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Attack. a canine unit was wounded but is doing fine. a short time ago president trump tweeted out this picture of the dog. his name is still classified. a dna test positively identified baghdadi's body soon after he was killed. u.s. special forces were in the compound for about two hours and were able to gather what's described as highly sensitive material on isis before pulling out and flying back to iraq. >> baghdadi and the thugs who followed him were responsible for some of the most brutal atrocities of our time. his death marks a devastating blow for the remnants of isis who are now depri...

Than "black flag." jim work borque is the author. she's the author of a fascinating book "the targeter, my life in the cia hunting terrorists." welcome both of you. what surprised you about how all this played out if anything did? given everything you know about baghdadi and isis and what kind of an impact does his death have? >> well, i think it's not a surprise that eventually we would get him. this is the result of a long effort. it's going back, as we understand it, probably years and a sense of people looking for him very deliberately. i think what was surprising was where they got him. a...

Defense in often -- particularly with his comments about the raid, it reminded me of the position that you write about in your book that the president put secretary mattis in on more than one occasion. explain how secretary mattis navigated that. >> you bet. thanks for having me on. as you mentioned, that was something we saw quite frequently. there was a lot of breakdown in communication between the white house and the pentagon. in the book i recount several such as the creation of the space force and the fact that we only received a call notifying us of the creation of the space force after ...

Fairway. that was one of the many shocks we faced. >> i want be to read something you said, it would be political suicide to admit trump was catching us off guard. anything less would imperil mattis's reputation. it's a no-win situation for somebody like secretary mattis in that case? >> it's a challenging situation but i thought the secretary handled those kinds of situation as well. we'd be on international travel traveling on the e4b and you would have press gagless. he'd be hit with a challenging question or caught off guard. i liked his response which i recall in the book which is if you ...

Carrier, "the u.s.s. ford." he brought up the reporter from the washington post. he brought up the idea of a parade. it was something that i recount in the book that mattis and others were adamantly opposed to it. first, they didn't like the optics of having a full parade certainly going down pennsylvania avenue and just the optics of tanks. it harkens back to soviet era display of power. more importantly, when you have a military it needed all the funding it could get to rebuild and restore itself after decades of war. you wanted to use that funding for building the military and not on a mili...