good evening we begin tonight with the president's strategy in afghanistan and his strong words for pakistan president said pakistan better get on board with the u.s. as the administration shifts policy in afghanistan pakistan has much to game from partnering with our effort in afghanistan it has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists pakistan has also sheltered the same organisations that try every single day to kill our people we have been paying pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting but that will have to change and that will change immediately for more on u.s. pakistan relations let's go now to former cia agent jack rice jeff good to see you

again so pakistan's top officials are now accusing president trump of using them as scapegoats on afghanistan is there any merit to that. yes of course i mean the americans are failing in afghanistan and let's be clear about this issue you can talk to the pentagon you can talk to his national security people and you can look at where the united states is the taliban is more successful now that any time since nine eleven we have seen that they have increased their control of afghanistan by some fifteen percent within the last year alone and so to somehow assume that this is a pakistani problem and not an american slash afghan problem i think is foolish and islam is also rejecting the notion that they harbor terrorists and militants who battle u.s. forces in afghanistan but we also know that osama bin ladin was found almost in plain sight there so how can they make such a projection. well and again there is that piece of this too is that there is

something to what it is that the president is saying the pakistanis have had very serious problems with terrorism within their own countries we're talking about seventy thousand injured seventeen thousand killed within their own borders since two thousand and one incredibly intense in terms of what the pakistanis are trying to do and yet at the same time in some ways they are a lynch paid because they actually had to deal with the americans who came in and killed inadvertently pakistani soldiers and as a result the pakistanis actually shut down their own borders and some of the shipping of the united states and nato costing the nato allies and the americans one hundred million dollars a month so when we look at that issue you realize that the united states needs pakistan in some ways as much or maybe even more than the pakistanis need the americans now i'm glad that you brought up the way the pakistanis deal with with domestic terrorism because u.s. officials claim that pakistan talked out of both size of sides of its mouth by

supporting extremists who post threats to state rivals like india and afghanistan but play a heavy hand within their own borders do you think the. that's a fair characterization. sure of course they're talking out of both sides of their mouth i mean they really are remember the pakistani i.s.i. the intelligence service they really were the ones who set up the taliban in the first place they set this up because they were looking to provide some stability within afghanistan and to some degree they did but at the same time of course those were the very same people who ultimately helped support or at least hide or at least ignore osama bin laden and his crew to be able to do what it was that they wanted to do and yet at the same time they are having very serious problems with their own terrorists inside of the country who are trying to destabilize pakistan so again just like the united states frequently talking out of both sides of their mouth when they talk about democracy on one side and supporting totalitarian

dictators and they do the pakistanis are having the same problem within their own country so i guess that's not exactly a shock now either is it can you talk a little bit can you tell us a little bit about the domestic terrorist that that pakistan is saying. absolutely you can look at what is going on not just in the northwest provinces there have been other parts of the country where you've seen this instability if you lock look at the taliban even within their own country and to some degree they have actually turned against the country itself and remember there was always an ongoing tension between the intelligence service and the military and the political establishment and you look at those issues and they're pushing back and forth against one another supporting various factions within the country who will go after the other side of this we have a brand new leadership in pakistan right now and that is trying to establish remember we've never seen a leadership in pakistan that has ever gone full term we've never seen one who hasn't essentially been indicted after the fact so this instability inside of the

country is their own issue maybe we here's one piece of it if we look at what it is that the president trump talks about frequently it's. sounds like what he's doing is having an internal dialogue that's political for people in the united states he doesn't realize the ramifications of what it is that he's doing inside of pakistan or other places the united states needs pakistan and by the way the pakistanis are already turning away from the u.s. and turning to the chinese right now and that's something that's an absolute fact and the united states knows that we certainly need as many allies as we can in that area thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us former cia agent jack rice. thank you. tele far is the latest objective in the war against isis in iraq the offensive follows the capture of mosul which left much of the city destroyed more on guys you have explains the latest on the operation to liberate tell a far. or what's left of it and now dr

west is. the new ground zero in iraq and that huge iraq army backed by u.s. led coalition is facing off against isis which has been entrenched the for three years and. so growing everything they. travel in the. thousands of video. choice. be killed in a coalition air strike being used as human shields by isis who'll make the run for a very long in the. desert the merciless heat. isn't easy choice. we are. we need food and water yesterday we get contaminated water even the animals drink it we're living in

terrible conditions the un it's a video traveled with the rhythm of danger and the suffering that the rule. getting out of credit card debt to them i think it's a let me be the first step there's plenty of the gold to go if you travel throughout iraq it's very heavily militarized. numerous checkpoints on major transport routes to get through those checkpoints you need documentation if you don't have it or if you have the wrong kind of documentation you are prevented from moving further on the people who fled to understand it being prevented from going into east mosul and settling then and also coming into the could. bill and other places in. displacement camps global all of that there's a sense of paranoia imagine you're a soldier manning the checkpoint and you see

a hundred people approaching you how are you going to tell the real refugee crisis in food reserves or indeed suicide bomb was just trying to get. their vests so the security precautions are absolutely necessary but it will make the lives of refugees in the easier the operation to liberates as only just begun but we can hope it doesn't like mosul city in ruins thousands dead more missing and buried under the rubble and with nobody to hold accountable. defense secretary james madison visited ukraine today during its independence day while and key have maddest pledged support for ukraine against so-called russian aggression artes on your part has the details. defense secretary mattis certainly assuaged any fears in kiev that the u.s. will not provide lethal weapons to the government strongly suggesting he personally

supports the plan currently sitting on president trump's desk speaking alongside ukrainian president petro poroshenko madis emphasized the special bond between the countries. on for. one hundred thirty three. states all through history in this whole region we're very rich. we understand. that the story is broken. or why don't you show us you know if we're going to be good for you will work through. your very interesting. life for me. for. what we.

are you're. pretty. madis went on to point out the u.s. recently approved a one hundred seventy five million dollars worth of equipment shipments to the country including specialized defense equipment the poroshenko government has been locked in a civil war since coming to power in a coup in two thousand and fourteen at the time u.s. assistant secretary of state for european and asian affairs victoria nuland highlighted the hefty contribution american taxpayers have made in the country since the fall of the soviet union was invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other pools that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic train. plan critics of the plan to send lethal weapons to crane say it will only escalate the conflict as head of the russian foreign ministries department for nonpoor for ration and arms control declared quote the masterminds of the plan to sell lethal weapons to ukraine

apparently proceed from vs about the situation in the east of the country isn't explosive enough already and that it's needed to add fuel to the fire secretary mabus said his trip to ukraine was meant to strengthen the u.s. relationship with kid of president trump must now decide whether or not to take it to a level which can be summed up in one word lethal in washington on your part until r.t.e. . racism was behind a controversial arizona law banning ethnic studies in schools according to a federal judge's ruling just this week a law for schools in tucson to shut down its mexican american studies program back in two thousand and twelve over fears of losing state funding the students sued and . traveled to tucson arizona last month for this trial so some of this is an issue that's been going on for years now can you tell us what got us to this point seven years mill of the law was enacted in two thousand and ten shortly after the an act

made right when it was on the books the state ruled that tucson unified school district mexican american studies program was in violation of the law and therefore the district was at risk of losing ten percent of its funding it said the courses promoted the resentment of white people now these courses were mostly chicano history and literature courses in a district where students sixty percent of students are hispanic so a large majority there now there were massive protests as you can see taking place students were taking over to the school board meetings they were holding walkouts in the end the shutdown the program in two thousand and twelve so former students and teachers sued the state saying this ruling violated their constitutional rights so i travel to tucson during that trial to get both sides of the story there here's a snippet of that story. they were saying singularly talking about our program and how to use language to eliminate it they weren't talking about ethnic studies in general they were talking about our program i thought mexican american studies and itself was essentially a racist formula and not helpful to these kids in two thousand and ten then state

sen john hooping ball and then state school superintendent tom horne helped push house bill twenty two eighty one through the legislature the bill de and public schools in the state from offering classes that either promote overthrowing the government promote resentment toward a race or class of people are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of treating students as individuals in his last day as superintendent horne announced that tucson unified school district or two u.s.d. was violating this new law with its mass program but it would be up to the incoming superintendent hoop and fall to carry out any consequences under who've been told the state department of education commissioned an audit in two thousand and eleven that audit did not find any evidence that moss violated the new law and in fact recommended the program be expanded with a modified curriculum the state dismissed the findings. so no the state throughout

the audit made the controversial ruling and really it's been an issue that's been dividing arizona ever since and what exactly does the judge's ruling determine about how to go forward when we can actually pull judge to she was rolling and he specifically writes the court is convinced that decisions regarding the mosque program were motivated by a desire to advance a political agenda by capitalizing on race based fears he said in that ruling that this law had violated students' first and fourteenth amendments the fourteenth amendment because it discriminated against latinos and the first amendment because it violated student's rights for information and ideas so i asked the man who originally enforced the law former state school superintendent john paul his reaction if the state lost its case which it did this is what he told me i think it would be bad for them to shut down the monitoring it's the law knocking out the law shut down the monitoring could potentially. cause those things cause it to spin

back out of control. those forces are still lurking out there. now whether the law is eventually struck down completely off the books that remains to be seen the judge will be making any kind of decision along those lines in the next coming weeks certainly a very important and controversial case thank you so much for traveling over there and getting that story to us simone del rosario thank you. the focus on last week's barcelona attack has turned to the small spanish town of ripple terrorists responsible for the attack became radicalized while attending the local mosque peter all over travel to ripple and has the story. radicalizing force. police now believe was at the center of the play. the small spanish town took the way in the foothills of the pyrenees is hardly what you think of as

a hotbed of islamic terrorism but it was here in the fall that the terrorist cell which attacked balsa loner recruited were indoctrinated and radicalized eventually going on to carry out their deadly mission. was. but it was he that the terrorists that rammed his truck into crowds of people in wasilla alone lived. the twenty two year old moroccan was gunned down on monday following eight four day manhunt by authorities was the hour was. local people here say they believe he lived within their community. they played football together on the beach nearby with other kids from the neighborhood

they were brought up here. but. of course the payments not the behind what happened around here we can believe it the seem to be very nice people to want it to be really cold running around but it's just they came out after the box a little bit and they also say that the sale melted into a whole society attending the local high school and being a fixture on local football fields so how did say seemingly quiet group of quiet teenage is on a quiet town and is part of the jihad to sell. the answers to that many are looking towards the mosque that they attended it's here that they're understood to have attended prayers led by abdel baccy as santi who's been accused of being the ringmaster behind this terrorist cell the authorities pointed the finger at him

and now that's being reiterated by some of those accused of being part of the cell of appeared in court but who is sassy what do we know about the thirty year old moroccan national we know that he had a criminal past in front back in twenty ten he was sent to prison here in spain for his part in a drug smuggling operation and it's in jail where he's understood to have become radicalized in fact he's believed to have spent time with those who plotted and carried out the madrid bombings we also know that back in twenty sixteen he spent time in belgium around the time of the bombings on the metro on the airports in brussels. is believed to have been killed it was announced by authorities that his d.n.a. was found at the site of a bomb making factory did exploded and at the moment the authorities are writing that off as that his own potential weapons of death course him out in the end.

as the investigation continues arrests continue to be made including bounce over the owner of an internet cafe that suspected members of the terrorist cell know into a frequency that begs the question just how many small tranquil communities like this could potentially be homebrewing terrorist cells peter out of a space. and now a result active shooter situation in charleston south carolina a disgruntled employee entered a restaurant where he was formerly employed and shot one person dead a hostage situation then developed which was resolved by about three thirty pm local time this afternoon hostages were recovered and the perpetrator is in the hospital with a gunshot wound his condition currently unknown. and the president is turning up

the rhetoric on his own party president trump is now calling on senate leader mitch mcconnell and speaker of the house paul ryan to tie debt ceiling legislation into the v.a. bill for easier approval this marks the latest in a series of comments and tweets that the president has directed at top g.o.p. members since the republican health care legislation failed so to rally in phoenix on tuesday the president attacked members of his own party without mentioning really any particular names and nobody wants to talk about your other senator who's we could have the others we could run the show i was talking about. nobody wants me to talk about him nobody knows who that really is. she avin mentioned it. so now. everybody's happy.

but we are going to get rid of obamacare i will never stop one i will never stop we're going to get rid of obamacare. for more on the president's feud with the g.o.p. we'll go now to our political panel tonight we have chris. republican strategist and president of the evil for an ad martin thanks for joining me tonight gentlemen as of today president trump he rattled the cage again tweeting about mitch mcconnell and paul ryan with the debt ceiling looming and the budget crisis in the offing is this wise to deepen the rift between the white house and republican senior leadership ed over to you first. well look is it wise or is it trump i mean you know we're going to get sixty six to sixty now the republicans he turned everything conventional on its head and you know i think for if you look at the polling and i don't think polling matters as much as it did but i think if you look at the polling you know congress is at lows republican republicans in congress at

really low numbers and the president is doing two things one is he's raising the pressure the other thing is he's distancing himself from failure and i i i just think what he's done this is whole time i think he'll probably i don't know if he apologizes much but he'll probably get some success and say see that we work together but look the pressure is on mcconnell and ryan to deliver not just on the debt ceiling but the republican base base voters want to see progress for the trump agenda and that's the pressure they're feeling so it's not maybe it's not wise for us but it's trump it's all trump chris what do you make of him rattling the republican establishment why a group who we just heard of and i think that it depends in the end if he gets what he's looking for that i guess you can see it was a success but it minimum he's definitely drawing attention to it and calling on leaders to get things done i do think where he deserves credit is he's drawing attention and holding leaders accountable they've been talking about this for ever in congress and they literally can't get it done and i think that expressing

frustration at senator mccain or senator flake it's fair in some respects and some of these issues because you want to see them you know get together get things done but at the end i think for president trump he just goes right to the. people so as long as he has those supporters you know he can continue to you know to use these types of tactics but he's at least setting expectations and trying to get people to the table and you know women only commitment yeah go ahead i had one thing can i add one thing and one thing to that is that one of the things i strikes me is that the president keeps showing america that he is not a dictator right for all of the talk and the left and the fake news they go wild that he's somehow a dictator controlled by other people he keeps showing that we have a limited government he does have power as commander in chief the afghanistan movement i think is deserves scrutiny but on the rest of it he's hemmed in by congress and what he's saying is partly without ever saying because he trumped couldn't say this without ever saying i'm not and i'm not in charge he's saying i got to work with these people help me work and if i don't get it done it's because it was their starting point so i also think that's part of rehabbing with the sort

of delusional americans that are saying oh my gosh he's a dictator you know that's rehabbing that and i think that's a positive part of this robot that's a really interesting observation at i mean him showing that he's a bit frustrated with the establishment i guess that is in a sense kind of showing that he doesn't have the ultimate power so moving moving right along here though we've been talking about the president's announcement on afghanistan all week we now know that the new plan of action will involve a tremendous amount of secrecy there will be some sort of surge in troops and at some point in time we don't know many hill insiders expecting it to be in the coming weeks chris you're an iraq war veteran yourself we're talking about sending young men and women to america's longest war and the president is playing these cards really close to is that is that a fair thing to do to our troops and to their families keep them in the dark well i

think that you're never going to know exactly what the missions are or what the requirements are but i know that if you don't want to know the troop levels don't tell congress because then congress leaves it up to the public and when they find out that number anyway it's no one ever touched on that the less. weak i mean i thought that was interesting but i think that's just one reason why we need to remember what military their families go through i mean it's less than one percent defending the whole nation so it's always tough especially when you don't know what's on the horizon but i think we need to expect a little bit of secrecy and i think the president deserves credit for you know not telegraphing some of our moves over there but you know like the last two presidents before you know it's just difficult to define winning and what that looks like in afghanistan so i think his new plane has got some some interesting techniques to it but in the end it's still just sort of a commitment in a long term perpetual war that we need to figure out how we can pressure afghanistan to make a positive result out ad i'm going to give you the last word on this you've been a long time trying to support yourself what is the base say about this afghanistan

approach many critics are saying that he's just scapegoating pakistan now yeah well i'm glad you asked me because i was going to tell you if i had a minute roger stone texted me today i asked him to come to speak at a rally next week and he said do i have to speak about the president giving in and going for a bush or obama doctrine on afghanistan a lot of the base is worried that trump is going towards the the old guard here's the two things i would say number one is that washington post of all places praise the president which makes me nervous but one of the ways they praised him is they said he's unpredictable and that's effective because as my colleague just said you don't want to telegraph the second thing is i think president trump speech deserves scrutiny and attention because i really heard him say we're going to fight this war like world war two not like vietnam and i'm i'm i'm saying my words you know in other words we're going to go and try and win not going to go and kind of hem and haw madis has that reputation i think some of the others do i hope that's where

we're going but i think americans are are very tired and i think he won because a lot of people said oh good he's the guy who's going to back us off and this is some something that looks a little different so it's something we're going to watch. but for now i prefer to over vietnam are you got the lag or are there thank you so much and martin and chris now i wake you and that's the news tonight i'm manila chan you can follow me on twitter ave a chance i'm sitting in for ed schultz will be back on monday we'll see you then. your launching an r t america got special report. that. has been up but basically everything that you think you know about civil society has broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not be. normalizing. we don't need people that think like this on our

planet. this is an incredibly tense situation. steve then the nearly a week since he's returned to the helm of breitbart news pledging war against the president's enemies we'll get an update from a broad part insider on this edition of part.

of the politicking on larry king on aug eighteenth the controversial steve benen left his position as white house chief strategist for president donald trump he said he resigned others say he was forced out by chief of staff general john kelly hours after leaving the president's team is to ban and announce that he was returning to the helm of breitbart news as his executive chairman and promise war against the president's opponents so after nearly a week back at his former job what's happening behind the scenes there and what changes if any are planned for the controversial new site for that we turn to joe pollack he's senior editor at large and in-house counsel at breitbart news he's also co-author of how trump won the inside story of a revolution joins me on set here in la.