weekend was staged from inside syria with helicopters using unknown location inside the country, forward-operating base in the hours leading up to the successful mission. martha. martha: amazing. jillian, thank you very much. i spoke with secretary of state mike pompeo exclusively about the al-baghdadi raid, the impeachment probe and much more. mr. secretary, great to have you with us this evening. today they are releasing new pictures, more detail on this raid that happened. you look back at it a couple days, what does the ground there look like in terms of isis and possibility of reemergence? sec. of state pompeo: there is always that risk, martha. there is remarkable undertaking by brave folks who went on to the site. this was months and months, in fact, you could argue a couple years in the making, this effort, focused intelligence effort, joint intelligence
it was a caution key voice with the president on ukraine, which could be obstacle to increased white house engagement. now also breaking tonight, martha, a few moments ago, fox news received images of the raid that killed isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. the pentagon also releasing video that shows the very moment the compound where al-baghdadi was hiding blew up. this video here shows army special operators approaching the compound from two sides. now commander says every aspect of the raid was planned in minute detail. take a listen. pretty clear that the success of the standoff we employed ensured it wouldn t be a shrine or memorable, just another piece of ground. the pentagon confirming new information the raid over the
report, fair, balanced and unfrayed, the story hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. you going for the nats? you are 99.9% fair and balanced, i will call you out, there is no fair or balance in bret s perspective of tonight s game. i m rooting for the nats tonight. there you go, we ll pull for them. have a great day, a great evening, speaking about your new book, bret. good to see you tonight. brand-new details for the first time video now of the raid that took out isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. secretary mike pompeo joins me to talk about the raid, also the infamous ukraine call and new today, democratic senator bob menendez to investigate mike pompeo for home trips back to kansas. and whether or not the
announcement and ongoing discussion that the president had with reporters about what happened there. you and carol say that national security officials are cringing at some of the things he said were classified. some of the things he said were untrue. what are the national security worries about the president s remarks after this raid? so it was really a combination, two categories of information here. one was the classified information that he talked about and the other was the tactical. so on the classified side, he talked about things, it s getting a lot of attention today like the dog, the dog that was involved in this raid. technically, that is a classified detail. both the existence, the breed, everything. the name of that dog is classified. but beyond that, he talked about things that they just don t want out because of it might hurt their ability to for further on raids or further on gathering of information. one is the fact that he acknowledged that they actually took so
act on it quickly. so let s say that now isis, they know now that several people were taken into custody. the hope after something like this is, isis needs a little bit of time to figure out exactly what happened. who might be dead, who might be alive. by saying that anyone was taken into custody, it might cut off some potential line of communication or some sort of something that was about to happen, that they could have gotten out of those individuals and exploited. beyond that, one of the things that president trump also talked about was the actual exploitation of the site after the raid. we all know that happens. that happened after the bin laden raid. they brought in trash bags and took them out with computers and discs and files and anything that they could carry back to the helicopters. but in this case, he talks specifically about how they got highly sensitive information that included information about isis origins. well, that not only gives an idea to isis the kind of info