A bullpitcher attacks on Taff with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi is dead. He died after running into a dead end tunnel, whimpering

and crying and screaming all the way.

Well Murphy, this was a big deal. Let's acknowledge it up front. Getting al-Baghdadi was a good thing,

a good thing for the world. That said, I just want to talk about the politics of it. First of all,

his handling of it. The thing that struck me about it was, had the president done what the

president seems incapable of doing, which is going minimalist, had he just announced this in fairly

simple terms and allowed the military to brief on it, he would have maybe gotten more out of it

than using language like that, which the military guys will tell you is inflammatory. It may not even be true,

how al-Baghdadi died. Nobody will confirm it. The president may have been belished, but also he went on

for an hour in a press conference that devolved into what they often do, which is the greatness of Trump.

Yeah, subtlety is not the hallmark of this administration and I agree about the tone of it. I expected

him to say that the troops were begging him to personally lead the operation, but unfortunately the

bone spurs kicked in and he couldn't quite get the combat putts on in time. You could now,

it's wondering how long it would take for you to slip that in there. Well, I can't resist, but I'll

tell you, I think the Democrats are making a political mistake on this one. If you don't like Trump,

as evidenced by the beginning of our podcast here, this is yet another log on the fire of why he's

so horrible. But as long as we're debating this, the category we're debating is how Trump handled a

huge military or special operations victory under his watch. The category is very bad terror is

dead under Trump's watch. So he may not be doing it with great finesse and the boarsiness is off

the chart as usual, but it's a good thing to be talking about if you're Trump helps him. So if I

were the Democrats, I would switch the channel and stop trying to kind of give him a parking ticket

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