Jon writing obamas biggest challenge is active test is whether he can revitalize the foreignpolicy team we can make the most of these opportunities. White house Officials Say obama knows these new blood, wider bandwidth, more intellectual capital, choose your metaphor. Joining us now, chief White House Correspondent for the new york times. Is it a surprise to you chuck hagel is out . Yeah, little bit of a surprise it happened this way. It has been known for a long time he was not suited for the job, the white house had recently headed on the chairman of joint chiefs, the secretary felt like an odd man out in a lot of these decisions that were made especially as they sent more troops over to iraq trying to fight the war in syria. His supporters answer the charge that he was quiet at Staff Meetings and so forth. He wanted to express his opinions privately with the president oneonone to avoid the prospect. Is that possible . That could be. But the only one that the president was listening
Play this notion that hagel is being forced out, pushed out. What are you hearing . Im hearing from defense officials that this was mutual. Thats a consistent line. I know that others are hearing he was pushed out and, to be frank, there had been talk of dissatisfaction from the white house with secretary hagel for some number of weeks. Now, to be fair, that criticism does not only go in one direction. Fact is, in the halls of the pentagon you will hear frustration with the white house, with lack of strategic planning, with micromanagement and thats, frankly, a criticism that ive heard, wolf, outside of the pentagon as well in other departments. The state department, other wings of this government. Its a consistent frustration with this administration which we hear quietly and privately internally. Keep in mind as well that secretary hagel when he came into this job he had a different remit. A little less than two years ago the focus was on withdrawing troops from iraq, withdrawing tro
The belgium attacks. Reporter this is developing the last couple hours here and it could be more potentially deadly fallout from those attacks we have seen in brussels and paris the last several months. Police in the central british city of birmingham, five people arrested for terror offenses. The raids have been described as preplanned, intelligence led and significant. Authorities say they are working with french and belgium officials to address any threat to the u. K. After attacks on the continent. Two key players in those attacks went to birmingham last year. They took pictures of various scenes in that city, including one of the huge soccer stadiums. One of the huge terror attacks was at a soccer stadium there. It raises the possibility those arrested overnight might have been planning Something Like that but no plot has been described as of yet. Abaoud killed by police, abrini in custody. What more do we know, gregg . Reporter this underscores what you are saying. The europeanwi
A nations security. Johnson as british Prime Minister . I have a feeling. A vocal leader in it the exit of the European Union bows out. It is time to tell the world again what kind of a country britain is. And a deadly encountener the wilderness. They are victim of a bear attack. A cyclist is knocked off a bike and mauled. It is all concerning. It is happening now. And fox news alert on this thursday. Terror in two nations. Dramatic raids are conducted in turkey following the istanbul attacks and the u. S. Strikes a deadly blow to isis in iraq. I am jon scott. And i am Heather Childers in for jenna lee. Security forces carrying out antiterror operations and arresting 13 suspects linked to the deadly airport attack. And identifying the nationalities of throw terrorist that hit the airport carrying 44 people. As isis suffers a major set back on the battlefield in iraq. This is a u. S. Jet taking off the Aircraft Carrier mission that killed 250 isis in a convoy. The air strikes the deadli
He says the bomber was well known by turkey. We are seeing video of the moment of the attack, some images are disturbing. Some of them, we see a gunman running through the airport. You can see him with his weapon, people scattering off to the side. This is inside the arrivals area of the international terminal. We also have video of an attacker without his gun drawn. According to turkish broadcaster, he is confronted by an undercover officer that asks for identification. The attacker opens fire. I want to bring in alexandra field, we also have Matthew Chance in moscow. Alexandra, weve seen more than a dozen antiterror raids in turkey after the attack. What can you tell us about that . Reporter right, no doubt we will continue to see those kinds of raids happening. Since the attacks were unleash at the airport behind me, that officials have been conducting Counter Terrorism raids. They picked up some 13 people in istanbul, another 9 in a coastal city. Not clear why they picked up the pe