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I want the answers to the questions and those investigations. accountability is part of our obligation to those who died in kunduz. and it must inform everything we do here at the department of defense. and with that, i'll take a few questions here. >> mr. secretary, on your comments about the -- the prison mission, the rescue mission, you said that the people there faced imminent mass execution, that their graves had already been dug. curious how you know that. and also, you said there was significant cache of intelligence that was gathered. can you describe that -- >> yeah. on the first poin...

Glen doherty. and ambassador chris stevens. >> i stood next to president obama as marines carried his casket, and those of the other three americans, off the plane at andrews air force base. >> that was nbc's andrea mitchell reporting. turning now overseas to iraq where an american soldier has been killed in combat for the first time since u.s. forces withdrew from that country in 2011. it happened as american and kurdish commandos raided an islamic-state prison successfully freeing some 70 hostages, said to be facing imminent mass execution. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel h...

For the first time, u.s. is acknowledging the death of an american service member in the fight against isis. it happened during an otherwise successful rescue operation in northern iraq. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the specifics tonight from the pentagon. >> the kurdish leaders requested u.s. help a few weeks ago. plan to rescue kurdish fighter, held by isis in a makeshift prison 56 miles south of erbil. no kurdish hostages that were found. of the 70 hostages that were freed, many were iraqi security forces, no western hostages were thought to be there. intel suggested...

Authenticity of the photos, but the apparent mass execution shows just how far isis is willing to go to create an islamic state. so let's dig deeper with cnn middle east analyst and former israeli ambassador to the u.s., michael orrin. we know you're a busy man. we appreciate you spending some time with us on the phone. what is your reaction when you see the photos, the brutality happening there on the ground? >> pleasure to be with you, ana, thank you. those photos, if indeed they are real, are a reflection of the middle eastern reality. perhaps more than a thousand soldiers executed. but 160...

Room." "newsroom"with brooke baldwin "newsroom"with brooke baldwin starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com all right, wolf of the thank you so much. it was a great interview. meantime, hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. right now, this ruthless strike force, jihadi militants fighting their way toward baghdad. so what happens? and this is the big if. if they make it to iraq's capital city? what we do know is this. is that iraq is on the verge of an all-out sectarian war. this terror group, isis, slaughtering dozens of iraqi soldiers. a mass execution in revenge for the loss of one ...