do you know if they were specifically trying to target this guy called jihadi john we now know his name or the leader of isis abu bakr elleal baghdadi? >> i don't know the answer to that and at this point i'm not able to even confirm the identity, the united states and britain aren't making any confirmation of these press reports. that's not something i'm able to confirm. >> that's what i don't understand. i assume you have been briefed on all this but now that the name is public and we know the british and u.s. governments have known the name for months and months without giving us any classified information or anything congressman, why can't you give us more information about him, at least confirm what we all know his real name? >> well let me talk generally about why we often don't confirm people's identity. it's for one of a couple reasons. it may be because it would reveal some kind of source the intelligence used to identify that person that we don't want to expose. or it may be that some of the