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Really fascinating. what we're now learning the u.s. had this man, abu sayyaf not his real name we don't know his real name yet, they had him under surveillance since march in eastern syria. this mission had been planned for some time we were told, they were watching him, knew his pattern of life knew his movements. when they took off in their helicopters and made their way to that area they knew at that time he would be there when they got there. they had to blast a hole in one of the walls of the building, in the middle of a firefight, go in. there it was hand-to-hand combat. a lot of drama ...

Him in that firefight. his wife undergoing interrogation, think about this little piece of information right in front of all of us the u.s. able to monday der someone inside syria where presumably we have no intelligence assets since march. anderson? >> i told you, american hostages who were being held or have been held in syria, is there any sense of whether this isis target was connected to them all the reports are that he was some sort of a financier. he was the so-called oil and gas guy of isis but in recent months we are told by our u.s. government sources, he had taken on an increasing r...

Al bag gaed detained by security officials as they tried to cross from lebanon into syria. cnn's nic robertson is live. nic, what do we know about the capture? >> reporter: well, lebanese officials believe they have captured one of al baghdadi's wives. a 4-year-old son as well taken with the wife. in an operation that had been planned for a number of weeks, for about a month, it had been in the planning. involving both iraqi, syrian and we understand as well lebanese intelligence assets. we're also told by sources that the united states played a role with the iraqis at the sort of iraqi end of...

Days that this is coming. we're already seeing them move their high value assets. the scuds, the chemical weapons facilities. they're moving them into areas that we're not going to hit. they're going to put them near hospitals, schools, civilian residential areas. >> so even if we have an idea what we're aiming for, they're hard to get at. but let me ask you one other part about the intelligence of this. all of this is being based on the idea of intelligence gathering and what we can know about what's going on in there. we know the syrian government doesn't want to tell us anything. but when w...

Edward snowden, let's bring in senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and congressman king, chairman of the house committee. congressman king, could he have wiretapped the president if he wanted to? this guy claims to have extensive wiretapping access all the way to the top of the food chain. he said, if he wanted to, he could wiretap the president. is that true? >> no. and so much he said is untrue. this guy is dangerous to the country. he had, i think, real questions as to why he left the cia. the fact he's in china right now, or hong kong, which is a substation of china. he knows who our intel...