Good to be here in d. C. This weekend. The president of the United States addressed members of the White House Press corps in a joint briefing yesterday. He talked about matters important to both countries, the situation in ukraine, surveillance, big domestic news here at home, the latest job numbers unemployment plunging to its lowest level in six years. In an hour from o now, the president will be addressing members of the press corps in a highly anticipated annual speech. One with a lot more punch lines than the annual state of the union address. Thats right, tonight is the white house response dinner. Maybe you love it, hate it, somewhere in the middle, but you know what its about. Its the one night a year when the reporters who cover the president , the president s themselves get together socially to break bread and crack jokes at their own expense. Every president has put himself through this ritual at least once, although it wasnt always quite the spectacle. It used to be a Scho
Spokesperson to get a back story to what happened here. He said listen, they got to the mountain and found there were several thousand, as opposed to tens of thousands of refugees still there and said many of them actually will want to stay, their homes are on the mountain and for those who want to go, go to safer ground, that they are comfortable. The pentagon is comfortable with the ability of local forces, these are the Kurdish Militia forces who have been able to ferry some of these refugees off in recent days. They are comfortable these forces with u. S. Air strikes can get the people that want to get off the mountain safely. And im told over the last several days, they have been able to get off about 1,000 per nig night, so a fast clip there and this takes away something weve been talking about, wolf, you and i less than an hour ago, the possibility of a Mass Evacuation, largely takes that off the table for now. Thats a dramatic development. What is the administration, jim, sayin
News special forces on the ground in iraq. Scouting options for a massive rescue mission on the ground. This is the tiers time american troops have been on the mountain where thousands of people from the religious Minority Group the yazidi are surrounded by isis. American forces struck isis targets again on the ground in iraq today. Ill get straight to our jim sciutto with the breaking news. What exactly are these special forces doing . Reporter well, this is a team of about a dozen, just over a dozen special forces. Thats the normal size of a team they operate in. And theyre there to assess the terrain, the size of the crowd, the need, but more importantly, more broadly, the feasibility of an air or a ground evacuation of some ten to 20,000 people to get them off that mountain and to safety. These are not combat troops, but they are troops in danger. Thats why those people are on the top of the mountain seeking shelter, seeking safety from isis fighters and this is something that when
Hear from some of those friends and colleagues who knew joan rivers best. Well also give you another look at joans best work, the funniest moments. First, tmzs mike walters joins us. Good evening, mike. Good evening. The reaction in hollywood i imagine is enormous. Well, absolutely. Its funny because a lot of people have joan rivers stories. I have my own. Joan always called in to tmz, every time his a story on jonesboro riveron auto on joan rivers, she wanted to talk to me specifically. She always wanted to get on the phone and yell at me. That happened a lot. Everyone reacting in hollywood, all of it is great photos with joan because she always took photos. Great jokes, and great, Great Stories about hanging out with her. That is the way i am seeing it here in social media and with people from hollywood. What happened . I mean, we hear theres a routine medical procedure, and the next thing we know shes rushed to the hospital. A week later were doing this show. I can tell you, heres w
Thanks very much for joining us. A new tactic in the standoff with north korea, President Trump designating the rogue nation as a state sponsor of terror. The world waits to see how kim jong un reacts. A stunning react from a u. S. President saying he should have left three american citizens inside a chinese jail after feeling insulted by one of their fathers. The pressure builds on senators still undecided in the gop tax bill. President trump decides to attack one of them, calling his career toast. We start with President Trump making a major announcement on north korea less than a week after returning for his long asia trip. He made the comment a short time ago in a Cabinet Meeting at the white house. We will be instituting a very critical step and that will start right now. Today the United States is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. Should have happened a long time ago. Should have happened years ago. In addition threatening the world by devastation, they sup