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Days now affecting the family of sergeant johnson. and by extension, the three other americans who died who have not been talked about as much because of this controversy. and then of course the chief of staff john kelly who is a gold star father who became part of a political drama where he has taken the back seat. >> thank you very much. there are a lot of questions. it is escalating pressures on this white house to give information. out of a seemingly routine patrol fall victim to losing four...

Inappropriate to question a general. there are just so many layers and layers of problems with the whole way that this issue is handled. in a sense its a complete distraction from the real questions we should be asking which are why did this happen this niger to begin with. >> okay. youre all going to stick around for another segment later this hour. john, also thank you for being here. coming up, what we know so far about the massive intelligence failure in niger and what the future may look li...

Wanted to hear from on this subject tonight. we appreciate it. coming up for us, another break. some tough questions from lawmakers and a report citing this massive intelligence failure possibly. what really happened in niger? and central africa. some answers when "the 11th hour" continues. patrick woke up with back pain.

Happened. in terms of figuring out what happened in that ambush, nbc news reports a congressional source briefed on the ambush called it a, quote, massive intelligence failure on the part of the u.s. reportedly no u.s. overhead surveillance, so no manned aircraft watching over what the soldiers were doing, no drones, no way to get eyes on the ground when things went bad. there was also no quick reaction group to search for them if they went missing. the "wall street journal" was first to report ...

Niger. this is the deadliest combat mission during president trumps short presidency, and in the search for answers, the fbi now has a team on the ground helping to collect evidence and find out if this deadly ambush was a result of an intelligence failure. one thing that the pentagon is stressing is that no troops are left behind. this in response to questions about how sergeant la david johnson became separated from his group and did not make it on to the french rescue plane with his comrades....

Lived through the devastation of hurricane irma and maria and is still in purt rueco trying to rebuild. harsh words, bigotry, casual cruelty. former presidents george w. bush and barack obama mentioning the state of affairs. they didnt mention his name but its clear who theyre talking about. will their rebuke change anything? we start with breaking news on that october 4th attack in niger. a senior congressional aide briefed on the four u.s. deaths now tells nbc news that the ambush stemmed ...

Carol, this is the nbc teams reporting, and it comes from congressional sources who are already looking into this. it seems that they were really following some guys on motorcycles who set them up for this ambush. >> yeah, there are a number of things in kens reporting, but essentially it raises a lot of questions about what the sdocop of this mission was, what those four troops were doing there, and it sounds a lot like the u.s. didnt necessarily have a plan for something like this happening, a...

Organizations. one other news organization is quoting as senior staff calling it a "massive intelligence failure," and they are comparing it to benghazi. there is going to be a lot of work coming out in the few days. >> bret: special forces do a lot of stuff in the world. they are in dangerous positions, and this is a wide-open area that is a vast swath of territory. obviously, there is a lot of extenuating circumstances to benghazi that dealt with how the government dealt with things along the ...

Could have tipped off the militants to attack. this video was given to fox news from a nonprofit in africa to show what the area near the attack looked like. the military sent a general officer to niger to investigate the attack and now the fbi is headed there, too, bringing law enforcement techniques to help piece together the timeline and what led to the attack. top pentagon officials are pushing back strongly on the notion that this was an intelligence failure. they say the u.s. team that wer...

Intelligence failure, maybe there was one but, maybe they penetrated the forces we were work with and got information. this is what happened when youre in conflict against al qaeda and al qaeda-type groups that want to kill americans. >> we wanted to invite you here because youre very close to the other big story of the week, a story that has, perhaps, surprisingly dragged on for four, five days now. you are a gold star family member. your brother died in the "uss cole" attack back in 2000. what...