strike got help from the fbi al qaeda held warren winestein for four years. the wall street journal reported the fbi vetted a pakistani middle man the family used to transport the money. a source says the family fears the money want to the wrong people. a statement from the family spokesman reads. following. they took the advice of those in government who ve deal with such issues on ape regular basis and were disappointed their efforts were not ultimately successful. now a video showing a mother smacking her son for throwing rocks in a, in a riot. itself has gone viral. now that young man is talking to cnn along with his mom. hear what this family had to say. how we do business by leading the way on tax cuts. we cut the rates on personal income taxes. we enacted the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968. we eliminated the income tax on manufacturers altogether. with startup-ny, qualified businesses that start,
detailing a plan that was out there the pentagon was working on to exchange a number of hostages held in afghanistan and pakistan. for a single detainy. that the u.s. was holding. and there were different masinations of this plan. one would have included bowe bergdahl who was exchanged for five taliban prisoners, as well as warren winestein and then this canadian couple and the baby that is believed the woman had in captivity. he said it s a tragedy because this didn t have to happen. warren winestein didn t have to die. what s your reaction to that? i have not discussed that with duncan. i have been at any number of briefings. i ve never heard that discussed. especially on the intelligence committee where we get briefed on a regular basis, that s the first i ve heard of that.
that s why you have the experts to go through it with a fine tooth comb to see if anything could be done. having said that if i were a relative of those two gentlemen that were killed. i d be squadand angry. when you re making decisions in war, everything pain stakenly is done is done. certainly, there are intelligence limitations, congressman, when you re talking about certain areas in pakistan you don t necessarily have eyes on the ground there. we even understand that the conclusion that warren winestein and the italian had died that that wasn t determined through dna evidence. can you give us some idea of how that was determined? no, i really can t. other than they are now certain it is. again, this is hard to determine in any case without going into details, it was quite a while before we knew for certain it was adam gudawn.
operations troops to go after every terrorist in the world. we can t conduct an bin laden style raid against every terrorist. reporter: senior administration officials say they had early indications winestein was dead back in february but only confirmed his death within the last several days. besides that internal review that s been ordered by the president, the cia s inspector general is aults expected to be on the case. the white house confirmed the families of these hostages will be compensated by the u.s. government. thanks. i want to turn to cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. you re learning more about how officials were able to determine these hostages had indeed died in this attack. that s right. they didn t have a body dna evidence. it was a collection of evidence over time. as jim said there was a final crucial piece of evidence just this month which led them to the final conclusion that warren winestein and the italian had been killed.
should be monitored and enforced and when officers do not comply with training and other policies that they are disciplined appropriately. monique dixon joining us, thank you for coming on the program. thanks monique. this is cnn breaking news. breaking news into here at cnn, president obama will speak at the top of the hour 10:00 eastern, and he is going to speak about a counterterrorism operation in which there were deaths. let s bring in jim from washington. this is truly remarkable news and sad news. the president going to announce and the white house now confirmed this in a u.s. strike inside afghanistan, pakistan earlier this year, dr. warren winestein, he was inadvertently