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central command says american special ops troops moved in on him inside a tunnel. >> u.s. when captured at the hands of u.s. forces was i am "in depth," baghdadi detonated a bomb he wore killing himself and two young children that were with him. >> u.s. military says baghdadi's remains were buried at sea just like osama bin lauden. >> one of president trump's judicial nominees had an emotional day on capitol hill. the day before lawrence van dyke's hearing with the senate judiciary committee, the american bar association issued a letter to lawmakers saying that the majority of their committee found him, quote, not qualified. and some people of the 60 people that they interviewed raised concerns about whether or not he would be fair to members of the lgbtq community. mr. van dyke was asked about this during the hearing. >> did you say that you wouldn't be fair to members of the lgbtq community? >> i'm sorry, no i did not say that i do not believe -- it is a fundamental belief of mine that all people are created in the image of god and they should all be treated with dignity

laura: we did see that the kurdish sdf commander thanked the president for opping the turkish assault. but to some degree did u.s. policy allow that assault to begin in the first place? p.j.: he is still be holding on some american goodwill to keep pressure on turkey and russia to pay attention to kurdish interests. again, i would love to see the transcript of that phone call. i don't think it is as good forward as the president portrayed. -- as straightforward as the president portrayed. laura: p.j. crowley, thanks for being with us. p.j.: always a pleasure. laura: 39 people have been found dead in a trailer in the town 30 kilometers outside of london. police say identifying victims is the first priority but it is likely to be a lengthy process. the lorry driver from northern ireland has been arrested on suspicion of murder. our special correspondent ed thomas h this report from the scene. ed: just before 1:40 a.m., paramedics call police. the doors of the lorry container had been open. inside, 39 bodies. 39 lives, people with hopes and ambitions. the youngest was a teenager. >> trag

. >> reporter: american special ops found abu bakr al baghdadi inside a tunnel with u.s. commanders now say two children. >> when capture was impent, baghdadi and two young childrense with him. >> reporter: after the raid american forces destroyed the compound the explosion leveling the facility and he was tracked down by a spy. one of baghdadi's own security agents was passing on the compound's layout and identifiable feature, including water tanks on the roof so u.s. surveillance could find it. the spy was secretly working for a kurdish leader whose forces are allied with the u.s. from our source, we learned how many rooms were in the house that there was a tunnel and how many people and guards were inside, he says and he says the isis mole double crossed baghdadi because isis killed his relatives he wanted to take revenge, he says, against isis and baghdadi himself do you think that this operation would have been possible without this source? >> no, it would have been impossible to execute, he says we would get daily updates and pass them on to american forces. >> reporter: the u

commanding s.e.a.l. team 6. mccraven published an opin the "new york times" titled our republic is under attack from the president. in it he writes "we are not the most powerful nation in the world because of our aircraft carriers, our economy, or our seat at the united nations security council. we are the most powerful nation in the world because we try to be the good guys. if our promises are meaningless, how will our allies ever trust us? if we can't have faith in our nation's principles, why would the men and women of this nation join the military? and if they don't join, who will protect us?" he goes on, "if we are not the champions of good and right, who will follow us and if nobody follows us, where will the world end up?" it is an extraordinary statement for a retired military leader to speak up like this. now, you may see clips today of recently retired secretary of defense james mattis making fun of president trump in a roast. he said some really startling things about trump's deferment from vietnam, but i don't want mattis be

john young and my commander had a photo op because we represented the space shuttle program. i joined nasa right after apollo 11 50 years ago. there was a highly classified program and it was finally declassified. we took photographs of the soviet union. when the program was canceled, they took crew members offset and we did not do any training or grandmother a process. we just walked through the door and they put us to work. my first assignment was to go to make sure the crew interfaces were acceptable and i worked throughout the program and its fights which started off kind of dramatic, but ended up a great program. the development of the space shuttle had just been announced. people think the job is mostly training, but most of my career was spent in doing engineering and following the development of the spacecraft. i would imagine that the current astronaut office is doing the same thing with the vehicles being developed today by boeing and spacex. there's a lot of engineering work that the astronauts are assigned to do. i was surprised and honored when john young, our ex

s in an op ed in an international magazine on sunday their commander in chief wrote this the russians and the syrian regime have made proposals that could save the lives of millions of people who live under our protection we do not trust their promises to be honest it's hard to know whom to trust we know what we would have to make painful compromises with moscow and bashar al assad if we go down the road of working with them but if we have to choose between compromises and the genocide of our people we will surely choose life for our people. ok there we are here we go let's bring in our guests today here on inside story joining us from ankara as you said our barber is security analyst and retired colonel in the turkish armed forces and from norman oklahoma on skype is joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and in doha rangel and dean a persisting fellow at the brookings institute in doha welcome to you all ranch alan dean here in doha can i come to you 1st can the syrian army stop what the turks are trying to do. well i think the sho

congratulatory remarks, andrew yang said congratulations to special ops team that executed the mission and everyone in the chain of command, great accomplishment for america and the world and mayor pete buttigieg said this. >> clearly this is a real blow against isis and positive step in the fight against terrorism and credit should go to all who were involved. >> now, mayor pete is campaigning in south carolina today along with elizabeth warren, tulsi gabbard and julian castro who will be speaking at the same criminal justice forum that 7 other democratic candidates spoke at yesterday and here in north carolina, we are waiting for former vice president joe biden, he's going to be speaking at the high school right behind me? just a few hours, his first campaign stop in north carolina this cycle. gillian. gillian: we love seeing you out on campaign trail but we miss you. leland: great work out there so what does al-baghdadi's death mean, we will break down the raid when we come back. she wanted a roommate to help with the cooking. but she wanted someone who loves cats. so, we got griswalda. dinner's almost ready. but one t

special operations command and oversaw the bin laden raid and released a scathing op-ed entitled ourttack from the president. thanks so much for joining us. let me first of all as you, our republic is under attack from the president how? >> well, two points in the op d op-ed. first was that if the story in any organization, you destroy it from within and without and convince everybody you're doing the right thick. the president has undermine d te law enforcement community, the department of justice, the state department. he has called the press the enemy of the american people and i will tell you, i've fought a lot of america e's enemies. the press is not the enemy of the american people. then you take a look at undermining us from without. he's left the kurds on the battlefield. we feel like we've betrayed them. he's undermined our nato allies and really the international committee has lost faith in america then throughout the course of this, he's convinced us he's doing it for the right reasons. i think that's really what is troubling, but if i can, the other part of the op-ed that

. >> but it doesn't mention president trump who is the commander-in-chief at this moment and mcconnell at the end of the opd said americas wars will be endless only if we refuse to win and that is a direct shot at president trump and even after all of this mcconnell refuses to use president trump's name and republicans in the same vain refuse to assign blame to the person who made the decision in the first place with the notable exception of lindsey graham who then got shot down by the president for doing that. so it is still risky and i think that is why you haven't seen people come out and mitt romney -- but that is why you haven't seen people come out and do this. they do not want to be at the center of president trump's anger. >> hold on for a moment. stick around. there is more news. we have to get to. we're about to go live to the syrian/turkish border. we're going to update you. we have new information. you may be learning about, medicare and supplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesn't cover everything ...only about 80% of your part b medicare costs. a medicare supplement insurance pla

ops cornered him in an underground tunnel. joining us now to walk us through what we're seeing here is cnn's pentagon correspondent barbara starr and military analyst, retired lieutenant general, mark, the former army commanding in europe. great to have both of you. barbara, it is fascinating to watch and see all of this, and to see what the special ops forces were seeing, in the night sky, with this drone video. so just walk us through some of what we're seeing here on our screen. >> well, you know, what we now know is as the special forces approaches the compound, they came under fire. as the helicopters were trying to land the troops. those helicopters returning fire. killing those opposition forces. they actually don't think they were baghdadi protection forces, just militants in the area. they approached the compound. they breached. they get in. they find baghdadi in this tunnel. it's extraordinary to see this video, because this was a highly classified mission. nothing like this was ever declassified from the osama bin laden raid. so you might wonder what the motivation was by the white house to want to have all of this out in public. it is good publicity for them. the mission was already a success. two

commanded the navy s.e.a.l. unit who killed osama bin laden. he wrote in an a recent opd america is under attack not from without but from within. and also general john allen. he said the u.s. green lighted the crisis in syria which is what happens when trump follows his instincts. one general wrote the president's policy on syria would damage america's credibility and reliability. our analyst discusses the criticism from the generals in a new think piece from nbc news. when generals like these are speaking out, something is really wrong. quote, when warriors of his caliber publicly reprove the president, citizens may properly conclude that our national security decision making is truly dysfunctional and tat the nation is dangerously at risk. joining me now medal of honor recipient and msnbc military analyst colonel jack jacobs. i know mattis was joking there at the top, but he wasn't joking about his reasoning to leave this administration. he disagreed vehemently with the president's desire to get out of syria. >> the fact he i know general mattis and he is -- he does h

one of my fondest memories, i just telling sandy was john young and i, my commander, and i got to do a photo op with them because we represented the bookends of the spatial program, if you will. i joined nasa right after apollo 11, 50 years ago, long time some older than dirt, too. i had come off a program that was highly classified, department of defense program called the laboratory, mold for short, highly classified. just a few years ago filing declassified. our job is to take high-resolution photographs of the soviet union. but when the program was canceled they took seven of us off of that and transferred over to the nasa astronaut office. we didn't do any training, didn't go to a selection process with nasa. we just walked in the door and they put us to work. there were some similarities between the skylab program and what was being developed at nasa and m.o. l. that was my first assignment was to go follow, bird-dog what was going on with the development of skylab to make sure the crew interfaces were acceptable and i worked throughout the program and its flights would start off, dramati

so as a commander in iraq or afghanistan for that matter all of those lessons learned special ops and all these different teams all over the battlefield that was just one source of the intellectual challenge with a variety of other activities that we call action and forcing mechanisms. you don't get hit on the head under newton's apple with a fully formed tree normally it is the kernel of the big idea and you have to shape it. that process is generally best done in an inclusive way, welcoming way, you want everybody to feel they are contributing inside the tent rather than outside the tent. and generally, it should be something that continues. with that guidance i had in iraq and afghanistan, it is dynamic. not a revolutionary change but i would capture a new way to phrase something one of the big ideas was walk. get out of the vehicle take off your sunglasses. one said promote initiative and they explained we want leaders who feel that in the absence of guidance or words they figure out what they should have done and execute aggressively. this is what you want. how do you create that

he wrote an op-ed and went on "the lead with jake tapper" the other day, and what he said about the commandereye opening. >> he's a transit president. he believes it's only good if it's good for us. but he forgets we're the same nation that fought naziism, fascism and terrorism, and we did it not because it was good for us but because it was the right thing to do. if we're going to be the good guys, it's going to be important to join the intelligence community, the military, any part of the federal government where those values are so critical to doing your job and to sacrificing for this country. >> it's a fascinating interview. you should watch all of it. go to cnn.com and watch all of it or read the op-ed piece that nancy pelosi has taken and spread out in the sense you have this american hero essentially questioning everything about this president, saying he believes he is corroding democracy. >> i think this is that little bit of shift in attitude i mentioned earlier. you're seeing more and more people very alarmed by syria. these are people who have invested their military careers and c

op-ed piece. if the groundswell of small-dollar donations flowing into the trump campaign's coffers offer any indication, the democrats are going to pay a terrible price for indulgingly commandseir radical base. >> because he is currently the president and he will be the republican nominee for the presidency despite all the other people running is to make a decision they're going to flood social media with ads in the way they're trying to define elizabeth warren in the way he's defining joe biden now. it gives him a leg up on all this. >> in case there was any justifiable criticism on the trump machine at this point, they haven't done a good job raising money for donors. this impeachment probe is tailor-made dollar pitches the trump campaign makes. it's a sign of not any move in the middle, but it's definitely going to be about the base. it was true two weeks ago, and more so now. >>> thanks for joining us on "inside politics." brianna keilar starts after a very quick break. take care. behr presents: tough as walls. that's some great paint. ♪ that's some great paint. behr ultra, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction with interior paints. great paint, new low price. starting at $

i think it's significant that last week we saw an op-ed from the former head of the special operations commandtar retired admiral william mcraven where he said very directly, he said the president is a threat to the american republic. as we look at the chaos he's sonde around t sewn around the world, here at home, these are the days as we get ready to enter the democratic nominee who will give us something better hopefully. >> president trump's acting chief of staff mick mulvaney still trying to clean up his mess. the comments about why the trump administration actually withheld aid to ukraine for weeks. during an appearance on fox news sunday, mulvaney continued to walk back his remarks last week about a quid pro quo arguing that reporters -- reporters had misinterpreted his very clear comments. >> why did you say in that briefing that president trump had ordered a quid pro quo -- quid pro quo that investigating the democrats, that aid to ukraine depended on investigating the democrats? why'd you say that? >> that's what people said that i said. here's what i said, i'll say it again and hopef

ops was living inside the compound. benjamin hall continues the coverage, live in northern syria. benjamin, hello. >> good evening from syria. we had a long interview with general mazloum abdi today, commander of the stf. he made it very clear that the raid would not have been possible without the help of the kurds and in particular the stf informant you are referring to. they say they had details of the location on may 15. that's when the sdf passed it to the u.s. and from then they set up a special cell to monitor him. there were three americans in the cell on the coordination continued. the informant inside isis gave details about the tunnel. about his lifestyle, and also about who was there with him. he was brought out safely by the americans but living there with baghdadi. it's very rare to have any informant like this inside isis. we spoke to general mazloum about the u.s. withdrawal from syria. in no uncertain terms he said it in her the courage greatly. he hoped they would come back. we saw this and how the syrian government forces of taken the front lines earlier on. take a look. we are watching syrian government forces taking up their positions opposite turkey. the kurds say they

op-ed published. that's really a self-serving announcement. someone not willing to step up and make charges, they're basically saying, we're the deep state, we're going to continue to subvert the commanderin his governing, which to me, that's treasonness. that's wrong. i'm glad there's an adult in the room with trump. however, i'm not good with an unelected shadow government pulling strings in the background. that's fundamentally wrong. this is cia whistle-blower, because they didn't out the op-ed writer. but they did partially out this whistle-blower. we had a conversation about the press about what they should be doing with the whistle-blower identity. this person followed the rules all the way along. acting director maguire followed the law every step of the way and come forward with serious allegations carefully documented that nine-page disclosure is a work of art in terms of creating a roadmap for prosecutors, for investigators to follow, to really determine whether there's been wrongdoing here, who are the witness toss it, where the documents are. this is a completely different animal. they're willing to testify before congress. this anonymous person telling us the deep state has

command in nebraska. no feel for the battlefield. they have a very strict of orders and lack of flexibility at the field levels. they come up with a concept of ops that in 53 large waves of b-52s each night. at about 40 b-52s per wave going in at the same ground track, the same out to two, everything. everything. this is absolutely an by any concept of operations. b-52s the first night, none the second, but their night we lose six the 52's -- the third night we lose six b-52s. this is the first briefing where they announce we are going to hanoi. people expected one of those world war ii movies were they say, "we are going to berlin" and everybody chairs. they said we are going to prof. randolph: and they have -- we are going to hanoi and they have a somber look. this was the b-52 destroyed at altitude. they had the initial phase. the extreme stereo typical, predictable tactics. the next few days they basically reduced the size of the strikeforce and they hit targets that are outside the heartland. basically just trying to reduce casualties. they then have a day off. it is really entertaining christmas holiday to watch both sides take advantage.

commander-in-chief credit? >> i do give him credit as i publicly supported the call for withdrawal. i said that rand paul and i wrote an opying our troops there are unconstitutional and we need to bring our troops home. the president trying to bring our troops home from afghanistan is a good thing. i critique the way it was done. >> bill: it is a messy part of the world, you know yourself. it is a wicked brew. and then you try and figure a way out and if you do it in a way that don't harm your men and women there. >> absolutely. but i think we could have done so in a way that would have stood shoulder to shoulder with the kurds and fought with our military men and women against isis. we could have said to turkey that we're going to still have intelligence networks to support the kurds. we get a buffer zone, but that they can't invade and we could have prevented the kurdish displacement. my concern is what message does it send to our allies and whether the kurds now are still going to be willing to fight isis? if they're not willing to fight isis i don't trust assad, turkey or russia to fight isis. i'm not taking away from