them extremist groups that have kind of taken refuge in northwest syria, you would imagine it was an extremely difficult operation to locate, fix his location and then launch a ground military operation to attempt to apprehend him. now, of course these operations are launched and often verification of the identity of the target takes? time. we believe that process is still ongoing. but given that the white house is making this major announcement tomorrow morning it's safe to say that they are fairly confident in their targeting procedures that they knew who they were going after when this elite special operations mission was launched. >> yeah. and we can certainly see obviously that it would be familiar in terms of the kind of covert operations that they have ongoing in syria. and ryan, we'll look no further than a tweet from the president at 9:00 p.m. this evening saying something very big has just happened, exclamation mark. we have no further details from him right now.