Barking dog and that appears to be what alerted the hostages captors to what was going on. During the firefight that then followed, u. S. Forpdss saw a militant go into the shack where the hostages were being held. It is believed that is when he shot both of the hostages, both of them died as a result of those injuries, as u. S. Forces were transporting them away. U. S. Intelligence did not know the identity of the other hostage being held with somers. He has since been identified as South African teacher pierre korkie. A char that worked with korkie says he was due to be released today. To discuss this and many of the other top stories for the week, joined by our panel, bring in democratic strategist basil smythe, jr. , political consultant and former adviser to mitt romney, cater packer gauge and msnbc correspondent, casey packer hunt. Obviously on this hostage story, we are learning the details, obviousiously a heartbreaking story, another report i know in the New York Times this mo
Youre reporting a lot of inconsistencies, but overall did this rape even occur . She could be grossly wrong about the facts or making it up or something in between. Have you been able to ascertain from your reporting whether she was assaulted . Thats difficult to tell, of course. Her friends believe something happened to her and they believe something awful and traumatic and horrific. And those based on the evidence that they have seen, thats what they believe. Ive spoken to two people who saw her in the immediate aftermath of the incident and both of them say they absolutely believe something happened, just maybe not exactly what was reported in Rolling Stone. Looking at the facts, one of the things is whether an assault occurred of some sort and the whole idea of putting it in the Public Domain and how well you do your fact checking. The Rolling Stone is getting barbecued by everybody about its reporting. Tell me, what did you determine to be when doing your reporting, what did you l
And putt against leaders of his own party like congressman nancy pelosi and senator warren. Liberals are quick to condemn the Spending Bill calling it a broib for banks and donors. Mike emmanuel is live on capitol hill with us. Mike, the senate so manies stuck on the extension, they did do something successfully, right . Reporter no question about that. They passed a short Term Government funding to buy senators more time. It was scheduled to be quiet today. And there are conversations taking place about cutting the deal on the government extension and well so if it pans out. Earlier harry reid sounded aggravated. Regrettably the republicans
pulled the legislation off. And now, we are regulated to watching the time tick away on the clocks. Reporter at this point the senators are in session seven hours and counting, julie . What have they done all day long. A voteramma. And look at the names. Murphy to be Surgeon General and car lincolman for Social Security commissioner. And this is ge
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