trump flying back home after wrapping up his first overseas trip. the president made a stop to see some of our troops in italy before taking off. john roberts traveling with the president and has the only backdrop that is better than liz s today. hey, john. [laughter] reporter: and it s only because of the mountains and the food. i ll give you the food as well. leland, good afternoon. the president left the naval air station about an hour ago boarding air force one heading west to the united states and washington, d.c. but not before he stopped and paid tribute to the sailors and naval airmen and civilians who are at what s called the hub of the head here at the naval air station this sicily. they really take care of a large, large region where there is a lot of problems, so the president was very thankful for the work that the men and women of the military put in to keep this area of the mediterranean safe. he wrapped up his nine-day visit with a speech there and really kind of doin
#oneluckyguy, editor of the daily caller and co-host of fox & friends weekend, tucker carlson. we remind you you re outnumbered . profoundly. thanks for having me. harris: daily white house brief something expected in minutes. we anticipate learning more about the u.s. authorizing military put 20 or 30 special operations forces in syria on the ground to help local ground forces and syrian fighters to take out the islamic state. we re hearing from number of advisors will not number more than 50 at any point. also this. the administration is setting up a special ops task force to work with iraqis to go after high value targets in that country. let s bring in kevin corke live from the white house with more. kevin? reporter: harris, thank you. i love you broke down the number. up to 50 special operations forces will be now engaged with
will. i want to alert in here. now our own ed henry hammering jay carney with more questions. the issue of accountability. i want to go back to the cia question about this official being outed. doesn t the public have a right to know who in the military put that person s name on a list and exposed he and his family to potentially being killed? and what i would say about that is simply that the chief of staff asked the white house council to look into this and make recommendations so processes are placed put in place so something like this doesn t happen again. i understand the processes moving forward. the line of questioning changed there, it went on to another problem for the white house, the cia and releasing the name of that person overseas. let s go back to our congresswoman. i know that this is so personal to you because your father was a veteran, right? he was and died of colon cancer. and i sat throe weeks ago and
it has been causing quite a stir in kuala lumpur. nic, what s latest this morning? reporter: well, john, what they re saying is that it disappeared from military radar, and their assessment of all the data that they have available, they believe, therefore, that it descended to about 4,000 to 5,000 feet above sea level. this is way below the normal uprated minimum for aircraft in their normal flight, before reappearing almost right at the edge of the military radar capability in malaysia. their assessment based on this data is that whoever was piloting the aircraft at that time was trying to avoid this sort of busy civilian passenger airline or route that goes up the coast of malaysia there, goes between asia and india and onwards to europe. so, that s their assessment of that data. we also understand that the malaysian military put into the air search aircraft very early in the morning, 8:00 a.m. in the
see if that plane met all of its air worthiness directives. everything is on the table but it s just a bit suspicious that that primary radar feed that the military put out is enough and rolls royce is denying the notion that the aircraft was pinging data on the performance of the engine. i think they re not commenting. i don t know if they re formally denying. you know, wolf, such a mess. not to beat up on the malaysians, they just got caught off guard over their head with a huge investigation. i think what you re starting to see is the faa, ntsb begin to put some quality control into this investigation. because the malaysians really don t have a whole lot of experience. they need help. the ntsb and the u.s. authorities and others who really have some experience. a lot of folks, peter, and you ve studied this, they re increasingly looking at the possibility this was not some mechanical failure but this was someone commandeering, if you will, that aircraft. there s a distin