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>> michael, thank you so much. again, that was michael weiss of the daily beast, co-author of "isis: inside the army of terror." and, again, breaking news at this hour. the white house has announced that president trump will make a major announcement at 9:00 a.m. on sunday, and nbc news has now confirmed the likely topic of those remarks, a u.s. military operation that targeted isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. i'd like to bring back courtney ku kube, our pentagon correspondent. courtney, what can you tell us about the details of this special mission? >> so we don't know a lot of details of th...

And nbc news has now confirmed that the likely topic of those remarks, a u.s. military operation that targeted isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. we're told u.s. special ops mission targeted the isis leader near barisha, syria, overnight. the mission included helicopters and jets as well as u.s. drones. the u.s. received actionable intelligence from u.s. intelligence sources in recent days and after confirming it, the mission began late yesterday local time at around midnight. the u.s. fired from the air and then landed and gathered intelligen intelligence. forensic testing is now under way, bu...

Linked to russian military in l intelligen intelligence, which means he was trying to conceal the extent of communications between the trump campaign at the highest levels and a person linked to russian military intelligence during the time russian military intelligence was intervening in the presidential election to benefit donald trump. that was nice of him to do that. especially if it's going to cost him the rest of his life in prison. both manafort's long expected sentence and the reason he got it have led to fears/expectations that the president might want to pardon manafort. and those fe...

Place which is exactly the system that the president here is removing by removing their clearances. does that change your view? >> he's not eliminating the system. >> he's doing it for a bunch of prominent people. >> what are he's doing is for those people who have been overtly political or the president believes have done things that have been political as it relates to the russia investigation and didn't do a good job or calling the president committed treason or calling him treasonous. by using that intelligence that they and saying they are qualifying their position because of the access t...

It didn't happen. i think it's a disgrace. >> reporter: though journalists had not verified it, portions of the dossier had been in fbi hands for months. >> chris steele, the former mi-6 officer, who compiled the dossier puts it in the hands of someone he knows in rome that's an fbi agent. that puts it in the bloodstream of the fbi. >> christopher steele was a veteran british spy, worked for the mi-6 intelligence service. >> reporter: steele had compiled the dossier as opposition research for the clinton campaign. >> he was from america's closest intelligence partner, british intelligen intell...