dave and amara? jim acosta, thank you. if the president is impeached and there is a senate trial, mitch mcconnell is not planning to hold a vote to quickly dismiss the articles of impeachment. according to two republican senators he will wait to acquit once the majority of senators feel it has run its course. most republicans want an acquittal to clear the president, rather than rely on a procedural motion with a 51-vote threshold. only 34 votes would be required for an acquittal. some republicans are coalescing around a shorter impeachment trial. a short-form trial would not include the whistleblower or hunter biden. those details coming from cnn interviews with republicans in the next few days. the trial is in the planning stages. no final decisions have been
they shielding investigation fo the planning stages of this. a lot of people have been reminded that back in the day after bin laden was killed, he said stop congratulating obama for killing bin laden, the navy seals killed bin laden. he made a tough decision, a hard decision, but he was quick to take credit. he repeated the longest claim that he warned people about bin laden before anyone knew about him. it is rhetoric inappropriate or is this the difference between a president trump and a president oba obama? he has handled it very differently because he can t help but be inappropriate. this could have been a unifying
with operational intelligence, those troops back at the base are probably going over the intelligence right now and as was mentioned there s other leaders that are going to be striking and i would not be surprised in the next few days we have other folks that we are going after. this is just how we operate when were going after such a heinous terrorist group such as isis and thank god this leader is dead, sure summary will replace him but when you think about osama bin laden not being killed too long ago and now al-baghdadi, they have to think about twice and what they re doing and where they re doing in our prisons over there the over horizon force coming in from turkey is exactly the right strategy that this ministration is implying. arthel: this was no doubt a successful raid approved by president trump, he carried out by a special force, special operation forces. the mission had been in planning
syria to patrol formerly kurdish areas. with u.s. troops completely out of the picture now, and another apparent change of plan. president trump tweeting about bringing soldiers back home, his defense secretary saying they will be redirected to guard oil fields. nbc s erin mcloughlin is one of our reporters in the region and joins me from turkey. is there any more clarity on the plan for u.s. troops in syria? hey frances, well it s still in the planning stages, we understand from a u.s. defense officials, that it would be troops in the hundreds, deployed to eastern syria to guard oilfields and what the defense secretary says is the next phase of the operation against isis. take a listen. the united states will maintain and reduce presence in syria to deny isis access to oil revenue as a reposition of the these phase of the defeat isis
it doesn t seem like there have been house to house searches or block by block kind of coordinated searches to try to figure out, you know, an actual death toll. it just seems like they re still kind of in the planning stages. or the assessment stages. absolutely, anderson. yeah, absolutely, anderson. and what s so terrifying to these people is anecdotally, they have heard stories from people who say i ve lost my brother, i ve lost my sister, this person slipped under the water, i didn t see them, i didn t find them. yet no confirmation if they re dead or alive. you combine that, as you said, in so many places, they have not seen the government resources, they have not seen search and rescue, they have not seen aid come in. they re wondering what s next. it is an open question the government is grappling with figuring out how best to organize it. the storm hit first thing sunday morning. most people tell me they lost their power saturday night. it is now thursday night here. you know