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friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, im willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. w...

u.s. troops have come under attack 78 times by iranian backed groups. good morning. >> alexandria: good morning, according to defense department u.s. contractor was killed after a group crashed unmanned ariel vehicle into a building in northeast syria 1:30 local time. once determined it was iranian origin, the war posing group says eight iranian fighters were killed in that action. lloyd austin said the airstrikes were conducted in response to attacks by the group irgc. we will defend ...

To try to get out of this? i mean, you said that they probably know the cause of these explosions. i would say assume its ieds set by these groups. so what are they actually trying to find? the identities of these attackers? first of all, you want to find out if it is an ied set by the group or if they used some kind of rpg to try to get the terrorists out. so, yeah, youre going to try to find that. youre trying to find out who the victims are and who the attackers are. the way you do that very ...

Me, theyll solve it themselves. but, anderson, just this year, just this year, 36 million taxpayer dollars have already been sent to these clinics that are now suspended. so were talking about a lot of wasted money here. >> it was so frustrating when we had the guy on from the program who said, well, he had no idea who, previous to him getting to his position, was responsible for oversight and who dropped the ball and hes not able to name any names. really frustrating stuff. drew, we will contin...

Werent were a lot of suicide attacks there as well? >> it has been among operatives. i havent seen it with al shabaab. i havent really seen it with groups that are affiliated with al qaeda. they are happy to send women as suicide bombers but its very unusual for them to play an operational role. that doesnt mean they cant be involved in financing the group or supporting it in some other way, but it would be very unusual. >> steve, you supervised the last investigation to the u.s. em bassey attac...

Take her into custody until they can contact interpol and file formal charges for extradition. >> you now a lot about how these terror groups operate. would you be surprised if she was among the attackers or part of the planners? >> very surprised. these are a bunch of people who believe that women shouldnt be involved in operations that men are doing. weve a seen groups like al shabaab deploy female suicide attackers to go in and carry a bomb on. but if what she is describing where a woman is f...

Government is battling a brutal insurgency for many years. al qaeda backed groups. each country has special challenges for the obama administration. >> each country has special challenges and its worth pointing out. we dont know when the moment is right, when these reforms are going to succeed, and so its a little -- you know, theres a lot of monday morning quarterbacking saying we should have known that this would have happened. well, you could have known there were conditions in egypt that req...

Disaster. theyre saying get on board or something could happen to you. >> it is interesting, fareed, were getting a lot of tweets in from people saying the u.s. should support protesters in all these countries. each country is different. david was talking about yemen a little bit. algeria, which has an oppressive government is battling a brutal insurgency for many years. al qaeda backed groups. each country has special challenges for the obama administration. >> each country has special challeng...