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With respect to yemen, i think it's hard to ever say something was successful when you lose a life. >> president trump today traveled to dover air force base for the return of the remains of navy seal ryan owens killed sunday in the first military raid carried out under the new president. nbc news pentagon correspondent hans nichols brings us the story. >> reporter: nbc has learned that the pre-dawn raid in south central yemen went wrong almost from the beginning leaving a navy seal dead. the target? not high-value terrorists but hard drives loaded with al qaeda documents and potential terrori...

>> president trump today traveled to dover air force base for the return of the remains of navy seal ryan owens killed sunday in the first military raid carried out under the new president. nbc news pentagon correspondent hans nichols brings us the story. >> reporter: nbc has learned that the pre-dawn raid in south central yemen went wrong almost from the beginning leaving a navy seal dead. the target? not high-value terrorists but hard drives loaded with al qaeda documents and potential terrorist plots. the operation months in preparation but the squad from seal team 6 unexpectedly encountere...

In 2008, on the senate floor, he praised a prior attorney general for refusing to rule out the use of waterboarding in the future and claimed enhanced interrogation techniques were necessary to stop additional terrorist plots. specifically, he stated, and i quote, i'm glad attorney general mukasey is able to say waterboarding was utilized only three times and that it had not been used in five years. but i am glad he also said he would not say it would never be done again, end quote. that's not true. in fact, one detainee alone was subjected to waterboarding 183 times. and as the senate intelli...

Capture of important intelligence that will better enable us to counter and prevent future terrorist plots. >> now we're learning now details that would seem to contradict what the white house is saying about the raiding yemen that killed two americans. now, one was the navy s.e.a.l. chief pretty officer william ryan owens. the other 8-year-old american daughter of al qaeda leader anwar alawlaki. you heard what sean spicer said. then you have a senior military official who says almost everything went wrong. what do we know? >> let's do the planning and preplanning and actual event. planned for...

To nbc confirming that. the u.s. side says three americans were wounded when they made this raid on this compound. one was killed. later they had an osprey fixed wing helicopter come in that had a hard landing and you had three more wounded. here's how the white house is couching all of this. sean spicer speaking yesterday said it was a success. >> we carried out a very successful raid against al qaeda and the arabian peninsula which resulted in the death a 14 aqap intelligence that will better enable us to counter future terrorist plots. >> the reason they did a raid with seal team 6 is becau...