big surregion. a man was arrested and a cowed of arson. we ll keep an eye on this and bring you more as soon as we have it. disturbing new information on al-qaeda. new assessments with the affiliates. they are gang strength and blamed for more murders in the last quarter of this year than all of 2012. reporter: those al-qaeda affiliates are targeting the u.s. home land and including groups in somalia and north africa and yemen. the head said there is evidence that moderate groups hooked up with extremist because of the failure of the west. the islamist are better funded and organized and battlefield
he confirmed reporting in the book saying it was for his due diligence as chief of staff to explore the possibility of what hillary on the ticket would mean for president obama in 2012. reporter: despite clinton s popularity, biden stayed on the ticket. they concluded after this polling and focus groups that she wouldn t add a substantial effect. she would have helped but not so much that it was worth dumping biden. reporter: obama s 2008 campaign manager, david plouffe, who worked in the white house in 2011 denied the report, never a consideration, not even entertained by the only person who mattered or most of us. another bombshell in the book, the romney/ryan ticket was almost a romney/christie ticket. the new jersey governor was on mitt romney short list not once but twice. the reason it didn t go much farther? he had christie on the first
to that fateful night, which would have been february 26, 2012. reporter: for the first time jurors in the george zimmerman murder trial saw the body of the teen-ager he shot, trayvon martin, and heard graphic testimony from one of the first responders to the scene that night. did you attempt to see if trayvon martin was still alive? yes, sir. i attempted to get his pulse, sir. did you detect a pulse on trayvon martin? no, sir, i did not. they attempted cpr on the 17-year-old. i breathed for mr. martin. i tried to. what was your role in the cpr attempts on trayvon martin? i was doing breaths sir. trayvon s mother sat stoicly listening to testimony about her son s last moments of his life. the famous phone call george
glare. when it comes in this issue, bengha benghazi, especially what was done to u.n. ambassador susan rice in the early days of this faux controversy, the president has been rather angry and upset by what s happened to susan rice, hillary clinton, thomas pickering, admiral mullen, the two men who were charged with the independent review of what happened. and also i think the reason why the president is angry about this is because republicans are focused on talking points and not focused on what actually happened that night and what led to a diplomatic post being lightly secured. we have to go all the way back to the fact that hillary clinton, secretary clinton, warned back in 2011 that the cuts being proposed by congressional republicans would, quote, harm national security. and, of course, that was 128 million in 2011 and $331 million in cuts in 2012. reporter: right. bob, if i can come to, you senate minority leader mitch
more deeply religious, you know. that s why somebody told them that misha was the one who influenced on him. reporter: you met misha? of course i met misha. reporter: describe to me, what kind of guy? very nice, nothing wrong. very intelligent. very, like, nothing to talk about. reporter: okay, okay. what else did they ask you about his trips here? were they particularly interested in the time he came to dagestan? about who, tamerlan? well, all questions were about tamerlan. reporter: and his trip here, two trips? two trips, right, one in 2011 and one in 2012? no, only 2012. reporter: only 2012, okay.