aqi. >> abu musab al zarqawi was a good organizer and a good leader.d travel around the country. he'd visit local leaders of sunni groups who were potential supporters of al qaeda and he would deal with them. and he was a very reasonable, very charismatic leader in a small environment. >> he could solve damn near any problem you give him because he was that kind of person. >> i remember once we listened to a radio program that he had done, and he talked to a bunch of his forces around the nation and he basically gave credit to the heroes of samara and whatnot. and it was the kind of thing a corporate leader would do, saying sales did a great job this week. supply chain is doing wonderfully. it was good leadership. >> zarqawi motivated thousands of his followers to commit their lives to the cause. and troops across the coalition were suffering on a daily basis because of improvised explosive devices, insurgent attacks. >> he was walking the walk. he wasn't just some bin laden in a cave kind of thing spewing hatred to the west. he was the field commander

. >> abu musab al zarqawi started to build a network with the sunnis who were frightened by their losscal position inside the country. >> people at the end of the day are the same the world over. they want to matter. in zarqawi's case, he found people who thought they could matter. if they through deadly purpose, lethal purpose, applied their time and talent to the cause he described. >> therefore, he got much more support for what should have been a terrorist organization and it now became much more like an insurgency. >> we are not satisfied of america at all. we are islam. we want our government to be islamic. they said we would bring you freedom. the freedom that they bring, we don't want it. >> you have to look at it and go, why did we do that? nobody thought these second, third, fourth order effects of telling an entire army, go home. what the hell are they going to do? and the middle east is not some great vacation spot. >> zarqawi rose to where he did because he took advantage of the hopes, dreams, aspirations of a group of people who felt they'd been disenfranchised. a largely

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. >> reporter: the founder of isis is this man, abu musab al zarqawi. the u.s.on and spent more than $8.5 billion fighting the terror group. >> it's about changing the storyline immediately and relying on stage craft. and that's what donald trump did today. >> reporter: hillary clinton's campaign his, quote, unprecedented lack of knowledge. in the midst of what "time" magazine today calls simply a meltdown, trump so far sticking to the strategy that got him this far. >> i just keep doing the same thing i'm doing right now. in the end it's either going to work or i'm going to, you know, i'm going to have a very, very nice long vacation. >> reporter: while trump sees political opportunity linking clinton to the president, there may be political risk in going after him so hard. nbc's newest favorability ratings show the president nearly twice as popular as trump. lester? >> hallie jackson in florida, thank you. >>> a new study out today reveals an alarming trend. more car crashes are being caused by falling debris often with deadly consequences. a 40% incr

>> abu musab al zarqawi.a guy who if he had his druthers and had the opportunity would murder barack obama, hillary clinton and even george w. bush. osama bin laden said we're laying a trap for iraq and this is the time to create sunni jihadism. to claim that the president of the united states is a terrorist and i'm sorry, every time i argue with the trump supporters, they always say, oh, he didn't mean that, this is the liberal media reporting what he said. donald trump went on hugh hewitt today. hugh said clearly you mean by withdrawing from iraq -- >> let's roll it. >> last night you said the president of the founder of isis. you meant he created the vacuum and -- >> no, i meant he was the founder of isis. i give him the most valuable player award. i give her, too -- >> he's not sympathetic to them. he hates them. >> he was the founder. >> by using the term founder, they're hitting on you again. mistake? >> no, they're liking it. >> do you not like that? >> i don't. >> most valuable player. this is the rep

we've also seen even after abu musab, others have taken the organization to depths we had never managed> ayman mohyeldin reporting for us. we'll keep everyone up to speed on exactly the action that is led to his death once we get more confirmation from u.s. intelligence sources about how he was killed in syria. a side note he was in u.s. custody in iraq for six years before being able to go back to syria and then take up with isis. again, he had pledged allegiance to isis and abu al zarqawi years ago before he was killed in 2006. >>> up next after leaving onobscene rant on a lawmaker's phone, mayor paul lepage, is he truly considering step aside, leaving that post? he suggested this this morning. however, this afternoon he's taking it back. will your business be ready when growth presents itself? our new cocktail bitters were doing well, but after one tradeshow, we took off. all i could think about was our deadlines racing towards us. a loan would take too long. we needed money, now. my amex card helped me buy the ingredients to fill the orders. opportunities don't wait around, so you h

. >> he is the >> abu musab al zarqawi actually founded isis but doubling down doesn't begin to describe what trump has been doing. >> he's the found errer of isis. >> everyone in this country knows what donald trump means. >> you meant he created the vacuum. >> i meant he's the founder of isis. >> reporter: as trump takes aim at democrats, a new letter signed by party insiders ask the rnc to give up on trump and senate majority in case he loses in a landslide. >> they'll say we won't support trump. these are not the people i want. >> reporter: a top aide for hillary clinton travels for clinton foundation business while working at the state department. clinton's campaign now calling suggestions of a conflict of interest absurd saying the aide volunteered her time. olympic theme attack on trump arguing he's not strong but scared. >> if team usa was as fearful as trump, michael phelps and simone biles would be cowering in the locker room. instead they're winning gold medals. >> reporter: as early as today clinton is expected to release her 2015 tax returns and ten years of her running mate

but there was, abu musab al s k zarqawi well-known philosopher, leaderless.h and kill any opportunity you have, in any manner you can. now al qaeda is perfectly happy to join in on that. but it was originally isis that put that into play. >> let me pull you into a dirtier game, that's presidential politics. what do you make of donald trump's claim -- i know what you make of it -- but donald trump's claim of barack obama and hillary clinton's role in the formation of isis, how isis is being used as a kind of political kind of football in this particular moment given what you've heard? >> you know that's nonsense. i just told you, the lineage al qaeda and isis and if you want to point a finger of blame in our direction you would have to say that the bush administration was unprepared for -- you know, there was no discussion about terrorism during the camcampaign. there was very little understanding. to give them credit they did respond very quickly, but the idea of taking -- going from afghanistan into iraq was a horrible diversion of our energies. >> lawrence