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Thank you. force s fighting isis in syria claiming victory after breaching a wall in their battle to retake the area. the u.s. central command revealed that u.s. backed forces struck two small portions of the wall. officials say that has allowed kurdish-led forces to advance into the most heavily fortified portions of the city by passing booby-trap booby-traps. they had planted explosion suffers at several openings. coming up next on morning joe, much more on the president s trip to you re rap, what u. europe, and whether he may change his tone in an attempt to ease their policy concerns. plus the latest on north korea s later enter ter conditiente intercontinental ballistic missile launch. and a look at what the united ....
Come to light is political appointees in the obama administration have sought to create a false narrative to make an excuse for their own defeat in the election. speaking of russia, the head of the u.s. coalition in iraq says that a russian air strike hit u.s. syrian backed forces fighting isis in syria. lieutenant general said while they were out of immediate danger they were close enough to see their partners get hit. obviously, matt, the russians and americans not necessarily coordinating in syria, but how did this happen? well, they are coordinating on some level. they do have a hot line and that kind of averted a lot of danger and disaster that came out of a friendly fire situation. some very troubling news about these two countries inching toward each other on the battlefields of syria. lieutenant general who s the commander of the u.s. led ....
Volunteer emergency workers report a mass exodus of terrified civilians in aleppo where syrian government forces are making major gains in the city s rebel-controlled eastern neighborhoods. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is working the story for us. barbara, what does this all mean for the actual people who live there? it is terrifying for them, wlf. the fighting in syria stepping up on several fronts. first up over the weekend, the pentagon announced 200 additional special operations forces will go to syria to help train and advise those forces fighting isis. but in aleppo, these people, this is a killing field. maybe as many as 10,000 people trying to escape those eastern neighborhoods because syrian forces are coming at them full tilt. we have some overhead video taken by drones showing one of ....
it s more donald trump. it s the same kind of it s the same lack of intellectual curiosity, lack of trust in institutions of government. he knows more about isis than the generals. this isn t the first time he s disparaged the work of the intelligence community. the stuff didn t like using the right fork at a very proper dinner party. this stuff exists for a reason. the fact that he keeps bucking precedent is troubling. phil mudd, you worked with the cia, the fbi. when you hear donald trump saying i don t need these daily presidential intelligence briefings, i can do it once a week. they re just telling me the same thing every single day. you helped prepare those presidential daily briefs. what s your reaction to that? i can t figure that out. telling you the same thing every day? he s a migraine for the cia. ....
The neighborhoods. constant assault by syrian forces. civilian casualties, nobody can say at this point how many people have been killed, as people try to escape the fighting but are often killed by those government forces. all of this underscoring, besides the humanitarian disast disaster, underscoring what the u.s. believes is the very reason to be careful of russia. this fighting by the regime has basically been facilitated by russian support for bashar al assad over the months it has kept him in power. it has given his forces the ability basically, wolf, to kill the people of aleppo. there are also reports, barbara, that isis has retaken the ancient syrian city of pal m myra. what can you tell us? isis moving back into this central area in syria that is basically unpopulated. it is giving them a toe hold in this ancient city which is also ....