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In a u.s. drone strike. 30 other insurgents were also killed in that strike on their compound. hafis saeed is a former taliban leader and has believed who have joined isis. let s bring in lieutenant general mark kurr. there is another sayid that has a $10 million bounty on his head. this is not believed to be that man. i am wondering how significant this particular man was to isis. it is very different. the differences between the names, the spelling of the names, the organizations they are with it is all very confusing. sometimes it is difficult when these initial reports come out. it would have been a huge target to get sayid, the one part of ....
Hands remains volatile as well. as we saw ourselves to the north of baghdad yesterday. shia fighters say they ve just taken the town ahead of us sayid but look just to the right of the black smoke here. oh. reporter: mines along the roadside, past the tree line, the blasts could be them being cleared away by engineers taking more lives. now heard in the distance, two, one very substantial. we re told that say controlled explosion of mines in the area they just cleared. and they seem quite calm here. but it could also be that one of their cars has hit one of the mines nearby. this is what they videoed the fight for this town. close to a vital highway north. isis was just pushed out to its edges, as we move closer, it ....
It s an outrage. i hold the president responsible for this, because as a preseason to signing and executing this deal and easing the sanctions, it would have been easy for the iranian regime to release the americans. if, in fact, it was a priority for the united states. apparently that s not the case. and i was on a call, we ve been discussing this with the state department for months. i said the problem is every time there s a mention of sayid, you re telling me there s no response from the iranians. so here it was that we generate today over the weekend, over $5 billion of aid, plus humanitarian relief and we don t get the return of americans being held hostage by the very people we re negotiating with at the table? it s inexcusable sean. it s a tragedy of unbelievable proportions for the family. it should cause every american that s watching this broadcast now to say would my country leave me? what is it with the state ....
Even continue with negotiations. and it just it really has been devastating for our family to know it s obviously not a priority. this human rights issue, iran being the top violator of human rights. and here s an american citizen wasting away. here s a family broken apart. i mean, this is the hardest time of the year for us, christmas and thanksgiving is approaching. we hope he would be home right now. we don t even know if he ll survive the new prison. jay what s your reaction to this? have you been speaking to people in the state department and elsewhere in the administration? we have. on friday, i sent a letter to secretary of state kerry urging him to secure the release of sayid and the other two americans prior to signing, inking this agreement. we have now eased the sanctions against iran, allowing billions of dollars to go forward. ....
Say? i imagine you would figure that those calls were monitored closely. also, how would you say his physical health is and his mental health? he s a 33-year-old man. yes, you know, his family gets to visit him, his parents get to visit him every week, so i hear updates. until the last phone call, which was january, the phone call before it was in december, where he said, they re lying to me, they re not going to let me go. and i knew, that s when i knew i would go to media. until then, they were saying they would free him any day. he s doing better physically. he s had a lot of internal bleeding. it s been very emotional. my daughter just celebrated her seventh birthday without him. he was in tears knowing he was missing out on the kids growing up. i want to get to your kids in a moment. you mentioned how sayid s parents are able to visit him there in iran because that is where they live. that s where his family lives. ....