President Trump said that he monitored the US special forces mission that took out Islamic State terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from the White House Situation Room in real-time and it felt “as though you were watching a movie.”

“We watched it so clearly. I don’t want to say how I watched it but it was perfect as though you were watching a movie. The technology there alone is great,” the president told reporters at the White House as he confirmed the death of al-Baghdadi.

Dan Scavino, the White House’s director of social media, tweeted out a photo of Trump surrounded by his intelligence and military advisers keeping tabs on the operation in northern Syria against al-Baghdadi.

“President Trump is joined by VP Mike Pence, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, left; Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley, and Brig. Gen. Marcus Evans, Deputy Director for Special Operations on the Joint Staff, at right, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019,” Scavino wrote in the posting.

The Defense secretary said Trump approved the raid. “And if we didn’t capture him, of course, we were going to kill him,” Esper said in a pre-taped interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper that ran after the announcement.