and two days ago, in a safe house outside tikrit, tikrit, coalition forces, they made a chilling discoverysturbing-- these, perhaps as many as a thousand.

one of the liberated cities in iraq is tikrit. together with a number of other countries and under the auspices of the united nations we have initiated stabilization which ensures 90% of the original population has been able to return to the liberated stiff tikrit. that's one of the examples i'm talking about. with you can't transfer it to every where in iraq or syria but hopefully we'll be successful if not in the same way but doing what we have done we have given you a measuring rod. a yardstick against to which our future action, we ought to put all our strength together, economic finance politically in order to help restore these islands in iraq first and foremost and if the cessation of hostilities hold to syria at a later point in time. that's what i would consider most urgent economic task that has to be addressed in the next weeks and months. >> yes, there's a hand. >> my name is thomas. and you mentioned importance of domestic policy in foreign policy and here at gw you represent a united germany but in germany right now

in the 18 months since coalition airstrikes have helped to liberate kobani, tikrit, a maudedy, and other cities and towns. we have pushed the terrorists out of 40% of the territory that they once controlled in iraq. and 20% in syria. excuse me. we have degraded their leadership, attackinged their revenue sources and disrupted their supply lines and currently we are engaged as you all know in a diplomatic initiative aimed at trying to end the war in syria. that civil war fuels daesh and in, doing what we are doing now, we are working to further isolate, to weaken and ultimately to defeat them. we are working intensively to stop the spread of daesh and its affiliates within and beyond the region. all of this constitutes an extraordinary effort by a large segment of the international community and the united states, and that effort is fully warranted by the appalling actions of the organization that we oppose. my purpose in appearing before you today is to assert that in my judgment, daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control including yazidi, christians and

tikrit, wet in are doing it in ramadi. we have made huge strides with our partners closing up sides of .he syria-turkish border all of these are complicated, time intensive, laborious, painstaking efforts to allow not only for the military efforts to push isil back, to constrict them in the park they have been operating, and that is what they're doing, squeezing them right in the heart, but to enable the return of the populace and have them feel safe . that is a longer effort which requires those partners on the ground and requires the ability for them to feel safe and to be able to come back. mr. wainstein: gentleman right here, bowtie. >> that's why i wore the bowtie. mr. wainstein: perfect. [laughter] >> former nsc staffer. an outstanding job defining the threat, and he spent a great deal of time, and most of the questioners talked about the threat. but you didn't say so much about coordination within the american bureaucracy. i was speaking with a friend of mine who is in davies, and she when gain issues like visas --

call it taxing but simply stealing the goods that were in mosul, that were in raqqa, in ramadi and tikrit. the places they still hold like mosul there's not very much left to steal so they're really running out of money in a sears serious way. which makes them run out of fighters which is a serious deal. >> trying to cult off all external sources of funding, we know people in qatar in kuwait, in saudi arabia, those countries at least on the surface have made it illegal to send money to help i.s.i.l. is that helping? >> sure. they're tightening down. look what we're having here is all these pieces of the strategy are finally coming into place. now it's been a very slow rollout and somehow scandalous i think to really get everything into place. why it took us so long to get special forces involved, why we let the oil trucks go for a year before we decided to kill them. regardless, everything is coming into place and we see a tight nieffect all around i.s.i.l. >> let's talk about libya. i.s.i.l. has been encouraging its fighters to go to libya. the u.s. had targeted a training camp there. is

we've done that in tikrit. we're doing it in ramadi.we've made huge strides working with our partners, closing off that segment of the syr syria-turkish border and has allowed for the flow and all of these things are complicated and time intensive, laborious, painstaking efforts to allow not only for the military efforts to push isil back to constrict them in the heart where they've been operating and that's what we're doing, we're squeezing them right in the heart, but to enable the return of the populous to have them feel safe and that's a longer effort that requires the partners on the ground and requires the ability for them to feel safe and to be able to come back. >> gentlemen, right here. perfect. and the former nfc staffer. i think you did an outstanding job defining the threat and you spent a great deal of time and most of the questioners talked about the threat, but you didn't say so much about coordination within the american bureaucracy. i was speaking with a friend of mine with susan daveys and she said on monday, it should

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the international coalition were able to liberate singe our, -- sinjar, ramadi in tikrit last year. but look what i so did before. they left a lot of mines and ieds behind them in order to prohibit the refugees from returning back to their homes and towns. the iraqi government is facing a lot of challenges, cleaning and clearing these minefields. they need a lot of high-tech equipment once again. this is a reputed story not only in iraq but in libya, in syria and also. so one sports up to developed countries to decide whether they are ready to provide the high-tech equipment or not. lesson number seven, sectarianism. this is also mentioned by professor yonah alexander. the fact is the sunni victims of isis is more than the shia victims in the christian victims and the yazidi victims. not ever be deceived by the narrative of sectarian rift or sectarian violence. it's political conflict at the end of the day. those people are using religion, using sacked in order to achieve, not using and misusing this religious narrative in order to achieve a little goals. it's not about religion. it

suicide attacks in iraq in order to gain strands extents and it retained that when it was picked out of tikrit and begi earlier last year. this is expected. it's a sign the group is hurting but not that they have been entirely defeated sgld is it launching some of the other attacks particularly within the syrian-iraq area as a kind of diversion to pull iraqi forces, the russian airstrikes, et cetera, et cetera, away from it to these other areas so that it can maintain the integrity of what it believes to be its cal fate or at least parts of it? >> that is correct. what we have seen actually since late february of this year is that isis has dramatically escalated explosive attacks particularly to shia, military and civilian targets. as part of that effort to pull security forces, to pull away further into western syria, or eastern iraq, respectively. >> what about mosul and other centers that certainly not very long ago, isil seemed to regard as the center of its jumps and now, the iraqis, the sirryaz when it comes to these places saying we are getting pretty close to retaking these. what's you

in 18 months since, coalition airstrikes have helped deliberate kobane, tikrit, ramadi and other key cities and towns. we have pushed the terrorists out of 40% of the territory they once controlled in iraq and 20% in syria. we have degraded their leadership, attacked their revenue sources and disrupted their supply lines. currently, we are gauged as you all know in a diplomatic initiative trying to end the war in syria. that civil war fuels daish and in doing what we are doing now, we are working to further isolate, to weaken and ultimately to defeat them. we are working intensively to stop the spread of daish and its affiliates within and beyond the region. all of this constitutes an extraordinary effort by a large segment of the international community and the united states. that effort is fully warranted by the appalling actions of the organization that we have oppose. my purpose in appearing before you today is to assert that in my judgment, daish is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control, including yazidis, christians and shia muslims. daish is genoci

one of the liberated series in iraq is to create -- tikrit. we have started the process of stabilization. some of the original population has been able to return. that is what i am talking about. hopefully it will be successful. i think in doing what we have done, we have given you a measuring stick, a yardstick which are future action can be put together. we can help restore these islands in the system. the third is what i would consider to be the most urgent --itical economic task area task. >> there is no unity in germany. there is a coalition where there are three parties. they are all in a clinch and a conflict. what would you say? how is this regarding our negotiation position with the european union or turkey? mr. steinmeier: it is to be taken for granted as far as democracies are concerned that at the beginning you don't have unity or agreement. ors the end of the process in the course of that discussion that you achieve that kind of unity. about onecerned million refugees that can fallen to germinate within one year. that is a substan

one of the liberated cities in iraq is tikrit, together with a number of other countries and under theauspices of the united nations we have initiated a process of stabilization which has ensured that roughly 90% of the original population has been able to return to the liberated city of tikrit. that is one of the examples i'm talking about. you can't simply transfer it to everywhere in iraq, but syria but hopefully we'll be successful if not in the same way, but i think in doing what we have done, we have given you a measuring rod, a yardstick to which our future action we ought to put all our strength together economic, financial, political in order to help restore these islands in iraq first and foremost and if the cessation of hostilities continue to hold also in syria. that is what i would conceive of the most urgent political economic task that has to be addressed in the next weeks and months. >> yes. >> hi, my name is thomas. you mentioned importance of domestic policy in foreign policy and here at gw you represent a united germany but in germany right now there is no unity. on

urban centers, sunni arab cities in order to clear those areas of the islamic state -- ar ramadi,çó tikrit end up doing the same in mosul. the core issues have not been addressed. it's necessary to go after the islamic state territorial but there is more to do and still very bleak. >> woodruff: secretary of state john kerry was saying today in europe that because i.s.i.s. is losing ground and syria that they're lashing out in europe. he said they're resorting to actions outside the middle east because their fa' caliphate is collapsing. >> i think that's just plain wrong. the islamic state has for two years been talking in their speeches and in their communications about conducting operations in europe and elsewhere. this was not a lashing out. this is part of their normal operational profile and we'll see more, particularly as we see these foreign fighters move back to areas around the world, not just europe butÑi north africa d asia. >> woodruff: we know one of the ma to and tries to recruit fighters is using smeed. i can' social . you said i.s.i.s. is as much as a media conglomerate as a

mean, we all watched our sons and daughters and they shed blood in ramadi and fallujah and mosul and tikrit and now those cities are in the hands of isis. >> i know. >> just like vietnam, once we politicize a war the way this president has and hillary has and all these other people, you know, our sons and daughters died there and i worry that we -- i think we've got to advance and develop the technology where we don't have to send men and women over there to fight and win wars. aren't we on the verge of cutting technology that will allow us to fight wars without going door to door to door and up armored humvees and dealing with ieds? >> sean, you're right about that because technology can play a really good role, but there's not going to be a substitute for people, at least in our lifetime, unfortunately having to be on the battlefield. now, i served in defense for 18 years and rumsfeld called me in after 9/11 and i helped out there. i have to tell you the reality of it. i think the people are prepared for this because we look the other way, there's no negotiation, as you know, with isis. t

since then, iraq's army, supported on the ground by shiite militias and iranian advisors, has retaken tikrit, oil-rich beiji and most recently ramadi. but mosul, which once had a population of two million, is by far its biggest challenge. in washington today, state department spokesman mark toner said the u.s. is standing by its ally. >> we certainly support and share with the iraqi government its goal of liberating mosul as quickly as possible, but this has to be an iraqi led effort. >> reporter: already, there's been an american casualty linked to the battle for mosul. a u.s. marine was killed saturday by a rocket attack near there. his newly deployed unit is helping defend an iraqi military base. by all accounts, a decisive victory in mosul is not going to be quick. instead, iraqi military officials say the battle will be a lengthy, street-by- street, hard-fought campaign. today's offensive is the very early stage of that battle, drawing the noose a little tighter around the largest city under islamic state control. for the pbs newshour, i'm jane ferguson in erbil, iraq. >> woodruff: mean

directions on one hand we made an enormous amount of progress, driven them back, ramadi is taken back, tikrit in terms of the land they are holding and the core objective of having a caliphate in the state and they are more contained, the finances are sealing less and a under a lot of pressure militarily that is all good, at the same time, so long as you have this war going on in syria, and the tricky politics of iraq and repression of sunnis you are going to have recruits inspired and joining the organization. so you have got these factors pushing in different directions and the organization itself spreading out, it can't take anymore territory earth in iraq or syria, so it doesn't -- it does a paris attack or tries to establish a foothold in liberty, i can't so really it is hard to contain, my own view is that for all of the appropriate military work we are doing, and we need to keep doing that and the finances and the foreign fighters, so long as you have this war raging in syria, which was just a recruitment vehicle, assad backed by iran bombing sunni muslims every day you are going to ha

as you have seen us do as they have taken back towns in iraq that includes ramadi, bocce, tikrit sinjar and other places the effort has been to reestablish the security in those places and then immediately try to do what's necessary to repair damage and make sure that we are taking care of the people and people are able to move back in and resume their lives. so we have dealt incrementally as we have moved forward. there's a lot of work to be done senator. you know from just the gannett ramadi there's someone of work to be accomplished to get that back to some reasonable states but in mosul and looking forward to raqqa the same types of things apply, establish the security and when that's done bring in the humanitarian assistance through the reconstruction activities to get things back to normal. >> do you believe that the current structure in iraq and the government that is there now, do they have the capabilities and competencies to provide that to those committees in iraq? >> i think they do sir. i think it will require a lot of work and it will require, excuse me, the government to

as we've taken back towns in iraq that include ramadi, tikrit, sinjar and other places, the effort haseen to re-establish security in those places and then immediately try to do what's necessary to repair damage and make sure we're taking care of the people. the people are able to move back in and resume their lives. so we've done -- we've built incrementally as we move forward. there's a lot of work to be done, senator. you know from just looking at ramadi there's a mountain of work to be accomplished to get back to some reasonable stake. but in mosul, looking forward to raqqah, the same types of things apply. establish the security. and when that's done, bring in the humanitarian assistance, do the reconstruction activities to get things back to normal. >> do you believe that the current structure in iraq with the government that is there now, do they have the capabilities and cam ompetencieo provide that to communities in iraq? >> i think they do, sir. i think it will require some, you know, a lot of work and it will require the government -- excuse me, the government to work togeth

so tikrit call juncture in our nation's history, and particularly with regard to the judiciary and theighest court in the land the american peoplee deserve a chance to have a say in the selection of the next lifetime appointment to the supreme court. american people to insure theyll have the voice for the next to, created by this vacancy. i have heard some people say, w well, we had that election in 2012 when president obama was elected but, i would say you're half right. we also had another election in 2014 where the american people gave republicans a majority in the united states senate because they saw what happened when thie president didn't have any checks and balances. we saw this during the beginning of his term of office when obamacare was passed by a purely partisan vote. we saw it when dodd-frank was passed, again by an overwhelmingly partisan vote. so the american people have said to president obama in 2014, we want a, effective check on presidential power. and that's what the american the people got. so you can't just look at the one side of the equation, the president's au

in issuing his emancipating tikrit, lincoln linked his aim of saving the union to the african american question of freedom. it was neither an easy decision nor a hasty one. his position of long-standing was that emancipation should be gradual, compensated, and carried out with the consent of the people. this union and war forced him to abandon this position in favor of the more immediate, military solution. the supportthat won ingratitude of the slaves and their allies with some reservations. lincoln's concerns about constitutional constraints and public will, especially within the border states, shaped the timing of his actions. since slaves were property protected by constitutional guarantees, he believed neither president nor congress had the authority to touch it where it already existed. but diplomatic considerations, desire to place a session is at a disadvantage, and union military needs motivated him to deal with the issue of slavery sooner rather than later. incurreduietly the--encouraged slaveholding states to pursue gradual abolition believing in so doing they would signal t

what he has practiced on and the president has brought this idea of governing by tikrit into the lightecause usually was done with all sorts of explanation. it was hidden when it couldn't be justified but now it's promoted openly to the cheers of progressive partisans and probably the danger of a change in our whole constitutional structure. but this has to be said about the progressives. and their tactical maneuvering they created one document in the 1970s that shaped a great deal of thinking not only for those on the left but influence those on the right as well and it comes from the term and become synonymous with concern about the presidency namely the imperial presidency. a book by arthur schlessinger published in 1973 and what's interesting about this book despite coming from the progressive side that it poses an impact proceed in entirely originalist away. it's amazing in some way when you look back that this party that generally is very loose about relying on the founders and the constitutional five presented this most important idea by relying almost exclusively on the version

i think they have learned the lessons that you can move from sort of tikrit on ward in the initial partnd ramadi, we saw, sort of an example of that. the first bit i think is they are seeing much better cooperation between the iraqi army, the iraqi police, and the counterterrorism service. and actually them sort of ensuring they can support each other's sustainment pieces. i have seen them work out how munitions should flow, particularly how vehicles can be recovered and replaced back. that has enabled us to try and better understand what they need more of at time and space. what we call the burn rate, i.e., the rate at which fighters have been used, i think, is one of the key lessons we took out, both us and the iraqis. as you rightly say, mosul is different. it is also further away from the main iraqi logistics base and therefore they are working pretty hard at trying to understand exactly what they need to preposition in order to sustain some of those lessons learned from ramadi. > tonight on c-span, the supreme court cases that shaped our history come to life with the c-span series