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Stage right now, trump is holding a rally in the battleground, state of wisconsin, while harris is holed up in pennsylvania with a team of advisers preparing for this matchup against trump. The Vice President did take a break to meet with some Small Business owners and voters at a Spy Shop in pittsburgh. Were going to have more on that in just a moment, but first, were gonna go to alayna treene, who is there at the Trump Rally in wisconsin. Alayna has he said anything about the debates so far well, jessica, hes actually almost two hours into this speech and hes only made one mention of the debate and it was very brief play just to ask people in the crowd if they are excited and watching. But other he moved on to the rest of his speech, but luck, jessica theres a key reason w ....
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 ....
Called the effort a total disaster, but has it been? joining me now to talk about mosul and the broader fight against isis, something trump has been highly critical of is the united states deputy secretary of state antony blinken the second most powerful man in the state department. tony, thanks for coming on. thanks, fareed. good to be here. first tell me what is the state of the battle in mosul? when it began people thought it would fall relatively quickly. it has not been that quick. fareed, this is a major turning point in the fight against daesh or isil. just a couple years ago daesh was at the gates of baghdad, threatening the kurdish capital of erbil in iraq and controlled the border between syria and turkey. we are on the verge of taking away the self-declared caliphate, mosul in iraq and ultimately raqqah in syria. that will major practical and psychological affects on daesh. the campaign for mosul is tough, it s getting into the city, it s getting into block to blockhou ....
Soldier strong iraqi ground force backed by u.s. support on the ground and in the air began to retake mosul. president-elect donald trump called the effort a total disaster, but has it been? joining me now to talk about mosul and the broader fight against isis, something trump has been eyely critical of is the united states deputy secretary of state antony blinken the second most powerful man in the state department. tony, thanks for coming on. thanks, fareed. good to be here. first tell me what is the state of the battle in mosul? when it began people thought it would fall relatively quickly. it has not been that quick. fareed, this is a major turning point in the fight against daesh or isil. just a couple years ago daesh was at the gates of baghdad, threatening the kurdish capital of ra biel in new york and controlled the border between syria and turkey. we are on the verge of taking ....
Small ground force in there, we would have gotten other allies. and we should have extricated isis from iraq and that would give more space and time for the development of the iraqi military and a little more space and time for the government, given some breathing space. but in this case we have isis right at the gates of baghdad, and they have been sitting there for quite a while. let me turn to the big news of course this week in terms of the release of that cia report on interrogation tactics. what are your observations, general? well, first of all, i think john mccain said it in the most eloquent way it could have been said. this is not who we are. and we should not subscribe to this kind of use of whatever you want to call it my mind it s torture. that s several things that are bad about this. one, we claim it saves lives. in fact, it puts lives at risk. if you remember the abu ghraib incident that occurred, i talked ....