trump spoke yesterday at the swearing in of the new chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley. vice president mike pence, outgoing joint chiefs chair general joseph dunford and defense secretary mark 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 mar

as we install the 20th chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. milley. lause] today as weence: mark the beginning of general , we do well to pay a debt of gratitude to a man who has served this nation with distinction for 42 years. he led troops in battle during operation iraqi freedom, served as commandant of the marine corps, and over the past five years, i can personally attest, during her tenure, i have witnessed his strong leadership and sound counsel at the highest levels of our military and our government. today, we pay a debt of gratitude to general joseph dunford. thank you for your service. thank you for being always faithful. [applause] vice pres. pence: and to general i know i speak on behalf of your commander in chief and a grateful nation, when i say to you and your family, thank you for answering the call to serve once again. career,r nearly 40 year you have served with courage and distinction as a green beret, you have led troops in combat in iraq and afghanistan. you served as the 39th chief of staff of the army. begins, general, let me a

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

secretary mark esper and mark milley gave more details of the u.s.-led raid.t led to the death of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. this is 15 minutes.

may mackenzie it really is coordinating with the pentagon briefing there from the 2 monks that is mark milley chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and has been just out of shot at the moment mark asked the u.s. defense secretary a lot of talk about syria if there was we thought the headline was really going to be about iran well as the u.s. counts to iran that was 3000 extra u.s. troops being sent to saudi arabia ostensibly to counter a threat from iran most of the talk has been about the turkish incursion into syria with mark the defense secretary being unequivocal in saying that we have not abandoned the kurds to spite the constant questioning from the reporters there roslyn jordan listening along with us in washington d.c. . let's actually deal with the iran side of things with iran slash saudi arabia side of things because that was the new news which came out only about an hour or so ago. that's right the pentagon has announced that it is deploying $3000.00 additional u.s. troops to saudi arabia to basically bolster its defenses in the wake of the september 14th attack on oil fields in e

i saw the pain in mark milley's face.ed say what would we do in this kind of a situation? and frankly, john. i'm not sure what i would do in this kind of situation. because the president is not taking military or political advice in terms of how to address these issues. he's just not doing it. and again, it goes back to the fact that he's getting his input from somewhere else. we can only guess where it is. but it's not from our military or our intelligence agencies. >> general mark hertling, thank you for being with us this morning. we have breaking news on many fronts. "new day" continues right now. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." we begin with breaking news for you. here's a shot of the capitol and people in washington are waking up to very sad news. the death of democratic congressman elijah cummings last night just a few hours ago. according to his office, cummings passed away, well, this morning at 2:45 a.m. eastern time. from complications from what t

anywhere in the world no 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 th

secretary mark esper and mark milley gave more details of the u.s.-led raid. it led to the death of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. this is 15 minutes. >> this operation was the culmination of multiyear interagency effort to find him and capture or kill him. baghdadi and the thugs who followed him are responsible for some of the more brutal atrocities of our time. his death marks devastating blow for isis who are deprived of their inspirational leader, falling to the destruction of original caliphate this year. i want to thank our brave senior members to took part in this raid. there's no guarantee of success in an operation with this level of difficulty. president trump knew this when he made the bold decision to order the raid confident in the expertise of our forces. our service members conducted themselves with incredible skill and professionalism. they executed the raids brilliantly. not a single united states service member was killed in this high risk operation. despite baghdadi's death, the security situation in syria remains complex. multiple state

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 area together. now that agreement is over. a senior u.s. official tells me earlier today turkey's president responded to u.s. forces retreating in northern syria. >> we always said we may show up suddenly in the middle

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

just last hour we showed you defense secretary esper and joint chiefs chair mark milley saying the move is in response to the strikes on two saudi oil fields back in mid-september. the trump administration and our european allies are blaming iran for those attacks. iran denies involvement. meanwhile, the deadly turkish offensive in northern syria has entered day 3. we will bring you a live report from the pentagon just a bit later. fox news alert on this now, on capitol hill, 18 tells house panel she was kicked out due to pressure from president trump. we will dig deep. this is harris faulkner. the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, the president has privately called bad news, appearing for a transcribed interview city behind closed doors. democrats say they hope she can shed new light on president trump and his team communications with ukraine. watch. >> what you want to hear from her? first of all, why was she ousted well before her time was due? what was the request, i understand, but she insisted mr. giuliani make any request of the ukrainian government to come to the embassy? not t

you probably saw, and we want to remind everybody that defense secretary mark esper and mark milley, the joint chiefs of staff, we saw the incoming ceremony right here live a few weeks ago. they are going to hold a news conference at the pentagon briefing room. it was supposed to be beginning around noon, so it's still around noon eastern we are watching that. i believe it has already started. each having an opening statement, and then questions and answers. let's watch. >> this operation puts our partners in harm's way. it risks the security of isis prison camps, and will further destabilize the region. from the president on down, we have communicated with the turks on this issue. i spoke with turkish defense minister akar yesterday to express our opposition to turkey's actions and reiterated the damage this is doing to our bilateral relationship. the chairman has similarly been in communication with his counterpart. as we previously reported, when turkey notified us of an imminent military operation, we relocated a small contingent of less than 50 special operations soldiers out of

name, believe it or not, is classified, was hit by the blast, but joint chiefs chairman general mark milleyaid he is safely back in iraq. >> slightly wounded and fully recovering, but the dog is still in theater, returned to duty with its handler. >> reporter: shortly after 5:00 saturday evening east coast time, president trump gathered with his senior advisers in the white house situation room as helicopters carrying 70 commandos landed at al- baghdadi's compound. with warplanes circling overhead, the delta force blew a hole in the compound wall, starting a firefight in which five residents were killed and two taken prisoner. that left al-baghdadi still inside trying to escape through a tunnel. with the delta dog in pursuit, he blew himself and the three children up. the delta commander identified al-baghdadi and called jackpot at 7:15. it took another hour and ten minutes to fly back to iraq, and at 9:23, the president tweeted, "something very big has just happened." >> one minute you're sitting there watching a movie, and the next minute you get the news that the man that raped and possi

republican senator lindsey graham said he was briefed today by joint chiefs chairman general mark milley>> there's a plan coming together from the joint chiefs that i think may work, that may give us what we need to prevent isis from coming back, iran taking the oil, isis from taking the oil. >> reporter: the u.s. troops are there to keep the oil fields from being taken over by isis, but the oil belongs to the syrian regime, and now the regime's main backer, russia, is demanding all u.s. soldiers leave. last year, pro-regime forces, including russian mercenaries, launched a large but unsuccessful attack against an american outpost near the oil fields, sending in tanks would serve as a warning not to try again. despite all the talk of withdrawal, norah, the american military role in syria is not ending, just entering a new phase. >> o'donnell: well said. david, at the pentagon, thank you. a solemn sight today on capitol hill. former congressman elijah cummings lies in state outside the house chamber. he is the first african american lawmaker to have that honor. the influential maryland de

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 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

joint chiefs chairman mark milley spoke by phone with the russian chief of staff in an efforto wiawalwill incl equipment as well as troops. as defense secretary mark esper said to margaret brennan on "face the nation." >> we want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces. we want to make sure we don't leave equipment behind. >> reporter: when the order was issued troops were strung out as far west as manbij. the most exposed units are being pulled back to larger bases that can be better defended. kobani, near the turkish border has an airstrip that can handle everything from jet helicopters jet transporters and has served as the logistics hub for the now defunct alliance between the u.s. and kurdish fighters in the campaign against isis. president trump has blamed the upheaval on turkey and its president erdogan. today he announced he will impose sanctions on turkey and is fully prepared to destroy turkey's economy. his republican ally, senator lindsey graham said congress would pile on with more. >> we're going break his economy until he stops the bloodshed. >> reporter: but se

. >> 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 year, but other top u.s. military commanders and senior defense officials responsible for middle east policy will oversee in the top site against syria told them they felt completely blindsided. many feel the president's decision will green light a turkish invasion leaving the potential for a slaughter of the kurds will help the u.s. military defeat isis. u.s. troops were seen leaving the area today, kurdish fighters are guarding nearly 10,000 isis fighters including about 2,000 foreign fighters at a prison in eastern syria. u.s. commanders believe those guards will now abandon their posts allowing the fighters to escape. president trumps that one reason he made a decision as european allies would not repatriate the ice as prisoners. >> we are not bringing 50, 67d, 10,000 people to want, and obey when i went to be paying them for the next 50 years. or paying to take care of them for the next 50 years. we did a great service to the world

here's what general mark milley said about the details. >> the secretary was asked the same questionterday. i know the president had planned to talk down to the unit and unit members. but i don't know what the source was. >> you haven't talked to any unit members that have described that to you? >> i have not talked to unit members. i have talked to cent-com. but not down to the unit members. >>> defense secretary mark esper said monday, he does not know the source of the comments. others said it would be impossible for the president to hear that on the feeds he watched. images of the raid will be released in the coming days. as for now, president trump has declassified a photo of the dog he said was involved in the raid. he says the name is classified. and officials say the dog suffered injuries but is recovering. >>> a state official is now saying syrian democratic forces played a key role in the al baghdadi raid. but the situation is tenuous, as best, after a troop withdrawal for syria, opening the door for kurdish invasion of turkish-held areas. they will patrol much of the borde

and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley. thank you, general.f of staff, james mccarnville and sergeant major of the army, michael grunson. thanks for being here. also, thank you to some very special warriors, a little different kind of war maybe but they're warriors. senators john cornyn, ted cruz and tom tillis. thank you very much, fellows. thank you. [applause] along with representative richard hudson for being here. a few other great politicians. we won't bother. we want to get on with this one. a very special things. a great honor. joining matt for this special ceremony, his father, his wife, his brother, sister. please stand up. please. thank you. great family. [applause] each of you has strengthened our nation through your steadfast love and support. we want to thank you. very special family. we're also honored to be in the presence of eight previous congressional medal of honor winners, recipients are here and i thought maybe we should -- what do you think? we should introduce them. what do you think? let's do that. william swinson. tha

chairman of the joint chief mark milley were both on the sunday night phone call with turkey when the president trump signaled the u.s. was pulling out. the pentagon was left no choice at that time but to pull back those 30-50 u.s. troops who had promised the kurds they would keep stability by patrolling the border with turkey. u.s. military commanders feared as u.s. troops would be overrun. u.s. troops in syria do not know what comes next. the kurds have fought side-by-side with said they never thought the u.s. would betray them like this and now the fear is the kurds will leave their positions following thousands of isis fighters allowing them to escape which would in essence service the rebirth of the isis insurgency. shep? >> 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

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 booby trapped. 11 children came out. al-baghdadi's wives were wearing suicide bomb vests when they were killed. some of baghdadi's attendanc lit surrendered. when baghdadi was cornered, he detonated his suicide vest, killing the three children and injuring the dog form told will survive. these military dogs routinely were cameras. the

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 operatives stormed the compound, blowing holes in the thick walls because they knew the front door was booby trapped. 11 children came out. baghdadi's two wives were wearing suicide vests when they were killed. baghdadi's lieutenant surrendered. the isis leader grabbed three children to serve as human shields and escaped down the tunnel with the u.s. special operators and at least one military dog in pursuit. >> bill: what more do we know about how baghdadi died based on the hearing tod

put yourself in mark milley's place there. i captured them in one month. i captured them. the president of the united states saying that, richard, and you've got to wonder, not just mark milley listening to this insti insanity, in london, in paris, what are leaders around the world, our allies who now feel disenfranchised and suffered from us, what must they think? >> what they think is painfully clear. this is not the united states they thought they knew. this is an unrecognizable country. and for them, it's hard to exaggerate how dang truss is, mike, because this is the country they have essentially placed their security in our hands. and you have things like i defeated isis, the personalization of it. but you don't defeat isis once and for all. we're going to find out in a very painful way isis was not defeated, they're coming back. you read that letter, the letter that the president sent to his turkish counterpart. no head of government or state sends letters like that. it opens us up to a kind of reit ridicule coming on the heels of the love letters to the leader of n

realtime live from the situation room last night with his new chairman of joint chief of staff general mark milley, along with his defense secretary mark esper, and national security advisor robert o'brien. he said the entire mission of the u.s. forces were on the ground for about two hours. maria what's a very touching moment when the president mentioned the americans, some of the americans killed at the hands of baghdadi and isis, he mentioned them by name. james foley, kayla mueller, who is an american kill an aid worker who went to syria to help people and was captured by isis and later rumored to become a slave to abu bakr al-baghdadi, and a former army ranger, and also that jordan pilot remember the horrific images of that pilot being burned alive in a cage, that was all part of isis propaganda, the slick propaganda as the state department called it at the time and five years ago isis controlled an area the size of ohio, today that caliphate has been destroyed and its leader killed maria? maria: thank you so much, lucas an extraordinary story of victory for this administration. joining me ri

defense secretary mark esper and chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley, who was in his sixth day on the job, were on the phone call sunday night with turkey when president trump signaled the u.s. was pulling out. the pentagon was left no choice but to pull back those 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. those troops would be overrun. the turks began shelling to cope kurdish encampments last night, and kurdish fighters who had been guarding thousands of captured isis fighters and their families have been ordered to prepare to fight the turkish military. isis fighters have been seen moving toward the prison camps in eastern syria, preparing to free those hardened fighters. without the help of the kurds, it will be very difficult for the u.s. to stop them. the 1,000 mostly u.s. special operations troops in syria right now were sent to train kurdish fighters, not to guard detainees. melissa? >> melissa: jennifer griffin, thank you. elizabeth warren making gains in the race for the

on the al baghdadi mission the briefings will be led by defense secretary mark esper chairman, mark milleycommand, kenneth mckenzie and dni joe mcgwire. it comes as president trump confirmed reports just yesterday that baghdadi's aide was killed over the weekend. a senior state department official is telling nbc news. >> it seems the trump campaign was inspired by the military dog who took part in the raid. president trump tweeted a picture of the dog assigned to the army's elite delta force who chased down the isis leader. the dog whose name is classified suffered minor wounds and has returned to duty. yesterday, the trump administration took it one step further and revealed a new item for sale on the trump website. a bandana with the caption, show your support with this u.s. camo dog bandana. it salutes the four-legged here rees. >>> still ahead, new polling positions. where the democrats stand in one key state. >>> from a bid in jail to a bid for congress. we're going to tell you which of niece felons from the mueller probe is now making a bid for office. your first look at "morning joe

despite mark esper, and mark milley come of the joint chiefs who are not surprised at the president'sn. others say they were quickly blindsided. president said, "as i stated charlie before, if turkey does anything that i come in my create an unmatched wisdom, considered to be off limits, i would totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. i've done it before." over recent days, they've destroyed their bases on the border of turkey. the u.s. and turkish forces had agreed to patrol the area together. the argument is now over. earlier today, turkey's president responded to u.s. forces retreating for more seriously. >> translator: we always said we may show up suddenly in the middle of the night. we continue our determination on this, because it is never possible for us anymore to accept the threats from the terror organizations. >> turkey has long viewed the kurdish fighters as terrorists. already, hundreds of troops have been pulling back from the border survey. u.s.-backed syrian democratic forces responded to the president's decision, "we hope our u.s. partners will reverse

senators would get a briefing on the raid tomorrow from defense secretary mark esper and general mark milleye of baghdadi's death, syrian kurdish forces say they're increasing security at prisons and detention facilities where tens of thousands of isis fighters and supporters are being held. joining me to take a closer look at what comes next is a former fbi counterterrorism agent and the founder of the n -- and ceo of the soufan group which provides intelligence security forces to governments and multinational organizations and is the author of "anatomy of terror, from the death of bin laden to the rise of the islamic state." i think now that we understand that american capability is powerful and that can happen. more importantly, what does this mean for isis and representative of big terrorist organizations? >> it's always a good day when you kill the head of a terrorist organization especially somebody like baghdadi who was the caliph for a so called terrorist state. however, isis will continue to exist. the factors that's contributed to the rise in the first place persists. not only in i

disappoint at the pentagon today, despite official sing defense secretary mark esper and general mark milley they were not surprised by the president's decisions. the other officials say the white house statement last night essentially endorse the turkish invasion that could slaughter the kurds. a short time ago, president trump warned the turks, "as i've stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if turkey does anything that i and my great and unmatched wisdm considered to be off limits, i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey as i have done before." already, the roughly 100 u.s. troops and we could syria have been seen leaving the border today. over 11,000 kurdish fighters, thousands of isis prisoners and their families, including small children, still languish in camps in syria guarded by the kurds. the pentagon responded in a statement the short time ago, "the department of defense made clear to the turkey, as to the present, that we do not endorsen operation syria. u.s. armed forces will not support or be involved in any such operation." the u.s.-backed syrian de

general mark milley. you know what? needs and expertise on this, so i've asked the retired u.s. army general dana pittard to stay. a quick question with you. of course, you are the initial u.s. commander on the ground fighting isis in iraq in 2014. we've heard a couple things there. i thought a headline, general, might be that we are in fact going to have troops on the ground inside syria to protect oilfields, and one reporter said, "will be to be denial of access by russian and syrian forces?" thoughts? >> yeah, i thought that was interesting. once again, i applaud the professionalism and courage of our u.s. special ops, our intelligence agencies, or foreign service officers, and all those who had something to do with this raid. in keeping a footprint in syria, at least for the near term, it's a good idea. whether it is defending the oilfields were not, but also it'll help overall instability. that is one thing we rode in our book, "hunting the caliphate." for long-term stability it'll take some time. leaving too early has its consequences. we saw that in 2011, when troops were

and joint chiefs of staff general mark milley talking with reporters today. >> the president talked aboutadi whimpering and crying and screaming. how do we know that? >> well, i don't have those details. the president probably had the opportunity to talk to the commanders on the ground. >> i know that the president had planned to talk down to the unit and unit members, but i don't know what the source of that was. but i assume it was talking directly to unit and unit members. >> my next guest says that sort of discord ant information was a recurring issue when he was at the pentagon serving as a chief speechwriter for former defense secretary james mattis. guy snodgrass is the author of "holding the line inside trump's pentagon with secretary mattis." he joins me now. thanks for being with us. the position that the president has put the current secretary of defense in, wparticularly the comments about the raid, it reminded me of the position you write about in your book that the president put secretary mattis in on more than one occasion. explain how secretary mattis navigated that. >> yo

trump spoke yesterday at the swearing in of the new chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley. vice president mike pence, outgoing joint chiefs chair general joseph dunford and defense secretary mark 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

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a, i know mark milley, have worked as his counterpart when i was in the g3 of the marine corps, shop orking for general dunford. general milley was in the joint staff j3. he was my counterpart everyday for two years. i know him very well. he has the intellectual capacity to do the job. he also understands that this is not -- his job as chairman is not a parochial service role. i think there will still be some angst about that. i'm telling you i'm not worried about it at all. there are enough checks and balances in our system where, even the chairman or he could be very service centric would go very far. i don't know the secretary of defense all that well except just the last three or four months. he seems to be very much focus on strategic issues, not on the issues. i'm not naÏve. just telling you based on my personal experience of knowing an operating alongside mark millie, i am not concern that is going to become an army centric joint force. if there's evidence to bet i'm confident there are enough checks and balances in the system but i'm not spending a minute thinking about it. [i

president trump: secretary esper , a few of the joint chiefs , mark milley, some generals, we had somele in that room, and we had some great intelligence people, robert o'brien. go ahead. yes? reporter: with the pullout of the u.s. troops in syria last month, was it tied in with this raid? president trump: no, it's a great question and you're doing a great job by the way, your network is fantastic they are really doing a great job please let them know. no, the pullout hads had nothing to do with this. in fact we found this out at a very similar time. it's a very good question. we're after these leaders and we have others in sight, very bad ones but this was the biggest one, perhaps that we've ever captured, because this is the one that built isis and beyond and was looking to rebuild it again, very very strongly looking to build it again. that's why he went to this province, this is why he went to this area. a lot of people i was watching this morning and hearing and they said why was he there? people were so surprised so that's where he was trying to rebuild from because that was the

. >> 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

new team that president trump is putting together in terms of national security -- general are mark milleyis the next chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is now in that position succeeding general dunford. at the department of defense we have secretary esper. secretary mccarthy is the secretary of the army. general milley, they have all served their country with honor and will continue to do so. right now we are considering the nomination of ambassador barbara barrett to be the next secretary of the air force. in fact, we're going to be voting on her nomination in a few moments. i wanted to talk about her experience and her qualifications which are diverse and very impressive, and i think she is extremely well qualified to be the next secretary of the united states air force. let me provide just a bit about her background and exceptional experience. she's a private pilot, astronaut, deputy federal aviation administrator, past c.e.o. of the aerospace corporation, past member of the defense advisory committee on women in the services, and the defense business board. and importantly, madam

military top officer is general mark milley. do you think i was recommending this?stleblower is a political setup. i like president trump. i've tried to help him. this to me is just unnerving to its core, to say to the american people, isis has been destroyed in syria is not true. steve: senator, there are a lot of military families who would like to see our personnel come home. >> i take issue with that i know they do. i think a lot of military people are sad today, that we've given back the battlefield to the enemy. i know what they thought about leaving iraq. i've seen the tears in their eyes when they died, people died in iraq to have obama give it back to isis types. so i will say this, steve, that most american military people understand they want to keep the fight over there so it doesn't campus back here. we set the conditions for the reemerge ends of isis. all who has fallen in battle to keep the threats away with the kurds. do you imagine if you feel you fought alongside the kurds as american military member? >> you got to tell them we're leaving. we're qu

we had a new chairman of the joint chiefs, mark milley. chiefs were involved? whether the intelligence community was there prior to the caulk ma call caulk made call being made to erdogan? >> i don't know the answers to those. i know general millie had a conversation with his counterpart, the same kind of conversations in principle had his predecessor dunford had regularly. i think, mike, the point to underline is that president trump has wanted to get these american troops out of syria going back to december of last year. that's why secretary mattis quit. he just couldn't stomach the decision. he said, i'm not going to lose the first war, mr. president, you'll have to find somebody else and he sent in his letter of recommendation. how we get from there to here is something that we'll all be reporting. but i just would say to your viewers, i began last night around 10:00, 9:30 to hear reports from people who were in touch with the kurds that were just frantic. they were being informed, our kurdish allies who fought and died with us were be

anywhere in the world no matter where you go there is nobody even close i want to thank general mark milleyand 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 missions unbelievable success last night was a great night for the united states and for 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. and of course. i'm very sorry 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 or 3 efforts were canceled 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

no one was hurt, but it was cactly the kind of incident defense secretary mark esper and joint chiefs chairman general milley warned the turks about, even to the point of giving them the exact locations of american troops. t the turkish military is fully aware down to explicit grid coordinate detail of the locations of u.s. forces. and we have been in coordination with them to make sure that they know exactly where american forces are. >> reporter: the turkish defense ministry said the artillery fire y s not aimed at the americans rbt at nearby kurdish fighters. the longer the fighting goes on, the greater the chances for more close calls, and defense secretary esper said today he's seen no sign the turks are heeding his repeated pleas to call off the invasion. john. >> dickerson: david martin at the pentagon. the artillery accident illustrates the danger and confusion in northern syria. today, the trump administration warned turkey it could face economic sanctions if it goes too far. charlie d'agata is on the ground in the war zone. >> reporter: seven-year-old sara was preparing to flee her home when a turk

anywhere in the world no 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 missions unbelievable success last night was a great night for the united states and for 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 and of course. i'm very sorry 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 canceled 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

the defense secretary mark asked her as well as the chair of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley where they're justifying that this is a mission of the united states to even though there's been the death of the ice a leader that there is not the death of the ideology what this really is is again a justification of american presence one that many people would take issue with even as the the argument being made in this pentagon briefing several hours ago was that the u.s. forces are not the world's policeman yet and that's exactly what's happening with the guarding of these oil fields the justification being they don't want that revenue of those millions of dollars in revenue to go to eisele to to finance a resurgence of terror and is this to have the expectation the the kurdish fighters would still cooperate with the u.s. troops. yeah there is this expectation and it's just such a and usual relationship because the united states has received a lot of criticism specifically the white house for abandoning kurdish fighters that helped feed worked alongside the united states to defeat

general hork milley spoke by phone with the russian chief of staff in an nofort to make sure there is no awalich ncludeith the american equipment as well as troops as defense secretary marksper said to margaret brennan on oace the nation." >> we want to make sure we de- conflict a pullback of forces. we want to make sure we don't leave equipment behind. >> reporter: when the withdrawal order was issued, u.s. troops wre strung out across northern syria from near the iraq border as far west as manbij. the most exposed units are being pulled back to larger bases that can be better defended. kobani near the turkish border kis an airstrip which can handle everything from helicopters to jet transporters and has served as the logistics hub for the now-defunct alliance between fus. and kurdish fighters in the campaign against isis. if the withdrawal goes according n, plan, it will take 15 to 30 days moving out equipment first and then people. president trump has blamed the upheaval on turkey and its president erdogan. hday he announced he will impose sanctions on turkey and is fully prepared to destroy turkey's economy. his republican ally, senator randsey graham, said congress

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