situation room, watching as the raid unfolded. bill daly, white house chief of staff during the 2011 raid that killed osama bin laden was just step away from obama. white house officials said mulvaney was home in south carolina dealing with a family matter without access to secure communications. two senior administration officials say mulvaney was not involved in the planning, but knew the baghdadi operation was in the works. he was filled in as soon as it ended one of the officials said, adding that it did want affect mulvaney s success. it comes as he faces endless rumors about his fate as chief of staff after he admitted trump engaged in a quid pro quo with ukraine. did he also mention to me in the past the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely, no question about that and that s it. that s why we held up the money. it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened,
for president, joe biden, would he have ordered the same mission? the answer is probably not. the reason we know that is because he opposed the mission to kill usama bin laden. he was the only member barack obama s national security team who said to the president, don t do it. he recalled in a speech obama turned to him in a sit room, joke, what do you think? mr. president, don t go. the reason he gave, the reason he gave had nothing to do with national security or operational control, it had to do with politics. if this goes wrong, you will say goodbye to a second term. so this guy said he would be a better commander and chief at the moment we had the mastermind of 9/11 in our sights ready to kill him, he wouldn t go and the reason was politics. that is the kind of leadership joe biden is, the guy who proposes the bin laden operation to criticize the guy who authorized the baghdadi operation? that is pretty rich. dana: i wonder also if he had congratulated the president, thanked him
he didn t die a hero. he died a coward. rying, whimpering, screaming. the president talked about baghdadi whimpering and crying and screaming, how do we know that? well, i don t have those details, the president probably had the opportunity to talk to the commanders on the ground, but clearly, the guy was a coward, and a murderer. president trump described yesterday baghdadi whimpering and crying before he died. can you elaborate or confirm those details? the secretary was asked the same question yesterday, and i know that the president had planned to talk down to the unit and unit members but i don t know what the source of that was but i assume it was talking directly to unit members. the president used that baghdadi operation to take a dig at his predecessor, addressing a law enforcement conference in chicago, barack obama s home turf. we killed isis leader al
search for a truthle leruthless to a dramatic end. isis spawned copycat groups and lone wolves around the world. the raid that killed him was carried out in northern syria, just weeks after president trump pulled u.s. troops out. a source tells cnn the withdrawal had major affect on planning the baghdadi operation. it would have been impossible without troops stationed in syria and their partnership with the kurds. more from barbara starr at the pentagon. dave, christine, president trump offering explicit details about how abu bakr al baghdadi met his fate when u.s. special forces landed at the compound in northwest syria, where he had been hiding out. 100 troops on 8 helicopters with overwhelming firepower. they called for baghdadi to come
last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the american forces bearing down on him. trump and his team watching as the founder and leader of isis was killed, bringing a long search for a ruthless extremist to a dramatic end. isis spawned copycat groups and lone wolves around the world. the raid that killed him was carried out in northern syria, just weeks after president trump pulled u.s. troops out. a source tells cnn the withdrawal had major affect on planning the baghdadi operation. the source said it would have been impossible without troops stationed in syria and their partnership with the kurds.