>> michael, thank you so much. again, that was michael weiss of the daily beast, co-author of "isis: inside the army of terror." and, again, breaking news at this hour. the white house has announced that president trump will make a major announcement at 9:00 a.m. on sunday, and nbc news has now confirmed the likely topic of those remarks, a u.s. military operation that targeted isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. i'd like to bring back courtney ku kube, our pentagon correspondent. courtney, what can you tell us about the details of this special mission? >> so we don't know a lot of details of the mission yet. we know that in recent days, some u.s. intelligence gathered what they called actionable intelligence about where baghdadi may be. they spent some time confirming that intelligence and then the mission was launched late saturday night, early sunday morning local time here in iraq, into a place in northwestern syria. it's one of the areas that is