take the rise of isil.le to roll through in 2014 -- charlie: we're talking about the goal, not talking about how you do it. the goal to eradicate radical islamic extremism. was that or not the goal to eradicate from the face of the earth radical islamic extremism? lisa: no because that is not , where i would assign the issue to be confronted. right? first of all, we can talk about nomenclature. charlie: right. lisa first and foremost, there's : been lots of debates about what you call it. and i first would not do things that are going to feed the recruitment capability of a group like isil. isil exists because they claim that we, the united states, are at war with islam. they feed off that. charlie: but does radical islamic extremism suggest a war with islam, or a war with radical islamic extremism? radical extremism is different from simply islam. lisa: sure. but what you do is you can feed how you talk about this, you can feed the propaganda machine that i sell -- that isil has that says you're making it

take the rise of isil. isil was able to roll through in 2014. >> rose: we're talking about the goals, not how you do it it. we're talking about the goal to eradicate radical islamic extriesmism. was that or not the goal, to eradicate radical islamic extremism. >> no. because i don't think that that is a-- that is is not the-- it's not where i would assign the issue to be confronted, right. first of all, we can talk about nomen claiture, right, first and fore most, there has been lots of debate about what you call it. and at first i would not do things that are going to feed the recruitment capability of a group like isil. isil exists because they claim that we the united states are at war with islam. they feed off that. >> rose: with those radical islamic extremism suggest a war with islam or a war with radical islamic extremism. >> radical extremism is different from simply islam. >> sure. but what you can do is is you can feed and how you talk about this, you can feed the propaganda machine that isil has

i was a little taken by the fact that his comments about isil referenced the barbaric acts that isil has taken out against christians. he didn't refer to the fact that the vast majority of people killed by isil are actually fellow muslims. many references made to beheadings of people caught in cages were almost all muslims. my fear is, as a member of the intelligence committee, this ban being viewed around the world as a ban on muslims is doing extraordinarily negative things to the reputation of america. when you have an item that both iran and isil -- iran and isil are sworn enemies one a shia nation, the other a sunni terrorist group, isil. when both of those enemies use this travel ban for propaganda. isil is use zing it to recruit, to spread venomous thoughts about america, inside america for people that could be potentially self-radicalized. i don't believe he's accomplishing his goal of making america safe. that's why so many of us, both democrats and republicans think this ban needs to be rescinded. we already have extraordinary vetting processes. i wonder a little bit when y

invasion of isil to our cities and villages of 2014.baby girl of yazidis were kidnapped. they were raped. and raped. tortured. they were sold as slaves in the market. children were taken way from their mothers. little girls were sold on the markets. the cheapest prices. the lila zidy girl sold for a few dollars. nine years old girls were raped in front of their family members. and among them some of them were gang raped. there is a shia court in mosul to sell and rent yazidi girls and women. it is true that we are with the help of kyrgyzstan government we were able to liberate 2800 yazidi women. but still more than 3800 yazidi girl and women in captivity in isil. 420,000 yazidis leaving in refugee camps in kyrgyzstan. 80% of our villages and cities are completely destroyed. tons of mass graves that that contain the remains of women and children. this is our tragedy. that still keeps going until now. it didn't end. we need a stand from the international community to get over this ordeal. we need your help to retake our captives. to provi

suzanne: federal prosecutors say he was and am aired with isil and was -- in amer with isil --enamored with my soul. a troubleds he was person, just a person with a superficial understanding of isil. the 27-year-old who played guilty to providing material support for a terrorist organization, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. he said he was deeply ashamed of his actions and he did what he did only because he was seeking purpose in his life. he says "the entire crime is not who i am, who i plan to be, who i ha with the sentence. he waved and smiled at his family, who was in the courtroom and left without comment. at the alexandria federal courthouse, suzanne kennedy. back to you. jummy: right now the search continues for a gas company employee still unaccounted for after an explosion sparked a fire at a pipeline in the louisiana. flames started around 7:00 last night. six people were working at the site when it caught fire, two taken to a hospital and one taken to a burn center. the pipeline was acting as a blow torch and it may take hours or days to completely burn off. >> the repre

this minority was prosecuted by isil, a terrorist organization. without the exceptional efforts of our friends i wouldn't be able to stand here and talk at you now. but what about hundreds of families that are stranded on the borders? that they escape the terrorism. these families were looking forward to find shelter and safety in a country of human rights and democracy. those poor victims, they have no one to help them, and the united states is closing its doors in their faces. at last, finally, our dear friends, mr. president donald trump, iraq is not a terrorist. iraq his are not terrorists. we are friends and allies. and we're looking forward to have exceptional relationship with all countries, especially with the united states of america. with the people of the united states of america. we wish that the united states administration will reconsider this unfair order against iraq. thank you so much. [applause] .. >> and that's my mother, mrs. annette lantos. those who know, know she was always the heart, the soul, the inspiration. [cheers and a

these fight enmeas joined isil-k -- en masse joined isil-k and moved into the province an their spread out to about 11 districts initiality. they have had recruitment activities around the country but they attempted to establish their form of the caliphate starting in nangahar province with jalal bad as the capital. this was their aspiration but they failed to achieve it. when authorities were granted for the u.s. to begin striking islam exstate, since that time we have worked closely with the afghans, doing several deliberate operations against the islamic state. we have done three of these in my time. we have shrunk their geographic space from this larger 11-district number down to a smaller three to four districts in southern angar, but they are still there. and they have shown an ability to conduct suicide attacks inside kabul and elsewhere arn the country. so they have attacked shia targets primarily. they attacked in a peaceful demonstration. they attacked shia mosques. they attacked on shia religious holidays. so we see a definite isil-k-shia connection there. i would comment th

--ator: i want to do continue this discussion about isil, specifically. the afghan military said that the [indiscernible] was active in 11 of the districts and we some reports that they recently met to discuss isil in afghanistan. what is your understanding of how lethal the presence is and what is the u.s. government role there? what counter coordination have you seen in the regional counterparts to date? there is no u.s. role in the russian dialogue, as far as i understand. this was a conference where they invited china, pakistan, and now other regional countries. i believe for the next meeting they have extended an invitation to afghanistan. back to isil, we saw the islamic state was formed of existing fighters from existing groups in afghanistan and pakistan. primarily their membership has ttp, aom the pakistan-based opponent of the pakistani regime of the agency. k andfighters joined isil formed the initial report fighters that then moved into outanistan and were spread to about 11 districts, initially. they have had recruitment activities around the

back to isil. an islamic state province was formed of existing fighters from existing groups in afghanistan and pakistan. primarily their membership has ame from the ttp, pakistan-based agency. please fighters en masse joined isil k and moved into spreadstan, and their was out to about 11 districts initially. they have had recruitment activities throughout the country, but they attempted to form their own caliphate with jalalabad as the capital. this was the respiration, but they failed to achieve it. have begun striking at the islamic state, we have done several delivered operations in partnership with the afghans. during my time we have done 3 of these operations. we have shrunk their geographic space from this larger 11 district number, down to smaller 3 to 4 districts. but they are still there. they have shown the ability to conduct suicide attacks in kabul and elsewhere. they have attacked shia targets primarily, a peaceful demonstration, shia mosques, on shia religious holidays. k connectionl

did uk terror pay outs go to isil? indeed. what happened at iraq and thereafter.ney that was paid to this man is something thatis was paid to this man is something that is going to be talked about for days. newspapers are going to take a different tact, different angle. the daily telegraph looking at the money that was paid to him, and wondering if some of that was actually used to fund the activities of isil. other newspapers, my one included want to know why that was made. i think these are issues that are going to run in tandem. it is easy to say no. we know so much more about this particular character. but certainly are feeling, rulings that some of those from guantanamo bay were innocent. shakily radicalised, lost their way. this is an example, i am afraid, andl their way. this is an example, i am afraid, and i cannot help being controversial and no doubt we're going to get some abuse on twitter later but ultimately if somebody is not charged over criminal offence they cannot be convicted. yes, national security agency and i think some measures could be taken

that is the biggest recruiting bonanza for isil that it could ask for at very time when hef is isil its heels in iraq and syria. not a single refugee has committed a terrorist attack against americans since lef. it's homegrown terrorists who are more likely to sign on if they feel alienated, discriminated against and they will become recruiting prey for isil as a result of this kind of action. >> i disagree with tony. i don't believe isil or isis need any encouragement to rise up against the united states. >> they don't need encouragement. but they need tools and arguments and this is handing them on a silver platter an argument to recruit more people. >> i don't believe that. i don't believe they need any encouragement to recruit people. >> we'll talk with a former undercover cia agent and get his point of view. thanks to all of you. i want to go to jim acosta out front at the white house. don't know whether the president was watching. he may well could have been watching that live himself. we are waiting for a formal response. >> reporter: that's right. i asked a senior white house of

so we see a definite isil shia connection there. i would comment that this group is universally rejected by the afghan people. these are primarily not afghans in this group and in addition to the tpp we have members of the islamic movement of pakistan. other some afghans in there? yes. but very few and generally i'd say they've been attracted by the money isil pays their fighters more and by the ideology and effective information. >> which province? >> they are from pakistan and was pakistan so who's pakistan and from pakistan. >> can you testify a little more about the pakistani afghan bilateral relationship and the afghan government's ability to take control from the irreconcilable man in parts of the country where they are dominant? and what's your investment in pakistan's commitment to deny sanctuary to afghan taliban? >> this is a complex relationship between afghanistan and pakistan. as president ghani has said, he wants peace in the region. pakistan and afghanistan in the past have worked together on a process for peace that

chairman, i want to continue this discussion about isil. the afghan interior ministry early january said islamic state was now active in at least 11 of the county's 34 districts. we have seen reports that russia, china, and pakistan met in moscow to discuss the influence of afghanistan and the security situation there. what is your understanding of isil's presents in afghanistan -- i'm so's presence in afghanistan. senatorgen. nicholson: thank yo, senator. there is no u.s. role in the russian dialogue as far as i understand with respect to isil. this is a conference where they invited china, pakistan, and andr regional countries i believe in the next meeting they extended an invitation to afghanistan. back to isolate, we saw the islamist state province was formed by existing fighters and existing groups in afghanistan and pakistan. their membership has come from the tpp, a pakistan-based opponent of the pakistan regime. these fighters in mass joint muscle and fund the initial group of fighters who then moved into afghanistan into the provin

during the in brick -- invasion of isil in 2014., girls and baby girls were kidnapped. and rapedraped, again. they were sold as slaves in the market. children were taken away from their mothers. little girls were sold in the markets. for the cheapest prices. the little girl was only worth a few dollars. nine-year-old girls were raped. and in front of their family members. among them some were gang raped. is a sharia court in mosul to sell and rent the girls and women. it is true that we with the help of kurdistan government we were get 2800 women. but still, there is more than 3900 women and girls in captivity. 420,000 living in the refugee camps in kurdistan. 80% of all of our villages and cities are completely destroyed. tens of mass graves that contained the remains of women and children. is our tragedy that will keep going until now. it did not end. we need the fan from the international community to get over this ordeal. help to retake or regain our captors. to provide the psychological care that the captors were suffering and

he left a message on his phone that he would head to isil's stronghold, raqqa. soon after, islamic state militants held him as a hostage and announced his execution on kurimoto says that goto made a conscious decision not to cover the front line of wars and he often tried to give help to those who fell victim to conflict, sometimes even with his own money. >> translator: he hated to be called a war correspondent. he used to say he would not go to cover fighting in wars. he wanted to depict the ordinary lives behind the front line. he felt responsible for people whom he got to know and wanted to do everything he could for them. >> translator: there are others who are remembering goto too. last saturday a play based on his life was presented at a church in tokyo. kurimoto was asked to give a talk about his friend's life there. >> translator: it makes me think that goto probably had a lot >> reporter: kurimoto says that the image of goto's quiet gaze while taken during his time as a hostage left a lasting impression on him. >> translator: at the end i believe goto

he left a message on his phone that he would head t to isil's stronghold raqqa.ince after militants held him at hostage and announced his death in 2011. he often tried to give help to thosose who fell victim to conflict, sometimes even with his own money. >> translator: he hated to be called a warar correspondent. he used to say he would not go to cover fighting in wars. he wanted to depict the ordinary lives behind the front line. he felt responsible for people whom he got to know. he wanted to do everything he everything he could for them. >> there are others who are remembering him, too. last saturday, a play based on his life was presented at a church in tokyo. he was asked to give a talk about his friend's life there. >> translator: it makes me think that he probably had a lot more he wanted to tell us. >> reporter: he says the image his quiet gaze during his time as a hostage left a lasting impression on him. >> traranslator:r: in the end, i believe goto accepted his fate and even though his life was going to end soon, he was ready to face it. i think he fe

they are bringing everything they have to bear on isil. they've got aviation. they've got artillery. isil.e taking it to stephen: how long is the battle for mosul likely to take, and what are the next steps? >> right now, the government of iraq is anticipating it will take about two more months. what we are looking at now is the current fight we are in, it will probably take us all the way to the river, which would be , anonst side of mosul tactical pause. stephen: how is the fight likely to change as the islamic state has smaller and smaller territory within mosul? is the fighting likely to get even tougher? what is the iraqi military likely to encounter there that previous city battles have shown? >> as we see what happened previously right outside of ramadi, it's going to be a tough fight. as they start losing control of the areas, they will fight. an urban fight itself is a very tough fight. we anticipate they will continue the fight all the way until they mosul, and they will probably fall back into western mosul and continue to build up their defenses, in

he went to africa and got on a truck to join isil but backed out.then gave money to be used to get other recruits to the front. back in the united states, he bought an assault-style rifle at blue ridge arsenal in virginia but the store rendered it inoperable following instructions from the fbi. the judge said this offense is clearly troubling. tu you were willing to take steps to support isil. it's hard to understand. ahead, we'll hear from a former prosecutor and defense attorney who will give us legal analysis. why the judge might have imposed a shorter sentence than the maximum allowed by law. >>> right now in prince george's county police are canvassing in seat pleasant after a deadly stabbing at a gas station. they released majoimages of two people they're calling suspects in the attack as well as their vehicle. they were seen just before jamal barnes was stabbed to death along central avenue in seat pleasant earlier this week. >>> a d.c. police officer who shot and killed a man armed with a bb gun will not face any charges. the officer shot pe

it jeopardizes soldier's lives in iraq and it gives the isil group a campaign to get more jihadis. host: you say it is already extreme vetting, but what does that mean? rep. cohen: it means the fbi and all the different security groups, homeland security all look at these people, go into their backgrounds in the most intense passion of any people who enter the country and they have all kinds of physical tests to see who they are, biometric ands, we see pupils fingerprints and they get the best background imaginal -- imaginable on earth. there are women and children escaping from syria where they were put out of their lives and homeland because of the wretched has put on his people. they are not trying to do terrorist activities. they have had their lives destroyed. they are not angry at america. the idea of the skittles where you can sneak one person is, then you would have nobody come to this country. it was a canadian citizen who killed a bunch of muslims. in south carolina you have had racist terrorists that got into the church, that crazy dylann roof and killed those people goi

a run stopped al qaeda or isil from taking verge of falling.aeda or isil from taking it. it was a run that prevented this. —— iran. contrary to the western narrative, a figure reported to have been to syria know that the people of syria do not prefer the so—called moderates that the un vice president said did not exist. they do not like those so—called moderates over the three government. at a run spends about $1 billion a year supporting the shah al—assad in syria. you spend so bit like $800 million supporting has bhilai and other non—, and various other interventions. wouldn't that money be better spent on developing a run? you have 30% unemployment. —— iran. you have 30% unemployment. —— iran. you should look your own people and deliver to their needs. you should look your own people and deliver to their needslj you should look your own people and deliver to their needs. i don't have much money iran spends on syria all other non—, but if iran had not supported syria and the people 11 on, we would not have a syria today, and we would not have

it was reported in the last few days that isil supporters have been monitored on social media sayings like this is a blessing, the ban, because it helps increase recruitment. there are many people talking about the al qaeda leader who claimed the west would eventually turn against its muslim civilians, using this to say that he was right. and also reports of former security offices and agents warning that this is going to make it harder to combat extremism. are you worried about this?|j make it harder to combat extremism. are you worried about this? i mean, isil and daesh will use any possibility they can to create the environment they want to radicalise people to bring them over to their side. so, it is a propaganda opportunity for them potentially. what we will continue to do is monitor what is being said and continue to take down the sort of literature and postings that we see on the internet that tried to encourage that sort of extremism. they may use this as an example. we will continue to monitor and take down those sites where we can. another labour mp turned to the decision t

equal important for president trump is equal action against the dieish or islamic state of isil. the problem is that thus far moscow's extensive operation in syria devoted little attention to the extremists. it has instead been directed against the weak modderist who against the kurds. it is bombing against civilian populations fueled refugee flows, exacerbating the refugee crisis in europe. moscow's principal objective in syria is to shore up the weak yet savage assad regime. if we backed off active opposition to assad, a serious concession to mr. putin is moscow really willing to partner in syria and beyond. another area to explore is iran. moscow has been an active partner of iran in syria. as we saw recently, iran even provided warplanes, a base for a brief period of time. yet at the same time it worked with us and others in persuading to assign the agreement. the trump administration indicated that it wants it take a second look and improve the terms of that agreement. is moscow willing to partner? or does it prefer good relations with teheran at the expense of stability in

the pentagon announced they are calling the islamic state isis not isil.his is a big deal to me because it's like clarity matters. for so long was sean combs, was the puff daddy or pdd. and it's like it drives you nuts. it just drives you nuts. finally i'm going isis or isil. now i know. i thought that was interesting. maybe not. coming up. a story so hot to burn the roof of my mouth but first wire town said no way to cops giving kids high-five. with e*trade's powerful trading tools, right at your fingertips, you have access to in-depth analysis, level 2 data, and a team of experienced traders ready to help you if you need it. ♪ ♪ it's like having the power of a trading floor, wherever you are. it's your trade. ♪ ♪ e*trade. ♪ ♪ start trading today at etrade.com live from headquarters, i'm robert gray. right now up to 28 people are in critical conditions in new orleans. city police say a car iran into a crowd of people at a mardi gras parade. the driver has been taken into custody. police believe that driver was drunk at the time. compresses the new chair o

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separately, have you requested help from allies for the counter-isil fight, and you need to send additional american troops to syria? sec. mattis: i feel no need to response to the russian statement at all. the has always stood for protection of the democracies and the freedoms we intend to pass on to our children. but you asked two questions. just can't keep you journalists down. i don't know. i think you would have to ask that question of some others in order to get a full answer. it is just not one i would be comfortable answering all my own at this point. reporter: meaning you have not decided? i firsttis: right now, want to talk to the other allies, and we will decide where we are going. i want to fly from here to the middle east, and i am not comfortable answering it yet. once we know what we have for a mutual appreciation of the situation, then we will go forward, but i am not comfortable answering it yet. i consider myself a couple weeks in office. first, i need to get current, and once i get current and get allies' assumptions and appreciations for the situation, we will carve out

we saw that rise in 2015, the was because of the counter isil campaign has been so successful. there have been a lot fewer people who want to go and travel over to syria. what we have been trying to measure really is to get a sense of the amount of radicalization in the united states. it has been in political discourse and the media that we have this large scale problem that there are so many people who are attracted to this ideology. 2010lleague and i back in wanted to put some data together to get a sense of how large this problem is. what we found is that the numbers really did not match the extent of the rhetoric. homicide with badns of arrests those are things. there is no doubt about that. the scope of the problem is not nearly as large as you would find from our political discussion of it. reportou wrote in the that 44 muslim americans are associate with violent extremism. averagehan that normal sense 9/11. travel topted to joint militant groups over the seas, with plus to target the united states. is the takethink away from your analysis and research going back to the 9

the irani and some said that they are opposed to isil and other sunni groups.avid: i think you've got to contradictions in trump foreign policy so far. number one, while mr. trump talks a lot about terrorism, and most of that, of course, is sunni-based, he tweets and occasionally comments on iran's influence in iraq and, of course, its role in syria. on the other hand, by talking about cooperating with the russians in syria, he is implicitly talking about having to cooperate with iran, which is always leave working with the russians pretty closely. there's a second contradiction, and i think it goes back to your karim, andstion to karim, that is in the interviews we did with then-candidate trump last year, there was none of the clash of civilizations discussion. there was no talk about the united states battling for influence in the middle east or battlingnians theinfluence in asia with chinese. that is bannon. the trump doctrine has been much more we will pull back behind our borders and strike back if anyone strikes to us. no one has sorted out that contradic

and bolster belligerence utilizing the false narrative that only the taliban are fighting isil.they'll also engage -- gentleman nicholson talks but he did not say that they were collaborating together. he said both iran and russia were supporting the taliban and in their efforts to destabilize the government of afghanistan. president trott made a comment a couple of weeks ago that suggested he could work with russia even to check iran, but the kremlin immediately came out said that is not the case. iran is it ally and friend. talk a little bit about this about whether this is just an alliance of convenience on a couple of issues or if this is something will have to deal with more long-term. >> thank you senator. just ten seconds, i forgot to note like about getting this into the alliance. i want to get this out there. and the importance of ratifying to move forward. quickly, 20 seconds on what you say to your average american, i'm from the state of michigan. what i say to my friends and family in michigan is, when there is a crisis, the first people you're going to call for help

isis, and also, the age at which people are becoming radicalised, the age of 14, people are watching isilg up, trying to leave britain... to join up... terrorism has been on the agenda, the story about the man who came back from guantanamo bay, living here for ten years, and then escaped to syria and was blown up in a suicide bomb attack in iraq. the thing i would like to know from him, because it crossed my mind, what is going to do in terms of the surveillance powers of these people slipping in and out of the country. very quick, last look at the telegraph, emma stone, picture of her, just ahead of the oscars, hot favourite to be best actress. la la land. you saw it and did not like it?

isis, and also, the age at which people are becoming radicalised, the age of 14, people are watching isilying to leave britain... to join up... terrorism has been on the agenda, the story about the man who came back from guantanamo bay, living here for ten years, and then escaped to syria and was blown up in a suicide bomb attack in iraq. the thing i would like to know from him, because it crossed my mind, what is going to do in terms of the surveillance powers of these people slipping in and out of the country. very quick, last look at the telegraph, emma stone, picture of her, just ahead of the oscars, hot favourite to be best actress. la la land. you saw it and did not like it? i am that person who did not like it, hollywood did because it is a love song to hollywood, to how beautiful california is... everything that hollywood stands for. so one would imagine that it would do incredibly well, but it would do incredibly well, but it would not get my vote, maybe i am just not enough of a romantic. caroline, great filmgoer?” just not enough of a romantic. caroline, great filmgoer? iwish i

we're at a moment where we are on the verge of being able to at least get to the defeat of daesh, isilwith mosul in iraq, raqqah in syria. there are critical questions about pursuing that campaign including what to do about raqqah, who's going to take that city, are we going to go ahead and arm some of the kurdish fighters on the ground working with arab fighters to take rack a a? how are we going to proceed? s a critical questions about, as you said, the stabilization and governance of cities that are newly liberated. the obama administration handed off a detailed coherent convincing plan to the trump administration across the board, hui hope is the trump administration will take that up and implement it. >> avril when you look at the count terrorism operation in yemen that seems to have gone awry, do you think that could be the lack of staffing and coordination or was it bad luck, sometimes these operations go well, sometimes that go badly. >> it's hard to tell. i don't know exactly what came to the president, what was approved by him and how it was dealt with. what i would say is pa

the idea is that most of what is conceived to be isil and other aspects, such as al qaeda, is mostlyunni, rather than shia. the iranian foreign minister spokesman gave this response, saying it is a shame that the u.s. government instead of thanking the iranian nation for their fight against terrorism keeps repeating unfounded claims and adopts unwise policies that are helping terrorist groups. the iranians have said many times how opposed they are to isil and other sunni groups. >> i think you have gotten to two of the contradictions in t he trump foreign policy. number one, while mr. trump talks a lot about terrorism, and most of that, of course, is sunni-based, he tweets and occasionally comments on iran's influence in iraq, and of course, it's role in syria. on the other hand, by talking about cooperating with the russians in syria, he is implicitly talking about having to cooperate with iran, which is obviously working with the russians pretty closely. there is a second contradiction, and i think it goes back to your earlier question to karim, which didhat in the interviews we wi

suzanne: federal prosecutors say mohamed jalloh was enamored with isil and planning a fort hood style attack on the u.s. military. the defense says the sterling man who served in the virginia national guard was a troubled person and not a radicalized terrorist, just a person with a superficial understanding of isil. in the end, the 27-year-old who pled guilty to providing material support to a terrorist organization was sentenced to 11 years in prison. a tearful jalloh testified saying he was deeply ashamed of his actions and he did what he did only because he was seeking purpose in his life. he says, i'm quoting "the entire crime is not who i am, who i plan to be, who i have been." he did seem happy with the sentenced. he waved and smiled at his family who were in the courtroom. they left today without making a comment. mohamed jalloh sentenced to 11 years in prison. at the alexandria federal courthouse, suzanne kennedy. back to you. >> mike pence is like the most decent human being i have ever met. michelle: that is house republican jason chaffetz getting booed in his hometown. you

there were car bombings, and they are overwhelmed by the isil forces.hey have considerably push them back. laura: what about the situation for civilians? i understand leaflets have been dropped over the city 200 -- warned civilians and offensive is going on. undern muzzle is now government control. what is the situation for people there? forces havealition dropped the leaflets. [indiscernible] they want to lay down arms and not fight. is military situation particularly dire, particularly for the children. they have a lack of food, .anitation, water the situation is very bad. to 750,000timates up are trapped. laura: thank you very much indeed. been another bombing in pakistan, waves of militant violence of claims dozens of lives in recent weeks. the last explosion hit an upscale shopping center. at least 10 people were killed. no group has claimed responsibility for today's attack. we have more. reporter: scenes of chaos in lahore. rescue teams and police rushed to the blast after a bomb ripped through pakistan's provincial capital. shops andth upscale c

we're on the verge of taking away the caliphate that isil has tried to establish. going to have a critical impact on their ability to do what they have been doing. it's going to take away the space to send foreign fighters too. the resources are being squeezed. it undermines their narrative of building a state. we're at a moment where we are on the verge of being able to get to the defeat really of isil in iraq and in syria with mosul, iraq and syria. there's questions about pursue g i ing. what to do about raqqah? how are we going to proceed and also critical questions about the stabilization of governance of cities newly liberated. the obama administration handed off a detailed, coherent, convincing plan to the trump administration across the board. my hope is the trump administration will take that up and implement it. >> avril, when you look at the operation in yemen, the counterterrorism operation that seems to have gone awry, do you think that some of that could be the lack of staffing, the lack of coordination or was it just bad luck sometimes these operatio

are sworn enemies, shi'a versus sunni, but both isil and iran has been used -- using since the ban forpaganda purposes. so, i don't think we've made the country safer at all. i think this ban needs to be rescinded. it's not who we are as a nation. >> senator, is lindsey graham and sheldon whitehouse said they will investigate russia's influence on the u.s. election. you're the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee so you know a lot of things the rest of us don't. in terms of things you can tell us about what do you still want to know about the role russia played? >> i want the american people to know how extensive this intervention was, how there was flankly a thousand internet trolls in russia trying to manipulate our news. there was a number of weeks ago if you googled odni director of national intelligence, you come up with five or six russia sites first. fake news, rt, use of these trolls, i want folks to understand with more detail. and i think there is more information to come out about the selective hacking and then the leaking of this information. the fact that the fi

mess out >> now to the war on terror, a virginia man sentenced for help isil. harris kumar of burke will spent 8 1/2 years in prison. according to court documents he to targets for possible attacks. also tonight, a chilling plot to target stores, of all things. a florida man is facing federal charges. name is mark burnett. he's accused of planning to put bombs in food packages and then stores.em in he wanted to put one in each state and the reason? agents said he wanted to force targets stocks down and would buy it cheap. >> president trump focusing on jobs today and not addressing policy.gration but for many here at home it is the top thing on their minds. sis is focusing on people who committed time and they are not targeting people randomly but that's doing little calm nerves. >> we're so scared right now. i tell them we have oh be prepared. we have to be ready. >> this woman, who is up 7 that she told abc keeps birth certificates and mportant documents all in that backpack just in case she leaves for work and doesn't come home. 11:00, a moment of pure joy.

the common fight against isil. or today in brussels about the future of tea cap -- ttip. brent: how are european leaders supposed to sort this out moving forward with the u.s. president praising brexit as an example of true democracy and people retaking control of their government and in the vice president saying that the u.s. remains the best friend of the european union? markus: absolutely, there is some kind of dichotomy in u.s. policy, currently. the overarching concern in europe is that the u.s. administration aims at replacing a multilateral approach to the european union or towards nato by some kind of special relationships, not only to london but two other selected countries in europe. therefore i think the overarching goal of angela merkel is to keep the europeans together as much as possible. brent: what about nato? did you get the sense that the vice president sees it moving forward as an anti-islamist force? markus: not really. i think it has been on the agenda to a certain degree. but there hasn't been so much progress so far. they could -- the key question i