we are speaking with juan cole, and we will bring in rami khouri and emma beals. stay with us. ♪ [musisic break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we discuss the death of abu bakr al-baghdadi, we go to president trump makining the announcement on sunday. pres. trump: we know the successors and we already have them in our sites. we know the successors. thin, butwas a bit this is the biggest there is. this is the worst ever. osama bin laden was big, but some a big one became big with the world trade center. became big with the world trade center. this man was trying to do it again. and because that is president trump making the announcement about the death of abu bakr al-baghdadi on sunday morning, apparently he briefed russia before he briefed the was congressional leaders, particularly the house speaker nancy pelosi. , emmaests are juan cole beals and rami khouri. rami, if you could respond to the death of baghdadi and the significance of this, what this means, and what exactly president trump said yesterd