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>> yes. >> with me now peter bergen, author of the book "manhunt." samantha vinagrette. also joining us max bood. peter, esper said the goal was to capture al-baghdadi alive and only kill him if he refused to surrender. we learn he had a suicide vest on and killed himself. is he more valuable to that network dead than alive? >> i don't know. i take what esper said at face value. no american soldier is going to go in and as sass nate someone.

U.s. troop pull out. >> and the united states staying in the lead. >> there was a kurdish defense force leader who tweeted saying for five months there have been joint intel operations on the grou ground. the president did give credit to russia, turkey, syria and iraq. it was an aside, max, that the syrian kurds were part of this operation. the president says this is big. this is bigger than, you know, the killing of anybody else and that this, indeed, strangles the caliphate. it's detrimental to isis. take a listen. >> al-baghdadi was on the run for many years long before i took office. in my...

Lasting image is throwing paper towels. it is just one gaffe after another or him going to a golf club and presiding over a golf tournament instead of working on hurricane relief and then did kating the hurricane -- the golf trophy to the hurricane survivors. you know? which is a little bit like, you know, marie antoinette saying let them eat 9 irons. any president would not be doing this and getting, you know, approval ratings in the mid-30s. >> and the striking thing about the day is the only mutterings out of the white house and the unnamed sources group is that, you know, is that we wish t...

Club and presiding over a golf tournament instead of working on hurricane relief and then did kating the hurricane -- the golf trophy to the hurricane survivors. you know? which is a little bit like, you know, marie antoinette saying let them eat 9 irons. any president would not be doing this and getting, you know, approval ratings in the mid-30s. >> and the striking thing about the day is the only mutterings out of the white house and the unnamed sources group is that, you know, is that we wish tillerson quit. what you didn't get from any of the unnamed sources is here's the affirmative defen...

>> joining us now, eli stokel, also with us max bood, and also with us, betty woodruff. so, max, did i just hear the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee refer to the president as chaos after his secretary of state has apparently referred to him as a moron? >> that's a pretty -- i'm sorry on the day, lawrence. i would have to say, i mean, what can you do except kind of laugh? this is like a bad reality tv show. it is like what the heck is going to happen tomorrow? i mean, any other administration this would be unbelievable. for the trump administration, it's, you know, more of th...