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They've been conducting air strikes against isis in iraq and syria for months. and that wore as risky as it is for u.s. military personnel involves thousands of u.s. military personnel. one sad benchmark today. a journalist at 1,000 days since austin tice was taken hostage by kidnappers of some stripe we don't know who, inside the area. reporting on the syrian civil war when somebody abducted him in august 2013. a video was released showing him -- a v relesase showed him in captivity. they had been in contact about us aaustin tice trying to get him

Charges have been filed. it took more than a year for them to say who pulled the trigger. >> reporter: this is how john gear spent the last 45 minutes of his life. standing at his front door hands up talking with fairfax, virginia police. that's him in the white t-shirt. this picture is from a neighbor's cell phone, taken just minutes before john gear is jot dead. >> you had one officer standing here he had his gun drawn, officer torres had his gun drawn and pretty much pointed center mass the whole time. >> gear's friend of more than 25 years, jeff stewart, was there, and remembers seeing off...

From his most recent video, august 2013 praising the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi the year before. he had a video in 2011. he had videos where he was telling americans to go out and buy weapons at gun fests to go and attack people. he praised the ft. hood shooter, major hasan nadal, for what he had done. praised him and said he should be a role model for other muslims in the united states. so this was a imagine who was agitating and trying to provoke as much as he could attacks. but because al qaeda leaders were also being killed and because he kind of got in on ground floor, he wa...

Advocate for doing something. why can't the united nations and the world act? >> well, first, let me say that dismantling the declared chemical weapons program is important. attacks like the kind in august 2013 killed more than 1,000 people in one swoop. the horror of those image are ones none of us will forget. that was one of the attacks the regime carried out. it is a violation of international law. it's as brutal for a victim as sarin would be. the challenge is of course russia and the fact russia supported the regime through thick and thin and almost ir suspect the attacks.

African-american woman nominated to be attorney general. she was nominated to be attorney general before a man named ash carter was nominated for defense secretary. she was nominated before him. no substantive objections have been raised to either nomination. he is already serving, but the republicans in congress will not let there be a vote on her yet. she has waited longer than any nominee in decades for a vote on her nomination. mitch mcconnell has been very busy with that he won't with there this weekend. the last major national civil rights congressmen ration where the president spoke and...