investigations related to mrs. clinton, as you noted, that happened under my predecessor and i recognize that. second, as to your descriptions of the investigations related to hunter biden, as you know, there s an ongoing investigation being led by the delaware u.s. attorney appointed by president trump and we re working on that investigation with him. we look forward to seeing the results quickly and swiftly. third and finally, to your point about the american people and their views, i worry less about nbc polls or polls by any other news outlet. i will tell you that the number of people in texas applying to work for us since i ve been in this job has gone up 93%. in fact i heard this response earlier. in fact that s great. we have more applicants from the state of texas in the last several years than any other state that makes sense. texas is the great estate in the country. director, any agents that served on the cross fire investigation or the
happened, samantha. are you concerned about the future of our country with our edge and excellence? i m certainly concerned. i ve been concerned a long time prior to me having children. my brother and sister-in-law do home school themselves. so it s a hot topic in our household. my sister happens to be a teacher as well, an educator. so there s a lot of great conversations. we ve been falling behind a very long time. so i think covid did such a disservice. i m surprised that it s only 4 1/2 months behind. and really it stargts at starts at home. it starts with the parents. it goes back to ron desantis. he empowers people to take up the responsibility and give them that sense of pride. so i m certainly concerned about definitely the reading and writing and arithmetic but especially the reading
with a lot of military training. you see how those 160 don t seem like a lot. certainly in desert storm and so called shock and awe campaign. before iraq freedom. there were a lot more sent into the city. remember the when president trump forced the tom hawks into syria. there were 69 missiles on one targts. i don t know. i don t know how so assess it. there s intelligence folks taking a look at it. the minister of defense of ukraine has said that most of their air force got off the ground before those missiles struck the airfield. that s a good sign. i don t know if that s true. but that s what they re saying from the ukraine perspective. the russians do have certainly air superiority. we have seen that all day long today. and wing aircraft. helicopter aircraft.
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. let s 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 man who offered the ideology and behind the way they piped down social media, the brutal gory images of violence, of suffering, of execution of western hostages over times and hundreds of iraqi army recruits. he honed their skills of spreading around the world the idea anybody with a twisted view of the world could join isis
there was also a bat cabin called the observation chamber. a crew member. so. this is how you re sitting. this is how i m sitting. and we could be there for hours. this is what s taking place. so we fire up the sonar system and it takes a sweep. if there is any solid stargts it will people and we will go ahead and look at it that way. by looking for wreckage, manned submersible offer an important dimension. you re saying that sometimes having a human being being able to look around, i could spot things that an unmanned