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Iraqs military has inflicted heavy losses on isis fighters. Including embedded journalists reporting explosions and heavy gunfire. This could take weeks maybe even months. Its iraqs secondlargest city. The last wee maremaining isis stronghold in the country. Us defense secretary ash carter calls it a decisive moment to defeat the terror group. Take you live to the front lines of the battle this hour. The other big story were following right now, president ial politics here in the United States. ...

Overnight after a previous agreement collapsed within 24 hours. Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped inside that city. Several of them sending heartbreaking messages to the world pleading for help. Some people saying goodbye. One of the messages came from an orphanage. Watch this. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] oh, my god. Defense secretary ash carter spoke out about all the developments, whats happening in aleppo, just a short time ago and he pointed the finger at the assad regime and...

Talent and tremendous experience. I watched and read a lot over the last two days. He is highly respected by everybody in the military, and we are very honored to have him. Reporter Army Lieutenant general h. R. Mcmaster is a veteran of iraq and afghanistan, with years of battlefield experience. He is deeply familiar with the politics of serving at the highest levels of the military. Mr. President , thank you very much. I would just like to say what a privilege it is to be able to continue servi...

You do it. 8 00 on a saturday morning. Im christi paul. Look who got upp early. Hello. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Great to be with all of you. President trump may be in sunny florida. New clouds are hanging over his administration. The president vowing no rest at mara lago this weekend. Could he be working on the new travel ban he promised last week, or is it going to head back to court . Overnight the white house getting more time to decide if theyre going to fight the lawsuit. ...

Veteran of iraq and afghanistan, with years of battlefield experience. He is deeply familiar with the politics of serving at the highest levels of the military. Mr. President , thank you very much. I would just like to say what a privilege it is to be able to continue serving our nation. Im grateful to you for that opportunity. I look forward to joining the National Security team and doing everything i can to advance and protect the interests of the American People. Thank you very much, sir. Rep...

That moment in time is frozen. This is a really great guy. A lot of people are never going to get to know. We dont know what this represents. Could be something. Could be nothing. When he should be calming the storm, hes predicting one. This is new day with chris cuomo and alyson camerota. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is your new day. It is is friday, october 6th, 6 00 here in new york. It has been a long week. Alyson is taking the day, and i am lucky en...

Immigration. Becoming the first sanctuary state home of the free and the home of the brave all right now steve hey, its all right. Come on in. Ainsley its going to be a great year. Steve its a brand new one. Ainsley 2018. Remember write checks you would have to remember to write 18. Steve whats a check. Brian i still write checks. That opening of that Football Game yesterday was as good as any super bowl at the rose bowl which was one of the semifinals which was one of the most traumatic games i...

Bouts of skin cancer. Yesterday, he passed away. He was surrounded by his family after this hard battle with brain cancer but he fought it so well. There are so many adjectives have been used to describe him. Father, husband, war hero, maverick, political titan, principled is one that stands out. Its fitting flags halfstaff over the u. S. Capital. In the halls of that capitol mccain spent nearly 40 years representing the state of arizona. First a member of the house and representative and then, ...

He did address the troops for about 20 minutes. I think what we need to find out next here we have a little bit coming out from reports from reuters, as well. Number one, the president is not going to withdraw from iraq. Thats something he said they are going to stay there. He thinks the world will come around and the rest of the International Community to his decision to withdraw the 2,000 troops from syria. He said that the current or soon to be acting secretary of defense will be there for so...

Gave his life on 9 11. Rick earned the silver star and purple heart for his service in vietnam. He later become the Vice President for security at Morgan Stanley in the World Trade Center. On the day of the attack, rick died while leading countless others to safety. His selfless actions saved approximately 2,700 lives. Today, im honored to announce that we will soon be awarding the late rick rescorala, the president ial citizens medal for his extraordinary sacrifice. Though rick has left this ea...