we re also now learning something the u.s. said it didn t know at the time, the other hostage, south african teacher pierre korkie was mere hours away from being released after negotiation, this aid group out of south africa. josh rogan is our political analyst in bloomberg view. he joins me from washington. josh, nice to see you. likewise. so the u.s., the administration said they had no clue that pierre korkie was even there at this compound but even if they did and even if they knew this totally separate negotiation was under way to pay off, i think it was $200,000 would the u.s. have gone in anyway? it seems that the u.s. was not only unaware there was a negotiation going on but that south african hostage was to be released in a couple of hours. so the u.s. had a deadline. there was a video that said that these hostages would be killed within three days. u.s. military was working off that deadline. had they known a couple of hours
yemen officials say ten al qaeda officials were killed in an attempt to free two hostages. luke somers and pierre korkie were killed during the efforts. in an interview president obama discusses the aftermath of decisions. the president said it will take time and vigilance. it will not be solved overnight. now back to pot barons. it s basic economics. supply and demand. right now the demand for all weed products in colorado far exceeds the supply. yes, it grows like a weed but sometimes even that s just not fast enough. government regulations require tracking every plant from seed to sale and that clogs up the pipeline. not only for the flowering buds but for the oil extracted from the rest of the plants.
adirondacks. and binghampton, syracuse, maybe a ski resort special. a lot of the lower elevations, 2 to 3 inches of rain. more cold rain. yeah. i m getting worried about a white christmas for a lot of places. no snowstorms behind this. we have time. that could change. two weeks. a chilling headline from the new york times. within a matter of two hours the wife of pierre korkie received a message saying he was about to be released and then she was told he was killed by his captors. it happened during a failed rescue attempt to rescue luke somers. and now u.s. officials say aing to might have alerted the captors as the s.e.a.l.s approached the compound. a woman and a 10-year-old boy were among 11 others killed. three good samaritans are dead after they stopped to hit a
officials we re talking to say this is a tragedy, the death of the two hostages that was apparently unavoidable. after all, the al qaeda there in yemen had threatened in a videotape to kill the american luke somers by the end of the day saturday, so, there was a there was a real urgency to try to rescue him. and they tell us also, they were unaware that the south african pierre korkie was there as well. they knew there was another hostage there, but they didn t know it was korkie. this leads to the tragedy. because korkie s caregive organization out of south africa had actually negotiated his relief by paying a $200,000 ransom that was to occur the very next morning. but they were sworn to secrecy. they could not tell the u.s. military that korkie was there and that that swap had been arranged. and the u.s. military couldn t inform anybody of their operations for fear that it
president obama was announcing a new defense secretary mr. ash carter. reporter: the desperate rescue mission was a go. defense secretary chuck hagel monitored the high-risk raid. no rescue mission is ever recommended to the president by any of us on the national security council unless there is a complete, thorough internal review of intelligence, of what we know, also what we don t know. reporter: it was the dead of night in yemen. v-22 aircraft raced to a remote region in eastern yemen about 30 commandos from s.e.a.l. team 6 and combat medics began hiking to the compound where somers and south african pierre korkie were being held. just yards from the target, dogs began barking, the s.e.a.l.s were spotted. a firefight erupted with aircraft keeping watch, the s.e.a.l.s battled the terrorists