To be extra careful in the coming hours and days and theyre requesting additional security for their diplomats in that region including the special enon the groundvoy on the ground. Alisyn . Will thanks so much. Please keep us posted. Another troubling story to tell you about, when Bowe Bergdahl was swapped for taliban prisoners critics of the move warned that the militants would return to the battlefield. U. S. Military and intelligence officials now suspect that one of those five freed prisoners has made contact with suspected Taliban Associates. Cnns pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has more. Good morning, all of this coming to light because the u. S. Intelligence community conducts a classified intercept Surveillance Program over the communications of all five of those men now back in the persian gulf nation of qatar after being traded for Bowe Bergdahl from their detention in guantanamo bay. Something popped up where one of them was noticed to be making communication, telephone call its believed to militants, Taliban Associates so you know now where does all of this stand . The u. S. Says its got all five under even closer surveillance than before. That they can mitigate any threat that is posed. They dont believe it was a direct threat. But i will tell you there are some in the Intelligence Community, i have spoken to who express a good deal of concern about all of this. And believe that this is a clear example of someone returning to militant activity. The detainees, this isnt the first one thats done it. It wont be the last about 12 to 15 of them released from gitmo do return to militant activity. But as you know this was a very controversial political case when the president made the decision to trade the five. For Bowe Bergdahl. Chris in. It highlights the dilemma of the situation. Keep us up to date on further developments. Theres no question this is a horrible melding of military and politics. Luckily we have bright minds on both sides to help us figure out what to do. We have cnn military analyst and former commanding general u. S. Army europe Lieutenant GeneralMark Hertling and professor at the City University of new york pete enbeinart. Gentlemen, lets look at this from the military perspective what of do in situations like this with terrorists like this missed deadlines, no proof of life. Asking for hundreds of millions and backing off it. It doesnt seem like they know what theyre doing. But is the right thing to do to engage . The right thing is to engage chris. You have to continue to engage when there are lives at stake. When youre in conflict when youre in a conflict situation, you have to continue to attempt to make inroads, political inroads with your enemy. In this case with the japanese japanese jordanian isis issue, they were willing to talk and potentially trade. But i think the jordanian government played their cards brilliantly by saying we want to see our pilot first to make sure no marm has come to him. Comparing that to the bergdahl situation, prisoner swaps have been going on without conflict through the ages. Whereas there were some who didnt agree with the swap one for five bergdahl for five talabani or al qaeda operatives. At the same time we have value on our soldiers we want to get each one of them back from conflict. You know the specific pushback on that particular trade was about who bergdahl was and how he came to be captured. But the general opposition was, the u. S. What is it . Do you negotiate with terrorists or do you not . Do you believe the political position on that is a little deceptive, general . If youre talking, chris, about the exchange as to whether or not the taliban was a terrorist organization or a counterinsurgency, yes. Thats a little bit deceptive. The people who have fought against the taliban will tell you they are definitely a terrorist organization they do the kinds of things that a terrorist organization does. Thats a little bit tongue in cheek. Its a bad thing to be tongue in cheek about, isnt it professor . When you have the u. S. Say week dont negotiate with these guys and these other countries should be very careful, not only is that not true. But its also not really productive. So how do you think that projects onto the situation . To allies and to enemies . Its always very easy when its not your people. When its not your countrys people to take this position that you should never negotiate. When its your people then the pressure becomes enormous. Especially in a country like jordan where the population wasnt really behind the war to begin with. I think that the larger drama in jordan here is how does jordan stay in the war . This is a regime that was pressured by the United States to take part in it. It was very important diplomatically that we get some arab participation. But the population is not for it. Why . Because there is a lot of hostility to the idea of fighting a war in another arab country on behalf of western countries that are perceived often in a kind of colonial perspective by the population in jordan. So its not that theyre pro isis or pro terrorism. No. Its that we dont fight our own unless we absolutely have to. Especially when its something thats contrived by yoilt siders. Jordan has suffered spillback. Jordan has refugees from the iraq war going back to 2003. So the jordanian perspective is the wars dont end up very well for them. Do you think it makes a Material Change in their posture in regards to the Coalition Efforts . This guy who was a hostage. Came from a powerful tribe, a powerful family. The government in jordan would not be willing to negotiate unless they felt like there was some real political danger there. General, the obvious, if unsophisticated take on the situation is that were being played by these guys. They like the attention, the media is fanning the flames. This is all upside for them and life is cheap. Are we playing the game of the terrorists . Who is the we it doesnt matter. Everybody else versus the terrorists. Do you think were being played . I dont think i would go that far, chris, but i would say they are being very manipulative in terms of their messaging and theyre attempting to do things that weve never seen done before. With these kinds of terrorists organizations. Going back ill push back a little bit. Jord jordan is clearly in the sights of isis. Had isis not been blunted. I think their next move would have been across the border into jordan. So i believe the political apparatus in jordan realizes the danger of this organization. But perhaps the local populace does not. So i think the joining of the coalition was more than just being pushed from the west. They realize that there is a security concern in that country as well. Getting back to your question though yes, to a degree all of this, because its gone on for days now, continues to help isis be at the forefront and as we see in other parts of the world, there are a lot of other terrorist organizations that are now signing up to be on the side of those they believe or they perceive to be garnering the worlds attention. The one thing that is revealed then to a large extent is that they havent provided the proof of life peter, right . Because that would only help their leverage in the situation. And theyre not doing it. So it shows who youre really dealing with here right . Right. They seem more interested in trading their japanese hostage than the jordanian hostage from the beginning. Isis will do whatever it can to humiliate and weaken the government of jordan. Because they have theyre in conflict with the government of jordan in a different way than the government of japan. They want to weaken ultimately if they could, would love to try to bring down this government. Their goal as stated is to be rulers of all of these different places. Absolutely. Thats what they want. You know the big concern is what happens next time . Because this is what these people do. Is they take innocents and they kill them for some kind of sport and popularity. Right. I dont think theres any way tragically that this kind of behavior changes, until the military campaign against isis really starts to bear fruit. What were seeing is that although there was this victory in kobani where the kurds defeated isis in this town near the border with turkey the larger goal which is like the retake of mosul for instance, the larger iraqi city that isis took back in june. I dont think theres any timetable that i know of for that to take place. But as the academics know in their heads and men like the general know in their hearts from their actions on the battlefield. It will never be won just with force, theyre going to have to find a way to address the kernels of these ideas. Were nowhere near that yet. General, thank you very much. Professor, always a pleasure. Back to you. Taliban is claiming responsibility for the murders of three u. S. Military contractors on the military base at kabuls International Airport in afghanistan. The terror group says a suicide attacker who opened fire was a taliban agent who penetrated the Security Forces and waited for a target. That attacker was also killed in the gun battle. Breaking overnight, a surprise isis assault on the iraqi city of kirkuk has killed a top kurdish peshmurga leader. The attack allowed isis to take over an area swept of the city. But antiterror units and Peshmerga Forces managed to reclaim some of the area after a gunfight. A former taxi driver in the d. C. Area now on the fbis list of most wanted terrorists. The fbi says liban hajji mohammed, a naturalized u. S. Citizen from somalia provided Material Support to al qaeda and al shabab he left the u. S. In 2012 now believed to be in splal somalia. The last thing that people in the northeast want to hear more snow is coming. Our sara ganim is live in boston. Hey, guess what its already snowing again here in new england. And this snowfall what were expecting is nothing even close to what they got earlier this week with the blizzard. But its significant because of the snow thats already on the ground here. Take a quick look here in portland maine. Look how much know snowe is on the ground untouched, unplowed. 27 inches of snow have fallen earlier this week in portland maine. And now theyre expecting even more on top of that earlier this morning, we saw crews racing in the city to try to remove some of that snow before the snowfall, which is already coming down. We see the streets already had not been cleared completely from that previous blizzard. And now like i said its already snowing here again. Six to ten inches could fall today. Between today and tomorrow actually here in portland, maine. Plus in addition to that theyre expecting that next week sunday into monday another system could come through, bringing even more snow to the city. Thats significant, because it causes problems for snow removal, rooftop safety concerns and also always alisyn the potential for power outages. Back to you. Sara stay warm. Let us get some scientific knowledge behind this and talk to our meteorologist Jennifer Gray who is joining us now. What is snow . We need to know. In all seriousness, jennifer talk to us about these systems and how bad this is going to be sort of a onetwo punch, right . It really is just as sara was saying, we have a lot of snow on the ground now were getting more snow. We have two snowstorms coming in a couple of days. The first one basically already happening. This one is going to ling near tomorrow. You can see snow all across the northeast. Hell a little snow on the outskirts of boston. You saw portland getting some snow. Even on the outskirts of new york getting a little bit of that. So it is going to be scattered this morning and we could pick up several inches across the northeast. The other big story with this the winds, we could see gusts up to 40 and 50 miles per hour. By the time we get into tomorrow morning, so here are your snowfall totals if you want the bigtime totals those are going to be in northeastern maine, bangor picking up 1012. Portland possibly picking up 46 inches boston could pick up 24. Thats only the first system. It will stay cold over the weekend, with temperatures wind chills well below zero. This is the next system guys this is the one coming in on monday. There is a little bit of uncertainty with it. Still, but we could pick up an additional eight to ten inches around the boston area. And places north could pick up additional snowfall as well. Guys. So they will be digging out for quite some time from these systems. Maine already got hit by the last one. I dont know how much the accumulation was there. But to get 1224 on top of it . They cant be surprised, they do live in maine. It seems as though youre blaming them for the snow. If you dont like it move . Are you like that in. No i feel for them there. You are wearing white, which is a little taunting to be honest. Bring it shes saying. Happy to hear from you, maine, we love you, maine. Meanwhile coming up theres testimony set to resume this morning in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial. Prosecutors say the former nfl stars dna was found at the crime scene. But our legal expert says he will be acquitted, anyway. How is that possible . Shell explain. And Hillary Clinton taking her time. Heres the latest. Shes considering delaying any announcement until the summer. We have some insight into whether hillary really wants it. I have moderate to severe crohns disease. 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With humira, remission is possible. Testimony resumes this morning in the murder trial of former nfl star Aaron Hernandez. The prosecution seemed to present an openandshut case. But the defense says not so fast. Cnns alexandra field is live for us in fall river, massachusetts. Whats the latest . One of the first witnesses called to testify in the case a teenager who discovered odom lloyds body. The prosecution says Aaron Hernandez arc straighted the killing and the coverup of odom lloyd. But the defense says that police and prosecutors only went after hernandez because of his celebrity status. A distraught mother leaves the courtroom. The pictures of odom lloyd shot to death in an Industrial Park too much for ursula ward. On the opposite side of the courtroom, shania jenkins, on the opposite side of the courtroom, sharon jenkins. The former nfl star fidgeting in his seat on the first day of his trial for murder. The police and the prosecutors targeted aaron from the very beginning. Hernandez attorney referring to lloyd and hernandez as friends, some 40 times during Opening Statements. Going on to say the former patriot, a celebrity, had no motive to kill. He was generous with friends. But the prosecution paints a different picture. Hernandez became angry with lloyd at a nightclub two days before the 27yearold semi pro Football Player was shot. Execution style in an Industrial Park. The evidence for their murder case a series of surveillance videos. One shows lloyd getting into a car with hernandez the night he dies. Another from inside hernandez home recorded after lloyds death. Prosecutors say thats a gun in his hand. The crime of possession of a firearm. That he committed the crime of murder. Dna evidence also a key part of the prosecutions case. They say a shell casing has hernandez dna on it. They say his dna is also on a joint found near the body. And that of lloyds is, too. And late they are morning, the prosecution will continue to make their case calling more witnesses to the stand. We could be in for some emotional testimony from odom lloyds mother and his girlfriend. Ailsen . Well be watching that alexandra field. Thank you. Lets get insight from cnn legal analysts mel robbins and danny cevales. The prosecutors presented in their Opening Statements what sounds like damning evidence to me. Aaron hernandez sneaker print found near odom lloyds body. Hernandez dna on a joint found at the crime scene. Meaning he was smoking pot. An empty shell casing found in his car. You say, i believe, that none of that will be enough to convict him . Yeah you know i think weve got another Casey Anthony on our hands, the reason why i believe that good morning danny and good morning alisyn is because there is simply no motive. And when you think about motive its not required. But its sort of like the gravy on a meal it holds everything together. And so lets just concede that Aaron Hernandez was at the scene. With all of that evidence youve basically just proven that hes there. But what you have not proven beyond a reasonable doubt, is that he substantially contributed to the murder. And without that level of proof, in a joint venture case in the state of massachusetts, theres not going to be a conviction. Because you dont know as a juror what the heck happened. You dont know if it was intentional. You dont know if it was involuntary. You dont know what went down. How the heck could you convict somebody on evidence that doesnt prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, alisyn. Danny, who motive no murder weapon found at the scene. Is mel right . No conviction. Mel alluded to this. Motive is not an element of any crime. It can be evidence of intent. While mel is r