And hello. Youre watching cnn newsroom. We would like to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Our top story, we begin with strong words with the president of south korea. Hes condemning the behavior of the captain and some of the crew of that ferry that sank off the countrys coast last week. Translator first and foremost, the actions of the captain and some of the crew are absolutely unacceptable, unforgivable actions akin to murder. Searchers have recovered 64 bodies from the disaster. The last five were discovered inside the sunken ferry. Rescuers say 238 people are still unaccounted for. Searchers have released transcripts of the chaos at sea last wednesday. They show the captain was not on the bridge at the time of the disaster, but it is not clear whether maritime Traffic Controllers understood that. The following exchange deals with the safety of passengers. [ indiscernible ] theres anger over the slow rescue operation. Relatives of the missing ferry pas
much for that. with me now, bob beir, analyst, and they just posed the question can it roll back the momentum that isis has? you know, flying out of the main base there, yes, it will help. easier to win targets. but you can t really win this war with an f-16. they re too fast. you hit too many civilian targets. isis has learned to disperse, they don t travel in large convoys. and additionally, isis welcomes this, civilians are being killed not intentionally, but they re saying look we re the only ones defending you. it s not our fault. it s just the way campaigns go. jim sciutto had a fascinating piece on cnn.com this week, posing the question of whether isis carrying out these smaller lone wolf attacks like we saw in
we ll continue our analysis of what s going on. paul, thank you very much. gloria, thanks to you. and bob, thanks to you, as well. just ahead, time is running out to pass a spending bill. will congress get its act together? plus, a new and dramatic moment in new york and in ferguson, missouri. and the worst storm to hit northern california in years. we re tracking the wind, the rain, and the damage. it s a warning. a wake-up call. but it s not happening out there. it s happening in here. [ sirens wailing ] inside of you. even if you re treating your crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis, an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. learn more about the role damaging inflammation may be playing in your symptoms with the expert advice tool at crohnsandcolitis.com. and then speak with your gastroenterologist.
were lied to, but it was the lie that made them think twice about that important courier. so is that a result of torture or not a result of torture? so brennan, again, walking this fine line and nobody asked him whether he thought torture was moral. we ve been talking about whether it works, but we haven t actually had the conversation about whether it s something we ought to be doing. bob, you were cia officer. why is it so hard to make this conclusion that it either helped, it didn t help, that it s simply unknowable, the word that the cia director used today. well, wolf, i m reading between the lines. the way i heard brennan s talk today was, that he s completely backing down, the information we got out of torture was marginal, at best. in context, it proves something or didn t prove something. but in no way did he say that it
more with our cnn national analyst bob beir, paul crookshank and gloria borger. he s still vague on this sensitive issue, whether or not the information obtained during these enhanced interrogation techniques helped save lives, helped find bin laden. unknowable is the word of the day. when you look at john brennan, you have to understand what he s trying to do is serve a lot of masters here. he s serving the president of the united states, who is ambivalent about this. he s serving the cia, whom he has to defend. and he also knows that in the future, if he stays as cia director, and i believe he will, that he has to repair a relationship with the democrats on that intelligence committee. so what he was saying is, you can t draw a direct line, and he s probably right about that by the way, wolf, between a and b. because in the case of osama bin laden, as we know, interrogators