a more critical view. president trump has announced that us forces have killed the leader of the islamic state group, abu bakral baghdadi, in syria. he said that he had watched images of the operation as it unfolded from the white house. this report from our middle east editorjeremy bowen. explosions. the sound and flame of battle lasted around four hours, witnesses in the village told the bbc. in the morning, boys on their way to school checked out the rubble. they re from a new generation violent jihadists might try to recruit. nothing was left of the house where baghdadi and his family had been staying. translation: the heli went back and fired. soldiers rode down on the helis, on two sides, we couldn t stay longer than two minutes on the roof. we went down and hid inside. in 2014, abu bakr al baghdadi declared the establishment of a caliphate his brutal vision of an islamic entity. he spoke in mosul, iraq s second city, in the mosque his men destroyed as their caliphate
preventing another january 6th. plus, trump s pick for governor in arizona takes a page right out of his playbook. kari lake is declaring victory before all of the votes are counted and struggles to explain how her win doesn t clash with her claims of voter fraud. good morning, welcome to way too early. on this thursday august 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for being with us. the number two democrat in the senate is calling on the department of defense to open an internal investigation into missing texts from key officials on january 6th. in a letter yesterday, majority whip and judiciary committee chair dick durbin of illinois asked the d.o.d. s inspector general to launch a probe into the deleted communications of several trump appointed officials, who were were tasked with deploying the national guard during the capitol riot. the letter reads this way. the disappearance of this critical information could jeopardize efforts to learn the full truth about january 6
hill on an august day. that is due to the extraordinary lineup. five years ago, maybe even before five years ago, united nations, with the cooperation of the united states and with many countries around the world, began to plan for the future of world global development that would apply not only to the least developed countries but just as well, equally and universally, to the critical rightsf affairs of human bestr development in the equipped countries. including the united states. out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of sustainable development goals to help lead the way for all voluntarily, importantly voluntarily, to collaborate on how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years of 2013 and 2030. so already it has been in progress to talk about. the millennium development goals that were really quite extraordinarily successful. by focusing across the world the attention of development agencies. but now focusing the attention of al
i m going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. all right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to i m delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. this is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thank-yous. first of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued interest in our work on radical islam. there is a lot of offices that are involved with us on this work. we really appreciate being able to, in addition to our in-house work that we do in terms of to beations and events, able to come on to the hill and be able to present the findings that we have, and also the findings of our friends. a couple words about the american foreign policy
stacey: a high school basketball player who collapsed during practice last week has died. mercy medical center officials confirm 16-year-old drew jacobson died at the hospital this morning. woodward-granger superintendent brad anderson says jacobson fell and hit his head at practice wednesday night. he was flown by air ambulance to des moines. there is a go fund me account for drew s medical and funeral expenses. nearly $15,000 has been raised in five hours. if you d like to donate, there s a link on our website, kcci.com. mark: flags across the metro flying at half staff today. they re marking 74 years since japanese war planes attacked pearl harbor. more than 2000 american sailors and soldiers died in that attack. more than 1000 more were wounded. at the pearl harbor memorial in des moines, people came together to remember. kcci s marcus mcintosh was there . he joins us with more from the emotional ceremony. marcus: mark, we met one of the last living iowans at pearl harbor