idea of who would be his successor. and those plans would undoubtedly be in place because of who baghdadi is and the likelihood that this could potentially have happened to him, that he would be killed in some sort of operation. >> as we saw with al qaeda, just because you kill the leader of an organization does not mean the organization is then dead. they very much continue on. erin mclaughlin, appreciate your reporting on this. want to go to nbc news military analyst colonel jack jacobs. thanks for talking to us on this. i first want to gettior reaction really to what we heard from the president from the white house just earlier. >> well, i'll reiterate things other people said because it's worth noting. and that is there was an unprecedented level of detail. some of it may even be classified at one point, dispensed to everybody, and shortly after the action. i've never heard that level of -- you see that kind of thing in an after-action report. one aside, the president said