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Think we betray them for oil because of the things that the president said. we don't have a real safe zone yet with them. we could start a safe zone before the president made the decision basically capitulating with turkey and russia about withdrawing. we are in a worse situation even the operation itself was a success. >> it is interesting that you bring up oil. it has been a consistent theme over the last two hours or so. one of the criticisms of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east historically beyond that is the american's interests in oil. the reasons they are there is not for democracy...

>> he's calling some family members now who have been victims of isis. >> the foleys? >> i guess what i would say is that what i see happening in syria makes sense to me. that the president destroyed the caliphate. he's asking others to do more and he's right when it comes to turkey. i think the invasion has been disrupted. about at the end of the day, if we can continue to partner with the kurds, secure the oil revenues for their sake, not iran's sake, not for isis' sake, help pay the costs of the operations makes imminent sense to me. i think the president is right to say that the conflict b...

Killing himself is something people in this region will find truly shocking. they'll also most likely be shocked at a u.s. president thanking russia. thanking turkey. thanking iraq. thanking the kurdish sdf in the same sentence. that is very, very unusual, especially considering the conflict that we've seen here for the past two weeks. now we have heard some additional reaction from the kurdish sdf in a statement saying that they did provide intelligence to the united states to help in this operation. also alleging that the operation was delayed due to turkey's incursion into syria. and there'...

Iraq, and i also want to thank the syrian kurds for certain support they were able to give us. this was a very, very dangerous mission. thank you as well to the great intelligence professionals who helped make this very successful journey possible. >> so interesting, courtney, he starts with russia there. ends on our allies, the kurds. we also got a tweet from general mazloum. he said for five months there has been joint intel cooperation on the ground and accurate monitoring until we achieved a joint operation to kill abu bakr al baghdadi. what are you hearing from your sources on the ground ...

Ten-minute helicopter flight, the eight helicopters, it seems they left from iraq and then flew over parts of turkey -- excuse me, parts of syria controlled by assad forces as well as the kurds to get to this part of northwest syria. >> hans nichols, thank you. joining me, hallie jackson, chief white house correspondent. talk us through what you were hearing in that over 50-minute or so speech from the president making that major announcement of the killing of abu bakr al baghdadi. >> yeah, it's a significant announcement but, boy, what an extraordinary level of operational details from the ...