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Reporting from washington. Lets start with a new video showing the release of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl after five years in captivity. Its a rare view of the taliban and American Special forces. Our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr takes us through the highlights. Reporter chanting praise for their leader 18 armed taliban militants seen standing in wait, perched on grassy hills in the valley, guns and rocket launchers at the ready. The narration says this meeting took place at 4 00 in the afternoon in Khost Province, eastern afghanistan. At the center of the action, a silver pickup truck...

Leader . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following two breaking stories this hour. Explosions and gunfire as police storm a cafe in the heart of sydneys Business District in a bloody end to a marathon hostage standoff. Two hostages are dead along with the gunman, a selfdeclared muslim cleric. The siege began nearly 17 hours earlier when the gunman well known to Australian Authorities entered the cafe. As police surrounded the area, hostages inside were forced to hold up a flag with arabic writing and to post the gunmans demands on social media. A number of hostages escaped d...

Concern from both parties over the appointment of President Trumps top political adviser, steve bannon, to the National Security council. The former head of the far right media group will have a full seat but attendance is optional for the director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the joint chiefs. I am wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. The white house today is playing defense as President Trumps order banning travel to the United States from seven mostly muslim nations triggers protests, lawsuits and a congressional counter attack. While demonstrators take to the street...

Agenda kate, kate, hold on. Let me answer the question. She had come here, given a heads up, and at the same time we did what we should do. Just because someone gives you a heads up about something and i want to share information, doesnt mean you immediately jump the gun and take action. If you flip the scenario and say, what if we just dismissed somebody because a political opponent of the president had made an utterance, you would argue it was pretty irrational to tareact in that manner. Joining me, Brett Stevens opinion columnist with the qutsz New York Times and Nbc National Correspondent ...

President is looking for but we do know that the tweet is already yielding results. Department of justice with the statement this evening saying that theyre going to expand that investigation that you were talking about looking into the wiretapping procedures of the fbi to gain access to the members of the Trump Campaign expanded to include any type of political motivation behind the level of the investigation and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein is overseeing the russia investigation putting out this statement saying, quote, if anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presiden...