stevens is a marginal figure in that book. you know, we all acknowledge his importance, but in the narrative of the movie, he is so central because he's straight out of hollywood central casting. you know, with the wig and the club foot and the crusty demeanor and even the black mistress. you've got it all working. it's perfect. but that's why he's there. and that's why this is there. you know, i think the kitchen scene has another profound truth in it. i wanted to point this out and maybe if someone wants to follow up, we can talk about it more in questions. you know, the kitchen scene is really about the politics of reconstruction, and i think that that's an underlying theme in the movie that they bury. they can't really address because they're talking about the abolition of slavery. that's why the peace negotiations seem so important, although i think of them more as a side show, unimportant to the final narrative of the war. there are historians who disagree with this, but the reason why i think the abolition amendment is

. >> good morning, and welcome to fort stevens. my name is kim elder and i'm the program manager for the national park service for the civil war defenses of washington. i'd like to welcome and thank each of you all for joining us this morning for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the battle of fort stevens. ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of colors and the singing of the national anthem by anita frasier. ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave ♪ [ applause ] >> you may take your seats. the invocation will be delivered by the senior pastor of st. luke's baptist church, the

listen to a friend. >> steven was my hero.was traveling to the most dangerous troubled places on the planet so that he could report back stories of human suffering. he was someone who could not ignore pain and injustices. he felt responsible, and he had to responsible. >> exactly what do we know about this video and the isis executioner, karl penhaul, he's live in london with that part of the story. he's going to break down intelligence officials and what kind of information can be gleaned from that. >>> there's still conversation on the beheading of steven sotloff. but that could change within the minutes. we're awaiting a news conference with president obama live in estonia. he's in estonia meeting with the president there. he is there to talk about the ongoing crisis in ukraine. from that region there has been breaking news as well. word from the president of ukraine of a cease-fire between ukraine and russia. that coming in just moments ago. let's bring in our international correspondent matthew chance live from estonia's

they have beheaded steven sotloff. this video has a title "the second message to america" and appears to show the brutal execution of the 31-year-old journalist. we need to be clear here, as we're getting new information at this point, the pentagon is not confirming any reports on steven sotloff. secretary rear admiral john kirby was asked about that and this is his response. >> we've all seen press reporting about the potential murder by isil of mr. sotloff. i don't have anything to confirm it today. obviously we're monitoring it as best we can. and our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the sotloff family who has endured incredible hardship and suffering just by virtue of his captivity and being held hostage. i can't confirm those press reports right now. >> british prime minister david cameron has released a statement. he's saying sotloff's apparent death is, quote, an absolutely disgusting and despicable act. keep in mind the contents of this second beheading. it was just two weeks ago isis threatened to ki

steven travelled to the middle east. steven is a loyal and generous son, brother and grandson. he's an honorable man and always tried to help the weak. we have not seen steven for over a year and want to see him very much and want him safe and sound and hug him. >> heart breaking comments there from the mother of steven sotloff that he may be coming home and now we are hearing that he was by headed. this is not confirmed in the states. this is had been a big problem, the kind of kidnapping and the killing of journalists in that area. >> it has. these two reporters both steven and james foley, both taken from northern syria. they have taken care of going out into that area. really abduction of journalists is becoming a national sport there. it is not just the worry that you might well be killed by the air strikes or captured by the forces, it is also the growing threat of abductions as going on since the summer of 2013, of course, when steven sotloff was taken. i was in the same town in northern syria on the same tiet and

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we're talking about steven sotloff missing since 2013. i wa >> in the last few minutes i have been able to speak with someone who has seen the video posted in a very limited way online. they described it to me as a video fairly brief under three minutes in length and they said to me it's called a second message to america. you'll recall that the first message to america direct message from isis to the american people was execution video of journalist james foley. this is called the second message to america. and it begins again with video of the president announcing why there are air strikes in iraq and then it shows an individual we believe is steven sotloff. we don't have independent verification of the video's authenticity. an individual that looks like steven sotloff is kneeling next to the executioner. also wearing an orange jump suit. this is very clear messaging by isis. synonymous with guantanamo bay and his head is meishaven. it was described to me that sotloff gives a statement clearly made under duress in which he denounces ame

the opening words there from steven sotloff saying that "you know who i am by now and you know why ire." that is the prelude, really, to what then comes, and later on in this video, we see, once again, that apparently british accented executioner then pointing his knife into the camera once again, as he did with that brutal execution video of james foley, saying, "obama, i am back," indicating this is possibly the same man that took that action against james foley, and then proceeds to pass a combat knife across steven foley's throat before that video fades to black. once it does fade to black, once again, we see a gruesome picture after that, a blood soaked body, dressed in the orange uniform, similar to the uniforms the guantanamo prisoners were held in, and what appears to be a severed head on top of that body. this video, like the last video, we see another hostage there. apparently an indication there he may be the next man. we're working hard to identify him, get some more details about him in this video. the executioner or apparent executioner, as he waves his knife, he says,

last week steven sotloff's mother pleaded with the leader of the islamic state to free her son. >> steven has no control over the actions of the u.s. government. he is an innocent journalist. >> a spokesman for his family is saying now that the family is aware of the video, to please give them peace while they grieve. >>> sotloff was a free lance journalist who worked over9e and says it is the u.s. foreign policy which is to blame for sotloff's death, which is clearly not the case, shep. >> and, catherine in the end of the video there is a threat at least to someone else. >> well, it's clearly implied at the end of the video the individual believed to be sotloff makes a statement, then the executioner makes his statement, and then they show what i would call the initial stages of the beheadings. they cut away and then show the completed act, then it goes to black and comes back again with another individual who is kneeling on the ground in the orange jump suit, and this has been widely identified as a british hostage, and the executioner doesn't say, he is next, but he says, this is a war

we want to focus on is steven sotloff as a person. friends and family describe him as a brave journalist and a good friend. he had learned arabic. >> he spoke to cnn after the attack on the u.s. compound in libya back in 2012. he had a firsthand account from the guards who witnessed that violence. take a listen. >> there was no protest. they were armed with ak-47s, rpgs, they had blast demoliti demolitions, they had grenades. >> we'll have more on the steven sotloff later this hour. >>> in the meantime we're going to go back to charlotte, north carolina, we're about to hear from nancy writebol, she is the second victim to contract ebola in liberia. she's fully recovered, the 59-year-old health care worker speaking publicly for the first time. let's listen to what she says. >> a reference to a little bit of a story. during the time that nancy and i were in liberia, nancy was laying in bed, struggling with ebola, one of things we did is we read scripture and one particular time i read the entire letter of phillipians, i had been studyin

steven was my hero. he was traveling to the most dangerous, troubled places on the planet so that he could report back stories of human suffering. he was someone who could not ignore pain and a injustice. he felt responsible. and he had to respond. >> so, you know, you shared your first great class photo from your temple. and i want to show it here. you tell us that steven sotloff, there he is in the top second row from the right, and you're on the lower right. you hadn't seen him in 15 years. but he actually reached out to you in 2010 to reconnect, right? >> yeah, he did. i think we had a kinship because he knew i was writing and he was writing. and we were both journalists, although i certainty would not put myself in the same category as him. but he did reach out to me. and he would send me lovely notes. and he would send me articles that he was writing and send them from wherever in the world he was. he would always let me know when he was going into the middle east. i know that was a passion of his.

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this is who steven is. anyone that has met him says that he is a great guy, always thought about others. and just kind of shows you the outpour of support and love that people are showing the sotloff family. it's unbelievable. and we couldn't imagine this. we're very thankful. >> and justin, just to continue on with a little bit with that, you know, his passion was telling other people's stories. so how would you like for him to be remembered? >> i want him to be remembered as a guy filled with courage, honor, and under that loyalty. me personally, it's brotherhood. he has always put other people ahead of himself. and that is something that i want him to be remembered as, as somebody who really fought for what he believed in, followed his passion, and did everything in his power to do the right thing. and we feel like he has. >> justin cohen, best friends of steven sotloff, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> everyone to a person talks about what a great guy he was, everyone. >> it's always tough to do th

steven has no control over the actions of the u.s. government. >> reporter: some politicians in the u.s. are slamming obama for a lack of strategy in dealing with the increasingly high-profile terrorist group. >> i had hoped that the president would realize that this kind of barbarity only brings home the nature of the enemy we face and the scope of it. unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case. >> reporter: chris, we know that president obama is under pressure to react to this second beheading of a u.s. citizen and as we heard from the president this is going to take time, not only is he looking for partnerships regionally but also internationally. this is a complex situation. they just can't come in to iraq and syria and bomb these targets. they need to gather the intelligence. they need to know what they are striking, and as the president says, this is not going to be over a matter of weeks, this is over a matter of months. chris? >> well, said, anna. the situations are always ended on the ground, both with intelligence and a

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and joins us from jerusal jerusalem. >> steven was a very sweet guy. he was incredibly dedicated to covering syria and a number of conflicts and i think he probably would want to be known and remembered for his reporting, and his life covering these conflicts. >> do you ever talk about the risks of working in a place like syria? >> yes, he did, and in our last conversation last time i saw him, he talked about the problems of going into syria and to very chaotic situations and he was uncomfortable about it, but true to form, he was dedicated to his job. >> when you heard he had been taken, you know, it's horrible to think about it but did you think it heigmight end this way? >> his capture was kept pretty quiet for awhile and there were a number of efforts to reach out to our government about this and we hoped that there would be -- that he would perhaps be rescued when isis was pushed back. unfortunately, that didn't take place. >> what struck me is how brave he sounded, his voice didn't even break. it seemed so courageous. >> he certainly was. the --

for the public and then i just note that the presentation that steven made with jessy at the code for america these folks are interested in what answer doing, and one of the great things about this kind of interaction is that they are helping to get the word out, and so, it is a great boost for our average efforts. >> how was it jessy? >> it was, it was great, and unfortunately ied to bring my 2-year-old daughter and so i had to leave a little early, but steven was just, was just great and i mean, that there were 40 or 50 people there all working very, very hard, on our data, and steven, and steven feels that probably at least an hour of questions, and i say it all of the time and he kind of gets mad at me and it is just, very very impressive as everybody saw today. it was really interesting because it reinforced in my mind how much this is the way that campaign finance and lobbying disclosure is going, where the people are expecting to be able to access the data on-line and manipulate the data and yet the role that steven plays at this point in sort of that development, is really imp

his name was steven sotloff, a miami heat fan by all accounts, a kind and curious soul. he was missing for a year. now the worst has apparently happened. isis releasing a video claiming to show his execution just as the group vowed to carry out in retaliation for u.s. strikes in iraq. >>> the politics lead. the isis executioner in if the sotloff video was speaking right to president obama just days after the president admitted he didn't quite have the a strategy yet to fight isis in syria. how should the president respond now? and also in world news, while the pentagon still has plans to deal with isis on the drawing board, the u.s. dollars carry out a strike on a different terrorist target, no not in the syria. thousands of miles away in somalia. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we'll begin with a horrific world lead. it is not as if the world needed more proof of the savagery of the terrorists of sifs but they have given it anyway. a video appearing to show a second american beheaded by these terrorists days after president obama sa

why was steven so interested in islam? i think it's because steven had such an openness. he saw the beauty in every human being. to have a jewish coachness at your core is to believe in the phrase. it says in the torah that every human being is created in the image of god. i think when steven looked at all of these people all over the world and looked into their faces and wanted to tell their stories he was seeing godliness in all of them. >> if you work toward helping one person it's as if you work toward helping humanity. thank you. >>> and i want to focus in more on the terrorists who kill eed sotloff and the other reporter as well. i'm joined by ayman mohyeldin. good to see you in person. >> thank you very much. before he was killed steven and foley read some message about american foreign policy, et. cetera. why would they do that when they knew that as sotloff said, you know why i'm on tape now. >> in situations like that, the killers, the terrorists are probably telling them if you want to have a chance at living, y

steven sotloff was an american. he was a respected international journalist in a part of the world where it is very difficult to be a western reporter. certainly an american one at that. and the man joining me now sometimes has to make decisions and send professional journalists directly into harm's way. tony maddox is my colleague, also the executive vice president of cnn international and the managing editor of that organization as well. tony, it's one thing to be sending your troops into natural disasters and accidents. it's at thing to be sending them into war. and now it seep seems to be a other ball game, sending our colleagues into places where isis has proven that it is ruthless and not willing to negotiate. how is it you make these decisions? >> first of all, there needs to be a clear editorial imperative. it has to be a very strong story. it has to benefit from cnn's presence there. i always think that people expect cnn to be the voice of truth on these difficult and challenging stories. so if it's possibl

what they may have done to steven sotloff.act like they are operating in the name of islam and nothing could be further from the truth. there is no justification for what they are doing. and they have shown their willingness to kill anyone in their path, not just americans, not just westerners. but iraqis of all faith, of all sex. they have shown their complete barberism in doing that. >> do you believe, assuming the video is authentic, that executioner of steven sotloff is the same executioner of james foley? >> that's one thing the intelligence community will be looking at. certainly as they look that video, we are still working on determining exactly who was james foley's killer as well. and brett wrb who you showed earlier -- >> the state department official. >> exactly, who works on iraq, is absolutely right. the president has shown if you hurt americans, harm our people, we will go to any length to hold you accountable and it will not go unanswered. the national security team is looking what the more we can do against is

steven and kevin, thank you for joining us. steven, let me begin with you. you heard our report. what is the message of this employment news today? is it a fluke? is the number of fluke or something more serious going on? do you think? >> most economies can't measure what employment will do on a month to month basis. these are extrapolated and you heavily manipulate them with seasonal adjustment. what is meaningful from this report is that, you know, back in 2008, we had 155 million people available to look for work or working. today we have 156 million. the unemployment rate fell from 10 to 6% as you heard earlier on in the program, unfilled job openings are the highest level since 2001, yet the u.s. labor force really hasn't budged. we have been tightening labor markets at rather moderate or slow gdp growth rates and that's suggesting future limits. we should not be expecting a big acceleration in employment growth for what is strong now going on a fourth year. >> so kevin, let me pick up on something steven just mentioned, unfilled job openings at a high level. is it because w

journalist steven sotloff is authentic.nd the militant who appears in the footage appears to be the same man who carried out the killing of james foley two weeks ago. president obama paid tribute to steven sotloff and said his killers would not succeed. >> whatever these murderers think they'll achieve by killing innocent americans like steven, they have already failed. they failed because like people around the world, americans are repulsed by their barbarism, we will not be intimidated, their horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists. and those who make the mistake of harming americans will learn that we will not forget, and that our reach is long and that justice will be served. >> well, president obama also said it will take time to degrade and to destroy the islamic state group. he said an international effort was needed to combat what he called its bar barribaric and e vision. >> reporter: steven sotloff once described himself as a person who liked adve

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steven sotloff was jewish and had dual citizen ship.amily confirmed that today but the captors may not have known about either. the news publish in a number of outlets today including in the jewish daily forward. jane isner joins us

steven sotloff is at least the second machine murdered in retaliation for air strikes on isis targets in iraq. in a statement, the national security council called the video "appalling." >> today the prayers of the american people are with the family of a devoted courageous journalist, steven sotloff. overnight, our government determineed that steven sotloff was danger were from us in a horrific act of violence. we cannot even begin to imagine the agony that everyone would loved steven is feeling especially his mother, his father, and his younger sister. today, our country grieves with them. >> president obama is meeting with key allies including the british prime minister to discuss syria's strategy. in the united states credit is say it is the weak fop policy that is contributing to the rise of the terror group. the obama administration has carried out 100 airstrikes again isis in iraq and the group is holding another british june left and it and believed two more american aid workers. >>> thanks, nick. new details of the third american missionary to become infected with the deadly

according to an isis video released today, the terrorist group has beheaded another american, steven sotloff. in the video, which is entitled a second message to america, it appears to show the brutal execution of the 31-year-old journalist. sotloff disappeared while reporting in syria last year. just two weeks two ago, isis threatened to kill steven sotloff if president barack obama did not back off u.s. air strikes in iraq. in this video, in the final moments of steven sotloff's life, he spoke directly to the camera and he said this. quote, he said that is he paying the price for u.s. intervention. sotloff's mother made a desperate plea for her son's life just last week in her video message, sotloff's mother shirley spoke directly to the leader of isis saying her son was not responsible for american actions in eye beiiraq. let me bring in a number of people and we will be digging in to christiane amanpour's interview. that said, i have athena jones standing by at the white house, national security analyst and former cia analyst bob baer, an anna coran and karl penhaul. let me begin

i know you worked with steven sotloff.'ve traveled with the same group a month before he did when he was on that route and he was ultimately captured. what was the story he was working on when he was out there? >> he was doing what a lot of us were doing, which is going to aleppo to see what the situation was there. it was a very important period in the war. the rebels were controlling aleppo. there's a lot of talk in the west about sending more arms to the rebels. they were in a strong position but also had this weakness and funds were running out and after some key gains by the regime in the south, they were using troops north. so a lot of us wanted to go and see for ourselves what was going on in the front lines, to see whether any of these weapons that the americans had promised were getting through. there's a big incentive to go through. as you clearly -- as we clearly all know, there were very big risks. >> clearly, we've all learned how much was at risk as you have captured that story for us. phillip hammond said th

the behelds of james foley and steven sotloff. the reaction swift, they do not know the name of humanity and in lebanon saying they contra tact the message of islam. here in the united states, condemn nation and a vow to destroy isis. >> we will not be intimidated. their horrific acts only unite us as a country and come together to stiffen the fight against terrorists. >> reporter: world leaders talking tough or is isis list ping or too busy see uploading videos online hoping to inspire young men in the arab world and west. >> they are playing to the bass here. they have a pornographic attraction to these violent scenes, these violent beheading videos that really energizes them, makes them want to go and join this group. they feel like this is holy war. they feel complete absolute hate of the united states deep in their bones. >> reporter: it's those people who spend time in password protected online chat rooms, forums where they repost videos and share comments about the beheadings. of the two main, amef, is where hard core engli

can you talk about steven sotloff?yes, first of all, we're horrified by the fact this is the second journalist in just over two weeks to be butchered in this way in front of a camera. stephen is one of those journalists who had a passion for the middle east. he learned arabic. he went with full knowledge of the great risks he was taking in order to bear witness for us and bring these reports. he has been brutally murdered. he is one of about 71 journalists that we have documented who have died as a result of reporting on the syrian conflict in the last three years. that is a very heavy toll. he is one of those who have been taken hostage, journalist. we believe there were around 20 -- the majority of those syrians. talks where are they being held? >> we don't know precisely, but they were taken in syria. the problem is, when journalists cross from turkey to syria, they can be captured been passed on by the many groups that are syria inurnalists in the last three years. they could be anywhere. the video looks like any p

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that's how those who knew steven sotloff describe him.he 31-year-old freelance journalist had traveled the world reporting for various publ in libya he wrote an article for "time magazine", a firsthand account from the guards who witnessed the attack on the u.s. compound in benghazi. he spoke with cnn about it in 2012. >> there was no protests. they were armed with a.k. 47s, rpgs. they had blast demolitions -- explosives for blast fishing, they had grenades. >> sotloff lovedoved journalism majored in journalism at the university of central florida. he grew up in south florida with his parents and younger sister. besides journalism his other love was the miami heat. june last year he tweeted, is it bad that i want to focus on syria but all i can think is a heat finals repeat? after college sotloff began taking arabic classes and writing freelance, sometimes taking chances. in egypt when a friend warned him not to meet with the muslim brotherhood he went anyway writing in the world affairs journal that he headed straight to the lair where h

only then does he realize stevens and smith haven't followed. he goes back in several times but can't find them. finally, exhausted and choking, he climbs to the roof and radios alec henderson and dave uben, two security agents elsewhere inside the compound. his message, the ambassador and sean smith are missing. >> now, tig, you and jack and rone are going the front gate and it's open? >> when i was standing right here, the land cruiser came from this direction. i thought it was like bad guys still in the land cruisers. so i drew down my weapon. >> saw it was d.s. guys driving it. >> and that's when i heard, hey, we can't find the ambassador. started moving towards the front porch, getting up on the front porch and that's when they're pulling sean's body out of the window. >> sean smith? >> sean smith. >> but the ambassador's still lost. >> but the ambassador's still lost. >> to you and tyrone woods, rone, go into the building one of many times. but go in and there's a moment there. >> he was saying, hey, i can't find my way out. i was saying c

journalist steven sotloff is authentic. president obama condemning the murder and is promising continues action against the islamic group known as isis. kris sanchez joins us live with a message that the president is sending to isis and steven sotloff's family. >> both equally important, sam. when the moment before his death, steven sotloff read the statement condemning the action against isis, voice never wavering. this is the only image we'll show you of his last moment alongside the man that would become his killer. the same isis fighter who took the life of another u.s. journalist two weeks ago and promised a british journalist would be next if the air strikes continue. in the days leading up to the release of the video, sotloff's mother begged for her son's life, saying he has no control over the nation's foreign policy. >> as a mother, i ask for justice to be merciful and not punish my son over matters he has no control over. >> speaking from estonia, president obama tried to send words of comfort to sotloff's family.

now we believe steven sotloff has been killed. the next video is threatening a british hostage. >> you know what, it is a dubious strategy. i don't know what the islamic group is thinking. i wouldn't want to be in their mindset. be u the idea of kidnapping the western journalist, that only strengthens the u.s.'s resolve to take more action against this group. >> their tactics are clever. we are also seeing their message they are using and car bombs, and as soon as they exployed they are putting the fear of god into the people. the idea of using the videos is influencing the mirn public opinion and swaying them the other way, and from you are sitting it is not succeeding. but that is the only real tactic they seem to be using here. maybe if the americans see the direct idea in the video and it is your policies that are causing this, and that would stick in the gut of americans, but it could be pushing them the other way. >> thank you. so the ebola outbreak killed 1500 people since march and warning that the food shortages and other

our government determined that steven sotloff was taken from us in a horrific act of violence. we cannot imagine thing a agony of everyone would loved steven sotloff, especially his mother and father and younger sister we green with they. >> president obama expressed sadness and said justice will be served. he is in europe meeting with key allies including prime minister cameron. it is the president's weekend foreign policy contributing to the rise of the isis. at time of his capture he was covering the middle east for year as a freelance reporter. the obama administration carried out 100 airstrikes against isis and they are killing another brooklyn bridge journalist and believed two american aid workers. >>> a 2.6 earthquake struck near napa today centered five miles sweat of the city. there have been no reports of damage. napa is plagued by water main breaks including this one yesterday on stadium avenue. there have been 130 breaks since last thursday. crews dug to the 6" water main and rapped it with a steel clamp and restored the water service. but when the lines are repres