maryland, he was working as a consultant on u.s. government programs when abducted from his home in 2011. weinstein should be freed if the united states stops the air attacks, and he demanded the release of all al qaeda and tall ban members. peter alexander is traveling with the president in honolulu, where the president is vacationing. martin fletcher is in london for us. pete, at this point, has there been any official word yet from the white house? reporter: craig, it s a good question. we have reached out to officials with the white house who aren t commenting at this time. generally they think it s not helpful and the obama administration officials have said before that they will not negotiate with al qaeda terrorists over weinstein. that doesn t mean they re not making significant effects using significant resources to try to find individuals who have been kidnapped and are believed to be overseas. martin, really quickly, peter just alluded to it there. what is th