president george w. bush, his brother jeb is holding his own event right now. the presidential candidate speaking at a town hall in virginia meeting with veterans there. good morning. what s the message jeb bush is going to try to get across today? morning, jose. it s a message that bush has been trying to push for the last several weeks, if not longer. one of the importance of veterans care. he s really trying to position himself as a key leader when it comes to foreign policy and when it comes to defense and the military. i want to share with you, this morning, before governor bush arrived at this town hall at this vfw, he went to a run. check out the picture he posted. he ran with a number of navy s.e.a.l.s, folks down here in norfolk, virginia. we expect to hear bush talk a little bit today on some of the themes heefrz s he s hit on be allowing more freedom of choice for veterans to see doctors,
i certainly do. good morning to all. we start with a fox news alert. a u.s. air strike in afghanistan leaving a high ranking al qaeda member dead. he was in charge of the terror group bombing operations and directly linked to plots against the united states. two other terrorists were killed in that strike. this comes days after another key leader who had knowledge of the 9/11 attacks was killed by american drone strike in syria. back here at home overnight, a twist in the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. the justice department is asked to open a criminal investigation to see if the former secretary of state mishandled confidential and classified information on personal e-mail accounts. we ll hear more about this throughout the day. brand new information copming
build this new chapter? well, my president, brazil translator: madam president, brazil views itself as a global player and leader in the world and now the u.s. brazil as a regional player. how do you reconcile or strike a balance between those two visions? k actually going to answer in part the question you asked the president. we view brazil not as regional power but as a global power. if you think about the preeminent economic forum for coordinating between major economies, the g-20 brazil is a major voice in that. the negotiations that are going to be taking place in paris around climate change can only succeed with brazil as a key leader. and the announcements that have been made today about their goals on renewable energy is indicative of brazil s
victory for isis so far this year. but in syria a key leader of isis is dead and his wife is in custody after a daring raid by special operations forces. u.s. officials say the troops traveled from northern iraq in osprey helicopters. officials tell nbc news that gunfire was exchanged as well as hand to hand fighting. not much is known about abu sayyaf who is considered a top isis money man who hanged isis oil and gas income and he personally was close to the isis leader al baghdadi. u.s. lawmakers are praising the operation, but also warning the u.s. must weigh the risks against the intelligence that was gathered. so joining us from seattle retired four star general barry mccaffrey. first, sir what do you think we
every flight for a long time to neuter this organization. what we did in 2007 08 and 09. went after them every night. by no mean as strategy by itself. do you know in abu sayyaf ever killed americans? no i don t. i just know he was a key leader in isis organization. we know what works. the surge in iraq in 2007-08 worked. put in extra troops partnered with iraqis went after terrorists by the day and by night hit them hard and we killed a lot of them and eventually we got al qaeda in iraq on their knees and if we left troops behind in iraq we wouldn t have this problem today. a lot of speculation this abu sayyaf may not necessarily have been all that important. only the other day the justice department put out a most wanted list of isis terrorists out there, he wasn t included.