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Committee. he's been briefed on libya and somalia. as, we're watching all the day's important news. hello to our viewers i'm wolf blitzer in washington. just moments ago, president obama urged congress to end it. jim acosta is our senior white house correspondent. he's standing by. jim, the president make something comments during a visit to fema headquarters near washington. what did he say? >> well, wolf, as you mentioned, president obama made the surprise trip over to fema just about an hour ago to talk to federal employees over there. he lamented the fact that the shutdown is continuin...

Tear terrorists. and the government is not very strong. there are people there being trained to kill as terrorists. al shabaab is the group that really did the unspeakable. killing of innocent people in kenya. and they are trained, and they have ammunition and they know what they're doing. but we again, again to protect the united states, and to bring people to justice who have targeted us and killed americans, we attempted to do and we attempted to capture or really bring to justice people in somalia. but we had to come back. we didn't want any of our navy members who put their lives on the l...

Does he have any legal rights? in other words, does he have a right to an attorney? does he have a right to remain silent or is that all thrown out and he can be questioned at will by u.s. authorities? >> well, there's certain rights that he would have. >> what about right now? >> it depends on what they want to do. basically, he's in our custody, and he's going to be treated like anyone else. there's certain issues in the world that we have and certain laws, too. eventually, hopefully, he will give us the information. if he doesn't want to talk, he will grow through our system. and he's in ou...

The suspect who was looked up in libya and what the the rules are with international waters? >> well, i can obviously confirm that mr. al libi was arrested and that he is in u.s. custody. i don't have more details for you about where he is. the operations were conducted, as you know, by the u.s. military under the authority conferred by the authorization to use military worse from 2001 which authorizes the use of military force against al qaeda and associated forces. you know, this operation was made possible by the superb work and coordination across our national security agencies and the int...

In tripoli, libya, commandos with the u.s. arm's delta force captured a man wanted in connection with the 1998 attacks on the u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya. he's identifies as abu anas al libi. officials say he will be sent to new york for city for a trial. 3,000 miles away, a second raid did not go as necessarily planned. they were after the leader of the al shabaab terrorist group which claimed responsibility for the slaughter two weeks ago at a shopping mall in nairobi, kenya. they had to with draw, they did not suffer any casualties. democratic congressman dutch ruppersberger is the...