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Achieve? >> i mean, thats the question a lot of people are asking. were going to have to get more information essentially to figure out what exactly he was doing in idlib province, how exactly he got there. we last heard from him in a video in april in which he seemed to be turning isis outward. it was a month after the defeat of his so-called caliphate. his last stronghold was gone at the hands of syrian kurdish forces and u.s. forces. he then released a video in april of him sitting down and b...

Not just be a terrorist leader, but he was able to establish something that osama bin laden had never done, that had predecessors had never done. he wasnt just a terrorist who grabbed people and beheaded them on television or on videotape and posted it on the internet. he established his own state. he established what they called the caliphate, and he will go down in history, certainly, that baghdadi established the isis caliphate. that was his peak of power. he established this mini state that ...

Engagement. you think the caliphate destroyed itself? he made a conscious decision when he went to iraq to change the game when it came to destroying isis. he had a determination to destroy the caliphate unlike anybody ive ever met. now the question is how to keep it down. i think weve got a plan now to keep it down. that meets his national security objectives of reducing our footprint and having others do more. >> -- and i want to lay these out separately. the president in his remarks mentioned...

Minority member in each party as well as the leaders in the house and senate, none were informed? >> on the democratic side. and i was told that just before i came on. and i also read -- >> not chuck schumer, not nancy pelosi, not adam schiff? >> thats correct. >> the gang of eight is a group of bipartisan leaders within congress who are briefed on classified intelligence matters by the president such as this. on the flip side of this, republicans were front and center this morning talking about...

Symbolic moment because he represented to a lot of people this idea of the caliphate that brought people from all around the world. i mean when i was in holcamp in may, it was like the united nations of isis. so many people. you had people from seychelles, people from egypt, young women from germany who talked to you about why they had found this idea so attractive. it all went back to this moment in 2014 when al baghdadi from mosul really made this call for them to come. so i dont think the sym...

That baghdadi was the founder of isis. thats not correct. it was al zarqawi. it also brings up the point about succession. weve killed a succession of leaders, deputy leaders, second and third in command of isis and other terrorist organizations, and they carry on. whats made isis different is the decision to go to a terrain-based model. that is, they wanted a caliphate, which they would rule actual terrain. and they took over large swaths of syria. the problem with that is that if you are an or...

You hunted the worlds most dangerous terrorists. when you heard the news this morning about al baghdadi, what went through your mind? >> well, this is really a victory of many of those governmen governments, families around the world who suffered such terrible civilian casualties at the hands of isis. the timing is really interesting here. you remember that al baghdadi is known even within his own group as the invisible sheikh, right? up until this year, we havent seen him in public since july 4...

Pray for the dog. it was severely injured, but it reminds me of the team concept of the military. ive been talking to the president for months about the war on terror. and every time i would bring up the topic, he would tell me without any hesitation, im going to get that blank guy. and i cant use the word on television, but the presidents been determined for a very long time to bring baghdadi to justice. and i want to compliment him and his team for bringing about a result that i think is a gam...

For the future and their own lives in his state and elsewhere. and so i think a lot of these people are going to try to fade back. you are right about the course. the course is still there just like it is there and growing in yemen with regards to al-qaida. you never defeat terrorism. the best you can do is manage it and bring it down to a level where it is not impacting you significantly and regularly. you will never defeat terrorism or drugs or terrorism. telling the american people that you d...

>> hes calling some family members now who have been victims of isis. >> the foleys? >> i guess what i would say is that what i see happening in syria makes sense to me. that the president destroyed the caliphate. hes asking others to do more and hes right when it comes to turkey. i think the invasion has been disrupted. about at the end of the day, if we can continue to partner with the kurds, secure the oil revenues for their sake, not irans sake, not for isis sake, help pay the costs of the o...