think the fbi is going to look at. we don t know when or why it happened. they can t dust for prints. it s going to boil down to a credibility assessment. sorry to interrupt you. doug jones is in the hallway. there seems to be a rush to get the nomination through. they prefer to rush it to get it right. i was a prosecutor, i have done these cases. it takes time to sift through the facts and try to let whoever it is, the fbi or whoever, do some things. i think they need to just let this play a little bit. do a full, fair investigation. then, have a hearing that, quite frankly, i wish they would consider having a different kind of hearing. hire independent counsel and let them doing the hearing not the circus like last time. or a point one or two of the senators to do the questioning.
falsely testifying. it seems to me they re trying to make up for that belatedly and it s going to be a credibility assessment. did something happen that jogged their memory and did they actually testify in good faith before these house committees? omitting there seemingly extremely significant encounter given the nature of the congressional investigation as well as that of the special counsel. or was it a deliberate lie. at the end of the day, they re going to be fact finders making up their minds about that. rudy giuliani appears to be cleaning up some statements he made last week, refreshing his mind. on friday, giuliani appeared to dangle a pardon for paul plfrt manafort saying things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons. isn t that dainty. isn t that of? hoarse what he had to say today. does the president want to the pardon manafort.
sort of pick our way through. and we could see parts of people still stuck under the rubble, hands, feet, there were some remains that were wrapped in blankets. most of them that they had retrieved they put in body bags, new body gs, and they unzipped some of those because they wanted to show some of the victims that they were women, including one pregnant woman and children, there were some babies as well. cnn has pictures of the aftermath of the attacks that happened last wednesday and thursday in mosul. iraqi officials have launched an offensive for those who have occupied mosul for more than two years. pentagon reporter ryan brown is joining me now from washington. ryan, where does the investigation stand? hi, fredericka. the investigation is announced as the credibility assessment. of course, the coalition has
just this month. the and central commander said that we are investigating the incident and are going to extraordinary measures to avoid harming civilians. more about this new deployment to iraq in a moment, but what else is the military saying about what happened in mosul? reporter: that s right, the military is now saying they believe there was a strike that took place in the neighborhood in the vicinity where some of these civilian casualties are being reported, they re still doing a credibility assessment which is a review to see what exactly happened. they don t have many people on the ground, u.s. or coalition advisors so they re relying on second-hand reports, but they can confirm that there was a strike in that area of the city on the 17th of march but it was aimed at isis and isis equipment.
typically, there s a 15-6, a formal investigation when a u.s. service member dies that is handled at the pentagon level and then those, that information is briefed up the chain of command, go to the secretary of defense and ultimately informed to congress who has questions about this investigation. one quick thing on the timing, though, steph, because it happened in yemen, a difficult place to get to, it could take longer than normal investigations. there s a credibility assessment that falls short on why civilian casualties took place there and there s going to be a more formal investigation into the loss of that off spray, a $75 million aircraft. steph? was this going to happen regardless or as a result of the father speaking out? when the father speaks out, it almost implies or sends the message there wasn t anything going to happen. it s automatic. this is standard review. this was well under way, these