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And bigger parts of the middle east are falling off the known political map. theyre failed states, like yemen. yemen is in the middle of a civil war. theres absolutely no central government we can rely on to put on an end to this. so you have the sunnis in the south moving into the hills, theyre almost impossible to get to. and youve got the shia that have taken over sanaa and they just kidnapped the deputy intelligence chief there. even in places like mali and somalia and the rest of it -- liby...

York, my hometown. how are you? and these guys, well, theyre fans of fc buffalo blitzers. >> i watch you all the time. >> thats a soccer team that somehow was named after me. something i find both flattering and a little embarrassing. cnn has asked me to come here to trace my roots. a task i find daunting. i grew up here in the 1950s and 60s with my sister and parents. a lot has changed since then. my dad passed away in 2002. and my mom, shes 92 years old and now lives in florida. but some thing...

If you judge success by, have you solved the problem, is there nobody threatening the united states, then youll always say that weve failed in our policy. but we were able to roll back isis when it was threatening baghdad, when it was threatening the mosul dam, when it was threatening the haditha dam. this is a problem thats being managed with very limited american casualties. you compare that to some attempt to put 100,000, 200,000 troops on the ground, that would be the failure. >> do you worr...

Notice or care much about the details. >> my first experience with this kind of an atmosphere in thailand happened in 1987. i met this girl and i was like stoked because it was like oh, shes into me and like at some point she sat on my lap and shes like oh, well, i have to go now, i have to go do something. she gave me a kiss. i was like im in. >> right. >> and the show started. ♪ >> you have to forgive a guy for making a mistake. >> totally. >> many of the lady boys frankly are pretty spectac...

Notice or care much about the details. >> my first experience with this kind of an atmosphere in thailand happened in 1987. i met this girl and i was like stoked because it was like oh, shes into me and like at some point she sat on my lap and shes like oh, well, i have to go now, i have to go do something. she gave me a kiss. i was like im in. >> right. >> and the show started. ♪ >> you have to forgive a guy for making a mistake. >> totally. >> many of the lady boys frankly are pretty spectac...

One man who met with him in prison, in cuba, congressman sam farr, a democrat from california. he joins us by phone now. congressman, you met with alan gross back in may. when you spoke to him then, do you think he ever saw this day coming? >> no, in fact, he said that he would not spend his next birthday incarcerated. so it was obvious that he was either going to kind of do something really drastic. he was very upset with both countries. sort of felt let down by our country and certainly upset ...

>> i shook hands with, hugged and kissed, not the doctors, but a couple of the nurses at emory because of the valiant work that they did in treating one of the patients. they followed the protocols. they knew what they were doing, and i felt perfectly safe doing so. >> reporter: a sense of safety thats fleeting for many americans as the ebola scare enters a new phase. devin dwyer, abc news, the white house. >> these are well-founded fears? its understandable. even if its not based in fact or rea...

Do something, then europe stands for nothing. he agreed. the question is, will germany be onboard? will these other countries that have a say and have large amounts of details, will they go along with it? >> phil, the electronic data that currently exists, theres a lot we know about thus far. do you believe there is a lot being poured over that we have no public information about? >> anderson, i dispute what you say. i dont think there is a lot we know about. i think from my career of intelligen...

If they had been recovered. what is your experience tell you about that statement? does that seem like something that an airline would purposely not be honest about? or, is it quite possible that he had no idea that the ukrainians had recovered the box? >> well, i think he said that to richard quest the night before last and i was there when he did. it seemed a little bit intentionally evasive so it was ukrainian minister, not the airline that actually had that or had possession of it. at that p...

It is an improvement in terms of the restriction to the site, which will concern i think some of -- will answer some of the international concerns and in terms of dealing with bodies, getting them out of the son and in refrigeration where they can be stored more appropriately and examined, that is something that will no doubt be of some consolation to the families of these victims. >> phil, i know that you may have been listening to us talk earlier. reuters releasing this video that appears to s...