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And propaganda value for isis to be able to say, no, we didn't -- baghdadi was not captured or killed by the american forces. he martyred himself for the cause. so i think one of the really interesting things to watch in the coming days is going to be how isis responds to this as an organization. they have shown obviously a great deal of resiliency as an organization losing senior leaders before this. baghdadi was obviously not the first head of isis. they had already lost a previous leader of the group to a u.s. strike, and they were able to reconstitute, reform, and obviously survive as a po...

Dictators in some ways and autocrats. but it's hard to know what the deliverables were at this point in this kind of series of meetings that we've seen. >> beyond, as john said, seems to be restarting talks, i don't think there were any deliverables. trump is basically -- it's a risky calculation, and one of the reasons other u.s. presidents haven't done things like what we saw over the weekend is because there is propaganda value for the north. in north korea having these images of an american president smiling next to a north korean leader, there's real value there. so american presidents ha...

American president. >> this is my honor. i didn't really expect it. we were in japan for the g-20. we came over and i said, hey, i'm over here. i want to call up chairman kim. and we got to meet and stepping across that line was a great honor. a lot of progress has been made. a lot of friendships have been made. and this has been in particular a great friendship. so i just want to thank you. >> yeah, that word "honor" really sticks out in that sound, kirby. >> i think that's rhetoric i wouldn't have recommended he use with a guy like kim jong-un, a brutal dictator who literally massacres his o...

Years, and we don't know what the reaction will be from russian and iranian-backed forces on the ground in syria. those forces have been very active, controlling a good deal of ground, launching their own missions. so it is really -- it is not a massive surprise. president trump had wanted to get out of syria. the timing is a little odd, a bit unexpected, and we don't know what will happen now going forward. that is really the question. the big unknown. isis is on the rise, as you say, jim. there have been any number of attacks there and hundreds to thousands of isis forces and isis loyalists ...

The end of his graduating class, but that he put himself into a position where he could do the best job he possibly could and when in prison and given the opportunity to get out early -- his father had been made the commander of all the naval forces in the pacific and the north vietnamese thought that this would be a great turn opportunity to get some problem beg -- propaganda value out of releasing him, offered him a release and he refused. many of us and i think you may have too, spoken to some people who were in prison with him at the time, chuck boyd and jim stockdale and all of them said ...