem and reversed the late fees, they say the credit will appear on the january statements and they changed the statements for philadelphia customers in early november and new jersey customers this past week. comcast says the new bills are easier to read and provide more detailed information with more package

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> and new york police are searching for a robbery suspect caughton tape tackling a young mother and her baby. this is the surveillance video released by police. it shows a woman walking with her 3-month-old baby strap to her chest. she passes the man on the street who then turns, runs from behind her, knocking the mother to the ground. the thief then snatched her cell phone and took off. mom and baby were taken to the hospital. they were not seriously hurt. >>> in a shocking scene for guests at a beverly hills hotel, police open fire on a suspected robbie at the luxe hotel right on rodeo drive. evidence markers and catch were scattered around the lobby. it is feet from the famous street featuring the most expensive stores in the world. listen as a witness describes what happened. >> i just saw the guy. i pointed toward 360, within a couple seconds they all ran, not even 20 seconds from there there were gunshots. >> kind of shocking, beverly hill, you don't really see et. >> a tracking device on the stolen money led police to rodeo drive where a wit

. >> more on this from richard engel engel. still ahead on the rundown.ame attended by the duke and duchess of cambridge. we'll talk about the fallout from the grand jury's decision not to indict eric garner. >>> plus our own jose diaz-balart getting ready to interview president obama later today. it was stephen colbert who got the the first crack at mr. obama yesterday. >> the president signed a climate change accord with china, pushed the fcc to adopt neutrality and wants to put cameras on our cops. obama is totally out of control. he's like both guys in lethal weapon. he's a crazy renegade with nothing to lose and a black guy who is this close to retirement. curling up in bed with a favorite book is nice. but i think women would rather curl up with their favorite man. but here's the thing: about half of men over 40 have some degree of erectile dysfunction. well, viagra helps guys with ed get and keep an erection. and remember, you only take it when you need it. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitr

engel and his colleagues are part of a small group of courageous journalists risking their lives to reportom syria. some of the most extraordinary images are being captured by manny, an independent french photographer and filmmaker. manny uses a fake name in order to protect his identity. >> before becoming a journalist, i used to teach kids in middle schools in paris. >> as a young man, manny also teaches in syria where he travels to study arabic. >> i started going syria quite early in my life. >> when he decides to switch careers and become a journalist, the syrian conflict beckons. >> when these movements happened in the arab world, i thought, okay, this is something that is really important that is happening. i lived there and i know those people. >> using his teaching credentials as cover, manny sneaks into the country. >> i had to go through the border illegally. the biggest danger you're facing is to be discovered. >> in syria he begins reporting the human side of war, meeting and talking with ordinary citizens, including children. >> manny also gains the trust of fighters of the f

joining me here in the studio, richard engel. i am happy to have you here. in as many weeks essentially. talk about that. was he in a dire situation? >> he was in a very dire situation. he had been held for just about a year in yemen. he went to yemen like a lot of young people do these days, they want to go abroad and experience a new career and he started out with teaching, and when political troubles started in yemen he began as a photo journalists and he was picked up, and an easy target a. lot of bad characters operating in the yemen capital. he had been held for about a year. then, there was a rescue operation. it turned out to be a failed and tragic mission took place. a desperate attempt to save an american hostage in yemen that ended in tragedy. luke somers was abducted more than a year ago in sama. and al qaeda terrorists murdered him during the operation. his sister told the associated press today, we ask that all of luke's family members be allowed to mourn in peace. summe somers pleaded for help earlier this week. >> i was born in england but i

it happened at intersection of engel and west 12th street around 12:45. this is all of the information we have at this point. no word on us pecks or if anyone was hurt. shots were fired at police evidently. >>> search will resume in manayunk for a missing west chester student shane montgomery. >> he was last seen leaving a bar early thanksgiving morning. now fbi has join the investigation and the reward for information has climbed. at this point it is climbed to $15,000. >> fox 29's jennifer joyce is live outside the bar where this kid was last seen, this shane montgomery, that was wednesday night into thanksgiving morning. >> reporter: yeah that was thanksgiving eve, chris and right here at kildare's bar in manayunk. the as you guys mentioned the reward is up to $15,000 for information that can help find 21 year-old shane montgomery. police say montgomery was escorted out of the bar by bouncers for allegedly bumping into something at the bar. he has not been seen since and this was wednesday, thanksgiving eve, over the last four days family and friend ha

it happened in chester at intersection of engel and west 12th street at 12:45. investigators now saying that the shots came from a nearby foot bridge, no word on whether any officers were hit and so far there have been no arrests. >>> also new this morning fire fighters investigating an early morning fire in germantown. crews responded to 79 east colter street a little bit before 4:00 o'clock, there were no injuries, investigators say this fire could have been caused by a firebomb. >>> 5:33 today, it is cyber monday and that means for the most part slashed prices, on line. >> sabina kuriakose live inside on line retailer amazon in middletown, delaware. pretty massive space, to hold all this product, right, sabina? >> reporter: my gosh, this is controlled chaos. they have got boxes coming off of this conveyor belt every few minutes, they are already taking orders, for cyber monday, in fact, they say that they are putting out a new deal every ten minutes. now we're join by spokesperson deatha, and what a big day for amazon. >> this is our biggest day of the year.

. >>> joining me now is nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. thank you for being here, richard. >> my pleasure. how are you? >> good. richard, did the cia go rogue, or was there more to it? >> well, i think in one element, i think the country went rogue after 9/11. not just the cia. you saw military abuses. you saw intelligence abuses. you saw overreach for surveillance systems that we're still seeing right now. and there were elements in the cia that were desperate, that acted, i think, inappropriately, stupidly. they contracted out, spending millions of dollars to inexperienced people and ran a torture program. that was a -- >> they ran a torture program? >> absolutely. >> that went on for years and with support from very high levels of government. >> there's a real debate on whether these techniques got useful intelligence. give me your take on that? >> probably not as useful as has been described. it's hard to know, however, unless you were in the room and reading the raw data. intelligence say fis a funny th. you have to take a small piece

richard engel thank you very much. still ahead, we will hear exclusively from the department official who reviewed the legality of enhancement techniques. also, former cia director, michael i had isn't our guest on the cia interrogations report. also with us, senator scott and joy behar. plus the finalists range from the ferguson protesters to taylor swift. later this morning, we will bring you "time" magazine's person of the year. you with watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. no. portfolio. and if doesn't perform well for two consecutive gold. quarters. quarters...yup. then amerivest gives me back their advisory... stocks. fees. fees. fees for those quarters. yeah. so, i'm confident i'm in good hands. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. . >> it's time now to take a look at the morning paper. we will start with the los angeles times. it's authorities have indicted an person citizen for allegedly planning attacks against holly sites in jerusalem. the suspect, ieflded as 30-year-old adam

a bit later on, richard engel will reflect on his own hostage ordeal. he'll talk about whether a rescue attempt is always worth the risk. that's coming your way at the bottom of the hour. >>> other breaking news to share right now, a short time ago, an extremely large typhoon made its first landfall in the philippines. the wind gusts of the typhoon are estimated to be about 130 miles an hour right now. more than 650,000 evacuated their homes headed to shelters. jim maceda is tracking the typhoon for us and joins us by phone. jim, what are the conditions like where you are? >> reporter: well, conditions aren't so bad for us here, alex, because we're due north in a separate -- in a different province. that's the good news. the bad news is we are in the province that is going to take the brunt of the storm tomorrow. it is on that path between samar and where it landfalled a few hours ago and manila where it's going to probably end up or close to manila by sunday. you mentioned up to 130-mile-an-hour winds, that wasn't as strong as a super typhoon strength

engel: reserving my right to object, although i don't intend to object. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentleman is recognized. mr. engel: this is a very important measure and we need to send this measure to the president's desk and need to do so tonight and delighted to do so. mentingis not only fo rmp troops. this is an invasion. and i'm concerned that the designs don't stop at ukraine. putin is putting substantial pressure on our allies. we must not bow. if we don't act now, where we will be in six months or two years, where we will be in a decade. europe-hold for peace. that relatey is within reach. putin's aggression puts it in jeopardy. we need to let president putin know we can't allow his plate ant aggression and as the united states, we remain the world's champion of freedom, democracy and dignity for all people. i commend the chairman and ranking member to sending the house this bill so we can stand one in the face of russia's aggression. chairman royce and i have worked together to say that we will not stand for putin's aggression. i think th

elliott engel. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ambassador, thank you. thank you for your good work. mr. chairman, thank you for calling this important hearing on the fight against isis. though our military operation against isis is focussed in the middle east, the threat posed by this terrorist group spans the globe. recent reports indicate that isis is recruiting more than 1,000 foreign fighters every month. these fighters are streaming into syria and yaerk from europe, north africa, the gulf, the u.s. and other nations. most troubling some are returning to their home countries armed with the knowledge of how to sew terror. the good news is more than 60 countries have joined the anti-isis coalition together we're cracking down on terrorist financing, stemming the flow of foreign fighter, discrediting isis faults and violent iedology providing military support to our partners. it's left hundreds of thousands without homes or families and a significant number including several european countries, australia, canada and a number of regional partners have worked alongside the u.s. military

the police reported gunfire near engel and west 12th street, no one was hurt. >> and president obama will discuss the situation in ferguson, missouri, with his cabinet, civil rights leader, law enforcement officials and other. white house says the cabinet meeting will focus on the administration review of federal programs that provide military style equipment to law enforcement agencies. >>> your time now 4:49. let's get check on business news. >> mine watch's jill wagner joins us live this morning from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. >> as we record earlier, millions will go on line today for cyber monday, look to go scoop up all every those deals that follows what a weekends of shopping. thousand this "black friday" shopping weekends shape up for retailers? >> reporter: well, good morning, ukee, diane a "black friday" shopping weekend may actually be losing its appeal. according to estimates by the national retail federation, there were 5.2% fewer shoppers, spending was down, 11%, and it is the second year in a row that spending fell off. part of the reason, retail

> thanks, stephen, china's correspondent stephen engel. >> e.u. finance minister meets in brussel after angela merkel increased pressure on france and italy to reform. hans, is there a solution for greece? and are the markets going to be spooked? >> well, the markets have calmed down in the last few days because there has been a talk of a technical extension. this would be a line of credit that would cover the gap. greece wants to billion underneath the flum the troika. these countries say yes, there's enough austerity there, there's enough structural reform in greece to set them free. this was a key promise for prime minister samaras when he won that crucial no contest vote saying he would be free by tend of the year. you may have early elections. you may have presidential elections in february for greece which could trigger yet another round of concern. when you look at this price of debt, clearly there's a diver generals there. e.u. finance ministers meet heading into it. i don't want to say explosive but vivid comments from angela merkel. she

we will talk to nbc's richard engel about that in a moment.air base, the last area under assad's control in the region. want to bring in florida congresswoman, thanks for being with me. >> thank you, jose. a pleasure. >> secretary kerry said yesterday the u.s. is making significant progress. >> i don't agree we made significant progress in the fight against isis. it is an important fight, that we must be victorious in. i don't see that we're bringing in the coalition the way we should. i don't think we have trained or armed the rebels that are going to fight isis as we said we would. they put out a press release, it is not enough against the growing men as. more important fighters are getting in there. we had a subcommittee hearing about the amount of foreign fighters coming from the middle east and west to join the fight alongside isis. it is incredible. we are not winning this yet. >> how are they getting in and able to do this? >> we need to talk to our supposed allies and get them to at least make sure they're taking some action against th

laura engel, fox news. >>> sony the target of another hack this time to the play station network.ent group of hackers targeting play station and microsoft xbox. they couldn't get their new gift to connect to the internet. a group called the lizard squad claiming responsibility to the xbox. >> are you kidding me? sony pictures says it wants taxpayers to compensate them for the fallout of the cyber+m atta. it is a victim of state sponsored terrorism after the aak by north korea. the studio is expected to make much less because of the limb theed release. >> the presidential motorcade filled with secret service agents police officers and this. 24-year-old taking a selfie. natalie tyson document ooing her day as a volunteer motorcade driver back in october. the graduate student signing up for the position with no training and no experience. the scariest part of all she told reporters she had no clue what to do in an emergency. >> the national institutes of health is laying it on thick with your tax dollars. nearly half of a million dollars is going to studying children's perception of

laura engel joins us here with more. laura. >> good afternoon.this money is being called the single largest financial contribution to eliminate the nationwide backlog that has left so many rape survivors waiting for years, even decades for answers giving them now a sense that some of these cold cases may finally be solved. >> i went to my building as i always do, except the difference on that evening is there was a man behind me with a gun. >> she was violently raped in new york city in 1993. she says she is a perfect example of how the system failed after her rape kit sat untouched in a police storage unit for nearly a decade. >> now to find out that were raped, that you went through this grueling process of a rape kit, and that the rape kit wasn't tested? every survivor's sexual assault says they feel like they've been revictimized. >> the dna was finally tested in 2003, which led to the eventual capture of her attacker 14 years later. zoofs $1,000 to test my rape kit, how much did it cost for victor to go for four different states, commit felo

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chief national correspondent jim engel has some more disturbing numbers tonight. >> reporter: aside from the shame of it all, what does an $18 trillion debt mean? one analyst compares it to smoking. >> 18 trillion isn't a magic number, it's a little bit like one more cigarette won't kill you, but if you continue to smoke cigarettes, you're more likely to get lung scan sir. >> reporter: senator obama ripped him for putting so much on the national credit card. >> $30,000 for every man, woman and child. that'ser responsibility that's unpatriotic it. >> reporter: some saying president obama has been even more irresponsible increasing it by $10 trillion. the $18 trillion debt doesn't include unfunded promises in entitlements, such as medicare which will explode in a few years. >> the total indebtedness of this country is in excess of $60 trillion to $80 trillion it could even be larger than that. >> reporter: when all the baby boomers retire, it could get ugly. the nation has made huge promises it has no way of paying, not even with tax increases. >> if you cam coup late the implied tax rates

engel and i were the co-sponsors. i'm pleased that this important legislation supporting the defense of our allies has been passed by the other body and with passage by the house it will make its way to the president's desk. on april 10, 1979, the taiwan relations act was established to govern america's relationship with the republic of china-taiwan. the act has maintained peace and security across the taiwan strait and the asian-pacific region. and during this time, taiwan has undergone amon you mental transformation from poverty to the vibrant multi-party democracy. taiwan's economy has evolved and it is our 10th top trading partner. as chairman, i led two bipartisan delegations to taiwan to examine their economy and defense capabilities and today's legislation is the product of the committee's bipartisan effort to prioritize the u.s.-taiwan relationship. so this legislation authorizes the president to send four vessels to taiwan. these are ships that are greatly needed to augustment their defense capability. i have

engel said, what i'm doing is taking my time. i owe that to the american people. i have a responsibility, he said. my name goes on that document. with the transfer of four afghans to afghanistan over the weekend, the number of prisoners still held at guantanamo has dwindled to 132 from 18 countries. of that, 64 have been approved for release, but the u.s. has nowhere to send them. and then the roughly 3 dozen detainees that are essentially forever prisoners, who face indefinite captivity, with no due process. more transfers are in the works, and they hope to get the number down to fewer than 200, and they hope to get congress to lift the ban to bring the remaining detainees to the united states, where they can be held in prisons. >>> the next generation of cuba is expected to get a big economic boost in relations from the united states, but struggling with a new question. will cuba's young people of today want to stay in their own country tomorrow as they get older? reporting from havana. >> on a side street in central havana, kids will be kids in the world. watch

chief national correspondent jim engel has the story. >> reporter: china isn't an enemy, but it is anadversary, yet americans are more and more dependent on china for drugs of all kinds, including life saving ones. >> china is the largest producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients including the finished product and america is the largest importer of chinese drugs in the world today. >> reporter: and that includes the basic ingredients for many antibiotics which are made almost exclusively for china. >> tetra cycle lean is -- they producing 95% of the world's supply. >> reporter: and chinese supplies are critical in both prescription and over-the-counter drugs. >> 70% of our antibiotics and about 50% of ours a seed minute fen come as evener finish -- >> reporter: there have been problems with adulterated or counterfeit drugs including one called heparin used by 25 million people on dialysis. >> they were adulterating it with what turned out to be a poison and it killed more than 80 people. >> that raises the question of inspections by the federal drug administration which has had so

rich and engel dallcalled it a despicable action. >> there is a lot of hypocrisy going on at the whitet is important in this report. at the same time they are droning people. it was interesting to watch annette henry press josh earnest on this. they were going head to head saying how do you claim moral authority when you are droning people yet you are so critical of the torture programs there was nothing there howe. >> i think it was an important question ed henry raised. it seems to me there is a lot of monday morning quarterbacking some years later where whether it's obama administration people or other critics, john mccain is also support i have in his report who say we should not have done this this is not who we are this is not about our values. i think that does regardless of where you stand on these techniques i think this brings some of it out of context. the director was trying to have it both ways calling some of these abhorrent but at the same time defending what the agency did. >> it has been an interesting week. we have it all covered sunday 11:00 a.m. right? >> right. >>

. >> hello, i'm laura engel. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> topping the news at this hour, have you heard what north korea is saying, berating us and president obama over the release of the movie "the interview." pyongyang hurled insults at new operations on the sony hack on entertainment. >>> what does it mean for for tehran's military ambitions. democrats are scrambling to line up behind hillary clinton and those newly released e-mails shed new light on the leadership style of jeb bush. >>> but first an emotional day here in new york city. friends, family and a sea of blue honoring one of the fallen as thousands celebrate the life and mourn the loss of officer rafael ramos. he was executed along with his partner, officer wenjin liu while sitting in their patrol car on a brooklyn street last saturday. >> i say watch the cast of characters past all those salutes. i wish it weren't real, but it is, as i look in the faces of those left behind whose worst fear has been suddenly re

. >> hello, i'm laura engel.brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> topping the news at this hour, have you heard what north korea is saying, berating us and president obama over the release of the movie "the interview." pyongyang hurled insults at new operations on the sony hack on entertainment. >>> what does it mean for

richard engel, evan coleman and david ignatius join us. what do you make of this whole report?t do you make of this report today? is it good for america to have this out there? >> i have mixed feelings about it, frankly. i've been reading the report over the last several hours, disgusted by many of the details in it. the torture, and i think you can only describe some of these techniques as torture. people leaving people in ice baths, dragging them outside of cells, cutting their clothes off, beating them up, putting them back into their cells, leaving them standing for days at a time. sometimes on broken legs. and then continuing to do it for months and months and months. well after the period where they would probably have any kind of valid intelligence. so in a certain sense, i think it's good that it's out there, that people don't -- they appreciate and are disgusted by what happened in this country after 9/11. and hopefully never do it again. but on the other side, this is why i say i have mixed feelings, the cia felt it had authorize to do this. it felt it was asked to do