border region accidentally killed warren and giovanni this past january. yesterday i spoke with warren's wife elaine and prime minister renzi of italy. as a husband and as a father, i cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the weinstein and lo porto families are enduring today. i realize that there are to words that can ever equal their loss. i know that there is nothing that i can ever say or do to ease their heart ache and today i simply want to say this: as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government, i offer our deepest apologies to the families. as soon as we determine the cause of their deaths, i directed that the existence of