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Leader, the al qaeda offshoot. so theyve been working on this for quite a few months now. and then in the middle of all of this you have president trump announcing that hes going to be withdrawing american troops from syria. and that through a huge span in the plans. >> i also want to play for you something that president trump said yesterday in his lengthy news conference. he was talking about baghdadis final moments. >> he died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and sc...

Paper. they have been looking for him ever since. at this moment he declared isis caliphate from inside the great mosque of mosul, iraq. thats in 2014. cia intelligence eventually led to a location in northwest syria. a u.s. defense official says al baghdadi apparently killed himself with a suicide vest as u.s. commandos closed in. meantime, the kurdish-led syrian democratic forces say there was a successful operation thanks to joint intelligence with the united states. its not clear which opera...

A suicide vest as commandos went in. the president will speak at 9:00 this morning eastern time. one of president trumps former advisers for the white house says, the white house staff is to plame for the impeachment inquiry going into the house. . >> president trumps former chief of staff john kelly said he advised the president against hiring a yes man as his replacement, saying it could lead him to impeachment. in a statement to cnn president trump said kelly every said anything like that. ...

Stand by. well bring in josh campbell. he joins us on the phone to talk about what they would have needed in terms of cia intelligence. we know they would have gotten intelligence like this many, many times before. it is significant that at this moment in time, they had that tip, as they said, yes. special forces, commandos, will go in. >> exactly, paula. you look at the osama bin laden model. this is intelligence that the u.s. government had for quite a period of time. they were staring at imag...

Louisive terrorist inland in northwest syria. in grainy overnight video, you can hear sustained bursts of begun foo gunfire. cnn cannot confirm if these videos are from the actual raid, but they were posted noefr night as this was happen. the pentagon as of this moment has not shared any details of the operation or even confirmed there was an operation at all. but sources do tell cnn u.s. special forces commandos carried out the raid and he detonated a suicide vest as they closed in. >> cnns nic...

Sunday shows, we got a lot more operational detail about a delta raid than i can ever recall getting having covered the military for 15 years. we know some very specifics about how the helicopters moved in, how the commandos actually raided this house or this compound, and some of the very specific things that they did. that is really uncommon. and we also know that with this dna evidence, the u.s. is saying that they positively identified baghdadi and we know that they actually -- the u.s. actu...

And lonny chen, a fellow at the hoover institution. welcome to sunday. its "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. we have breaking news. obviously, special forces have killed the leader of isis. commandos carried out a raid overnight in northern syria along the border with turkey. president trump just said isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi is among the ...

Isis and you dont know what kind of specifically traps you might find. doors that could be booby-trapped. the president described how special operation forces blew a hole through the wall so they could enter the compound more safely, which is a standard tactic these commandos use. these special elite operation units do this kind of things all the time. they do this in afghanistan. they do this in libya. they do this in many countries. they are very, very familiar with snatch and grab or snatch a...

14 other states have similar laws and the fbi is using them to go after people who are considered dangerous. no comment from cole. pete williams, nbc news, washington tonight mexicos presiden is defending the aborted mission to capture the son of a notorious imprisoned drug king "el chapo" after a deadly gun battle broke out in the streets. we get more from miguel almaguer. >> reporter: the fire-fight exploded on th streets in the city. mexican military out gunned by a drug cartel with familie...

Regime. now theyre doing it in a state of utter weakness and that was not at all inevitable. >> american commandos working with kurdish forces have been uncharacteristically outspoken about the situation in syria, one army officer when discussing his former kurdish colleagues told the "new york times," quote, they trusted us and we broke that trust. the withdrawal is a stain on the american conscience. higher ranking officials like the former defense secretary james mattis and retired four star ...