Of terrorism or and the ongoing conflict in syria but it will certainly send a message to those who would question americas resolve and provide a warning to terrorists who think they can hide the United States more than any other nation in the world possesses the power and the will to hunt to the ends of the earth those who wish to bring harm upon the American People saturdays operation is just one example of the incredible determination and great skill of the United States military and now asked general milley to provide you with some Additional Details on the operation thank you. So good afternoon everyone as secretary as for stated the United States special Operations Forces under the command of control of United States Central Command general franks mackenzie conducted a count of terrorism operations which resulted in the death of the founder and leader of Isis Bacher Baghdadi intelligence from numerous organizations throughout the department of defense and across the entire intera
We will get your thoughts, democrats only this morning. The first we begin with news. Brokeks like the newsweek this story this morning that the president a week ago approved a special ops raid targeting isis these are back daddy and the military is saying that he is dead. The president is going to speak time. S at 9 a. M. Eastern livell bring that to you here on cspan. More details coming up on that. First, democrats only. Are you with the 2020 field . We will begin with the New York Times. The headline read anxious democratic establishment asks . S there anybody else the hill newspaper, Hillary Clinton 2020 Whisper Campaign hits new height. If you take a look at the gallup poll, they ask members of the Democratic Party how satisfied they are and according to this poll, many of you are satisfied with a candidates running in 2020. What they found was that three out of four are pleased with the field in nearly meant nearly as many republicans are pleased and satisfaction is higher than
Impeachment efforts as the white house walks back a stunning admission, aid from ukraine withheld for political reasons. A live report from capitol hill just moments away. Plus when i say union you say power. Union power union power it is day ten of the Santa Clara County workers strike but there is a deal on the table. Coming up in a live report, whats next. Plus the weekend is just around the corner and if youre headed to the beach, beware. High surf warning is in effect right now. When the waters will be safe. Today in the bay continues for you right now. Good morning on this friday. Thanks for sing yr morning here with us. Im marcus washington. And im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. We want to get to vianey arana, because we are talking the weekend and we are talking about the surf danger. We saw the waves start to build last night and right now that High Surf Advisory is in place through tonight. The good news it looks like the waves get much tamer just in time for saturday. Rig
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer this morning will be offered by the guest chaplain, Bishop Robert barron, archdiocese of los angeles, santa barbara, california. The chaplain let us pray. O god, source of all justice, youve sum oned everyone who works in this chamber to walk the path of righteousness, to foster life and liberty, to care especially for the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. Free these servants of yours, o lord, of all those attachments to wealth or power or privilege or fame, that would prevent them from following the course you have set out for them. Make them mindful of the time when they first heard your voice and followed it with idealism and enthusiasm. Illuminate their minds, direct their wills, stirrup in them a holy passion for doing what is right, despite the cost. Give them the knowledge that whenever they strive for justice , they are pleasing to you. And shower, o lord, your choicest blessings upon our country. Amen. Th
Syria strategy despite the fact that it didnt turn out exactly like i said it would its not a withdrawal its a repositioning of troops hes saying that this is working that he acknowledged the help of the kurdish fighters in this case the kurdish intelligence albeit he put that very low in the sort of thanking category preferring to instead thank nations like russia that we know interfered in the 2016 u. S. Election as well as thanking turkey and iraq as well theres no question the president s probably going to get some criticism for the order of that. List or rather today sions the other thing that i think in all of this which was notable that domestically certainly hes going to get some criticism of is that even say just what he said it multiple times he said that he did not alert members of congress who typically often have oversight in these situations maybe not in a specific raid or operation but certainly on matters of war in syria policy he complained he continually pointed the f