fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin following the story since late last night. hi, jennifer. >> u.s. military source tells me it was a mission more dangerous than bin laden raid, the president said the flight in and out of syria was the most dangerous part. the flight took over an hour up to 70 u.s. special operation forces from erbil and northern iraq, the president described abu bakr al-baghdadi last moments. >> he died after running into a dead-end tunnel wimperring and crying and screaming all the way, he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest killing himself and his children. >> collected, quote, highly sensitive information on future isis operations, large number of isis fighters were killed, some captured alive, 2 of al-baghdadi's wives were wearing suicide vests but killed before they could detonate. >> his body mutilated by the blast. test results gave certain, immediate and totally positive identification. it was him. >> facial recognition was used, they brought back dna, more than they liked according to the pres

president trump spoke about this at the white house, let's get right to jennifer griffin with the latest right now. >> it was a mission more dangerous than bin laden raid, the president said the flight in and out of syria was the most dangerous part. the flight took over an hour, up to 70 u.s. special operations

we'll go live to jennifer griffin with the scoop in a moment. last week president trump announced he was pulling soldiers out of the region, they and the kurds had been fighting together against the islamic state. president trump said we are not abandoning the kurds. we are seeing the effects of that invasion now. according to a kurdish news agency, these children were hurt when turkish troops fired mortars at a village. united nation officials say 160,000 people are trying to escape the increasing violence. team fox coverage, jennifer griffin reporting live at the pentagon with the breaking news and word of a close call for american forces in syria, but first let's go live to the danger zone. steve harrigan reporting in northeastern syria, it is just past 10:15 p.m. steve. >> trace, we are hearing helicopters fly overhead and can see a building burning, not sure what caused that, this has gotten more complicated in the last 24 hours. two new players joined, syrian government forces, as well as their ally russian forces. russian forces are on th

complete coverage throughout this hour but let's begin with our national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, officials wrapped up a briefing on the mission click took out the isis leader. they don't break the press very often. >> what we learned is that intelligence from the compound rate is being exploited. general mark milley told reporters to adult males were captured from the compound and remove to a secure location. general mazloum abdi, the kurdish leader, told benjamin hall that the tip that led to the compound came on may 15 from kurdish sources who had developed a source inside the isis compound. the president says the operation began two weeks ago on saturday night at 5:00 p.m. eastern. the president and his national security team gathered in the situation room of the white house. eight military helicopters took off from a base in iraq and flew a dangerous 70 minutes toward the target. 5 miles from the turkish border in syria. special operatives off-loaded and stormed the compound, blowing holes in the thick walls because they knew the front door was

steve harrigan in iraq on where things stand and jennifer griffin at the pentagon on what the options we have our right now. we begin with steve. >> there were real concerns an hour ago when the u.s. brokered cease-fire was scheduled to end. there could be more fighting. this military offensive by turkey has created more than 170,000 displaced people. these are families mainly kurdish on the move trying to run from the fighting. talents that became ghost towns in the last several hours. people trying to get away from what they thought could be a renewed turkish offensive. that's not happening right now. it might not happen at all. in part due to the agreement between russia and turkey. here's the turkish president. >> translator: both countries will adopt precautions against a leakage of terrorists and a joint mechanism will be established for the observation of the memorandum and its ordination. >> we are going to see in about six days' time our joint patrols with the russian government forces and the syrian government forces under assad working together and patrolling the buffer zon

jennifer griffin with u.s. forces, which is in syria right now and describes the turkish military onslaught as a horrible the kurds are pleading for u.s. support. this comes just days after president trump roughly announced the troops would pull out of the area immediately, and a move even greatest supporters criticize locally accusing the white house of abandoning americans best ally in the war on terror. the president insist he has not abandoned the kurds. more on that in a moment but first turkish military pounding the region with air strikes and more air fire on day 2. so there is the turkish troops and there is turkish backed up of -- who have claimed they captured northeastern village across the border from turkey in syria saying it is the first village to win freedom. men, women and children are scrambling to escape all of the violence. you can see people with everything they own and everything they can carry, loaded into cars and pickup trucks or walking as these are. the united nations refugee reports

we have team fox coverage, jennifer griffin life at the pentagon, but steve harrigan reporting from iraq, tell us what is happening on the ground. >> trace, it was right at this hour, 3:00 eastern, 10:00 p.m. local that there were a lot of scared people, people on the kurdish side of that board are afraid there could be more air strikes, shelling. a renewed defensive by turkey. turkey's president erdogan had threatened that he would do just that if all kurdish fighters were not out of the buffer zone. it looks like that is not happening right now. and it may not happen at all. there has been a deal reached in sochi, russia, between the russians and turkey. here is president erdogan. >> both countries are going to take any measures necessary to prevent terrorists to enter in this zone. as of today, turkey and russia will continue to contribute efforts to achieve the peaceful solutions for syria. >> on the ground that means that about six days' time, we will see joint patrols on the syrian side of the border, we will see syrian government forces alongside russian government sources, they w

pete: jennifer griffin has been working her sources overnight and joins us live in washington as we ahateto the nation, expected any minute now. jennifer, good morning. >> good morning. senior u.s. military sources confirmed to me overnight the u.s. military has confirmed isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi is dead, killed in a high-risk u.s. special operations raid in idlib province in northwest syria where he was hiding in a compound. baghdadi's identity was confirmed through biometric means, i'm told. the confirmation came from a senior american military source. i'm told 50 to 70 american special operators were involved in the raid, including u.s. army delta force and members of the 75th army ranger regiment, about six special operations helicopters were involved in the raid. it was a partnered mission, a u.s. official tells me. baghdadi was killed when he detonated a suicide vest. biometrics, facial recognition immediately identified the isis leader whose caliphate has been destroyed. typically in a suicide bombing the head of the bomber is removed intact. dna was also used to identify b

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president trump spoke about this at the white house, let's get right to jennifer griffin with the latest right now. >> it was a mission more dangerous than bin laden raid, the president said the flight in and out of syria was the most dangerous part. the flight took over an hour, up to 70 u.s. special operations forces launched in kurdish held northern iraq, they took fire approaching the target, the president described abu bakr al-baghdadi last moments. >> he died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way, he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest killing himself and the 3 children. >> the president says u.s. forces were on the ground in the compound for over 2 hours and collected, quote, highly sensitive information on future isis operations, a large number of isis fighters were killed, some were captured alive, two of baghdadi wore suicide vests. they did positive id within 15 minutes. >> his body was -- it was him. >> facial recognition was used, they brought back dna, more than they liked according t

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national security correspondent, jennifer griffin reporting live at the pentagon. jen?, senior officials tell me we are witnessing a deliberate phased withdrawal of u.s. troops out of syria. they will be repositioned elsewhere in the middle east. they are collapsing control bases in syria and will pull back from one base in northwest syria where they will be airlifted out. it is extreme lly dangerous. >> i view that for the united states as strategically brilliant. our soldiers are out of there. they are totally safe. syria is protecting the kurds. that's good. >> syria is not protecting the kurds and u.s. troops are not yet safe. the president just ordered 2000 troops to saudi arabia. i am told u.s. troops in syria are still racing to troy to protect classified materials and valuable military. they had to leave hastily following the president's decision. they have told russia and turkey that if u.s. forces are threatened, they will react with significant air strikes. >> what do we know about the vice-president and secretary of state's planned meeting with erdogan? >> o

forces or partners on the ground. >> bret: jennifer griffin live. thank you. also breaking tonight, 70 miles to the northwest of where we're standing here, the richard nixon library. a wildfire threatened reagan's library. the flames came within 30 yards of that complex. about 800 firefighters battled the flames on the ground as helicopters and planes dropped water and fire retardant to protect the site. william lodge necessary is in simi valley where the danger remains tonight. good evening, william. >> hi, bret. we have not seen conditions like this since 2007 when two dozen fires devastated much of southern california. this time firefighters were prepared and their efforts saved the most visited of all presidential libraries. hurricane wind gusts and no rain created the perfect storm for extreme fire conditions throughout california. the wind-whipped easy fire ignited the landscape. crews making sure the embers do not re-ignite. the reagan library was surrou surrounded three sides by fire. >> the library has fire doors to protect the displays but too close

troops remain in northern syria to protect oil fields and national security respondent jennifer griffinive at the pentagon with these developments, jennifer. >> dana sr. u.s. officials tell me president trump tweeted that baghdadi's number one replacement is also dead, he was referring to an operation that occurred after the baghdadi compound raid. that is when u.s. forces targeted the so-called isa spokesman, the kurdish at ds leader that tweeted out days a ago. he was killed abu al-hassan al-mujajir hours after baghdadi was killed. this individual i was told is more than a spokesman. i'm also told the killing of the two top isis leaders in syria is significant because beneath them are much weaker successors in the killing of the top two leaders will leave a leadership vacuum inside isis in syria. intelligence from baghdadi's compound is being exploited. baghdadi's number two living two hours from the baghdadi compound in the islam providence also miles from the turkish border. the kurdish general who leads the searing democratic forces, who the u.s. has partnered with to defeat isis t

katherine -- i'm sorry, jennifer griffin, thank you.resident trump's announcement offal a baghdadi's death caught washington by surprise, but some lawmakers more surprised than others. fox news has learned the white house did notify some republicans on capitol hill but not, apparently, any democrats. chris: you're saying that none of the gang of eight, you're talking about the intel head and the ranking minority member in each party as well as the leaders in the house and senate, none of them were informed about this in. >> on the democratic side. and i was told that just before ai came on. chris: not chuck schumer? not nancy pelosi? not adam schiff? >> that's correct. jon: kevin corke is live at the white house with more on that. kevin? >> reporter: jon, to that in just a moment, but first, the president described him this way, we're talking about the terror leader, he died like a dog, talking about the way that al-baghdadi ultimately met his merrick at the end of a tunnel, a dead end tunnel, and the president, by the way, also thanked

jennifer griffin from the pentagon. >> u.s.anders have repeatedly warned this will lead to the ethnic cleansing of the kurdish fighters who fought along u.s. forces to defeat isis. the turkish president ignored the president of the united states and appeals from the pentagon and president trump, ignored the advice of his top u.s. military commanders, erdogan announced his country's incursion into northern syria has begun. our aim is to destroy the terror cord -- mark esper and chairman of the joint chiefs who was in his sixth day on the job were on the sunday night phone call with the president when the president signaled the u.s. was pulling out. the pentagon was left no choice but to pull back the 30 to 50 u.s. troops who had promised the kurds they would keep stability by patrolling the border with turkey. u.s. military commanders feared the u.s. troops would be overrun. local syrian democratic forces, kurdish allies of the u.s. say turkish war planes are bombing civilian areas and requesting air support from the u.s. milita

national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story for us from the pentagon tonight, she'sthroughout. good evening to you, thanks for being here. >> good evening, martha. if there are often two significant u.s. raids since saturday night, one which killed baghdadi, another which killed his likely successor. the president tweeted that baghdadi's number two is now dead. senior defense officials tell me he was referring to an operation that occurred following the baghdadi compound raid when u.s. forces targeted the so-called "isis spokesman" whom kurdish xt have later tweeted about two days ago. he was killed by a joint u.s.-kurdish operation. this individual untold was more than a spokesman. i'm also told the killing of the two top isis leaders in syria is significant because many of them are much weaker successors and killing these top two leaders will leave a leadership vacuum inside isis and syria. intelligence from baghdadi's compound is still being exploited. baghdadi's number two was living about three hours from his compound just miles from the turkish border. the curt

as the withdrawal from the country, this as a top commander of the kurdish lead forces tells jennifer griffinhat turkey is continuing its tax despite the cease-fire or pause. and he hopes president trump will choose to keep troops in syria to work with the kurds. some american troops remain in the region regarding oilfield, and the pentagon is discussing a plan to keep them there. watch. >> there has been a discussion about possibly doing it. there has been no decision with regards to numbers or anything like that, my job, the military's job is to prepare options and present them to the president and let him decide. >> kennedy: this is "outnumbered," welcome to it. here today we have gillian turner, fox news contributor lisa boothe. another fox news contributor jessica tarlov, and joining us on the couch, former house speaker newt gingrich, and author of the brand-new book "trump versus china, facing america's greatest threat." he is outnumbered. mr. speaker, welcome to the couch. are you ever "outnumbered"? >> i love coming on the show, because you guys are fun. >> kennedy: fun news in a ver

national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with more. breaking news yet again. >> we have just gotten some information from the state department. a spokesman for the state department has just confirmed that the spokesman for isis was killed in an operation by u.s. forces immediately following the raid on baghdadi's compound. sources tell me baghdadi's remains have been buried at sea. top pentagon officials would not confirm the details. here's what general mark milley just said. >> baghdadi's remains were disposed of. >> general milley said that two adult males were captured and removed to a secure location. intelligence is still being exploited from the raid which was launched saturday night. at about 5:00 p.m. eastern. that's when the president and his national security team gathered in the situation room and they were in the white house when those eight military helicopters took off from a base in iraq and flew low and fast for 70 minutes towards the target which was 4 miles from the turkish border in idlib syria, 50 to 70 special ope

jennifer griffin reporting from the pentagon. men with close connections to president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani pleading not guilty to fondling foreign money into a pro-trump super pac and other american campaigns. the feds accuse the man of campaign finance violations. talking about plans to fight the charges. >> many false things have been said about me and my family recently. i look forward to defending myself vigorously in court and i'm certain the truth will be revealed and i will be vindicated. >> martha: these two men are american citizens, one from belarus and the other morning ukraine. giuliani has said they helped him as he urged ukrainian officials to investigate joe biden at his son's business dealings. fpi regions rs and the suspects to to actually go when they were at dulles airport outside washington, d.c. the fed say they had one way tickets out of the united states. rick leventhal reporting live from outside the courthouse here in manhattan. >> parnas' attorney says there is nothing sinister about the

. >> melissa: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with more pay jennifer? >> melissa, we've just received a statement from the president, from the white house, about the developing situation in northern syria. i will read from the statement. it says, "this morning, turkey, a nato member, invaded syria. the united states does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to turkey that this operation is a bad idea. there are no american soldiers in the area. from the first day i entered the public arena, i made it clear i did not want to fight these endless, senseless wars, especially those that don't benefit the united states." he then goes on to say, "turkey has committed to protecting civilians, protecting religious minorities, including christians, and ensuring no humanitarian crisis takes place. we will hold them to this commitment. in addition, turkey is no response possible for ensuring all isis fighters being held captive remain in prison, and that isis does not reconstitute in any way, shape, or form. we expect turkey to buy by all of its commitment

to jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with the very latest on the region. jennifer.ll as soon as the convoy of roughly 100 american military vehicles with u.s. troops retreating syria crossed the border into iraq the iraqi military said they were not welcome. the u.s. hoped to reposition in iraq to monitor isis. mark esper who was in the region was asked by reporters if u.s. troops will be deployed to deploy countries that pay for the cost of them being there, like saudi arabia. >> we're not mercenary force. mercenary forces do things for pay. the aim isn't to stay in iraq i am termably, the aim is to pull soldiers out to get them back home. reporter: u.s. troops might stay at two bases in syria to watch the oil fields and prevent iran from filling a vacuum left by u.s. withdrawal. >> we'll reposition as they come out of northeast syria into iraq. eventually the destination is home. we have to pull them out deliberately out of northeast syria. we have to make preparations to go home from there. i will have that discussion tomorrow with the iraqi defense minister. rep

killed himself with two of his wives, we are told all americans are back on friendly territory, jennifer griffin has been talking to sources literally all night, what do you have? >> the president praised by name new chairman mike milly who watched the entire operation in the situation room, the operation began 5:00 a.m. eastern, the flight in and out of syria was the most -- military helicopters, they flew low and fast for an hour and ten minutes and came under fire as they approached the target but not from the russians who controlled that air space and were given advanced warning about the appropriation through deconfliction line up to 70 operation forces and the president described abu bakr al-baghdadi's last moments. >> he died after running in dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way, he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest killing himself and the 3 children. >> the president said u.s. forces were on the ground in the compound for over 2 hours and collected, quote, highly sensitive information on future isis operations, larg

. >> harris: national correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. there was also talk of pressure getting involved. my first question to you would be how that would be, and why. >> what we are seeing, harris, is that russian troops are already moving into areas in russian-backed proxy areas are moving into areas, especially around the oil fields. we have just learned that u.s. warplanes have bombed an area, a base near the lafarge cement factory. it was a joint u.s.-french base that was in the aleppo area. they had packed up there, now u.s. warplanes had bombed that so as not to give the russians and russian-backed forces an opportunity to go into these u.s. bases like we saw yesterday. some of those propaganda videos that was shot and no space is that the u.s. had left behind. senior u.s. defense officials tell me that what we are witnessing right now is a deliberate phased withdrawal of u.s. troops out of syria. the u.s. military's collapse and control bases and was in syria and will pull back to one place from which they will be airlifted out. tr

troops from syria remains a high-risk mission. >> bill: jennifer griffin from the pentagon.nk you >> sandra: let's bring in chris wallace anchor of "fox news sunday". jennifer griffin's reporting there one of the big questions is when does the five-day pause begin? that we don't know as we're getting reports of continued fighting there this morning. >> yeah. look, cease-fires in syria haven't done very well. a number in the past and they've broken times in the civil war between assad forces and the rebels. seems to me the bigger question is this a cease-fire or a surrender that has been negotiated by the u.s. the reason i say that is that the buffer zone that people talk about here, i don't think most folks really fully understand. what the u.s. has negotiated with the turks is that the kurds would pull back 20 miles deep from the turkish border in syria but 280 miles wide. an enormous area that hundreds of thousands of kurds have lived in for generations. under the terms of this deal, even if the deal holds, all of those kurds would have to pull back from that area. where w

jennifer griffin reporting the u.s. military cannot confirm the identity of the deceased target.ed al qaeda in iraq becoming its leader in 2010. he renamed the group isis in 2013. president trump is expected to make an announce about this sunday morning. a flight attendant is suing her employer, southwest airlines after reporting life streaming from the bathrooms to the cockpit.ht apparently big announcement on twitter. take a look at the president who says, quote, something very big just happened. we are making lots of phone calls and talking to a lot of people right now at the white house. as soon as we get more details you will hear them. so keep it here. new details on the osh gins of the -- on the origins of the russia investigation. joining me to talk about it is the president of judicial watch, tom fitton. as everyone knows, i'll say it again. fit weren't for you and judicial watch half of the stuff we have right now before congress they wouldn't have because you are the on one who has been able to get them by actually going to court and filing freedom of information. and

jennifer griffin reporting live from washington, jennifer. >> i've been on the phone with military sources since early this morning. there is a lot of disappointment at the pentagon, in sense key ally has been betrayed. defense secretary mark espey and mark milley were not surprised by the president's decision, other top military commanders tell us they were blindsided and fear it will be hard to find allies to fight alongside them in the future. top u.s. commanders who have fought for years against isis are baffled by the president's decision and now a spokesman for the pentagon says it removed turkey from the air cooperation agreement along the boarder, shep. >> shepard: what are we hearing from kurdish allies being abandoned there? >> huge sense of betrayal, responded in a statement saying ", we hope our u.s. partners will reverse this decision and not abandon our combined efforts in northeast syria, helped to defeat isis. over recent days, the kurd his destroyed their bases on the border with turkey, they did this because u.s. and turkish forces agreed as part of deal to patrol the are

speaking exclusively to jennifer griffin he says his fighters still want to work with the u.s. but turkish fighters are committing atrocities on the ground and disappointed in president trump's decision to pull out u.s. troops. >> sandra: a former critic changing his tune after a phone call with the commander-in-chief. here is senator lindsey graham over the weekend. >> i am increasingly optimistic that we can have some historic solutions in syria that have alluded us for years. i expect we'll continue to partner with the kurds in the eastern syria to make sure isis does not reemerge. that's our national security interest. the big thing for me is the oil fields. president trump is thinking outside the box. not verge of a joint venture between us and the syrian democratic forces who destroyed isis and keep them destroyed to modernize the oil fields and make sure they get the revenue. >> jon: let's get more from lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon. >> it appears senator graham's prediction is correct. u.s. troops will be staying behind to guard those oil fields. in kabul, afghan

jennifer griffin leading our coverage from the pentagon. four minutes past now. >> sandra: new developments on the ukraine controversy. attorneys representing the first whistleblower acknowledging their client had contact with 2020 candidates in the course of working with the government there. the announcement coming as former vice president joe biden for the first time called for president trump's impeachment. >> donald trump was violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts. to preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached. >> sandra: griff jenkins is live from washington with the latest developments there. >> we're just over two weeks since house democrats launched the impeachment vehicle. the former vice president who refrained from calling for the president's impeachment is changing his tune and warning the president who he picks a fight with. >> with his words and his actions president trump has indicted himself by obstructing justice, refusing to comply with t

national correspondent jennifer griffin is live in washington with this. jennifer? >> the top military advisor, the new chairman of the joint chief and the defense secretary say they were not blind side bid the white house decisions but statements that the pentagon put out on thursday after calls with their turkish counterparts said otherwise. i've spoken with multiple top u.s. military commanders and defense officials who oversaw the tough fight against isis and syria in recent years and the consensus among those commanders is unanimous -- shock, disappointment, and the feeling of being completely blind sided by the president's decision to pull u.s. forces back from the northern syria green lighting turkish invasion and leaving open the potential slaughter of the kurds who help the u.s. military defeat isis. already the roughly 100 u.s. troops in northern syria keeping the peace with the turks have been seen leaving the border area. kurdish fighters are guarding 10,000 isis fighters and 2,000 foreign fighters at a prison in eastern syria. u.s. commanders belief the

intelligence correspondent katherine herridge is spent the weekend covering this along with jennifer griffins. katherine was recognized by the congressional medal of honor society for her outstanding journalism. we love what she contributes our show almost every night and glad others are recognizing her great work. thank you, katherine, congratulations, most-watched, trusted, grateful you spent the evening with us, good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. folks, can it get any better than this? is that what i think it is? that is an armada of tiny sushi boats. awesome! i forgot to pack lunch. you had one job... chopsticks wasabi and soy! comin' in a little hot. it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. >> reaction was tearful for both of us. just mentioning her name and saying what he did to kayla, we knew that he knows the story. heather: it is tuesday, october 29th. at 4:00 on the east coast a fox news alert, the parents of slain isis hostage kayla mueller described the moment donald trump announced isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi was dead. his death gives them new ho

according to fox news jennifer griffin reports are coming in according to military sources that a high-value believed to be the leader of isis has been killed by us-led forces taking place in syria. this is northern syria. this is believed to have just happened. the u.s. military cannot confirm the identity of the deceased target for dna testing is underway right now in president trump is making a special announcement sunday morning. meantime the american envoy european union told house panels that the president ukraine pressure was quid pro quo and that's what the attorney is telling the wall street journal. now we will return to "watters world". jesse: congresswoman from california is a democrat katie hill the bisexual member of congress and under investigation by the ethics committee for having an affair with one of her staffers. she denies the accusations she admitted to being in the throwable with her husband in a different female who worked on her campaign. they became public when the red state published a naked photo and she's apologized with the improper relationship was some say she

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fox news jennifer griffin report that ceasefire is largely holding u.s. officials looking to send tanks to syria to protect oil files so groups like isis does not seize them your take? >> a whole series of development on syria turkey front. i think most interesting development is the decision by president to reinforce u.s. protection of the oil fields, in syria, to keep out of hands of isis, iran or other hostile forces, and the this a very big move, it does involve potentially several hundred u.s. military personnel. possibly u.s. tanks as well. and sending a clear signal that the united states is not withdrawing from syria,. far from it they will defend its interest in the country, that means warding off isis threat. also keeping the iranians at bay, and russians at bay. and so there will continue to be a very significant u.s. footprint in syria. and the continuing projection of u.s. power in the region. and so this whole idea of the united states, supposedly withdrawing this syria, i think this really far from reality, the united states remains committ

national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon with this. >> sources tell that turkish operations are much broader than originally believed, far whiter and far deeper than expected. the syrian democratic forces and the kurdish allies of the u.s. are requesting urgent air support from the u.s. military and the creation of a no-fly zone. president trump has ordered the u.s. military not to help. turkish air strikes on kurdish positions have begun and u.s. military commanders are warned repeatedly that this could lead to the ethnic cleansing of kurdish fighters who fought site u.s. forces to defeat the isis. the turkish president ignored the president of the united states and they warned him of this likely and mike millie were both on the sunday night phone call with turkey, when trump signaled the u.s. was pulling out. they pull back those 30-50 u.s. troops when they were promised the courage they keep with the turkey. the u.s. can interfere those troops would be overrun. u.s. troops in syria do not know what comes next. the kurds have they have fought side-b

fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with more.eporter: ambassador jim jeffrey, u.s. envoy to syria who helped negotiate the ceasefire with turkey, testified on capitol hill, he was not consulted before president pulled u.s. troops out of syria adding when pressed -- >> if u.s. troops had been given the order to stand and fight against a nate oral -- nato, ally, i think you are right the turks may have thought twice. reporter: ambassador jeffrey was asked whether the turkish invasion was inevitable. >> it was a very real possibility mr. chairman, not incandescent, we told turk what's would happen, they would not get far in this offensive, they have not got u gotten far. reporter: today as soon as convoy of roughly 100 military vehicles with u.s. troops retreats from syria to cross to iraq, the iraqi military said they not welcome. defense secretary mark esper traveling in the region, was asked by reporters if u.s. troops would be deployed to countries who pay cost of them being there, like saudi arabia? >> we're not a mercenary for

>> shepard: jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. evans is live with us from istanbul. can you speak to what jennifer just said? the possibility of those isis fighters, some 10,000 of them, being released. >> while there are a huge number of isis fighters being held by the fds forces which are the kurdish forces that were allied with the united states and had been fighting with u.s. support against the islamic state in syria for the last two years. they've got thousands of captives in their territory. what's not clear at this stage is how many of those are being held in facilities that are within the area that the turkish armed forces will be going into. and its main target has been the kurdish white pg forces. and, what can they tell us in the invasion that's happening now, and the status of civilians in that area. >> this is developing as we speak. about six hours ago, when there were sounds of explosions, and since then we have learned about strikes in several other towns, one of them about 20 miles inside of syria and to others in the extremes. the artillery strikes

jennifer griffin with the latest. we have some breaking news because there is no medal of honor for dogs but the president has just tweeted out a photo of the hero dog who was involved in the baghdadi raid. they have kept the name classified in the president did not tweet out the name but this is the photo of the dog that cornered abu bakr al-baghdadi, the isis leader in the title and was slightly injured when he detonated his suicide vest. state department spokesman confirmed just a little while ago there was aztec and u.s. operation following the raid on baghdadi's compound and in addition to baghdadi, u.s. forces killed the spokesman for isis in the second raid. sources tell me baghdadi's remains have already been buried at sea. >> remains were supposed of appropriately in accordance with policy. >> two adult males captured from the compound. we have learned based on benjamin hall's interview with general mazloum, the kurdish general leader of the syrian democratic forces, one of those males with likely the source

jennifer griffin lives at the pentagon with the very latest. jennifer? >> told there is no decision to pull the troops out of syria. senior pentagon officials of, the record to explain the president's decision or what comes next in syria. we don't expect that a change. the council a weekly press toda today. pentagon planners are scribbling to come up with a strategy. a senior u.s. military planner described the mood here at the pentagon as "aghast, horrified. a story that can be untold." he went on to say u.s. strategy all over the world is based on partnerships. now the narrative is the u.s. military is only your friend when it's convenient. we don't know what to do, this high level planner told me let's go. adding, "we know what not to do come in for the past two years this building told senior users don't like leaders in the white house let's do this." meantime, we have for the military took custody of two high-level isis individuals who were being held by the kurdish forces. removed them from syria. we have learned their identities, two british citiz

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we start tonight with jennifer griffin and her reporting on this throughout the day of the pentagon's reaction. good evening. >> senior pentagon officials tell me the president has not taken a decision to pull all u.s. troops out of syria. the president of turkey indicated late sunday and that phone call with president trumps that his military plans move into northern syria and at that point the president ordered the 50 to 100 u.s. troops who are patrolling the border with the kurds out of harm's way. here's how the president explained his decision at the white house this afternoon. >> if turkey does anything out of what they should be doing, we will hit them so hard in the economy, but when you talk about soldiers, we only had 50 soldiers in the area. it's a very small area. very small area. we only had 50 soldiers there. i don't want them to be in a bad or compromising position and i will tell you this, everybody respects our country. >> martha: the new chairman mark milley and defense secretary mark esper were awaret wanted to pull troops back. he telegraphed as much for nearly a y

national security correspondent jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon. >> infect that meeting between turkish president and the russian president just ended after six hours. and president erdogan has announced that he and vladimir putin have agreed that russian and turkish troops will carry out turkish patrols along the safe zone and the border with syria. that is new. just in now. and just a statement that was read by the russian foreign minister. now you're right, the cease-fire ends in two hours, 3:00 p.m. eastern time. the turks say they will continue their military operation if kurdish fighters do not pull back from the border with their heavy weapons. the 120 hour pause in fighting basically gave u.s. forces cover while they withdrew across the border to iraq. now it seems that russian troops will be patrolling with the turkish troops in that area. so right now the pause allows the u.s. to not pull out under fire. president turkey erdogan where he met with vladimir putin. >> today is the last day for all of the terrorists to vacate the area. as of 10:00 p.m. tonight, the time wi

. >> martha: our own jennifer griffin spoke with one of the members of our special forces on the groundthe kurds, so we do have an eyewitness account coming from our own forces who said to her that he was ashamed for the first time in his military career. he said positions have not been abandoned, he said the kurds have completely upheld their security agreements and that they were not attacking across the turkish border and this is coming from our own special forces folks who were right there alongside them. he said that they are pleading for our support and doing nothing just sitting by watching this unfold. that's a pretty tough assessment from our own special forces. >> absolutely. what preceded the turkish operation -- of course, let's remember that there is not only a turkish army operation, they are also working alongside free syrian army, the syrian national army, a group of around 3,000 local sunni arab fighters that they have trained as well. what we've also seen, u.s. forces patrolling north of that strategic m4 highway along the border with syria, the commander in chief of a

national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with the images and the briefing

special forces soldier that spent the last few years working with kurds on the ground and telling jennifer griffinhing story about knowing that the people he's worked with are going to get slaughtered. >> there are a lot of security needs that are in the national interest. we have to figure out which ones are high-priority and which ones we cannot afford to be engaged in. >> bret: quickly, amy, it dosing you mentioned democrats and republicans but it's not immunity but different parts. but there are large numbers. and republicans do seem more bolton to go up against the president on this as opposed to whether they want to comment on the ukraine call and what he said on the sidelines. >> i think on policy, you have seen republicans break from the president on different issues. i think in this case, the issue will not be getting into a physical military conflict with turkey, but what will congress give to the president in terms of sanctions, how strong will they be, will they be enough? >> bret: next up the latest on fox news poll's on impeachment and 2020. take rain checks... we take the wheel. run

president trump spoke about this at the white house, let's get right to jennifer griffin with the latest right now. >> it was a mission more dangerous than bin laden raid, the president said the flight in and out of syria was the most dangerous part. the flight took over an hour, up to 70 u.s. special operations forces launched in kurdish held northern iraq, they took fire approaching the target, the president described abu bakr al-baghdadi last moments. >> he died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way, he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest killing himself and the 3 children. >> the president says u.s. forces were on the ground in the compound for over 2 hours and collected, quote, highly sensitive information on future isis operations, a large number of isis fighters were killed, some were captured alive, two of baghdadi wore suicide vests. they did positive id within 15 minutes. >> his body was -- it was him. >> facial recognition was used, they brought back dna, more than they liked according t

and all the reports we are getting from our own jennifer griffin and other people who have good militaryources is that the safe zone is anything but. in turkey wants to push kurds out of their territory. we have reports of ethnic cleansing. they want to redraw the lines of who controls what territory, and this all happen because we withdrew. no i have set on this couch that i think we should have a conversation about our strategic interest in syria and what they are and how to achieve those. we should not have troops in the middle east either, but the way this was done has caught people off guard. if you are isis fighters were released than we expected, but it is still in the hundreds. and they expected isis fighters to be released? how is that a responsible policy? >> dagen: that is one of the most major concerns about what is going on in syria. and that is articles about isis fighters breaking out of these prisons. there are 10,000 isis fighters in prison, but in another 70,000 family members of the islamic state and supporters in that region. and in one single camp. in that part of sy