Were going to start with the Breaking News. House intelligence chair adam schiff acc obstruction. Its the latest in the ongoing impeachment saga after a key witness today acting on orders from the white house refused to be deposed. Also President Trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. But hes under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major story were watching is california in flames right now. Mandatory Evacuation Orders are in place. 200,000 people have been told to get out so far including hospital patients, jail inmate, College Students as well. Well go to california in a bit. We start with that Breaking News on capitol hill right now. A key witness has refused to show up to a scheduled deposition this morning and democrats are now preparing to hold it in contempt of congress. We move forwa
months. kept abreast rksz, as it related to all the developments in the efforts to get osama bin laden. i also understand there s a bit of an update on the canine who was wounded in the raid. what more can you tell us about this dog? the president himself acknowledged the details. it played out within the last 48 hours in syria. the president said of that dog that it was a beautiful and talented dog. it appears to be okay right now. but within the military community, there s been real frustration about the way the president did detail so many operational details. eight helicopters, the way the assault took place or the way they entered that compound the fact that there were dogs with them and concerns within the military community that by give
those groups operate independently of the central leadership in iraq and sear kwa. does the global isis network present more of a threat than the organization that remains in syria. i think you can t talk about one without talking about the other. and the truth is that isis is always an idea as much as it was about an individual. so this goes on. it s a victory that does not mark a real end to the discussion about what the islamic state can bring. i discussed all of this yesterday with the the head of the all women s force that s part of the sdf. they fought isis alongside the united states.
successful as well. but there s no way that s break breaking through the news when the other raid was a special operations one to take out al baghdadi. we know that this is sort of becoming the staging point for much of the missions going in and out of syria. the retrograde or the mission for u.s. troops leaving, that s part of the old mission. and now we know this new mission, president trump spoke about it yesterday at the white house to secure the oil fields. the trouops are moving out of here and moving into down into syria and down into the region where they conduct that mission. the first of that convoy literally drove out of here on saturday. we have some video of it going in. so this has become the new staging point. what we don t know is what s the deal with the securing the oil fields mission? how many troops are dedicated to it. are some in country to be moved down to that? and then exactly what will the total footprint be. it does seem evident it will be smaller than the cu
in the face of, i think, what a president should do. it doesn t seem serious. obviously i m hopeful for it but i m not holding my breath. i think that what we need to do in this 21st century is embrace the values that we care about when we re engaging our allies and trying to deal with our adversaries. that goes for syria. that goes for trying to achieve a two-state solution between the palestinians and the israelis, our relationship with iran and the nuclear agreement. we had a conversation about that today. so when we look around the world, we need tone sure that we rebuild the trust of the world based on the values that we support of freedom, of democracy, of opportunity. there s one more question. the u.s. gives about $3 billion a year in military aid to israel. there s a conversation over whether that money should be used as leverage to push and to press israel to hold back from its settlement expansion in the west bank. is that something you support