rather than an air strike. the president was trying to avoid civilian harm. a maintenance issue grounded one u.s. helicopter and troops blew it up before departing syria after two hours on the ground. the administration calling the mission a success. sent a strong message to terrorists around the world. we will come after you and find you. president biden walking in the alliance after the president s trip to new york city yesterday. president biden came to the big apple to highlight his administration s efforts to tackle crime and police reform. the visit comes as the nation s largest city sees a rise in violence and just one day after the funeral of the second officer killed in a shooting last month, detective mora, amid meetings with lawmakers and other events, the president spoke with the families of both slain nypd officers and the visit comes as the white house is making a course correction in the approach to policing.
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living in this compound in syria, and since then, our intelligence and our armed forces have been putting together a plan. it was really important for president to do everything we could to avoid civilian casualties. that s one reason why we didn t just drop munition from the sky, but we conducted a special forces raid. that prevented a lot of civilian casualties. unfortunately, the former leader of isis showed the barbaric nature of isis by, you know, committing suicide and essentially blowing up not just him but his family and his own children and, you know, we were able to avoid even more civilian casualties because of the good work of the people on the ground and because of the action that they took, not only is america
yesterday. certainly biden as a candidate was against the defund the police movement and certainly creating that much more distance from the white house and with that movement, justin, let s turn to the international stage, and just detail the fallout from the syria raid, it evoked in many ways the raid that killed osama bin laden when biden was vice president, at least initially opposed that, but walk us clue but walk us through to the president s green light to kill the isis leader. we know from taurking to officials at the white house that they had known that this, that the location of the terrorist leader for two months. and it was a sort of detailed process for them to plan the raid, including they built a sort of model of this, and put it in the situation room, for them to walk through. in fact, how the raid might go. we know engineers looked at the building because they expected there might be a suicide
stage ukrainian attacks, using people speaking in the ukrainian language and people mourning from an attack, and a very intense sort of deception. and you know, officials decided that we needed to talk about it, and expose this as one of the ways that they were planning to spread misinformation, present a false flag, to potentially invade ukraine. so yesterday, chris of course, we learned from the president about this raid in syria, that took out the leader of isis, he detonated a bomb that killed himself and members of his family as u.s. forces moved in. talk us through the president s decision to launch the strike and when he did. well, this really began months ago, when we discovered that the leader of isis was