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Is not a single nation but a terrorist network. >> i guarantee you, chris, that if in fact this mans life had been lost and it came out that we had this opportunity and our commander in chief passed on it, the republicans would be going crazy right now. we saved this mans life. >> reporter: and speaking from afghanistan where he was treating u.s. troops, defense secretary chuck hagel responded to criticism that congress was not notified. information was not shared with congress because of the ur...

And, you know, people will -- this will have to play itself out to see exactly how it happens, how it happens in terms of the security of those people. >> but the truth is, we werent really ever at war in afghanistan against afghanistan or pakistan or any country. we were at war with a group, groups, but nonetheless in the world of asymmetric warfare, where we are fighting groups and not nations, we used to do prisoner exchanges with nations all the time when we were at war with them. why not no...

>> the haqqani network is not a nation state. its a terrorist network. they dont control government services -- >> but we were at war with them. >> were with war with anyone that declares war against the united states which is al qaeda and its affiliates and those who provided resources. >> therefore, if youre at war with this group as you would be with a state, germany in the past, dont you of necessity have to negotiate a prisoner exchange? >> no. here is where i disagree completely. we have o...

Has been des similar mated. chief intelligence correspondent kathryn hairage on what the facts say. >> weekend suicide bombings in syria by al qaeda my lish shas are further evidence that the terrorist network is now a movement. republican congressman mike pompeo who sits on the select committee says the affiliates are working together. they are not acting in isolation as administration suggests. >> their capacity to communicate, their capacity to build teams, training grounds in these spaces ei...

Jenna: right now some major concerns about a top al qaeda commander this man is psalm sames cousin. he is based in syria and may be setting up camp to train and recruit new followers. chief intelligence corresondent catherine herridge is live in washington this story. so catherine, what more do we know about this operative. >> reporter: this operative is very open and public and has a twitter account with more than 14,000 followers. he tweeted information about key meetings between al qaeda seni...

The white house that the taliban has been destabilized, that terrorist network has not backed down. its on the rise. even the latest "time" magazine cover spotlights the growing dominance of the taliban. joining us is lieutenant colonel oliver north. hes gone there many, many times. as weve been talking about the fact, the taliban is not going away and, in fact, is really working hard to intimidate voters there. >> but as we just heard from conor powell, what a great correspondent we have on the...

Plane, they buy a big plane. and in terms of an organized terrorist network, i think its really highly, highly unlikely that any sort of network sophisticated enough to pull something like this off wouldnt actually be under super -- under, you know, study by the intelligence community in malaysia or elsewhere. and people simply dont see that. we dont see that here. we dont see that in the region. in that sense, i really dont see this as a network event. always possible, but really not very likel...

And another some relatives are saying mobile phones of passengers on the missing aircraft are still ringing. the other thing is the naming of the two passengers who are traveling on stolen passports. that labor police now have named one of the men as a 19-year-old iranian. and interpol has named the second suspect passenger as another iranian 29-year-old. now, interpol says both of these men traveled from dohar on illegal iranian passports and then used stolen passports to board the malaysian ai...

And another some relatives are saying mobile phones of passengers on the missing aircraft are still ringing. the other thing is the naming of the two passengers who are traveling on stolen passports. that labor police now have named one of the men as a 19-year-old iranian. and interpol has named the second suspect passenger as another iranian 29-year-old. now, interpol says both of these men traveled from dohar on illegal iranian passports and then used stolen passports to board the malaysian ai...

We know that after the fact, several al qaeda members emerged as kind of leaders of the pack. so i can say with complete confidence that al qaeda was involved in it. and that certainly the state department knew that al qaeda had a major presence in benghazi. >> we know that there are guys who may have ties or loose affiliations to people who are also affiliated with al qaeda. that doesnt mean al qaeda core is directing or planning anything. in benghazi, and it doesnt mean they were involved here...