esper were also on hand for the ceremony at joint base myer-henderson hall in virginia. >> state your name? >> having been sworn as a tomb of the joint chiefs of staff, having been upon the tomb of joint chiefs of staff. >> do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and will bear true faith and of agents to the same, that it take this obligation freely, without mentalis reservation or purposef evasion. now well and i faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which i'm about to enter. so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, chairman. [applause] [background sounds] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the posting of the colors. [background sounds] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [background sounds] >> deseeded. [background sounds] [background sounds] >> ladies and gentlemen, general mark milley come 20 chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. [applause] >> mr. president, mr. vice president, secretary esper, distinguished guest, family and friends, good morning and thank you all for being here today and your unwavering support for menv and women in uniform.

spoke at the swearingen of the new chairman -- at the swearing in of the new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general kelly. defense secretary mark esper also attended the ceremony in arlington, virginia. >> state your name. >> mark alexander milley. >> having been appointed chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> i will support and defend. >> i will support and defend. >> the constitution. >> the constitution. >> against all enemies. >> against all enemies. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without reservation. with out reservation. >> i will faithfully. >> i will faithfully. >> discharge the duties. >> discharge the duties. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. congratulations, chairman. [applause] [laughter] [applause] [applause] >> attention. >> honor guard. attention. >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the posting of the colors. >> post the colors. [drums] ♪ ♪ >> please be seated. ladies and gentlemen, general illey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, sec

mark milley was sworn in as the next chair of the joint chief of staff. this included remarks from president trump, vice president pence and defense secretary mark esper. >> state your name. chairmanbeen appointed of the joint chiefs of staff solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic and i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and i take this obligation freely without mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which i'm .bout to enter, so help me god [applause] i grow book >> ladies and please stand for the posting of the colors. >> please be seated. gentlemen, the .oint chaired chief of staff >> mr. president, vice president, this doing this -- distinguished guests, thank you for being here today and your unwavering support. we are all deeply humbled by your presence. thank you for the confidence you have placed in me and for your personal leadership and commitment. you can rest assured that

spoke at the swearingen of the new chairman -- at the swearing in of the new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general kelly. defense secretary mark esper also attended the ceremony in arlington, virginia. >> state your name. >> mark alexander milley. >> having been appointed chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> i will support and defend. >> i will support and defend. >> the constitution. >> the constitution. >> against all enemies. >> against all enemies. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> i take this obligation

mark milley was sworn in as the next chair of the joint chief of staff. is included remarks from president trump, vice president pence and defense secretary mark esper. >> state your name. chairmanbeen appointed of the joint chiefs of staff solemnly swear that i will support and defend the

mark troop deployment, with what's happening in iraq, happening underneath a relatively new joint chiefs of staff. how is the newness of the position impacting what they're doing. -- doing? interesting, there's a man the cayman over the summer, chairman in waiting since last year, he was announced much earlier than usual as the nominee. it's interesting. this is the first crisis he has had to deal with and what we are seeing is a bit of a playing catch-up situation. it has been clear from the pentagon that this is something that they found out about at the same time everyone else did. we have seen certain things. now that there are two -- now instead of two dozen troops there are 500 troops. staying in syria, could the number increase? within a couple of thousand, people come and go. the timing isat interesting. the general assembly was over before they did the operation. the former chairman of the joint chiefs was really seen as a good representative of the u.s. and was trusted after the 2016 to attempt. coup attempt. dunford left and may have had more of an influence. that turkey would not have

he was joined by his advisor terry hopkins and his joint chief of staff. ♪ >> the idea that the presidentp across the atlantic ocean in the middle of world war ii seemed amazing to me. remember, german u-boats were everywhere in the atlantic. bret: the mission was to take the president of the united states to toronto and that's quite something. how is it done secretly connect. >> only the senior officers aboard new that the president was coming on board to conduct the top-secret mission and the crew since they were no when the presidential yacht pulled up next to the island they would have known so once he was on board they made the announcement to the crew and no one was going to the port but going across the south atlantic so word would not be leaked out. bret: pretty unique mission to be taking this president across the sea. >> most definitely. it was pretty much the air force one of the day as i like to categorize it. this is where he stayed. bret: this is the captain quarters. >> right. bret: also inside, back in the bedroom, there was a bathtub installed for the president because of

president trump spoke at the swearingen of the new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general kelly. defense secretary mark esper also attended the ceremony in arlington, virginia. >> state your name. >> mark alexander milley. >> having been appointed chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> i will support and defend. >> i will support and defend. >> the constitution. >> the constitution. >> against all enemies. >> against all enemies. obligationake this freely. >> i take this obligatio

trump: a new head of the joint chiefs of staff and now we have the department of labor. big stuff. a big day. and it is my pleasure to welcome this wearing in of our new secretary of labor coming eugene scalia. he is joined by many members of his family which is a large family including his mother maureen who has been a friend of mine for a long time even before i knew you. his mother is an incredible woman. and his wife, patricia. incredible job, thank you, honey. and six of their beautiful children. and i have a list of the folks, it is like -- what a family. you have maureen who a lot of the people in this room know from the standpoint even of the media. you have patricia who is a very powerful family in the family -- ery powerful member of the family. -- scillyalia is son a's son. that is pretty impressive. john scalia, brother. catherine courtney, sister. mary claire murray, sister. who manypaul scalia, know. reverend paul scalia, brother. christopher scalia, brother. margaret scully bryce, sister. , oh wow.larson father-in-law. susan larson. mother-in-law. ist is powerful, th

secretary of defense and mark milley the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff as roselyn jordan was explaining there they were outlining the $3000.00 extra troops who will be going to saudi arabia to a stance of becomes or a threat from iran but it was also a lot of talk about syria. we have not abandoned the kurds nobody greenlighted this and actually home is being done to our bilateral relationship with turkey he and general milley also said that there was no indication neither of them had any indication that turkey was going to pull back at all in its. operation at the moment they were suggesting let's start let's work out the safe zone but apparently no ground being made with the turks you're up to date with that news and we will have more of that and the headlines for you in about half an hour's time again here and i'll just. up as a moment of this now. since i'm thinking yeah so many books of us from the bottom oaks. live on the moon it was just. enough for us from. los angeles. to miss and. just to much to say and so much of us i sure don't think i'd say. 6 on this particular

chairman of the joint chief of staff mark merely, they've done a great job an incredible job. staff james mcconville and sergeant major michael grandson, thank you so much for being here. thank you to some very special warriors, a little bit different kind of war maybe but senator john cornyn, ted cruz and tom tillis thank, you very much .. a (applause) along with representative hudson for being here and another politicians fee cause we want to get on with this one and it's a very special thing. joining that for the ceremony is his wife kate, father michael, mother janet, brother cody and sister me. please stand up. thank you. great family. (applause) each of you have strengthened our nation to the love and support and we want to thank you and a very special family and we want to be in the presence of eight previous congressional matter all of honor winners and they are here and i thought maybe -- we should introduce them? i think so. come on, let's do that. william swanson. (applause) ronald sure. (applause) (applause) robert foley. (applause) thank you robert. (applause) flu

matter where you go there is nobody even close i want to thank general mark milley and our joint chiefs of staff and i also want to thank our professionals who work in other agencies of the united states government. and were critical to the mission's unbelievable success last night was a great night for the united states and for the world a brutal killer one who has cause so much hardship and death has violently been eliminated he will never again harm another innocent man woman or child he died like a dog he died like a coward the world is now a much safer place god bless america thank you and of course. we had him under surveillance for a couple of weeks we knew a little bit about where he was going where he was heading. we had very good information that he was going to another location he didn't go to a 3 efforts were cancelled because he decided to change his mind constantly changing his mind and finally we saw that he was here held up here we knew something about the compound we knew it had tunnels the tunnels were dead end for the most part there was one we think that wasn't but we had tha

general milley says, joint chiefs of staff, no indication of that happening. well, what are you telling the syrian democratic forces? sdf? he said they are being told not to overreact at this point. we are watching very closely. the situation, of course, along the border of turkey and syria. were the president told to pull out a few hundred of our u.s. troops. in our numbers have been all over the place and it sounds like thousands, but that's not the case pray the president making a determination this week. we have watched unfold politically at home some pushback on the president of the united states, and militarily abroad. the turks move in to syria. it's a complicated and serious situation. we are also sending about a thousand additional troops to saudi arabia. so you see the secretary there, secretary of defense esper, and you see general milley, joint chiefs of staff, talking about that operation, too. in reaction to the saudi oil facilities that were hit. let's bring it out now and talk about this. you, formerly of the state department, marie. your first

esper were also on hand for the ceremony at joint base myer-henderson hall in virginia. >> state your name? >> having been sworn as a tomb of the joint chiefs of staff, having been upon the tomb of joint chiefs of staff. >> do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of

you this, less than 48 hours before this withdrawal decision was made, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff gave unequivocal assurances that we were not going anywhere, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, a general, general milley said we're there, we're not going anywhere. these are all rumors. 48 hours later this withdrawal announcement was made. with all due respect, this is not his fault. i don't blame him. he believed that. what is his credibility now when he says anything like that to anybody else or when he warns someone not to do something against us because we'll act in return? maybe his credibility isn't shot and i would warn our enemies not to view it that way, but i can tell you it hasn't been strengthened by this. one last point on this, russia and china are going all over the world trying to come up with ad hoc anti-u.s. coalitions, coalitions of countries we're sanctioning to get around the dollarization of the global economy, coalitions to fight us against impediments against china spy ware and technology. and the argument they make to these countries is why are you r

. >> i took what the recommendation of the chairman of joint chief of staff. we recommend the troops be withdrawn. and the rest of the forces. the broader strategy is this. it's no surprise president trump said coming into office as he campaign he wanted to bring american soldiers service members home. as much as he can. and the endless war in his words. and so this is part in parcel to that. and should come at no surprise to anybody. >> the explosive and damming testimony from the top diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor. here to discuss. thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. let's start with you, susan. what bill taylor said about pressure on ukraine president to announce investigations into 2016 election interference. ambassador sondland said everything was dependent on such an announcement including security assistance. president trump wanted president zelensky in a public box by making a public statement about ordering such investigations. did the president trumps problems just get a whole lot bigger? >> this was the most powerful testimony we have seen.

. >> defense secretary mark esper and joint chiefs of staff chair gave more details on the raid in syria this past weekend that led to the death of al baghdadi. from the pentagon, this is 15 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. as president trump announced yesterday, united states joint special operations forces conducted a successful raid on saturday night results in the death of abu bakr al baghdadi. baghdadi and the thugs who follow him were responsible for some of the most brutal atrocities of our time. it marks a devastating blow to the remnants of isis following the detrustruction of their caliphate earlier this year. there is no guarantee of success in an operation with this level of difficulty and president trump new this when he made the bold decision to order the raid confident in the expertise of our forces. our service members conducted themselves without incredible skill and professionalism and they executed in raid brilliantly. not a single united states service member was killed in this operation. despite baghdadi's death, the security situation in syria remains complex.

i want to thank the general and the joint chiefs of staff. i want to thank our professionals at other agencies of the united states government who were critical to the mission's unbelievable success. last night was a great night for the united states and the world. a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death has violently been eliminated. he will never again harm another innocent man, woman, or child. he died like a dog. he died like a coward. the world is now a much safer place. god bless america. thank you. any questions? >> when did this operation get started? pres. trump: we have had him under surveillance for a couple of weeks. we knew about where he was going, where he was heading. we had very good information that he was going to another location. he did not go. two or three efforts were canceled because he decided to change his mind, constantly changing his mind. finally we saw that he was held up, we knew something about the compound. we knew it had tunnels. the tunnels were dead ends for the most part. there was on

the joint chiefs of staff, mark , were incredible. we had some tremendous backup. robert o'brien, secretary esper, secretary pompeo. pence, i told you, he was great. this was a small group of people that knew about this. , a leak could have caused the death of all of them. now they are so good, i think nothing was going to stop them anyways, you want to know the truth. we had them surrounded by massive airpower yesterday, surrounded at very high levels. we were very low. we had tremendous airpower. >> who were you with in the sick room? t room? millie,tary esper, mark some generals. we had some great military people and great intelligence people. robert o'brien, really good. >> throughout the pullout of the u.s. troops last month, did it strategically tie-in with the raid? >> great question. job, bydoing a great the way. please let your network no. the pullout had nothing to do with this. in fact, we found this out at a similar time. a very good question, we found this out at a similar time. we were after these leaders. we had others in sight, but this was the big o

is the secretary defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of covering allrm the stuf of. i didn't identify missile as a cia employee and apl classified information. so from a strict legal standpoint i was on very solid ground. but from agency cultural culture standpoint i finally did everything you could possibly think of. i took a couple weeks before the lightning bolt came down but my manager brought me into the office and 50 gbytes is? i was in a very open mood and i there's only one patrick eddington living in this community. now an assistant don't take a source i'm going to march up to bill and start talking to people. that change the dynamic at that moment. >> host: when did you become aic whistleblower? >> guest: by april of 1995 i had gone through a through a sf what i will call dog and pony show in total briefings at cia with differing levels of managers and folks where it was really clear that despite my ability even take material out of the cia library that showed potential health effects from either low-level exposure to chemical agents, they were simply not g

thent to thank general and the joint chiefs of staff. want to thank our professionals at other agencies of the united states government who were critical to the mission's unbelievable success. last night was a great night for the united states and the world. , one who haser caused so much hardship and death has violently been eliminated. he will never again harm another innocent man, woman, or child. he died like a dog. he died like a coward. the world is now a much safer place. god bless america. thank you. any questions? >> when did this operation get started? pres. trump: we have had him under surveillance for a couple of weeks. we knew about where he was going, where he was heading. we had very good information that he was going to another location. he did not go. two or three efforts were canceled because he decided to change his mind, constantly changing his mind. finally we saw that he was held up, we knew something about the compound. we knew it had tunnels. the tunnels were dead ends for the most part. wasn'tas one we think and w

i thought it would have been irresponsible, as did the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to leaveur soldiers, numbering less than 50, in between a turkish army of 15,000 plus and their route of attack. >> one last thing, sir, you've talked about the credit that should go to the military operators who conducted this raid. thankfully there are no serious injuries, and obviously it was a successful raid. you've also given credit to president trump for his decisive action on making this. i just want to show you this tweet from 2012. you had nothing to do with this tweet, for the record. president trump, when he was citizen trump, said stop congratulating obama for killing bin laden, the navy s.e.a.l.s killed bin laden. do commanders in chief deserve credit? >> i'm not going to get involved in the political issues. clearly the credit first and foremost goes to the service members who helped execute this. the president made a tough decision and gave the order to go and at the end of the day he bears responsibility for its success or failure, as do i, and the entire chain of command. >>

secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff detailing some of the incidents related to the operation to kill the leader of i so i will buckle baghdad the or we've heard both officials hell and praise the efficiency and capability of the united states military let's bring in kimberly halkett she joins us now live from washington d.c. so as i said kimberly few details coming out to confirm the u.s. will continue to stay on the ground in syria controlling oil fields and a commitment to continue to partner with the s.d.f. right. yeah that's exactly what we're hearing and i think what's important to note in all of this is that. you know one day after the u.s. president was kind of doing a victory lap with regard to the killing of the isolator now we're seeing more of a substantial update from the pentagon the joint chiefs of staff the secretary of defense important to note there that what they're saying essentially is very different from what the president was saying a few weeks ago in terms of the withdrawal of u.s. troops that's not what's happening in syria you're hear

earlier today, defense secretary mark esper and joint chiefs of staff chairman mark milley held a news conference at the pentagon. the updated reporters on turkey's military operations in syria and said the u.s. would not abandon the kurdish partner forces. this is 20 minutes. secretary esper: good afternoon. general milley have been working with president -- and i have been working with president trump on the middle east. we will provide an update on changes to the u.s. posture in the region. beginning with syria, we are opposed on greatly disappointed by the turkish decision to launch a unilateral military incursion into northern syria. this operation puts our stf partners in harm's way, it risks the security of isis prison camps and will further destabilize the region. wem the president on down, have communicated with the turks on this issue. i spoke with the turkish defense minister yesterday to express our strong opposition to turkish actions and reiterated the damage this is doing to our relationship. the chairman has similarly been in communication with his counterpart when turk

military's joint chiefs of staff president trunk claims the death of isolator al big daddy is even more significant than president obama's 6 killing of al qaeda leader osama bin laden it's a headline prime's likely to play up as he campaigns for reelection 2020 kimberly helped at al jazeera the white house. while the u.s. says the raid was carried out in a brief northwestern syria areas just a few kilometers away from the turkish border trump says aides u.s. helicopters to pause in the operation which last set around monday minutes. let's say you live there it's argentina where alberto fernandez has won the presidential election. crayons is speaking now let's see if we can listen in a story for democracy that put order into argentina again a new logic was brought back thank you thanks to everyone who voted for all of those who accompanied us and supported us thank says christina said thank you for the committee made that you've demonstrated to truly build as a supporter of argentina and argentina of solidarity. one that defends public education when it defends public health when they de

military's joint chiefs of staff president trunk claims the death of isolator al big daddy is even more significant than president obama's killing of the leader osama bin laden it's a headline trunks likely to play up as he campaigns for reelection 2020 kimberlee help hit al-jazeera the white house what from funk russia syria turkey iraq and the kurds for intelligence which led to the raid. has more from randomly on the turkey syrian border. there have been many questions that have been raised about how long he was there why did the u.s. to use disputed time to take him out the u.s. president saying that he had been scoped in his words for days now and they decided that it was the right time to take him out he also thanked russia syria iraq turkey as well as kurdish fighters in syria so people have been asking questions about why in that particular order what sort of intelligence or information was given heard from the general who leads the kurdish fighters saying that there was for months a collaboration which happened between them and u.s. intelligence officials about the where abouts

the project was approved i the joint chiefs of staff in 1930 -- in 1943. d to completion in 1945 at a cost of approximately $50 million, all put up by the company. about 1000k, americans and 5000 saudi arabs were employed for one and a half years. rated capacity was 100,000 barrels daily, but it has been turning out 115,000 barrels a day. supplying the refinery required drilling of additional wells and building of pipelines to deliver crude oil from the fields. other pipelines carry the finished product from the verb finery to the terminal and loading wharf. the marine terminal can handle four tankers at once, loading at a rate of from 10,000 barrels to 12,000 barrels per hour. the average tanker can be loaded and on her way in about 12 hours. much of the refinery's present refinery output is going to the u.s. navy for use in the far east. by 1950, production of crude oil is expected to be double what it was in 1947, or even higher. to handle this huge volume, greatly expanded transportation facilities will be needed. materials have been arriving in the per

i thought it would have been irresponsible, as did the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to leave our soldiers, numbering less than 50, in between a turkish army of 15,000 plus and their route of attack. >> one last thing, sir, you've talked about the credit that should go to the military operators who conducted this raid, thankfully there are no serious injuries, and obviously it was a successful raid. you've also given credit to president trump for his decisive action on making this. i just want to show you this tweet from 2012. you had nothing to do with this tweet, for the record. president trump, when he was citizen trump, said stop congratulating obama for killing bin laden, the navy seals killed bin laden. so does president trump deserve congratulations? >> i'm not going to get involved in the political issues. clearly the credit first and foremost goes to the service members who helped execute this. the president made a tough decision and gave the order to go and at the end of the day he bears responsibility for its success or failure, as do i, and the entire chain of comm

three of the last five joint chiefs of staff are on our board. this is something that's been a cause of mine for 11 years. i'm probably one of their four or five most prominent spokes peek. >> that's amazing that you have that tape, andrea. this is perfect, that you have that interview. he's acknowledging it, saying he's one of their four or five most prominent people. what's not clear is how he's been paid. but going through michael mukasey's filings, they say he was unpaid but reimbursed for all of the travel. the way giuliani lays it out there is that this is something that's always been done, we've been working for them for so long, why should it matter now. of course it does matter because he is the personal attorney of the president, and some of these things that used to go unnoticed under the foreign agents registration act are now obviously being noticed. we saw that with the charges against michael flynn and paul manafort. >> julia ainsley, great reporting, thank you for joining us. >>> coming up, we're going live to turkey where vice pre

the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff though visiting, complaining that the turkish side knows very> the turkish military is fully aware, down to explicit grid coordinate detail, of the locations of the u.s. forces. and we have been in coordination with them through the cent come and my level, all levels of the chain of command, coordinating with the turks, to make sure that they know exactly where american forces are. and everyone has been told. >> reporter: of course, had a turkish artillery actually hit u.s. forces, that just illustrates how dangerous the situation is, and of course, that this is a war zone, so we are hearing reports today that the crucial town here has been taken by the turkish military, but other independent reports suggesting that maybe there is still fighting. a key road through syria, through what has been the kurdish held area of syria, it has effectively been taken by turkey, but now reports again that parts of that road have been taken back. so it is a very fragile situation. and this just illustrates that while u.s. forces have pulled back, they are stil

military's joint chiefs of staff president trying claims the death of isolator al big daddy is even more significant than president obama's killing of the leader osama bin laden it's a headline trunks likely to play up as he campaigns for reelection 2020 kimberly helped at al jazeera the white house. well the u.s. says the raid was carried out. in northwestern syria the area is just a few kilometers away from the turkish border trump says 8 u.s. helicopters 2 parts in the operation which lasted for around 90 minutes correspondent at the new surface one of the 1st journalists to reach the scene of the raid. this is the house targeted by u.s. helicopters and they approached the site at midnight and sealed the arrear off before they stormed it one person was taken away others were killed in a car passing through was destroyed and u.s. forces also handed over 3 children to one of the neighbors and requested they take them far away and then come back after the operation was completed 7 dead bodies have been recovered so far this home was then bombed by u.s. helicopters accompanied by a recon

the project was approved by the joint chiefs of staff in 1943. was rushed to completion in 1945 at a cost of approximately $50 million. all of which was put up by the kn. this work, about 11,000 americans and 5,000 saudi arabians were employed. its rated capacity was 50,000 barrels daily but it has been turning out more than 115,000 barrels a 2k5eu, 235% of its original rated capacity. supplying this refinely required the drilling of additional wells and pipelines to deliver crude oil from the fields. other pipelines carry the finished products from the refinery to the terminal and loading wharf about three companies miles away. it can handle four tankers at one roading at a rate of 10-12,000 barrels an hour. the average tanker can be loaded and on the way in about 12 hours. much of the company's present refinery output is going to the united states navy for use in the far east. by 1950, production of crude oil is expected to be double what it was in 1947, or even higher. to handle this huge volume, greatly expanded transportation facilities will

and again, mark millie and the joint chiefs of staff were incredible. we had some tremendous back-up. robert o'brien, secretary esper, secretary pompeo, pence i told you was great. this is a small group of people that knew about this. we had very few people. a leak -- a leak could have caused the death of all of them. now they are so good that i think nothing was going to stop them anyway. you want to know the truth. that is how good we were. we had them also surrounded by massive air power up in the air yesterday surrounded at very high levels. we were very low. we had tremendous air power. >> and you watched all this from the sit room. who were you with in the sit room when you watched this? >> secretary esper, a few of the joint chiefs, mark millie, some generals, we had some very great military people in that room. and we had some great intelligence people. robert o'brien. really great. yes. >> was the route of the u.s. troops in syria last month strategically tied in with this raid? >> no. the pull-out -- right. great question. and you're doing a gr

he was joined by his advisor, harry hopkins and his joint chiefs of staff. ♪ ♪ >> the idea that the presidenttes would get on a ship and cross the atlantic ocean in the middle of world war ii just seemed amazing to me. i mean, you have to remember germany u-boats were everywhere in the atlantic. it wasn't just the president. he had the entire war brain trust of world war ii on one ship and it was going to cross a subinfested atlantic ocean and go all the way into the mediterranean. fdr was super sticiousz. a sailor doesn't depart on a journey on friday. they depart on saturday. they departed saturday morning just by minutes. >> bret: the uss iowa. i mean, this was really an awesome ship for world war ii, right? >> when she was launched she was called the greatest warship of the united states navy. >> the shakedown crews of the iowa, one of the many new warships added to the american fleet and an illustration of you who american sea power has grown. [explosion] >> bret: so when the mission is to take the president of the united states to tehran, that's quite something. how is it done secretly?

the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says the dog is now back on duty with its handler and doingll right. that's one of the details we learned today about a mission that had been in the planning for some time and was fraught with high risks. >> 5:00 p.m. saturday evening. eight american helicopters were carrying as many as 100 u.s. special operations forces. they took off from iraq and through for 70 minutes across syria. the pilots flew low to avoid detention but came under fire during the flight, returning fire as they went. their destination was a compound in western syria. according to president trump, the area had been under surveillance for a few weeks. we learned today an informant inside isis told the kurdish-led syrian democratic forces that the elusive isis leader was hiding out at this compound and provided a piece of underwear and a blood sample that was used in a dna test to confirm his identity before the rain took place. >> the aim was to capture abu bakr al baghdadi and if we couldn't capture him, of course we were going to kill him. >> when they arrived, the heli

the chairman of the joint chief of staff took from his, secretary pompeo from his.act is also, chris, we are not going to go to war against turkey which is a longstanding nato ally that has fought alongside us from korea all the way through afghanistan. that's not what we steined up for -- signed up for. chris: do they seem like much of an ally now? >> no. i think turkey, the arc of their behavior over the past several years has been material. i mean, they are shipping out of the western orbit, if you will. we see them. purchasing russian arms, cuddling up to president putin. we see them do all these things that, frankly, concern us with regard to direction they are heading. chris: but you say it concerns us, the reaction is that the president is going to pull all of our troops out of that region. and although he has talked about sanctions and authorized secretary mnuchin to impose sanctions, there's been no action. >> well, we'll see what happens. you know, like i said, these all -- these developments have happened in the last 24, actually more like 14 hours, if yo

according to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff joint chiefs, they give coordinates on where the troops are. there was an incident where turkey fired over several u.s. troops and shells came close. there was some consternation about that. the u.s. quickly responded. they said hey, cut it out. turkey didn't stop firing. we saw a message from the pentagon saying that the u.s. is allowed to defend itself. turkey is a long-standing nato ally. one of the closest military partners for the u.s.. they operate with nato, they have done nato operations around the world. the idea that they would have to open fire to defend themselves against a nato ally is mind-boggling. >> are these all special operations forces? >> primarily. >> rocky is on the line for retired active members of the military. go ahead. >> good morning, thank you for taking my call. i was wondering how long it takes to train forces. we have been there 18 years. been in afghanistan 19 years. these are the same generals running the show that ran vietnam. a bunch of losers drawing that paycheck and doing nothing for this coun

i have been standing next to him in the clip you are playing and it was marked, the joint chief of staff the same thing about the syrian kurds. they have no intention of stopping 01’ they have no intention of stopping or giving they have no intention of stopping orgiving up. so they have no intention of stopping or giving up. so this conflict, this incursion and conflict is going to go on until some sort of conclusion. the president here has signed some potential sanctions against turkey. it is not clear what will trigger them. they have not been triggered yet. we do not know the limits of which turkey will have to pass in order to trigger the sanctions. so i think in many ways, despite the words saying stop doing what you're doing we do not approve, etc etc. moving those troops out of that area will undoubtedly signal to turkey or at least interpreted as such to carry on and to begin this operation and that is exactly what he did. breaking news, president trump says the united states and china have reached a substantial deal on trade. this follows talks of the white house between the pr

military's joint chiefs of staff president trunk claims the death of isolator al big daddy is even moresignificant than president obama's killing of al qaeda leader osama bin laden it's a headline trunks likely to play up as he campaigns for reelection 2020 kimberly helped at al jazeera the white house. well the u.s. says the raid was carried out in berisha that's in northwestern syria there is just a few kilometers away from the turkish border trump says 8 u.s. helicopters took part in the operation which lasted for around 90 minutes al-jazeera as correspondent yourself was one of the 1st journalist to reach the scene of the raid. this is the house targeted by u.s. helicopters and they approached the site at midnight and sealed the area off before they stormed it one person was taken away others were killed in a car passing through was destroyed and u.s. forces also handed over 3 children to one of the neighbors and requested they take them far away and then come back after the operation was completed 7 dead bodies have been recovered so far this home was then bombed by u.s. helicopter