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
off the coast of iran. he was supposed to meet somebody, the rendezvous went wrong and he got kidnapped. it appears that levinson was involved in some kind of shady business that got him in trouble and he s been missing for a number of years. whereas warren weinstein was minding his own business, helping the local people, about to go home and got kidnapped by the eight or nine people who apparently went into his home in the middle of the night. there was a fight with his guards and he was kidnapped and taken away. so it appears it s two completely different cases. one person was working in some context with the cia and the other one was not. peter, really quickly, what s the president and the first lady up to today? reporter: it s a good question as far as we know, the president will spend most of the day relaxing with his family. it was a unique scene last night as the president and the first lady went over to the marine corps base not far from the location where they re standing