yeah. that's right, it seems this government is being run by t mobile, month to month. no contracts. meanwhile, we also learned that the plague is apparently staging a comeback in america. with 11 u.s. cases reported since may. yeah, 11 u.s. cases of the plague. pizza rat not so charming now, is he? but perhaps most upsetting, yup, it's a mess. the saddest thing, celebrate the fact they got to the world series but they lost t it is not right. i have been a devoted follower of this team over six months now. and i don't know how patient a met's fan can possibly be. i hope this is rectified next wear. -- year, but moving on, isis, they're a lot like done all trump's presidential campaign. when it first showed up we all thought eh, this probably won't last more than a month or so. and yet here we are, november

2015, and both are as powerful as ever. but as dib(?ixult as america's war against isis has been, there is one thing that president obama has made absolutely clear. >> it will take time to eradicate a cancer like isis, it will not involve american combat troops fighting on foreign soil. >> the president has ruled out american boots on the ground in iraq and syria in a combat role. >> the president has made clear there will not be u.s. boots on the ground. >> trevor: that isçó right. no boots on the ground. if anything, obama is going to take those boots and put them on drones. (laughter) look how cute, he thinks he's a people. ha, ha, ha, ha. so the white house policy in the middle east could not be clearer. the u.s. will not be engaged in ground combat with isis. no boots on the ground. >> president o bam-- obama ordering boots on the ground in syria. >> for the first time u.s. ground troops, special

operations forces will enter syria to help in the fight against isis. >> trevor: okay, i know what you are thinking, that sounds like boots on the ground. but it's not. the u.s. is just going to help fight, you know, like that guy in a corner in a boxing match who stands there, he's like punch him, now stab him with your boxing knife. now hug him, now spin the wheel for the bonus round. boxing is different in south africa. (laughter) so what are american ground troops going to be doing against isis then? >> this is to advise, assist, coordinate with these anti-isis forces on the ground, but already we are hearing details about what comes next. the pentagon already talking now about additional special operations forces into syria to conduct ground raids, when they find high value targets. >> trevor: ah, i see. so all america is going to do is advise, and assist, and then also everything else. (laughter) in fact, that old saying, teach

a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. unless the man sucks at fishing, in which case just give me the damn pole, i don't have all day. i'll do it myself! idiot! so president obama, it seems like despite what you said earlier, yeah, you are, looking like a fool with your boots on the ground. boots on the ground, boots on the ground, looking like a fool with your boots on the ground. but let's take a step back and look at how we got here. in the 15 month war-- (laughter) in the 15 months war against isis, the u.s. has tried both air strikes and training local anti-isis rebels. and both were successful at failing. >> a classified intelligence assessment bleakly concludes isis is as strong as it was a year ago when air strikes began. >> the pentagon announced it will abandon its long-standing effort to arm and train so called moderate rebels to fight isis. >> so far we have spent 42

million dollars on the program, and just four or five trained rebels still in the fight. >> trevor: what do they mean four or five fighters. what is up with the last guy snr that say weird number, four or five, that is a little too early to lose kowt, for $42 million, could you have fired a fifth or sixth guy to count the other guys and make sure how many people you had! (applause) so president obama believes that he now has no choice but to go back on his promise of no boots on the ground, which makes sense. all that is left to do is for this administration is to tell the american people that there has been a change in strategy. >> the fact is, our strategy in syria hasn't changed. this is an intensification of a strategy that the president announced more than a year ago. >> trevor: okay, wait so it's not a different strategy. it's an intensification of the same strategy. in fact, you might say it's so

intense, that it's completely different. (laughter) honey, grand pa is not dead. he's just taking a really intense nap. i remember look, it's okay to change your plans there is nothing wrong with admitting that you didn't think you needed to use ground troops but now you think you do. the white house just needs to be honest about the need for a combat mission. >> this is an important thing for the american people to understand. these forces do not have a combat mission. the president has been quite clear that he does not con tell plate a large-scale long-term ground combat operation either in iraq or in syria. >> trevor: so wait a minute, did the white house just use it's just the tip argument? it's not combat if you go in just a little bit. (laughter) (cheers and applause) here's the problem. the administration says that the

special ops troops it's sending to fight isis and syria will be on an advice and assist, not combat. the problem is they said the same thing about the special ops troops they sent to fight isis in iraq. and then days ago this happened. >> an american special operations soldier was killed during combats in iraq. the american was part of a raid to free isis prisoners. >> trevor: yeah, that american sergeant was a hero. he helped free 70 prisoners in an armed raid on a heavily defended isis facility. a situation you have to admit sounds an awful lot like combat. >> master sergeant willard in combat. >> there is no denying the fact that our men and women in uniform, who are serving in iraq in a train, advise and assist role are serving their country in a very dangerous place. >> trevor: you mean like combat? >> in the situation that occurred at the end of last week, you had american military

personnel who are serving in an advisory capacity and it put them in a situation where yes, they were exchanging fire with the enemy. >> trevor: okay. so to sum it up, american troops are in a very dangerous place where they sometimesé+ exchange fire with the enemy, which, according to thexd dictionary, s not the same thing as combat-- oh, no, no, actually, that is pretty of the definition of combat. yes. oh, and look at that. a person-- filled with cheese is described and a combo. huh, you learn something new every day. the problem with not being straight with the public is someone is not going to read the memo and that person will rule the whole thing for everyone. >> a pentagon sportsman in baghdad iraq is admitting u.s. troops in iraq, are, in fact n combat.

>> we're in combat. that's why we all carry guns. that's why we all get combat patches when we leave here. that is why we all receive danger pay. sov course it's combat. >> that's what i call a straight shooter. i like him. yeah. which just makes the white house look like they're speuing some bull [bleep] or as they would say, fecal matter commonly discharged from the anu s of a large bovine. large bovine. we'll be right back. this is not a couch. this is where we watch football, futbol, basketball, baseball, curling, hurdles, poker, golf ha! just kidding, no one watches golf.

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>> trevor: welcome back. now we all know that it's hard out there for-- but what most people don't know is it is even harder out there for a cop. you have to sim pathize with the police, they have a dangerous job and it's a noble pursuit to put your life on the line for your fellow citizens. but recently the trust between police and citizens has become to fray. >> cities across the united

states are reeling from a dramatic spike in vy lent crime, and some including the fbi director james comey says that is because of what is being called the ferguson effect. >> ah, the ferguson effect. not to be confused with the fergie effect. which is when you become overly aggressive about showing people your humps, your humps, your humps, your humps, your lovely lady lumps. so what exactly is the ferguson effect? >> the ferguson effect, claiming that violent crime is on the rise because police are afraid to do their jobs aggressively. afraid that if they do, their actions may be captured on cell phones. i spoke to officers privately in one big city precinct, who describe being surrounded by young people with mobile phones held high, taunting them, damn you kids! and the worst part is they're all filming in portrait mode, just turn your phone sideways for the love of god. turn it sideways, according to some, the ferguson effect is a real issue. people claim that the police are

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(cheers and applause). >> trevor: welcome back. my guest tonight is the host of fareed zakaria gps, a new cnn special is called long road to hell, america in iraq. >> there has been no formal process to hold anyone accountable for the terrible misjudgement of the iraq war. but one former administration official says, there were more than just mistakes. >> i think if you look at the technical definition of some war crimes, i think the united states committed war crimes. >> trevor: please welcome fareed zakaria. (cheers and applause) (applause) welcome to the show, my friend. >> pleasure to be here. >> trevor: good to you have here, this is, now if you include all iterations of the

daily show you have been on, including the 20 times now. >> 20rbgs the big 2-0. >> trevor: 20 times you have been on, is that more times than i have been on the daily show? i feel like it has. and yet they haven't offered you the gig. >> what i want are your suits. but. >> trevor: thank you so much for coming back on. great to have you. so this is a kid's movie i'm gathering. >> exactly. fun and games about war crimes. >> trevor: fun and games about car crimes, that sounds like a good movie, disney pixar movie -- movie. st a ver intense story that is tough to break down. but i mean it's basically about the mistakes made in iraq. and whether or not those mistakes will be repeated in syria. >> right. i mean it seems to me that this is not really just about history. because if you think about it, iraq was a case where you had a regime that was a minority regime. it was the sunni, saddam hussein was a sunni. we would get in, dislodge it and say we're going to create a new

democratic iraq that includes everyone. and we send in lots of troops and spend lots of money. and it turned into a hellhole. it turned into chaos. it was a ten-year period of almost civil war. iraq even today is the second most violent country in the world. after syria. so if we are thinking of invading the next door neighbor to iraq with many of the same tribes which also has a minority regime, the alawites and syria, it feels like you might want to learn something about what went wrong the first time. >> trevor: if you look at the region as a whole, what was crazy to watch in the documentary is the idea that iraq no longer exists. iraq, on a map, yes, we still see the lines. but there is no more iraq. this is divided up into groups now. the sunni controls a region, the shiites and isis controls a big piece of that now. is-- does that mean we should really allocate that? should we say that this is a new region? should we accept that or. >> i think in a sense what we

have to do is recognize that what we have are these three enclaves, or three stateless. i don't think it is going to change formally. but the kurds are essentially self-governing in the north. the shiites are self-governing in the south and the bad land in the middle that isis controls. and i think again when you look at syria, the lesson to learn from that is, if you did end up, imagine your wildest dream come true, the assad government which we are battling, does get toppled. what is goes to happen then. you are going to have chaos. the the alawites will try to create their own little state, the kurds, it will turn into an intensified civil war with probably these enclaves just like you have in iraq. >> trevor: one of those enclaves people could argue is isis. isis is one of those enclaves that came out of iraq. and a lot of the soldiers that were disbanded from the iraqi army went on to fight with isis. >> in effect, that is one of the other big mistakes we talk about. which is that by disbanding the

army, you put out-- you have unemployed hundreds of thousands of iraqis who now hated the new regime. and they had no jobs. but they had guns. they kept their guns. that is not a good combination. and again, same thing is likely to happen in syria. you get rid of the assad regime. what do you think will happen to the syrian army. they are not going to say oh, right, there is a new government here, i bet they're going to be really nice to us. they are going to go into an insurgency mode. >> trevor: you noafer know. they might say that. i don't know. i have faith in the syrians. so what do you do in these situations, if you go in, and you topple a dictator, there is a power vacuum. if you stay there people say you are now invading a country. if you don't go in at all, people say you are not doing anything. what do you do? >> look at-- at the middle east right now. so we went into iraq, spent lots of time, money, effort. tried very hard and now it has one star on trip advisor. >> trevor: one star trip advisor, chaos and a civil war,

and then there was libya. >> where we went in and said leave it to the locals. >> trevor: one star trip advisor. >> i'm amazed you are giving them one star. >> trevor: you can't go to zero. >> if any place would deserve zero, but you know, i guess-- now you've got syria as well and nothing is happening. >> so syria, we haven't done anything, one star on trip advisor, chaos, civil war. so the answer is that there is a very deep, bloody kind of sectarian struggle going on in this part of the world. there is going to be some sorting out. look, the lebanese civil war, lebanon had a minority regime, the christians, it took 15 years, they came up with an accord. iraq is probably going to end up that way. that after some point, these guys will renegotiate some kind of deal. the ability for an outsider to come in, you know, we always think we go in and we know who the good guys are. this is what is stopping us in syria. in syria we know exactly who we don't like. we are against the assad regime. we're against the principal

opponent, isis. we're against all the al-qaeda affiliates in syria, al neus ra, against all the shiite millishas, the ones that iran is funding, hezbollah. so we're against everybody. we just haven't figured out who we are for. what we want to be for are good, moderate syrians who are like jeffersonian democrats, and it turns out there are four or five of them. (applause). >> trevor: thank you so much, fareed zakaria, long road to hell, america in iraq is now available on cnn go and on demand. it airs sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m fareed zakaria, everybody.

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7 >> larry: tonightly, the kansas city royals beat the new york mets to win the world series. and they celebrated the way everyone from kansas city celebrates in new york -- with dinner at the olive garden in times square. oh, now we like them, yeah... (laughter) more than 6,000 federal prisoners were released from jail over the weekend. (cheers and applause) and they didn't even need to sleep with that horny prison guard to get out. pretty good! and i'm sitting down for soul food with republican presidential candidate rand paul. that's right, y'all -- the tea party movement meets the "sweet" tea party movement.

(cheers and applause) let's do it, america -- this is the nightly show! captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) ♪ (audience chanting larry) >> larry: nice crowd. appreciate it! such a nice crowd. this is a crowd that really knows the meaning of life, guys. (laughter) that kind of crowd. i just feel it's that kind of crowd. welcome to the nightly show. i'm larry wilmore. bob saget joins me on the panel tonight. (cheers and applause) he's an old buddy of mine. really great seeing him.