from msnbc headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex reports. we begin with breaking news in former president s donald trump s hush trial. donald trump will sit down via news with a u.s. probation officer. this is according to three sources. we have vance a attorney she s also an mnbc legal analyst. what more do we know about this interview? thank you, alex. nbc news has learned from three independent sources mr. trump will appear tomorrow morning we believe via zoom for his investigative presentencing report. he will be meeting with a probational officer who will be on the tenth floor of 100 center street in manhattan. s that is where he appeared for six weeks for his criminal trial and he will be intervowed. interviewed. this is a highly unusual situation doing this over zoom versus in person. but they found it s the best way possible because of the security involved. we saw the intense security involved during his former trial. that would have to be again if
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all right, ayman. we ll check back with you, but let me bring in chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. jim, i ve seen you on air this morning. the number has fluctuated and changed regarding special ops presence in that area near the hotel. what can you tell me now? and we re now being told here at the pentagon that among the number 18 and that number has still not been confirmed, in terms of the number killed there in that hostage operation there in mali apparently, two of the hostage-takers, two of the militants were killed, which, if that 18 number is correct and still has to be confirmed, that would mean that 16 of the hostages, or perhaps some of the security personnel, were also killed in that operation. now, six americans did safely evacuate the hotel. it s not clear whether they were there on private business or they were part of this u.n. peacekeeping conference that was under way, but six americans did
ramadi fall? iraq s army possibly fought resupplied hard enough. this has been something in the offing for months now. that s the big question now, mikaela. nick thank you so much. while isis was taking over ramadi they suffered a serious blow in syria. u.s. special ops killing a top commander. let s bring in cnn national correspondent with that. reporter: hi mikaela. the dministration is characterizing this as significant. the significance of this kill t. national security council says the man that they refer to as abu saev was a senior isis leader someone who had a role in overseeing the oil and gas operations. his wife, sayyaf they could have information on the hostage operation. she is now being detained and interrogated by the united states. a u.s. official says there was a lot of intelligence captured at
video demands they made. they would have been i think quite alert to the fact that a rescue attempt was possible. is snatching a page out of the i the isis s book. they are more likely to hold for ransom. where we seeing is a shift. yemen is a place where kidnapping for ransom is endemic. i spent time there in fact narrowly being kidnapped by myself. and it is quite unusual in yemen more people to be killed. there was a case back in 1998 where a group of western hostages was taken by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula or a predecessor group. a hostage operation was mounted by the government. it was a fiasco and some hostages were killed in the cross-fire. in this operation that took place yesterday, we are hearing