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Task. a key moment for president donald trump who has long shall we say have a patchy relationship with the intelligence community because of allegations of interference of russia in the 2016 flex? here he owes probably one of the most substantial victories of his achievement to the first term to that community. >> very interesting contrast. nick paton walsh, thank you for your insights. ryan brown we would like to bring him in. we are told the raid was carried out by special operation commandos...

Chief john kelly that he warned president trump he risked being impeached. coming up the words of advice that kelly says president trump ignored. the leader of isis is believed to be killed in a u.s. special operations raid. we will have the latest after this break. when i got my dna results, it opened up so many doors.

However, the american people need to be able to trust government announcements, information. in this case it is the u.s. military doing the vetting, analysis to be able to say that this is in fact, al baghdadi. of course as they said, thats what is happening right now. a verification process is happening as we speak. the presidents credibility has given that up, lost that credibility. however, the u.s. militarys statements still do hold a lot of credibility, and thats important today, especially...

He was detained back in 2004 for several months at a u.s.-run prison in southern iraq. he was later released. two years after that, isis was created. and in 2010, he ascended on the leadership after his predecessors were killed in a u.s.-iraqi operation. in 2014, isis announced the creation of a caliphate. and al baghdadi declared himself the ruler of more than a billion muslims. since then, he kept a low profile. he is believed to have been wounded in an air streak and conceded control of the t...

Southern iraq. he was later released. two years after that, the islamic state of iraq was created and in 2010 he ascended to the lead of it after his predecessors were killed in an operation. after 2014 isis announced the caliphate and baghdadi declared himself the ruling of more than a billion muslims. he was believed to have been wounded in a 2017 air strike and said to have seeded control at that time for several months due to injury. and then in april of this year, isis released what was pur...

The highway so two sheriffs deputies here when the shooting erupted and then we are told it turned into chaos here as people were scrambling running for their lives from the scene. in that chaos, the gunman appears to have been able to get away. so that search continues here this morning. marty? >> ed lavandera, thank you for update and we will continue to stay in touch with you. >> ed, thank you so much. cnn continue to following the breaking news this morning that the leader of isis is believe...

Might argue, even now, if we are in a conversation where we wonder whether baghdadi might be dead were trying to work out exactly what isis managed to pull off and the big failing of the west has been to try to work out where initially they came from. and part of the effectiveness of isis at preventing that conversation was to make themselves quite so horrifying, make themselves quite so disgusting to the uninformed viewers. >> nic, pause that thought for just a second because we do have more ne...

Anger, a great deal of frustration, alienation among sunnis. some of those sunnis aligned up with elements of the -- with the ousted saddam regime, and some of those sunnis formed together and they formed a group that went by a variety of names, but eventually came to be known as al qaeda in iraq. baghdadi came from this group. zakawi was also killed in a special operations raid. he was perhaps the groups most notorious leader the first time around. he was the one who really characterized the gr...

To run day to day ops. but beyond that, its also not clear what kind of role he had. so were still trying to gather a lot of information here, find out exactly what happened, whether the u.s. is confident that, in fact, he was killed and any more details about exactly how that happened. this was a special operations raid, we know that. what we dont know exactly kind of the flavor of the spec ops who were involved here. there is a task force presence, so its possible that these are the most elite...