i don t think they re going to fire anybody. i hope if secretary blinken starts to take questions, that they are tougher on him than they did in that previous pentagon briefing that we got o like to ask questions on the same thing in we have given all of those details. general griffin was trying for fox news, others in the room were trying, but they simply, their goal today was seen with major general, just don t make any headlines. just you know, keep the line tight right now. it s a very military thing to d right now. i want to get to this before i come to you, we have two republican congressmen on last hour, one was the first elected to congress from the state of florida. and also, the chairman the ranking member of the house foreign affairs mike mccall of texas. here they are now. now with the president deciding that is the date for
p.c. words like inclusive and this and that. but it s clear that secretary austin s advice has been i go ford. this isn t ancient history. 10 years ago, then general lloyd austin told the washington post in an interview, that he feared when u.s. left iraq that, al-qaeda and isis would, and they were advisors and u.s. air strikes started and the isis was moving on the consulate in rah bil and a few months ago in afghanistan, we know from our sources, general griffin and i, general milley, secretary austin and general miller, scotty miller head of u.s. forces in afghanistan recommended that u.s. forces stay. now, there s some dispute about who was the most vocal. charles: sure. but what we know is that
the state department says hums that bin laden has emerged as the leader of the terror organization. general griffin with the story from the pentagon now. jennifer? when the navy seals entered his compound in pakistan it years ago, one of his favorite sons was not present. now the u.s. government has put a bounty on that son. hamsa bin laden. he is called an emerging al qaeda leader. since 2015 he has released audio and video messages on the internet calling on his followers to launch attacks against united states and its western allies. he married the daughter of mohammed atta, the lead hijacker and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. according to the state of burma, the navy seals sees letters from usama bin laden s compound after killing him in may of 2011. in the letters, intelligence officials found proof that bin laden was grooming his 30-year-old son to replace him as leader of al qaeda.
u.s. gun ships toy steroid islamic state aisle trucks. the word from the pentagon, part of the military strategy to target the group s main source of income. the attack happened over the weekend in eastern syria. gunships dropped leaflets warning drivers to abandon the vehicles before it opened fire. the year includes nearly allr-éf syria s oil fields. u.s. officials say about half of the terror group s funding comes from oil. general griffin is live at the pentagon. what more do we know about the airstrikes? reporter: the pentagon says u.s. war planes hit 283 fuel trucks in eastern syria part of operation tidal wave,; this
joint chief of stat said there s concern they could engage in ethnic cleansing against sunni iraqi, really? this be a soup any, shia war we re in the middle of? really. general griffin is at the pentagon. like we didn t know this would happen. what are they saying? well, shepard, the chairman of the joint chiefs warned about this to congress in his testimony on the hill yesterday. now these video images have emerged that appear to show a atrocities by some unitses of the iraqi army. jen saki was had ask the about the reports. u.s. officials continue to raise concerns with the government of iraq officials and have been doing that for some time. this behavior is clearly their behavior must be above