Irbil. Lets go straight to tim lister it seems we dont have tim right now. Well try to get him back on later in the show. This fighting in irbil is a huge concern for the kurds. Theyve been fighting and holding, trying to take the town of mosul. So its a crucial situation right now. The u. S. Led coalition is looking for ways to stop the militant group from making progress and one main goal is to target the isis leadership. Barbara starr has the details. Reporter the u. S. Has a secret list of the top isis operatives in syria and iraq it wants to kill. Number one, isis leader abu al baghdadi. Its been months since the last Intelligence Report about where al baghdadi is hiding a senior u. S. Official tells cnn. The u. S. Believes he knows warplanes are hunting him, so he moves cautiously even as his influence has grown beyond syria and iraq. The fact that al baghdadi has become this pan islamic caliphate boss boss of bosses is pretty distressing. But it also means that we know what the
Ten days ago. And kurdish fighters told them fighters were trying to infiltrate their defenses. Kurdish source they they inflicted heavy casualties on the militants and even got support from coalition aircraft. For more on the developing situation, lets bring in cnns tim lister, joins us via baby cam from erbil. There have been almost daily attempts by isis to infiltrate toured issue territory kurdish territory. Weve seen this aggressive push which led to close contact fighting. Fighting. S the latest . Reporter theing has died down. The fight doing last overnight for at least five hours. The Kurdish Peshmerga officers i spoke to said they inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and say there were a lot of foreign fighters amongst these isis eunice that attacked three villages simultaneously. A very accordinated complex attack coordinated complex attack that shows despite months of air strikes and considerable pressure on the ground difficulties in resupplying them isis is still capabl
President is also investigating or taking a look at issues related to pardoning potentially his aides and family members if necessary. And the report does say that the president has even inquired about the ability to pardon himself. This morning when asked about it the president s lawyer called that reporting, quote, nonsense. We are covering all of the developments this busy friday morning. Lets get to capitol hill where we find our Suzanne Malveaux. And before that joe johns is at the white house. Good morning, joe. Reporter good morning, poppy. So that question of whether the president has the power to pardon aides, family members and certainly himself is somewhat of an open question in the courts. It has not been settled. Many legal experts question whether its possible. And it comes on the heels, that report does, of reporting by bloomberg that the personal finances of the president of the United States are now being investigated, which would be an important turn in the investigat
With election set for. New york. City. Festivities. Good to have you with us liberia is poised for its first peaceful transition in several decades that. Victory in his countrys president ial runoff. Liberia of course is africas oldest republic but its last transfer of power from one democratically elected leader to another came back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four and the country was of course devastated by a fourteen year civil war that ended in two thousand and three i to the cheers of jubilant supporters liberias new president weeps tears of joy georgia has waited a long time for this moment after past election defeats this time hes won a landslide victory. Supporters on the streets celebrate the triumph of the rags to riches candidate. Because certainly the korean is not a candidate. But it is their mandate trip to ohio such as you are we had a presenter the office of the era that. We are has long been a familiar face to liberians born in a slum he shot to soccer stardom
It was nighttime. Flipped on the light. Roaches. And they ran for the corners. And i got out of that contract, and i did not move into that apartment. But my friend never wanted to go anywhere to eat dinner with me again. And i learned about that old anecdote that, you know, you flip on the lights and stuff scatters. That works in the news too. And we keep seeing that dynamic again and again of people flipping on the switch and the bugs scattering. And in todays news, it has it has really become one of the most interesting things that has happened yet in this whole scandal. Ill tell you about how the dynamic has been working. Two or three weeks ago we had this startling revelation in the New York Times that related to one of the people who is a cooperating in the special counsels investigation. Hes actually the only person we know of who has been granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation with Robert Mueller and the special counsels office his name is george nader. He has multipl