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Washltsed warranted a response. >> and we mentioned these are iranian backed militias. how might iran respond? >> reporter: it is an interesting question. iran has forces in iraq, they have both proxy forces and their kind of expeditionary forces in iraq and syria, often in close proximity where u.s. person until are. they have been doing the rocket attacks with some injury. it is a chance that they increase those. weve seen them conduct strikes that the u.s. believes to be iran to be responsibl...

Groups like al-qaeda and isis and the afghans would not continue to be supported as they continue to battle the terror groups. again, whether this decision is actually announced remain tuesday be seen. the trump administration has been weighing this for some time, and this all comes as the talks with the taliban are ongoing. however, the taliban have also recently attacked a major u.s. military base, something that put the talks with the taliban on a temporary hold according to the chief u.s. ne...

For full pardon for levinstein and lawrence. he overviewed the advice of his senior military commanders who are worried this decision do have a negative impact on good order and discipline, as well as potentially underline the ucmj, the uniform code of military justice system. the white house says president trump as commander in chief has every right to make these type of decisions. this is something he had promised to do, take a look at these cases, and hes fulfilling that promise. again, a con...

I wanted to join the army and be a soldier and i didnt realize all of this would happen. so it is kind of overwhelming for a country boy from the middle of nowhere. i really appreciate my new american family. ryan browne is joining me now. what are you hearing? >> that is right, senior pentagon leaders advised them against this course of action. they gave information about why the decisions would potentially undermine the uniform code of military justice and potentially under mine good order and

President trump who previewed his remarks by tweeting overnight that something very big has happened, unquote. were covering the death of the taste leader of isis from every angle from the pentagon to the white house to the middle east. lets begin with pentagon reporter ryan browne. what raw learning about the operation and how it came about? >> reporter: were told this is a very complex operation that came about from intelligence obtained and collected by the cia and that intelligence helped le...

Al baghdadi killed himself when encountering the forces to a evade capture and the u.s. tried to capture high value targets and detonating the force and united states forces on the began efforts to identify this is the targts they sought. and they are highly confident that he was, in fact, killed in this operation. >> ryan browne thank you so much. lets go to iraq where we find international correspondent nick paton walsh in erbil. this is a big blow to isis. >> reporter: absolutely. this is a m...

Might argue, even now, if we are in a conversation where we wonder whether baghdadi might be dead were trying to work out exactly what isis managed to pull off and the big failing of the west has been to try to work out where initially they came from. and part of the effectiveness of isis at preventing that conversation was to make themselves quite so horrifying, make themselves quite so disgusting to the uninformed viewers. >> nic, pause that thought for just a second because we do have more ne...

Syria, the president says the number will come down, but most of those troops going into the neighborhood in iraq. that number going up. the president has promised more troops to saudi arabia. we dont have a hard number of what number will go there, i dont think. and the number in afghanistan has actually come down a little bit. ryan at the pentagon for us. ryan, its hard to keep track of this, but when the president says hes bringing them home, not necessarily true, is it? >> no, john, its not ...

Its not clear if troops in the region will be impacted by this. they want to keep pressure on isis which still very much remains a threat, so youll need those troops there. in addition, as you said, the defense department recently announced 3,000 troops to saudi arabia, part of a broader 14,000 middle east deployment thats been conducted in this year alone. the president says he wants to get down to about 8,000 or so in the near term, but no clear timeline when thats going to happen. so, again, ...

Was poor judgment on my part is that i think that it was poor judgment because i dont believe now when i look back on it, i know that i did nothing wrong at all. however, was it poor judgment to be in the middle of somethi it ways? yeah. and so i take -- i take full responsibility for that. did i do anything improper? no, not in any way. not in any way whatsoever. >> back with us, angela rye, april and bakari sellers. >> wait a minute, ryan? >> i made her -- >> you made her my cousin. >> angela ...