hacking of the ransomware by colonial pipeline by russian-based hackers. putin will say he has no responsibility for them. nothing happens in russia without vladimir putin s say-so even if it s not specifically from the government. also, of course, posture against ukraine. now a new threat, more recent threat to close down the last humanitarian crossroads from turkey into syria. but by vetoing an extension to the u.n. next month. a lot of things to be dealt w all of this is on the president s plate. he has to figure out how to deal with this guy, vladimir putin, who has very little to risk here. it s really joe biden to show the posture, that he s different from trump, that he can stand up to putin and try to bring back something, bring back some concessions, some indication of how to go forward with russia. andrea, no doubt that president biden is one of the
still inhabited by isis. it s not necessarily held by them as, like, a caliphate or as a land that they own and they govern, but there is still an isis presence in that area. so we know that there were a number of u.s. special operations forces. we think these are the most elite of the task force. they went in on helicopters. there was also fixed-wing jets and some u.s. drones that came in across the border from turkey into syria and launched this raid. we know that there was some fire from the air to the ground, but we don t have a really good sense of exactly whether the mission was to target a convoy, whether baghdadi was in some static area when they went after him. we do know there was fire from the air. at least one or more helicopters landed, and they were able to gather some intelligence. now, the u.s. officials i spoke with said that the intelligence included some sort of forensic evidence on the target, abu bakr al baghdadi.
should expect to see are artillery strikes across the border, perhaps some other kind of small arms, mortars or what not, going across the border from turkey into syria, and we can see that coming. and i want to reinforce something matt just said about the sdf saying they re going to fight. i spoke with general muslum, who is the head of the syrian democratic forces, and he said he is very disappointed on the u.s. military decision to pull back from the border, but the world should know that the sdf is going to fight, that they are not going to cede what they see as their land, they are territory in northern syria, to turkey, steph. all right, courtney, matt, thank you both so much. matt, stay safe where you are. i want to go deeper on this topic and bring in kelly magnussen. she served on the national security council in both the obama and bush administrations. christopher hill, former u.s. ambassador to iraq and national political reporter here at nbc, carol lee. ambassador, let s
recruiters was allowed to leave this country to go to syria and be further radicalized and come home. what i want to hear from our leaders is not dealing with symptoms of taber after an attack. business as usual, and a writer for the daily mail, how do you tell that to these parents, a mother who birthed the child, gave the child every opportunity in life, concert tickets to see one of her favorite celebrities and she is killed there, when there is security at the concert, this individual, your country gave this individual a new life and look what he does. radicalization has been going on, we have encouraged
very common process. they start with being told they are victims, they listen to conspiracy theories, they are told everything against muslims is from the west, it is not their own tyrants, their own ideology, it is from the west, somebody else s fall, the victimization groups brainwash them that they are living among the enemy and that makes them radicalized. the last step is when they go to syria, they learn how to make bombs and right now all of our american taxpayers to western taxpayer money being spent just on the last step when they learn how to make a bomb and become violent. until we get it right and focus on the nonviolent precursors, we are continuing a whack a mole waste of time. what did you make of the comments calling terrorists not monsters, he wants to call them losers, losers in life. that is perfect. this is a war and when these actss our recruitment tools for other militants in which they see the west as in human, they