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To give him a pep talk, to have conversations with him about how he might be more respectful to the president. And thats according to a white house official, and other sources have said the same. You know, he didnt deny calling the president a moron. He essentially gave a series of different Policy Issues in which hes saying the president has been successful on, he really backed the president , he supports the president. He also said he doesnt intend to go anywhere, that hes just getting started...

By isis, but theyre known to be there. so if they were able to get it, there is not a u.s. presence there. it would have had to have been some sort of intelligence gathering like signals intercepts, overhearing conversations, possibly human intelligence sources on the ground although that may be a little bit less likely. but they can take that kind of information, put it together, use other assets like drones, overhead surveillance, satellites and whatnot, and they can figure out with a certain ...

Out exactly what they were, and u.s. drones. that would of course be overhead for surveillance to help out and provide intelligence throughout the course of the raid. we know that there was fire from the air and that at least one or more of the helicopters landed. were trying to figure out exactly what happened once they were on the ground. we know they gathered some intelligence, likely biometrics on the target, who in this case was baghdadi. but we arent sure if there was actually a gunfight t...

Still inhabited by isis. its not necessarily held by them as, like, a caliphate or as a land that they own and they govern, but there is still an isis presence in that area. so we know that there were a number of u.s. special operations forces. we think these are the most elite of the task force. they went in on helicopters. there was also fixed-wing jets and some u.s. drones that came in across the border from turkey into syria and launched this raid. we know that there was some fire from the a...

Courtney? >> reporter: so we know very little so far about this raid, what exactly happened. but we do know that it was targeting the isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi, a wanted -- the number one terrorist wanted in the world for several years now. we know that there was u.s. special operations, the most elite of the special operations forces were involved in this raid. they went in on helicopters. there were fixed wings jet and drones in the area for surveillance and overhead watch. there was so...

>> michael, thank you so much. again, that was michael weiss of the daily beast, co-author of "isis: inside the army of terror." and, again, breaking news at this hour. the white house has announced that president trump will make a major announcement at 9:00 a.m. on sunday, and nbc news has now confirmed the likely topic of those remarks, a u.s. military operation that targeted isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. id like to bring back courtney ku kube, our pentagon correspondent. courtney, what ca...

And nbc news has now confirmed that the likely topic of those remarks, a u.s. military operation that targeted isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. were told u.s. special ops mission targeted the isis leader near barisha, syria, overnight. the mission included helicopters and jets as well as u.s. drones. the u.s. received actionable intelligence from u.s. intelligence sources in recent days and after confirming it, the mission began late yesterday local time at around midnight. the u.s. fired from ...

Linked to russian military in l intelligen intelligence, which means he was trying to conceal the extent of communications between the trump campaign at the highest levels and a person linked to russian military intelligence during the time russian military intelligence was intervening in the presidential election to benefit donald trump. that was nice of him to do that. especially if its going to cost him the rest of his life in prison. both manaforts long expected sentence and the reason he go...

Place which is exactly the system that the president here is removing by removing their clearances. does that change your view? >> hes not eliminating the system. >> hes doing it for a bunch of prominent people. >> what are hes doing is for those people who have been overtly political or the president believes have done things that have been political as it relates to the russia investigation and didnt do a good job or calling the president committed treason or calling him treasonous. by using t...

It didnt happen. i think its a disgrace. >> reporter: though journalists had not verified it, portions of the dossier had been in fbi hands for months. >> chris steele, the former mi-6 officer, who compiled the dossier puts it in the hands of someone he knows in rome thats an fbi agent. that puts it in the bloodstream of the fbi. >> christopher steele was a veteran british spy, worked for the mi-6 intelligence service. >> reporter: steele had compiled the dossier as opposition research for the c...