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That we have to tell the american people, and the world, that the united states is different from other countries who engage in these tactics, and that was the point that angus king, the independent from maine, made this morning on "new day." listen to what he said. >> this is who we are as a country. we tell the truth, and if we make a mistake, we admit it, and we move on. ive had military interrogators tell me that, getting the report out would actually help them, because at least it starts to...

Looking as though he was a deer caught in headlines. very soft spoken, and the proceedings lasted 10 to 15 minutes. >> the charges against him so far not outlined in great detail, but we want to remind people that this, of course bg stems from 2012 when there was an attack that led to the deaths of former u.s. ambassador chris stephens as well as shawn smith and others. he has been kept for the last two weeks on the navy warship. >> that period of time he was being requested by cia interrogators...

Suggesting as much within the first 24 hours of the attack. u.s. forces have been tracking khatallah since about five weeks after the benghazi attack. chairman of the joint chiefs general martin dempsey said sundays operation took months to prepare for, required what he described as an intelligence soak. senior u.s. officials say they gained intelligence from watching khatallah for many months. we now know that the delta force operators, like the ones who carried out this capture of a wanted ter...

What happened to him during that process and what he may have picked up during that process. all of that will unfold on the militarys time and on the time of our national security interests. >> evan, to that point, clearly one of the things that the parents talked a lot about and we know a lot of people were involved in this. my understanding is that the operation to recover him obviously relied on a lot of intelligence gathering. i would imagine sort of bringing him home, as goldie was just say...

Command yesterday if that province asked the manies to leave weapons outside the tent where they would have a townhall with the secretary of defense. this is unusual but a marine spokesman says that the general gave the order the night before and the reason he did so was because he did not want the marines treated any differently than the afghan partners who are asked to disarm before the meetings. >>shepard: another thing about the suspect being flown out of the country. where is he? >>reporter...

Pleading guilty on the second day of his trial. the 24-year-old nigerian said it was an act of jihad, no kidding. hell be sentenced in january. attorney general eric holder using the guilty plea to defend his desire to have terrorists tried in civilian courts rather than military trials. holder releasing a statement saying this -- contrary to what some have claimed, todays plea removes any doubt that our courts were one of the most effective tools to have to fight terrorism and keep the american...

Military interrogators could have gotten more information out of him. >> blowing a tire on a highway, bad enough. imagine a plane blowing a tire on the runway. thats exactly what happened in salt lake city. this is last night. delta flight from las vegas had reportedly just landed when the two front tires suddenly deflated. none of the 153 people on board were hurt. maintenance teams are examining the tires. its believed the hot brakes may have caused them to overheat. brian? >> all right, houst...

Representatives of the military state. moving on to -- >> that sounds like a very serious setback. that sounds like a very serious setback for the people there in egypt who have certainly hoped for revolutionary change. >> reporter: yeah. the concerns about the detentions of activists out in the streets, were hearing increasingly about this. people who i interviewed in tahrir square a month and a half ago before the fall of hosni mubarak or immediately afterwards in that burst of idealism and ho...

Beginning to merge these two things again. you want to look more muscular and take another shot and maybe try to see if you can get him to talk in the enemy combatant scenario. i will say this, the three people who are enemy combatants in the u.s. since 9/11, theres no evidence that any of them gave up information in interrogations to their military interrogators. it happens every day when you mirandize people, they still talk. the problem here is ultimately its an unprovable thing. where would ...

Talk. but the problem is what hes telling us now, could it have been more valuable two weeks ago? >> of course! >> im raising a lot of questions about the fact -- >> people who say ah-ha, it does pay to read him his rights and give him some time and let him talk, in the intelligence world, within 24 hours if they capture this guy and he says ill tell you exactly the coordinates of where i was located and the camps i was at, the stakes have been pulled up as soon as the word leaked out and you do...