house to include his time in the senate and the launch of his presidential campaign. donald trump, trump, winner of the republican primary outlines his political platform and crippled america. gary johnson is a presidential candidate for the libertarian party. in several principles of good government he talks about his philosophies and his time as governor of new mexico. but to be as cover these candidates and you can watch them on our website apple tv.org. >> size covering the syria crisis for more life its inception the summer of 2011, long before there is any isis presence in syria or at least acknowledged declare presence. i got to know a lot of the opposition, which in the beginning have been peaceful protesters and activists. when

it became an armed rebellion against the assad regime i started to do a lot of reporting from the syrian turkish border meeting with refugees, meeting with rebels, because you have to understand southern turkey has become a barracks for its revolution of this rebellion. in the summer of 2012, is ramadan, i went into aleppo with a pre-syrian army convoy just as the city, the northeastern quadrant had been liberated from the assad regime. i spent the night in a town about an hour drive north. i stayed with a family, the owner of the house was a syrian rebel them i spent the night there and so did a few other journalists of my acquaintance. it it was extraordinary because i had seen firsthand, is one thing to open up the new york times and turn on cnn and see images broadcast from thousands of miles away. you really, really have to see it for yourself to understand what is the driving force behind this rebellion. it was amazing because at night these rebels put down their guns, picked up white gloves and garbage bags and were cleaning the rubble from the street

because the assad government was a bombarding civilian infrastructure. they actually targeted the hospital in the town so any active civilians are rebels were badly wounded cannot be treated. these guys work strainer. they they turned a mosque into a makeshift hospital and put all the viable equipment in there. they were treating everyone, pro-government, militiamen, militiamen, equally with syrian rebels. i know that might sound propagandistic but i saw that with my own eyes. about 55 or six months later the town i stayed and had gone over phthisis. it was completely taken over. the house i stated is now controlled by isis, the family that i stayed with fled the country, they went into turkey. so i watched in real time this generation of what had started out a very noble and dignified rebellion against a brutal totalitarian government area

like many revolutions it had become almost the parallel image of what it aim to overthrow or what it aim to reject. my co-author is a syrian national, he comes from it and a trial town. to put this in context, this is a gateway town between syria and iraq which for the better part of ten years have been a sort of traffic points for al qaeda and iraq. a jihadist group that is now known as isis. so it sort of has a relationship as being all were is 12 paso if you like. those of you who are in taxes you know the mexican drug cartel. so he comes from a syrian tribe and has an extended family network, he knows everybody and his family knows everybody in this region.

so for the purpose of doing this book we thought we are not going to write a book about isis unless we can interview guys in isis. you have to understand the nature of anomie if if you have any desire to defeat it. so we got the interviews with a lot of fighters at the lower ranking levels, but even even more important than that their family members. how, guy, 16-year-old boy who is studying chemical engineering or electrical engineering one a to live in the west decides to cast his lot without bunch of barbarians. what is the driving mechanism behind this? so the purpose of writing this book is to try and explain, by no means justify but to give an explanation and account for the rise of the stair army. by last geographical cackle is now controls terrain in the middle east roughly the size of great britain. the other purpose i should just add, i did a lot of media in june 2014, thus inaugurating

this operation inherent resolve. the question i kept getting asked on tv was where did they come from? how did these guys just emerge from nowhere? it sounded like the most absurd question i've ever heard. in the book we say imaginative 1985 and the vietcong has conquered in southeast asia but they don't call themselves the viacom everybody is saying where do they come from who is his enemy. there are inscrutable and unknown to us. isis was al qaeda in iraq. from 2004 up until now, they have been a primary enemy a primary target of the united states. also its allies in the region. they just change their branding and their marketing other strategy has evolved in a very dire and sophisticated manner which makes them all the greater to defeat. a lot of this book is a work of history. we go back to the early origins of the big terrorist organizations, the founder of the feast if you like, as are kauai who is a jailbird who went into iraq after the coalition

campaign in afghanistan. he had been in afghanistan dan he eventually set up this organization which did not start as an out qaeda franchise but became one after a series of spectacular terror tax-attack. we wanted to give the reader - mac we'll have targets on her back if they all had their way they would do everything they possibly can to try and bleed and humiliate and abate the united states, and frankly every civilized country in the world. so this is a broad history but it culminates with a very in-depth reporting and profile of essentially who these guys are and what they want which may be more important. >> you can watch this and other programs online apple tv.org. >> book tv takes hundreds of

authors here's a look at some of the events will be covering this week. on tuesday richard angle chief correspondence for nbc news recalls over 20 years of reporting from the middle east. at politics at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. then on wednesday, senator cory booker visits our studio in washington to discuss his life and politics on our author interview program, afterwards. he will be joined a conversation by conversation by new york post editorial writer, robert george. later that evening in our nation's capital we'll be at american university for new yorker staff writer on the influence of big money and politics. this mayor will also join us live on our three hour call in program in-depth on sunday march six. on thursday, it is another taping of afterwards, this time with michaelr