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5 p.m. saturday evening, eight american helicopters were carrying as many as 100 u.s. special operations forces. iraq and flew for 70 minutes across syria. the pilots flew low to avoid detection but came under fire during the flight returning fire as they went. their destination was a compound in western syria. according to president trump, the area had been under surveillance for a few weeks. we learned today an informant inside isis told the kurdish led syrian democratic forces that the elusive isis leader was hiding out and provided a piece of underwear and a blood sample that was used in a...

And video from the raid. >> bill: what a story, jennifer griffin, thank you. team fox coverage continues. fox news can confirm that the agent inside the operation who informed u.s. special ops was living inside the compound. benjamin hall continues the coverage, live in northern syria. benjamin, hello. >> good evening from syria. we had a long interview with general mazloum abdi today, commander of the stf. he made it very clear that the raid would not have been possible without the help of the kurds and in particular the stf informant you are referring to. they say they had details of the loc...

Security analyst evelyn farkas, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense. and larry pfeiffer, also here. he is the director of the hayden center at george mason university and a former senior director of the white house situation room. larry also served as a chief of staff to the cia. the evelyn, i want to start with you. i just asked matt this, i think it's worst asking you again, the big concern is that these isis fighters and the families, as mat. was just describing, will escape and try to reconstitute the caliphate. the president was asked about this and he seemed to brush it off ...

Dead hands. and that's going to be a very terrible fight. because we're talking about, like i said, hardened jihadis that aren't exactly going to sit by and become pawns in a great power game between the kurds and the turks. so, al hol refugee camp and all these other points where isis fighters are holed up and their fall lis, about 48,000 women and children who are also hardened idealog idealogues, they are also in northern syria and they are also ready to escape and rekoconstit. where are they going to go? are they willingly going toe go into turkish hands and be ceded from one enemy to the ...

In the president's ear and have him change his mind on this, or is it already too late? is there a way to mitt game sig of the con consequences going forward? >> there's potential to mitigate. we've seen it happen in the past where he has reversed course or he has softened his language, which has allowed the defense department, state department, to then begin to take actions to -- to help the situation. >> what do we do in the future, evelyn, when we need help again fighting against isis? >> well, i think it's going to be really hard, katy, to convince kurds or other forces to work with us, to...