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going to be able to suppress those entities as they go forward. we don t see a bloodless future because unfortunately this ideology is going to be out there but we think there is a way to get to a point where it is less and less effective over time. so the second part of your question was about darasar, he want to ensure possession of the oil fields to allow them to gain income going forward. we have forces there and brought in reinforcements there and further awaiting decisions of how that plan will look in the long-term and i wouldn t want to get ahead of the secretary of defense in describing that but as of right now we have secured the oil fields. generally east of the euphrates in the vicinity of conico and green village for those of that you follow the details on the ground. joe, could you confirm that baghdadi, his final moments there was the president said he was whimpering and crying and in his final moments and you could give us bitter sense talking about a substantial
isis, it emerges and then fades back into society and then these individuals come out again. so while this is a victory certainly for the united states and we should celebrate not only the decision to carry out this raid but the individuals who were brave enough to do it. we have to remain vigilant and that is the message everyone is sending. and one note on the issue describing the way that baghdadi died, i heard the president s comments on this and i think that something else is going on here. look, i spent 21 years in the marine corp and i could not imagine a scenario where we would have had a kill in the battlefield like this and that general officers, people in positions of authority at the pentagon would have stepped forward and thought it was necessary or appropriate to describe the last minutes of someone s life the way that the president did. look, that may have been the way that he died. but i just think that for those of us who serve this country and who have been in combat,
there. certainly documents, other materials and including they captured at least two isis commandos and they re now being questioned presumably. so they re going to get a lot of intelligence out of this. potentially they ll get a substantial amount of intelligence. we ve seen that after other successful raids but the big question is who might secede baghdadi and what is the future of isis in syria or globally. i think one thing critical to understand is not just sean s point about how important our partners were in providing the intelligence that allowed for this successful raid in the first place but that that raid was successful despite the president, not because of him. and that the president s reckless decision to impulsively pull out from syria really did put the pentagon in a potentially very dangerous position and so everything that we re seeing about this raid not just the death of the leader of isis, but also all of this secondary intelligence we ll
get, all of this this additional valuable information that would have been imperilled by this reckless decision by the president a few weeks ago to impulsively pull us out of the region. we ll have more on the breaking news. developments from the pentagon on the death of al baghdadi and we ll go back up to capitol hill. dramatic developments unfolding up there as far as the mooech is concerned. more more of our breaking news coverage right after this. billions of mouths.