chief john kelly that he warned president trump he risked being impeached. coming up the words of advice that kelly says president trump ignored. the leader of isis is believed to be killed in a u.s. special operations raid. we will have the latest after this break. when i got my dna results, it opened up so many doors.
gave a week and a half ago he did admit to a quid pro quo with ukraine months after president trump saying there was no quid pro quo. the white house pushing back hard here. president trump, himself, saying kelly never said anything like that to him and if he had he would have been kicked off. i want to read this to you from the press secretary stephanie grisham. this is a pretty outstanding remark to make about a four-star retired marine general who is widely respected with intelligence agencies, with the military. but it also sounds a lot like something president trump would say. not clear exactly what she is implying about general kelly s intelligence here, but, clearly, hitting back and hitting back hard. and hitting back against a general on the day before a military operation he knew was
white house is pushing back against the claims by kelly and doing so pretty abrasively. reporter: that s right. no surprise there. president and kelly did not part ways on the best of terms. the remarks came in a rare interview that kelly gave and i want to play exactly what he said. take a listen. i said whatever you do, don t hire a yes man, someone that is going to tell you it won t tell you the truth. don t do that. because if you do, i believe he ll be impeached. reporter: then he goes on to lamb lament saying he did not mention mick mulvaney by name he essential it seems to blame in part for this impeachment probe. this comes after that disastrous press conference that mulvaney
isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi is dead. they say this video shows the aftermath of the raid. it appears that baghdadi detonated a suicide vest as the military force raided. president trump is expected to have a press conference at 9:00 a.m. and we will bring that to you when it happens. looking at other news. one of the the president s former advisers says the white house staff is to blame for the impeachment inquiry that is going on on in the house. president trump s former chief of staff john kell said he advised the president hiring a, quote, a yes man, as his replacement saying it could lead to impeachment. kelly left the white house last december amid i know the
forces moved in. we are told that president trump will make a major announcement at 9:00 a.m. and he tweeted last night something very big has just happened! ben wedeman is in beirut. sfa as far as the significance of the overall twisted cause of is isis, does this change the trajectory of those people you have spoken to? i mean, they still bought into the whole thing, right? reporter: yes. many of them, most of them did express loyalty to the islamic state. few of them, however, actually mentioned abu bakr al baghdadi by name. he was elusive figure and only appeared once in public and july 2014 when he delivered a sermon