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Statement saying he directed this operation in syria, thanked u.s. forces for this being a successful operation. we're also likely to get some details about what you've mentioned about civilians in the area that were killed. the administration is going to want to address that directly. the president was in the situation room monitoring this in realtime. we're told from u.s. officials there's a photo of the president doing that. it's worth noting this is something familiar to the president. this is a president who was vice president when the osama bin laden raid went down, and he was also in th...

But ultimately as many as 13 civilians were killed in this operation. nonetheless, the u.s. says it went to great lengths to make sure that there would be as few civilian casualties as possibility. the president saying they did this in the form of a special operations raid as opposed to an air strike for that very reason. and we're learning new details about the backdrop to this raid today. officials telling us that for months they have been focussed on this effort. that the president in december was first notified in the situation room. he was shown a tabletop model of this house in syria. th...

Is how they started off potentially as a calamity. we all harken back to jimmy carter's hostage rescue in iran. we had a lead helicopter here fail. it wasn't looking promising. president obama went through with it. there was a lot of nervous moments there. >> a lot of people say it was the riskiest commando raid of this sort, special operations raid in the history of the country. one of the people against it, bob gates, he was an executive assistance to the cia director in 1980 on the jimmy carter hostage rescue when helicopters crashed into transport planes. eight americans were killed and di...

The difference between 3,000 troops and 5,000 troops and 3,000 troops and 7,000 troops is not that much. the difference between 3,000 troops and zero is profound because when you go to zero they take their equipment with them. they take all this overhead. they will now be trying to keep watching afghanistan from places like doha, from war ships, but there is no substitute to being there. so now it will be up to the taliban. maybe some special operations raid if they find a particularly high value target, but it will be very tricky for the u.s. to start droning even isis in afghanistan. the tal...

Saying this, quote, iran's expansion of proliferation sensitive activities raises concerns that iran is positioning itself to have the option of a rapid nuclear break-out. it is now time for all nations to reject this regime's nuclear extortion and take serious steps to increase pressure. >> sandra: president trump inviting turkish president erdogan to the white house next week. the visit will come on the same day of the first public impeachment hearing. lucas tomlinson is live from the pentagon with that. good morning. >> good morning, sandra. next wednesday, november 13th is expected to be b...