relationships with, isis basically, is it not just a franchise operation now? this was one operation the other evening, but isis in the philippines and afghanistan certainly, but especially in africa, how stretched thin are our weaponry, our tactical forces in combatting this? well, we i mean isis is a global organization. every isis affiliate pledged allegiance to abdullah, the isis leader killed the other night and it is important to keep in mind. he was running by couriers, trying to keep in his hand and coordinating the global network. a lot of these affiliates take advantage of local insurgencies and a lot are local problems that can t threaten us at home, yet we work to keep pressure on them with our partnerships. this situation in syria not long ago 8 million were living under isis, its ability to project
reporter: with civilians in the area, the military chose a raid rather than an airstrike. the president was trying to avoid civilian harm. reporter: a maintenance issue grounded one u.s. helicopter and troops blew it up before departing syria after two hours on the ground, the administration calling the mission a success. it sent a strong message to terrorists around the world. we will come after you and find you. all right. let s bring in white house coordinator for the middle east, brett mcgurk. he formerly served as presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat isis. still with us, jonathan lemire, elise jordan and richard haass and mike barnicle joins us as well. brett, any new details on the killing of this isis leader? given this big hit, what is the strategy moving forward? mika, it is great to be here. i think courtney s report summed it up quite well. one thing not mentioned in the report and this took months of
we ve re-recovered, if you will, our ability to cooperate with some local forces. richard, it is a great question. look, we have really tried to reset our position in the middle east. we want a sustainable presence. this type of operation is rare, but we have partners that do these things every day. we train and advise. we made clear, our administration, we re not in syria to take the oil, we re not in syria for any other reason other than to remain and keep appreciature on isis. we have a small number of u.s. forces and that s the reason we are there and we reestablished our partnerships with the syrian kurds and with the iraqi government who played a role in this. we feel good about that. so re-establishing our partnerships around the world has been a driving theme over the first 13 months of our time here. on that point with allies throughout the world we maintain
for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning and all week long. certainly a consequential week and we have lots to get to on morning joe, including the fall-out from yesterday s strike in syria that killed an isis leader. the latest tensions now with vladimir putin in beijing talking to xi jinping and the two countries pledging to align their interests. morning joe starts right now. have a great weekend, everybody. the russian government we think is planning to stage a fake attack by ukrainian military or u.s. forces against russian sovereign territory or against russian-speaking people, to therefore justify their action. as part of this fake attack we believe that russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video which would include corpses and actors depicting mourners and images of
enough is enough. we know we can do things about this but for the resistance we are getting from sectors of the government and the congress. president biden says he wants every major city to follow new york city s lead in fighting crime. mayor eric adams, a former cop himself, has launched an effort to crack down on violence in the city, telling the president he s, quote, reporting for duty and ready to serve. mayor adams joins us straight ahead. but first this hour, the big news on the national security front. the new details we are learning about the u.s. special ops rate raid in syria taking out the leader of isis. nbc correspondent courtney kube has the latest. reporter: daylight and the aftermath of a night-time u.s. military raid in northwestern syria targeting and killing the leader of isis. his name abu ibrahim al hashimi