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For a democratic administration, but bob gates, who worked for both bush and obama, called it a big mistake. you have the elevation of steve bannon who is a strategist to the president, not senate confirmed, a political adviser, really, being added to a principals committee meeting that under both george w. bush, under obama, under previous presidents, those kinds of advisers have been intentionally excluded to make it just national security and intelligence voices, so those decisions, for instance, there was not a karl rove on george w. bush's principals committee, there was not a valerie jar...

Glad that it ended peacefully. no one was hurt and now they are looking into the motives of these two hijackers. >> ian lee, thank you for that reporting. obviously as we get more details as to motive, we will bring them to you. meantime, another top story we are following closely, the suspect in that deadly truck attack in berlin is now dead. just hours after he was killed in a police shootout in italy, isis releases a video which appears to show anis amri pledging allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi but there's no mention of the attack and it is not clear where the video was shot. paul crui...

What exactly is president obama saying was altered? >> well, what we're looking at here are some analysts at central command in florida that we're basically in charge of the operations in iraq and syria. what was going on there and were these analysts producing reports that said certain things about how the date of the war was going and were they being changed by superiors and different intelligence moving up the chain. >> was there something that happened that led the president to question this it intelligence or was it buildsing? >> this is something that started when analysts went to the in...

Factors. first the calendar the obvious target that america's birthday might present and this year the july 4th holiday come during ramadan and second a much more concern is this relentless spread of isis social media. some of it intelligence officials say is aggressively calling for attack during ramadan and around july 4th. so what are people doing in response? well, the fbi is stepping up the pace of arrests. they've been bringing in people that are under surveillance for months suspected of plotting attacks here, seven arrests in the past two weeks. the secretary of homeland security is gi...

>> prosecutors are building their case against dzhokhar tsarnaev and relying on a crucial piece of evidence. surveillance cameras. you know there were so many of them around there. while these eyes in the sky have provided key intelligence there's no question about it intelligence that led to the suspect's being identified the security and surveillance comes at what price to americans' privacy? tom foreman is "out front." >> before the brothers reach boylston street before the bombs and the hunt that followed could police have been watching them and, frankly, all of us more carefully? that is ...