of information that could be used for operational purposes there was concern that isis might reconstitute in some form in syria and iraq, obviously that became far more difficult. doesn't mean that there aren't bad people that are going to infiltrate into other organizations, assimilate into a front or other al qaeda components, but there's no question but that the middle east is safer today and americans are safer here in the united states, because isis's capables were decimated to a large extent yesterday. maria: were they planning further attacks, congressman? what do we know in terms of what the plans were and was there a treasure drove of documents that our special operations team was able to get as a result of taking him out, given the fact that they were on the ground and had access to where he was? >> well the president said they did. we expected that that would be the case. unfortunately, the intelligence committee that i serve on hasn't been spending a whole lot of