Barking dog and that appears to be what alerted the hostages captors to what was going on. During the firefight that then followed, u. S. Forpdss saw a militant go into the shack where the hostages were being held. It is believed that is when he shot both of the hostages, both of them died as a result of those injuries, as u. S. Forces were transporting them away. U. S. Intelligence did not know the identity of the other hostage being held with somers. He has since been identified as South African teacher pierre korkie. A char that worked with korkie says he was due to be released today. To discuss this and many of the other top stories for the week, joined by our panel, bring in democratic strategist basil smythe, jr. , political consultant and former adviser to mitt romney, cater packer gauge and msnbc correspondent, casey packer hunt. Obviously on this hostage story, we are learning the details, obviousiously a heartbreaking story, another report i know in the New York Times this mo
Confidence on where it lands. If you see fins on the nose of any of these things, they may have some sort of guided Precision System inside and thats even scarier. Question, two technical question. I love youre here to help us cover this. The distance, the range, the accuracy is one set of matters. Perhaps the most important sensitivity matters is what they can put on that missile. Whether or not they can bring it in successfully, right. You have the rv, the reentry vehicle. That May 14th Launch did Successfully Reenter the atmosphere. We dont know if they miniaturizeed a Nuclear War Head. We dont know if its small enough to put on the cone on the tip of a missile. Talk to some folks in the pentagon they think maybe, perhaps. Others in the general assessment within the Intelligence Community they havent achieved that yet. Heres the issue, the minute
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Considered. Otherwise have done it and its shown to make the lives of sex workers safer. Back when he was asked in march, he said he didnt have an answer for that. Thats going to wrap up this hour. Ill see you tomorrow morning on today. Andrea mitchell reports starts right now. Big mistake, President Trump with a stern message for iran after iran shoots down an unmanned american drone in what the u. S. Is calling an unprovoked attack over International Waters and iran claims violated their airspace. These are very precisely guided, unmanned, run by high tech computers. I would bet almost anything that was in International Airspace. I think its a dangerous situation. High tension wires are up in the region. We expect to hear from President Trump this hour. No apologies. Joe biden standing by his controversial comments about working with segregationist
senators in the past. Cory booker is demanding he apologize. Apologize for what . Booker has called for it. Cory should apologize. He kno
biden has now, talking about why we need to preserve democracy and freedom at a time when authoritarianism and totalitarianism and isolationism is on the rise in the world. colonel jacobs talked earlier about the fact that we were isolationists before the war. it took the bombing of pearl harbor to draw us into the war. nine out of every ten americans were resistant to the idea of intervening in world war ii before that. so, joe biden at this time has to show an important reason for america to continue to be engaged in the world and i think he did a good job today, ana. colonel jack, we talked about how your father served during world war ii. he was among those who were resistant to engage, but ultimately you say after many, many years, he felt incredible pride for being part of that shared mission. we have to remember, we had something like 19 or 20 million people in uniform during the