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from msnbc headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex reports. we begin with breaking news in former president's donald trump's hush trial. donald trump will sit down via news with a u.s. probation officer. this is according to three sources. we have vance a attorney she's also an mnbc legal analyst. what more do we know about this interview? >> thank you, alex. nbc news has learned from three independent sources mr. trump will appear tomorrow morning we believe via zoom for his investigative presentencing report. he will be meeting with a probational officer who will be on ...

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>> all right, ayman. we'll check back with you, but let me bring in chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. jim, i've seen you on air this morning. the number has fluctuated and changed regarding special ops presence in that area near the hotel. what can you tell me now? >> and we're now being told here at the pentagon that among the number 18 -- and that number has still not been confirmed, in terms of the number killed there in that hostage operation there in mali -- apparently, two of the hostage-takers, two of the militants were killed, which, if that 18 number is correct and still ...

Ramadi fall? iraq's army possibly fought resupplied hard enough. this has been something in the offing for months now. that's the big question now, mikaela. >> nick thank you so much. while isis was taking over ramadi they suffered a serious blow in syria. u.s. special ops killing a top commander. let's bring in cnn national correspondent with that. >> reporter: hi mikaela. the dministration is characterizing this as significant. the significance of this kill t. national security council says the man that they refer to as abu saev was a senior isis leader someone who had a role in overseeing t...

Video demands they made. they would have been i think quite alert to the fact that a rescue attempt was possible. >> is -- snatching a page out of the i the isis's book. they are more likely to hold for ransom. where we seeing is a shift. >> yemen is a place where kidnapping for ransom is endemic. i spent time there in fact narrowly being kidnapped by myself. and it is quite unusual in yemen more people to be killed. there was a case back in 1998 where a group of western hostages was taken by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula or a predecessor group. a hostage operation was mounted by the gover...