eric: the enter military is a remarkable and amazing. arthel: more now on president trump announcing the death of al-baghdadi in northern syria, kevin continues the team coverage on the north lawn of the white house. this morning the president and announcing the demise of the terror leader said the world was much safer in the wake of his death. were talking about al-baghdadi in terror of isis who had been in that role for some time and hear the president tell it, he died running, crying, frightened and whimpering as the operation itself, here is the president this morning. we were in the compound for approximately two hours and after the mission was accomplished we took highly sensitive material and information from the raid, much having to do with isis origins, future plans, things that we
turkish, syrian and russia held airspace, that makes it very different in many ways than the raid on us, bin laden. and at the end of the day men and women in uniforms trained and equipped to do. it sent a message around the world, you can run but you cannot hide forever. it s no surprising to a lot of people in the president was talking about the operation, you re dealing with cooperation of rivals, adversaries, enemies, the kurds who have a potential bone to pick with us after what happened in the last couple of weeks pray tell me about the cooperation of turkey and presidenpresident erdogan per tt this done to us. and diplomacy is so important. i was pleasantly surprised that the russians that the president said we are going after isis but
again. this is a huge blow to the recruiting and these tears respect strength and advantage of weakness and i fully support the president and showing what a coward baghdadi was when he died. what about the language that he used some people criticizing him. he wants to get it out to the young people from minnesota and elsewhere to flock over to al qaeda and attracted to the philosophy to tell him no. what isis did that was so different than al qaeda, it s online presence showing a position of strength, showing they established and recruiting from all over the world and inspiring attacks. but by showing what what a coward he is, dragging his children into a tunnel to die with him and using them as human shields, i think the president was right and i fully support him, showing them at the end of the day, these guys i don t know how to describe it, their
the president said two other times the u.s. military wanted to launch the mission but the missions were scrubbed at the last minute. the president thanked russia for letting the assault force fly into northwest syria in range of russian air defense system and he also thanked a nato ally. turkey we dealt with them, we knew they were going in, we flew over territory, they were terrific, no problem. plus a very secret mission. we flew very, very low and very, very fast. but it was a very dangerous part of the mission. the president asked people to remember americans killed by isis. who traveled to help refugees in a formate or me ranger and another aid worker. the president called it a daring raid and the only injury was a highly trained military dog who chased baghdadi down the tunnel, the k-9 is expected to survive.
very much want. baghdadi s demise demonstrates america s relentless pursuit of terrorist leaders and our commitment to the enduring and total defeat of isis and other terrorist organizations. our reach is very long. on capitol hill, rear immunity with democrats and republicans calling it a success and a victory for all humanity this from chuck schumer, senator from the great state of new york, their death is a great victory for the safety of our country and the safety of our allies and partners abroad. all americans salute the special operation forces who executed this mission, the intelligence committee who help make it possible in our foreign allies and partners particularly the syrian kurds despite this great