that one of the victims posted a call for help on what sapp, an international messaging service as they were being taken by an armed gang. we cannot verify the awe authenticity of this message. kidnappings have surged this year. 628 kidnappings have taken place since january acacording to a human rights group. so u.s. officials say they are aware of the report but what steps will the state department take. they are not saying more at this time other than they re aware of this report and they re reiterating the safety and the welfare of those abroad. this is something they re very focused on but they have not confirmed yet what we re
when you are in the middle of something else, i was actually in the middle of doing some filming. i wasn t on edition. i was having to move. i was on what sapp. 0ur information was and i won t back and forth about this, and i can t give too much detail, is that maybe she was not entirely adverse to being photographed. right. 0k. can you explain a little? no. she wanted to can you explain a little? no. she wanted to get her side of the story up wanted to get her side of the story up there. i wanted to get her side of the story u- there. ., ., ., . ., up there. i don t want to elucidate. we do no up there. i don t want to elucidate. we do go into up there. i don t want to elucidate. we do go into a up there. i don t want to elucidate. we do go into a lot up there. i don t want to elucidate. we do go into a lot of up there. i don t want to elucidate. we do go into a lot of particularly, | we do go into a lot of particularly, marley we do go into a lot of particularly, marley
all this together. the president is bringing up the nfl and doing this thing because it does distract one of your d words from this mess of lies that they got into here and perhaps the president knew that the paul manafort news was going to come out overnight as well. he out of nowhere tweeted about paul manafort, the special counsel says engaged in witness tampering, sending encrypted messages through people to try to get them to shape some of their testimony. this february, right, i mean, manafort is already you know the degree of heat on paul manafort is extraordinary and he s still trying to witness tamper and influence testimony via third parties and they go to mueller and say, hey, we have a problem here. this is just a reminder that this is a deep investigation, but this is not necessarily the sharpest knives in the drawer. this is incredibly dumb on paul manafort s part. he thought using what sapp would not get back to him. this is a bad decision, people. i have to change m
so that s a part of this. but we ll have to see whether there was some kind of communication perhaps back and forth over encrypted acts. we have seen that in past terrorist attacks in the united states, inspired by isis, where we have this virtual coaches who are isis fighters who speak english in syria, iraq, communicating, encouraging extremists in the west to launch attacks, no evidence yet of that, very difficult for authorities these days to even know if these communications are taking place, because just by using what sapp or other apps, you can have end zone encryption that s impossible for the u.s. eaves dropping agencies for law enforcement to catch all that in real time. but possible that this individual was just infired by a terrorist idea okay, but what isis have asked these recruits to do is to do everything they can over social media to help
stephens, killed himself in pennsylvania. we expect a 3:30 p.m. news conference from police in erie. but that video is now raising new questions about violent content posted to facebook and how the site responds. jennifer greigel is a professor of communications at syracuse university school of public communications. jennifer, thanks for joining us. do you think that mark zuckerberg said enough today? by our count, that was about 23 seconds, that comment. absolutely not. i m actually shocked to hear that he even needed a reminder of all the work that he needs to do. he owns the largest social media company in the world. he owns facebook, messener, what sapp, instagram and a slew of other countries. he knows exactly how much work he needs to do. he knows how his company is run, how many active monthly users he has and how many active content