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Collect information from a u.s. person, we hand it over to the fbi. they have the legal authority to do it. we would not pursue that we give it to the fbi. we were picking things up, great relevance to the fbi. we wanted to make sure they were there, to piece it together to whatever they were collecting. >> intelligence sharing operation. >> put together officers together with cia, to make sure the proverbial dots would be connected. >> during your tenure as cia director. i dont believe you were...

Nato -- fellow nato country turkey is all calculated by vladimir putin. we need to change that calculus or were going to get ourselves in some trouble. >> assad has massacred, slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent syrians. is the end game here for russian president vladimir putin really to have assad safely ensconced in power? >> the end game for putin in syria is to maintain influence there. and i have to say hes doing pretty well. so he needs to keep that warm water port in tartus that was...

our pentagon xpont barbara star has more on the air strike that killed al-awlaki. >> reporter: this is important. this man posed a direct threat to the united states had inspired him by all accounts ordered attacks against the u.s. now this apparently is the result of a two-year effort between the u.s. intelligence community and the people to go after him to find him, target him and take him out. very controversial as he is an american born citizen. killed for his activities in another...

square last year. an extraordinary development and we mobilized cnn correspondents around the world to cover this breaking news story for us from the pentagon to istanbuistanbul. its hard to indicate just how important al awlaki was to the organization, but heres a frightening reality. he may be more dangerous dead. thats exactly what our nic robertson has been covering to this point. lets go straight to you. what exactly do you know with regard to how he was targeted and is it possibl...