Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby and Major General Hank Taylor, Deputy Director of the Joint Staff For Regional Operations Press Briefing

PRESS SECRETARY JOHN F. KIRBY: OK, good morning, everybody. I am going to introduce General Taylor back up here to walk you through an operational update, and then when he's done, I -- I have a couple of other things that I'm going to kick off the -- the briefing with and then we'll get to questions, if that's OK. All right? With that -- General? MAJOR GENERAL HANK TAYLOR: Thank you, Mr. Kirby. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us this morning. Once again, I want to provide an operational update, and then as Mr. Kirby said, we'll follow up with questions. As we know, this continues to evolve, the situation, and we continue to strive on the ground and what we really want to do...