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Surrounded the s.e.a.l.s had to call in air strikes. they ip cyst the u.s. only fired at legitimate targets, civilians were caught in the middle. >> we had u.s. service members who were pinned down and needed help to get out. had that not happened, we likely would have had greater tragedies on the american side. >> reporter: villagers spoke of withering fire from the air. >> there were more than a dozen buildings that i walked into that had been hit or destroyed by those helicopters and air stri...

Barbara, a u.s. commander is now saying this mission is on him, but the military still is telling a very different story. isnt that right? >> reporter: well, they are, jim. and i dont really think its very surprising. weve seen this very often in the past when there are fire fights when there are confrontations in front line war zones, if you will. often the military has a view of what happened, and civilians on the ground have very credible eyewitness reports of what they say happened to them. ...

>> theyre graceful. >> bad people. bad people. >> his supporters joined that fight. [ chanting: cnn sucks ] >> reporter: now, new questions about how donald trump will treat the media as president. questions fueled by trumps teams ditching of the traditional pool of reporters assigned to cover him when he came to washington to meet with president obama. the head of the white house correspondents association complained. >> to be there in case news happened, to be there in case something happens t...

Of where the president was. there could have been worrisome information gaps on the day president reagan was shot. during the campaign, trump blocked the media from traveling with him. he blacklisted journalists who had been critical of him. he threatened to sue "the new york times" for reporting on his taxes, threatened to sue nbc for the "access hollywood" tape release but didnt follow through. still, the media is not blameless. >> i think there were a lot of mistakes along the way by the medi...

>> reporter: after months of openly sparring with the media during the campaign -- >> bunch of phony, low-lives. theyre disgraceful. bad people. bad people. >> reporter: his supporters joined that fight. [ chanting cnn sucks ] >> reporter: new questions about how donald trump will treat the media as president. questions fuelled by trumps teams ditching the pool of reporters deciding to cover him when he came to washington to meet with president obama. head of the white house complained. >> to be...

Were starting to get some of the information gaps filled in. as you said, holloway is her name from portland and apparently she had been living in her car here in las vegas for potentially a couple of weeks with the 3-year-old toddler in various parking structures in the area and for some reason last night around 6:30 drove along several hundred feet of sidewalk on the las vegas strip. sidewalk that was filled with about 100 people. then, makes a right turn into another casino parking lot. leave...

Think its possible that there were polices that helped the tsarnaevs build these bombs? >> there are two information gaps. one is, what did he do -- tamerlan tsarnaev do when he was in chechen? we dont know. and the other is, where were the bombs put together? that hasnt been uncovered yet. its conceivable. on the other hand, the bomb bear as resemblance to the design in the online terrorist magazine "inspire." its a variation of that. they could have conceivably came up with the variation thems...

Broken oversight and information gaps. normal judges have better options because they have more adversarial information. you dont have to be obsessed with traffic to be concerned with what happened in new jersey with the governor. what do you make of what were learning in this investigation? you as a lawyer have a lot of experience here. what does it say to you about chris christies administration? >> two things. first of all, think about how much the story changed once we were able to get the d...

That one. lets listen to tom ridge, on with us a moment ago. i want to get your thoughts on this. >> over the past several months this administration has demonstrated in so many areas with benghazi, department of justice, and the i.r.s. that they are not to be trusted, that there are information gaps. i think as general alexander and general hayden have said this is a program that began under president bush when we werent prepared and should never be prepared to sacrifice any constitutional prot...