finished the meeting, and told are awakened in the middle of the night to find out about u.s. his staff to report this meeting air strikes overseas or, god to the lawyers. forbid, hostage takings and things like that. the security breaches here. and he also later then indicated what s happening to us is beyond to fiona hill, who was also a bizarre, because this stuff is so big and so impactful that all the other stuff falls off the participant on the nec staff, table. but when you think about the that he, ambassador bolton, point this man made when he was running for president about didn t want to be associated with this drug deal. hillary clinton supposedly playing fast and loose with the so the implication was, it was the domestic politics that was security. he s taking personal calls on being cooked up. and did ambassador sondland cellphones in the middle of the say this in front of the night from somebody who is located in an area where russia ukrainian officials, to your liste
just happened which is these two individuals essentially in the woods, that there was no one on the outside that they were in contact with or were providing them with safe passage. and that seems to be the case, chris. i think that were there to have been a plan b other than the woman who worked inside the prison potentially going to drive them from the scene, there was no other plan to get away. i mean it was interesting when you talked to people these last three weeks, there were those who said for sure they ve got be down in cancun or someplace sitting on the beach. then there were those in law enforcement who said we ve had no car hijackings we ve had no hostage takings, we ve had no break-ins of homes. they have to be in this area. we have to be tenacious in our search and it looks like that tenaciousness has finally paid off. yes exactly right. very key that anything that would get them on a plane, on a
al qaeda militants are threatening to execute an american hostage in yemen. according to a new video obtained by a terrorist monitoring group. in the video photo journalist st. luke summers who was kidnapped last year said he is certain his life is in danger. al qaeda threatened to kill somers if demands to the u.s. government aren t met. this comes on the heels of a new isis threat to military personnel and their families on social media. joining me now is senator tim kaine, member of the foreign relations and, first, let me just ask you about this hostage. andrea, this is very, very troubling what we re seeing in these hostage takings and they re barbaric and demonstrate the need for us to continue to have a strong, just cut off. i think we have a problem
i imagine law enforcement might be saying, look. we don t know what we re up against. we don t know what is on the other side of that door. it s a good thing the federal government is making this available to us. sure. and you hear this argument a lot. a lot of police officers will say we live in an increasingly violent society, that, you know, officers, police officers work in war zones. there s just not a lot of data to back that up. the violent crime rate has been dropping dramatically since 1994. police officers themselves last year was the safest year for police officers in a century. fewer officers were killed on the job than any time since the early 5:0s and the rate of homicide was lower than since the early 1900s. besides getting safer the police are getting increasingly militarized. s.w.a.t. teams, there is a legitimate use for them when you have an emergency situation where lives are at immediate risk. if you think hostage takings or bank robberies or terrorist inciden inc
risk. think of hostage takings or bank robberies or terror incident. the problem is that these tactics and weapons are being used to serve search warrants on people who are still only suspected of crimes and usually those crimes are pretty low level drug crimes. we re even seeing s.w.a.t. used for white collar crimes, for regulatory violations. this is a, you know, a level of force that was once reserved as a last resort to save lives. it s increasingly being used as a first resort under the argument that we have to do whatever we can to protect police officers. i think it s making things less safe for cops and citizens. in other words the argument that gets advanced in that aclu data and you made in your book which i read and found very interesting is that if you provide these bells and whistles to local law enforcement they are going to be more inclined to use that equipment in a very routine kind prove series procedure. correct. and, look, when you re using s.w.a.t. for legitima