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Otherwise that wouldn't have gotten told. >> reporter: he was coming home for a final year of law school. in august 2012 he was south of damascus, planning to drive to lebanon when he vanished before reaching the border. >> we believe that he's being held captive in syria. i don't want to get into anything further on that front either, i'm sorry. >> reporter: but it is raising a crucial question. is there real progress in bringing him home? >> an american official doesn't come out and say that a hostage is alive unless they have really good intelligence. they know he's alive, otherwise they wo...

By the white house to openly talk about a hostage who hasn't been seen since this video with his captors five week after his disappearance. he had gone it syria to photograph and report what was happening to ordinary syrians as the conflict heated up. journalists were in increasing danger. >> street fighting, you know, molotov cocktails, any weapon that you can imagine in an urban street fili fighting environmen. i was able to get some pretty good shots and tell a pretty good story that i think otherwise never would have gotten told. >> reporter: he was coming home for a year of law school. in...

Journalists were in increasing danger. >> you're just talking street fighting, you know, molotov cocktails, any weapon you can basically imagine in an urban street fighting environment. it was pretty exciting. but i was able to get some pretty good shots that way. and tell a pretty good story afterwards that i think otherwise, you know, never would have gotten told. >> reporter: he was coming home for a final year of law school. in august 2012, he was south of damascus, planning to drive to lebanon when he vanished before reaching the border. >> we believe he's being held captive in syria. i d...

Out of prison since 2008, dee mower has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against novak. a suit that alleges a third theory that novak paid chris wright $25,000 to kill ken dolezsar. novak has yet to answer the suit nor attended the proceeding. in august 2012 the court granted her a motion to dismiss the wrongful death and conspiracy claims so that a final judgment could be entered in the case. back in the loft some imagined the worst about their former friend and neighbor. what would you advise him to do if you could talk to him? >> talk to you guys, tell the story. >> if you have nothing to hid...

Sides. >> in white supremacist circles they took it to mean this person supports us and we have a champion in the white house and we can now fight for a white america. >> reporter: the president and his press secretary have vehemently denied inciting extremist violence. >> the president has denounced racism, hatred and bigotry in all forms on a number of occasions. >> reporter: august 2012, a white gunman kills six people at a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin. june 2015, charleston, south carolina, white supremacist dylann roof sprays the methodist episcopal church with gun peoplpeoplfire, ...