the caliphate and wiping out isis, he s kept that campaign commitment to the american people and today was a culmination of long-term effort to wipe out one of the key figures. gillian: sounds like your big take away, great victory, doesn t mean the threat is completely wiped from the face of the earth but it s a great step in the right direction. we can t end our efforts, i served in armed services committee and we are keenly aware of isis efforts throughout the world and i know the president and his administration is as well. this doesn t end our efforts but it s a big piece in the overall victory. gillian: thanks for joining us today, we really appreciate it. leland. leland: the president said this morning this operation was weeks in the making, obviously al-baghdadi very wanted and hunted man for more than a decade. tray yngst on the international reaction on raid and death as well from mid east bureau, hey, trey. good afternoon, leland, many world leaders waiting for presiden
base inside iraq right. troops in syria, that s important because those troops were where i ve been before, they could have come anywhere, we could have positioned them anywhere, our ability to deploy combat power is unrivaled and tremendously powerful. leland: the flip side of the argument would be that small footprint inside of syria or certainly larger footprint inside of iraq in the mid-2000 s, early 2009, 2010 would have prevented the rise of isis to begin with? there s no evidence to support that at all. many claims to that, but we saw what happened in afghanistan when we didn t get rid of the troops, we kept minimum of 10,000 all of the time and yet that didn t do anything to stop the rise of the taliban because you just can t destroy ideology with combat power, it s just the way it is. leland: real quickly, what do you make of the fact that this guy, al-baghdadi, hiding effectively under the russian s noses and
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journalism had to do with the washington post changing headline of al-baghdadi, recently terrorist in chief which seemed appropriate, al-baghdadi religious, i cannot wrap my head around the thinking that would describe this mass murderer as religious scholar. leland: how can this happen? we noticed after the bin laden raids or the universal praise for president obama and then there was a couple of days if honeymoon to enjoy universal good prez, is that going to happen here? maybe short-term effect, i know it feels disconcerting after american forces risk their lives, obama used bin laden s death in reelection campaign, now, look, bin laden, larger figure after 9/11, al-baghdadi has
leland: texas authorities are looking for suspect who opened fire in party. killing 2 people and injuring 14 others, we are told at least 3 of the injured are in critical condition. right now police are not publicly identifying a suspect. gillian: 180,000 people under mandatory evacuation orders in northern california this as ferocious winds continue to whip up the fire, 900 residents in geyersville. dan, tell us what you re seeing? yeah, well, gillian, actually two fires burning in california, one in northern california, one in southern california and