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Of the confusion about being or not being her actual brother. but beyond that, there are so many questions. question number one and the most important are the reasons behind this operation. either because it's him or he has been validated or pushed by others. another type of question. what is the outcome they expect? they know she is not going to be released. they know this is one individual so far who is involved. they almost know what the ends of the shore story is going to be. is it to raise the issue in the media? are we going to see more of this? i always put it in the larger context. we ...

Business. so what? no, i didn't, not specifically. but i have generals that are great generals. these are great fighters. these are warriors. i gave them authority to do what's right so that we win. that's the authority they have. >> but even the most senior generals can't say exactly what went wrong on the ground in niger leaving four american servicemen dead. here with me with the latest is cnn's national security correspondent and senior international correspondent in niger. hello to both of you. i'm going to start with you. there's still so many questions that we have yet to learn the answ...

Hello to both of you. i'm going to start with you. there's still so many questions that we have yet to learn the answers for about this ambush. bring us up-to-date on what happened and how did the soldiers come under attack? >> let's have a look at the setting first. niger here, right in the center of a region with increased jihadi activity all along the borders here. just keep in mind this fact. today there is some 6,000 u.s. troops across africa in 53 different place. just gives you a sense of where those troops are spread out. let's take a closer look at niger. niger, there are 800 u.s. tro...

One of those parents. it's devastating. it's heartbreaking. sadly, this is something that we might have expected, not this particular event, but for the last year, terrorism experts, officials, obama administration officials, others, have been saying that as isis is squeezed and loses territory and weapons and financing in the middle east, people are going to come back as some of your reporting have said, but also they have been -- isis has been calling on people. supporters, well wishers, to engage in precisely this kind of jihadi activity. they have been suggesting go out, you know, cafes, c...

The seven muslim majority countries. if we put those issues aside and we talk about basically there is a freeze on all refugees, indefinitely freeze out of syria and pause of immigration from the seven muslim majority nations, the administration says these sort of hot beds of jihadi activity, that's why they're on the list. they want to get information from the leaders of these countries about who these folks are who might be coming in. that's on the twhabl you put the other two aside. is spicer right when he says there needs to be a sense of proportion what that is compared to the critics. >>...