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It must be different for you because you live there and you have to keep going and you have kids in school. >> i try not to let that association influence my memories of the beautiful little sandy hook and that beautiful little school that i used to love to be in. i was there with daniel the morning before for his little french lessons that he would have before school started. and i used to volunteer there as a reader and just loved being in that environment, so i want to preserve it like that. >> i think also for many people outside sandy hook, if they think of sandy hook or see a road sign f...

That just the president trying to reassure people we're working on this? >> of course, the president is trying to reassure people and also true that the united states has increased the number of strikes. it has taken on new targets in the last month and going much after, for example, the oil infrastructure and getting more and more successful in terms of targeting isis leadership and we gather more intelligence as time goes by in that the ter. the news is getting better. of course, everyone wants everything to happen very, very soon and the recent terrorist attacks together with the political ...

Some grievance of some kind in which he imagined that he needed to take revenge. there were some reports that he was recently fired from his job with the jordanian police. all of that is under investigation. but we should not hesitate to point out here that jordan is one of the strongest allies the u.s. has in the region and vice versa, but there's no question that the jordanians will conduct a fair and thorough investigation, get to the bottom of what happened here, kate. >> jim at the pentagon, thanks. let's bring in daniel benjamin from dartmouth college, former counterterrorism coordinat...

Since lost control of a wide swath of the country and now the chairwoman dianne feinstein wonder if it's time for al maliki to hit the bricks. >> it seems to me that maliki has to be convinced that it is in the greater interest of his country to retire and to for this newly elected government to put together a new government. >> joining me now is robin wright, senior fellow at the woodrow wilson center and daniel benjamin who was the adviser to hillary clinton on counterterrorism and is with the dickey center at the center for understanding. maliki needs to go, is that really the key? is that ...

Cnn he got out of the al qaeda business and that may be true. but one way to score the relative importance there was a $5 million reward for him. the leader of al qaeda has a 25 million dollar reward. he is 20% less important than the leader of al qaeda which makes him important but it's not the most seismic thing that has happened in the war on terror. >> you know, i think he is right but also daniel benjamin who was in the state department anti-terrorism coordinator and others said he was instrumental in the 1998 bombings and has links to pakistan and other such al qaeda franchises and they ...