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But the crew are safe and sound. silvie from afp. hello. sorry. can you tell us how many helicopters and how many u.s. troops were involved? i m not going to answer that question, actually. back when i opened up the press conference i told you there will be some detail we won t be able to provide because we want to preserve our ability to conduct these sort of operations. what i ll tell you is we had exactly the force levels and exactly the resources we needed to conduct this operation and i ll leave it at that. tara kopp. thanks, john. following up on bob s question. can you confirm whether any sort of intelligence was taken from the compound? any computer drives or cell phones? and then secondly, to follow up on louie s question, the ....
Wanted to maintain strategic ambiguity and not actually come out and i that nordstream 2 would be canceled. but i think jake sullivan s commens surely must be right. if the russians invad ukraine, it s almost possible to imagine that pipeline going forward. schultz doesn t want to say it yet. we ll see if he moves that position of a speaking with biden today. david ignatius, tara kopp, erin mclaughlin, thank you very much for being with me this morning. still ahead, republican congressman s adam kinzinger s reaction to the rnc s decision to censure him and liz cheney. and protests in the capital of canada forces the mayor to declare a state of emergency. he says he s afraid someone will get killed. is it violent? you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. is it violent? you re watching jose you re watching jose diaz-balart reports.i didn t wa. i could ve delayed telling my doctor ....
Just personnel that s departing? thank you. no, when we we re seeing units go. so it s our assessment they are also bringing much of their equipment with them. again, for refit, we believe, for refit and repurposing for future operations inside ukraine. but look, tara, i can t count every vehicle, you know, every ruck sac that these guys are moving with them. but it s our assessment that their intention is to reposition these units so they can refit them for future liebermann, cnn. a question specific to mariupol. given the destruction that you re seeing there, would you characterize that as the russians carpet bombing the city or conducting a scorched earth campaign there, or would you not use that sort of terminology in terms of what you re seeing? it s devastating what we re seeing there. i m going to i ll let experts decide how they want to characterize it or label it. ....
You don t have to look any more than what you ve been seeing over the last month to see the threat. the kinds of threats that russia can pose to international security. so if you take a look at the budget and the investments we re making for instance in research and development, in scientific and technology, $130 billion. the highest water mark ever for this department in terms of r & d investments. cyber, space, hypersonics, you look at that stuff and yes, it will help us against the pacing challenge of china but it will absolutely help us against what we consider the acute threat of russia. let me go to the phones here. tara kopp. with the movement of the forces away from kyiv are you also seeing a movement of equipment and artillery or is it ....
Dislocated and suppressing isis-k s ability to attack us during this period of time. so we actually had success with that. this one we did not have success with and we ve been very clear about owning up to our responsibility. lucas, you had three weeks. we ve got time for a couple more. tara? thank you. general mckenzie, tara kopp with defense one. since there s no more u.s. forces on the grounds, how would payment be provided to family members if they re provided and i know you walked us through the timeline at the beginning of this. can you give us the overall amount of time spent actually identifying and confirming this target by a strike was taken? sure. as for the payments, we re working that right now. it will be difficult as i noted in my remarks, i think, the ....