MORE REACTION FROM HIS
SOURCES THERE, KEVIN,
WHAT CAN YOU TELL US.
>> I CAN TELL YOU THAT
FIRST THE CALIPHATE WAS
DISMANTLED BY THIS
ADMINISTRATION ACCORDING
TO THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF
AND NOW THE MAN BEHIND
IT TERROR LEADER -- I'M
SORRY, I KEEP SAYING HIS
NAME INCORRECTLY, ABU
BAKR AL-BAGHDADI IS NOW
DEAD AND WE HEARD THE
PRESIDENT MAKING AN
ANNOUNCEMENT AS HE SORT
OF TALKED ABOUT HUNT FOR
AL-BAGHDADI, CHASE THAT
LED HIM DOWN A TUNNEL
AND ULTIMATELY TO HIS
DEAD, WE ALSO LEARNED IN
LISTENING TO THE
PRESIDENT THAT HE WAS
ABLE TO WATCH ALL OF
THIS HAPPENED IN WHAT HE
APPARENTLY DESCRIBED AS
REALTIME INSIDE THE
INFORMATION ROOM.
BUT WHILE HE EXTENDED AN
ADVANCED OPERATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE TO SOME
CONGRESSIONAL LAWMAKERS
WE FIND IT THAT HE
BYPASSED OTHERS
INCLUDING NANCY PELOSI.
>> WE NOTIFIED SOME,
OTHERS ARE BEING
NOTIFIED NOW AS I SPEAK,
WE WERE GOING TO NOTIFY
THEM LAST NIGHT BUT WE
DECIDED NOT TO DO THAT
BECAUSE WASHINGTON LEAKS
LIKE I'VE NEVER SEEN
BEFORE, THERE'S NO
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
THAT LEAKS LIKE WE DO.
AND WASHINGTON IS A
LEAKING MACHINE AND I
TOLD MY PEOPLE, WE WILL
NOT NOTIFY THEM UNTIL
THE -- OUR GREAT PEOPLE
ARE OUT, NOT JUST IN BUT
OUT.
>> AS YOU CAN IMAGINE,
GILLIAN THAT DIDN'T GO
TERRIBLY WELL FOR SOME
ON THE HILL WHO TOOK
THAT THEY COULDN'T
MAINTAIN NATIONAL
SECURITY.
AMERICAN SALUTE THE
HEROISM, DEDICATION,
SKILL OF MILITARY AND
INTELLIGENCE
PROFESSIONALS AND
ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK OF
OUR PARTNERS IN THE
REGION, SHE GOES ONTO
SAY WE ARE RELIEVED THAT
NO U.S. PERSONNEL DIED
IN THIS DARING RAID, THE
DEATH OF AL-BAGHDADI IS
SIGNIFICANT BUT THE
DEATH OF ISIS LEADER
DOES NOT MEAN THE DEATH
OF ISIS.
SCORES OF ISIS FIGHTERS
REMAIN UNDER UNCERTAIN
CONDITIONS IN SYRIAN
PRISONS AND COUNTLESS
OTHERS IN THE REGION AND
COMMITTING ACTS OF
TERROR.
BY ALL DEFINITIONS, THIS
IS A MAJOR VICTORY IN
THE WAR ON TERROR IN