as we install the 20th chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley. today as we mark the beginning of hisis tenure as chairman of the joint chiefs, we do well to pay a debt of gratitude to a man who was served nation with distinction for now 42 years. he led troops in battle during operation iraqi freedom turkeys are dust, the marinem, corps and over the past five years i can personally attest, during our ten tenure i 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] and to general milley, the new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, i know i speak a map of your commander-in-chief and a grateful nation when i say to you and toam your family, thank you for answering the call to serve once again. over your nearly 40 year career, you've served with courage and distinction as a green beret. he led troops in combat and iraq and afghanistan. you serve as the 39th c

general milley: the policy of the u.s. is to continue with our counter-isis campaign and we continue those operations except in that one area of the incursion. with respect to the stc you mentioned, there is no -- the sdz you mentioned, there i know of that allows us to conduct military operations against the turks, a 70-year nato ally. >> have you given the turks any kind of know strike -- any kind do not strikeist, these areas where our people are? and you talked about repositioning additional forces to ensure u.s. forces are safe, but you did not indicate that have gone in -- that they have gone into syria. can you tell us what you are doing to protect u.s. forces in addition to the no-strike question? military down is to specific detail of the locations of u.s. forces. we have been in coordination with them in sent, at various levels and personally -- in centcom at various levels, and personally at my level. so they know exactly where american forces are. everyone has been told throughout syria and in the zones of incu

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, secretary esper, distinguished guests, family and friends, thank you for being here today. and for your unwavering support for our men and women

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 tha

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

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

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

there was something there was something really amazing to see i got to watch it along with general milley vice president pence others. in the situation room and we watched it. so to literally. and if you want to well i don't want to say how but we had absolutely perfect as though you were watching a movie it was that with that in it the technology there alone is is really great. a big part of the trip that was of great danger was the. it was approximately an hour and 10 minute flight and we were flying over a very very dangerous territory in fact some of our leaders said that that could be the most dangerous flying in flying out and that's why last night we were so quiet about it we didn't say anything and i didn't make my remark until after they had landed safely in a certain area but the flight in the flight out was. a very very dangerous part there was a chance that we would have met unbelievable fire. russia treated us great they opened up we had to fly over certain russia areas russia held areas russia was great. iraq was excellent we really had great cooperation and you have to unde

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

i will now ask general milley to provide you with some additional details on the operation. thank you. >> good afternoon, anyone as secretary esper stated, the united states special operations forces under the command and control of the united states central command, general frank mckenzie, conducted a counterterrorism operation which resulted in the death of the founder and leader of isis, abu bakr al-baghdadi. intelligence from numerous organizations throughout the department of defense and across the entire interagency identify the target location approximately 4 miles from the turkish border, in the speech of province of syria. in order to reduce the risk and prevent miscalculation and escalation, and action consistent with operations in the past, we coordinate with other agencies in the region to establish deconfliction mechanisms. during mission, for his were infiltrated by helicopter. once on the objective, secure the target compound. they engaged in small arms fire and the threat was quickly eliminated. our forces isolated the compound and while clearing the objectiv

and good on john milley for not being quite so regulatory. i do wonder about some of the details that the president included in his presentation sunday morning, how much of that was, shall i say, poetic license, and how much of it was probably known. the place where they sent the dogs in. how did they know the location of al baghdadi, i don't know. >> he said basically he was crying as he died. >> right, died a coward and all those embellishments. it may have been true, i don't know. i'm just curious why i didn't know that. >> there was a lot of curiosity. >> what we learned was he's slightly interested. >> well, that's good, as a dog lover. their capabilities are quite remarkable. sdplz there are t . >> there are two in custody and we don't really know the stature, but that's a great question. >> i would imagine they ultimately will be turned over to whatever nationality they are, and i don't know that, and of course i'll have to talk to them and interrogate them as to how much useful information they might have. if they were confidants, adv

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.

general milley, secretary esper, secretary pompeo did a great job of reaching out and making sure we had an incongress and egress that were protected. >> the president made a comment about the oil fields this morning. does he believe we own the oil fields or that we control them? what is his understanding of our role in these oil fields? >> i think the point the president made is isis controlled these oil fields and isis was deriving great income from the oil fields. we took, together with the kurds, took control of the oil fields. we're going to stay in control of the oil fields for a period of time to make sure they don't fall back into isis hands. they have been providing income for the kurds to pay for schools, hospitals, the sdf, and that sort of thing. we're there. we took control of the oil fields from isis. the syrians could not protect them from isis so we'll be there for a period of time to maintain control of those and make sure there's not a resurgence of isis and make sure the kurds have revenue from the oil fields. >> 100% of the revenue belongs to the kurds? is that th

. >> 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

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. [inaudible] >> he does. [inaudible] >> he's moving. >> i would like to shift around to the ambassador. >> thank you, g

were delighted to have a secretary of defense and great job to you and everybody and general milley forredible act you performed seven days ago with al-baghdadi. he was hit hard the way he should have been and i just want to say to all our military were very proud of you up. the whole world is proud of you. thank you mark, great job. (applause) deputy secretary veterans affairs jim burn, thank you jim. ryan mccarthy, thank you. chairman of the joint chief of staff mark merely, they've done a great job an incredible job. chief of 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) ea

. >> general milley president trump said yesterday he was begging and crying before he died can you elaborate quick. >> the secretary was asked the same question. i know the president had planned i assume that was topped directly to the unit but i don't know. >> i have not talked to unit members i've talked to commanders and centcom the commander said there was one part of the raid talking about the intelligence provided can you confirm those details? also with the oil field can you talk about after these last couple weeks protecting the oil field will though will there be more troops in syria than befor before? >> as i said we are positioned and are given the earlier directive to retain forces. at the end of the day we will be sending troops home. but in the meantime we will reinforce and make some other moves to make sure we can accomplish that mission to secure the oilfields and deny access to isis. at the end of the day my expectation is it will be futile and they will be going home. >> first question was. >> yes. us only operation for personnel on the objective. i know what you are refer

general milley also said that 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 senior state department official is now saying syrian democratic forces played a key role in the ail bad 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 border as early as today. nick paton walsh live for us in irbil, iraq, for us. good morning. >> reporter: dave, interesting to remember that during that press conference, president trump even recognized the fact that while he was effectively green lighting the turkish incursion in syria, he saw al baghdadi closing in. startling he couldn't see one affecting the other. there's confirmation, on how they played a role in tracking down baghdadi, the key u.s. ally who has lost sons and daughters on the ground tr

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

reallused a variety of ignition. >> general milley confirmed baghdadi's roo remains have been disposed of. sources told me his remains have been buried at sea. >> dana: jennifer griffin, thank you. joining me now as rob o'neill, the former navy seal who killed usama bin laden. can't think of a better guest to have. for the men on this raid, what was going through their minds? they flew there and they had two hours on the ground. >> this is what they joined for. this is what you do as a special operator especially at that level. going in with eight helicopters onto the x, they went in as brothers. they brought so many people. we will find him. we will stay there until we have everything we need. they pulled it off. it was extraordinary. they could not have done a better job. not one of our guys was hurt. the dog was wounded but not de dead. >> dana: and our equipment survive? >> it seemed like everything survived. we didn't was a helicopter like we did in pakistan. there was more helicopters behind them in case there was a fight. it's really cool. >> dana: one difference between the usa

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

news.e's some we had a situation room briefing milley about developments in syria. there were eight or 10 senators. there's a plan coming together that i joint chiefs think may work, that may give us what we need to prevent isis coming back, iran taking the oil, isis from taking the oil. somewhat encouraged that a plan is coming about that will eet our core objectives in syria. as to the lunch, he felt like he's become president he's been hounded do.ut things he didn't he feels like it never ends, and to donald t comes trump, nobody really cares if he a a fair day in court but handful of americans. i don't know what to tell him other than i told him every time mueller was a witch-hunt, which was like every going said, i am not there. because i know mueller. when i introduced a resolution being sure mueller could not fired unless there was cause, he didn't like that but i said, mr. president, i know you're frustrated. there's nothing worse than being didn't of something you do. it just eats away at your soul. we made it through mueller. we didn't do any real damage t

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

i'm hoping he approves what general milley is proposing to him because it will accomplish, help accomplish our core objectives switches contain isis from your merging, make certain the iranians don't run the table, take over eastern syria. leading to encroachment on israel's security and if we are able to have some semblance of control in eastern syria, airspace control as part of it. it gives us a seat at the table when the final political outcome is being decided on syria. obviously the russians, the iranians have a seat at that table big way. assad will have a seat at that table. opposition forces but also the united states. that's what we are driving towards pittsfield quickly if you can, your reaction to the chemical weapon story. do you believe the turks when they say they're not using them? >> they have used chlorine gas, not sayer in gas, routinely. tragically. i believe in this operation, i can't speak for the chlorine gas but they use white phosphorus artillery rounds which when they make contact with the human, burns into their skin. it significant damage. it's not as lethal in

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

joint chiefs chairman general hork milley spoke by phone with the russian chief of staff in an noforto make sure there is no awalich ncludeith the american equipment as well as troops as defense secretary mark esper 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

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

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

the politicians have been briefed so here's some news we had a situation room briefing by general milley about developments in syria. there were 8 or 10 senators 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 around and taking do all isis from taking the role i am somewhat encouraged that a plane is coming about that will meet our core object is in syria. clashes have erupted between supporters of the bolivian president evo morales and presidential candidate carlos messer comes after morales claimed victory in sunday's presidential election accusing the opposition of trying to orchestrate a coup demonstrator say the vote was rigged and nulled morales is saying he has the 10 point lead he needs for outright victory was no runoff. where you have 98.5 percent of the official tally from the supreme electoral tribunal community that should have done a party with 36.7 percent and the m.e.'s party with 46.83 percent we won the 1st round we would defend democracy we would defend the results there are stil

mark milley was sworn in as the next chair of the joint chief of staff.his 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

hands of iran or the armed group so here's some news we had a situation room briefing by general milley about developments in syria. there were 8 or 10 senators 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 role i am somewhat encouraged that a plan is coming about that will meet our core object is syria. well now has much more still ahead for you on the news hour. let's get it done and that's come out of the. u.k. prime minister's new plan to push through breck said he asks parliament to approve and national election on december 12th. chile's president takes action as he aims to end the week of violent protests across the country and in sport we and then pick champion who. doubts. baseball's while seeing. clashes erupted between supporters of the bolivian president evo morales and the presidential candidate carlos messer this comes after morales claimed victory in sunday's presidential election accusing the opposition of trying to orchestrate a clear demo

we're hearing from the defense secretary and also the chair of the joint chiefs of staff general milley is essentially that they recognize well the ice a leader has been killed what hasn't died is the ideology behind the eisel group so this is sort of something that they are projecting in their message will also giving forward the the details elaborating a little bit on the details of the operation that led to the death of abu bakar alba dotty what's important to note in all of this is some of the discrepancies even within the press conference that just wrapped up in the last hour or so sami specifically when it comes to the messaging the fact that the u.s. president had said with part of his syria withdrawal that the united states was pulling troops out that's not what's happening it's a repositioning and we heard from the military leaders there that there are troops that are remaining to guard the oil fields and why this is contradictory is not only the fact that there is no withdrawal but also the military leaders said that they don't believe the united states forces or should be act

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

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 relying to america? they are unreliable. they will cut on you as soon as it makes sense domestically for them to do so or somebody

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

. >> 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

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

. >> 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

secretary pompeo, secretary esper, general milley, c.i.a. director haspel have a responsibility to report to congress on what is happening on this dangerous situation, and once again this administration is withholding vital information. it's a disgrace. it's probably because they don't have a plan. they don't know what to do. but bringing them here may help formulate that plan or push them to get a plan. but in the meantime democrats are set to meet with brett mcguirk, former presidential envoy in charge of tracking isis at a special caucus meeting wednesday, so we should try to come up with answers even though it should be the administration doing that. the american people should be very concerned that the trump administration does not seem to have any plan to secure the enduring defeat of isis in syria. senate democrats will try to learn as much as possible from the experts available to us. folks like mr. mcguirk, but ultimately the president alone has the authority to correct our nation's course. so it is still very important for the sena

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

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

i wanted assurances from the president and general milley is the one that made the recommendation toove our troops away from harm's way. but most importantly to have a residual force. >> neil: we are monitoring, the republicans turn to talk about a meeting that transpired and then a little bit earlier, a few minutes ago inside the white house where democrats walked out because the president got nasty with nancy pelosi, republicans claiming that it was the democratic leaders who got nasty with the president. we were not in there. but the bottom line is, this occurs the same day, many of the same people who attended the meeting voted by an overwhelming margin in the house of representatives, 354-60, republicans and democrats to condemn the president's decision to pull troops out, knowing that it would lead to what happened next, turkeys in beijing and into northern syria. that has now erupted into what democrats are talking about a little bit earlier, circumstances avoidable. the part of this and the bipartisan condemnation had a lot of folks worrying, where's it going, and on the impa

it general milley presented a plan to protect us against the rights of isis. keep the oil fields out of the hands of isis and iran. there's like $45 million a month. secure those oilfields of the money won't go to our enemies. make sure it goes to our allies like the kurds. the president has a pen in place. i'm very encouraged by what i see and when the russians and the iranians make a play on this oil, if they do, they are going to need an iron fist from president trump. >> martha: thank you so much. senator lindsey graham prayed always good to talk to you, sir. thanks for being here tonight. up next, italy's prime minister in size and intelligence official country played no role in so-called russia game. but there's one problem with that. gregg jarrett is up next with the story. it ♪ i get it all the time. "have you lost weight?" of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go. at national, i can lose

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