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In a farm house right on the turkish border. and thats where he was killed by elite special operations forces. will isis be able to rebuild again? probably not to the stage where it was before that it had an empire. there were a whole variety of events that led to its ability to capture so much territory. its more likely that it becomes more like al qaeda used to be, a small secretive group that looks for opportunities and looks for opportunities to attack. and now that baghdadi is dead, you can...

Organization. abu bakr al-baghdadi did something totally different. he had a terrorist organization that had tens of thousands, millions of people who were part of it. and he established a state. he established an open safe haven here in the middle east that he called his empire, he called it the caliphate. then his empire, hez caliphate was destroyed over the last five years there has been a concerted war. >> it was launched under president obama. >> it was finished under president trump to des...

The reality is we have walked away from the kurds right at the time where they were giving us intelligence that was apparently key to this operational victory according to them. and that takes the counterterrorism pressure oritis and that risks an isis resurgence. so this may be -- strategically, donald trump has set the fight against isis back significantly. >> thanks to the both of you. we are just getting started on "kasie dc." when we come back, breaking news. a top freshman congresswoman ...

They can finally vanquish him. killing the man does not kill the threat. isis and what al-baghdadi built, it really was more of a philosophy, an idea, on what they thought how this group of people felt the world was going to change in their favor. so by killing him, we havent killed the idea. and that idea is really what we need to target. >> got it. ken, the extended q&a portion of todays presidential announcement, president trump said that watching this raid play out was like watching a movie....

What does the death of al-baghdadi represent for the future of isis? >> well, the death of al-baghdadi represents several things. the first thing it represents really is an operational victory. it puts points on the board for the good guys in this case. and i think what that tells us is that, you know, their so-called caliphate, its been shrinking and its been under tremendous pressure really for the next five years. but now that the leadership is beginning to shatter, you know, there was some f...

Week. and key congressional leaders are wrankled that russia, turkey, iraq, and syrian kurds were looped in on the al-baghdadi raid. but they werent. and keep in mind it was just days ago the president infuriated many loyalists in his own party over his handling of turkey and the kurds in syria and the perception the strategy could help accelerate the resurgence of isis. we start off tonight with richard engel to put in context the death of the once powerful islamic state leader. >> he was the w...

Bidens. as the white house tries to shut down some of the testimony. i am joined live by homeland security benny thompson. with another week of intense testimony expected behind closed doors on impeachment, an unexpected milestone in the fight against terrorism. the announcement from president trump that a top isis leader is now dead. according to the president, an apparently verified by dna evidence taken at the scene, american special forces killed abu bakr al-baghdadi last night in a raid i...

Granted. detention facilities perilously held by a syrian-kurdish force with a lot on their plate. will isis find the gap to re-create a caliphate for itself? thats the key question. thats the lasting damage of this legacy here. and that, too, of civilians in syria, that once again see the territory and the powers around them changing. >> a second life for isis. nick paton walsh, thanks for that. well be right back. my insurance rates are probably gonna double.

They dont like having u.s. forces on the ground. it takes pressure off of isis there. how would this serve u.s. interests at all particularly from a president who criticized president obama from withdrawing forces too quickly from iraq? >> it could serve american interests. i mean, we have spilled a lot of blood and spent a lot of taxpayer money in the middle east including but not limited to syria. i just dont know yet. im really not trying to dodge your question. general mattis, president trum...

Driven the u.s. out of syria. you can expect that isis will have plenty to say about it. what will happen to the thousands of u.s.-backed forces in syria that the u.s. has been training on the ground with those u.s. ground forces? will they be abandoned? russia and iran, thats the next factor. they all have forces and militias in syria especially iranian backed militias. will they be able to now gain new ground, new influence in syria? while the u.s. was there for the reason of fighting isis, it...