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The original leader, he was just as dangerous and just as involved in planning isis terror attacks. meanwhile u.s. officials say the next leader of isis will suffer the same fate. >> thank you very much. a risky pre-dawn raid, bomb explosion and a fire killed. but my next guest says the terror group isnt dead yet. so dont fight heartburn, block it with prilosec otc.

We talked about -- even know we dont have boots on the ground in afghanistan, that will make the job harder. we do have over the horizon capabilities available in the central command region. we showed that last night and well keep an eye on afghanistan. the senator is right. isis-k is trying to grow. they have suggested intent to attack the west and attack our homeland. were mindful of that threat and watching it closely. well continue to look for all kinds of different ranging of capabilities a...

Precipitated more activity by at least one shooter from the building, that led to u.s. force going in, and to your point about, you know, how much time did we give people to -- i would remind that u.s. forces actually extricated four children from the second floor after they went into the building. so the efforts to save the lives of innocents wasnt just in the opening gambit here with the bull horn. i mean, it was well into the operation. it was something that was was ever present on their mind...

Biden himself asked about what could happen if there was someone with a suicide vest. what goes into deciding how to carry out this kind of very risky raid, phil? >> theres a couple of characteristics you have to look at. you mentioned one. the intelligence value is very high. theres a prospect hes going to speak. getting inside someones head to understand things like courier networks, whos next in line in leadership. thats incredibly value for an organization that doesnt like to put stuff down ...

But before the u.s. military even set foot inside the building, there was a large explosion up on the third floor. we now know that that was the isis leader, abu qurayshi, blowing himself up. he also killed his wife and two kids. after that, one of his deputies, who was on the second floor, started firing on u.s. troops. he was killed along with one of his children and then as his wife, who was also there present on the second floor, she started firing on u.s. troops. she was killed as well. so,...

U.s. military intelligence determined apparently in december that he was living on the top floor of this multi family residents in syria. they apparently started planning a mission to get him at the park. biden gave a final approval to the mission on tuesday this week and they went in. they went in loud announcing their presence, telling people to get out of the house and to get away from the house. when the isis leader detonated a suicide bomb on the third floor, that is what u.s. officials att...

♪ ♪ >> geraldo: no, just driving. another ices leader gets sent straight to the gates of hell. president biden announcing a raid with a terrorist taking the cowards way out: detonating explosives, wiping out his family as a u.s. special forces swooped in to bring him to justice. >> president biden: as our pru dolomite troops approached to capture the terrorist, in a final act of desperate cowardice, he had no regard for the lives of his family or others in the building. he chose to blow hims...

Belarus has created a very tense and challenging situation. it is a very dangerous situation that could escalate, whether intentional or not, with little or no warning. we want to see deescalation. both for the sake of this dialogue and diplomacy bearing fruit and resolving this peacefully, but also in an effort to lower the risk of conflict, to lower the risk of this turning very bad very quickly. that is our concern right now. we have not seen that deescalation. we dont yet know that president...

Our headlines... president biden has been giving details of how the leader of the islamic state group was killed during a night raid by us special forces in syria. the president said that abu ibrahim al qurashi — also known as hajji abdullah — blew himself up, along with four members of his family, as us troops approached the building. 13 people, including children, died in the raid — no us casualties were reported. the bbc�*s state department correspondent barbara plett usher reports. i...

The head of isis that they killed overnight in the daring raid. they describe it as incredibly dangerous, and reminiscent of the osama bin laden raid. intelligence in early december. >> calculated efforts of our forces succeeded in protecting more than ten women, children and babies, these efforts included a deliberate decision by the president to execute a raid on a location as opposed to airstrike. >> there were so many children believed to be at the compound. the target, the head of isis sinc...