maria: you are a team player, only democrat who was willing to come out and discuss this this morning, we have not heard a word from colleagues in terms of the takedown of the worst terrorist anyone has ever seen leading the worst terrorism group, your reaction? well, first of all, i want to thank the brave men and women of our military, of our intelligence community and everyone who participated in what happened last night, it is far too easy for us to forget or not give appreciation to those who served and protect our freedom every single day, that would be my absolute first reaction. it was a this was a very evil man, we all know that it was a very evil man, we are waiting to hear other facts, other circumstances, i still continue to worry about the middle east, i m word about syria, turkey, the kurds and we will hear throughout the next day, this was isis does not go away,
down the leader of isis was in place and in fact, successful? well, listen, the president understands clearly his role here is to protect the homeland, to ensure that we we have a counterterrorism mission in place around the world to keep the homeland safe. remember, it was in 2013 that al-baghdadi founded isis, he declared himself in caliphate in mosul, iraq, i was on the ground north of mosul and at the time forces were focused on finding a way to take out al-baghdadi, he s high target and the president understands it, he knows he has to take oil assets to make sure revenues don t go in hands of isis, that s the source of revenue to keep funding missions around the world.
because the president made a point of naming the families after they lost the loved ones at the hands of isis. well, i was with the king of jordan, king abdullah. the horrible image that is the world saw, so i was grateful the president listed the names for the sake of the families, for the sake of the world the hear the names that were brutally murdered by isis, but it was not just americans, it was people from around the world including jordanian f15 pilot and only fitting justice that the president really recognized those who were killed by isis during the reign of al-baghdadi. maria: we have been talking about the situation throughout the program this morning, this is obviously huge news for the country and for the world, i have not yet heard or seen any comment from nancy pelosi, from anybody of the democrats at all
maria: that was president trump announcing the death of the world s most wanted terrorist, abu bakr al-baghdadi, trey yngst more from jerusalem with the latest, trey. many world leaders were waiting until president trump addressed the nation from washington to react to the death of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi, we have just gotten statement from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who congratulated president trump calling it impressive achievement, more than 10 countries that worked with the united states over the past 5 years to destroy islamic state, this is a big development that not only affects the united states but also allies in the middle east, abu bakr al-baghdadi was tau a symbol,
president trump, no u.s. operators were killed or raid, two americans lightly wounded but are back on the job, u.s. bomb sniffing dog was injured after hunting baghdadi. maria: team coverage continues this afternoon now with rich edison, he s in washington, rich. good morning, maria, president trump offered international praise for this raid pointing to russia and turkey allowing american forces to fly over territory that those countries controlled. no, they did not know why. was we did tell them we think you will be very happy because, you know, again, they hate us as much as they do, you know what isis has done to russia. no we did they did not know the mission, they knew we were going an area that they had a light of fire power.