Damage. She had a Serious Health episode. This will be an issue in the 2016 race. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Theyre increasing u. S. Efforts now to find the missing any jer kran girls. Its one thing that both parties in washington are agreeing on. They sent a letter to the president last week demanding more u. S. Action. 11 of the 16 Democratic Women senators took this picture on monday, holding up a bring back our girls hash tag sign. Its become the rallying cry across the globe. Michigan senator debbie stabno joins me now. You demanded that they permit al qaedalike sanctions. What more can be done . What hasnt the administration done that it should be doing . Andrea, first of all, thank you for focusing on this. We know that the add m, offered help immediately. It wasnt immediately accepted. It now has been. Which is incredibly important. Im proud of the fact that on a bipartisan basis, weve really lived this up with the early press reports coming with our letter to the president , with a resolution that unanimously passed the senate. Last night we all met at the state department with secretary kerry, and i will just say it was one of our dinners, i wont go into the specifics, but just to say this was a topic of a lot of discussion. And it was very, very clear theyre focused on doing whatever they can. We have a secure briefing this afternoon at 4 00. And were going to keep the pressure on. As you know, theres been movement now of our troops into southern italy to be in a better position if needed to be able to help with a rescue. And our message is very simple, this is absolutely intolerable. And we need to do whatever we can, working with those around the world, to bring these girls home. And to focus on this. As a longterm problem. Now, i get that the Nigerian Government has its own factions, and wasnt either welcoming or accepting western aid. It was very controversial. They were in denial. They didnt even want to acknowledge this it happened. At the highest levels, president jonathans wife. But at the same time, we have satellites. They can be redirected anywhere in the world. And theres no indication to me that they were redirected to try to increase the overhead surveillance in a timely way, until almost a month after this had taken place. I can tell you that everything is being done now. Were not clear, well know more this afternoon, exactly when things began to happen. But i can tell you that it is all hands on deck now, and has been for the last couple of weeks, to be able to focus on this. It is very concerning that they have split the girls up now, so that as we look at moving forward, and trying to rescue one group, we certainly dont want to put the other girls in jeopardy. So its a you know, this is challenging. But incredibly important. And the entire world is looking at this in terms of our basic values, as human beings, standing up for girls. Girls have the right to go to school, not to have to worry about being kidnapped and stolen as slaves, as sex slaves. And that may also underscore, again, this is the moment. But it is not the only place its happening, including the United States of america. We need to value our girls, and we need to make this a longterm focus. And senator, i know you are aware of this, but i just want to bring our viewers into this conversation. Im hoping that you and senator feinstein and all the other senators, senator makulski, in afghanistan, as we withdraw our troops, because girls who are trying to go to school in the same way, and as our american troops are withdrawing, they are really exposed. And the election is coming up in afghanistan. We really need to hold people to the fire as this pressure against womens education continues globally. I coast agree with you more. This is really about how our country, the world, the other countries, the radical factions that are trying to take over country after country, value girls. And we know that the economy improves when girls and women are involved. I can tell you as chair of the agriculture committee, its the women that are going into farming, that are feeding families in communities, taking micro loans and turning them into businesses to support economic development. We dont have educated girls, if we dont have women involved equally in the economy, we will not see this standard of living improve around the world. Senator debby stabenow, thank you. Thank you. It is exactly a month since the 276 girls were abducted. They were taken from their school violently in the middle of the night by the Terror Group Boko Haram in northern nigeria. The government stepped up their search after they accepted the assistance now, adding an unmanned drone to a manned surveillance plane already scouring the country for any sign of the missing girls. Joining me from cameroon, right across the border, stephanie goss. Stephanie, i know there are efforts in cameroon as well. Is there any indication from the government there some of these girls have been taken across the border . Reporter officials here bristle at the notion they crossed the border. Because the suggestion is that they either tacitly allowed that happened or they turned a bly eye to it. They insist it did not happen. They say the groups have been broken up into three groups, but kept within the northeast part of nigeria by the group boko haram. The area theyre concerned about, where theyre searching for them is the size of new england. Andrea . And its also dense forest. Its really very difficult for, i guess, this unmanned drone that is now searching, the global hawk, is scouring the forest, but the question is, what are the chances that they are a month later going to find these girls . We did see the pictures, of course, of as many as 100 in one group. Reporter well, andrea, this tool, the global hawk, is unmanned, longrange, highaltitude drone, could be very useful in this. Early on u. S. Officials said the Nigerian Government had not asked for drones. One official told nbc news it was he was very concerned that they had. Its really one of the best tools they had. So the global hawk can be up in the air for 28 hours. It is nearly undetectable when it is up at the highest altitudes. It uses tools like infrared. If theyre talking about this forest, which youll hear a lot of people suggest is where the girls might be, its a reserve, a dense forest reserve, that infrared could come in very handy. And this global hawk, like i said, 28 hours, it can fly, has a range of 8,700 miles. It can certainly come from europe to do this task. Andrea . Stephanie gosk in cameroon, neighboring nigeria. Now to abuja, where bill nealy has arrived. Bill, i understand that family members have screened the video of the girls, and they have identified a number of the girls who were taken by boko haram. What can you tell us . Reporter yeah, with the screening last night in the state capital, there were very touching scenes as relatives and parents, and friends of the missing girls, and indeed, some girls who themselves had escaped from the kidnapping all watched this video. You can only imagine what was going through their minds. We saw girls walking up to the screen and pointing out various friends. A father pointing at his daughter. A mother wiping away her tears. They described their feelings, which were a mixture, of course, of relief that their children were still alive, but anger. And also, bewilderment at the clothes they were dressed in. There was a lot of people just saying, i almost didnt recognize my daughter. And indeed, some people there couldnt recognize their children because theyre dressed in these hijabs with only a small amount of their faces showing. And of course, there were probably in this video, which is purported to show the girls, there were only perhaps just over 100 girls. There are more than double that missing. So very, very touching scenes, those parents, agonizingly, after four weeks, watched that video. And bill, what can you tell us about the government . Because theres a lot of criticism around the world about the governments resistance to accepting offers from the uk, from here, from france, from italy, of any kind of military assistance or surveillance, intelligence even. Reporter theres no question, andrea, theyve been stung by criticism, that theyre not doing enough. Its a very defensive government. Today the military spokesman was insisting that the air force has flown over 300 sorti. We saw the first pictures of the Nigerian Army searching on the ground. That was almost offered as some kind of proof that they are hunting for the girls. But of course, theres no way of judging what those pictures really show. Are they in the right place, are these track troops. This area is 25,000 to 40,000 square miles. Its absolutely huge. Were also seeing a government thats slightly trapped between their instinct to go after boko haram and probably what they feel they should do is to talk to them. And the government is saying they are willing to talk. But all of their options are open. The talk in this time, in the capital of abuja, that the channels are now being established between the government and the Boko Haram Group that has the girls, that the channel has been there for a couple of years, and theyre trying to edge toward possibly some kind of a deal. In other words, that boko haram prisoners, or at least their families who are in jail might be free in return for the freedom of some of the daughters. So thats the talk here. But of course, all options, including the military one, remain open. We were talking to michael lighter about this in recent days, and he said while they dont, quote, negotiate with terrorists, that there would be back channel negotiations, and that this could be an ongoing process. Thank you very much, bill neely. Joining me now, californias diane feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, who, of course, has been working on this. Senator, youve been talking to the state department. We just staukd to senator stabenow of the efforts, belated some say to nigerias government accepting help. With the satellite coverage, where we can redirect our satellites, you dont have to ask for nigerias acceptance and agreement. Why didnt we have overhead surveillance sooner . This is only now being organized almost a month in. I honestly cant answer that. I think youre right, though. I think this is one thing that we need to prepare, that it is so dominantly evil, is a terrorist group. And they do Something Like this, they burn 200 schools, and theyve now kidnapped nearly 300 of these girls. It seems to me we ought to be prepared and move. And we do do a good deal of sig int. Satellite intelligence. Yes. Assuming it is good sig int, that action happens. I need to look more closely at this. So does the committee. Do you think that i know theres a lot you cant say about signals intelligence, because its classified, but we assume certainly from a lot of the things that have been disclosed so far, that overhead surveillance is very, very accurate, that improvements in surveillance, not only from the global hawk drones which we now know have been deployed, but also from the satellites, that we have technical means to penetrate this dense forest and look for these girls. Im not going to go into detail, but i would say that our technical means are improving day by day, and year by year. Theres no question about that. The question that i have is synchronizing what the technical means finds, and what the proper action to take really is. The analysis and the followup . The analysis and the action, and under what premise would our nation put in a special forces unit to go in and carry out what is essentially a military activity, whether its the recovery of these young girls, or anything else. So, you know, were in a different day and age. I think much more thought needs to be given to this. I think the women of the senate are totally united. And this is a very, very big issue for women. How far are we prepared to go to save these girls, even if the head of government does not invite the nation to our nation to do so. It really calls into question whether the men in charge of our government, frankly, would have been responding more quickly, despite goodluck jonathan, the president of nigerias opposition. Whether they would have been responding more rapidly if it hadnt been school girls. If it hadnt been some other premise. You mean if it had been school boys . Well, some other military i guess some other cause. Because it just seems it took forever to mobilize the u. S. Government, even against the opposition of the Nigerian Government. Im not going to speculate on that. I am to say that i think this kind of thing opens up a whole new venue for americas technical means of seeing from the sky. And then when you see what you do, if its a terrorist training camp, what you do, how quickly you do it, if its a targeted individual, what you do, how quickly you do it, because this all takes time and patience. The cia has become very good at this. From the air. But in this kind of instance, it took weeks. And we even had the president of nigerias wife saying, this isnt true. This didnt happen. Theyre doing it to embarrass my husband. And of course, it was very much true. And nigeria has been very reluctant to take action, which i find very surprising. Surprising and upsetting, frankly. Thats right. Senator, thank you very much. Thank you. A Global Health advisory today. 18 people in florida are awaiting test results for possible exposure to middle east respiratory syndrome, or mers. Two confirmed cases in the virus have been reported over the last few weeks. 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