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Course is no stranger to loss. he lost his first wife it is very young daughter in a tragic car accident in the 19705 and also lost a son to brain cancer, so we are told that he is speaking to families and urging them not to lose hope. but i to say them not to lose hope. but i to say the hope that they have been cleaning too over the past eight days must be very difficult to hold onto, particularly today. we learned this morning that the early hours, these are to rescue operation taking place ar...

Department is obviously getting its kind of revenge now, right? theyre having their opportunity to speak out finally and explain all of the misery and the chaos that theyve been through over the last two years particularly over the last obviously eight or nine months with regard to the ukraine story. the second one, though, and one i think is more important is them raising alarms about a foreign influence operation taking place yet again on american soil targeting the 2020 election. its been a v...

Of big take away about what we learned this week? >> two things. the first is that the state department is obviously getting its kind of revenge now, right? theyre having their opportunity to speak out finally and explain all of the misery and the chaos that theyve been through over the last two years particularly over the last obviously eight or nine months with regard to the ukraine story. the second one, though, and one i think is more important is them raising alarms about a foreign influenc...

Communities safe. they cant get any traction. you were acting head of ice, and you know how hard this job is its like finding a needle in a haystack. >> officer safety issue. public safety issue. and law enforcement coordination issue. as a young trainee agent its drilled in your head. have you got to cooperate and notify local law enforcement so you dont end up with a blue on blue situation and shoot an officer who is in plain clothes. and what have you now is a mayor notifying the community th...

Communities safe. they cant get any traction. you were acting head of ice, and you know how hard this job is its like finding a needle in a haystack. >> officer safety issue. public safety issue. and law enforcement coordination issue. as a young trainee agent its drilled in your head. have you got to cooperate and notify local law enforcement so you dont end up with a blue on blue situation and shoot an officer who is in plain clothes. and what have you now is a mayor notifying the community th...

Surrogates. they would be on the road, travel, talking to people. don spent a lot of time in iowa. he -- erik would also be out in the business kmumt, ivanka the same. >> surrogates, were they involved behind the scenes in the kpap? was it clear, you know, when you were campaign manager, were you calling the shots or did the family also sort of have a -- was it sort of almost like a travel council type of thing with the family? >> it would be a relationship that developed overtime. you have to r...

Incredibly good, world class training which is reviewed on a regular basis. they have to on a regular basis prove theyre still up to the high standards required so that if something like this does happen, that the training kicks in automatically and they engage swiftly to respond. so thats what we have seen. its been a work in progress, really, for the last sort of seven or eight years to continually look at threats that take place globally. we dont just look at what happened in the united kingd...

>> reporter: well, they believe that american foreign policy is set on defeating isis. no one here appears to be worried about the u.s. withdrawing any of its support. that support is significant. it would be difficult to see this operation taking place in the way that it is without u.s. support. the air power, the air strikes, the training, the advice, the special forces on the ground, all these sorts of things are making a real difference and ultimately making this battle possible at this time...

Government strategy is to try to cut off key logistical supply routes and recapture some of the patchwork of territory that isis does control. this operation taking place in two provinces, anbar where ramadi is located. we were at one of these front lines between those two key areas. one of these iranian-backed shia para military forces one scathing of the united states saying iran was their only true ally. we did in fact see iranian advisers on the ground although we were not allowed to speak o...

Sources were talking to tell us this operation had been in the works since about several weeks, march, even maybe before that. this was somebody they were keeping their eye on. very much intelligence driven. they took to the president, risk absolutely but there were in fact fighter jets overhead. there was intelligence overhead. jamming communications as there always is. there was a lot of backup for those u.s. troops on the ground. and this is the real expertise of u.s. commandos. they get the ...