9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to weekends with alex witt. we have new details emerging today about the allegations a new jersey mayor has levelled against aides of governor chris christie. hoboken mayor don zimmer says that two officials held up hurricane sandy relief money unless she approved a redevelopment project. they strongly deny it, but now state lawmakers are calling for an investigation. joining me with more on this story, nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. with a good sunday to you, my friend, what are you hearing? hi, alex. general assembly leaders in new jersey who already served christie s office with 20 subpoenas say they now may expand their probe to look at new allegations christie withheld relief money from hurricane sandy when one mayor refused to play ball. and taps that state senate users are going to use their subpoena power as well. governor chris christie continues his weekend swing through florida while he faces fresh charges back
government believe have been killed in these strikes is something we ve never gotten an answer to. it s something human rights groups have been calling for. some of them met with senior administration officials today to press on this very issue including about this strike. so there are still a lot of unanswered questions here. in our package, which is now on nbcnews.com, you can watch a former obama administration official says, look, this video doesn t prove the case one way or another, whether those are civilians or militants but it does say but it does demand and suggest that we need more transparency, the transparency that was promised last may, we still don t have. michael isikoff, nbc news investigative correspondent. michael, thank you for helping us understand this. congratulations on the stoop. it is a dark story, but a really interesting political development. thanks a lot. thank you, rachel. all right. we ll be right back. around here you don t make excuses.
yemeni government knows about what happened after the attack but the security agency maintains some militants were killed in the strikes. drone strikes are less frequent than they used to be now. nor are claims or documented reports that drone strikes killed civilians instead of their targets. none of that is new. what is new here, what we re learning tonight is this. usual officials have told nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff they launched an internal investigation into this strike that we just showed you that footage from. that is news. it seems like it could be important news. watch this from michael isikoff. drones have become america s weapon of choice against terrorists enclaves overseas. this exclusive video showing bodies of victims of a pentagon drone strike on the 12th was taken by a yemeni journalist and given to nbc news by reprieve, a rights group.
civilians who were in a convoy on their way to a wedding. this footage of the aftermath was posted on the new york times lead blog. this exclusive video shown here, this footage was taken by yemeni journalist and given to nbc news by the human rights group, reprieve. as you can see, it s graphic, shows several casualties of the attack. local villagers say in all 12 sieve ville wrap civilians were killed and 14 injured. pentagon officials declined to comment on. a yemeni official said the video is consistent with what the yemeni government knows about what happened after the attack but the security agency maintains some militants were killed in the strikes. drone strikes areless frequent than they used to be now. nor are claims or documented reports that drone strikes killed civilians instead of their targets. none of that is new. what is new here, what we re learning tonight is this. usual officials have told nbc
killed in these strikes is something we ve never gotten an answer to. it s something human rights groups have been calling for. some of them met with senior administration officials today to press on this very issue including about this strike. so there are still a lot of unanswered questions here. in our package, which is now on nbcnews.com, you can watch a former obama administration official says, look, this video doesn t prove the case one way or another, whether those are civilians or militants but it does say but it does demand and suggest that we need more transparency, the transparency that was promised last may, we still don t have. michael isikoff, nbc news investigative correspondent. michael, thank you for helping us understand this. congratulations on the stoop. it is a dark story, but a really interesting political development. thanks a lot. thank you, rachel. all right. we ll be right back. to tools and cleaning products. to state of the art computers, to coffee