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Peter berg another major development. an al qaeda leader in yemen was supposedly targeted by u.s. drone air strike. this is a release put out by aqap. this is a guy named ibrahim el rabaish. he was a gitmo detainee. released 2006 i believe. what is going on over there? >> well, the leadership of this group actually is made up of guantanamo detainees. they were released from guantanamo. they went to saudi arabia. they went through a rehabilitation program that has some success, but obviously not perfect, because they then moved to yemen and set up al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen. but...

Keeping tabsz on them. that is why they keep ending up on the battlefield. >> that is ed royce reacting to the fact that ibrahim a former gitmo detainee was released during the bush administration was recently identified as being the spiritual leader87ñ of al qaea in the arabian peninsula, definitely back on the battlefield. and we are back with our panel. stephan, is this an indication that rethink this whole idea of releasing detainees. >> we audited to. the president is moving quickly in the other direction. "the washington post" piece out today that the president wants to have the number...

Give the president a victory on this. and this white house wants to say, look, after all the attacks, this is a more positive story for them. >> the next thing is to try to find somebody else that this person may have been linked to. jen, give us information, if you can. >> well, i think it's important to remember that in those initial hours and days after the attack, there was very clear information and intelligence, leading -- leading the community to and south korea and abu khattala was ahead of that in benghazi, and there's natural that they would have picked him up. and there were many mo...

Former gitmo detainee. cops say the guy sent volunteers to fight in syria and also to iraq to fight with the group isis that we've been telling you about. that former detainee, a spanish national, spent four years at guantanamo bay after he was captured in afghanistan in 2001. he was allegedly caught there fighting with the taliban. a lot of us put a whole bunch of keys on our key chain and makes it really heavy. there is now a recall by general motors for ignition key problems that are caused by those heavy key chains. gm says it now needs to replace key chains for 3.4 million cars on seven...

Operatives -- these are bad, bad guys, that will probably if back. but -- [ all talking at once ] >> the last 185 or the last 220 are the hardest ones to try to figure out -- >> under obama's definition these were the hardest. >> in january, 2009, there was an attempt to see if there was a big chunk of them could be sent back to yemen. that -- thankful at the didn't happen because that would have turned out to be a disaster. >> it's raining yemen. >> let me do this. president obama is also in some hot water over ignoring a law requiring he give congress 30 days' notice before moving a gitmo de...