Hey guys, thank you, good morning everybody
We are learning precious new details after that deadly terror ambush that took the lives of four u.s.
Servicemembers in western Africa we are now learning they came under fire from fifty
Heavily armed militants in the fight lasted for hours. Good morning everybody
I'm bill hemmer big show this morning as we say hello live here in America's new Zima nice to have you with us today Sandra
Good morning. Good morning to you bill. I'm Sandra Smith u.s.
12 US troops and 30 Nigerian soldiers were ambushed by
Isis affiliated militants in me share and fought outnumbered and outgunned for an hour before calling for air support
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford promising answers for the families of the soldiers and the nation I
Think first and foremost in this particular case we owe the families as much information as we can find out about what happened
And we owe the American people an explanation of what their men and women were doing at this particular time
When I say that I mean men and women in harm's way anywhere in the world
They should know what the mission is we're out here today is is to take your questions and provide as much information as we have
The only thing I'm asking for today is it a bit of patience to make sure that what we provide to you
When we provide it is factual
So Lucas Tomlinson
Picks up the covers on the Pentagon there Lucas busy day yesterday and good morning there where we start coverage now with you hello
Well good morning bill the US military's top officer offered new details into the deadly attack that killed four US
Troops in his share saying that those troops when they were under attack didn't call for air support
Until an hour after the fighting started and those french jets didn't arrive overhead for another hour a full two hours after the fighting
began
When they requested support it took the French aircraft the French were ready to go in 30 minutes
And then it took them 30 minutes approximately 30 minutes to get on the scene
But it's important to note that one that when they didn't ask for support for that first hour
My judgment would be that that that unit thought they could handle the situation without additional support
That's different from the timeline first provided by the Pentagon saying the French jets were overhead within thirty minutes after being urgently
requested now officials say the 12-man Special Forces team could not
communicate with the french jets
Above making it impossible for them to drop bombs because the jets couldn't tell the difference between friend or foe on the ground
What did the general say about the search for the missing soldier sergeant David Johnson?
General Dunford said as soon as he learned that sergeant Johnson was missing
He ordered the full weight of the US military to search for him
General Dunford, when did you alert the White House? We notified the White House?
As soon as we had a soldier that was missing. It was probably around
9:00 or 9:30
Washington DC time the night of the 4th and at that point knowing that we had a missing soldier
We made a decision to make sure that all of the resources to include national assets were available
Sergeant Johnson's body was discovered two days later by Nigerian forces now questions remain about how he got separated from his unit
Dunford said US troops in each air are not allowed to accompany local forces if they expect enemy contact
But none was expected on this Patrol Dunford said a US drone was sent overhead within minutes after the attack began
But officials say if that drone had been overhead from the beginning
It could have spotted those 50 enemy forces closing in elevating our covers there Lucas Tomlinson
Thank you more to come from the Pentagon Sandra so the u.s.
Actually has a history of combating terrorism in Africa going back nearly a decade first establishing a Joint Special Operations
Task force in Nazaire in 2008 since then troop levels have reached
800 on the ground since 2011 the US and France have trained
35,000 African soldiers to fight terrorists linked to Isis al Qaeda and Boko Haram and the u.s.
role There is still
Expanding with the trump administration moving ahead with Obama Arab plans to open a second drone base at a site already
housing US forces wow
That's happening Senator Marco Rubio on the Senate Intel committee we asked him about this mission a bit earlier today
And he says he and his colleagues need answers about what happened to save
American lives in the future
Everyone here knows full well that the US has been involved in these efforts against Boko Haram in the end
What we need to get back to here is understanding
what went wrong in this mission not for purposes of casting blame or anything but to learn from it so this never happens again because
This is the not lot this will not be the last time that we deploy special operators into conditions such as these very
Interesting commas there from senator Rubio much more on that coming up in our 10:30 a.m.. Eastern hour
You'll see the full interview Dam major point in all this
6,000 US troops operating in more than 50 countries in Africa this was not a secret to anybody you could google it and find the
Information yourself, so we'll go through all that coming you look forward to hearing from him
Meanwhile President Trump will be taking some decisive action today that will allow refugees
back into the US but with a much tougher vetting process chief White House correspondent
John Roberts is live on the South Lawn John good morning
North Lawn South South Lawn is off-limits
This morning
Good morning to you Santa another deadline expiring today, and the president's travel, ban this 120 day ban on
Refugee admissions into the United States that was imposed by the Supreme Court when it reviewed the president's travel
Ban the president needs to take action on refugees so this afternoon the president will sign an executive order to suspend
section six of the travel, ban
That's the one related to refugees and will rely on American policies for refugee admission under the new guidelines
the US will for fiscal year 18 cap refugee admissions to
45,000 that's down more than 50% from the Obama
administration the US will also enhance procedures for refugee enter entries raising the standards for vetting
individuals and will apply those standards across the board for men women and children currently men are
Vetted more stringently than women and children the finer detail sander will come out this afternoon
But that's the basics of what the president will do later on today all right John and the president's heading to the hill this afternoon
He's going up to the Senate for a lunch to talk about the fall agenda clearly tax reform is going to be at the top
Of the agenda the president in a conference call on Sunday afternoon pushing members of Congress to get tax reform done by
Thanksgiving which really means get it done by the end of the year which in reality means it probably won't be done until
early next year
Tennessee senator
Bob Corker this morning suggesting that the president should keep his nose out of the sausage making part of tax reform
Pointing out the president's tweet yesterday that he would not allow lawmakers to impose a lower cap on tax-free contributions
To 401k plans to pay for tax reform listen to what senator corker said this morning
Hopefully the White House will will step aside and let that occur in a normal process. I know recently
The White House in a couple of cases has been taking things off the table
And I would just say there's a lot of work to be done the spinach part of this
The tough part of this is up coming over the next several weeks this whole idea of lowering the cap on tax-free contributions
To 401k plans drew fire from the Senate's top Democrat listen to what Chuck Schumer said yesterday?
now President Trump tweeted this morning
They were not going down that road
But the fact that Republicans were even considering raiding America's
Retirement savings to pay for a giant tax cut for corporations
estates
Shows you just how backward their plan is
and what senator corker said this morning has reignited the Twitter feud between the
President and Senator corker the president taking sharp aim at the Tennessee senator this morning in a tweet saying quote
Bob Corker who helped president obama give us the bad iran deal and couldn't get elected dogcatcher
In tennessee is now fighting tax cuts corker dropped out of the race in Tennessee when I refused to endorse him and now is only
Negative on anything Trump look at his record
exclamation point to which senator corker responded quote same untruths from an utterly
untruthful president hashtag
alert the day care staff
There is a likelihood sander that this afternoon's Senate lunch may be more of a food fight
When it comes to the president in bob corker the president will be taking questions by the way from members of the Senate
We'll see if he and corker get into it today
We shall see is exactly how we'll leave it there, John Roberts
Thank you against nothing against dog catchers Byron your cheap little responder watching examiner Foxy's contribute. I do environment good morning. Good morning
Yes, the president corker won't be sitting next to each other today. That's my guess. Yeah, pretty good bet
Listen I I think what they want to hear is
Where is the president on taxes and where is the president on health care?
Well, and it did it doesn't need to extend much more than that Byron pretty much part of what they want to hear is just
That the president is going to use his power the bully pulpit to push this from now until
It's done because you know in the Obamacare fight the president was in it sometimes and not in it sometimes was not truly
All in all the time
And they really want to see him all in all the time on on this
If if they want to hear details from the president, you know they're not gonna hear it
He's going to speak problem as he has done in in generalities
But I do think that they want to hear what he has to say about those
401k plans and by the way the president might be giving Republicans good advice about those 401k plans. They're very popular
It's a middle class tax break and there aren't that many of them
They'll want to hear about the state and local taxes
And they'll want to hear talk about him say him discuss
What we've heard about
possibly
Creating a upper bracket a higher bracket for people who make more than a million dollars a year is this the kind of lunch where?
The president gets them to go forward
It's it's been on the schedule for some time is this the nudge that you need at times to to push it through
well perhaps
It's a nudge for them to settle their differences
But I think it's it's a fact now the Republicans understand. Fully the importance of this tax thing. We've discussed this before
having failed on Obamacare if they fail on taxes
they realize they'll go into 2018 without a big legislative accomplishment and
Having broken their top two promises for this session which is to repeal and replace Obamacare if that's and will reform tax
That's political death is an environment. That's focusing their mind
Right on you don't survive in Washington let you get that done Byron. Thank you so much sir Byron, New York and watch
Thank you Bill. Just an analysis there to the dog catchers out. It's a good job
Someone's got a different take no offense for the dog cats what a morning so far
All right, well mother nature unleashing on these southeast
a
powerful storm slamming the South the latest on the cleanup straight ahead also new warnings from a key US ally regarding an
unprecedented threat from North Korea only weeks before President Trump will be in Asia former UN, Ambassador John Bolton
Joins us for his take on what's at stake on this presidential trip plus? There's this said listen
It's the same baloney they've been peddling for years, and there's been no no credible evidence by anyone
Hillary Clinton pushing back against claims of pay-to-play while she was Secretary of State saying it's all about
Republicans getting nervous about their own Russia problem, but now at least two congressional committees are
Investigating those claims our panel on that straight ahead
We're on the edge of the greatest
Corruption scandal in American history the Clintons are only a part of this. Where do you get to attorney general Lynch?
What do you get - her predecessor? This is just gonna keep on rolling?
I'll be going over to that part of the world in two weeks
And stopping in numerous countries including as you know Japan yes, South, Korea, China
we're gonna be stopping in Vietnam and
Probably the Philippines also
So it would be a very busy 10 or 11 days there will be a lot of news in this trip to
Japanese officials warning the threat of nuclear war has grown to unprecedented levels
Only days before the president leaves for Asia
As he mentioned there, South Korea Japan there on the itinerary so too is China
So as I mentioned there will be headlines john bolton from US ambassador to the United Nations and a Fox News contributor
Good morning to you Dave. Good morning
DMZ is not on his itinerary
Maybe it changes, but if he does not go there is that?
Significant to you
well it could be they don't want to advertise that he's going though the line is it's
logistical challenges and whatnot
Honestly, I think he should go I think it's important for American troops in the region to see the commander-in-chief literally right on the line
I think it's a clear message to South Korea
So I hope these
Logistical difficulties can be overcome because as you mentioned the Japanese are right there with us in assessing
Just how serious this North Korean nuclear threat is it's a very important trip at a very important time
I agree with your assessment of the DMZ still there are those who will argue you inflame you incite you provoke. Do you buy that?
In part, that's what leadership is this division on the peninsula is something
I think we should be trying to end
But I think it's important for the president to be there as I say on the front line and we'll see what happens
USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading to the region
It was last there in June is this a sign or a signal of anything
Or is it just further movements on behalf of the US Navy in the Pacific well
I think there are a number of movements that are underway especially with the president coming into the region
Wouldn't be at all surprising. I do think if there's some prospect of a military action against, North Korea
We'll see a lot more movements in the future
But I think this is more in line with just being ready with the president out there now the Roosevelt will join the Reagan
We'll see what happens there meanwhile yesterday 34 years since the Marine Barracks were attacked in Beirut Lebanon, and what a stunning day?
That was an American history arguably it was the first terror attack on behalf of the Iranian regime
Carried out by the Revolutionary Guard Hezbollah whatever mix of combination you want to throw there in Lebanon Mike Pence made
made this a point yesterday when he said the following and
president Donald Trump
Has put Iran on notice that we will no longer tolerate their destabilizing
Activities or their support of terrorism across the region and across the world I think it's a strong message
But I'm wondering what's changed in three decades
Much well very little from Iran you know people talk about
Radical Islamic terrorism and all too often just think it's al Qaeda or Isis
Hamas and they ignored that it was the Islamic Revolution 1979 in Iran that really started the
contemporary wave of radical Islamic political thinking
Whether it's Shias that was or Sunni as some others are
Iran has been the center of terrorist activity around the world ever since then including
financing Islamic terrorism whether of the Sunni or the Shia variety
And I think it's important Americans understand there were Revolutionary Guard commanders
Supervising these predecessor elements of Hezbollah that carried out that attack on the Marine Barracks
They were after Americans. They see us as the target
That's why their nuclear weapons program along with their terrorist activities has to be taken by America even if not by our friends in Europe
Has to be taken by Americans as a direct threat than us in a word can this administration
Influence that the Revolutionary Guard the leadership in Tehran do you think they can yes or no?
I don't think they can influence this leadership at all. I think this leadership in Tehran needs to be replaced
Wow John Bolton, thank you for your time
Thank you for coming up real soon and all that
Thank you and Washington Jeff Sessions says all bets are off when it comes to hunting down ms-13 gang members
Just like we took our
Component of the streets without tax laws we will use whatever laws
We have to get ms-13 off the streets the Attorney General promising an all-out assault to bring this
Notorious gang to its knees we'll tell you how he plans to do it next
Plus after a series of cryptic messages James Comey the former FBI director finally revealing
He and his
Secrecy his secret identity on Twitter
So this is rather unusual
former FBI director James Comey
Unmasking himself on Twitter he's the person behind this mysterious account Comey confirming. He's
Behind the reinhold niebuhr pseudonym. He tweeted a picture of himself with a caption goodbye
Iowa on the road home got to get back to writing will try to tweet and useful waves end quote
the unofficial account popped up in March with his meme and a link to
FBI jobs dot gov the
Account was silent for months with Internet's loose trying to prove that in fact
It was James Comey in the last week he - and it was he tweeted from Gettysburg
West Point's and the state of Iowa
You you scrub this account, right
What did you find?
Well first of all I started following the account on Twitter the first thing I did and then I noticed that he's got a hundred
And fifteen thousand followers like and he's only sent out a few tweets no song I imagine Gettysburg
He's visiting the the war site
I get imagine West Point similar with the Academy, and I think in Iowa he's getting ready for the primary
Well, there is speculation
Also that his wife caucus sorry
Iowa caucus not the primary yes his wife is from Iowa
Apparently so according to a recent report to end that it may have been someone's birthday
So who knows it's kind of funky follow them on Twitter. Yeah, you know who it is
you know
I have designated ms-13 as a priority for our
Organized crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. I have authorized them to use every lawful tool to investigate
ms-13
And not just our drug laws, but everything from Rico racketeering to our tax laws to our farms law
Attorney general Jeff Sessions there yesterday vowing to demolish the ms-13 street gang using all legal avenues
Members are suspected of committing several high-profile killings on the East Coast including the murder of at least
22 people on Long Island, New York last year the gang also has a history of drug trafficking and money laundering
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