it says he was a spokesman for usama bin laden. he says he offered his cooperation to bin laden and before and after 9/11 and it also says that that he warned the united states that there would be more attacks. what it does not go into detail about is his role, if he did have one, actually plotting these attacks. u.s. senator chuck schumer has said he is not a big fish. he is a medium fish but today he is in a u.s. courtroom. if convicted, bill, he could spend the rest his life behind bars here in the united states. bill: what a development. david lee is on that. we're awaiting that appearance. martha has more now. martha: let's give you more background on sulaiman abu ghaith. he was a teacher and mosque preacher in kuwait. he served along usama bin laden from may of 2001 to 2000. he was smuggled into iran with other senior leaders in 2002. bill has more on the layout. bill: specifically, martha, here in new york, let's put the map in motion here. show you new york city, the island of manhattan in the lower part of your screen. if y

plus, usama bin laden's son-in-law.ppearing in the new york courtroom. >> shepard: heavy security outside the courthouse as the accused al qaeda spokesman stood before the judge and denied that he plotted to kill americans. tonight, the controversial decision to try him blocks from the trade center site. >> why in the world is he not at guantanamo bay? this is the best way to handle brings abu ghraib to justice. >> shepard: plus the inside story of how we got him and what he was reportedly doing in iran. days after the t.s.a. decided let airplane passengers carry knives on board, we are learning more bombs can also make it past screeners. tonight, the tests that revealed the dangerous hole in airport security. new england deals with another winter storm. tonight, waves crash over sea walls. a home is lost to the ocean. and how about that foot of snow? and [bleep] >> what did you say? >> shepard: what the world set off the pop star justin beach? but first from fox this usama binht, usama bin laden's own son-in-law, his f

son-in-law for usama bin laden and former al-qaeda spokesman.hat this operative was brought to the u.s. several days ago and has been cooperating with authorities. is in new york on friday. federal court. a seven-page indictment charging him in federal court. are back with the panel., this obviously creating a bit of an uprate. a lot of uproar on capitol hill. should. this guy is in gentlemen you could shoot him with a drone in the middle of the night and blow him away. like we did with al-awlaki. that he is here, magically he gets his mare ran da rights so that means we won't get information out of him. insane. is precisely -- gitmo was incidented as a way to have a site under which we could receive information over time. he arrives in new york on trial and lawyered up we will learn nothing. has a lot to tell us. a myth that iran and al-qaeda don't work together, because iran is shiite and al-qaeda is sunni.ly he was harbored in iran after 9/11 for several years. knows how it works and knows about the contact with al-qaeda. could tell us. are n

this guy was usama bin laden's son-in-law, at least one of them. to the top levels of leadership of al-qaeda could have been a gold mine of information. >> jamie: potentially. >> than determination to make this think as law enforcement. >> jamie: potentially sacrificed. let me ask you this, is there not some benefit from an intelligence standpoint, from discouraging others to have acts of war against the united states for having a public forum of trial that we're all downtown covering in new york. versus at gitmo where we get little information? >> yeah, well, i think actually the pr balance tips the other way. this particular individual has pleaded not guilty. we know that other terrorists have used their criminal trials as forums to attack the united states and you know, i think the conventional wisdom is look, you're talking about a 9/11 defendant in manhattan no way a jury is going to let him off. maybe, maybe not. rules of evidence that apply in combat and in the world of intelligence don't apply in federal court. very different environment. s

this after capturing an al-qaeda spokesman and the son-in-law of usama bin laden overseas and then bringingim to new york city to face trial. within steps of the 9/11 memorial. fox news correspondent doug mckelway has our report. >> reporter: the not guilty plea in federal court this morning to one count of conspiracy to kill americans sets the stage for a high profile terrorist trial just blocks from ground zero. it reignites intense republican criticism of the obama administration for trying terrorism suspects in civilian courts where miranda rights apply. >> if this man right next to usama bin laden involved in the attacks on our country on 9/11, don't you think it would be important that we not tell him that he has the right to remain silent? >> reporter: ayotte along with senators mccain and graham today again condemned the decision in a statement that said, quote: >> r eporter: a family member of a 9/11 victim also weighed in. >> my concern is a guy like this comes to a civilian court, he's put away. hopefully, he would be convicted, but it wouldn't, it's not -- it's conspiracy. it's

sulaiman abu ghaith, son-in-law of usama bin laden not brought to gitmo.ad tried in new york city. there is uproar on capitol hill. should there be? >> yes. this is violation of bipartisan move that said they could not bring people from gitmo to united states to be tried. this violated the spirit of that. second, we took usama bin laden's son-in-law and 90 minutes after he came in u.s. custody in jordan he was read miranda rights and told he had a right to remain silent and counsel will be given. he should have been taken to gitmo and wrung any information we can about the associates, plots and information, connections, ties, and we would be better off in the war on te on terror,a result. >> bret: joe? >> 500 suspected trials of terrorists, 57 of which were caught on foreign soil. all 500 were committed. in gitmo we had seven convictions, two were overturned, all since 9/11. civilian court system has worked on this. this will be the highest level al-qaeda operative to ever have been tried in civil court. i think the other thing we don't know, there are thr

former al qaeda spokesman usama bin laden's son-in-law pleaded not guilty today to terrorist charges in a courthouse just blocks from the old world trade center. and that's the "the fox report's" top five. and on this day in 1971, the boxing legend mohammed ali took on heavyweight champ joe frazier for the first time in what became known as the fight of the century. both men stepped into the ring undefeated. for ali's first bought in three and a half years. it came with enormous hype for the day. but by the 8th round frazier held a huge lead and handed a last round blow knocking the people's champ to the canvas. smoking joe won by unanimous decision and kept his title. he and ali would fight ups twice more in their careers. ali won both of those. the heavyweight rivals first duped it out 42 years ago today. and now you know the news for this friday, march the 8th, 2013. i'm shepard smith. i will see you monday from rome. as they begin to pick a pope, the team and i have heading out tomorrow hope you have a great weekend. the factor coming up. right about now. >> laura: the o'reilly f

. >> and why is obama administration trying usama bin laden's son-in-law? a high threat terrorist suspect in a u.s. court? we'll debate it. >> laura: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. and the factor begins right now. >> laura: hi, everyone. i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. filibuster envy. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. it's been fascinating to see the reaction to senator rand paul's filibuster of the john brennan nomination. with the principled persuasive argument with the use of drones on american soil, he drew support from people across the political spectrum from jon stewart to mitch mcconnell, from the aclu, to ted cruise, his filibuster made for some strange bed follows. but, of course, not everybody was happy. is that snarkers calling paul's stance weird and crazy. but what's surprising is that two g.o.p. senators lindsey graham and john mccain launched their own drone strike against paul. >> we have done, i think, a disservice to a lot of americans by making them bel

clearly, usama bin laden thought that bradley manning was important. he wanted access to this material. >> yes. >> that manning was posting on the internet through weeks. m 6 heros busted into bin laden's compound there in pakistan, they did discover much of the material that bradley manning had leaked through wikileaks. the question i have though is when you look at the big picture, putting aside the emotion of the moment and the passions we want to string this guy up. he is a traitor in war time. aiding the enemy, what was it he really accomplished, this private first class bradley manning? did he aid the enemy in the sense that he gave them the upper hand? did his actions result in the death of any gi's, for example? any u.s. diplomats, for example? i don't think any of that is proven. that's why i'm a little curious. they got him now for the 20. it seems to me they could have gotten him to plead to twice that. but now they are going all out. they are going to have dozens and dozens of witnesses. they may prove their case. it is speculated, bill, an

the son-in-law of usama bin laden was araped today in federal courtroom in new york.d not guilty to conspiracy to kill americans. north korea is issuing more threats following the-up security council decision to impose new sanctions. yesterday, the communist nation warn of a nuclear strike on the u.s. we'll take a close look at president obama's new outreach to republicans. the g.o.p. says that the welcome change but the white house says no change at all. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00. now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> dana: welcome back to "the five." red light and speed camera. the up side and down side. bob has a theory. it improves safety but the others think it's a scam. in six months $1.5 million fines were collected in a town in ohio, town of 101,000 people. everybody got a ticket and paid it. >> bob: congratulations to the judge. whoever came up with the idea to put this in is close to fascism as you can get. you drive by the things. first, they send you a thing in the mail saying you owe us $140. they send a picture of the car. the

. >> if this man right next to usama bin laden involved in the attacks on our country on 9/11, don't think it would be important that we not tell him he has right to remain silent? >> reporter: kelly ayotte with fellow republican senators lindsey graham condemned the statement that said the decision clearly contravenes the will of the american people land not go unchallenged. a family member of a 9/11 victim also weighed in. >> my concern is that a guy likes this comes to a civilian court. he is put away. hopefully he would be convicted. but it wouldn't, it's not, it's conspiracy. it's not murder. >> the white house today defended the record of terrorist conviction in federal court. pointing to the times square bomber and the underwear bomber, now both serving life sentencing. >> there is broad consensus across the united states government. at the department of defense. the department of justice. department of homeland security. intelligence community agrees that the best way to protect our national security interest is to prosecute abu ghaith in the court. >> reporter: an officer do

tonight, usama bin laden's son-in-law reported captured. apparently now in new york city to face a trial. now questions about how this happened, when and where. plus, the white house responds to that question from senator rand paul. is it legal for the government to drone us and kill us right here? >> you can kill an american on american soil, a noncombatant with a drone strike? >> the question he raised was entirely appropriate and should have already been answered. >> i don't this administrations any intention of using drones in the united states. >> the president swore an oath to uphold the constitution and he is bound by the law. >> shepard: tonight, looking to clear up the confusion about targeting americans on u.s. soil. north korea, threatening a preemptive nuclear strike against the united states. >> the pentagon takes the capabilities that the north koreas have seriously. >> even one of north korea's long time allies now saying that country has gone too far. so what now? for dennis rodman's best buddies? thousands of sharks hunting

usama bin laden had written his last will and testment. of following the bus into pakistan and killing them, we said to the pakistanis. two billion a year, you deal with usama bin laden and al qaeda. we're going to stick around in afghanistan and we're going to build a nation. we'll build a democracy. we'll make sure that al qaeda doesn't come back. and so we made two mistakes. one we engaged in nation-building for ten years. the other mistake was trusting the pakistanis. bill: if this goes the way you're laying out, this does not look good for this administration. >> doesn't look dad for anybody. bill: they will leave behind a country in shambles you allege, just as much as we found it in 2001. >> bad things will happen. i think what will happen is that if there is any chance that this ends well, it is if we get all the countries in the region who have a stake in this, india, pakistan, russia, china, even iran and get some kind of a cease-fire everybody agrees to, we'll not supply and let the fighting stop, i don't think that's going it h

jenna: now to the growing debate over the capture of the son-in-law of usama bin laden. al qaeda spokesman suleman abu ghaith, facing civilian trial here in new york city blocks away from ground zero after pleading not guilty to one count of conspiracy to kill americans. the sources say the decision to bring him to new york was made at the highest levels of the obama administration but many lawmakers believe he should be shipped to gitmo to face a military tribunal. here is new york congressman peter king earlier today on "america's newsroom". >> my concern right now is not so much the acquittal or conviction of the trial, it is fact that we should get more intelligence out of him, more information. that's why i think guantanamo is where he would have been brought, not mirandized not given rights. he gave 22-page statement. he was in iran for number of years. in bin laden's inner circle. this is information taken out day by day, week by week and find out and fill in a lot of blanks. >> robin mcfadden is a former special agent in charge of the naval criminal investigative

he's usama bin laden son-in-law, 28-year-old served as an al-qaeda spokesman.y in new york this morning on the charge of conspiracy to kill americans. today's hearing raises serious questions about the decision to hold this trial on u.s. soil, rather than at guantanamo bay. joe connor's husband was killed in the world trade center on 9/11 and he joins me now. >> hi. >> alisyn: tell me what you thought when you heard the news that another al-qaeda spokesperson top official was captured. >> i thought it was a great news that he was captured and congratulate our intelligence officials, it's good and bad news, but look what we're doing with him. put him in a civilian court and that's wrong. >> alisyn: president obama campaigned on the idea that he would close guantanamo bay. what do you not like about trying them in new york city. >> i don't think they should be given the same rights as u.s. citizens. we saw it with gilani, he was tried for 280 different counts and acquitted of the violent ones and convicted of only one and that was conspiracy to destroy government

watch: >> if this man, right next to usama bin laden, involved in the attacks on our country on 9/11,d be important that we not tell him he has the right to remain silent? >> chris: laura, the president clearly making a point, by not sending him to a military tribunal at guantanamo bay. >> yes, it is interesting, because of course we have the switch from the previous controversy in new york where chuck schumer and john mccain and everybody said, no, no, ksm cannot be tried in a federal court and it is confusing, regardless of your position on this, why pull back the ksm trial, khalid sheikh mohammed from federal court and abu ghaith, he gets to be tried here. it is muddled, i'm not -- >> you certainly agree that ksm is a much bigger figure and a higher target. >> bigger target... the baghdad bob of al qaeda, right? he was kind of the spokesman, but, nevertheless, i see john mccain's point. it seems -- not insulting but inconvenient for people of new york to have the trial. we tried the blind sheikh and successfully in new york. and, and mccarthy oversaw the prosecution and did a terri

. >> dana: usama bin laden manipulated the young men, tushed them to terrorist for his personal economict's not an excuse. people were living in poverty. go back three decades. in chile, the united states -- >> eric: stay here. stay here. stay right there. this is a video for fifth graders about 9/11. this is fifth graders now. tens thousands of classrooms watched the video. >> kimberly: awful. 'canes how different is that than "amazing race" and what cbs did? how is it different? >> greg: this is worse. "amazing race" was accident. >> eric: listen, before we go. we contacted the superintendent and they told me they were pulling, get this, the question on the quiz. i asked about the video. they said not yet. time to review. >> kimberly: pull the video. >> eric: if you go to -- >> bob: if you go to palestinian refugee camp and wonder how they got indoctrinated, they do hate the united states. >> dana: invite daniel pearl's parent to come to school to give them a lesson why innocent person would have been murdered by terrorist. >> eric: we have to go. i was in the world trade center in '93

usually it's a girl or boyfriend but here is usama bin laden's son-in-law who we found out is awaitingn trial. how does that happen? i blame grit mow. the drones as exterminators exist solely to avoid saying you were wrong about the beauty of gitmo. what is gitmo? it's really just a remind they're there is evil in this world and evil needs a cage when it's caught. as world leaders kiss the dead hand of an anti-american pirate. north korea threatens annihilation and iran gears up for war it's time for the teenager in chief to grow up. and wise up. there is a big old world out there and it hates you. no matter how many apology tours he makes or how many heart-felt videos you send. eric, why new york city and cheaper flights than cuba? is that why they are bringing bin laden here? >> eric: no idea. this could be one of the biggest intel mistakes they made. once he lands here, once you read him his miranda rights it's over. he is here. he is going to get the full benefit of the legal system for defendants. there won't be any interrogation. it has to be a speedy trial. if you keep them in g

officials have captured usama bin laden's son-in-law in jordan and brought him to new york.ing i: they captured significant victory for the u.s. against al qaeda. he was a spokesman for al qaeda and a part of the 9/11 plot against america. susan rice says north korea will achieve nothing. following to launch a nuclear attack against the u.s. hours before the u.n. security council voted unanimously to oppose sanctions against north korea. and the last of the 115 cardinal electors that will vote for the next pontiff. after four days of meetings they have not set a date for the conclave to elect a new pope. those are your headlines, back now to lori and dennis. lori: thank you so much, we appreciate the update. according to members of congress, the president sitting down to lunch with the top leaders, republicans paul ryan and others. scheduling meetings with house republicans on wednesday, this after the president posted a dozen senators for a dinner at an exclusive d.c. restaurant last night and from what i understand picked up the tab. all this in hopes of reuniting talks i

the son-in-law of usama bin laden is pleading not guilty to killing americans in new york city courtroomalongside bin laden the day after the 9/11 terror attacks. several republican lawmakers are outraged that he is being tried in manhattan instead of going to gitmo. >> gitmo, a naval vessel, guam, anywhere other than new york and anything other than a civilian trial. the safety point issue, convenience to otherwise innocent people who live and work near the u.s. district court. >> alisyn: white house officials say abu ghaith has already given up key information on al qaeda's status, personnel and finances. a sportsman channel tv host shot to death by a man in an apparent jealous rage. gregory rodriguez, he is the host of a rifle man's journal was visiting a woman while on business in montana when the husband, wane bennington burst in and shot him. he then beat his wife, we're told. left the scene and turned the gun on himself. police say rodriguez worked with bennington's wife and their relationship was not romantic. get this, a repeat drunk driver who has been convicted of killing two

it will have a galvanizing effect just as the defeat of the soviets had a galvanizing effect of usama bin laden. lori: perhaps the secretary is the right person to smooth this over and make its not failure to the u.s. >> if a foreigner goes in there, he asked because much of the enemy as he can and get out very quickly. we went and killed almost no one in state for 12 years to try to create a democracy where it was impossible to do that. lori: very sad. north korea scrapping at the end of the korean war. u.s. sanctions and 10,000 south korean troops, 3000 american troops doing drills, how serious this threat for north korea? >> i ink that country is a little bit beyond the tale of being able to rationalize through a problem. it seems to me it is suicidal for them to attack anyone, but at the same time that is another unstable leader, and if he is willing to try to alienate his chinese supporters who are the only supporters on earth, he is very much a wildcard. lori: thanks to you for that. much more on the situation in afghanistan and later with the "a-team." in other states that to them

tonight on "special report," the son-in-law of usama bin laden was taken in custody overseas.pokesman is said now to be in the u.s. awaiting a court appearance. expected friday. the president pick to run the c.i.a. has been confirmed. senators voted today 63-34 in favor of john brennan. 13 republicans voted yes. two democrats and independent bernie sanders voted no. the obama administration was ready to award activist with international women of courage award but tweets attributed to her put the process on hold. we will show you some of them and get her reaction. the president's charm offensive continueed today. he had lunch with paul ryan and the ranking member chris van hollen. "special report" starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> greg: the "washington post" has a story about snow days in the nation's capitol and how the natural disasters separate semifrom nonessential workers. meaning, if you are home from work because of slosh on the pavement you are not essential to the got work clothes -- to the government work. as writer emily wax points o

so when usama bin laden said i'm a, you know, my islamic view, they hasten to point out he's not a religious scholar. but when he challenged the royal family in the '90s, he, his view was it's okay to call, to call them out on not being properly religious. but it's not the common view. so religion does put a, something of a straitjacket over people. the imam i mentioned whose wife and family i spent a lot of time with and with him, you know, he was very critical. but i, when i asked him is it okay to confront your rulers, even he said no. because the big fear is of chaos, of causing a lack of harmony in the community of believers. the uma, as they call it, the community of believers and keeping harmony there is very important. so if there's not real harmony, at least there's pretend harmony. you don't publicly -- which is the reason why, you know, people can do all kinds of things in their homes from drinking alcohol to, you know, having dinner with women they're not married to or other gatherings is that if it's in private, it does not kiss result the harmony of -- disrupt the harmony of th

director and then the story we brought you last week about the documents, recovered in the compound for usama binen. hundred of thousands of them believed not having been released. we only received 1 of them so far and they tell us a lot more, according to numerous reports. take a listen. >> the threat from core al-qaeda and the potential for a massive coordinated attack on the united states is diminished. but the global jihadist movement is a more diversified and decentralized and decentral threat. >> this complicated the obama restriction overall strategy. if it shows strategic network led by al-qaeda and operates to this day and al-qaeda isn't that close to defeat. >> apparently they show a lot more interconnected al-qaeda steering affiliates. >> completely undermines the obama argument before election day and after election day, that somehow because of obama, the threat has radically diminished which implies it was the bush administration. and all of the things that it did invade iraq, et cetera, which was recruiting element. that augus augmented jihadist. it's not true. it didn't effect as w

learning that the seal who died was a member of seal team six, that's the elite squad who killed usama binaden. no word whether he participated in that. and this by the way is the third fatal military training accident since february. the other two incidents left 14 marines dead. >> a special obama clin-- special dental clinic is looking at filthy conditions at a dental office. is this woman's eight-year-old daughter among them? >> it's just wrong. if you can't trust a doctor and a dentist, and the people that are supposed to do right by you, who can you trust? >> our david lee miller has been following the story and joins us now with more story. it's disturbing for parents out there or people in general. >> reporter: bad going to the dentist, but former patients of the former dr. harrington will never go to the dentist again. the people who saw the doctor may have been exposed to hiv and hepatitis. and state inspectors found rusty instruments and contaminated drug vials and improperly sterilized instruments. more than 75 people in line waiting to undergo the free tests. officials say it's

engage in perfectly legal interrogation techniques, which, by the way, were critical to finding usama bin laden. so they say they won't interrogate terrorists, but now they're willing to kill 3000 of them including the unpress departmented ordered targeted assassination of u.s. citizens. >> wait a second, ralph. >> caused by the president's-- >> you just went off on a litany of complaints. let me just say i am so shocked to hear ralph reed and sean hannity. >> sean: not shocked. >> oh, no, we should not have the president of the united states going full bore against people who wants to kill americans, that hate us. >> i didn't say that. >> you say the problem is, he didn't close guantanamo bay. >> sean: no, what i-- >> what i said was. >> we don't want those people back on the battlefield. >> juan, don't twist my words. what i said was he painted himself into this corner because he said it was wrong to capture and interrogate terrorists. >> no, that's not-- >> hold on one second. >> not interrogate them, but he'll kill them. >> sean: let me go further, and we can't ignore the left and pre

tell me about that, that's enabled you to capture of folks like usama bin laden and help american hostageser a decade of sustained combat the military at large will look how we do the job and employ our forces. in the later chances of "damn few" i took a stab at what we can do to focus on bad guys in the world and utilize the best capabilities of our special operations to get the max return on the battlefield. we're uniquely qualified to do that across the services, rangers, seals, the special operations units as well as the conventional, to create efficiencies and kind of deal with our nation's enemies as we move forward. >> kelly: we thank you for joining us, wish we had more time, a stunning read. >> thank you so >> kelly: you h scottish toast to leave you with, here is to us, who is like us damn few and they're all dead. >> thank you. >> jamie: americans are suffering the big egest income. how it will affect consumer confidence, we'll look at that. >> kelly: and we'll have a new health warning out there, how you store your leftovers could be a major risk to your kids, what you may be e

learning after pleading not guilty to charges of conspiracy to kill americans, the son-in-law of usama binith will be tried right here in new york city. now, didn't the administration learn anything two years ago? well, apparently not because despite the fact that gitmo remains open for business, the president has made the reckless decision to endanger the city of new york and give rights to an al-qaeda spokesman in a civilian court. pretty unreal. here with reaction from the american center for law and justice. jay sekulow. and defense attorney jeff golder. all right, jay, wait a minute. enemy combatant obviously at war with the united states and spokesman for al-qaeda and bin laden. why? are they that hell bent on giving rights to nonamericanles and mirandizing them so we don't learn anything? >> so think about this for a moment. if you had adolf wiseman in world war ii and his son-in-law was the spokesman for the nazi regime and eichmann and he was captured on the battlefield or in flight which is what happened here, would we then want him tried in the u.s. district court for the easter

number two, usama bin laden's spokesman and son-in-law reportedly in custody now and in new york charged with plotting to kill americans on 9/11 and number one, after senator rand paul, 13 hour filibuster, the white house says the presidents did not have the authority to drone noncombatant united states citizen on american soil. and that's "the fox report's" top five. and on this day in 1897, doctor john kellogg served up the very first bowl of corn flakes at a health resort in battle creek, michigan. the doc was known for pushing a healthy lifestyle at the san sanitarium. his original batch of flakes had no sugar. but the doc's brother recognized the food's market value so he added some sweetness and brought the cereal to the store shelves. that led to a big fight and dr. kellogg sued his sibling for selling the flakes. doc lost. brother cashed. in his signature, even became the company's iconic logo but a breakfast staple first hit the table 116 years ago today. but without sugar. and now you know the news for this thursday, march the 7th, 2013. i'm shepard smith. back tomorrow for "st

suleman abu ghaith, son-in-law of psalm usama bin laden was read his rights and no longer cooperatedstigators before he was transsferd to new york. nothing is publicly known about the 22-page statement and whether it addresses his decade in iran. why more than half of the muslim hijackers, passed through iran in training camps in afghanistan before the attacks. in some 9/11 commission reporting that iranian border age wrenlts were told not to stamp their travel documents. abu ghaith according to intelligence sources does not have operational information but rather is in the best position to explain a whether there is a partnership or understanding between al qaeda, a sunni group and shia iran, martha. martha: fascinating. catherine, we'll look forward to your reporting on that later. thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome. bill: any number of attacks might be noted today. january of this year, 2013, 37 hostages, 29 militants killed when security forces stormed a gas plant in algeria after a four-day standoff there. september 11th, 2012, ambassador chris stevens and three ot

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segment of the "washington journal" from north korea to venezuela, to the capture of the son-in-law of usama bin laden. you can give us a call. democratic line is 20-5853-880. republicans 202-858-2881. independents, 585-238-88882. staying on north korea, some optimism out there in reports that china might be coming around to help with these, this round of sanctions. here is the story from "usa today", china crucial in sanctioning north korea. talk a little bit about china's role. >> that was very interesting, chris hill that used to be the u.s. envoy to the six-party nuclear talks said that, you shouldn't pay attention to the words of this resolution but rather the music and the music is that china is finally seems to be coming on board with a strategy of pressure. that's knew but what i think, china's bottom line is that china doesn't want to see unrest on the korean peninsula. they have got worries about the border of north korea. about contraband activities going on. about refugees streaming across the border. their bottom line they don't want the north korean state to collapse because they'r