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. >> reporter: a team of about 70 american commandos led by the army's delta force assaulted the compound in northeastern syria in a violent raid that began saturday evening east coast time. >> when we landed with eight helicopters, a large crew of brilliant fighters ran out of those helicopters and blew holes into the side of the building, not wanting to go through the main door because that was booby trapped. >> reporter: two americans were slightly injured. five of the people around baghdadi were killed. others were brought out as prisoners. 11 other children were unharmed. >> we were in the compound for approximately two hours. and after the mission was accomplished, we took highly sensitive material and information from the raid. much having to do with isis, origins, future plans, things that we very much want. >> reporter: the u.s. had been zeroing in on baghdadi's whereabouts following information provided by one of his wives who had been captured. but it was not until saturday morning that the intelligence became certain enough for the president to give the go-ahead. once launched

. >> reporter: the compound where al baghdadi met his end was first assaulted by the army's delta force and then reduced to rubble by american bombs. >> he was a sick and depraved man, and now he's dead. [ applause ] he's dead. he's dead as a doornail. >> reporter: president trump tweeted a picture of the dog that chased al baghdadi down a dead end tunnel where he killed himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest. the dog, a belgian malinua whose name, believe it or not, is clossfied, was hit by the blafrt. but he is said to be safely back in iraq. >> slightly wounded and fully recovering. but the dog is still in theater, returned to duty. >> reporter: shortly after 5:00 saturday evening east coast time, president trump gathered with his senior advisers in the white house situation room as helicopters carrying 70 commandos landed at al baghdadi's compound. with warplanes circling overhead, the delta force blew a hole in the compound wall starting a fire-fight in which five residents were killed and two taken prisoner. that left al baghdadi still inside trying to escape thro

. >> reporter: the compound where al-baghdadi met his end was first assaulted by the army's delta forcend then reduced to rubble by american bombs. >> he was a sick and depraved man, and now he's dead. he's dead. he's dead as a door nail. >> reporter: president trump tweeted a picture of the dog that chased al-baghdadi down a dead end tunnel where he killed himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest. the dog, a belgian malinois, whose name, believe it or not, is classified, was hit by the blast, but joint chiefs chairman general mark milley said he is safely back in iraq. >> slightly wounded and fully recovering, but the dog is still in theater, returned to duty with its handler. >> reporter: shortly after 5:00 saturday evening east coast time, president trump gathered with his senior advisers in the white house situation room as helicopters carrying 70 commandos landed at al- baghdadi's compound. with warplanes circling overhead, the delta force blew a hole in the compound wall, starting a firefight in which five residents were killed and two taken prisoner. that left al-b

army, delta force and rangers were involved in that raid. it also involved eight helicopters.service members were injured or killed as baghdadi ran away from the special operations group trying to escape. >> baghdadi was vicious and violent and he died in a vicious and violent way as a coward running and crying. >> a spokesperson for the kurdish syrian democratic forces tweeted today taking credit for some of the intelligence that led to the u.s. led operation. reports today also indicate kurdish intelligence along with the cia played a role in locating and cornering al- baghdadi. >>> in washington the impeachment inquiry resumes tomorrow with an ex-white house adviser set to testify, but it's not clear if the former white house deputy national security adviser will show up. charles coverman filed a lawsuit last friday asking a judge if he should comply with the subpoena or whether he should follow the president's direction to assert immunity. house democrats are threatening to hold him in contempt if he fails to appear before house investigators. >>> former michigan congressm

. >> baghdadi died by suicide in a raid conducted by the army delta force at the direction of president trump. the president described the raid and the isis leader's death in gruesome detail during a presser he held sunday morning. he spoke for an estimated 48 minutes revealing sensitive information about the operation he thanked russia before he acknowledged the allies who gave the u.s. critical information about baghdadi's whereabouts and argued this terrorist death is, quote, the biggest there is and took time to remind americans that he saw osama bin laden before everybody else did and that he had written a book about it. >> he died after running into a dead end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way. i want to thank the nations of russia, turkey, syria and iraq and i also want to thank the syrian kurds for certain support they were able to give us. been laden was a big thing, but this is the biggest there is. this is the worst ever. osama bin laden was very big but he became big with the world trade center. if you read my book, there was a book right before the wor

special operations forces involving the army's delta force , and the ranger reggiement part of the military's elite joint special operations command here is how the president described how the mission ended for baghdadi. president trump: he died after running into a dead end tunnel wimpering and crying and screaming all the way. the compound had been cleared by this time with people either surrendering or being shot and killed. eleven young children were moved out of the house and are un injured. the only ones remaining were baghdadi in the tunnel and he had dragged three of his young children with him. they were led to certain death. he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest, killing himself and the three children. >> the president said the u.s. special operations forces accomplished their mission in " grand style." the president said he watched the mission unfold in realtime live from the situation room last night with his new chairman of joint chief of staff general mark milley, along with his defense secretary mark esper, and national security advis

army delta force and members of the 75th army ranger regiment, about six special operations helicoptersd. it was a partnered mission, a u.s. official tells me. baghdadi was killed when he detonated a suicide vest. biometrics, facial recognition immediately identified the isis leader whose caliphate has been destroyed. typically in a suicide bombing the head of the bomber is removed intact. dna was also used to identify baghdadi which takes up to a day for those results. u.s. forces launched from a base in irbil, iraq. there had been reports of sightings of baghdadi in id lid for some time according to my source. general maslum, the kurd urban leader of the syrian forces, said, "quote successful and successful operation due to a joint intelligence work with the united states of america. kurds have always been good partners according to a military source. idlib province in northwest syria say terrorist stronghold. isis and al-qaeda have been rivals for years so it's somewhat surprising that baghdadi would hide there. the compound raided by u.s. special operations forces is in barisha, a t

he was members of the army elite delta force copying from helicopters that led to the death of albert gotti. in the dead of night in northwestern syria order by president trump. >> he died after running into a dead-end tunnel, crying and screaming all the way. the compound had been cleared by this time with people either surrendering or shot and killed. baghdadi's demise demonstrates relentless pursuit of terse leaders and our commitment to the enduring and total defeat of isis and other terrorist organizations. steve: we've got you covered on the story and other big news into the origin of the russia investigation becoming a criminal probe. and of course the latest on impeachment. let's discuss the news with our guest senior fellow of the washington post colonist, trump 2020 campaign national press secretary and fox news contribute or, great to see you. sarah, let's focus on the arguments that are swirling around us. what has been so interesting compared to what we saw with bin laden, immediately the trump haters are trained to pick holes in this and the one particular thing i would

. >> this operation so daring, our special forces, army delta force going in and mission accomplished yeah. >> when you heard that, how did you feel >> we cried. >> we both cried >> it was just an amazing gift for kayla. i know kayla kayla would say this is for all of us. this is for all of the hostages and all of the people over there that have suffered so much through this group so kayla would want it to be for everyone, all the people that she was with, the syrians that have suffered so much, people that are still missing that we want home. that's what kayla would say. >> the president called you, carl, i know you spoke to him for a good long time can you share any of that conversation i know you said you talked a lot. you had a lot to tell him. >> i did you know, i did. i had written up about 2 1/2 pages because we knew that phone call was coming and we have -- we still have many questions over the 5 1/2 years, and i -- of course after he cordially gave his condolences and whatnot, and told us what he knew about kayla a little bit, i said mr. president, we have some questions, and

army's elite delta force with the help of the cia and others launching that daring raid that led to hisas the delta team approached, baghdadi ran into a tunnel and detonated a suicide vest he was wearing, killing himself. a senior u.s. official telling abc that information after the capture of one of baghdadi's wives and a courier some time ago eventually led them to the hideout, but officials are warning that despite baghdadi's death, isis still poses a threat, george. >> they certainly do. okay, martha, thanks very much. >>> coming up here, life of the queen, stories and secrets from one of her closest confidantes. >>> and as more people turn to cbd for pain relief, dr. ashton is here with a look at the risks and benefits. >>> and the stars of "the morning show" are taking over our morning show. there they are, jennifer aniston and reese witherspoon are taking over "good morning america." >>> plus, we've got a great audience that we will see in just a moment. stay with us, folks. ♪ [vacuum] ♪ ♪ i actually don't even know what that is! is your body wash gentle on your microbiome? it's

teams can operate on land, sea and air, while delta force, an army unit, is exclusively focused on highbody is fascinated about secretive groups we want to know the back story and what nobody else knows. >> that piece was fascinating. part of this elite force was the hero dog that helped take down baghdadi. >> president trump overnight declassified his name. the president can declassify whatever information he wants. it's a good one. the dog's name is conan, and he tweeted overnight conan will be leaving the middle east and going to d.c. to the white house for a visit. a couple of details about conan, four-year vet, taken part in 50 operations, and he was hurt by an exposed live electrical wire and my guess, if he plays his cards right, he's got a big mack and maybe a medal in his future >> let's get a check of al's weather. >>> unfortunately our friends in southern california have to deal with these strong winds, critical risk to extreme risk stretching all the way from bakersfield into southern california strongest winds lasting until 6:00 p.m. still 18 million people at risk for an e

president of the united states, taken out in the special operation's force raid involving 50 to 70 army rangers, delta forces as well, the isis leader as you know gillian has been on the run for years but thanks to intelligence collected weeks ago the u.s. in cooperation with allies and others in the region were able to finally catch and kill him. >> when we landed with 8 helicopters, a large crew of brilliant fighters ran out of those helicopters and blew holes into the side of the building, not wanting to go through the main door because that was booby trapped and there was something, there was something really amazing to see. i got to watch it along with general milly; vice president pence, others in the situation room. >> you heard the president he watched this all unfold from the situation room and it was truly in vivid detail that he described watching the events unfold in realtime, sparingly, jarringly some would argue fairly little along the way in his descriptions about what happened and the president also described his conversations with other stakeholders in the region with whom the u.s. wa

army delta forces and rangers into northwest syria from iraq. the mission went on for several hours with president trump and his top advisers monitoring that raid from the white house situation room, and one of the key tips that helped the u.s. finally track down abu bakr al-baghdadi. reportedly came from one of his own wives. the president made the official announcement of his death in a dramatic sunday morning news conference at the white house. >> baghdadi was vicious and violent and died in a vicious and violent way as a coward running and crying. >> we have complete coverage this morning, let's start with nbc correspondent richard engel who is in syria this morning. richard, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. this is not over. overnight, u.s. forces and kurdish fighters here in northern syria targeted the isis spokesman, they are trying to capitalize on intelligence they gained from that raid while it's still fresh. abu bakr al-baghdadi called himself the ruler of an islamic empire. but kurdish intelligence officials

there is an air force three star general, scott howell, commander of jsoc, fort bragg, he used the army's deltaaviation regiment, would have run the helicopters and probably the drones also. and in every operation there is u.s. air power. it is a significant strike. it would have been approved at the highest levels. by the way, president trump is very responsive on rules of engagement. and on taking risks to allow jsoc to operate in syria, iraq, and elsewhere. >> head of national counterterrorism center and senior fellow for the council on foreign realizelations. there is a parallel to be drawn here with osama bin laden. you were integrally involved with. help us understand how good that is from&what we know from this mission so far. >> we are still learning a lot. some of the early reporting, the force that he referred to was in the region forum to a week beforehand. that suggests this didn't all come together in a 24-hour period. it also suggests to me, like the bin laden raid, at some point the president approved a concept of operations. but then it was probably left to the military and the

the dog is a member of the army's elite delta force. president trump did tweet a photo of the dog.ng from some electrocution injuries. a lot of public interest in that. but let's move on for a minute, u.s. troops very much still going back into syria, and we asked defense secretary mark esper yesterday here at a press conference about their role, their mission. i asked the secretary does their mission now include preventing, denying access to the oil fields to both syrian and russian forces who may be moving through that area? have a listen to how he laid it all out. >> does that include denying access, preventing russian or syrian forces, which now have changed the battle space? >> the short answer is yes it presently does because in that case we want to make sure sdf does have access to the resources in order to guard the prisons. in order to arm their own troops, in order to assist us with the defeat isis mission. that's our mission is to secure the oil fields. >> yes, it does secure the oil fields. the secretary for the first time publicly saying that u.s. troops not just would

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>> good morning, we know the army's elite delta force took the lead, about 70 american ko m -- commandos took the lead in this raise. two were injured and there was an injury by a military dog. five of baghdadi's associates were killed. >> he died a kcoward, whimperin, screaming. >> amateur video allegedly shows the raid. >> the thug that tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread. terrified of the american forces bearing down on him. >> mr. trump said fresh intelligence on his likely location and where he might move set the mission in motion three days ago. u.s. forces took off from a military base in irbil erik for the roughly one hour and ten minute trip to the location. once there they blasted a whole through the side of the compound catching those neds by surprised. he flaed to an underground tunnel. >> he ignited his vest killing himself and the three children. his body was mutilated by the task. >> he said it confirmed the identity with a test. >> russia treated us great. they opened up, we had a fly overcertain russia areas.

cruise missiles, bombs and drone-launched hellfire missiles leveling this structure after the army's elite deltaorce raid left the isis leader dead. >> he was a sick and depraved man and now he's dead. he's dead. he's dead as a doornail. and he didn't die bravely either, i will tell you that. >> reporter: baghdadi cornered by the commandos in an underground tunnel with this military dog, a belgian malinois, in pursuit. the photo, declassified and tweeted by president trump. baghdadi detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and three children and slightly wounding the dog. president trump claiming baghdadi was whimpering and crying in the tunnel, even though that was not seen in the situation room where the national security team watched live feeds of the raid with the president. >> i know the president had planned to talk down to the unit and unit members, but i don't know what the source of that was. but i assume it was talking directly to the unit and unit members. >> you haven't talked to any unit members who have described that to you? >> i have not talked to unit members, no, that's correc

delta force commandos who told this out. >> that's what i've learned. >> brennan: the president didn't reveal that detail in his remarks. >> the army equivalent to the navy seals. i haven't had anybody tell me. this i would imagine there was small group of delta force that would go into the compound, the compound would be surrounded by a larger group of probably army rangers providing security to keep anybody from coming to the compound. >> brennan: david martin, you have been busy reporting. thank you very much for joining us. we doant to take a closer look at abu bakr al-baghdadi, who he was, why he was such a high-value target. he was not only the leader of isis, he was blamed for that rea fnd followers allve. around the world. foreign correspondent holly williams has more on who he was. >> reporter: he proclaimed himself the caliph or leader of the so-called islamic state, but in reality abu bakr al-baghdadi was a hate preacher who presided over a death cult of utter barrty. with a $25 million reward offered by the u.s., he was rarely captured on camera. this video released in april was his first appearance in five years and apparently hi last. it's

this dog went on a mission with delta force, the most secretive organization the army has. people finding out what forces are where based on small pieces of information. of course, in the genre of twitter, i got all kinds of experts telling me why i was so wrong in saying this might be an offset violation. nothing vital to national security, but it could certainly give away information about a unit. it was fascinating to watch that. too much information was given, in my view, by the president when he announced the results of the raid this week, and, unfortunately, this is one that everybody seems to glom on and there is no need to know about the name of a dog or the name of an operator or handler that was making sure that dog did the right things. >> general hertling, thank you. >> you got it, brianna. thanks. >>> a family from the uk is suing the trump administration, accusing it of a cover-up. the suit involved a crash with the wife of a u.s. diplomat, a crash that claimed the life of their teenage son. >>> plus the scramble is on far katie hill's seat after she resigned

similar capability, and the difference is that the navy s.e.a.l.s are the navy and the delta force falls under the armynd to have a similar capability. you can see here that so far the bits and pieces of what happened on that compound in northwestern syria, it is similar in a lot of ways to what we heard about the islamabad compound with osama bin laden and coming in with the stealth helicopters and repelling in for a raid that people were going in to create a perimeter around it for the raid, and all of that is done with the navy s.e.a.l.s, but we are told that the actual commandos in the raid were delta force. >> thank you for reporting, my friend. i am joined with the author of "how the catch a russian spy" and thank you for sticking with us. i want to refer to a tweet six or seven minutes ago and it is unclear how much operational extent al baghdadi had for isis or others? >> what we are hearing from the counter intelligence officials here is that it is unclear if baghdadi was dealing with the day-to-day and not just a figurehead. we know from al qaeda and the first rule of terrorism is to decentra

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delta force. joining me no you to talk more on that is msnbc military analyst, retired u.s. army four star general mccaffrey. thank you for being here. so al baghdadi was targeted in idlib province, what's the significance of that, that he was found there? >> well, it was a shrinking yeah, he thought he was safe in, it's unusual. in theory, the al nuzra group is hostile to isis. in addition this guy is an iraqi born and raised. he normally felt more comfortable being in iraq. again it's a comment on the fact his options were running out and this really spectacular operation starting with cia, nsa surveillance that located him, apparently was significant to help the iraqis. then this incredibly effective no casualties raid, i think it's made a substantial contribution to knocking isis in the head. and there are 15,000 of them still out there fighting, but this is a major blow against isis. >> a major blow, you say, how intricate was this operation? we do know drones were used, helicopters as well as planes. it seems as if a lot of different moving parts had to come together to mak

army special ops member and co-author of "drone warrior: an elite soldier's inside account of the hunt for america's most dangerous enemy." welcome. >> thank you, brooke. >> thank you for your service. you know what this deltateam went through. in 2010 your special ops team killed baghdadi's predecessor, you, then, went on the hunt for baghdadi yourself and before that used baghdadi to get to the other two leaders of iraq. tell me about your experience. >> i think at that time bag daddie was really not well known to the public. but we knew him very well within our special operations team back in the spring of 2010. we were tasked hunting down and finding the number one and two at the time. baghdadi was number three. once we were able to conduct that mission and successfully kill the number one and two we immediately knew that baghdadi would take over and so it kind of is relevant to what's going on now with the current raid that just took place. these guys down range right now are focused primarily on actionable intelligence what we call follow-on targets now. this special operations team hasn't stopped for a second with the death of baghdadi. they know how critic theal next 24 to 48 hours icenies state of