committee, al-baghdadi is dead. he s dead, this was a hard call by the president, he deserves a lot of credit but the glory men and women who planned this operation and executed. last night the best of america met the worst of mankind and the good guys won. pray for the dog, i cannot tell you how much of a reminder this should be to the people aligned with us and we will never forget you and we will always come after you and to the families who have suffered under isis, i hope you get some comfort knowing that this bastard is dead. maria: you re right, the president mentioned those families earlier in his press conference as a way to make it
baghdadi for many years, capturing or killing baghdadi has been the top national security priority of my administration. u.s. special operations forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid in north western syria and accomplished their mission in grand style, the u.s. personnel were incredible. i got to watch much of it. maria: this was the president, president trump on the killing and death of al-baghdadi, intelligence helped take down most-wanted man in the world. al-baghdadi, joining me christian, good to have you this morning, thank you very much for joining us. great to be here. maria: where does this go next? do we know the second in
with you. maria: you are a team player, only democrat who was willing to come out and discuss this this morning, we have not heard a word from colleagues in terms of the takedown of the worst terrorist anyone has ever seen leading the worst terrorism group, your reaction? well, first of all, i want to thank the brave men and women of our military, of our intelligence community and everyone who participated in what happened last night, it is far too easy for us to forget or not give appreciation to those who served and protect our freedom every single day, that would be my absolute first reaction. it was a this was a very evil man, we all know that it was a very evil man, we are waiting to hear other facts, other circumstances, i still continue to worry about the middle east, i m word about syria, turkey, the kurds and we will hear throughout the next day, this was isis does not go away,
after the bad guys and this is a game-changer because isis is different today than it was yesterday. the spiritual leader, heart and soul of isis is now dead diego a coward s death. maria: we show the james foley, peter kassig, dies at the hands of isis, do we know if there was documents that our special operations forces were able to take with them? one of the benefits to have raid is what we found on the ground and how much more information we have. the caliphate has been destroyed because president trump changed the rules a lowed our military to get the job done, obama had one hand tied behind his back, president trump unleashed the military to destroy the caliphate but there s still 15,000 fighters roaming around but today is a big blow for them. the information that explored and will make us safer here, and
that s another concern that i have to remind people of. this death was taken evil man who we wanted to harm not only the united states and americans but many other countries around the world, stopped his leadership but there are other people that we need to worry about. maria: yeah, interesting you said moments ago, it s easy to forget what s happening in the world, i mean, the leadership and strength of our military, of our special operations forces isn t easy to forget because the house seems dominated by impeachment, bring people down to give testimony about president trump and what adam schiff thinks is wrong with the president and yet no briefings whatsoever on what s happening in the middle east. we had john ratcliffe earlier, your colleague in congress, on intel committee, the intel