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He oversaw a caliphate, he pursued ethnic cleansing, genocide, he engaged in mass rapes of women. it included stoning women to death for alleged adultery and throwing gay men off high buildings. that was one thing that happened. the other thing that happened is that the president took a victory lap despite his serial troop withdrawal complicated it. the president delivered a typically bizarre narcissistic political perform answer in which he tried to glory with special operators before getting a...

The number two of al qaeda was al czar wowwy. theyre still running the organization with him. and i think the situation with isis is a little bit different. youll have a vacuum of leadership. it will be very difficult to fill that vacuum. why? because isis said were a caliphate. in order to be a caliph, you need to be from koresh and an arab. koresh, the tribe of the prophet. the number two now that is supposedly going to be fit, you know, the position or fill the position of the caliph hes a tu...

Have gone underground since the defeat of the caliphate. on the other hand, the reaction here is that they are asking questions that they want an investigation into the movement of abu bakr al baghdadi inside syria. its controlled by the forces or the regime. theres speculation and people believe he could on the border between iraq and syria in western iraq and eastern syria, but not many expected he would be in what is considered to be this his toll territory where you have other rival jihadist...

Going after -- calling the man a dog. he was a despicable human being, but this just raises the company and what im concerned about is theres going to be some kind of blowback in terrorist attacks in europe or in this company, somebody is going to take up arms. >> do you think so because of this, because of his language? >> i think so, absolutely. it goi its going to take some sleeper cell or somebody self-recruited to do damage, to do violence against us or somebody. >> to that point, let me ge...

Decide to come out and conduct a formal press briefing and answer publicly some reporter questions with more details about what happened. how classified is this mission? well afsh well, a dog was hurt during the mission. he is back on duty. we asked if we could have the dogs name and we were told no, its a classified mission, we cant tell you the name of the dog. >> al baghdadi is dead but isis is not. getting to kind of what barbara was getting at there, what hppens to isis in the aftermath, es...

Off. >> we were going to give them the information. but washington leaks like ive never seen before. theres no country in the world that leaks like we do. and washington is a leaking opinion. i told my people we will not notify them until our great people are out. nancy pelosi is quick to point out that the russians are notified of the raid in advance but not top congressional leaders. the president made a series of dubious claims making the claim that baghdadis death was a bigger deal than os...

The time the president was trying to lead some u.s. troops in syria. listen to defense expert mark esper here saying, yes, this was a giant success. however, theres much more to do. >> well, its a physical caliphate, and its hard to defeat an idealogy, so were going to have to stay on top of this. well have to make sure we have the capability to go in and destroy targets as they arise. >> the language there is interesting, the capability to go in, meaning in his head he understands his commander...

But not top congressional leaders. the president made a series of dubious claims making the claim that baghdadis death was a bigger deal than osama bin laden. >> this is the worst-ever. osama bin laden was very big. but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built a whole -- as we should like to call it -- a country, a caliphate. he was trying to do it again. >> you might recall this 2012 tweet from donald trump after bin ladens death. stop congratulating obama...

Laden. >> this is the worst-ever. osama bin laden was very big. but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built a whole -- as we should like to call it -- a country, a caliphate. he was trying to do it again. >> you might recall this 2012 tweet from donald trump after bin ladens death. stop congratulating obama for killing bin laden. the navy s.e.a.l.s killed bin laden. baghdadis death may relieve some of the pressure growing on president trump but its not s...

Success? >> the biggest factor was the help from the ally, kurdish allies, syrian and democratic forces, people on the ground who know the culture and topography and way around and know the issues that could help provide the kind of intel that obviously was long in making this mission possible, but yes, i think having even a small presence of u.s. forces on the ground to interact with those allies and those partners and to help facilitate the analysis of that intelligence is really important too...