the area that sis controls, but also other not just targeting the iraqi security forces but deliberately going after gatherings of civilians and, wolf, we re only really beginning to right now understand the depth of the trauma that the population of mosul, especially its children, have been going through. and even if they do eventually liberate mosul, the eastern part of the city, i take it, pretty much liberated, the western part under contention, this could take some time, right? reporter: it s going to take a fair amount of time to root out the city of mosul. the streets are incredibly narrow and it s densely packed and they still have around three more neighborhoods to go before they have the actually whole city surrounded and then you re going to have to deal with the
government taking office. they wanted to increase things given the fact that had been the attack in london. now they ve got even more reason to look at different measures that they can take to help prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future. jim bitterman on the scene for us in paris. thanks very. we ll check back with you. let s get back to politics here in the united states. dramatic politics unfolding. president trump trying to get his agenda back on track as the white house braces for testimony from the fired fbi director james comey. our white house correspondent sara murray is standing by on the north lawn of the white house. our congressional spent phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. sara, the white house had been working on what s call a war room to respond to the russia investigation. comey s testimony on thursday. what s happening with that so-called war room? wolf, they had hoped to create kind of a war room to
saudi arabia, egypt are some of the key nations. now cutting ties with qatar alleging the country has ties to terror groups, specifically isis and al qaeda. iran state news agent claims president trump is fueling the conflict following his trip to saudi arabia two weeks ago. i want to bring in international correspondent ian lee in turkey watching this. what spark ted this fight right now between these gulf states? wolf, it s been brewing for quite some time, but you name a number of the reasons why it has come to head. another one is the [inaudible] which is considered a terror organization. ian, i m going to interrupt for a second. we ll try to get back you to. unfortunately your audio is coming in and out. hard to understand. stand by, we ll try to fix that. we re going to stay on top of
keep our country safe. the courts are slow and political. white house by the way also has a press briefing scheduled this hour. we ll have live coverage of that. sarah huckabee sanders will be giving the briefing instead of sean spicer, the press secretary. she s expected to face lots of questions about the travel ban at fired fbi director james comey upcoming testimony. i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta and justice report laura jarrett. jim, let me start with you. how senior the white house first of all responding to the president s significant number of tweets this morning, several of them so controversial? very controversial, wolf. obviously contrary to what white house officials have been saying for months. we ve been in briefings. we ve talked to officials over the phone who insisted time and again that the president s proposed travel ban was not a travel ban. they called it a travel restrictions. this executive order that would
during the exact time that the supreme court is deciding whether to even take it up and the other side is crafting their briefs right now. so by calling it a watered down version, he s now handed the other side arguably another piece of evidence to suggest the changes between these two executive orders were not made in good faith, wolf. we re standing by, sarah huckabee sanders is going to have the press briefing coming up shortly. we re getting some breaking news. i want to go back to london. nic robertson is on the scene. i take it we re getting some of the names of those involved, the names of the some of the terrorists. is that right? that s right, wolf. the police had said they were going to name them. what we re getting are the names of two of the three attackers. the police said all three were shot dead. let me just read you here what we just had from the police. the two men, kareem and rasheed, both from east of london.