working with our community leaders and advocates to address and provide more community, what we call messengers because it s not just the police and law enforcement but community and law enforcement working together. and then we are investing heavily, about $26 million, on what we call crisis intervention. domestic violence. those on substance abuse, people with mental behavior or health issues. it s a very comprehensive approach to addressing crime and bringing it down. and there s been 14 homicides already this year in d.c. dock talk about the challenges in d.c. as some argue the police are getting too much money. do you need expand the force. i think what you heard from mayor turner and others is this is an ecosystem issue, andrea. the police are certainly a part of it. we think we have to reinvest in them.
was a raid against abu and he decided to kill himself and others before coming into direct contact with the assault force. he did not fight back. fight ba. the objective was to finish his leadership of isis, and that was achieved. finally, the question i m sure all of us are wondering, was there a dog involved, what was its name, and do you have a photo? i do not know, i do not know, and i do not know. i ll take all three. you re welcome. louie? john, why did the mission take two hours? what was the process? was there a calculated process to get civilians out this building? yes. was that a part of the delay? it sounds like two hours on the ground is quite a lot of time for one of these kinds of
deployed by the russian government to say that they had to take military action for a reason like this. and putting the information out in advance will make it harder for them to win the arg andmt and easier to keep the allies aligned, which is an important part of the strategy in this situation. notably, the white house yesterday no longer was saying they thought an invasion was imminent. is there some change in the poster where you think that it may no longer be imminent. no change in poster. we ve been clear all along that this operation could happen at any time. it could happen immediately and it could happen over a longer period of time. we ve entered a phase where russia has enough forces in ukraine and in belarus, where they could conduct an operation. we need to be ready and our partners and allies need to be red pap ready.
information will continue to flow in, we ll share it with you. let it not be forgotten we also helped save ten live, including four kids on that second floor. so ten people, mostly children, were able to get out of that building safely because of the care that was put into that mission. one follow-up question. did any of those who took part in the planning for either the bin laden raid or the baghdadi raid take part in the execution of this operation as well? i don t know. about the children, those who were killed or saved, who were those in the building? again, i want to be careful as we don t have perfect knowledge of every single individual that was killed in this raid. haji abdullah was killed, his lieutenant on the second floor was killed. went he blew himself up on the
president was projecting today. and joining us is a member of the foreign relations committee. thank you. you were with the president at the national prayer breakfast. i know you ve been part of his briefings. let s talk about isis and how important you think getting alcurigsy was to decapitating this terrorist organization? i m so grateful for the bravery, skill and ultimately success of our armed forces and our special forces in particular in taking out this leader of isis. he was actively directing isis units in several countries around the world. targeting americans, civilians. a part of his background is he was one of the leaders of isis brutal genocide against the azeety. a religious minority in iraq and