he could've immediately been killed by the gadhafi regime. was us a concept of great mail in the u.s. public prosecution. as they're bringing the evidence we can tell you how we got what we got and then they will have the private security conversations. a government would not be able to bring in this informant. he knew even if the fpi presented these letters in court they would have a hard time saying that they have actually been sent to an embassy. and so he attempted to blackmail the government by saying look, i'm not giving anything up. and i think i deserve less than nine years in prison for what i've done. and only if you give me that short sentence relatively speaking will help you to dig up the seeker that i had buried. this was highly unusual this was the worst judgment call that brian could've made. and that's what fascinated me. and i wanted to dig deeper into his life to understand that they would lead him to think in this way that he would out smart and outmaneuver the government after being caught. he tries to out smart and outma

. >> do you think the middle east would be better today if saddam and gadhafi and assad -- if saddam were there and assad were stronger, do you think it would be safer. >> it's not even a contest. iraq is stronger. don't forget, isis came out of iraq. >> do you like putin's involvement? >> i like that putin is bombing the hell out ofites ice. it's going to be i.c.e. putin has to get rid of autos ice because he doesn't want them in isis. >> why do you trust him and nobody else does? >> i don't trust him. at all. we got the highest ratings on 60 minutes. me and putin. did i get the ratings or did he? it's not a matter of trust. the united states, we've spent $2 trillion in iraq, probably $1 trillion in afghanistan. we are destroyin here's the problem to what you are saying in syria. we are fighting assad, and we are fighting for people, and helping people that we don't even know who they are. and they may be worse than assad. they may be worse. okay? they may be worse. and if assad -- if assad never happened, if you didn't have a problem in syria, you wouldn't have the migration, you w

both have now surrendered to police but not until they declared loyalty to muhammed gadhafi. plain was carrying 111 passengers, seven crew members destined for the libyan capital of tripoli. cal perry has been monitoring for us. what do we know about the hijackers and why did they decide to surrender? >> they got what they wanted. they got out of libya and were able to land in malta. we heard from the prime minister of malta a short time ago that they were armed. they did have at least one grenade and handguns. that was a question. we knew this was politically motivated. there was some question as to whether or not they were armed or if it was a bluff. they were armed. thankfully it ended peacefully. this was a politically motivated hi jacking. we are talking about a plane that originated from a town that's seen brutal fighting since gadhafi was removed from power in 2011. this town doesn't have good airport security. there really isn't a security apparatus in place. the runway is three miles from where the passenger terminal is. it ease' si to penetrate the airliners. in dec

number of armed groups, obviously, in the wake of the gadhafi government there. what else can you tell us about what could have sparked this? >> there's a lot of factions in libya right now. isis is also operating there. we don't know who these two people are. i think the important thing to look at is that this -- they allowed this plane to land. so it looks like that they have demands. what those demands are, we don't know. but, we did see a man who left the plane a little while ago. he waved' green flag. the green flag was the flag of the former leader moammar gadhafi who was killed in that civil war. so it could be supporters of the former leader who hijacked this plane. but we're still waiting from the maltese government right now the armed forces of malta are conducting the negotiations. >> ian lee we'll stay on top of this. also i want to get to this manhunt, obviously, that swept across europe. now ending in an explosion of bullets. berlin truck suspect anis amri is killed in an overnight shoot-out with police just outside of milan, italy. it began with fr

what you would refer to in libya as sort of the third column, the remnants of supporters of colonel gadhafi who have remained since his death in 2011. let's make it clear. air traffic -- air travel in libya is not safe like it is here in the u.s. there is not the same security apparatus. and we heard from the mayor of the town where this plane originated from saying that the airport security was just, quote, poor. you don't have the same kind of system that you have here with the tsa. you have had hijackings in the past. you had planes shot at on the ground in the past in places lick tripoli as recently as december. >> and what exactly did these hijackers want? >> it's not clear. they say they're going to hang on to the crew. they're willing to let the passengers go. it's possible they want to travel on to another destination. it's possible they want to leave libya and stay in malta. that we don't know. we're waiting to see that hopefully all of the passengers get off safely. >> thanks, cal. >> we're going to turn to president-elect donald trump. this morning, he ramped up his rhoric on nuc

. >> do you think the middle east would be better today if saddam and gadhafi and assad -- if saddam assad were stronger, do you think it would be safer. >> it's not even a contest. iraq is stronger. don't forget, isis came out of iraq. >> do you like putin's involvement? >> i like that putin is bombing the hell out of isis. putin has to get rid of isis. doesn't want isis to come into russia. >> why do you trust him and nobody else does? >> i don't trust him. at all. we got highest ratings on "60 minutes." me and putin. did i get the ratings or did he? it's not a matter of trust. the united states, we've spent $2 trillion in iraq, probably $1 trillion in afghanistan. we are destroying our country. here's the problem to what you are saying in syria. we are fighting assad, and we are fighting for people, and helping people that we don't even know who they are. and they may be worse than assad. they may be worse. okay? they may be worse. and if assad -- if assad never happened, if you didn't have a problem in syria, you wouldn't have the migration, you wouldn't be talking about all of t

and gadhafi were still there and assad were stronger? you think the middle east would be safer? >> it's not even a contest. iraq is a disaster. and -- >> it would be better off if saddam were in charge? >> isis came out of iraq -- >> you like putin's involvement? >> i like that putin is bombing the hell out of isis. and it's going to be isis. putin has to get rid of isis. putin doesn't want isis coming into russia. >> why do you trust him? >> i don't trust him at all other than we got good ratings the other night on "60 minutes." it was with me and putin. can you believe this? did i get the ratings, or did he? the truth is -- it's not a question of trust. i don't want to see the united states -- we've spent now, we've spent $2 trillion in iraq, probably $1 trillion in afghanistan. we're in -- we're destroying our country. here's the problem to what you're saying in syria -- we are fighting assad, and we're fighting for people and helping people that we don't even know who they are. and they may be worse than assad. they may be worse. and

a pro-gadhafi group. >>> the most wanted man in europe is dead. berlin terror suspect anis amri was shot by italian police that a border checkpoint -- checkpoint in milan. but was he acting alone? as carson reports, german investigators are on the hunt for accomplices.>> reporter: anis amri's four day run from law enforcement ended with a police gunfight in milan italy. some 600 miles from berlin. the tunisian national was believed to have mowed down to visitors of a christmas market in berlin. and he was asked for id at 3 am, he took a pistol from his backpack and shot one in the shoulder. the second officer responded with deadly force. german chancellor angela merkel says security forces will not reun have helped him escape. officials say he fled to france and then italy. ices released this video of omri -- amri pledging allegiance to isis.'s fingerprints were found inside the cab of the tractor- trailer used in the attack. dash cam video shows the truck barreling toward the christmas market followed by people running from the scene. police say

the hijackers reportedly supporters of late libyan leader moammar gadhafi forced the flight to divert and the lapped land in malta. they asked for political asylum and threatened to blow up the plane, but after a stand-off, they released all the hostages and surrendered. >>> switching gears on this eve of christmas eve, a very busy day on the roads and in the skies as millions race to get home for the holidays. the good news tonight as we take a look at what they call the misery map. not a whole lot of misery there. a lot of green on the map. meaning that things are smooth sailing at most airports across the country. one of the things that's helping that is the weather. meteorologist janice huff is monitoring all of that. a lot of folks hoping for a white christmas. do we have that anywhere? >> yes, of course, there will be a white christmas for a lot of the west, the interior west, especially over the mountains and even the northern plains, but we're tracking two storm systems that will produce great effects across the country. the first one is moving through the midwest right now, t

what we do know is that they are from a pro—gadhafi group.e, but we are not sure what their demands are. there seemed to be negotiations that are going quite well. the later is that i've heard is that some passengers might actually be released shortly. but of course we don't know much as you can understand in this situation. even the government spokesman are quite relu cta nt to the government spokesman are quite reluctant to diebold any information. —— divulges. reluctant to diebold any information. -- divulges. that is good news. when did you get to hear of this hijacking, if that is what it is, how long have passengers been on that plane? they have been never two hours now. —— been there for. cameras were rushed to the scene. this is obviously not something that regularly happens. malta hasjust one airport, so obviously the plane has disrupted operations. most of the flights were diverted to neighbouring cicely. it is resuming now. it is obviously disrupted the place in a big way. malta is a small island and tourism is our mainstay, so of

it is associated with momar gadha gadhafi. so we're waiting for more details as far as that goes. >> have you heard anything from libyan officials? have they said anything? >> yes, the transportation minister is defending his country's airline security saying breaches happen everywhere, not just in libya. they said the weapons are replicas, but the question is if airline security spots the replicas, or if they spotted them anyway, if not, why not. what is the motivation behind the highjacki the hijacking of the flight. >> smoke rising after a ammunition depot was blown up. they are now dismantling explosives and booby traps. >>> coming up, vladimir putin holding his marathon year end press conference. four hours. what he has to say about president-elect trump's tweet, and whether or not he will pay mr. trump a visit on u.s. soil. plus the president-elect changing fortunes. >>> and a jet that has a checkered past, we'll break it down, stay with us it. picking up for kyle. here you go. you wouldn't put up with part of a pizza. u

the intelligence suggests that gadhafi would have killed a number of people. i don't want to get into the hot take business saying that was a good thing. the problem was we went in and didn't want to go in. we didn't go all the way. that was based on the last decision made rather than thinking about the unintended consequence. the sin was underreaction. they had the hesitation and now we have something entirely different and i don't know how to interpret what he is going to do. he is going to take both, but the question is which both. you can picture him being very aggressive and overreacting to a singular situation. >> right. a berlin-style situation. this is the problem when something happens. there might be an overreaction or under reaction. >> not a left winger. what is that going to mean? what does that mean to the process? they are hurtful to him politically. they are more closely aligned on the right than his coalition. talk about vertigo. let's be fair. with all due respect, it's not the most important job in the world. it has been run out of the white

pro gadhafi supporters. two want to be more involved in the political process in libya. i think they wanted out. >> are they just trying to send a message? what did they think they would accomplish with this? carrying fake weapons. >> they wanted to get out of libya. it was bizarre as the passengers came off the plane they were shaking hands of the hijackers who never took their cell phones. it doesn't appear the passengers were in danger. >> how long were they on the plane. >> you wonder what the issues were on board. >> they were upset with libya and things are out of control. the prime minister of the country was kidnapped. that's how bad it is. >> cal perry, thank you so much. >>> vladimir putin using gop talking points in his year-end news conference today. as evidence mounts that russia hacked the u.s. presidential election, putin is telling democrats you lost. get over it. up next, we'll talk to a democrat. congressman karen bass and give her a chance to respond. they are the natural borns enemy of the way things are. yes, ideas are scary, and messy and fragile. b

. >> they would be better if gadhafi and assad and saddam were still there? >> not even a contest. it's not even a contest. iraq is a disaster. >> they would be better if saddam was there. >> isis came out of iraq. i like that put is bombing the hell out of isis. putin has to get rid of isis. he doesn't want them to come into russia. >> why do you like him? >> i don't trust him, but we both get very good ratings. did i get the ratings or did he? it's not a question of trust. i don't want to see the united states -- we spent now -- we spent $2 trillion in iraq and a trillion in afghanistan. we are destroying our country. here's the problem. we are fighting assad and we are fighting for people and helping people that we don't even know who they are. they may be worse than assad. they may be worse. they may be worse. if assad never happened, if you don't have a problem, you wouldn't have the migration and wouldn't be talking about the countries with what's going on in europe and now they are talking about taking 200,000 people that we don't know about and bring them to the united stat

were seek political asylum in europe and wanted to create a new political party in honor of moammar gadhafi. >> a 25,000 reward is up for grabs to help if i can you're out what led to sxletion is the central park that injured a teenager over the 4th of july weekend a 19-year-old from fax fair stepped on homemade explosive device at the park he loft left foot and part of his leg. at this point they do not have leads who planted the device. they're asking anyone with videos or photos to come for wartd. >>> meanwhile police need your help identifying two perpetrates of interest in robbery. take a look at video here. men caught on surveillance tuesday roning red valet leapers on p street northwest. police say the suspects went behind the couper and stole money from the cash register. the suspect ended up getting a way. no one was hurt in this incident. if you recognize the men >> a gift from the past in time for christmas. arlington man was reunited with a keepsake from high school glory years thanks to facebook and "fox5" helped play santa. anjali hemphill has the story. >> this high school tr

for people who have been following libya, the green flag is the former flag of gadhafi, the leader of libya until 2011 when he was then overthrown in a civil war. this seems like it could have some political elements to it at this moment. right now, though, officials glad that it ended peacefully. no one was hurt and now they are looking into the motives of these two hijackers. >> ian lee, thank you for that reporting. obviously as we get more details as to motive, we will bring them to you. >>> meantime, another top story we are following closely, the suspect in that deadly truck attack in berlin is now dead. just hours after he was killed in a police shootout in italy, isis releases a video which appears to show anis amri pledging allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi but there's no mention of the attack and it is not clear where the video was shot. paul cruickshank is in london this hour. also with us is ben wedeman. ben, how is it that the authorities apprehended amri in this small town on the outskirts of milan? was it intelligence that led them there or was it chance? >> well, we u

media reports say the men appeared to be followers of the late deposed leader moammar gadhafi. >> thepect in the killing of a 3-year-old boy in arkansas during a road rage incident is now charged with murder. relatives turned in 33-year-old gary holmes late last night. he's charged with capital murder and two counts of a terrorist act. according to the arrest affidavit holmes' girlfriend said he fired into a car last saturday because holmes believed it was following him too closely a few moments earlier. 3-year-old acen king was buried this afternoon. >>> new names were added to join president-elect donald trump at the white house after mr. trump tweeted about expanding america's nuclear capabilities. >> reporter: could this single tweet mark a major break from u.s. policy for nearly 40 years, a tweet that read in part that the u.s. must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear cape sglablt there were all kinds of warnings, especially from hillary clinton when she said if a guy that you can bait with a tweet is not someone that you put in charge of nuclear arsenal and one day and one

but trump has said that we're better off with saddam hussein in power, gadhafi, ben ali, and assad. let me tell you this, mr. president, would you want your family to grow up in a dictatorship where they could take your daughter any time they wanted? so you're going to be the leader of the free world. obama left iraq too soon. he didn't act when assad was on the ropes. he owns aleppo. this is as much a part of his legacy as obamacare. >> does he have a good national security team getting ready to take charge? >> i think so. i like general flynn. but to destroy isil, you have to hold the territory. shia militia are not going to hold mosul. kurdish fighters are not going to hold raqqah. we need more arabs in the fight inside of syria and security fier forces less sectarian. >> do you believe all these numbers, that 75% of the isis fighters in iraq and syria have been killed? >> nobody knows. we have patriots out there on the battlefield giving us the best picture they know, but it's one thing to estimate the number of isil fighters, but we know what the russians are doing inside towar

the hijackers waved a green flag outside the aircraft suggesting loyalty to the late leader moammar gadhafi, and they showed the guns used in the hijacking were fake. >>> love this. three little girls found dirty and hungry and all alone have some new hope. ryan young has their story in this week's beyond the call of duty. >>> three young girls from schlichting getting a fresh start at life. they're known as the ingle woothd angels and the love they receive now is all thanks to a 911 call. >> we have a situation where there are some children left alone inside this abandoned building. >> inside the home, they said the children, 7, 2 and 1 sat together with nothing but each other. >> they were all huddled up together in the bedroom on a very dirty mattress inside one of the bedrooms there. the whole house was very uninhabitable. no running water, no heat, no electricity. dirty garbage spread throughout the apartment. >> the father was accused of striking his children and charged with eight counts of battery. he has pleaded not guilty. the mother's role in the children's lives is unclear. it i

. >> libyan officials say highjackers were supporters of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi, seeking political asylum in malta. >>> lauren joins us again now. we are watching a system moving our way. >> still a little ways off. no issues, if you are out and about grocery shopping, malls, this evening. >> now is the time. >> now is the time. little holiday party to end off the workweek and conditions this evening will be pretty quiet as we get a live look at center citywill philadelphia in problems, just high cloud, that you cannot see because we are under cover of darkness. 43 degrees is your current temperature, wind southwest at 7 miles an hour adding a little bit of the wind chill impact feeling more like 39. high temperatures today running above average. we have topped off at 46 in philadelphia, 45 in allentown, 48 in atlantic city. our average high temperature for today's date his three. that is where we are sitting right now in philadelphia a43 in trenton. upper 30's right now in the lehigh valley. moving up wind temperatures that we're looking at, not too scary, so no crazy ar

now that is the flag of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi, ousted in 2011.t might be a hint of maybe some of the motivation behind this hijacking, but right now we're waiting to hear from the maltese government about what drove these men to hijack that plane, john. >> of course, good news. everyone safe. in london, thanks so much. >>> reporting on the u.n. security council voting perhaps on a resolution today condemning israeli settlements. reporting that president-elect donald trump got himself involved in this in the last 24 hours, and this is counter to a tradition in american transitions where people say there's only one president at a time. let's talk about this now. joining us, historian professor's princeton university julian zelzner. one president at a time, something generally speaking most president-elects who come into this transition all declare right at the outset. why is it important? >> it's important so that there's clarity on who the leader is, and where the policies are coming from. so what we have now is a situation where if you're oversea

staircase of the plane with a solid green flag which in libya signifies allegiance to the late moammar gadhafi> coming up, donald trump sharing a very friendly letter he received this morning from russian president vladimir putin. and donald trump issued a very interesting and nuanced response. >>> also ahead, the president-elect weighing in on the debate about middle east settlements on a request to do so from israel. and there is breaking news about what the united nations might do about this issue in just the next few hours. >>> still more breaking news. israel expects the united nations security council could vote on a resolution demanding an end to its settlements, that vote could happen this afternoon in just a few hours. president-elect trump weighed in yesterday saying the united states should vote against the issue in the security council. i want to bring in orin lieberman from jerusalem. what are you learning? >> reporter: a number of countries reintroduced this resolution after egypt pulled it, including new zealand, senegal, malaysia, who wanted to see this go forward yesterday. af

one of the pilots said you know, ronald reagan sent this plane to bomb gadhafi in 1986. it's my plane. something when i was in flight hit part of the plane. i had had damage but we couldn't get the part to fix it. this is the pilot talking. i'm taking my family through a military museum and see an f-18 on static display there in the museum and get the bright idea that maybe i could borrow a part off the museum aircraft. so we had to work his way through the museum bureaucracy and then through the d.o.d. to make all this happen. took apart off of the museum aircraft. if turned out the holes were drilled in imappropriately places, so back in the early '80s, you know, it didn't exactly fit. he had to come up with a plan b. as i continued to talk with others getting planes out of the bone yard and extends beyond the flying. we have hey testimony from a navy captain, his ship was tied up at dock, so that they could take 13 parts off of it to put on other ships that had to deploy right away. so what we're doing is cannibalizing and then what goes with that is we don't have eno

it's reported that they are gadhafi backers.tuart: they're negotiating by phone, i believe, from inside the plane. liz: that's correct. stuart: terror standoff continues. thank you, liz. donald trump tweets on nukes after vladimir putin flexed his muscle. putin spoke first, here is what he said. we're stronger now than any potential aggressor, anyone. he goes on to say we need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces. then donald trump tweeted this: the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. stacy washington is here. let's go beyond the nuke tweet for a second and look at the big picture here. i think donald trump is now in charge. he's acting like he is the president. mr. obama is off in hawaii playing golf. i mean, what are we to say about this? donald trump is in charge. >> absolutely, stuart. one of my favorite things about this is that so president obama plans to basically abstain and leave our ally in

one of the pilots said ronald reagan sent this plane to bomb gadhafi in 1986. it's my plane. something when i was in flight hit part of the plane. i had had damage but we couldn't get the part to fix it. this is the pilot talking. i'm taking my family through a military museum and sigh an f-18 on static display there in the museum and get the bright idea that maybe i could borrow a part of the museum aircraft. so we had to work his way through the museum bureaucracy and then through the d.o.d. to make all this happen. took apart of the aircraft. it turned out to the holes were drilled in inappropriate places so back in the early '80s, it didn't exactly fit. he had to come up with a plan b. as i continued to talk with others getting planes out of the bone yard and extends beyond the flying. it was tied up to take 13 parts off of it to put on other ships that had to deploy right away. so what we're doing is cannibalizing and then what goes with that is we don't have enough aircraft available for train iing and they are not getting what they are supposed to get. you get this cyc

but because of what we did with gadhafi and those types of things, much of that intelligence has dried up and we are going to have to reestablish that. jon: congressman, following up to that question, it's holiday season, do you think this makes the united states a more likely target over the next few days, is the threat level rising here as we have seen all over the rest of the world? >> absolutely. we are not immune from this threat. isis has made it very clear. al-qaeda has made it very clear that the kind of attacks that we are seeing in europe are the kinds of attacks in the united states. you have christmas and you have knew years, you have the upcoming inaugural, you know, i'm sure our law enforcement, they are prime, they recognize that the next 30 days are critical in the united states. maria: harlan. harlan: in light of all the news about russia, they have been in the spotlight for months now in assassination embassador to turkey, their response has been very measured. what do you think we can expect out of the kremlin in the coming weeks to really respond to the assassinatio

speaking of beyonce who loves to perform for gadhafi.he performed for president obama, one of the inaugurals. >> second one. >> trump is a white republican. so of course, oh, no, you can't perform for him. we all know, guys if the roles were reversed, the same liberal celebrities would be calling their peers racist for not performing if it was obama and it was happening. if celebrities were daring to boycott the first black president. oh, you guys are a bunch of racist. it's okay to boycott the white guy coming in. >> so many talented individuals to get up on the stage and perform, that's what it's all about. that's what his campaign was about from day one. >> i nominate abby huntsman. i don't know if you've heard her voice. we might get her by the end of the show to do a -- this is a new year surprise. i'm not joking. >> i'm ready, abby. i want to hear it. >> crystal, i don't think it's going to happen. >> good to see you. have a good new year. >> one of the members of kiss will join us on the program. we'll ask him about this as well.