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Week. and key congressional leaders are wrankled that russia, turkey, iraq, and syrian kurds were looped in on the al-baghdadi raid. but they weren't. and keep in mind it was just days ago the president infuriated many loyalists in his own party over his handling of turkey and the kurds in syria and the perception the strategy could help accelerate the resurgence of isis. we start off tonight with richard engel to put in context the death of the once powerful islamic state leader. >> he was the world's most wanted terrorist. he is often compared to osama bin laden. but they were very different...

Bidens. as the white house tries to shut down some of the testimony. i am joined live by homeland security benny thompson. with another week of intense testimony expected behind closed doors on impeachment, an unexpected milestone in the fight against terrorism. the announcement from president trump that a top isis leader is now dead. according to the president, an apparently verified by dna evidence taken at the scene, american special forces killed abu bakr al-baghdadi last night in a raid in syria. the president savored the moment and opted to take questions at length going into granular ...

Granted. detention facilities perilously held by a syrian-kurdish force with a lot on their plate. will isis find the gap to re-create a caliphate for itself? that's the key question. that's the lasting damage of this legacy here. and that, too, of civilians in syria, that once again see the territory and the powers around them changing. >> a second life for isis. nick paton walsh, thanks for that. we'll be right back. my insurance rates are probably gonna double.

They don't like having u.s. forces on the ground. it takes pressure off of isis there. how would this serve u.s. interests at all particularly from a president who criticized president obama from withdrawing forces too quickly from iraq? >> it could serve american interests. i mean, we have spilled a lot of blood and spent a lot of taxpayer money in the middle east including but not limited to syria. i just don't know yet. i'm really not trying to dodge your question. general mattis, president trump have information that you and i don't have. i will be briefed again. i think for the most part ...

Driven the u.s. out of syria. you can expect that isis will have plenty to say about it. what will happen to the thousands of u.s.-backed forces in syria that the u.s. has been training on the ground with those u.s. ground forces? will they be abandoned? russia and iran, that's the next factor. they all have forces and militias in syria especially iranian backed militias. will they be able to now gain new ground, new influence in syria? while the u.s. was there for the reason of fighting isis, it very much was a hedge against russian and iranian expansion inside syria. that was just one of the...