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Years after he was kidnapped in syria, this from the foley family, i'm grateful to our president and brave troops for finding isis leader al-baghdadi, i hope this will hinder resurgence of terror groups and pray that captured isis fighters will be brought to trial and held accountable. the state may continues, i remain concerned about the dozen americans held hostages in syria and i asked president trump to make them at all hostages a priority. the president, you may have heard him say this in his comments, there are other major isis leaders that are also in the sites of u.s. special operators...

Not who, they would be very pleased with the outcome so the defense is racist instigated and we can be jammed or if we had to taken them down but that would've been a huge escalation. they stepped aside, look the other way and let is going and take care the business for the entire world. other key things, we did a dna test on site to confirm that it was baghdadi and we do not need to do follow one mission. the other key thing is authorizing special operators to go on the ground first as an airstrike which allows an obligation and a portly allows us the traffic control of information which are ...

Isis. baghdadi went there to to try to reestablish isis, no u.s. special operators were killed during the raid but u.s. dog to track down baghdadi was injured after hunting baghdadi down that tunnel. which proved to be a dead-end. >> thank you jennifer. >> president trump clearly proud and the professionalism of our special forces, confirming the development of the nation in the news this morning. and then a news conference at the white house just after he announced. reporting live from the north on on the very busy day. >> is a day indeed. quite a traumatic news conference. we'll get to that ...

15 minutes. >> his body was mutilated by the blast. the tunneled had caved in on it in addition. but test results gave certain, immediate and totally positive identification. it was him. >> reporter: facial recognition was used. when they left syria, the operators brought back baghdadi's d, this a, more than they liked according to the president. no u.s. special operators were killed or seriously injured during the raid. however, a u.s. military dog was injured and might lose his right front leg after hunting baghdadi down that tunnel which proved to be a dead end. jon? jon: a remarkable opera...

Took highly sensitive material and information from the raid much having to do with isis origins, future plans, things we very much want. >> that's president trump describing in detail the mission that led to the death of isis leader al-baghdadi. they cornered him in northern syria. taking down al-baghdadi mean for the later policy in the region, michael joins us with the former special offers or who served in the middle east and a member of the house armed services committee. welcome, your reaction to the death of al-baghdadi. >> this is a fantastic day for america, and plastic day for freedo...