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There. certainly documents, other materials and including they captured at least two isis commandos and theyre now being questioned presumably. so theyre going to get a lot of intelligence out of this. >> potentially theyll get a substantial amount of intelligence. weve seen that after other successful raids but the big question is who might secede baghdadi and what is the future of isis in syria or globally. i think one thing critical to understand is not just seans point about how important ou...

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The assault force then left the compound and returned to her helicopters with the two detainees that ive already mentioned. after our forces were safely off the objective, u.s. forces employed precision standoff munitions to destroy the compound and its contents. pardon me. to the next video, please. so what youll observe are u.s. standoff munitions striking the compound. those of you that may have seen before and after pictures of the compound, it looks like a parking lot with large potholes ri...

Of them being the working dogs scenting them when they are not obvious. so that is how we came to the conclusion. the key thing is we establish physical security around the compound and got the noncombat ants off and gave us time to work the problem. pardon me. youre always worried in a situation like that that the house might be rigged and you have pay attention to on the ground and they did a remarkable job of doing that. >> ive been given notice that the van -- the white house will start shor...

The operation began very quickly and while he was not able to get a secure location in time to participate, he was briefed on its success upon conclusion. mulvaney has been on shaky ground since he acknowledged a quid pro quo with ukraine earlier this month. >> i have news for everybody, get over it. theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> reporter: but the president has found somebody under his command to praise, the dog from the baghdadi image, showing this photoshopped im...

Officials saying they think that the president had planned to call a member of the team but they simply dont know where the president came up with that language which is why i go back to i thought it was interesting, perhaps not conclusive, but interesting that general mckenzie is the first one i have heard to make the point it is possible, and they have to sort out all of the details, but it is possible baghdadi fired his weapon or attempted to fire his weapon. but the three top officils who kn...

Here. and that intelligence would have allowed us to have a high level of confidence that either baghdadi was there or that he was likely to have been there so i think there is immense amount of irony and it is extremely unfortunate that as we were relying on the intelligence that were provided by the kurds to carry out this really important raid at the same time we were by all accounts betraying the kurds with our decision to leave syria. but that intelligence would have been extremely critical...

Detection and i wont go any further than that. >> what about the reward money, the $25 million. >> i have no visibility on that. sorry. >> that is going to go to the thank you so much. sorry to have do cut it short but we had a hard deadline and general thank you for coming in today to speak to everybody. >> pretty thorough briefing there from major general kenneth mckenzie, u.s. marine corp. how did the u.s. military central command briefing on the raid that wound up killing the isis leader abu...

The u.s. military central command. >> well, wolf, as many people have said, i think there is absolutely no doubt that the elimination of al baghdadi is a win for the united states. look, this is someone who was the head of isis and the individuals who carried out this raid, we owe them a debt of gratitude. i think it is important to point out here and barbara said this and others have said this, first of all, from an intelligence perspective, baghdadis influence on isis was on the decline. it wa...

These words. very important word, indeed, go nats. lets hope for a win. im wolf blitzer. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. out front next, breaking news. the top white house ukraine expert testified he was convinced of a quid pro quo between trump and ukraine even before that infamous phone call. this as john bolton says no way to a voluntary deposition before congress. and trumps hand picked ambassador to russia breaks with the president. what hes sayin...