Were involved in the raid that there were no american casualties and he thanked russia, iraq and the kurds in syria for cooperating. Not much is left of the compound where baghdadi was confirmed to be hiding out. Thats where the isis leader ran until he was cornered. He died after running into a dead end tunnel whimpering and crying and screaming all the way. He had dragged three of his Young Children with him. They were led to certain death. He reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. He ignited his vest killing himself and the three children. His body was mutilated by the blast. This is one of the few images of baghdadi has seen. President trump told reporters today hes aware that others may come forward to take baghdadis place. To that he sate, quote, we have them in our sights. To the pentagon now, what more has emerged about how this military raid unfolded . Well, by all accounts, it appears that in the last couple of weeks the intelligence came together enough t
Multiple felonies related to an alleged scheme to funnel foreign and otherwise illegal donations to various republican candidates and campaigns, including more than 300,000 in an allegedly illegal donation to the main super pack supporting the president s reelection. Mr. Parnas is under indictment. He says he would like to cooperate with the impeachment investigators. He says he would also like to cooperate with the federal prosecutors who have charged him in the Southern District of new york. But hes right now out on bond awaiting trial. And i will just mention at the outset that i am cognizant of the fact that we are presenting the second part of this interview tonight rather than just diving right in to some of the other momentous and historic news of today, including the start today of the senate trial of President Trump. Today marks only the third time in u. S. History that an american president has faced an impeachment trial in the senate. And it was a solemn beginning today. The
Turns out one of his aids came forward to tell him about a call the aid overheard between President Trump and ambassador gordon sondland. Now thats important for one reason because it shows a connection. The timing matters more. It came a day after the infamous july 25th call with president zelensky. They believe taylors words show the instructions from ukrain came from the president on down. Heres why. In the presence of my staff, at a restaurant, ambassador sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. A member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone can asking sondland asking about the investigations. He told President Trump the ukrainians were red a to move forward. A member of my staff asked what President Trump thought about ukrain. Mr. Sondland reespaupded that President Trump cared more about the investigations of joe biden. As you heard at theened, the investigation being discussed were being pushed by Rudy Giuliani. Taylor says today that g
Quo with ukraine. According to his testimony which he amended just yesterday, sondland told lawmakers about a conversation he had with a top aide to ukraines president and he puts it this way. I now recall, speaking individually with mr. Yermac where i said resumption of u. S. Aid would probably not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. They were going to investigate the bidens and that is a quid pro quo and that statement and who is now saying it is key. Its coming from the president s hand picked ambassador, a close ally with the president. A man who had donated a Million Dollars to Donald Trumps inauguration and he is with this now addendum to his testimony blowing through the president s main defense here. No quid pro quo no quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. Gordon sondland now joining the list of officials who also have testified under oath that donald trump was withholding the ad