Reputation is outrageous. I knee people dont come to spontaneous demonstrations with rockets and mortars for the president of the United States for two weeks afterwards to deny that was the case, is either a coverup or it is incompetence. Ahead this hour, one of the republicans calling for a wider probe, New Hampshire senator kelly ayotte. And whats going on with the generals . Leon panetta orders ethics review. The fbi agent, hes the guy who brought down the millennium bomber. Taking out the military leader of hamas and fire from the gaza strip. Israel will continue to take whatever action is necessary to defend our people. Well talk to michael oren, israels ambassador to the United States. And president obama at this hour in Staten Island to hear from storm victims. Plus, say cheese. New members of congress pose for their class photo. Perhaps the last time theyll look this happy. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell live in new york. As the nation learns about the key players and the controv
He discusses the future the middle east and the role of the u. S. His remarks are part of an event hosted by the atlantic counsel. He spoke for about an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] is its a great pleasure to welcome you all this afternoon to the atlantic counsel. I am fred kempe president and ceo and this event marks the beginning of an Important New Initiative that the Council Introduction in the first public event around our first ambassador in residence at the Brent Scowcroft center for International Security at the center. There are a lot of reasons why the atlantic counsel was delighted to have been able to bring on board israels former ambassador to the u. S. Michael oren starting february 1 so we are getting him here just surely after he began at the atlantic counsel. In the press release that we circulated late in january i said the following. Quote ambassador oren brings to the council the powerful mixture of a top historians knowledge, the highest level dip
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Fredricka whitfield. Just a short time ago a train carrying the bodies of those who died on Malaysian Air flight 17 moved away from the crash scene the refrigerated train cars are headed to donetsk in eastern ukraine. Thats a volatile rebelcontrolled area. Earlier search teams found the bodies. Many of the bodies are on those cars. Also today, the leader of the prorussian rebels says he has technical devices that might be the black boxes. He says if experts determine the black boxes are indeed the flight recorders, they would be returned or turned over to international investigators. Lets go to phil black at the crash site. Phil, what more are we learning about those black boxes . Well, fredricka this is a key part of international concern. Where are they . Such a key part in determining what happened. One day after the leader of the rebels said we havent touched the wreckage, we dont know where those voice and data recorders are, they now say we have technical items that may be those
Iraqi forces dressed as civilians being held in trucks and then led by men with guns to their death. They claim they are fighting back. The ministry of defense released this video showing air strikes against isis in mosul. Thousands of volunteer fighters have responded to calls to protect their country and iraq claims it is taking key territory, even with reports that isis is moving closer to baghdad. Were covering this story in iraq and from the u. S. , of course, Nic Robertson is live for us and athena jones is in washington. Nic is joining us by phone right now. What do you know about the latest moves by isis . Reporter well, the latest were hearing is that they are attacking a ton just mosul and they are attacking an Iraqi Army Security base. Seven People Killed so far, 33 wounded in that attack. Isis still on the advance. They took the town of baquba late saturday after the army flew from there, taking their weapons with them. Baquba is so important because its only a 45minute dri