the turkish foreign minister has indicated earlier a couple hours ago that there was some deconfliction, some conversations with the u.s. that something would be happening. and then the leader of the sdf is also claiming that because of shared intelligence this operation was able to be successful. and then, alex, finally, the rhetoric on this matters, right? to what extent does the president seize upon the death of baghdadi as an opportunity to entirely withdraw from syria. we know what the president s instincts are in this, we know he is leary of getting involved long term and at the same time there are these conflicting messages from his own administration about how long and just where u.s. troops and where there will be a u.s. presence. the central tension, alex, the central tension of the president s syria and counterisis strategy is that he s always claiming that they have really defeated isis, they have defeated the caliphate, but it s really an idea that you re fighting and a qu
to the subordinate commander in the field, alex. okay. guys, thank you so much. all of you. colonel jack jacobs along with courtney kube, hans nichols and richard engel. we also have breaking news to share from here at home. take a look at this, everyone. new footage of the scene surrounding a shooting that police say occurred at an unsanctioned homecoming party outside greenville, texas, for texas a&m university at commerce. students, hunt county police say, were there, two people confirmed dead, 14 injured. the condition of those injured unknown at this time, but here is what the county sheriff told reporters just in the last hour. my concern right now would be for the welfare of those that got injured and the suspect at large, i don t know. police in texas a&m university at commerce have tweeted, they re clarifying that there is no active shooter on their campus, it is located approximately 18 miles away,
operators who go in and actually take out the site often coming down in helicopters, often repelling, so the helicopters don t even touch ground and then they go in and we do know that a fire fight ensued, but it s not 100% clear what happened and whether how it was that this individual who is believed to be baghdadi was killed. you also asked about a suicide vest. it s not uncommon for these individuals to be wearing a vest or a belt, it s not necessarily always a vest, but, in fact, sometimes a belt. but the question is if, in fact, that he was wearing one and it detonat detonated, was that something that he detonated on his own or was it something that in a fire fight it was detonated. so there s a lot of those kinds of questions that we are just trying to figure out. when you think back to the bin laden raid in 2011, we knew initially about some very minor details and then over the course of the next week or so more and more of the specifics came out. i suspect that s going to be
was really what the president was thinking. he s really trying to distance hums fr himself from the situation when these text messages make it appear he s the most in the know about the what the president wanted with regard to ukraine. it soes not a positive development for the president. i m curious about your read on this. for a guy in sondeland, is it plausible to believe that he was unaware of all the pursuit of dirt, if you will on the bidens, hunter specifically but of course to reflect on his father, is it plausible to believe that he did not know what was going on? well, that oothe question everyone is asking, alex and i think that s the question that democrats are going to try to get to the bottom of if he does testify later this week. you know, i think this very much shows how, you know, connected he was to this entire situation or this entire, you know, play
being, alex, because his lawyers will have two steps they can take to stpb continue to stonew. they can have a rehearing, a full court rehearing. that would involve all the judges in the d.c. federal circuit court. they would all sit and re-hear the case and see if they agree with the three-judge panel who ruled in the first instance. then he could take it beyond that and petition for a hearing in the supreme court. danny, i m curious how long something like this might take. is there a chance we could see them before the 2020 election? . it s hard to see with these cases pause with the priority placed on them. for your run of the mill civil case, it could take years to run through the appel at courts. when you look at the aggressive policy to petition for rehearings and then appeal and