over the course of 6 debates she ll have to elucidate that. we have the framework for the final deal. if this gets announced in june she ll have to say whether she s for it or against it. this is an easier one. i think it will be very hard for hillary clinton not to own and embrace it. there is risks because you have members of the party who are proisrael, more hawkest. there is that contingent there. it will be difficult for hillary clinton to walk away from this given she was secretary of state. one of her top aides, but also now as a candidate, he s part of her campaign was a big part of that. i think she s part of the iran deal. a lot of questions, a lot of things people are waiting to hear. no word yet that could change. thanks for taking a few minutes this morning. keeping an eye on what we are learning out of eastern syria this morning.
eastern syria except through an occasional air strike. this was showing isis the u.s. has the intelligence and certainly with the special operations forces, the wherewithal to penetrate their best defenses and grab one of their top people. if nothing else this is a huge psychological victory for the u.s. psychological blow for isis. again for those just joining us, u.s. forces killing abu sayyaf, an isis leader who was intimately involved in the financing of that operation. also capturing his wife, umm sayyaf. we are told that she may potentially also have been critical in a role she made. where do you know where the wife is now? what s going to be happening to her now? well obviously she ll be taken she s in custody. she ll be secluded. she s not going to be mingled with any other prisoners that the u.s. iraq orther the coalition
last night it was carried out in eastern syria aimed at capturing a isis leader and his wife. it was supposed to be a snatch and grab. but during the raid he was killed. 12 other enemy fighters were also killed in this mission. no u.s. personnel were killed however. umm sayyaf was captured. u.s. forces freed a young yazidi woman who was being held as a slave. i was told by one official that umm sayyaf may have been involved in a human trafficking leader. he was involved in the military, but also had a senior role in overseaing isis oil and gas operations. this is significant. i know you were honing in on this. i m told it is significant because oil and gas is a key source of revenue. this is part of starving the
specifically isis put up flags in southwest of baghdad. they ve been hitching with multiple e.i.d.s, improsized explosive devices. they ve been going to central syria. palmyra. this is interesting. according to my sources very high up in the u.k. ministry of defense. u.k. and u.s. forces have been operating over a year. not just operating on the tactical side but also been training with the ypg. the kurdish rebels within syria and they ve been also just sort of expanding the fight, if you like, with moderates not only engaged in the fight against isis but the syrian regime. does this point to then a more significant, i mean what
breaking news this hour that u.s. special forces have carried out a raid inside of syria. flying into eastern syria by helicopter to kill a top isis commander. the department of defense says he was involved in isis military matters. its finances and he helped direct the oil and gas operations. special forces xancapturing his wife. we have a report from the pentagon saying he was killed when he engaged u.s. forces as they tried to capture him in eastern syria last night and that u.s. forces managed to capture his wife. they say that she was suspect she s a member of isis and that she quote may have been complicit it what appears to