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Ill sit down and well listen to general dunford. Ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for the opportunity to speak to you about the recent events in niger which claimed the lives of bryan black, la david johnson, Jeremiah Johnson and dichustin wright. I begin by offering my sincere condolences to the families. Today is the anniversary of the beirut bombing. I want the families of the 241 americans lost that day to know that well never forget them. After speaking to secretary mattis this morning, i decid...

Why are the folks there on the front lines all right, jim. Lets listen in. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for the opportunity to speak to you about the recent events in niger which claimed the lives of four americans. Staff sergeant briean black and i begin by once again offering my sincere condolences to the families and the units of the fallen. Theyre all in our thoughts and prayers. Unrelated, today is the anniversary of the 1983 beirut bombing and i want the families of the 241 americans lost ...

Benghazi. What do you think . Weve heard a lot of talk with the president s phone call with one of the widows of the fallen. Amid all of that, a number of questions including questions that you and i talked about previously about what exactly were the American Service personnel doing in niger to begin with. Thats what general dunford will address right now. Theyre all in our thoughts and prayers. Today is the 1983 anniversary of the beirut bombing. I want the families to know we will never forge...

Also top of mind, his tariffs, speaking about tariffs moments ago as he departed to normandy. Border security is the president s Sticking Point and migrant arrests have surged to the largest monthly total in more than a decade. Plus, the fbi just released its file on big foot, what did they find about the mythical creature also known as sasquatch. Good morning and welcome to early start, im christine romans, my kids will be interested in that. Im dave briggs, thursday, june 6th. 4 00 a. M. In th...

Unduly influenced, he could not name a single one, incredible. john, thats the latest from the justice department and from the probe on capitol hill. >> john: look forward to more. david spunt, thank you. >> sandra: brownsville, texas, a presser is happening. >> entirely state effort, this is texans serving texas. so, again, youve got some soldiers and airmen who are literally serving in their back yard, whether its el paso or here in the rgv, so our hearts in the mission and we will do our best...

About the one the united states is sending, specifically the bradley fighting vehicle, its slightly different to what we would conceive as at tank, how will that help the infantry? its designed for our mounted infantry, the back of the bradley, and there is a number of different variants of the bradley, but i think the wonder really concentrating on getting to the ukrainians is the one that carries a squad anywhere from eight to ten infantry men in the back of the vehicle, so it offers them armo...

So the resources were readily available to the president. obviously tensions had been ramping up for quite some time. no question in my mind they were red i do go. obviously theres existing plans that they probably dusted off and modified for the circumstances for last night. so getting those aircraft in the air, getting those ships and armed and ready, not a huge deal. its really just a matter of targeting and laying those targets into the systems and the sensors. its likewise pretty quickly to...

The weather and where they landed but the fact that they could bring so much armament so quickly, so much material so quickly into those beaches at mulberry harbor, its a remarkable engineering feat, quite frankly, isnt it. >> reporter: thats right. there is the question of the engineering capability that they needed to have, the communications capability that they needed to have and on the day, a huge proportion of their communications capability was simply lost. so coordinating many different ...

To defend themselves? were they heavily defended or go in in light trucks not expecting much resistance. >> ill answer the second part because i know and ill give you in general the first part. so they did not expect resistance on this particular patrol. at least when they first planned it. again, what happened subsequently will be the investigation. because the rules in that part of west africa are that we will only accompany our partner forces when the chances of enemy contact are unlikely. so...

To defend themselves? were they heavily defended or light trucks or not expecting much resistance? >> ill answer the second part because i know. what happens subsequently will be the investigation. because the rules in that part of west africa are that we will only accompany our forces when the chances of enemy contact are unlikely. so with that, they were equipped with machine guns, small arms and obviously had the ability with communications capability to reach back and get greater larger supp...