Black lives matter. Good morning from washington. Im jim acosta. President obama is promising a review of his administrationing Drone Program after two western hostages including an american were killed in a counterterrorism operation. Their deaths have renewed criticism of the u. S. Drone strategy. And joining me now is Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman john mccain. Senator mccain, thanks very much for joining us. Thanks for getting up so early this morning. Thank you, jim. Youve had a couple of days to mull this over. The drone strikes that resulted in the deaths of those two hostages. Were their deaths preventable in your view . I think it was probably preventable in that there was an obvious breakdown in intelligence. They didnt know they were there. And as you know all of our prayers and thoughts are with their families. So it was obviously preventable, but the question then is do we continue these drone strikes and how important are they . That raises all of those question
Her in cardiac arrest . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were follow two breaking news stories. Searchers are now racing to the site where a small plane crashed in waters off jamaica. It flew for hours unresponsive, past its florida destination, trailed by u. S. Fighter jets as it approached cuba. Well have full details on this story coming up. But first, a charter plane carrying American Military contractors has been ordered to land in iran on a flight out of afghanistan. Our correspondents and guests are all standing by for full coverage. Lets begin with Global Affairs correspondent elise labott at the state department. What do we know about this plane carrying u. S. Military contractors forced to land in iran . Wolf, this contract plane was flying from Bagram Air Base in afghanistan to dubai. It had about 100 americans and a couple dozen citizens from other coalition countries. The air control tower in iran contracted the pilots, told them their flight plan was out of d
Jon scott. Im Heather Nauert in for jenna lee. Welcome back. Nina fam, a 26yearold nurse in dallas said to be in stable condition at the hospital after being contaminated with ebola while caring for patient Thomas Duncan who flew here from liberia and died last week. We have more positive news coming out from the nbc cameraman, ashoka mukpo. He caught the disease in west africa. He wrote on twitter saying, he is on the road to good health. That is good news. The World Health Organization said there could be 10,000 new cases every week as the death toll in the Ebola Outbreak rises to 70 . Casey stiegel at Health Presbyterian hospital where the nurse is being treated. Casey. Reporter jon, good to see you. Were now learning a total of 70, seven, zero, Staff Members had some form of contact with Thomas Duncan while an inpatient being treated here at texas Health Presbyterian hospital in dallas. Were talking about Health Care Workers. Those who had close contact with him. Initially cdc offi
Trump, frustrated by tales of turmoil in the white house took to the campaign trail this weekend after just a month in the office to defend his new administration. Youve seen what weve accomplished in a very short period of time. The white house is running so smoothly. So smoothly. Reporter he also served up more criticism of the media. We are not going to let the fake news tell us what to do, how to live or what to believe. We reporter and invoked a puzzling security concern. You look at whats happening last night in sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this . Sweden. They took in large numbers. Theyre having problems like they never thought possible. Reporter while trump was appearing to reference a reference of terrorism, nothing particularly noteworthy happened in sweden over the weekend. Trump said on twitter his comment came after watching a fox news segment related to swedens immigration policies. The swieshd Swedish Embassy offered their own response. Saying we look forward to inf
Staff at the National Security council. In isthis is a great team, w very, very honored. Reporter this coming after he admits, mike pence, that general flynn was a let down. We honor general flynns long service to the United States of america and i fully support the president s decision to ask for his resignation. Reporter flynn was dismissed after misleading pence about discussing sanctions with the russian ambassador, leaving the president scrambling to fill the spot. Trump, frustrated by tales of turmoil in the white house took to the campaign trail this weekend after just a month in the office to defend his new administration. Youve seen what weve accomplished in a very short period of time. The white house is running so smoothly. So smoothly. Reporter he also served up more criticism of the media. We are not going to let the fake news tell us what to do, how to live or what to believe. We reporter and invoked a puzzling security concern. You look at whats happening last night in s