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Otherwise that wouldnt have gotten told. >> reporter: he was coming home for a final year of law school. in august 2012 he was south of damascus, planning to drive to lebanon when he vanished before reaching the border. >> we believe that hes being held captive in syria. i dont want to get into anything further on that front either, im sorry. >> reporter: but it is raising a crucial question. is there real progress in bringing him home? >> an american official doesnt come out and say that a host...

By the white house to openly talk about a hostage who hasnt been seen since this video with his captors five week after his disappearance. he had gone it syria to photograph and report what was happening to ordinary syrians as the conflict heated up. journalists were in increasing danger. >> street fighting, you know, molotov cocktails, any weapon that you can imagine in an urban street fili fighting environmen. i was able to get some pretty good shots and tell a pretty good story that i think o...

Journalists were in increasing danger. >> youre just talking street fighting, you know, molotov cocktails, any weapon you can basically imagine in an urban street fighting environment. it was pretty exciting. but i was able to get some pretty good shots that way. and tell a pretty good story afterwards that i think otherwise, you know, never would have gotten told. >> reporter: he was coming home for a final year of law school. in august 2012, he was south of damascus, planning to drive to leban...

Out of prison since 2008, dee mower has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against novak. a suit that alleges a third theory that novak paid chris wright $25,000 to kill ken dolezsar. novak has yet to answer the suit nor attended the proceeding. in august 2012 the court granted her a motion to dismiss the wrongful death and conspiracy claims so that a final judgment could be entered in the case. back in the loft some imagined the worst about their former friend and neighbor. what would you advise hi...

Sides. >> in white supremacist circles they took it to mean this person supports us and we have a champion in the white house and we can now fight for a white america. >> reporter: the president and his press secretary have vehemently denied inciting extremist violence. >> the president has denounced racism, hatred and bigotry in all forms on a number of occasions. >> reporter: august 2012, a white gunman kills six people at a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin. june 2015, charleston, south car...

And demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment. a republican congress once impeached a president for far less. yet today people in congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger whos mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. and they do nothing. join us and tell your member of congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing whats political and start doing whats right. our country depends on it. welcome back. were g...

Long-time lawyer, a donor. august 2012, case closed. ultimately overruled his own prosecutors who wanted to charge the trump kids. visit from the lawyer for trump had no impact and followed the practice of giving back campaign money before they met and no outside attorneys influenced the investigation and rather the probe didnt provide evidence for prosecution. we can also tell you a trump organization attorney says the accusations lacked merit noting after the related lawsuit settled they recan...

Buyers who sued settled out of court withdrawing allegations. might not have heard about it. didnt do much politically in the busy primaries. turns out the story of what happened next has a lot to tell us about how he responds to criminal investigations. the headline today how ivanka and donald trump jr. avoided a criminal indictment. first they sent in their top criminal lawyers but when this didnt end this investigation into the trump -- they sent in his own longtime lawyer a major donor to th...

The head of the health and human services department said she found it unusual when harry reid asked her to meet with senator bob menendez about a medicare billing dispute in 2012. this testimony marks the latest twist in the menendez bribery and corruption at trial. here is our correspondent, david lee miller. >> they were greeted as he arrived for a day 15 of his bribery trial. appearing under subpoena, prosecution witness, former health and human services secretary testified about a meeting i...

Guards were local hires through another company and not armed. the this classified cable first reported by fox news shows by mid august 2012 ambassador stevens and his team knew they were in trouble. warning the state department that radical islamic groups were everywhere. >> it was a disaster. they were sending these cables back to the contracting guys and the decisionmakers back here and they werent responding. its gross incompetence or negligence, one of the two. they came back to us and said...