Holt’s Interview with Secretary of Defense Carter Airs Tonight on “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt”
NBC News’s Richard Engel Reports on Leaked ISIS Documents Tonight on Nightly News
April 18, 2016 – In an exclusive interview from Iraq, United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter today told “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt that “Iraqis are still in the lead” in the fight against ISIS, but the U.S. will be more aggressive.
Carter’s interview will air on “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” tonight, when Holt will anchor live from the Middle East. An excerpted segment of the interview is included below and can be viewed online here: http://nbcnews.to/23Hkq4f.
The broadcast will also feature an exclusive report from NBC News’s Richard Engel, detailing what leaked documents reveal about ISIS terror recruits. Working with experts at West Point, Engel reports on how the documents provide new insight into the terror group’s grand ambitions and diverse recruits.
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LESTER HOLT:
As you add additional personnel and they are advising lower down the chain, does that put more Americans at higher risk?
ASH CARTER:
Iraqis are still in the lead that doesn’t change, and Lester, Americans are at risk today, every single day here. As secretary of defense I take that more seriously than anything else. I want our troops to be effective but I want them also to be as safe as possible, consistent with that. But it’s very important to do this because we have to and we will defeat ISIL. We need to get that done as soon as possible and that means being more aggressive in the moves we make.
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