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The u.s. in this they're instructed to carry out small scale attacks inside the united states and other countries. he refers to the boston marathon bombing, charlie hebdo shootings. this is all from al qaeda. did the cia miss a chance to save an american hostage? according to the washington post the cia detected a man being held by al qaeda but they didn't keep that person under drone surveillance. some u.s. officials say they believe that man could have been warren weinstein, the american aid worker who was accidentally killed in a drone strike earlier this year. the news that outraged wein...

Compound, that no civilians were present. >> reporter: the u.s. never shared the information with his family. his wife says she's horrified by the news, saying in a statement, quote -- they told us for three years that everything possible was being done to find and rescue warren. we feel deceived. elise labott reporting. joining me now is john brownly, the attorney for warren wine teen's family. does the weinstein family believed they were intentionally misled by the obama administration about the effort to save that i beloved husband and father? >> well, jake, thank you so much for allows l...

Counsel robert mueller? i'll let you know the result at the end of this program. joining me now, two experts with perfect backgrounds for this story. daniel hoffman, retired cia station chief who served five years in moscow, currently works as a vice president of the consulting group spg. and john brownly is former u.s. attorney, served at the justice department for a decade, now he runs the white collar criminal defense for the washington firm of holland and knight. he represented virginia governor bob mcdonnell. let me begin with you, daniel. does any operation like this get carried out with...

So for if example the special counsel robert mueller had him on the logan act he would probably have charged him on that. if he proved that he had kpired with the trump campaign. bleeding guilty brokering a deal with russia is much better than admitting that he lied with the government when it comes to his future use as a witness. joining me is john brownly, a former u.s. attorney, served at a justice department for a decade. he now runs the white collar criminal defense and he was bob mcdonald's lead trial counsel in the most important prosecution of a public servant recently. one that caused...

Defendants like general flynn, a lot of what you see with regard to what he pleads guilty to is balanced against the type of information that he can provide. and so none of us know what he is saying, none of us know what he's going to tell the special counsel. but i don't believe that the nature of his offense, which i agree, is fairly, the type of sentence that he's going to get which is almost zero here, is a great deal for him. but i'm not so sure can you interpret that as saying that he didn't commit other crimes or that necessarily that his cooperation is going to be not all that helpful....