troops at risk was worth it. let s bring in senior washington correspondent joe johns, good morning morning. good morning, carol. this individual s belief to have been involved in the most important financing arm of isis the oil and gas operations that allows the organization to do all the things it does so eliminating him is seen as a big disruption to isis operations. but more importantly, delta force personnel recovered electronic records from the multi-story structure they targeted in the raid. those records are expected to be very useful in tracking where isis is getting its money from. so this is a big moment. on the other hand this individual quite frankly, was not very well known or on the radar. so we don t know all of what u.s. forces knew about him, but it s pretty clear he would have been more valuable if he had been taken alive.
they had been holding out for months and they emerged to see what the most elite divisions leaving in their wake some of the most important armor and supplies of weapon, which will benefit isis. how did baghdad and the coalition let this happen? the u.s. has tried to suggest that ramadi isn t that important, but it s obvious that was not really the case then and isn t the case now. it s very close to baghdad and potentially deeply troubling staging post on any future assaults that isis chooses to make on the outskirts of baghdad. 100,000 fled in april, 10,000 in the past few days alone. this is a terrifying moment in iraq s history. one in which the baghdad government is struggling to find a response to. iraqi state tv talking to counterparts that bring out shia militia to try to fight back
did something hit the windshield of that train before it crashed? also a huge setback in the war against isis. the terror group seizing the key city of ramadi. but u.s. officials say this fight is far from over. let s talk, live in the cnn newsroom. good morning, i m carol costello thank you for joining me. we begin with that deadly biker brawl in waco texas. rival gang members shooting at each other and then opening fire on police. the chaos unfolding outside a busy restaurant before the bullets and chains used as weapon weapons. in all 9 people were killed, 192 taken to jail. authorities describing the scene as violent and gruesome. he s more from cnn s nick valencia. these are dangerous, hostile biker gangs we re dealing with.
but the fear is it s a a sunni town and the idea has a dreadful human rights track record. storming in to try to take out isis. that could simply not solve the problem but create a new one instead. nick paton walsh, thank you. isis did have a setback over the weekend. we have to talk about that. special forces taking down a notorious isis commander uncovering what could be a treasure-trove of information. the so-called money man of isis was among a group of militants killed by the army s delta force during a daring weekend raid in syria. sayyaf s wife was also captured. she s now being detained in iraq. the pair are suspected of being involved in hostage operations. e despite what the pentagon says a significant blow some are questioning whether putting u.s.
she has a point. let s go back to the. s and iraq question. if you can t get the iraq answer right, how can you figure out what to do with isis? how do we figure out if you can t get the iraq war question right? that s exactly the point. saddam hussein being out of power created a vacuum that led to the rise of isis. here s the pivot you re going to see from republicans. trying to blend the problems in iraq solely on president obama. and the thing is you ve got to deal with it in totality. you need to confront the strategic policy mistake that was iraq and you need to own it and e show how you re not going to be w. s third term. that s a difficult thing to confront for all republicans not named rand paul, especially if your name is jeb bush. a surprisingly strong foreign policy speech came from a