he but theed heads with susan rice, and they are regarding gitmo releases and rear admiral john kirby insists that hagel was not fired. >> secretary hagel accomplished things. he issued dozen reforms and managed the rebalance to the asian positive pacific and draw down the mission afghanistan and

pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby unveiled the plan on friday. >> the commander-in-chief has authorized chuck hagel to deploy to iraq up to 1500 additional u.s. personnel over the coming months in a noncombat role to expand our advice and insist -- assist mission. secretary hagel made this recommendation to the president based on the request of the government of iraq. the assessment of iraqi units, progress iraqi security forces have made in the field and in concert with development of the coalition campaign plan to defend key areas and go on the offense of against isil. >> in a significant expansion of the american military campaign against isis, military advisers will reportedly establish training sites across iraq. the $5.6 billion plan will reportedly be presented to congress during the lame-duck session that begins this week. the u.s. military expansion in iraq comes amid conflicting reports over the fate of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. iraqi officials claim he was wounded in an airstrike on isis leaders in iraq's anbar province. we'll have more on iraq later in

pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby explained this afternoon why more troops are needednow. >> it's being done now quite frankly because the iraqis have reached a -- they have demonstrated the willing ngsz and the kill to go after it's sill. particularly in areas like anbar. >> reporter: the decision comes at a significant financial cost. the white house will receive $5.6 million for the iraqi advising mission. chuck hagel was invited to the white house by the president today for lunch to brief a bipartisan congressional group. the chairman of the joint hinted at the need for more troops last week. >> that's why we need to expand the train, advise and assist mission into the anbar province. but the precondition of that is that the government of iraq is willing to arm the tribes. >> administration sources say the white house began making plans to roll out this announcement on wednesday, a day after the midterm elections. pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby says there was nothing political to the timing of today's announcement. bret? >> jennifer griffin live a

john kirby is speaking on the president's announcement today for 1500 more soldiers heading to iraq.he department of defense issued today -- issued supplemental care guidance to employees deployed in ebola area. those who become ill, contract diseases or are injured are authorized to receive care at no cost to the civil employee. those treated in theater will be eligible for care in a military treatment facility upon their return at no cost to the employee. as directed by secretary hagen for the implementation of a 21-day controlled monitoring period. this was the implementation guidance he asked the chiefs to come back and put into place while we continue to assess the efficacy of this controlled monitoring. this policy applies to all military services that are contributing personnel to the fight against ebola at its source. in addition to providing guidance on the monitoring the policy states which have been approved as sites. they are fort bliss, joint base langley hue city, fort hood, fort bragg, joint base lewis mcchord. and the u.s. army garrison in germany and in italy. the el

john kirby said today that defense secretary -- pentagon spokesman john kirby said today defense secretaryel was not forced out by the white house. is that secretary hagel did not feel he was being micromanaged by the white house. announced hisl resignation yesterday. today's pentagon briefing was 25 minutes. >> a statement again today. >> is being your first briefing since secretary hagel announced his resignation. it is been characterized as a firing. i'm wondering if he can say what happened. a mutual decision arrived at by the president and the secretary of defense about the next two years. that is exactly how it transpired. it would be inaccurate to categorize this as anything other than that. to follow up on bob's in hisn, can we expect resignation that the u.s. secretary in a rack in syria -- in iraq and syria would be changing with the new secretary of defense? >> would it be accurate to say that? >> with the resignation, are you expecting a new strategy against isil? >> there's no connection between the resignation and us yesterday and the strategy we are pursuing against isil on

we are expecting to hear more ,rom rear admiral john kirby the press secretary during this briefing. live at the pentagon waiting for a briefing to begin, expecting to be hearing from the pentagon's press secretary rear admiral john kirby. president obama announced today he is sending 1500 more troops to iraq. that would double the american presence there. a mission to train and advise local forces fighting against isis militants. we expect the briefing to start at any moment. >> happy friday. i know you have all seen my , additional troops -- to iraq. rack i'm not going to reread my statement but there is some information i would like to put out this afternoon as well and i'm sure we will dive into whatever's on your mind. issuedartment of defense supplemental civilian medical guidance today for those employed -- deployed in ebola outbreak areas. those that become ill, contract diseases, or are injured are authorized to receive medical care at a military treatment facility at no cost to the civilian employee. those treated in theater will be eligible for care in a military treatment

pentagon spokesman john kirby said u.s. troops will also establish new training sites across the country beyond the i rayky military facilities where the forces have been operating. >> the iraqis have reached abeyance. they have demonstrated the willingness to go after isil. so they've reached the point where they need additional help and guidance. >> u.s. officials insist nothing's changed but by authorizing another 1,500 personnel, the president is doubling the number of advisers in iraq who are training and equipping iraqi security kurdish forces. the price tag, $5.6 billion and he's asking congress to approve that before current funding runs out in december and before republicans take control of congress next year. president obama told congressional leaders about the new plan at the white house on friday and they were briefed by general lloyd austin the head of central command. republicans didn't leave lunch opposing the plan but house majority leader kevin mccarthy said the president should. expect a blank check. >> i

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he but theed heads with susan rice, and they are regarding gitmo releases and rear admiral john kirbynsists that hagel was not fired. >> secretary hagel accomplished things. he issued dozen reforms and managed the rebalance to the asian positive pacific and draw down the mission afghanistan and going an isil and iraq aggressively. >> reporter: what is not changed national security policy is in control of a very few people of the white house who are accused by former defense secretaries and many in the pentagon of micromanaging the wars. two names that are floated to replace hagel are michelle flonoi, and that is one that served in the pentagon. and the other name floated is ash carter who served as deputy secretary of defense under leon panella and a smart chief operating officer. what is so unusual is the president to not have a replacement to announce. that leaves a vacum and unlikely a replacement will be confirmed until next year. >> jennifer, you are stationed in the pept gone and what is the mood there when you talk to staffer ares about the resignation? >> reporter: there was a

but earlier, pentagon spokesman admiral john kirby defended the official story. >> not fired.nt had a series of discussions about his future and the future of the pentagon and the direction that the obama administration wanted to take in the last two years and i think both men determined that this was the right time for him to step down and for a new leader to come in and handle the defense department. >> president obama must choose his fourth defense secretary in less than six years. among the names floated, ashton carter and michelle flournoy. she is a former undersecretary of defense. >>> the embattled head of the phoenix v.a. hospital now out of a job. sharon hellman formally removed from her post. she was on administrative leave since may. hellman was at the center of whistle blower complaints. >>> and soon it will be a lot hard tore hide from calories. the f.d.a. announcing chain restaurants, movie theaters and vending machines must post calorie counts. the idea is that diners will make smarter choices. restaurants will have one year to comply. vending machine owner also

joining us is rear admiral, john kirby, the press secretary, and always good to see you, admiral. the military was in the business of paying ransom for bo this year, and was a ransom paid. >> no, a ransom was not teamed. >> so there was no attempt for his release involving the fbi and supposedly going to the border of pakistan and afghanistan? >> well, i certainly can't speak for other agencies in the government, but speaking for the defense department, no ransom bags wade for bowe bergdahl or an it attempt for release through a ransom. >> and you talked about how the military has at times paid significant ransom for information, and was there money paid respect to bergdahl, and ransom in. >> well, i don't have any indication as i said earlier that that was the case in the bergdahl situation, and it is a fact that in the past, we have used money as an incentive to get information to help our operators in the field. and that's a practice that has occurred. but again, i don't have any indication that that was done in this case. >> turning to iraq, the reports that the iraq governor

at the pentagon the rather admiral john kirby had this to say by the way this is shaping up. >> what nearly drove this was th prime minister al abadi saying i request this help, and general austin's assessment that this would be beneficial for the overarching goals inside, and inside iraq so a number of concerns being risen, not so much the money as the lame duck session comes in to session in congress, but also this concern about mission creek now roughly doubling the number of u.s. advisers within iraq. >> earlier today the president met with congressional leaders from both sides o parties of the white house. some are speaking out. what are they saying? >> it's now become a fight that has come out. those faces are in a new role, princecally the majority level going public. mitch mcconnell was there despite immigration reform its shaping up to be ugly. the president said and it's repeated again today that he will take unilateral executive action on immigration reform, do what he can in the perimeters defined by the white house to stop the number of deportion. this is what boehner sa

joining us more to talk about this, the top pentagon spokesman, rear admiral john kirby.ith us. really appreciate it. if you can speak at first to this concern of 1500 more troops being on the ground, albeit not for combat, for training, there is concern that this is mission creep or just kind of a mission that continues to grow willy-nilly. can you speak to that concern? >> sure. it's not mission creep at all. mission creep is when the mission changes or morphs into something that it didn't start out to be. this is very much in keeping within the missions in iraq that we've been performing since june, advising and assisting capability to have the iraqi security forces to help them get better in the battle space, and of course, supporting the humanitarian missions. these ald vdvisers are going to doing the exact same thing, just in different places. now, what is a little bit new here is we are going to put trainers in certain sites around iraq and we're still figuring out where those sites are going to be. they're going to be training up to 12 iraqi brigades, and 3 peshme

[chanting] >> and pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby joins us.good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> that certainly is a lot of noise and certainly obnoxious to our u.s. sailors. how big a problem is this for our sailors in turkey? >> well, i mean it's certainly was a frightening incident for these sailors. i want to thank them for calm and demeanor as they extricated themselves from that potentially dangerous situation. the ship is still in port there in istanbul. but they won't be going out in the town. obviously as this incident continues to be investigated. and we're working closely with turkish authorities to do just that to investigate this. >> it does not appear our sailors were in uniform. am i correct on that? and, if so, is this sort of the reception even american tourists are likely to get in turkey? >> it's hard to say whether other american tourists will face this same type of threats as this group of protesters issued to our sailors but it's not uncommon for sailors and overseas sports to go out in liberty in civilian clothes. i mys

admiral john kirby reporting there. the administration won't say if this is the final deployment of u.s. forces to the area, but there are no current plans to extend the commitment beyond 3,000 troops. >>> mexican officials say a gang burned and killed 43 students who disappeared in september. searchers may have found their charred remains in a river. the students were betrayed by the people who should have protected them. rafael romo is in mexico city with more. >> reporter: badly burnt human remains, teeth and bone fragments. a gruesome discovery in a river in southern mexico. the mexican attorney general said authorities are dealing with a massive homicide. the victims, he said, could be 43 students who disappeared in late september. the students from a rural teachers college are in their late teens or early 20s. an order of the city's mayor, the top officials said friday, police abducted the students and turned them over to a gang. the gang, which allegedly has deep ties to the mayor reportedly killed the students a

. >> rear admiral john kirby is the pentagon spokesman.secretary hagel pushed out? was he fired? >> no, he was not, jake. this was a mutual agreement that he and the president came to after a series of discussions that began as far back as late october about the future here for the administration, the last two years of the president's term. and both men agreed that a change in leadership at the pentagon was probably appropriate right now. >> i have to say if my boss, jeffrey zucker, called me into his office and said, it's time for a change of leadership on "the lead," at the end of the day, it would seem like a firing. >> well, but it's not if both men agree that this is the right course of action. and the secretary said it clearly today, he not only supports it but he's the one who initiated the conversation with the president. the secretary was brought in to do a couple of things. but the main thing was to help the military transition after 13 years of war, get it on a firmer footing going forward, at least as firm as it can be. and he'

. >> pentagon spokesman rear admiral john kirby and republican senator lindsey graham sharply disagreeinger the president's decision to send more troops to help the iraqi army to fight isis. we're back now with the panel. before we get to that, peter, what are your sources telling you about this u.s. air strike against isis leaders in the mosul area of northern iraq in the last 24 hours? and what about the possibility that's being mentioned they actually hit the leader of isis, al baghdadi? >> it's a very intriguing possibility. they had leaders were going to be gathering and they took advantage of it while we could. we should be cautious in suggesting that anybody specific has been knocked off at this point. we've seen again in again in the 13 years since 9/11 that reports of the demise of this terrorist leader or that militant leader proved to be unfounded. i think -- i remember during the original iraq war, we killed a guy chemical ali, cousin of saddam hussein, we killed him five or six times. we did finally -- >> it is encouraging they had this intelligence where some of the leaders

the pentagon press secretary, rear admiral john kirby, is set to speak to reporters in a few minutes. of course, the u.s. and coalition forces have been launching air strikes against islamic state targets in iraq and sierra for a couple months, and we learn the strikes had not stopped isis from recruiting new members. far from it. we're told recruiting is way up. still, the president has said the united states will not but person troops in combat roles overseas he has said it over and over and over. no boots on the ground. what is happening now? bootses on the ground. maybe they're wearing sneakers but this is boots on the ground. >> or flip-flops. the white house insisting the troops will not be involved in combat. the white house, as you mentioned can just announced the president has approved the defense department request to send up to 1500 additional troops to iraq, to expand the mission to, as you mention, train, advise and assist the iraqi security forces. multiple senior officials told fox news this was expected, earlier today. this will double the amount of u.s. troops on the

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was interesting brought up by a journalist at the pentagon briefing yesterday where rear admiral john kirbyressed this is how do we know it's going to be different this time when we spent so much time, so many resources, so many lives training the iraqi army to see many of them, you know, really drop their arms and run away in the face of isis, how is it going to be different this time? and the pentagon saying it will be different, you know, iraq is ready for this we've seen the signs that this is the right thing to do. at what point does this amount to actually having boots on the ground? the president makes a difference between these aren't combat troops, but at what point is there really a difference? >> i mean, these are two really good questions. the first is whether this will make a difference or not, whether this will be different than the last time will depend if iraq makes the political changes that it needs to help bring the sunnis on to the side of a national government that will help reinforce those iraqi troops with professional leadership, not just people loyal to the regime a

earlier today, the pentagon spokesman admiral john kirby spoke about this code of silence.sten to what he said. >> there's a code in that community that you don't talk about what you do and you don't try to get financial gain off of your operations. so it's disappointing that some have sought to do that. i won't speak to the specifics in this, some of these things are, as you know, still being investigated. but it's -- it does violate a code of ethics that this community holds dear and 99% of them live by that code. >> there is a flip side, brian, too, isn't there? generals, admirals, plenty of people retire from the military and government service and go on and write books. nevertheless, somehow this going public being received inside the seal community? >> not very well, john. there's a real brotherhood inside the seal community and a lot of seals who we talked to, former seals have said that these two men have broken the code there and are not necessarily welcome back into that brotherhood. and it's not so much even an unspoken or unwritten code, it's been written about

we're waiting for rear admirable john kirby to come out and brief reporters on the white house announcement that the president has authorized sending 1,500 more traoops to iraq to help train kurdish security forces. we'll bring that to you. coming up on "the lead" president obama has congressional leaders over for the first time since democrats were kicked around on election night. someone there, if there was any hope. cnn talks to one of kim jong il's former bodyguards who says the late north korean leader's son is even more dangerous. stay with us. if yand you're talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, hav

get to you to answer, let me have both of you listen to what the pentagon press secretary admiral john kirby said about the allegations of what we're talking about is this a case of mission creep? >> it's not mission creep at all. that's when the mission changes or morphs into something it didn't start out to be. this is very much in keeping with the missions that we've been performing in iraq since june, which is security assistance for our people and our facilities. advise and assist capability for the iraqi security forces to help them get better in the battlefield and the battle space. of course, supporting the humanitarian missions. these advisers are going to be doing exactly the same thing that the advising teams on the ground are doing right now. they're going to be doing it in different places. >> peter neuman, the numbers are going up significantly. if not mission creep, what do we call this? >> i guess it is a change in quantity rather than quality as the press secretary said. they are not going to do anything different, but they're going to do more of it. i think it would be a bi

coming up at 1:00 eastern, live coverage of a pentagon briefing with the rear admiral john kirby. the first news conference since chuck hagel announced he would be stepping down. here is more about yesterday's announcement. house reporter for "usa today. good morning. we want to get the white house reaction to the ferguson decision last night. spoke.sident was he expected to speak? is he expected to travel to ferguson? guest: in terms of traveling, they will see how things play out. the secret service would be leery about going down there. someone asked him about it and he did not rule it out, but he said he would have to wait and see how things played out. he spoke for about nine minutes. it was a carefully written, carefully planned address. avoiding --cannot weter of waiting area host: have seen headlines about protests around the country in the wake of the decision. how is the situation out senator whitehouse? -- outside white house? the time i left, there were about 200-300 people, holding candles, chanting, protesting the fact that the police officer was not indicted. no jus

so let's bring in from washington, rear admiral john kirby, the pentagon press secretary.pleasure, thank you for joining us. did you get this bad guy? >> we still don't know, we're still assessing results of the strikes. we know the strikes successfully hit some facilities. that were used by the khorasan group as well as one vehicle we believe there were khorasan group casualties as a result of these strikes. we're still trying to figure out exactly who and how many. >> we care, the u.s. cares about khorasan because you believe that they are planning attacks that will be in the u.s. and that's why they're primary interest going on. this man david drugeon -- are you confident that he may have been there? are you confident that he was worth the strike? >> we're still not confident exactly who we hit. and who these casualties are. so i won't get ahead of an assessment process right now. but to your point, we certainly know about this individual. we know how dangerous he is. and we know what his intentions were and we know what his capabilities were. very skilled, very deadly

like brian williams to replay john kirby's press conference. people have got that all screwed up about what we are going to do with isis and who's got the authority to do what. if he would replay that some time today, get people to listen to it. host: thank you for the programming suggestion. isis, talk about the congressional reaction to the president's announcement on friday that he was doubling the number of troops there and the debate over the authorization of use of military force. guest: my impression is 's moves againsti do enjoy broad bipartisan support. the president must be deeply disappointed to be in the process of sending troops back to iraq after working so hard to withdraw them. 275, then 1200, now he has doubled down by sending another 1500 troops. hasink he quite properly notified the congress of the united states that the mission of these troops has changed not incrementally, but fundamentally. he intends to go back to congress and ask congress to authorize these activities which will share responsibility for the policy. it wi

like brian williams to replay john kirby's press conference.eople have got that all screwed up about what we are going to do with isis and who's got the authority to do what. if he would replay that some time today, get people to listen to it. host: thank you for the programming suggestion. isis, talk about the congressional reaction to the president's announcement on friday that he was doubling the number of troops there and the debate over the authorization of use of military force. guest: my impression is 's moves againsti do enjoy broad bipartisan support. the president must be deeply disappointed to be in the process of sending troops back to iraq after working so hard to withdraw them. 275, then 1200, now he has doubled down by sending another 1500 troops. hasink he quite properly notified the congress of the united states that the mission of these troops has changed not incrementally, but fundamentally. he intends to go back to congress and ask congress to authorize these activities which will share responsibility for the policy. it will

. >> that is the pentagon spokesman rear admiral john kirby explaining why we're sending more troopsstate of texas, a former cia officer in the region. sthanks for coming on this morning. >> thanks for having me on the show. >> so you served under cover in pakistan. you know the region well. you were there a long time. is this the right response to the threat of isis? >> well, i'm flawed the president is finally putting some resources to the situation and bricking in the congress. i think before we make any commitment of troops, we should talk about a prodder strategy. this is probably a conversation that's been too long in coming. and if we're going to commit people to the fight, we need to know what does victory look like? whatever our strategic initiatives and what achieves that victory, these are the conversation that's we should be having. and i'm looking forward to being part of this conversation and using my background in national security to help with this issue. >> that will be certainly interesting. you were just elected to congress in a tight race. congratulations, in texa

rear sergeant john kirby ran some was paid. states tried to pay an intermediary earlier this year. but he ran away with the money. the pentagon has yet to address duncan hunter's claims. u.s. marshals putting their lives at risk to fight against the mental can drug cartels an investigation shows marshalls have been disguising themselves as mexican marines and going on armed drug raids. they have already helped capture high value cartel targets. hey, tucker. >> why, thank you, mike. this story will wake you up. the owner of a new york city restaurant slapped with a $5,000 fine after one of his employees took out an ad on craig's list for a hostess. the reason the owner had to pay the fee, gender specific ads violate new york city's so-called civil rights law. >> bruiner the owner of sistina restaurant says it's an outrage and plans to fight what he calls a scam and joins us now. good morning, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> describe the ad you posted on craigslist. >> we posted that we needed help for hostesses, ho

switching to watching very quickly, admiral kirby, explaining the role of these additional troops going to go to iraq. johner just released a statement, the speakers after the meeting with the president, the congressional leaders at the white house, on that move. he said he does support the president's decision regarding the use of these forces but reminded him, and i quote here, that historically the commander-in-chief has identified the need for the use of military force. the speaker urged the president to do so, and if he does, house republicans are ready to work with him and support him. we'll keep you posted on all of the above. >>> in the meantime, fancy nancy find something good news from tuesday. in four states no less, because that is how many approved measures to hike the minimum wage and now nancy pelosi is urging democrats to take this wage rage national. to cke restaurant ceo andy buster getting a case of left wing indigestion. those four stakes approved a hike special if someone else bays for it you. argue everyone pays for it. explain. >> i think nancy pelosi should focus on the minimum wage