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Wednesday, the largest raid in syria since the 2019 operation that took out baghdadi. abu bakr al-baghdadi. intel gathering on the raid ramped up last fall. biden being briefed and detailed five days before christmas. in the wake of the raid, pentagon spokesperson john kirby warning isis still has the ability to attack the u.s. mainland. joining me now. cnn counter terrorism analyst. good to see you. this would have been the biggest news, right, that we have been covering at one point but we hav...

Reported hesitation he had about doing a raid like this that was seen as riskier. obviously president biden has evolved in his thinking on that front, and felt more comfortable ordering the strike to go ahead as he did this week. >> reporter: its a good point, hallie, and i think that the timeline that we have for the extent to which he was being briefed on this operation underscores not only the ship that you are talking about, but why he may have been confident moving forward with what is a ri...

Using a fake video. and were learning more about the raid in syria. well talk about it with democratic senator hirono. and a new jobs report reveals that the economy added 467,000 jobs despite the omicron surge. this as congresswoman lofgren introduce as bill that would overall the court him is. she will join me to share more on that and the latest from the january 6th committee. we begin this hour with the latest on the he is came lating tensions between russia and ukraine. vladimir putin a...

Violence. the pandemic cant be eliminated but its our decision to intelligently live with it. to the cross-hairs of conflict. the biden administration faces a dual threat. they killed an isis commander in syria. look at the compounds before the raid. then after the raid. how do we know that the head of isis was there? we have a presence there. we have troops. and where are the terrorists going? they are going to afghanistan where we have zero troops and we stranded our allies. you a krien. ukrai...

They were going after with isis. high profile terrorist, leader within that organization where they didnt kill him, they moved in and he killed himself. he blew up his family, he blew up the dwelling. they were able to get a few people out. the details are that a much more. i want to go to john james quickly to see if we can get a clear indication of what we are looking at here. john? >> clear indication, there can be no greater contradiction in the fog of war quite frankly. based on what i know...

Abu ibrahim al—hashimi al-qurayshi, who is one of the worlds most wanted men. he died in a pre—dawn raid on a house in the syrian village of atme, just south of the turkish border. he is understood to have blown himself up during the raid, in which 13 other people are thought to have died. the scottish football club, raith rovers, has announced that the striker, david goodwillie, wont be playing for them, and that the club "got it wrong" in signing him in the first place. goodwillie was the ...

Stay tuned to the fox news station and fox news channel for continuing coverage on this story from the date. we will bring it to you when you get it. im bill hemmer live in new yor. your instant reaction, carl is what after working in the west wing and having a fair share of terrorist targets on your own time of duty there? >> congratulations to our u.s. military. this is a major actor and a major defeat for asus. they will not go away just because their leader has been killed, but it will toss ...

Comfortable enough to organize this raid. heres what president biden said earlier today. >> this operation is testament to americas reach and capability to take out terrorist threats no matter where they try to hide anywhere in the world. last nights operation took a major terrorist leader off the battlefield, and it sent a strong message to terrorists around the world. we will come after you and find you. >> as courtney has been tracking throughout the day, the top pentagon spokesperson, john k...

How the operation unfolded. >> reporter: a u.s. raid shattering the overnight hours in northwest syria. special forces going after the leader of isis,. >> last nights operation took a major terrorist leader off the battlefield. and it sent a strong message to terrorists around the world -- we will come after you and fwiend find you. >> president joe biden watched from the white house as special forces closed in on their target. the helicopters approached the three-story compound in the middle of...

Abuses. russia plotted a false flag attack against ukraine using a fake graphic video as a pretext for invasion. cnn goes behind the raid in syria. the tense moments in "the situation room" and the deadly blast that killed a top isis leader. for the first time ever, facebook loses daily users. shares plummet. is this the sign of the beginning of a major downturn? good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, february 4th. and the beijing olympics offici...