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Just made me so proud to be an american, proud to see our special forces, their extraordinary courage and professionalism. and also i want to say very proud to be vice president to a president who acted so decisively to take down a man who was a threat to this country and a threat to the world as the leader of isis. chris: the president talked about watching it. he said almost as if it were a movie. i mean, were you -- did you have video on the ground and you're able to see what's going on in the compound and then as the forces go into that tunnel chasing al-baghdadi? >> i think it's important...

United states, we obliterated his caliphate 100% in march of this year. today's events are another reminder that we will continue to pursue the remaining isis terrorists to their brutal end. chris: president trump announcing the successful special forces raid that has taken out the leader of isis, and it's time now for our sunday group. the cofounder of the federalist, ben domenech. moe elleithee, jonathan swann from axios and fox news correspondent gillian turner, a former member of the national security council under presidents bush 43 and obama. gillian, let me start with you. what are you ...

But what president trump demonstrated here is even while we're bringing our troops home from the safe zone on the border of turkey, this president and america's resolve to defeat isis and to hunt down and destroy any terrorist organization in the world is unrelenting, and that's what the world woke up to learn this morning. chris yeah, i want to pick up on that because the president has come under a lot of fire from both republicans and democrats about pulling u.s. troops out of syria. not all, but the vast majority of them. he's also talked about trying to draw down in afghanistan, and he has...

Reporting from trey yingst who is in our middle east newsroom. trey, what's the reaction there in the middle east to the takedown of al-baghdadi? >> reporter: well, chris, many world leaders were waiting until president trump addressed the nation from washington to respond to reports about the death of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. we have just gotten a statement from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who congratulated president trump on an incredible achievement. u.s. allies across the region, more than ten countries participating in airstrikes and ground operations to destroy isi...

By isis back when they had their caliphate, but there are still some american hostages being held by isis, is that correct? >> yeah, there's still up to a dozen american hostages being held by isis in syria in the region. question may or may not -- intelligence doesn't exactly know what he is today, but big fears about when development means for those american prisoners. we can't speculate about what it will mean, but intelligence sources are very worried about that. one quick last note, for folks that are following, you know, the trump foreign policy doctrine, this fits perfectly within what ...