then. reach out to me on social media, let me know what you think. for now i turn it over to reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation." good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, he died like a dog in a dramatic televised announcement earlier this morning, president trump described to the world how a u.s. military raid in syria led to the death of the leader of isis. the president says he watched much of the raid. here he is in the situation room. and he provided a detailed account how the isis leader died. >> last night the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice.

abu bakar al baghdadi is dead. he died after running into a dead end tunnel whimpering and crying and screaming all the way. he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest killing himself and the three children. but test results gave certain, immediate, and totally positive identification. it was him. >> it was a breakthrough five years after the elusive militant launched an organization that inspired violence worldwide. it brings a dramatic end to the hunt for a man who launched an underground band into a powerful movement spread across several continents. but now with the fog of war dissipating, a few questions arise. why did the president provide

such an amount of details about the operation? what role did russia play in the operation? why did trump not inform democratic leaders in congress? why did he take a lot of credit to himself? specifically alluding to the idea that baghdad's death was bigger than the death of osama bin laden? remember, trump at the time accused president obama of taking too much credit for obama's capture aend death. and last but not least, will this success have any impact on the impeachment investigation? in minutes, we'll answer those questions with my panel of political strategists. republican michael steele and michael star hopkins. but first let me bring in joshua gelzer who is a senior director of counterterrorism at the national security council and is

now the founding executive director of the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection. joshua, what does this capture and killing really mean to the average person in america and in the -- in those nations where isis had become a serious problem and threat? >> this is a major counterterrorism achievement. isis built its mythology, its recruitment efforts around laying claim to a so-called caliphate. you can't claim a caliphate without a caliph. baghdadi was that caliph. he was often off screen not heard from, not scene. but he was a personality at the center of this group's efforts to build a quasi state and recruit from around the world fighters to come to it. eliminating him, that's a big counterterrorism step.

>> now, listen to how senator lindsey graham reacted. >> the president's been determined for a very long time to bring baghdadi to justice. and i want to compliment him and his team for bringing about a result that i think is a game changer in the world on terror. >> do you feel that this will lead to the total dissipation of isis? will this in many ways begin to just dissolve them? or will a new leader emerge? >> unfortunately, it probably goes too far to suggest that this event alone suddenly spells the end of a group. a group that has put a lot of effort into building institutional resilience and to having branches all around the world with their own deputies quasi leaders of having an organizational brand that does go beyond baghdadi himself. so i don't think it sells short

the accomplishment that we've just learned about to say that there is a lot of work that remains to be done if the united states and other countries are going to prevent the resurgence of isis resurgence of isis, that the group is already trying to push forward. >> we have to give credit to president trump and those that are involved. clearly this is above politics. but what do we know about -- because he listed russia. he listed turkey. he listed iraq. what do we know about other nations that were involved in this? >> well, at least from today's reporting, it seems that the entity that came last on trump's list, not a nation at all, but the syrian kurds may have been the most critical partner in all of this. reports suggest that they were essential to the successful completion of this operation. of course those are the same syrian kurds whom president trump abruptly at the request of erdogan of turkey seemed to

abandon. and this eventually -- >> let me stop you right there because, joshua, are you saying that it seems that the kurds in syria, the syrian kurds were a vital part of this, the same kurds that president trump just made a deal to have them leave the northern eastern part of this country, of syria? >> by all indications, the answer is yes. the syrian kurds themselves have indicated that this was a collaborative enterprise. and even trump, although they came last on his list, included them in giving thanks to partners. so, it seems to show once again what critical partners on the ground those very same syrian kurds can be. >> well, then that demands that we must raise this question of the u.s. expert. if they were critical and president trump did list them last after he listed russia, turkey, and iraq, but he listed them, if they were critical, how

now would removing them does this leave a fertile ground for those left with isis and who may want to build back up and even try and replace al baghdadi? how much of a unwise move this may be to remove the kurds if they were such a vital part of helping to catch the leader that was killed today of isis? >> this seems to increase the criticism that has rightly been heaped on president trump for abandoning that partnership. after all, isis wants to regroup, and partners on the ground are critical not only for particular operations like this but for a broader deterrence of isis retaking some of the towns and villages that it once held but has been pushed out of. they're critical for gathering intelligence. they're critical for facilitating operations like

this so our service members can go in and out safely. it seems to underscore what a foolish decision it was for trump to turn his back on such useful partners who have sacrificed so much in the counter-isis campaign. >> thank you joshua gelzer. joining me now michael steele and a former spokesman for house speaker john bainer, and michael starr hopkins who serves on the presidential campaigns of hillary clinton, barack obama, and john delaney. the president, you just heard joshua address this. president gave some credit to the syrian kurds. he listed them last. his first mention was to russia. was he trying to play down the fact that they played a vital role, that joshua says, because he has made a deal to remove them?

i mean, what is the politics of this? >> probably so. i mean, i think that the political impact of this is that a lot of the folks, particularly republican senators who were very concerned over the betrayal of the kurds, very concerned over the impulsive nature of that act, will be somewhat reassured that the president is still allowing our military and intelligence services working with our allies to conduct important operations like this to make america and the world safer by eliminating one of the architects of terror in the middle east. >> now, having said that, michael -- and i'm talking to the michael starr hopkins, having said that, i think credit is due where it's due, what the president has done. but at the same time, wouldn't this beg the question of why would you continue to remove kurds and work with turkey if they have been vital partners, helped with this being executed, and we have the threat that isis

will try and reorganize and may even try and surface a new leader? >> absolutely. and reports are now indicating that donald trump's decision to abandon the kurds may have lead this to happen because the military ed subpoena up their decision, that they had been working on this strategy for a while. trump's decision to pull out and abandon the kurds forced their hand. luckily it worked out but this could have gone sideways. >> here's congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the intel committee. this is his reaction. >> this is a great day, a ruthless killer has been brought to justice. in terms of notifying the gang of 8, that wasn't done. look, the reason to notify the gang of 8 is frankly more important when things go wrong. had this escalated, had something gone wrong, had we gotten into a fire fight with the russians, it's to the administration's advantage to be able to say we informed congress we were going in, they were aware of the risks, we at least

gave them the chance to provide feedback. that wasn't done here. >> michael steele, is that a legitimate point? it was not done, he did not do what is done by all presidents when you're making a move by this is to alert the opposing party, at least the speaker? was that a big mistake? it certainly was something that had not ever been done before in these kind of operations. why would he not call nancy pelosi and others and alert them? and as schiff said, if something went bad, they were not even informed. >> yeah. i mean, i think the answer is yes and no. i think that you would want the president to inform the congressional leadership, particularly the gang of 8. that's how the system is designed to work. at the same time, we're in uncharted territory here. when members of the gang of 8, particularly the intelligence chairman, are leading the charge against the president on the impeachment inquiry, they are committing errors, conducting the process in secret,

misquoting the president in his read out of the conversation with the ukrainian president, this is not a time where there's a high degree of trust between the president and congressional leadership and the intelligence committee chairman probably least of all. >> so, you're saying to me because of the gang of 8, some of them are leading the impeachment which is investigating whether the president abused power, that gives him a reason to keep them out of informing them that he's putting american military people in harm's way and that this could backfire and there could be american military people that die or suffer, that he has the reason because y'all are investing me i'm not going to inform you of something of this magnitude? >> right. i'm not saying that it is a correct decision to bypass the gang of 8, but i do think given the circumstances it is entirely understandable since the president believes that he is the subject of a witch hunt and his chief tormenter, the captain

kangaroo of the kangaroo court is the intelligence committee chairman of the house democrats. >> mr. hopkins, either he's going to be president or he's not. if you're going to do foreign policy or for that matter domestic policy and you're going to do it in the appropriate proper way that is always been done, you can't be a baby and say oh, you are picking on me. therefore i'm not going to abide by what i should abide by as president of the united states when there are lives on the line here. >> president trump's response to the killing of baghdadi was indicative of everything that's been wrong with his presidency. he had a good day. he killed baghdadi and that should be celebrated. >> absolutely. >> instead of doing that, he didn't notify the game of 8. he gave a press conference that was rambling and awkward and gave details that weren't necessary. he gave a picture of he and

generals waiting to see if baghdadi was killed and we later found out he was on the golf course with had it happened. trump is mired in controversy. he can never just do the right thing and that's another example of that. >> aside, michael steele, of him being on the golf course when he said he was watching, he said president obama claimed too much credit for the killing of osama b laden. he says obama deserves much less credit for the killing of bin laden. the praise goes to our brave military and intelligence officers. in his speech, statement to the american people and his answers with the press, he kept taking all of the credit. and we find out he wasn't even where he said he was. how does anyone rationalize that when you are in such a momentous occasion? he finds a way to undercut his own credibility. >> mm-hm. hype and hypocrisy will always be the watch words for donald trump, but they will always be

the watch words of his administration. and even on a day that he should be rightly celebrated for a victory for the american people, a victory for the world, and particularly the middle eastern region, he couldn't get out of his own way. he continued to take too much credit. he continued to overhype the accomplishment and obviously it was hypocritical given the past criticism of president obama for essentially the same thing. >> couldn't get out of his own ways, that said by a republican, mr. steele. and we haven't seen him get to the ball park tonight. this obsession with barack obama, compares in his q&a with the press that he had done this and obama only did that, this was bigger than getting bin laden, i mean, are we really down to, again, acting like babies that my guy was bigger than your guy whether it be true or not? what are we talking about? why can't we just all say it is good that someone who was as despicable as baghdadi was was

caught and captured and is gone? why are we -- what is this obsession with barack obama and donald trump? >> well, it goes to the president's psyche. his whole presidency and almost his whole life has been based off grievance politics. to be honest, donald trump will never be half the man that barack obama is and he's reminded of that every day by the media, by the supporters of barack obama, by the american soliloquy. so, donald trump is insecure, and he will always be insecure and this will always be an issue for him. >> michael steele, you brought up how he reacted to the fact that some of those in the gang of 8 are involved in leading the impeachment inquiry. how will this affect, if at all, the impeachment inquiry? >> i think it won't have a huge impact despite his despicable record, al-baghdadi was not terribly known among the american people.

i think there was some argument that people who were concerned less about the ukraine issue but willing to remove the president over the ukraine issue because of betrayal of the kurds will be marginally less willing to do that because he's still allowing our ill tear, still allowing services to do their job. that's a pretty low bar, but we appear to have hit it. >> michael hopkins, he is still saying that he's moving out, the kurds are moving out, even in the five-day cease fire that really didn't happen. they were saying we're giving you five days to get out. so, if, in fact, he is saying that yes, i'm letting them cooperate, yes they're cooperating on the way out the door. >> yeah, there's no clarity with our foreign policy. and that's been a problem from the beginning of the trump presidency whether it was the muslim ban or how we treated nato and our relationship with

russia. there's never been clarity. the way we've abandoned the kurds after they fought for us and defended us in the middle east is something that will go down as a pock on president trump's house. >> how do we look on the kurds we've seen by most people assessment to have abandoned them and they didn't abandon us. they helped us get who was the most wanted terrorist in the world. >> i know. i think today we are -- we reminded the world that the united states possesses a military and intelligence service of unmatched resources, unmatched courage, and unmatched stability. at the same time, we do not have the sort of steady leadership that will allow us to take full advantage of that and provide the maximum benefit for the american people and the wider world. >> all right. i have to leave it there. thank you michael steele and michael starr hopkins. coming up, what impact if any will the killing of the isis

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by high winds which triggered red flag warnings. a short time ago, nbc news that john conniers has died. he represented the detroit area for 53 years. he was the longest serving member of congress in u.s. history and the longest serving african-american. his legacy was clouded by allocations of sexual harassment and mistreatment of female stafferers. john conniers was 90 years old. more "politics nation" with reverend sharpton after the break. h reverend sharpton after the break. that helps her heart so she can keep on doing what she loves. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. it helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body.

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i commend the men and women out there in the field and our intelligence agencies and partners who have helped make sure that, you know, al-baghdadi reached his demise. you know, i have plenty of disagreements with the president, and i don't think that the president should be taking credit for the work of the men and women in uniform and these intelligence agencies that he routinely lambastes. >> that was secretary julian castro earlier today in south carolina reacting to the president's statement about the operation in syria that killed the leader of isis. but how will this foreign policy development impact the 2020 presidential race? well, joining me now is democratic presidential

candidate julian castro. he's former secretary of housing and urban development and former mayor of san antonio. let me ask you, mr. castro, as you giving credit to those in the intelligence community, those on the ground, those that did a lot of the work, and we give credit to president trump, does it also bother you -- two part question -- that he did not inform the gang of 8 in the congress? if this had gone another way, that could have been a serious infraction. and does it bother you that he has had to give some credit to the kurds while at the same time they're not backing up on giving that region to turkey and in effect moving the kurds out or leaving them at the mercy of president erdogan? >> of course it does bother me that he didn't inform the gang

of 8. he didn't follow the normal protocols for ensuring that congress was informed. sochl yo some of your guests discussed why that's important if something goes wrong with the operation. it also just smacks of more playing politics. but now he's playing politics with our military operations. and there's no reason that this should be a partisan game for this president. there's no reason that he shouldn't keep congress informed. so, you know, in the least i hope that in the future the administration will not make that mistake again. they deserve to be informed. and if we're going to ask congress, for instance, to step up on authorizing the use of military force in the future to actually fulfill their role, then i think that they need to be kept informed. and certainly if i were president i would keep them

informed. as for the kurds, you know, it is commendable that the kurds have continued to be strong partners and allies to the united states even as they were abandoned by the trump administration. the fact that they played a role in this operation, they did a lot of the groundwork for it, carried out a part of it and were part of the success of bringing down one of the most notorious terrorists in the world. it speaks to their loyalty to the united states. and it is unfortunate and it is a disaster that that loyalty has not been -- has not been repaid, but instead that they've been abandoned. >> now, on a day that all of us should celebrate that it is a move that really removes someone who openly was a threat to lives around the world and particularly americans, he finds a way -- he being president

trump -- to do things like not giving the kurds the right credit and dealing with this policy that could lead to them being at the mercy of president erdogan of turkey. and of course his whole not informing the gang of 8. what is this obsession with president obama? i mean, if the team he's not rooting for tonight when he goes to the game wins, he'll blame that on obama. you worked in the obama administration. what is this hang up he has with barack obama? >> look, you have a president in trump that just recognizes, i think, in his heart of hearts as much as he probably doesn't want to admit it that barack obama was smarter, was more beloved, more effective, a better president than donald trump will ever be. and that gets to him. that gets his goat every single day. and so every opportunity he has

he has to put down barack obama. but to watch and to listen to president obama at the funeral service for representative cummings was to get another glimpse of the man that he is and the leader that he was as president and the kind of leadership that we need again in this nation. and so, you know, whether it's insulting president obama or last night announcing over twitter that something big happened and he was going to have a press conference this morning at 9:00 eastern, the thing about trump is that he always wants to make it about him. it's not about you and your family. it's not about the american people. it's not about our men and women in uniform or our allies around the world. it's about him. and, you know, that's not somebody that we should have in the oval office where everything revolves around only him. >> earlier today you spoke at the second step presidential

justice forum and gave your vision for the future of criminal justice in the united states. watch. >> i don't want to take this country backward. i don't want to make america anything again. i want to take us forward. i want to make us better than we've ever been in the years to come. and that includes reforming our criminal justice system. >> now, i took note that in many of the debates you were the one that brought up clearly more than the other candidates some of the cases of police misconduct. you were the only one that brought up atatiana jefferson who had just been killed a few days before in her own home while she was babysitting her nephew by a policemen in ft. worth, texas. you're probably the candidate that's been most vocal on criminal justice reform and

police misduct. does it disappoint you that other candidates you are competing for the nomination has not been really that clear in terms of the debates, in terms of naming particular cases, and specific ways of dealing with this? does it disappoint you? and can you explain specifically those things that you want to see done in criminal justice? >> yeah, reverend, it does disappoint me that more of the candidates haven't addressed especially the issue of police reform. a lot of candidates don't want to touch that. they're afraid of touching it. but what i see is case of case, video after video in addition to statistics to tell a very clear story that if you're a young black man or young black woman in this country that you're often treated differently by police, with excessive force. you end up injured or killed. and, you know, atatiana jefferson, unfortunately she was

another example of that. and i wish that more candidates would release criminal justice plans and particularly police reform plans. and sometimes they don't want to deal with it because you get thrown back with this label of somehow being anti-police. but i tell people all the time, look, i know there are good police officers out there. i worked with good police officers when i was mayor of san antonio. just like we need to make improvements to the legal profession that i'm a part of or to the medical profession or other professions, we need to improve policing in this country. and the reason that that's so urgent is because some people are getting treated differently on the street by police. and that often means injury or death. and so the stakes are very high, and it's urgent for us to make those changes. in terms of my plan for our country, i've laid out a criminal justice reform plan that i call a first chance plan. that means that i actually believe we need to work harder

to make sure that people get a first chance in the first place, they never end up in the criminal justice system. making investments in education, in health care, in housing opportunity, in access to mental health care and a whole range of other things. in addition to that, reforming our police, demille triezing our police, banning racial profiling, ban stop and frisk, the rift between communities and police departments, and maybe most important, ending qualified immunity so that when an officer acts with excessive force that they can be sued successfully in civil court and imposing a national use of force standard which says that an officer should not use force unless there's a very direct threat, immediate threat to that officer and another person, and the officer has exhausted all other reasonable alternatives under the circumstances. those are the kinds of things that i would like to see when it

comes to reforming policing in our country to work with states and local communities to do it and to exercise as much executive authority as we can from the oval office to get it done. >> all right. thank you julian castro. coming up, did you know that white males in this country have very few rights? i'll explain next. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis

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you know, it's a sad day in america when the democrats can't stand up and thank the president, thank the u.s. military, for taking out the leader of isis last night. the democrats have impeachment obsession. >> that was republican senator steve daines of montana sounding off on democrats after the raid and killing of the leader of isis. president trump made the announcement this morning from the white house claiming the mission to defeat isis has been

accomplished. however, my next guest says combatting terrorism is still a national security priority. let's bring in democratic congressman of new york. he's a member of the foreign affairs committee. congressman, your reaction to the raid and the killing this morning and the work that lies ahead. >> well, first and foremost, the killing of al-baghdadi who was a terrorist, we all feel relieved that someone like that is not around. but it should not be scoring points. i heard the president sort of comparing it to osama bin laden, sort of like trying to score points against president obama, which was a better kill. >> right. >> it shouldn't be about that. it should be about stopping isis. isis is still very much alive in that region. and the fact we pulled away from

that region and the kurds are pretty much abandoned which kept isis in check puts that region and kurds in peril. hundreds of isis members were freed from one of the jails when the kurds have to go back as a result of us pulling out of that region. i think this should be about defeating isis, and it shouldn't be about scoring points. if anybody should get the credit, it's the men and women that lead the operation. i'm upset it becomes an argument about who did better, whether osama bin laden or baghdadi was a better kill. that's what it sounded like this morning when i heard the president speak about that. >> there's no doubt we give the president credit and certainly those that led the operation. at the same time, as you mentioned over 100 isis people were released. should there be a re-evaluation of the deal the president made with the president of turkey to

move the kurds out of that region of syria when they apparently were abandoned by the united states but they didn't abandon us. they played a vital role in the killing of al-baghdadi. >> they played a pivotal role and the gang of 8 weren't notified. i think there should be reassessment of how the kurds can be in power in i think all the ins and outs of that region, nobody better than them. and they've taken the hit. thousands of them have died supporting us, the united states of america. so, why give them our backs now, particularly now when that region continues to be very much in peril? >> now, as we look at this and we saw, you said it quickly, the president didn't contact the gang of 8. are we so far gone that because the questions of abuse of power has led to impeachment inquiry, the president is now saying, you

know, that you are investing me nana nana na. i'm not telling you something that could have cost american military lives. are we playing that kind of childish game? >> i'm really concerned about the road that all of this is taking from the perspective of the white house. does he feel emboldened now because we are in an impeachment process that he doesn't have to go to the gang of 8? is he weaponizing the department of justice now needing an investigation against the inves gators as he calling it? i think we're going down a very slippery road, and i think it threatens democracy and threatens balance of powers. >> i know that you worked with congressman elijah cummings, that we funeralized this week. and i want to give you an opportunity to give some of your thoughts on elijah cummings who i think had a befitting send off and celebration of his life.

i was at the one in congress and there was a beautiful one in baltimore. and we just heard of the passing of congressman john conyers. >> two giants, yeah, two giants. congressman -- let me say something to you reverend. when i got there, i saw him. i got there in the minority and trump had just gotten in. and i saw how he even attempted to go to the white house and have -- it seems strange to me back then. i couldn't understand it. he went to the white house and he tried to have a dialogue because that's the type of man he was. >> this was elijah cummings. >> yes. >> tried to have a dialogue -- >> with the president. >> -- with president trump. >> he was down at the white house trying to have dialogue about important issues that impacted his district and the nation. then we saw how the president tried to trash him and baltimore and the way he spoke about it. that was the kind of man he was, elijah cummings.

he gave everything an opportunity. he was someone who was balanced. we lost a giant. >> well, and he condemned his district. he talked about congressman elijah cummings, said there were rodents over his district, then we find out there's a bed bug problem in his hotel in miami. i'm going to have to leave it there. thank you, congressman. >> up next, what connects the killing of a leader of isis and the shooting at the pittsburgh synagogue one year ago today? be right back. back. your family is duckin' and rollin'... while we stowin' and goin' but that's cool, i know for a fact your suv does not suck. and why is that? it aint got that vacuum in the back, whoo! sucking stuff up! what else are we gonna find? we got to go. vacuum in the back, hallelujah! get 0% financing for 60 months plus $2,250 total bonus cash on the 2019 chrysler pacifica.

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in pittsburgh at the tree of life synagogue 11 people killed by a domestic terrorist. we see the threat of domestic terrorism, hate groups, even fbi director chris wray said that white supremacy is a major part of that in this country. we must be committed to fighting terrorism all over the world, but we cannot duck the rise of hate groups and terrorism at home. and remembering this one year ago today, what happened in pittsburgh at tree of life, ought to make us all say yes, give credit for what happened with the leader of isis. but let's not forget the sobering memory of 11 lives lost and many others that were lost to those domestic terrorists that are bent on hate and bent

on white supremacy and anti-semitism and racist and hoeb homophobia. we have to fight terrorism, hate, and people taking lives on all fronts, and yes, give credit when we win, but don't think the battle is over because we fought one fight. we must continue, and we must be operating with a sense of urgency. that does it for me. thank you for watching. this sunday, breaking news. u.s. special forces carried out a raid overnight in syria. forensic testing is under way. and officials believe isis leader obee balead leader oubabu bakr al baghdadi. >> last night, the united states brought the number one terrorist to justice. >> i'll have an exclusive