People into another bloody and unwinnable war. Haynes was helping to provide humanitarian relief in syria when he was abducted last year, march 2013. The 44yearold is a longtime aide worker who has helped victims of conflict since 1999. Thats according to a parisbased relief organization. Joining me now, Senior International correspondent Nic Robertson, cnn military analyst, rick francona. National security analyst bob baer and chief National Security correspondent, jim sciutto also joining us as well. Jim sciutto, to you first on this. What have you been able to learn since this news has broken . Randi, first, thoughts go out to david Haynes Family and friends. Just a horrible event and so widely publicized and seen by the world. Its the first thing that comes to mind. The second, were getting another very bitter taste of how brutal this group is. And the length theyre willing to go to terrorize. And, you know, another thought that comes to mind is this. A lot of attention has been fo
Building the wall and keeping the government open. We have a bipartisan congressional committee, they have agreed to allocate a whopping oh, 1. 375 billion for new border wall construction, that pales in comparison to the president s request for a 5. 7 billion, but funding approximately 55 miles of new wall, construction on a border that is 2,000 miles long. We havent seen the language, nor has the white house, sources telling me it is still being worked out. But if democrats going to put a lot of restrictions on wall construction, in other words, it is not really wall money, this is not a bill the president will be able to sign. He will need a clean cr. Earlier today, heres how the president responded to the initial details of the new budget deal. Take a look. Will you sign this border deal . Im not happy about it. It is not doing the trick. But im adding things to it, and when you add whatever i have to add, it is all going to happen, we are going to build a beautiful, big, strong wa