Hello, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt part in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, we begin with breaking news. President biden has been briefed on the raid which injured seven u. S. Troops and killed 15 members of the radical group isis. The raid happened thursday in iraq two of the seven u. S. Troops were evacuated from the area for further treatment, u. S. Central command manages operations in the middle east. They said that the operation targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan further attacks from where we have cnn s chief international purity correspondent, nick paton walsh, joining us from london. Nick, what do we know about this american operation yeah, alex more details from the iraqi military he referred to the two months that was spent gathering intelligence ahead of this operation. And the four hideouts were targeted that appeared to be consumed camouflage of some description which would suggest yes a sort of camp of some desc
Digital program, here to talk about the white house transition process. Implications for National Security. Transition, what National Security information is shared . Guest when the gsa administrator ascertains that a all of thosect words being the specific ones in the legal process, that unlocks government Transition Office space, emails, government cell phones, as well two major sets of information. Theis the ability for Transition Team to access classified information. Agencyond is to allow review teams from the transition to begin to meet with government officials and both of those are very vital assets. A lot of focus on whether president elect biden is getting access to the president s daily intelligence briefing but in many ways, it is the not taking place that these are National Security problem. You have 4000 president ial employees flooding into the federal government over the 2021 and none of them are learning what they need to learn. All of these different staffers and agen
Pope, but still no sign of donald trump conceding to joe biden. Also im natasha popular in paris 5 years after the movember 2015 attacks. There are still painful memories and deep divisions. Montana how much not have all the days sport, including number one in the dust. And johnson takes a share of the lead after the 2nd round of the mostest. Hello, welcome to the program out top story, the United Nations saying that its concerned war crimes might have been committed in ethiopias, northern ted gray region, a Government Forces are battling local leaders. Its when the fighting could spiral out of control leading to heavy casualties. The 10 day conflict has already killed hundreds of people and sent thousands more, fleeing across the border to sudan, the Prime Minister, the i am that has accused the take great Peoples Liberation front of treason and terrorism, and says the offensive wont end until they have removed Amnesty International has said schools of civilians have been massacred du
That begins at 8 00 pm eastern. Enjoy booktv every weekend on cspan2. Good afternoon. I am director of the center on National Security, i am delighted to be joined by ali soufan, author of the black banners declassified how torture derailed the war on terror after 9 11. You probably know ali soufan from some of the events weve done together, a special agent with the fbi, investigated highprofile terrorism cases before, during and after the 9 11 attacks. Is in recent years brought his investigative skills to the private sector, ceo of the founder of the center, his specialty is Global Security affairs from governance culture to state actors to nonstate actors and i will explore as much of that today as we can. I want to deck out each day, we publish the intel brief which is something you should read every day. It is a wonderful deep dive into timely issues that go to the heart of what we are thinking about even if it is not in the headlines. From white to premises him to what is happeni
A government offensive. Also, morocco launches a military operation in the Western Sahara endangering a nearly 3 decade long ceasefire in the region. Plus dozens of People Killed and many injured as typhoon leaves a trail of death and destruction in the philippines. Welcome to the program. The u. S. President has spoken publicly for the 1st time since his election loss to joe biden. During his press conference, donald trump updated americans on his response to the crone virus pandemic. But he also inched closer to acknowledging he may not be leading the countrys next administration until now. Has a ledge voter fraud and claimed without evidence to have won the president ial election. According to some estimates, a National Lockdown course 50000000000. 00 a day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day. Ideally, we wont go to a large and i will not go, this administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the, the whatever happens in the future, who knows which adminis