let's bring in our senior national security analyst juan zarate. secretary hagel says deploying those warships to the gulf gives the president added flexibility to protect american interests. what does he mean by that? >> well, this gives the president of the united states the ability to project force in the region, to add to the military assets we already have with our bases in the gulf. and so if the president elects to use military force, he has those assets there. if we need to evacuate diplomats or citizens though assets reside in the region. the problem, though, jim, without a physical footprint in iraq, these assets are going to be less than effective if they're ultimately deployed. >> axelrod: so it's a projection of force? >> i think so. it's a demonstration that we're starting to posture for potential action, although it doesn't do much to change the situation on the ground presently. >> axelrod: now, we've been reporting iran is offering to help the government of iraq fight militants. it's not every day u.s. and iranian interests are ali

mark albert and juan zarate have the latest on the case against him. iraqi forces battle sunni militants to retake the northern city of tikrit. d'agata in iraq on the fight for saddam hussein's hometown. e blacbirds are dying in alarming numbers in california. bigad shaban on what's killing them off. ♪ and a final bow-- how the retiring concert master of the new york philharmonic preserved the harmony for more than 6,000 performances. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axlerod. this is our western edition of the broadcast. the libyan man snatched near benghazi and suspected in the consulate that killed four americans, including ambassador chris steven, is now on american soil. under heavy security in washington, d.c., ahmed abu khatalla made his first appearance in federal court this afternoon and pleaded not guilty to charge of conspiracy to provide support to terrorists. for the last two weeks, khatalla had been held and interrogated on a navy ship before being flown by helicopter into washin

. >> all right, with us now is juan zarate, a senior national security analyst with c.b.s. news. juan, you served the bush administration while these guys were at guantanamo, in your estimation do they reenter the fight? >> well, these are serious and dangerous detainees. they've been labeled as high value and highly dangerous by the department of defense, why they were being held still in guantanamo. there is no question that they have the ability to reenter the fight. and at a minimum, jeff, they present political and fund- raising value for the taliban, especially for the long term. and so, this he is a risky venture to see them on the loose and in qatar. >> does this put u.s. soldiers and civilians at risk in the future? >> there is no question, jeff, that in some ways we've contravened our consistent policy of not negotiating with terrorists. we have here and we're all happy that the sergeant is back, or will be back with his family soon. but certainly the issue is now have we put a premium on the heads and lives of american citizens and soldiers abroad? will this incentivize

let's bring in our senior national security analyst, juan zarate.juan, interrogators have had khatalla for two weeks while they transported him here. we're told at some point in the process he was read his rights. what kind of information are interrogators looking for? >> intergaitors are interested about any plots or threats to the west, any information about operatives coming from the west and any information that khatalla may have had about operations, communications with terrorist group, not just in libya but in the region. they would then, of course, have been interested in information about the benghazi attack. based on the information i know, he was talking both before he was read his rights and after. >> from what you know, do you expect to see more arrests in this case? >> i think authorities are certainly looking at other operatives and potential defendants in this case. they're going to take their time, though to, both perfect the case and to find the right target of opportunity. those associated with khatalla have watched very carefully

sends a carrier to the persian gulf just in case. ( gun shots ) clarissa ward, holly williams, and juan zarate have the latest on the crisis in iraq. pro-russian separatists take down a ukrainian government plane, killing all 49 aboard. charlie d'agata has the latest. who would want to put the "maid of the mist" out of business? vanita nair on the tour boat rivalry shaping up at niagara falls. >> we think it's a great company, and we like their brand. we like our brand a lot more. >> axelrod: and the ghost of the world cup. elaine quijano tells us how even after 64 years, brazil can't forget the win that got away.

clarissa ward, holly williams, and juan zarate have the latest on the crisis in iraq.o-russian separatists take down a ukrainian government plane, killing all 49 aboard. charlie d'agata has the latest. who without want to put the "maid of the mist" out of business? vanita nair on the tour boat rivalry shaping up at niagra falls. >> we think it's a great company, and we like their brand. we like our brand a lot more. >> axelrod: and the ghost of the world cup. elaine quijano tells us how even after 64 years, brazil can't forget the win that got away.

mark albert and juan zarate have the latest on the case against him.raqi forces battle sunni militants to retake the northern city of tikrit. d'agata in iraq on the fight for saddam hussein's hometown. e blacbirds are dying in alarming numbers in california. bigad shaban on what's killing them off. ♪ and a final bow-- how the retiring concert master of the new york philharmonic preserved the harmony for more than 6,000 performances. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

meantime cbs news senior national security analyst juan zarate says the u.s. have veered from its policy of not negotiating with terrorists. >> the issue is now have we put a premium on the heads and lives of american citizens and soldiers abroad. will this incentivize al qaeda which is constantly looking for prisoner swaps to go out and capture more machineries. americans. that's certainly a risk here. >> meantime one question still remains unanswered five years after bergdahl's capture. that is why he walked off his post in eastern afghanistan back in 2009. lauren? >> tara mergener in washington. tara, thanks. >>> and the national transportation safety board is investigating the crash of a private jet. seven people were killed including prominent philadelphia businessman lewis katz. there were no survivors. katz's corporate jet was trying to take off saturday night from an airfield northwest of boston. witnesses say it never got off the ground. anne-marie green has our report. >> reporter: the "gulfstream iv" was taking off from hanscom field in bedford, mas

. >> the question that i have for you, one of our other guests in the piece, juan, zarate was in charge. he said that money out of qatar could be used to fuel the ambition of the dream of attacks against the united states directly. do you agree? >> well, i do agree with that, because if you look at number one threat to the homeland, it's isis in syria and iraq. the biggest training ground surpassing afghanistan and pakistan, and who is funding isis? who is funding al nosra, or more importantly isis? the reason why the saudis and the uae cracked down on qatar is because they're the ones throwing the money indiscriminately not caring who it goes to as long as it funds sunni extremists fighting assad in syria. so they really didn't care where the money and the weapons went to, and so the big debate was the saudis said we're going to pull our diplomats out until you better vet and send it to the moderates. it's very confusing relationship. i think that we need to, i think, work with the saudis to make sure that qatar stops doing this. if we fund rebel forces, which is a risky proposition. >

also with us is juan zarate. he's a former adviser to president bush. good morning, juan. >> good morning. >> you heard him saying we'll not engage without a concrete plan from the prime minister. what really are the options right now? >> well the options are limited, vinita. you have no footprint on the ground. the military options immediately are not present. and so the president is talking about a political solution but the reality is you have a crisis on the ground now with the advancing islamist forces threatening baghdad, so you could support with military strikes, intelligence certainly trying to get the regional activists together to try to push back this offensive. but for the united states at this stage, the options are limited. >> what went wrong here? we spent $25 billion rearming the iraqi army training them. why has it collapsed? >> well this is a crisis years in the making unfortunately anthony. you've had sectarianism creeping into not just the politics but into the military of iraq a loss of faith and confidence in the military by the po

i want to make a bug here for my colleague, juan zarate, who has written a wonderful book that tells the story. it's a great tale about how pressury got into this book and really developed this new tools. and ones of the things that is important and talk will talk about it is the source of treasury as intelligence and information about what the bad guys are doing and how they're moving their muddy around in addition to trying to disrupt them. but the snowden leaks, the dicushes of u.s. social media in helping the government on areas of dealing with terrorism proliferation has given us two crisis. one is with government leaders. how come we didn't know and concerned about spying lon leaders and the like. we'll repair through dialogue and conversations. there's dialogue about how we do some of these like bulk storage of data and the like. the problem i have is in some sense the european publics. there's a beep of trust there. i think there has to poe a broader sense of balance about this balance and what we need to do to defend our people from the proliferation of tearism and how odo t