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Russians now that they say their pilot was killed, quote, fighting terrorists. thats what of course the syr n syrians and the russians call anyone who does not like bashar al-assad. the russians will respond to this undoubtedly and how they do will tell us a lot about their relationship with president assad coming up. as we continue on the show, more on the presidents up coming road rally to promote his state of the union goals to the american people. and we will find out just what rank and fi...

Lost what u call -- have called potenti partner? >> i said if itas conditional. >> yeah. >> if they are serious in fighting terrorists, were going to be partner. what has been proven recently, as i said earlier, they are hand in glove with those terrorists. the united states and the west, theyre not serious in fighting the terrorists. >> with me yahoo! news chief investigative correspondent michael, the last american journalist to interview assad in february. always great to see you, mike. i fou...

Russias news agency said 96 people will be on that plane. 35 diplomats and their dependents. as of noon yesterday, the diplomats were kicked out of two compounds. this one in long island, new york, and another in maryland. they look like beautiful vacation homes with tennis courts and sailing. but the obama administration says they were used for much more than that. including intelligence gathering against the u.s. diplomats in san francisco are also getting kicked out of the consulate where u.s...

Rainfall. john? >> reporter: yeah. i think youre right, karen, when you say the word here is it could have been a whole lot worse. we still dont know just how bad patricia was because it is so dark. as the sun comes up and we see the outlying areas, well get a better idea of what damage has been left behind in the wake of patricia in the next few hoyers. thank you so much for keeping us informs of what was going on. of course, if youd like to help anyone who has been impacted. we have groups who...

We defeat terror in syria." they did not mince words when responding to that. >> this is the same man who drops barrel bombs on his own people. so lets keep it in perspective when were talking about assertions hes made against fighting terrorists. he is the reason that isil has been -- and other extremist groups have been allowed to fester and grow and sustain themselves inside syria. >> assad also said that his country needs to embrace all of its people, including the kurds. shep, of course, ou...

Some hard questions. weve already heard over the curse of the 12 hours that president obama has been here about the things he agrees on with president kenyatta, things like fighting terrorists. he was laying the wreath at the site of the bombing of the u.s. embassy in nairobi, islamic extremists blamed for that. thats still obviously a problem in this part of the world. these two countries have worked together on that. they spent the morning talking about entrepreneur ship and how to move forwar...

Cruel truth that deadly mistakes can often happen when youre fighting terrorists. im wondering, has the president lived up to the principles that he set out for himself when he gave that speech? >> the president has absolutely lived up to the principles that were laid out in that speech. prior to giving that speech there was not a lot of clear guidance. there was not clear or at least the protocols were not as clear as they were today about how these kind of counterterrorism operations should be...

In terms of fighting terrorists, you know, for his military as he was consolidating power, disappearing, you know, his sunni rivals and basically ruling like a shia saddam. so theres a lot of blame to go around at this point, but i do -- im just noting, i just think its a very easy thing to sort of say, okay, valk a mess, oh, remember the neocons. you know what im saying? so in that respect, i think that, yeah, theyre in the commentary right now. how really relevant is it? no one is proposing an...

Financial trance acts. >> neil: so you pop up on someones radar? >> sure c.i.a. and nsa and let them do what they mean fighting terrorists. frankly. governmental is probably doing it. >> look what happened to elliot spitzer. i feel so bad the attorney general of new york came up with all these ridiculous cases, some good ones. he did money transfers to house of ill repute and was caught infamous client, a prostitute. there is so much they can do already. >> i have no issues of privacy at all. >>...

now take a look at rescue teams evacuating the philippines capital or large parts of it. almost 19,000 people displaced in that city of 12 million. and forecasters say the storms wont let up for at least another 24 hours. many there, of course, living in constructed homes, death tolls expected to rise before this is over. s gunman that killed six people at a sikh temple in wisconsin was a frustrated neonazi, how the southern poverty law center describes wade michael page. the organiza...