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Family hey, we think he might be dead. >> i dont have a specific time frame for that. but what i can tell you is that as the intelligence community began to develop information pointed to the death of dr. weinstein. that information was briefed to the president and that information was share would the weinstein family. >> you dont have the information because you dont have it or because -- what would the security risks boof ss be of telling us with more precision of when some of these things hap...

>> can you address the issue of drones in any way? i take it you dont want to confirm that that is what was used on this particular strike? >> im not in the position to talk about how the operation was carried out. >> can you talk to them about the future review of drone strategy more generally? >> what i can say is that these counterterrorism operations that are critical to the national security of the united states and critical to the safety of the american people continue. at the same time th...

Government and our national security apparatus communicates with families that are in this terrible position. and, so the president is familiar with that frustration that is understandable and is articulated in her statement. and the goal of the op going review is to try to address those frustrations. i dont have any announcements to make in terms of the timing for that review but i would anticipate that that review would be done relatively soon. mike? >> thanks josh. two things. following up on...

>> all right, we are currently the white house briefing has just begun. were monitoring that. well bring that to you. we expect the press secretary will be talking about this. the administration has also revealed that an american al qaeda member was killed along with the two hostages. and then also american adam gadahn was killed in a separate strike later. i want to take you now to the white house where the briefing has just begun and josh earnest, no doubt, will be addressing this. >> to share...

To have an extra body there than it was to fix the alarm system in the first place. >> how did this happen first of all? how was there this lapse where there was an alarm and maybe it was turned off, and then also you have this discovered by a dhs investigation. if you can tell us shed a little light on that investigation as well. >> well i think what you find for most of the president, the former presidents to one degree or another, they had security problems because they did not have 100% oper...

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...