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While millions of americans were enjoying their loved ones, breaking bread on thanksgiving, half a world away an american serviceman was killed in syria. u.s. defense officials say he was part of the multi-national force fighting in syria. mark hurtling the former army general. thank you so much for joining us. >> good morning, brooke. >> our condolences go out to, you know, his family, his friends back here at home. we dont have a lot of details surrounding exactly how he was killed other than ...

And americans have been boasting that iraqis have taken some 70 towns and villages from islamic state. i want to pour cold water on that for a moment. a lot of these towns and vill e villages are void of civilians who have all left maybe as long as two years ago when isis first swept in from syria and took over mosul and the surrounding valley. these gains that have been made in the last week or so arent really representative of what will be happening ahead. the u.s. forces who are embedded, one...

Aleve, live whole not part. painter: you want this color over the whole house? welcome back. im alex witt in new york. at 53 past -- 33 past the hour, here is what were monitoring for you. the bat until mosul under way. ash carter arrived in the northern iraqi city of erbil today to get an update on how the fight is going. to matt bradley, also there monitoring the situation for us. matt, good day to you. what are you hearing about the defense secretarys visit and the state of the current figh...

Under way. u.s. defense secretary ash carter arrived in the northern iraqi city of irbeale. what do we know about the defense secretarys visit and the fighting updates today? >> reporter: alex, this was the defense secretarys second visit to iraq in as many days. he went to abu dhabi in twendbe a visit to baghdad and now he is in northern iraq. his mission was twofold. he was here to reassure the troops this was a mission worth fighting. the fight for mosul was an honorable one and that the rece...

Who are representing the different constituent parts of this battle. and thats the real issue here. hes trying to reassure american troops after the death of this serviceman, but also playing the political and diplomatic game of making sure that everybody in this battle is getting along. alex? >> okay, iraqi military leaders going -- saying the push for mosul is going as expected. thats good news as well. thank you, matt, for that. to a new poll, out just minutes ago showing hillary clinton taki...

Brave serviceman tells us how he and two childhood friends stopped what most certainly would have been a deadly terror attack. it all unfolded on a train in france. alex risks his own life to save the lives around him. the lives of people he had never even met. this courageous american charging a heavily armed gunman and holding him down until police arrived. and right now, american hero eric skarlatos goes "on the record." as you watch this heros story, tweet using #proud american y tweet us at...

Target, calling her weak, calling her ineffectual. calling her a liar, saying hes going to reinvestigate the e-mails and benghazi. thats when these crowds go absolutely wild for him. its one of his biggest applause lines. if you stand outside here or any one of his rallies, youll see pin hawkers, like the campaign pin hawkers, hawking pins that say hillary for jail time. no ones a fan of her actually at these rallies. and no ones a fan of donald trump at her rallies. so theyre catering to their ...

With the french president yesterday. nato and the u.n. had both seeking calm and warning against escalation after turkey shot down a russian warplane along the border with syria yesterday. the turkish air force says the plane violated their airspace and ignored ten warnings to leave, a claim the u.s. military confirms. the turkish ministry of defense is pointing to a radar image they say shows the path of the plane as it flew over turkey. so-called moderate rebels claim they fired at the pilots ...

>> they would love -- they captured a jordanian airman whose plane fell out of the sky and they burned him alive on international television. what would they do with an american serviceman that they capture? much worse than what they did with james foley and steven sotloff. beware the unintended consequence. what are we doing to fight them? we are using every actor in syria and iraq who is not the main constituent of isis, the main constituent of isis is the sunni arabs. that is the heartland up...

On c nshnn. and so she said that it is not the as widespread as it is made out to be, and jeb bush said it is flatout wrong, and is this a problem she needs to address? >> well with, this is my take. if even one serviceman or woman takes longer than care they de, we have have failed them and the country, and hillary clinton has a 25-year record, and helped to spearhead the bill of rights for making college affordable for returning servicemen, and helped to get the pstd, and helping to bring down...