[no audio] all right. scott wirtz now on his final journey home from dover air force base back to his hometown of st. louis. scott wirtz had been a navy seal, was now a civilian working for the defense intelligence agency in syria. you can see the van carrying his casket to the air force mortuary there and the salute of a grateful president, president trump, along with secretary pompeo and others gathered there on a very cold and wintery saturday here in january to say goodbye. his cousin quoted as saying, he was the ultimate hero. anyone who serves in the
have to do as president. molly: as we just saw, president trump honoring the lives of four americans killed in syria after a suicide attack and then this morning meeting with the families. here is what he had to say on the way. oh, sorry, we just listened to a moment ago the president speaking and that was his statement regarding heading over to dover. i want to bring in general jack keane, wonderful for you to be here as we look at the somber visit. the president recently announced the withdrawal of troops sfr syria and we saw the deadliest attack, at least 16 killed, the deadliest attack since the american presence there in 2015. as we look at the pictures there, they re looking to pull up here in a moment. these are of scott wirtz, 42 years old. a contractor over there working for the defense intelligence agency now, but had a long history of service in our
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military. just, that loss to our country to see a patriot and servant taken and also your thoughts as this policy decision that essentially had been made. it doesn t seem to be walked back. there s been some talk about the withdrawal being slower, but your thoughts. it reminds us how dangerous isis really is and clearly while we re taken their territory, their safe haven in syria and a lot of the territory in iraq, the truth is, the pentagon and inspector general believes it s somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 30,000 isis fighters still in iraq and syria. there s huge tunnel complexes between syria and iraq that they move people and logistics back and forth. it s very difficult to estimate how many isis
we have control of 99% and we re hitting the rest of it very, very powerfulfully over the last three weeks. now, of course, that defense has not staunched the criticism even from some republicans that the president needs to back off the plan of withdrawal of troops from syria. we ll keep our eye out from the announcement 4:00 this afternoon from the white house. you and your team are working your sources to see if you can get any idea what he s going to say. thank you. as the marches go on, women s march is expected to be lower than the original demonstration two years ago ago the organizers of the national demonstration face some controversy. our david spunt is on the scene here in washington. david. well, hey, molly, good afternoon to you. this began about an hour ago. a lot of people proud to be here, flew in from all over the