a new twist, mysterious kidnapping of a california woman nearly a year ago. police confirming they have surveillance video sherry papini, she is shown running toward a highway after she was dumped by her abductors. no not clear how long police had this video or white has not been released, the new revelation coming two days after dramatic new details of these sketches of two female suspect, she disappeared while jogging and was found 22 days later on thanksgiving day. another security breach by a second protester who came within feet of donald trump, someone claiming to be a tourist got past security and joined the media pool. officials did not check to see
moments it s always interesting to hear the president of the united states to talk to whoever s visiting with him perspective, but as media pool is being escorted out the president was asked did you authorize that mission in niger and the president did not answer that question. he let it go. which doesn t mean doesn t necessarily mean he did or he didn t just decided in the current environment of all these questions to stay silent. there are going to be more questions about this ambush in niger because people want to know exactly what happened, why four american soldiers died and why one of them was left for two days. and now there s word that there was a private contractor that was being used to rescue some of the people who were involved. so there are a number of different questions not only from congress but from the american people. and he can continue to expect those questions. legitimate questions and i have respect for secretary mattis who says we need time to get all of t
joe johns is at the white house with the very latest. joe, i can imagine the president has been briefed. reporter: it s clear the president has been briefed. this is a statement that was put out to the white house media pool just a few minutes ago and disseminated to all of the news organizations that are party to it. the president has been briefed on the horrific tragedy in las vegas. we re monitoring the situation closely and offer our full support to state and local officials. all of those affected are in our thoughts and prayers. so as i said, that s been put out across the white house to the media news organizations. what s interesting is that the president himself, though he s been extremely active on twitter the last 48, 72 hours, has not himself tweeted on the issue of las vegas. there we go. we just got something. and it still has not come up on my phone. so perhaps you can tell me. but it s been a while since the president has taken this long.
interesting to compare and contrast those. we expect the russian statement will go up fairly quickly on their website. the official u.s. statement may take a little longer. the fact that we are getting this briefing, there are some firecrackers going off in the background. the fact that we are getting this briefing will mean that they will have to be more frank about what was talked about. they ll be taking questions as well. in the bilateral meeting for example, between the president and benjamin not yet the fact that we are being briefed on this up by a demonstration officials, we ll get a greater level of detail, a greater level of granularity of what will happen and there ll be some important questions to the administration officials who are briefing us as to what exactly they talked about and in particular, whether or not this issue of russia s meddling in the election came up. a question was shouted by the media pool to president trump just before they began the
telling the europeans you don t like your policies of austerity. this is a real split. martha: thank you, stuart. reporter: l a convicted killer in utah executed this morning by firing scott. 49-year-old ronnie lee gardener was strapped to a chair with a white target on his chest. five anonymous marksman filed a bullet and blanks. this type of execution hasn t happened in the united states in 14 years. outside the prison in draper, utah what did the witnesses have to say? reporter: there already nine witnesses that were part of a mead media pool that came out after the execution and they were spliced surprised how clinical the execution was. when they went into the room ronnie lee gardener was already sitting in the execution chair,