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The turkish foreign minister has indicated earlier a couple hours ago that there was some deconfliction, some conversations with the u.s. that something would be happening. and then the leader of the sdf is also claiming that because of shared intelligence this operation was able to be successful. and then, alex, finally, the rhetoric on this matters, right? to what extent does the president seize upon the death of baghdadi as an opportunity to entirely withdraw from syria. we know what the pres...

Now the founding executive director of the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection. joshua, what does this capture and killing really mean to the average person in america and in the -- in those nations where isis had become a serious problem and threat? >> this is a major counterterrorism achievement. isis built its mythology, its recruitment efforts around laying claim to a so-called caliphate. you cant claim a caliphate without a caliph. baghdadi was that caliph. he was often off...

He also had a target on his back and u.s. forces and their local kurdish partners ferociously attacked that state. and now sending their leader on the run, and now it seems, according to multiple sources, that he was targeted in a raid near the turkish border in a place called -- in a province called idlib, which was a fallback position for many of the extremist fighters. and that the man who lost his caliphate apparently lost his life. >> richard, earlier we spoke to michael weiss of "the daily...

Eat. and they were talking to me about whether they thought he was the right person to have led this physical caliphate. and i do think that if it turns out that he is gone, it is another blow to the idea of the islamic state and what he represented. but it is not the end. >> now, when president trump tweeted yesterday evening that something very big has just happened, did you have any indication that the news was about this possible raid or the raid that took place? >> many folks have talked fo...

Attacks here on the lower 48 by isis-inspired attackers. san bernardino, we have ohio state, we have the new york cne attack and the orlando of course pulse night club shooting. >> the reality is that there is no scientific way to quantify how big of a victory this was of capturing baghdadi versus osama bin laden. so al qaeda carried out the most lethal terrorist attack on american soil on 9/11. how does that compare to the caliphate and this quasi nation state that was once the size of great br...

Terror. doesnt mean the war is over. the presidents determination over time has paid off. we dont give him enough credit for destroying the caliphate. he did this in months, not years because he changed the rules of engagement. so what i want to talk about today is those brave men and women who planned the operation who went in on the ground and killed him. >> is it appropriate for the president only to inform republicans of this operation -- >> i dont know. thats not my concern today. my concer...

Some sense of chaos or bit of vacuum of -- of whats happening with the organization. even if hes not actually out there telling his fighters where to go and whatnot, the fact that he is -- he may be dead here will impact the organization. in its morale, if nothing else. >> so, courtney, what do we know about the strength of isis overall? trump had suggested that the organization has been defeated. >> reporter: so, thats not true. i mean, its not true at all. in fact, im here in iraq where the is...

Abu bakr al baghdadi himself was crying and screaming as he was hiding in a tunnel. he was flushed out with a dog. tremendous specificity, and i think to a degree, thats going to help his case. hes going to try to humiliate isis. to just say you werent just defeated. you didnt just lose your caliphate. your leader died crying and whimpering as he was underground chased by a dog. so i think the president had a very strong message against isis, that is going to be hard for isis to counter because ...

Resilient organization. they were around for over a decade. they had been defeated around 2010, 2011 when the u.s. withdrew from iraq and then came back with a bullet as this so-called caliphate. ive been following a group that wages these attacks mostly in syria and iraq. the deadliest terror attack that they waged outside of the calorca calorca caliphate was sir lanka. they are looking to do prison breaks, looking for free their veteran jihadists from the detention facilities. especially the o...

So it could be that he was, he was there on his way to turkey, coming out of turkey, looking to hide, to get out of the country. as you were just talking about, idlib is a place where a lot of hard liners, a lot of isis members have been falling back to. he would have been falling back to a group of his core supporters right there as the islamic movement, the hardline islamists from the al qaeda factions and isis had really nowhere to go after they were defeated in this -- defeated in their so-c...