sotloff say isis militants have violated the koran by executing steven sotloff. they asked, where is your

this, as sotloff's mother pleaded last week for her son's release. >> steven has no control over the actions of the u.s. government. he is an innocent journalist. i've also learned that you, the caliph, can grant amnesty. i ask you to please release my child. >> woodruff: today, a spokesman said the sotloff family is in shock. in washington, president obama did not comment, as he left for an overseas trip. but the state department condemned the killing. >> if the video is genuine, we are sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another innocent american citizen. our hearts go out to the sotloff family and we will provide more information as it becomes available. >> woodruff: pentagon officials have said the u.s. military tried to rescue sotloff, foley and other hostages earlier this summer, but the captives were gone when the troops arrived. and now, a third hostage is under threat. today's video warned that david cawthorne haines, a british aid worker, will be next. >> woodruff: joining me now for reaction to the reported execution of steven sotloff, is charlie sennott, co-fou

only then does he realize stevens and smith haven't followed. he goes back in several times but can't find them. finally, exhausted and choking, he climbs to the roof and radios alec henderson and dave uben, two security agents elsewhere inside the compound. his message, the ambassador and sean smith are missing. >> now, tig, you and jack and rone are going the front gate and it's open? >> when i was standing right here, the land cruiser came from this direction. i thought it was like bad guys still in the land cruisers. so i drew down my weapon. >> saw it was d.s. guys driving it. >> and that's when i heard, hey, we can't find the ambassador. started moving towards the front porch, getting up on the front porch and that's when they're pulling sean's body out of the window. >> sean smith? >> sean smith. >> but the ambassador's still lost. >> but the ambassador's still lost. >> to you and tyrone woods, rone, go into the building one of many times. but go in and there's a moment there. >> he was saying, hey, i can't find my way out. i was saying c

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stevens was equally clear that he needed help. he was equally clear that the situation was getting worse in benghazi. he was equally clear in asking the people who sent him there to represent us, to provide adequate security. and none was forthcoming. with that i would recognize the ranking member for his closing remarks. >> i want to thank you all for being here today. i thank all of you. one thing i want to remind all of us is that we are americans. everybody trying to do the best they can to protect our people. when we look at what happened in benghazi, there are a lot of lessons to be learned. the question is, not only have we learned them, but then how do we address them? and, you know, quarterbacking -- what do they call it, monday-morning quarterbacking, i think when you look back on it a lot of times, you realize the things you could have done differently. that probably would have made things better. but, you know, we cannot bring back the past, but i think we can make a difference right now. it's clear that our diplomats

steven sotloff was last seen in 2013 until appearing in a video last month. in is after the beheading of journalist james foley. >>> pakistan's parliament is meeting for a second date, trying to break a 3-week deadlock. prime minister nawaz sharif's position is looking week as the government struggles to clear the protesters. >>> israel's fired warning shots at palestinian fishermen off the coast of gaza, saying it violated a 10km fishing zone south of strip. the 50-day conflict between israel and gaza ended with an open-ended ceasefire brokered by egypt. palestinian authorities having talks with the secretary of state on the plan to push for statehood. it will be the first meeting between john kerry and palestinian negotiators since he tried to negotiate a truce in july. israel's offensive on gaza killed more than 2,000 palestinians, most civilians. the plo accusing israel of committing war crimes, and said it will take its case to the international criminal court. >>> it's thought the offensive left 370,000 children suffering from trauma. nearly 500 childre

sotloff say isis militants have violated the koran by executing steven sotloff. they asked, where is your mercy? >> the executioner called it revenge for the air strikes. but sotloff's friends and family are focusing on his life rather than the way he died. >> he's always put himself ahead of everyone else. that's who i want to be remembered as. he did everything in his power to do the right thing. >> today we grieve. this week we mourn. but we will emerge from this ordeal. our village is strong. we will not allow our enemy to hold us hostage with the sole weapons they possess. fear. our prayers go out to the family of jim foley. like steve, he suffered but list hes jailers never broke him. >> meanwhile, the mother of james foley is offering her support to steven sotloff's family. foley had been held captive with sotloff before he was killed on camera by isis militants last month. >> i would hope that their deaths may not be in vain, that they might awaken the world that we must act as a unified world for peace and for goodness and just work together. >> u.s. pre

only then does he realize stevens and smith haven't followed. he goes back in several times but can't find them. finally, exhausted and choking, he climbs to the roof and radios alec henderson and dave uben, two security agents elsewhere inside the compound. his message, the ambassador and sean smith are missing. >> now, tig, you and jack and rone are going the front gate and it's open? >> when i was standing right here, the land cruiser came from this direction. i thought it was like bad guys still in the land cruisers. so i drew down my weapon. >> saw it was d.s. guys driving it. >> and that's when i heard, hey, we can't find the ambassador. started moving towards the front porch, getting up on the front porch and that's when they're pulling sean's body out of the window. >> sean smith? >> sean smith. >> but the ambassador's still lost. >> but the ambassador's still lost. >> to you and tyrone woods, rone, go into the building one of many times. but go in and there's a moment there. >> he was saying, hey, i can't find my way out. i was saying c

in that video is threatened steven sotloff would be next if the u.s. launched air strikes against them in iraq. steven sotloff's mother recorded an emotional video plea asking is to release her son. >> i ask you to please release my child. as a mother i ask your justice to be merciful, and not publish my son for matters he has no control over. >> since james foley's execution, the u.s. conditioned air strikes, paving the way for gains by iraqi forces. strikes around amerli, 100 miles north of baghdad helped to avert a looming humanitarian crisis. is identified david haines, british aid worker if other governments join the u.s. fighting against them. joining us from washington d.c. is ambassador james wol si, former director of central intelligence from 1993 to 1995, and ambassador for negotiation on conventional armed forces in vienna, and the chairman for the foundation of defense for democracies. pleasure to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> two americans murdered on camera in two weeks. a british citizen threatened. the state department s

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kelly wright has all of the breaking news. >> the killing of american journalist steven sotloff. they call the beheading a crime against humanity. sotloff's mother made an appeal for her son's life. instead they release add video called a second message to america to show there has been an execution. it comes two weeks after the group beheaded james foley and the second video the mass executioner in a hood speaks directly to president obama actually taunting him and the presidented breaking his silence overnight. the president vowing justice will be served. >> we will not be intimidated. their horrific acts only unite us to take the fight against these terrorists and those who make a mistake of harming americans learn we will not forget and our reach is long aged justice will be served. >> the sotloff family grieving prooif shatly. they also spoke on his dedicated journalistic career. >> he stood in contrast against those who murdered him so brutally. they say they kill in the name of religion but it was freedom who deeply loved the islamic world. the killers try to claim they de

journalist, steven sotloff, who, like foley, is shown kneeling in an orange prison jumpsuit at a spot in syria. once again a masked man with a knife speaking in a british accent explains sotloff is being killed for ongoing american air strikes against isis. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: just before his purported beheading sotloff recites clearly scripted propaganda asking why he has to pay the price. >> i was terror stricken when i saw it. but that face, it was like the minute i saw his face, i went back to my childhood. i saw that same face that i remember and -- and then when i saw his name, and i knew it had to be him. and i was devastated. >> reporter: a spokesman for the family would say the family knows of this tragedy and is grieving privately. isis has made it clear the horror may not stop with sotloff's murder. on the tape, the masked executioner presents a british hostage identified as david haynes and suggests his life now dependents on the actions of the u.s. and british government. allen martin, kpix 5. >> president obama says the u.s. is grief-stricken over the killing.

it has been going on since the summer of 2013 when steven sotloff was taken. i was in the same town, the same day that james foley was taken, and as luck would have it, for me, of course we managed to go through that town safely to our destination, and leave without anything happening to us, but he's not just a jermon, there have been media blackouts, and in the hope that there was no publicity and people didn't know about it, and there might be a better chance that they might be released. that of course didn't happen. and then we had the dreadful state when james foley was beheaded, you saw steven sotloff in the video, and he was beheaded. but if you go up against the campaign of the islamic state, steven sotloff will be the next one to be punished. and it looks like that is the case. and then the video with steven sotloff, another person is named, a british person, he's now being threatened, so how long is it going to go on? but as you say, the problem is he with can't stop doing our job. we still have to report as well as we can, but it looks like the campa

explaining the university's position on steven salaita. --er send a decision was after saying that the decision "was not implicit in any way by his positions on the conflict in the middle east nor his criticism of israel," chancellor wise goes on to write -- >> what we see in that letter is basically a page from the playbook of the david project. the david project is a boston-based pro-zionist, pro-israeli project dedicated to shaping the way in which israel and israeli state policy is discussed on college campuses in a way that is friendly toward israel and their recently issued a report where they said, our technique now will be in approaching the critics of israel in campus to describe what they say is uncivil. if you read the chancellor's letter and the strategy memo, you see -- i don't know if it has been formed by the memo, but it reflects it and influenced by it. civility as not an academic norm. it actually runs contrary to what we do in an academic setting. in my teaching and writing, i try to unsettle peoples -- my students contr

it appears to show the murder of freelance journalist steven sotloff. we will not show the video here, only this one still hold from it. neither the pentagon, state department nor white house has yet confirmed sotloff's death. but the defense department says icy is in u.s. cross hairs. >> we've talked about isil for many months and as i've said before, we were very closely monitoring and tracking their progress, their growth, their development, well before they rolled into mosul. so this is not an organization that we haven't been watching. the speed with which they took control of the north in iraq, definitely got a lot of people's attention. and i've said that publicly, too. nobody expected that four divisions of the iraqi arm were just going to fall the way they did. so there was a speed there that certainly was -- did not go unnoticed. but there is an organization we've been long watching. >> we heard a desperate plea from steven's mother just last week. sotloff was kidnapped more than a year ago inside syria and isis had threatened to behead him af

our thoughts and prayers are with them as they grieve steven's loss. we condemn the murders of steven and jim foley and we remain committed to bringing the perpetrators of these crimes to justice." carol? >> let's talk about bringing the perpetrators to justice. how exactly would they go about placing jihadi john under arrest? >> well this is going to be something that's going to be a joint effort. the department of defense, state department, the white house, the fbi, in connection with british authorities trying to figure out how to take this man off the chess onboard carol. it could be a challenge because you have to think he could be in a very dangerous environment and syria and iraq, but authorities have a lot of tools in their toolbox. they have to assess the intelligence they have, assess how good that intelligence is, and make the decision from there what kind of tool they want to use to bring him to justice. carol? >> understood. pamela brown reporting live from washington, thanks so much. i'm back in a minute. ♪ ♪ imagine the luxury... of

jim phony and steven sotloff. -- foley and steven sotloff so say pose a threat to the people of iraq and syria and the middle east and american citizens, personals and facilities. they could pose a threat beyond that region, including to the united states. but we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland they have threatened leaders and allies. we believe thousands of foreigners joined them in syria and iraq. trained, these fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks. i know many americans are concerned about these threats, tonight i want you to know that the united states of america is meeting them with strength and resolve. last month i ordered the military to take targeted action against them to stop its advances. we conducted 150 successful air strikes in iraq. they have protected american personnel and facilities, killed fighters, destroyed weapons and given space for forces to reclaim key territory. these strikes have also helped save the lives of thousands of innocent men, women and children. but this is not our fight al

josh rogan talked to one of steven sotloff's friends. how did isis get their hands on steven sotloff. >> we know he traveled from turkey to syria and stopped at the border crossing controlled by a free syrian army brigade that works with the united states and held him there for a while. a few hours later after he left the crossing, he was picked up by isis and a year after that they murdered him. what happened between his capture and him getting to the border crossing is highly debated. his best friend told me in an interview that the northern storm, the one that met with john mccain three months prior, tipped off isis. that's an allegation. if true, that would call into question the strategy for arming rebels because it means we can't trust them. >> these are people they are considering arming. moderate syrian rebels. so what do we do then? >> here's the administration. it's not clear exactly that the story is true. obama administration says they have their own intelligence that says they had nothing to do with steven sotloff's abductio

tape online showing the murder of steven sotloff. now they are trying to determine if the video is real. marcy gonzales is live now. >> u.s. intelligence officials have not been able to say if the video is authentic. his family is grieving asking for privacy as they await confirmation. word that another american journalist is executed by isis. this video appears to show steven sot loff calmly atting the camera, saying obama your foreign policy of intervention in iraq was to be for preservation for american lives and interest. why i am paying with my life. this comes just two weeks after james foley was bee heeded by isis. in that video they threatened that sotloff would be next. >> his mother made a failed video plea to the terrorists. >> as a mother i ask to you to be merciful and not punish my son for matters he has no control over. >> a militant with a knife on his side says he is back with response to u.s. strikes in iraq. and president obama is going to talk to nato allies. the president expressed sympathy and said that extensiv

steven caponi spent nine months in confinement. he's now back in general population and he's found that old habits die hard. >> the hustle never sleeps. the person i'm hustling right now has no idea what i'm about. >> not only is he hustling again, but he's raised the stakes. >> we're working on getting bonded out right now. the bond right now is $18,000. i need $1,800 to get out. so i'm not hustling for nickels and dimes anymore, you know? i don't want the canteen anymore. now i'm hustling to get bonded out and it looks like it might come together. >> but this deputy has caponi on his radar. >> i notice he seems to be a social bug. he's always trying to involve himself in everything that goes on in the pod. usually the guys that are running hustles are the ones that are circulating the pod like that. >> this is my little clique right here and this is what we do all day, play cards. there are people in here that do know what i'm about. and i consider them friends because they're not going to repeal what i'm doing to these other peo

steven is a loyal and generous son, brother and grandson. he's an honorable man and has always tried to help the weak. >> the journalist had been held captive for over a year. he disappeared near aleppo. the u.s. believes the islamic state group is holding other americans hostage. it's unlikely this latest murder will change foreign policy as the president weighs more strikes against the islamic state group. aljazeera, washington. >> let's go to lisa stark in washington. we heard from the president from estonia. how much pressure is this putting on him to ratchet up the pressure on the islamic state group? >> certainly a horrific killing such as this, the second killing of an american journalist does pressure the white house on the president to go after the islamic state group, but president obama says it strengthens his resolve. he said the murders gust and unit us and that the u.s. will not be in dim dated. the islamic state group has threatened to kill another hostage, this time a british citizen approximate f. the campaign against the gr

ambassador chris stevens killed in benghazi, libya last year when militants stormed the u.s. consulate two years ago. stevens had strong ties to the bay area, grew up in piedmont and attended uc-berkeley. >>> lawmakers are getting classified briefings on president obama's plan to battle isis. >> it falls upon us congress and the american people to rally behind the president on his decisive strategy. >> the president needs congress now to authorize the money for training and to equip syrian rebels to battle isis on the ground. secretary of state john kerry arrived in saudi arabia to work on the final part of the plan which has international cooperation. >> grieving family and friends are gathering together to hold a funeral for a teenager who was stabbed to death in san francisco. the service for 14-year-old rashawn williams started at 9:00 this morning at saint mary's. he was stabbed last week in the mission district. police arrested a 14-year-old boy for the killing. >>> the national football league says former fbi director robert mueller will lead an investigation into the

more details on steven sotloff. reporter forlance time magazine when he was kidnapped last year. many articles focused on the struggles of ordinary people in war zones. he attended the university of central florida from 2002-2004. back with more on steven sotloff and the breaking news of his death. >> the mcdonnell corruption trial is in the hands of a jury as they's decide the fate of bob mcdonnell and his wife. what the jury has to mull over. celebration started at noon today. no verdict yet. not unsurprising. the jury had live weeks of testimony to digest and dense jury and then -- instructions. their attorneys walked into the court separately. get inside before the 5:00 closing time. at 5:30 with a will come inside and juries will tell them if they have a verdict. seven men, five women will conduct the jury. now in the hands of a jury, governor mcdonald says these are his lands. the time to be with my son. >> during jury instructions, the judge detailed the counts against the governor and his wife. spencer advised bob mcdonnell's testimony should be viewed like that of any ot

>>> family of steven sotloff sends a message directly to isis. where is your mercy. >>> and president obama says russia threw out the law book when it comes to ukraine. >>> and how two brothers were freed from prison. one was even on death row. how the victim's family is responding. >>> hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm max foster. the family of steven sotloff says isis militants have violated the rules of islam. they posted a video of sotloff being beheaded. a spokesman for the sotloff family addressed the media, speaking in arabic and asking al baghdady, where is your mercy. >> translator: you talk about the koran. fight those who fight you and do not transgress. i do not have a sword in my hand, and i'm ready for your answer. >> meanwhile, the mother of james foley is offering her comfort to the sotloff family. >> i would hope that their deaths might not be in vain, that they might awaken the world, that we must act as a unified world. for peace and for goodness and just work together. >> well, u.

. >> we heard a desperate plea from steven's mother just last week. sotloff was kidnapped more than a year ago inside syria and isis had threatened to behead him after the execution of james tolly. e isis is also threatening to kill british worker david haines. we could hear from david cameron at the present time now. all of this news breaking on the heels of a new report iey isis is guilty of amnesty. president obama is leaving for a summit in wales. some are calling this nato meeting the most important since the fall of the berlin wall. eamon, nice to have you back. with this latest video, if confirmed obviously showing the beheading by isis of journalist tea steven sotloff, what is isis' goal? their stated goal is to promote islamic state. why are they intentionally provoking the u.s.? >> i'm not sure that they are necessarily trying to provoke the u.s.. i think isis is in a territorial acquisition state. and trying to hold on to it. i don't think they're trying to start a fight with the united states. i think that they are in a fight with the unit

the last time i saw steven, a wonderful soul, rest in peace. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> thanks for watching, everyone. "wolf" starts right now. >>> right now, additional u.s. military support for iraq and the battle against isis. hundreds more u.s. troops are heading to baghdad. also right now, the world's response to stop isis' brutal violence and the search for the man who beheaded a second american before he kills again. and, right now, president obama, heading to a nato summit to talk about the crisis in ukraine. and this morning, a strongly worded message by the president delivered right at russia's doorst doorstep. from iraq, london, moscow and washington, our team reporters brings you the stories this hour. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. just in, the vice president of the united states, joe biden, delivering a powerful rebuke to the terrorist group isis it just a little while ago, the vice president called isis barbarians for beheading two american journalists. >> the american people are so much stronger, so mu

we'll pay close attention, as well, to steven himself, just 31 years old from south florida that lost his life so early in a career of bringing the world into our lives so we can better understand it. a very full night starting with jim sciutto. jim, i know you watched the video today. i did not. i chose not to look at it. you said one of the things that stood out is how calm he was. >> he was throughout uttering that statement under duress, which he must have had a good idea might be his last words but up to the chilling moment when the knife went to his throat. he was calm, stern face and i don't know what combination of steeling nerves and mental preparation makes that possible and i saw that. i made the same decision you did with the jim foley tape. i seen a lot of these. we know their intention is to scare and terrorize people so you often wonder why allow yourself to be terrorized, as well. i'm glad i watched this in part because that demonstration of strength that i saw from steven. >> this is a direct challenge to president obama. >> no question, one of course, they killed an

steven sotloff and his family were constituents of yours down in southern florida. have you had contact with the family yet and what is your initial reaction to news of his possible death? >> we have and i've stayed in touch through their representative with the family and we've reached out to that representative today to express how our hearts go out to the family and the friends of steven. his family not only lives here but he also went to college here. i am going to see this video next week in the one of our national security committees but you don't have to see a video to know that the united states is the only one that can put together a coalition to go after this outfit that is so intense barbaric cruelty. and in this case, we have to go after them in northern iraq and kurdstan and that helped in holding them at bay with our air strike so that ground troops and near the mosul dam and iraqi army, can go after them. now we're going to have to join with the free syrian army who not only started out fighting president assad's regime in syria, but fighting isis. so

it's hard. >> you know in the video, steven never flinched. he was never fearful, even though he knew clearly he was about to die. you knew him so well. does it surprise you? >> no. he was incredibly courageous and james foley. you see both of them. courageous to the end. it takes courage to go into syria in the first place and report on the conflicts. they certainly both had it. >> as we mentioned, isis is holding a british journalist hostage. nbc news is not showing his picture in honor of the family's request. clearly concerned for his safety and the other people that isis may have. >> yes. a situation does not look good. there's very little i think the u.k. and u.s. can do. other than if there's an offer to negotiate they should negotiate. all the hostages held by isis, which include british hostages and more american hostages as well. the situation is does not look good for them. >> you know you're saying very little you think great britain and the united states could do, but, you know, you've been in the middle of situations that maybe h

stevens was equally clear that he needed help. he was equally clear that the situation is getting worse and benghazi. he was equally clear in asking the people who sent him there to represent us to provide adequate security and none was forthcoming. with that i would recognize the ranking member for closing remarks. >> i want to thank you all for being here today. i think -- i thank all of you. what i want to remind all of us is we are americans. everybody is trying to do the best they can to protect our people. when we look at what happens in benghazi, there are a lot of lessons to be learned. the question is not only have we learned them, but then how do we address some? and you know, what do they call it, monday morning quarterbacking? i think when you look back on things a lot of times you realize the things you could have done differently. that probably would have made things better. but, you know, you cannot bring back -- but i think we can make a difference right now. it's clear that our diplomats are in some very dangerous

only thing does he realize stevens and smith haven't followed. he goes back in several times, but can't find them. finally exhausted and choking, he climbs to the roof and radios alec henderson and dave ubin, two security agents elsewhere inside the compound. his message -- the ambassador and sean smith are missing. >> now, tig, you and jack and roneing going the front gate. it's open? >> when i was standing right here, the land cruiser came from this direction, i thought it was bad guys stealing the land cruiser. i drew down my weapon. then i saw it was d.s. guys driving it, i heard, hey, we can't find the ambassador, i started moving toward the front porch, getting on the front porch. that's when they were pulling sean's body out of the window. >> sean smith? >> sean smith. >> but the ambassador is still lost? >> the ambassador is still lost. >> tig,ened you and rone go in, one of many times, and there's a moment there. >> he was saying, i can't find my way out. come to my voice, but he almost made another right into where the -- i think it was

the islamic state has beheaded another american, steven sotloff. this is not a bit of news to absorb, move on and forget. it is a sadistic assault on our country's pride, barack obama, the american people, on the country we love. cutting off the head of one of us is a taunt, a humiliation. it debases us this the eyes of syrians, iraqi, our countrymen. the american intelligence community is working to confirm the latest video that shows him

verifies authenticity of a video showing beheading of steven sotloff with the latest on the developing story, we bring you "today in the bay's" kris sanchez. heart wrenching development. >> yes. quickly developing situation, too, sam. the british government now saying it's considering special forces operation to rescue a british hostage now in the hands of islamist terrorists in order to keep him from the same fate as steven sotloff. the only image we will show you of sotloff's last moments spent reading criticism of u.s. foreign policy. obama said he was a courageous journalist whose lives and a stark contrast to the mission of the isis group that killed him. >> they make the absurd claim they kill in the name of religion but steve. en, his friends say deeply loved the islamic world. the killers try to claim they defend the oppressed but it was steve who traveled across the middle east risking his life to tell the story of muslim men and women demanding justice and dignity. >> speaking from is stonia, the president said the murders of sotloff and james foley only strengthened the u.s.

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steven and carolyn, really? between the jacket and these cars, can't get much hotter. >> you know, josh wears his car on his sleeve and that is impressive there. >> i love the car. love his dad and i love vick's leather jacket. looks like you can see drag racing back in the '50s. >> nascar driver curt bush usually goes about 220 miles an hour. >> up next, he slows it down a bit to taker us for a ride in his classic car at cruising speed. us for a ride in his classic car at cruising speed. >>> my name is charley. >> and i'm chuck. >> we're from toronto, canada. we have been coming to the cruise for several years, like seven years. and this is a 416 motor. >> all the way from toronto, canada. what a beautiful shot over the motor city. the light dos do look pretty. welcome back to woodward cruise where the cars are cool and the people are so friendly. >> i realized it's the burning rubber from the tires. spinning in the streets. you know, brad is out there in his own soueoup up hot rod. >> look at the grill on this

steven drizin, how did this case happen? talk about the case of brown and mccollum, and after 30 years, it was discovered that the dna actually belong to another man. >> the case happened, as in many cases up false confessions, and began with a brutal, horrific crime, often the murder and rape of a small child. police officers are desperate to solve that case. who areo in on suspects innocent, but for whatever reason, believe they are guilty. in this case, the only reason they suspected henry mccollum is because the local 17-year-old girl had said she did not like the way he stared at women in the community. once they focused on mccollum, they brought him in and grilled him relentlessly for hours. they threatened him with the death penalty and promised him he would go home. a written detailed statement for him to sign. at that point in time, as he said, i pretty much what of sign anything in order to go home. the fact this confession was unreliable was apparent when the very face of this confession. as his attorney remarked,

is the president expected to at least talk about the issue of the beheading of steven sotloff? >> there has been no confirmation that he will. but the expectation is that he will make remarks. he will be meeting the estonian president this morning. after that they will have a joint news conference where i expect at the very least if the president doesn't make remarks of his own he'll be asked about this. so we are expecting to hear about the u.s. position on this. in the coming hours, john. >> and showing up is important and that is what this trip is all about. the president making a very pointed trip to estonia. and the message he is bringing? >> it's a message of assurance, reassurance, rather. estonia borders russia and at a growing time of russia assertiveness there is a concern which has a 25% russian ethnic population that they may be next on the kremlin's target list. president obama saying you are a nato member and an attack on one is an attack against all. estonia's leadership have called for permanent nato bases to be positioned here in estonia and in the baltics as w

it is thought to be steven, a journalist abducted in syria last year. a militant in the video threatens to kill another hostage who is said to be british. this report by our security counterfrank gardner, doesn't include the entire video, but viewers may still find it distressing. >> steven before he was kidnapped. a freelance american journalist, he crossed into syria a year ago and was seized almost immediately. tonight, islamic state jihadists provided a video nline, a gruesome, an -- a beheading by a british jihadist. >> i'm back because of the arrogance toward the islamic state. >> president obama made no immediate comment but the white house was quick to condemn the killing. this is the second u.s. hostage to be murdered by i.s. in syria in two weeks. >> if the video is genuine, we're sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another life of an american innocent citizen. >> the islamic state militants have been holding a number of western hostages in syria. several european nationals were released. reportedly in exchange for huge ransom payme

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