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Good evening. Im dan harris. The special Operations Forces were on a dangerous mission, facing an urgent deadline. Al qaeda threatening to kill luke somers, a freelance photographer, by today, if their demands were not met. An overnight raid was launched to rescue somers but it went bad. He was executed by his captors. Today president obama called it a barbaric murder. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with the details of this hair rowing operation. Reporter good evening,...

Charlie dagata more on this atrocity. Good morning, bob. The video surfaced this morning it appears to show that same English Speaking isis militant seen in previous videos claiming to beheaded peter kassig. Unlike previous videos this did not show kassig alive before the alleged beheading. 26yearold aid worker was captured in syria just over a year ago while trying to deliver food. Hes a former army ranger served in iraq, set up his own agency. His family from indiana they released statement sa...

Veteran iraq correspondent Charlie Dagata more on this atrocity. Good morning, bob. The video surfaced this morning it appears to show that same English Speaking isis militant seen in previous videos claiming to beheaded peter kassig. Unlike previous videos this did not show kassig alive before the alleged beheading. 26yearold aid worker was captured in syria just over a year ago while trying to deliver food. Hes a former army ranger served in iraq, set up his own agency. His family from indiana...

Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in pu...

It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the ent...

Highlight had the need for a conditionsbased approach. Like our National Military strategy written in 2012 president obamas calendarbased troop drawdown plan for afghanistan no longer accurately reflects the facts and conditions on the ground. Like the president s policy against isil, the president s afghanistan policy lacks of strategic disconnect, providing a list of goals or preferences but precluding the means necessary to achieve them. Perhaps it is time for the president to exercise strate...

And yet those are being invaded. And it does appear that the administration is not committed to doing those things that are necessary to cause ukraine to be able to at least defend itself. We were slow on intelligence. We are providing blankets. We are providing mres. But were not providing some of the defensive lethal support that is necessary. Secretary kerry well, we are providing senator corker let me just finish. Secretary kerry were providing counterbatteries and other things that are defe...

Appeared on this campus all those decades ago that first mouse, that first message helped lay a foundation. And in the decades since, on campus uses like this, in Companies Campuses like this, in companies that are represented here, new people have come along, each laying down a block, one on top of the other. When future historians ask, who built this age, the answer will be, we all did. As americans. And im absolutely confident that if we keep at this, if we keep working together, in the spiri...

And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose James Clapper is here. He is the director of National Intelligence. He is responsible for grafting intelligence gathered by the 16 agencies that makes up the u. S. Intelligence agency. The cia, fbi and nsa. He testified last week before the Senate Arms Service committee on the worldwide threat to u. S. Nation...

Soviet space is russias highest foreignpolicy goal. Western sanctions as well as Energy Problems have tipped russias economy toward recession. Chinas leaders are primarily concerned with the mastic issues. The communist partys hold on power, stability, and economic growth. Even though it is looking for stable ties with the United States, it is more likely to accept tensions in pursuit of its interest. Especially maritime issues. China is expanding and accelerating the buildup of its outposts in ...