steve: lee, thank you very much. thank you. great to be here. abby: let s go over to jillian for other headlines we are following this morning. good friday morning to you guys and to you at home as well. we begin with a fox news alert. fox news just confirming moments ago a u.s. drone strike took out a al shabaab leader earlier this week. responsible for attacks in the capital of mogadishu. carried out under new authority from president trump. it allows the military to conduct these types of operations against the deadliest terror group in africa. congresswoman debbie wasserman shultz is standing by decision to not fire it aide until a day after he was arrested and months after an investigation into him began. awan is accused of overbilling congress and hacking into house servers. was sermon schultz said i believe i did the right thing and i would do it again. there are times when you can t be afraid to stand alone and you have to stand up for what s right.
on the coast is when they took heavy fire and the american died. we first and foremost want to express our deepest condolences and deepest appreciation for all of the men and women in the military. now, the pentagon says they still don t know if the mission was a success in terms of kill and capture for the al shabaab leader that they were looking for. we have a lot of history in somalia. this is the first american combat death in somalia since 1993. leland, thank you. the political panel is here. sarah linty, from the national security council under condoleezza rice. and david defury, a former state department official. good to have you both. sarah, this is interesting because what happened yesterday
qaeda captives. not clear when this is going to go down. but the u.s. military said it s time to get out and do it now. mick, does this as all come as a surprise to you given how heated things have been there in yemen? reporter: those special ops guys have been relatively safe working with the yemeni military in remote parts of the country in training primarily. and then the navy s.e.a.l.s were involved in some intelligence-gathering. so u.s. military drone strikes could be launched against some of those militants. just a week ago a drone strike killed a top al shabaab leader who was the mastermind of the mall attack in yemen. according to the sources we re
of the world thing. this is a bunch of extremists who have kind of had their day and now by putting together a coalition including muslim countries, islamic countries, that this is a very good sign that they are not quite the sort of clarion call for all muslims to unite. so i think air strikes needs to be a part of it but as your question suggests there needs to be other aspects of it namely to get other like-minded islamic countries and, frankly to stabilize iraq. and i think there s some good signs there. ambassador christopher hill, ambassador, thank you. officials in somalia say the intelligence chief of the terror group al shabaab died during a u.s. drone strike yesterday. the pentagon confirms the strike, but u.s. officials are saying only that it targeted a senior al shabaab leader, and they do not know if he s dead. according to the pentagon, the strike happened 200 miles west
well, michael s store says maybe the latest store chain hit by hackers. they re telling customers to check their bank statements. and despite breaches at target and other retailers, a new poll shows the shopping habits of americans haven t changed. just 41% of the up to 70 million people affected checked their credit report. even fewer changed their online passwords or credit and debit card numbers. developing now, the u.s. hitting their targets in somalia, taking out another t t terrorist. they were targeting the leader of al shabaab. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. what do we know about this strike? i m told from u.s. military sources that the strike took place early yesterday morning. the target was an al shabaab leader. the strike took place in southern somalia, not far from