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Other programs and hostagetaking are all the things we want in a new and comprehensive agreement with them. to get rid of them. we want ironic to join and to become a normal nation, a normal country. >> good luck with that. >> we have to do it. their hands are in every type of countryry out there. stirring things up, lebanon, saudi arabia, syria, yemen, and we can go all across this region andio talk about iranian bad behavior. >> we are here at the reagan rlibrary im back in 1985 reagn laid out...

Years after he was kidnapped in syria, this from the foley family, im grateful to our president and brave troops for finding isis leader al-baghdadi, i hope this will hinder resurgence of terror groups and pray that captured isis fighters will be brought to trial and held accountable. the state may continues, i remain concerned about the dozen americans held hostages in syria and i asked president trump to make them at all hostages a priority. the president, you may have heard him say this in hi...

Were going to start this hour, though. the leader of isis believed to be dead. killed last night in a u.s. military operation during purported u.s. air strikes on a suspected isis safe house in syria. nbc news has confirmed the mission started about 6:00 p.m. eastern saturday. it included helicopters, jets and drones and special ops forces that fired from the air. isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi is believed to be dead. theyre conducting dna tests right now. the suspected safe house was under u....

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That they would be able to confirm who it was, who was the mission, the target of this mission, whether in fact they had gotten him here. were wait to go hear exactly who was with baghdad i at the time. he was in extreme northwest part of syria. only a matter of miles from the turkish border. its an area of i had lib province where there are terror groups there. its generally the al qaeda type. it doesnt necessarily mean that he would not be welcome there. there have been splits and fissures bet...

Laden being found a couple of kilometers from the academy. he was living in this peaceful compound for years. this man has been on the run for a long time. the circumstances are very different. it suggests that this recent movement by him kind of brought him out into the open and they were looking out for him. they were able to get him when he showed himself. >> bobby, why would he move? >> there are very few places for him within syria now. >> so much is happening on the ground as weve been tal...

Military operation last night in northwestern syria. u.s. special ops forces there used helicopters, jets and drones to strike a suspected isis safe house. isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi is -- theyre verifying his identity. erin mclaughlin joins me from turkey across the border from syria. erin, what more do we know about the operation and what will be next in identifying whether or not this is baghdadi? >> reporter: hey, richard. the details we are getting suggest a well-coordinated, carefull...

But instead, just before this raid over the last two weeks, we saw a change in that relationship, a dramatic one when president trump decided to first pull back american troops and then decide to change his mind and then, instead of pulling all the troops out of syria, he was sending them to another part of syria to protect oil fields leaving the kurds feeling very exposed as they are under attack by turkey. the kurds come out and are saying, this only happened today. this raid, this successful ...

Ops, snatching someone and leaving. there was an intensive military operation, at least focused on one part of this border village leaving a compound, farm compound, farmhouse completely destroyed. >> richard now tell us about the lead-up and how this may have happened because, as youve been reporting and glad to have you there in northern syria, but we understand the dangers there. what was the lead-up to this? >> the lead-up to this, it was very simple. it has become very complicated. the reas...

Yet at the same time, this success? >> reporter: so, i mean, the baghdadi, if in fact this is beau bakr al baghdadi who was killed in this raid, its significant for isis, because hes a figurehead, right? theres not an immediate obvious successor at this point. there will be some time of turmoil. in an organization thats candidly in some turmoil. much of them have gone underground in this region. theyre not organized into a caliphate. theyre not holding land in a way they once were. there will be...