Good evening, everyone. Im kate bolduan in for erin burnett. The terror trail. Disturbing new details emerging about the three terrorists who murdered at least 44 people at one of the worlds busiest airports. A source telling cnn the attackers were part of an extremely wellplanned plot originating from the highest levels of isis. In fact, the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee congressman mike mccall, the mastermind, the possible mastermind is a top lieutenant to the minister of war for isis operations. More on that in a second. This as turkish officials are still working to i. D. The men themselveses. Theyre showing this photo to People Living near the apartment rented by the attackers. Also tonight, new video of the attack unfolding. This angle from a surveillance camera shows a plainclothes officer approach one of the attackers. The terrorist then pulls out his weapon and shoots the officer at pointblank range. With the officer down the gunman appears to shoot him twice, two times more before jumping in an elevator. In dramatic new images is coming in about the fight against isis. The explosions taking out hundreds of isis vehicles and militants. Barbara starr is at the pentagon for us with breaking details on the huge operation against isis, but i want to first begin with ivan watson outside the airport in istanbul. Ivan, you have new details about these attackers and the days leading up to the attack. Bring us up to speed. Reporter thats right, kate, but before i get to that, i just want to point out that the death toll grew to 44 today as a 25yearold turkish man named yasen died in a hospital. Many people are still fighting for their lives after this terrible attack and authorities here are still trying to identify some of the victims as this country is still in mourning. Meanwhile, the investigation very much moving ahead. Heres more on that investigation. Turkish police say these grainy images show the terrorists allegedly foreign fighters from russia and central asia as they unleash their deadly attack tuesday night. Newly released footage first obtained by a turkish newspaper appears to show one of the men armed with an assault rifle. Sources say all three men arrived wearing bulky coats apparently to conceal their weapons and explosive vests. Translator these people are not muslim. They will be the occupants of hell. They will secure their places in hell. Reporter investigators are reviewing video shot by cell phones and security cameras including this video which apparently shows an Undercover Police officer confronting one of the attackers before being shot. While there have been no claims of responsibility, tonight a turkish official tells cnn the government believes the attack was coordinated and directed by isis leadership. Translator the evidence documents and findings weve obtained corroborate the predictions that this attack was carried out by isis. Reporter the turkish government now believe the men trained in the isis strong hold of raqqah in syria before arriving in istanbul last month. Sources say they rented an apartment here to plan the attack. Investigators say they found one attackers russian passport inside. Across turkey today, police raided homes looking for anyone who might be connected to the attack. At least 22 people were arrested or detained. Tonight, the italian newspaper il giornale has obtained Surveillance Video inside the termin terminal, it appears one of the gunmen throws his gun to the floor before picking it back up and racing away. Reporter now, kate, the apartment that the men are believed to have rented is seven miles from where im standing right now in a workingclass neighborhood in istanbul named fatih. Lets show you the photo of who we believe are the suspects because the agency that rented out the apartment they have told cnn that Police Showed them this photo from surveillance cameras and they were able to identify the three men who had been renting that apartment. Neighbors there have told cnn that the curtains were usually drawn on the windows of the apartment, though they periodically saw people smoking there, and at the window and one neighbor telling cnn that she smelled fumes that smelled like chemicals there a few days before the attack took place. So were starting to learn more and more about the possible suspects behind this terrible atrocity. Kate . And the clues leading up to this terrible atrocity. Ivan, thank you so much. Ivan watson is in istanbul for us. Following this attack, isis tonight suffering a major setback. U. S. Forces unleashing a series of deadly air vibings. This is video of it. Each one of the flashes that you see on the screen, that is a strike that altogether destroyed 175 vehicles in that convoy. According to a coalition official, hundreds of isis militants were killed. Obviously. Barbara starr is out front at the pentagon. What more are you learning about that operation in that video was pretty amazing. There were two operation, kate. One in fallujah and one in ramadi and both of these to the west of baghdad. Isis clearly on the run now that the iraqis have seized back fallujah and ramadi several months ago now and really pushing isis out. The indications are in fallujah that isis was felt so trapped by the iraqi liberation of the city they made a run for it. They burst through a cordon on the southern edge of the city and tried to make a run for it in the desert and that is when u. S. And iraqi warplanes chased them down. There were some International Aid groups in the area that were absolutely terrified by what happened. They were very close to the action. U. S. Officials tell us they were as careful as they could be not to involve civilians to be as precise as they could be in targeting isis. The estimates by the iraqis are significantly higher than the u. S. Theres no way to absolutely verify it. The estimates range upward of 300 isis fighters killed and those are just estimates and no way of telling how many were inside each vehicle. Kate . Thats right. Also today, defense secretary ash carter said he wants to start the offensive to take back raqqah from isis and this is a selfproclaimed isis capital in syria and we are learning that the istanbul attack was directed from. What does it mean . Well, raqqah has been in the pentagon crosshairs for a while, but i have to tell you today defense secretary ash carter was more blunt, more direct than i think any of us have seen him be on this point saying that they wanted to get to raqqah just as fast as they could. No timetable yet, but hes making it clear very much that is next on the todo list. He wants to isolate, collapse raqqah and get that no longer to be thought of as the capital of the isis caliphate, kate. Barbara starr. Thank you so much, barbara. Great to see you. Out front with me now, bob baer, former cia operative, michael bait, and michael weiss, editor of the daily beast and coauthor of isis, inside the army of terror. Bob, this attack was directioned by isis leaders and not just inspired by isis. Do you see that difference in how they pulled off this attack and what more were learning today . Yeah, kate. Its what was well organized. There was a Central Command for this. The fact that they had a safe house in a poor neighborhood in istanb istanbul. They were probably cooking the explosives there and the neighbors were right about the fumes. The fact that they had folding kalashnikovs which easily fit into gym bags and they used taxis. The discipline of the attack was frankly, very, very good ask it doesnt surprise me at all. This was not a lone wolf attack and they did this on purpose because as michaels been talking about theyre really mad at the turks and this is their way of striking back so it all makes sense. This is what happens when youve got so much violence on your border like turk. That detail that bobs talking about, i find that an important detail, as well, michael. You have the neighbors around this Apartment Building saying they smelled chemicals for days leading up to that. That seems something is going on in there. What does that tell you . They smell tobacco smoke which by the way is illegal under isis control. You could be thrown into a cage for several days. When these guys go abroad they tend to act out and indulge in the temptations that theyre not allowed under the socalled caliphate. The same thing was seen and experienced in brussels and there were strange smells coming from the apartment and the planners of that attack. This is all fitting characteristic sort of m. O. , i think. Particularly when it comes to isisdirected attacks as opposed to the isisinspired. Isisinspired attack tend to be keystone cop affairs and they rather end in farce rather than tragedy because youve got idiots talking to undercover fbi agents on the internet. With no training. It was very clear to me from the start which you see the cctv footage they had combat experience. They had been trained. Im waiting to see, were getting some indication of who the suspects are. One of them is from dagestan and the Russian Federation and another from uzbekistan and kyrgyzstan. I wonder if any of them served in their militaries before they moved over to syria to join isis. This would not be uncommon. The isis war minister who was killed in a Coalition Air strike. Right. The chechen as he was called. The Georgian National was part of georgias special forces, trained by the United States, fought against russia in the 2008 summer war between georgia and russia and it is no wonder he was one of the most sophisticated commanders isis ever had. The more you are learning how it played out, one explosion was diversion. The second were the attacks to kill. Whats your take from that . Is this a new level of sophistication that were seeing in these attacks . So what weve seen in the middle east in particular is that you can have secondary attacks that you use the initial explosion to draw people out and what you have is tremendous planning and they knew when the planes were coming in and when they can maximize a number of individuals that are coming in from other flights and they waited patiently and when they fanned out they went to different checkpoints and they could maximize what the impact would be and they didnt go in there to pull their cords. They used small arms fire and that when combined the active shooter and the improvised explosive device has been a deadly combination as weve seen in attacks like mumbai. They were well trained and directed. Thats what were learning. Do you think there has to be other people on the ground that were helping them directly, bob . And if so, are they still in turkey . Oh, im sure they could be. Theres a huge network. You have a million syrian refugees. The turks cant keep track of them. You have arms coming across the border and no way you can completely seal that border with syria. We still dont know how that one attacker was shot so many times and yet had the presence of mind to pull his switch. Was it command detonated . It will take time to get all of this. Sometimes they take these guys and they tell them that theres a safety switch that turns the vest off, but in fact, it explodes the vest. Thats the sort of sophistication these terrorists bring to an attack like this and, yes, they are military trained. Theyre used to fire. The fact that they executed a policeman, you know, very coldly tells me that these guys have been on the battle front and probably for a long time. Do you see anything, michael, as we learned more about the timeline that someone dropped the ball or was this a wellplanned attack . Obviously, they come from outside of the target area. They create a network and the question now, of course, is what else is out there . What other caches do they have out there . And they bring in trained people. How long were they there . Who did they interact with . What were the signs and just as we were talking about the taxi driver. What could they have seen . Heavy coats and it is so hard and we could look back and say aha. And when it unfolds so quickly, and thats the moment that we should have done x and we should have stopped this. Very, very difficult. 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A turkish government source telling cnn theres strong evidence isis leaders were involved in planning the attack at the International Terminal and a nearby parking lot. Even after the one assailant was shot, despite the fact that there were no victims in his immediate proximity he still killed himself using his suicide vest. These are people who were committed to seeing this attack out to its completion. Reporter authorities found a russian passport from dagestan believed to have belonged to one of the bombers. The other men from the former soviet republics of uzbekistan and kyrgyzstan. Isis puts foreign fighters into regional brigades based on their nationalities. Its possible the men served together says terror expert william branif. Its very likely that because of things like common language these individuals would have fought together as a part of isis. They would be then maybe more trustworthy to send across the border to conduct this kind of highimpact operation because they have a shared history and they can act as a cell. Reporter if dagestan sounds familiar its because its the same wartorn region associated with the two Boston Marathon bombers. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to the United States after living in dagestan where authorities believe tamerlan became radicalized. There are as many as 7,000 foreign fighters who have travelled from russia and the former soviet republics to join isis. More than half are thought to be from dagestan and neighboring chechnya where islamist leaders have pledged loyalty to isis. Experts say hitting a major Tourist Destination in turkey which borders syria is not surprising. Their mod us operandi is to destabilize regimes, primarily in the muslim world and destabilizing turkey is a really, really good way to remain strategically relevant even if youre losing terrain in iraq and syria. Another reason that the battlehardened terrorists may have targeted turkey is that the country has been cracking down and better patrolling airports looking for these foreign fighters crossing back and forth. That does not sit well with isis showing turk they there is a price to pay for any crackdown whatsoever. Thank you so much. Well bring back our panel to discuss. This guy, this possible mastermind that mike mccaul was discussing in the situation room. Who is this guy . Does it surprise you . No. Akhmed chatayev, he is essentially the top recruiter for isis inside russia. There is a famous case that lit up the moscow press core of a little girl studying comparative religion who was recruited by this man allegedly to go off and fight in syria and was arrested and this was a shock to the russian society. According and russias version of the Financial Times closely tied to the russian government and take it with a pinch of salt and this guy has arrested by three Different Countries and let go. They are georgia, ukraine and sweden. He is known as the onearmed man and he apparently got into a fire fight with Georgian Security forces in 2012 and lost actually the physical existence of one of his arms. Hes a notorious figure, and theres a lot of ambiguity surrounding this guy. The russian Counter Terrorism services with the Russian Security services dont fight terror the way that we do in the west. Its been reported by a number of publications the gasseta which is the independent newspaper in russia, reuters, the International Crisis group and even myself at the daily beast, up until 2013, the fsb, what hes sending jihadists from dagestan into syria so that they can blow stuff up in the middle east and this is the sochi Winter Olympics and the idea was keep russia safe and wreak havoc somewhere else. It seems gee, whiz its not a surprise that this guy might be the mastermind. You know this region very well and if so many of the guys joining isis are coming from this region, why arent we hearing more about it . Why isnt it more of of a focus . Well, because the chechens cater such a mystery to us. When i was in the cia i was in charge of the caucuses, central asia and the whole area down there and we desperately tried to get inside the chechen organizations and they were active many years before the Islamic State was founded coming down the Pankisi Valley and i used to work with the Georgian Police and we begged them to get sources and they couldnt do it. They were terrified of chechens. They were armed, vindictive and good fighters and the fact that the russians killed them in the civil wars in chechnya and sents them to syria tells them how nasty these people are and i dont mean that ethnically. Theyre really, really, tough, tough people and the way to get rid of them is just send them to syria and hope theyre killed. Were seeing the results of that. Michael, boston bombers, connection to the region. Now youve got this, these attacks are connected to the region. How concerned are u. S. Officials . What are you hearing from the u. S. Side . How concerned are they about the region here at home . If you take a look at the literature thats been out there from isis and al qaeda, the inspire magazine, ramadan has appeared if you come and do martyrdom during this period of time it will be enhanced in terms of what your reward is going to be. So officials in the security world, particularly with airports and transportation hubs have been up on this and what they try to do is change up the security posture. So they have roving teams. They have Rapid Response teams and a lot more bomb dogs and bomb dog units and they try to push out the perimeter. Theyre calling all of their contacts and theres a huge use of undercovers so theyve been doing that for this period. I just got off the phone with some of my sources over the weekend and on the one hand you sit there and say were ready and you see this, and well be prepared and on the other sense is wait a minute. This is july 4th weekend, its the end of ramadan, its july 5g9, could they afford not to have something happen and were fragile because of all of the people traveling. So thats the challenge that we face right now. And the balance of people wanting to be safe when they head to the airport and not waiting too long of a line to keep them from getting on the flight. Gentlemen, you have very, very much. Bob, good to see you. Thank you. Donald trump slams fellow republicans and admits the party is at war with itself. In some ways im running against two parties. Plus a conservative group is asking for an investigation into bill clintons impromptu meeting on a private plane with the attorney general. The Clinton Campaign now dealing with the fallout. Well be back. Like to keep being terrible at golf for as long as i can. New patented ensure enlive has hmb plus 20 grams of protein to help rebuild muscle. For the strength and energy to do what you love. New ensure enlive. Always be you. 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Hes endorsed trump, but he is quote, unquote, getting closer meaning trump is getting closer to being a credible candidate. Moments ago another example of the off of cuff trump that gives republicans such heartburn and his message about trade veered off track as a plane veered overhead adding this commentary. I respect mexico and their leaders and what theyve done to us is incredible. Their leaders are so much sharper and its incredible. In fact, that could be a mexican plane up there. Theyre getting ready to attack. You could almost hear Mitch Mcconnell shrug and sigh. Phil mattingly, out front. Reporter donald trump tonight struggling to unite the gop, just three weeks from the Partys National con vejz. Its almost in some ways like im running against two parties. Im not sure it matters because i think we are going to win. The presumptive nominee, lashing out at rivals who wont get behind his candidacy. They signed a pledge saying they will abide, saying they will back the candidate. They broke their word. In my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for Public Office again because what they did is disgraceful. Reporter this is a top adviser to former opponent john kasich blasted out an email to supporters on campaign letterhead noting that the Ohio Governor still polling better than trump against Hillary Clinton. And utah senator mike leeb going off in a radio interview about trumps myriad of problems including campaign attacks on texas senator ted cruz and his family. He accused my best friends father of conspiring to kill jfk. We can go through the fact that hes made some statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant. We can get into the fact that wildly unpopular in my state. Reporter republican senator Susan Collins of maine is keeping the door open to trump, but resting it almost all on one thing. I am going to see what happens at the convention. Its going to be very important to me whom donald trump chooses as his running mate. That is arguably the most important decision that a candidate reporter trump, for his part brushing off the partys concerns, keeping his focus trade and u. S. Competitors. We dont play the game the way they play the game. They play the game to win. We play the game in this country to survive. Were going to Start Playing the game to win. Reporter and look, gop officials knew this was going to take time. It was a nasty primary and 17 candidates and a lot of personal attacks and the problem is this. Theres a lot of concern inside the Republican Party that donald trump is actually moving further away from coalescing the party than he is at bringing it together. Take a look at this, a fox news poll, trumps support in may was eight points higher than it is now. Hes going essentially in the opposite direction, kate and that, even amongst Trump Supporters inside the party is a big concern. Its going to take time. Youve been saying that for months now, phil mattingly. Great to see you, phil. Thanks, kate. Hes a broken record. Donald Trump Supporters, Jason Osbourne and Tara Setmeyer and executive chairman of the new york state democratic party, smigel and he also is a Hillary Clinton supporter, sorry, i couldnt get it out of my mouth. Lets begin. The intros are always the toughest for me. With friends like these, with republicans like these who needs democrats when the infighting continues . What is Donald Trumps role as its going to take time. What is Donald Trumps role in bringing the Party Together . His role is to speak with the republican voter because, look, he ran against the political class, the political elite and some of the political elite includes my party, the Republican Party and the democratic party, as well. He ran against politicians. Its no secret that politicians dont like donald trump and wish they had something else. Its his role to speak to the American Voter with the consistent message that im putting you first. Im going to fight for you on terrorism and im going to fight for you on the economy and speak to the republican voter. At the same time he now seems quite upset that the Republican Leaders and his rife wills are not getting behind him. They break their word and its disgraceful and they should never hold office again. Which is it . I think in terms of the pledge, i think he has a legitimate case to argue and be upset about the fact because we spent weeks going back and forth with the rnc, with every campaign on whether you will sign the pledge or not, and everybody was attacking him for not signing the pledge. When he finally did come out and sign the pledge like everybody else had, they said okay, now well move forward and everyone is backing down saying i dont have to do that. They need to be consistent, as well. Wouldnt people be lighting their hair on fire if the shoe was on the other foot and donald trump wasnt endorsing . The whole idea of the pledge was stupid to begin with and they did that because they were worried trump would run as an independent third party. Yes. This was before trump, a, would ever get the nomination. B, that he would run around and behave the way hes behaved since then. There were a lot of things that have happened since the pledge was signed that has made donald trump untenable to the people in the Republican Party including the fox poll who said they would prefer someone else. The majority of republicans did not vote for donald trump in the primaries. This whole pledge is nonsense. When you start running around and making bigoted comments about an americanborn judge because hes of mexican heritage and not fair to you. When you start saying my rivals father was a part of the jfk conspiracy and you go around talking about trade policies that are completely an ath ma to what free trade and capitalism has been and the free trade issue, thats something thats not even republican at all. Youre asking me to stay loyal to a pledge for someone that does not represent what we as a Republican Party represents. Were spending a lot of time talking about a pledge. I dont even think thats the core issue here. Its an issue of unity. I go back to a comment that Mitch Mcconnell made in that same interview where he called donald trump an entertainer. He said youre really good at that and to me, this is political theater for donald trump. I cannot take anything that he said seriously. Hes inconsistent. He is often incoherent, and to me, i dont think that there is any strategy there as may have been intimated earlier that unify the Republican Party because he doesnt care. He doesnt care. [ indiscernible ] he hasnt campaigned at all. The republicans have issues and theres no question. The democrats are not the picture of unity, as well. Bernie sanders is still not endorsing if you had a chance to meet on a private plane with Bernie Sanders like what well talk about in a while, what would you be telling him, basib . Is time running out for that . I dont think time is running out for that. I think democrats feel more positive about their candidate than republicans feel about theirs . Im not as concerned about that because ultimately, i think that because of the kind of candidate hillary has been and the fact that she is talking to the issues that Bernie Sanders is talking about, she will get those supporters and she has elizabeth warren, joe biden and campaigning with her and for her. Im confident about our unity. I cant speak for anyone else. 41 of democrat voters preferred Bernie Sanders or someone else. There are unity problems there, and i have to push back on the notion that donald trump is an entertainer. He has stood up and said for the first time im putting American Workers first. He pushed Hillary Clinton to say radical islam. He is about putting americans first. The democrats dont want to look at the link between immigration and terrorism. They dont want to look at that because theyre more concerned with political correctness. Final thought. I would like to ask which americans hes putting first. That is a key question because to me he spent more time dividing america and talking very specifically and negatively about Many Americans rather than bringing everybody together under one tent. That is a concern. He put America First in his Business Practices for his entire career. He didnt put America First when he decided to have his ties made in china and with the awful human rights records with turkey, panama and brazil. And he didnt put americans first, when he hired illegal workers to build trump tower. This is hypocrisy. And you do think its an integrity issue. Hes playing the game as the rules you know what i do . Im very happy that we have solved the unity problem around this table tonight. Thank you, guys. Thank you very much. We always need more time for those conversations. Out front next, donald trump blasts bill clintons private meeting with the attorney general. Evidence, he says, of a rigged system. How is the Clinton Campaign responding and handling this one . Plus, the widow of a former navy s. E. A. L. Killed in benghazi believes officials lied. In her First Television interview since the attack she tells us why. Well be right back. If you have moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis or crohns, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. 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A conservative group tonight is calling for a Justice Department investigation into a private meeting between former president bill clinton and the attorney general. That meeting taking place on a tarmac in phoenix. The attorney general saying that the chat was mostly about grandkids and golf games. Jeff zelleny is out front. Let me guess, donald trump is having a field day with this one. He is, kate. This is a case of poor judgment and this is an example where democrats agree with him. Lets talk about the meeting for a second. It came monday night in phoenix on an airport tarmac. The attorney general was already there. The former president was there. He boarded her plane and literally took her by surprise and they talked for 30 minutes. Thats the unusual, odd part. Why 30 minutes . The optics of this when she is heading this email investigation into his any wrongdoing was done about this private email server. It just looks bad and this is what donald trump told a radio interviewer about this earlier today. It was really a sneak. It was really, you know, it was something that they didnt want publicized, as i understand. Ive been talking about the rigged system, how its rigged and you know, this is terrible. Heres your example. And no now you understand why nothings happened and you see a thing like this and even in terms of judgment. How bad a judgement is it for him or for her to do this . I mean, who would do this . Senate republicans are now again renewing their call for a special prosecutor to be appointed to oversee the email investigation that probably wont go anywhere because the attorney general makes that decision and a conservative watchdog groups are filing complaints with the Inspector General saying they really need to look into this. It is optically bad, and kate, it is the last thing the Clinton Campaign needed and this headache here which raises attention to the email investigation and dont forget, she still has an appointment with the fbi to be interviewed about why she set up that private server in the first place. Thats an important point to make, jeff. Thank you. Out front now, former advisers to nixon, reagan and clinton, david gergen. Great to see you. David axelrod put out a tweet today about the meeting basically saying he believes bill clinton and loretta lynch. No harm, no foul that they didnt talk about the probe, but foolish to create such optics. How unforce side this unforced error, do you think . Very unforced. I i agree with david axelrod. Ive always known him to be honorable people, but this is a very bad call. It was a very bad judgment call because theres already a lot of suspicion out there. You have a candidate in mrs. Clinton and more than 50 of the people in the country dont trust her and this plays right into Donald Trumps hands and frankly, everybody going to law school know that exparte proceedings with one of the parties at risk is inappropriate. You just dont do that. I dont know how this came about and i dont know why they didnt put out the word immediately to protect themselves and its only now come to light, but the fact is that this is a blow for the clinton camp. And donald trump has a point. Hillary clinton has trust issues with voters. Shes acknowledged that publicly. What does this do to that . She has acknowledged it, but she has got to be very aggressive now and be as transparent as possible and putting everything out there, but you know, this whole issue is now mushrooming tonight because of a second related story about emails and that is the state department has gone to a federal judge to say they would like a delay in releasing emails pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and these are emails under mrs. Clinton and related to the Clinton Foundation and the state department wants a 27month delay in releasing those emails. That puts it well past the course of the elections any republicans are going to look at that and say, of course, theyre going to join forces saying, what are you talking about here . Why is the state department has said we havent handled this well. My goodness, theyve had enough time to get this cleaned up and this is a serious problem for mrs. Clinton. I think the country would like to be reassured by mrs. Clinton who is the frontrunner for the presidency. This issue will not go away. Im afraid not. Good to see you. Out front next, the wife of a former navy s. E. A. L. Killed in the benghazi attack speaks out for the first time about who is to blame. But easier, like taking a left where you usually go right. And if finding that paint. Made you beam with pride. Is it still paint . Benjamin moore. Paint like no other. And youre talking to your doctor about your medication. This is humira. This is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. This is humira helping me go further. Humira works for many adults. It targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. Doctors have been prescribing humira for over 13 years. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. 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It has been almost four years since you lost your husband in the benghazi attack. Did this report that came out this week from the republicans in congress did it change your view of what happened and who is to blame . No. It didnt change my view of what happened nor who to blame. I was not looking for a specific person to blame. That doesnt change anything. You know, the report doesnt change anything. I was fortunate enough to know also very early on the important things that happened, and that was good. That validated what i needed to know about ty, and the type of american that he was that night which was, americans needed help. Hes going to go get them, you know. Who wouldnt do that in his position . So not looking for anyone specific to blame, but to place the blame, like i said, i place the blame on this sentiment, this attitude in the upper level of government that says, hey, you know what . Im just going to lie about this, gloss over it because i want to protect what i look like and you know, im thinking about the next job. Im thinking about my retirement, you know . Not being there, not remembering that they were here for us, the people that voted for them. Dorothy, Hillary Clinton, was there a report obviously out this week that both democrats and republicans, this has become so politicized and there was a report that came out and heres what she had to say about it. Ill leave it to others to characterize this report, but i think its pretty clear its time to move on. How do you feel, dorothy, when you hear that response . Well, it it goes back to what i just said. I think that nobody in government can tell me how i feel, what i should feel about it. She has no right nor does anyone in government have the right to tell me its time to move on. Theyre not in my shoes. You know, i think thats the essence of what they have done is theyve been dismissive. The committees been ridiculed, the committee has been theyve been criticized and you know, for them to sincerely do the right thing, to care about americans, thats whats important, you know. I agree in a way with her its for the public to decide, some people have made their decision, others havent, but the facts are there, and its up to the americans, the American People to figure out where they fall in this. Did anyone at the state department and the white house whether it be secretary clinton or anyone else ever reach out to you to talk to you . Did they ever reach out to apologize for what happened . Well, i think that on a personal level, to be honest, no, but i did in the very beginning get to meet with all of them as youve seen with the repatriation ceremony at andrews and subsequent ceremonies honoring the victims and the survivors, so i did i was able to meet with them, not necessarily on a oneonone level, and not to the not to the extent that they reached out and said sorry. They said sorry for your loss which is the very least they should have said. And when you say, you know, when you think back at what happened when you felt that it was looking at the next job and putting career am bigs ahead of what had happened, do you think that this really was about politics . Well, you know, i can only speak for myself. I think that, you know, thats for other people to answer. Thats not for me. I think that the facts are out there. And dorothy, you know, your son kaye was 1monthold when tys assignment began and i cant imagine how that was, and you must have been looking so forward to him coming home. What do you tell kaye about his dad in . Im very fortunate in that in losing ty ive gained, you know, a great family, a great family of friends, of coworkers, and a great support network, so ill have a lot of help, but what i do want to tell my son and how he will be raised is his he will know what is important, you know . He will know that his father served his country, and served it proud. He will know that there is a wrong and there is a right. He will know that the world is bigger than him, and sometimes that takes sacrifice. Dorothy, of course, as we come into july 4th, a time to remember and honor your loss and your husbands sacrifice and your sons great loss, thank you so much. Thank you, erin. I appreciate it. Well be right back. Its in the quiet moments when you see why she does this. For hillary, its always been about kids. And when millions couldnt get health care, this first lady worked with republicans and democrats to fix it. Creating the Childrens Health insurance program, so that every child gets the health care that child deserves to have. Now eight million kids are covered. Thats the kind of leader she is. And the kind of president shell be. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Boy this is the story of a boy who was very sensitive to lights and sounds. 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Are they the ones . Even as investigators try to figure this all out theyre learning more about where the killers, wherever they are, likely came from. Russia, uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan all by way of isiscontrolled raqqah in syria