aid groups say 13 people were killed. take a look at this drone shot. some people are saying including six children and several women may have been killed in this raid after u.s. officials say the isis leader detonated a suicide bomb. the pentagon is expected to give a briefing at 12:30 eastern, 9:30 pacific later today. with me to talk about all of this is nbc news white house correspondent carol lee, pentagon correspondent kpourt any cube bee, clint watts from the foreign policy research institute and an msnbc national security analyst and retired four star general barry mccaffrey. carol, what have we learned about what the president is going to say when he speaks shortly? it s obvious the white house wants to take a victory lap on this, a significant success. the presidentish yuing a statement saying he directed this operation in syria, thanked u.s. forces for this being a successful operation. we re also likely to get some details about what you ve mentioned about civil
Want to bring in from capitol hill to talk about all of this, rhode island democratic congressman david cicilline sorry, cicilline. there you go. sorry about that. if you don t have a hyphen in your last name, i get confused. he sits on the house foreign affairs committee, part of the house delegation to visit ukraine last week. i want to apologize to you at the start of our conversation if i have to interrupt you when we see president biden appear. i want to begin by getting your thoughts of the leader of isis being killed overnight. an extraordinary achievement of the brave men and women of our intelligence and the military. congratulations to the president on his leadership. this will make a real difference in our fight against terrorism. this is the leader of isis, a very dangerous terrorist organization. it was done with all americans surviving by early reports.
Why do you think so? i think every decision you have to make has to be a way of the risk versus benefits. i live in an area that has higher rates of vaccination. dr. walensky said this is one of the most transmissible viruses we ve ever seen, respiratory viruses. i have two young children at home and i don t want them to get sick. while i do feel good about the protection i have from the vaccine, i don t want to get sis being. the mask is an inconvenience for some, not particularly inconvenient for me. i m used to wearing it. it s a simple measure i can take to increase that level of protection in an era where we have a virus that s much more transmissible than before. jerome adams told anderson cooper he thinks the cdc needs to clarify the mask virus.
Inspector general s report at the end of june that that is not the case. the memorial service in there were 18,000 fighters, they congress. there is obviously a time frame didn t have territory but they here. were resurgent in syria and how much is this going to impede the investigation? iraq. now the question is how many of them have escaped. you re already having phil ambassador jim jeffrey today was acknowledging what he did not acknowledge yesterday but which the defense secretary was saying reeker coming in on are you yesterday, that more than 100 aware saturday session as it is. we are going to let the facts isis fighters have escaped, are not under control. set the timeline. there are plans to keep these jeffrey was saying it was only dozens. the president today speaking depositions and questioning going over the weekend. about isis being secured under lock and key. but it really is a stark i wanted to play the president first and at almost the same difference, when we think a
but you support a suspension of turkey from that to and sanctions on turkey? we already have some sanctions in place because of the, a, the s-400 aerial defense system. from russia. yes. exactly. so that s also we ve had numerous problems with turkey. could ep in mind erdogan is clearly destroying the democracy that turkey once enjoyed before he became the president of turkey. so there is a whole series of issues here. we have to push back. we got to try to regain the stability in the area. how can we do it? certainly, we re going to have to realize that we cannot leave this area if we do so, we re going to wiped up with isis being reinstated. and we have to deal with turkey pushing them out of nato i don t think is a good idea. but holding them into account, continuing to put the pressure on with a variety of issued sanctions among them. congressman, let s move to