we respect democracy in iraq. democracy in today in iraq respects the will of the people and our security forces provide protection to these citizens who are expressing their views freely as long as they are doing it within the boundaries of the law and not attacking people's properties and so forth. this is a great progress in a country that had -- that had seen -- seen sufferings and oppression. if someone express in had his vie views he was killed in the past. today we have made great strides in that field and we provide such freedom to other regions. we will be victorious over isis with our democracy and our freedom and with our diversity. daesh hates diversity. daesh kills those who are opposed to their views. today we demonstrate to the others that we remain united despite the divergent perspectives in iraq and divergent affiliations. iraq, since its history, has always seen such diversity and lived for centuries with such diversity. i will also say that the structure -- occupations that remain resistant and

breaking overnight senior trump advisor jared kushner has popped up in iraq. a top administration official telling cnn the first son-in-law flew to iraq with chairman joint chiefs. declining to provide details or plans in iraq or when he will return, kushner is expected to have a major role with the chinese president. >> and president trump is putting china on notice, warning that the u.s. will take unilateral action against north korea unless china pushes on the regime. he said china will either decide to help us with korea or they won't, if they do it will be good for chou in a, if they don't it won't be good nor anyone. >> here is u.n. ambassador nikki haley brandishing a equally tough message for china. >> no longer take the excuses from china that they're concerned too, they need to show us, the only country that can stop north korea is china. china has to cooperate. this is now down to do we want to continue to see these ballistic attacks from north korea or does china want to do something about it. >>> let's bring in will ripley. good mortganing. how muc

elsewhere in the middle east, in syria and iraq, the middle east, in syria and iraq, the plight of christians is even worse. my guest today is the general bishop of the cup that church in the uk, bishop angaelos. do christians have any future at all in the middle east? —— one. bishop angaelos, welcome to hardtalk do you think there is something substantively different about the nature of the threat faced by coptic christians in egypt to date? because they have faced threats for many yea rs. they have faced threats for many years. yes. we have faced threats for centuries, particularly over the past decades, but to have suicide bombers in churches is a shift, and it looks like the mirroring of attacks in other parts of the world. and think that is why it has shocked the egyptian community so much generally, christians and muslims. we have not seen this level of aggression and violence. we have had attacks, which have been equally painful, but this does mark a very new chapter. and does that mean, since we saw the suicide bomber tax onto churches, a cathedral in alexandra, and the church in the

your book is a duty on how it -- a conflicted soul and he's in iraq american in the iraq war and now in turkey and syria. how did you mentioned before about your time on the ground, how did that inform you if at all when you're putting this together? there so many parts about conflict and other things that are told with the understated hand. >> i'm often trying to do in a novel and most of my work takes place overseas where deals with what are by and large extremely complex events. i also cover the war as a journalist. particularly when you're covering is a journalist there are many events occurring every day and a myriad of groups will complexities that sitting out here in the crowd you can feel around this issue. but how do you drill these down to some type of an emotional truth? how do you tell a story that can take a reader who hasn't been in southern turkey and iraq in syria and take them on a journey for the experience a similar emotional -- so it resonated with me that i alluded to that many people i've spoken to, they like in their experience with the revolution wanted, they f

he's a former marine and served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan where he received the silver star, bronze star for valor in the purple heart. welcome everybody. [applause] when we think about the arab spring, it's this thing in 2011 that started this glorious fire and it seemed to stir into asia, 18 days of furious energy, and egypt that brought down libya and laid in. yemen and bahrain restless a little bit of saudi arabia and on and on. syria stands alone. 400,000 dead, millions of refugees and displaced and a tide of anguish that has seeped into europe and across the world. still he rules. mocking a broken revolution and defined the world that is left's band. we'll begin with elliott. in your novel, very powerful, there is a moment when one of your characters a mere is deciding and he's in turkey and deciding do i go back to syria and he doesn't want to. he describes he says he feels that there's no life for them anymore and he gives this wonderful, powerful thoughts on the ideas of the revolution being shattered and turned into a graveyard. he says this to an isis type ki

we weren't doing the surge in iraq anymore by the time president obama arrives. place. the question was, how quickly can we draw down without jeopardizing what we fought and sacrificed so hard to achieve? you know president obama , famously does his homework, studies it, deliberates it. the afghan policy review that was conducted in the latter part of his first year was extraordinary. i don't think any president has ever engaged the national security time -- team, whatever it was nine or 10 times , directly. before each one of those there is the deputies committee and the principals committee. they were exhausted. david: they are both taking an sat test, who would do better? gen. petraeus: i don't grade the presidents that i served. david: all right, and who was a better athlete? did you ever exercise with any of them? gen. petraeus: depends on the sport. president bush -- he could talk trash, by the way. and he did with me. he challenged me. i was in the oval office with my family after the surge in iraq, and he said, general when will , you have the guts to rid

strikes in iraq and syria has outpaced those linked to russia. the scrutiny has been compounded by a string of high-profile reported u.s. attacks in both countries, including assault on a mosque, a school, and most recently a building apparently used as a shelter in the rocky city of mosul that is currently being investigated, appropriately so. --se reports come alongside they are considering relaxing rules of engagement put in place by the obama administration, which made an f at avoiding civilian deaths. there has not been such a change. takeaid the coalition will extraordinary measures to avoid harming civilians. can you tell us how you balance the pursuit of important military perspectives -- objectives with those measures? and fighting an enemy that increasingly puts civilians in harms way, how much risk should the u.s. and its civilian coalition partners except in limiting air or artillery strikes where it may be difficult to confirm civilian presence, especially in mosul, where civilians have been directed to shelter in place? there are so

military action in iraq. it's all part of the deterioration and the vanishing of those hopes of a better relationship and the deterioration in the relationship between the two countries. >> all right. bringing us up to date on the situation from moscow in russia, just after 10:30 in the morning. >> in the meantime, the u.s. house and senate committees are investigating alleged meddling by russia in the u.s. presidential election. >> last week experts told the u.s. senate intelligence committee that the russian government had an army of internet trolls active during the campaign. as brian reports, they aimed to push fake news in the run up to november's vote. >> it started with several tweets alleging a terrorist attack at the air base in turkey last summer. russian state media outlets posted variations of the story. soon even donald trump's campaign manager apparently thought it was true, repeating it on cnn. >> there's plenty of news to cover this week. i haven't seen covered. you had nato base turkey being u

there are 5,000 to 7,000 americans in iraq?rican troops working with the iraqi forces, in iraq, the flight islamic state, especially around mosul at the moment. —— to fight. if the shia militias, backed by iran, start to target them, that would be a throwback to the worst days of the occupation, when these militias were targeted by either iranian proxies are by sunni islamists. that's certainly something that the americans wouldn't want to revive. we will see if that happens that's a possible scenario. i not aware that it has been threatened, but it's a possibility. we do have some state m e nts possibility. we do have some statements from the us official. i was listening to you talking about russia with ben.. it is now apparent that russia has failed to uphold the commitments it made in 2013 to ensure the elimination of the syrian chemical weapons programme. russia faces a choice. either it takes responsibility for ensuring that assad complies with the removal of these weapons, as russia committed it would do, or it admits tha

just recently, a lot of civilians were killed in iraq, we need someone who has a strong position, that request implement whatever the president wants to do, but also convincing the american people. >> congressman kingston, should jared kushner be the one going to iraq before secretaries of state and before others? >> i don't think it really matters, and i'll tell you why, he is the president of the united states, when he goes over there, they're going to think this is very, very important, otherwise president trump would not have sent his son-in-law. and all the information that he's going to get on the ground and during the plane trip, he's going to go back to donald trump and he's not going to go through five layers of people, he's going to sit across from him at the breakfast table and say here's what i learned. >> is that the best way our government works when it's a question of who has the president's ear? i mean it sounds like a royal court more than sort of an organized system of government as we traditionally know it. maybe it works but what is your concern. >> robert kennedy,

right now. >> as far as him being in iraq, i've taken this trip where last time i went to iraq was december of 2015. and when you meet it with the ambassadors, the iraqi leadership, you meet with our military commanders, you get briefed on the developments of the iraqi counterterrorism, the latest in taking back mosul and efforts to push isis out of iraq, we need to form a coalition government. and the relationships with surrounding countries like iran or turkey, and the kurds both in iraq and syria as well as syria itself. so as you look around the map, to be there, to have those briefings, to ask your questions, it not only makes you a more informed advisor, he will be a better advisor than he was before the trip. but it also helps for the other side for that iraqi leadership and those to put a face to the name. >> all right. congressman, thanks so much for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. we're going to take a break. we're going to take you back to moscow for the latest on the multiple explosions that have taken place in the last couple of hours in st. petersburg in at least one

we're on the verge in iraq in support of iraqi forces in taking back mosul.syria, we have a chance -- >> the main headquarters. >> the main headquarters in iraq and syria in jeopardy. that means the caliphate they have declared, the state they said they were building is going to be gone. foreign fighters wouldn't have a place to go to, they won't have resources to exploit. their narrative is destroyed. that's going to be a very powerful thing. we have to keep our eyes on that. the trick is to be tough with russia, to hold them to account for what assad is doing with chemical and biological weapons but not to overplay the hand to the point russia starts to interfere with, not help, the fight against isis. >> the idea of destroying the caliphate is important. one thing a lot of people don't understand is al qaeda was calling -- wanted a caliphate.n. it's actually here now. it's a real thing. according to the fbi people we talk to, that was a big motivator for jihadists and extremists around the world who would sign on because this was something here and now tha

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about the kremlin's response, saying this is a distraction from the casualties that we are seeing in iraq. irani interesting that we have this senior russian official who says basically these strikes put an end to u.s.-russia relationships as far as cooperation when it comes to syria. and in essence, the first step in dealing kind of a crippling to that relationship. >> well, he's a legislator. he's in charge of the foreign affairs committee, but he is a legislator. he's not part of the executive branch in russia. and if i were he and i were the government in russia, that's exactly what i would say. i think one of the things that we have to keep in mind is that most things that are really worth doing in the international arena, diplomatic arena, happen behind closed doors. the more we take positions, difficult positions in public, the less you need to pay attention to them. what's really important here is that if the united states state department makes some effort to take advantage of the situation and to sit down with the russians behind closed doors and start to talk serious business a

they are now the second largest contributor of troops to the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan. i would also like to thank you, prime minister, for your leadership on seeking stabilization in libya. and for your crucial efforts to deny isis a foothold in the mediterranean. you fought hard. we are grateful for your role in the anti-isis campaign, all nations must condemn this barbaric enemy and support the effort to achieve its total and complete destruction. also, as you know, we have more than 30,000 american service members, families and personnel who are stationed across your country. as we reaffirm our support for historic institutions, we must also reaffirm the requirement that everyone must pay their full and fair share for the cost of defense. together, we can address many pressing challenges, including two that greatly affect both of our two rain countries. -- two countries. those of international migration and smuggling. maintaining strong borders is an important part of any security policy. approach toe refugees is one that seeks the return of refugees to their home cou

military not backing down in the skies over iraq and syria. the fighters pounding isis. of course there's some tension since the russians have announced they don't want to communicate with the u.s. anymore, in the skies over syria. that's why crews like this one take great care when they fly into syrian air space. >> reporter: stopping the communications significantly increases the ruisk of mid-air collisions over this crowded air space where u.s. coalition and russian planes operate very close to one another. russia made the move after russia hit a syrian airfield with cruise missiles last week, in response to a chemical attack on a syrian village, killing around 90 people. washington blames the assad regime, russia's main ally in the civil war there, even as syria denies being bond the attack. but america doesn't want the turmoil to affect the ongoing effort to destroy isis. >> despite the current tensions with russia, the u.s. says the fight against isis has to continue full steam, especially with american and allied forces on the ground an

he in fact, took over iraq in 1979. he ruled iraq in the name of the baath party for more than two decades. but the baath party itself, they took over iraq all the way back in 1963, which was basically the exact same time that the baath party also took over next door in syria. the baath party mounted their coup in baghdad on the 8th of march 1963. one month later, they mounted their coup in damascus as well in syria. the baath party took over in iraq in february. they took over in syria in march. in syria, as in iraq, thereafter they had a few different stops and starts in terms of what their new governance would look like. in terms of what their new leadership would look like. they had a couple more upheavals in terms of their leadership in syria. but by 1970 in syria, they had their leader for life. his name was hafez al assad. hafez al assad. he took over in 1970 and never gave up power. in iraq, saddam ruled for a long time, 24 years. saddam's rule in iraq only ended when the united states military invaded iraq and o

officials say the rules have not changed in iraq and syria. rspectiverom my because of the change of administration, we have the same rules of engagement. those authorities were delegated before any change in administration. >> the u.s. attributes the spike in deaths to the fact that the fight is moving to densely populated areas. the use of civilians as human shields by the islamic state group as well. amnesty international says the u.s. military is not taking adequate precautions to prevent civilian debts. -- deaths. a group said mark was the deadliest -- march was the deadliest in iraq and syria. >> today is three years since the schoolgirl kidnapping in nigeria. 276 girls were abducted by boko haram. 195 are believed to still be in captivity and the government is trying to negotiate the release. talks have stalled. the president wants to make good on his campaign pledge to bring the young women home. >> three years on from their kidnapping, these trees are planted not as a sign of remembrance, but one of hope. a tragedy which shocked the na

he is the veteran of the war in iraq. you served four tours. >> good to be here. >> do you want to respond? this means if you are fighting isis, the u.s. is working in tandem with the terrorists. >> syria is a complicated situation. there are more bad guys in the world than one group. we are opposed to isis, but opposed to assad. we should be clear that we're not going to stand for him massacring his own people. >> are you pleased with what the president did? >> what the president did was an important first step to send a message that using chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction is not acceptable. we will not stabbnd by when it happens. he that's come to congress and convince us to support it in a bipartisan way. >> let's talk about that. did he have the authority to do what he did? the missile strikes. >> my understanding is he had the authority to take the initial strike. war doesn't get easier. it will get a lot harder. he will have a lot of questions to answer. most of all, we have to explain the goal for the

he talked about weapons of mass destruction in iraq. i was there in that session. everyone remembers what the hea ds of investigative delegations said about weapons of mass destruction in iraq. bazler, scott, and others. said that there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq, and that these accusations were a pretext to invade and occupy iraq. remember, maybe some of you remember, at this counsel decided at the end of 2008, after investigation into weapons of mass distraction were disclosed that they decided to area the reports. reports andked the buried them in the so that no one could reach, except for the secretary general . they buried them in faults and they said that the faults would only opened after 60 years. secretsimagine the inside of these faults? they may have incurred a new rule forward in the world by using an irrational and extreme position. this reminds us of the criminal rule of tony blair in the invasion in iraq after fabricating allies of weapons of mass instructions. pushing the american hiphant to destroy the iraq china shop. deliver myde

today president putin shot back — saying the us strike on syria reminds him of wmd claims in iraq. tate — with no evidence — that enemies of president assad are planning further chemical weapons attacks in syria, just to point blame at the regime. similar provocations, i can't call them any differently, are being prepared in other parts of syria, too. including the southern suburbs of damascus where they are preparing to release some sort of substance again. well, for reaction from moscow, we've been speaking to our correspondent there, steve rosenberg. after the stalemate it would seem as if rex tillerson is coming to moscow in some sort of holding role.|j think so. he still believes that he can geta think so. he still believes that he can get a deal with the russians and he doesn't believe this is an impossible mission. he does have formed with the russians, when he was an or an executive, he was quite close to people high up in the russian leadership —— an oil executive of the he was given an award in fact by vladimir putin, but it would be much harderfor rex tillerson to secure

in u.s. against iraq 14 years ago to the day, april 9, 2003. thank you, madam president. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history, providence college professor jeffrey johnson on the 1916 bombing at san francisco's dayaredness they parade -- parade. >> about half an hour into the the local press would see one of the most pathetic results of the explosion and the parade. >> at 10:00, the 1915 film on the firing line with the germans. film in his camera, that is what i think he is doing. watch the guy there. he just got hit. >> sunday at 6:00 p.m. eastern we"american artifacts," visit the portrait gallery of the second bank of the united states in philadelphia. >> inside, we have the fine arts exhibit where we include portraits to tell the story of what it was like to live in a 10th century america, the world that the revolution built. >> dan at 8:00, on the presidency, historians discuss the relationship between alexander hamilton and george washington. --washington has a certain he himself is a person of volcanic temperament, but h

we saw it in iraq. st: in today's "washington post," david nakamura points out differences in the approaches taken by former president obama and current president trump and says where obama saw a world filled with hope, trump sees a mess. he writes, a person born today, obama concluded, is more likely to be safer, healthier, wealthier, and better educated. and to see a path to prosperity than at any time in human history. president trump does not inhabit this world. to trump, the world is a mess, as he said during the white house news conference this week jan nato secretary-general stoltenburg and authorized missile strikes in syria and shifted on a tougher tone with russia and negotiated with china's authoritarian leader over what to do about north korea's nuclear weapons program. it's crazy what's going on, trump said, whether it's the middle east or you look at no matter where, ukraine, wherever you look, it's got problems, so many problems. right now, he concluded, it's nasty. david's calling from de

that's apparently who's making the decisions about america's future in iraq. in terms of steve bannon being out of the national security council once again the white house is offering a public explanation for that dramatic move that makes no sense. their explanation is banning was only on the national security principals committee to keep an eye on mike flynn because they knew something was a little hinky about mike flynn. a, why did you name him national security advisor then. b, now that mike flynn is gone, they're saying it's safe for steve bannon to give up his position on the national security council. okay, mike flynn left as national security advisor 51 days ago, if it was safe for steve bannon to leave that gig as soon as flynn was gone, why is he only leaving today. >>> north korea just had another missile launch. the new administration appears to be, on purpose or not, threatening a unilateral war against north korea and maybe a unilateral war against syria. and they only have one person in place, the secretary of state. this is the only one. the nati

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. ♪ ♪ >>> for more on the syrian strike and after math, my guest is david petraeus, first in iraq surksuccessfully in the surge and served as the director of the cia. welcome. >> good to be with you, fareed, thanks. >> when you were director of the cia repeatedly urged that the united states get more involved in a sense, pick a side in fact syrian civil war, you were in favor of, as i recall in 2013, some kind of strike at that time when it used chemical wills, so in a sense trump is implementing the david petraeus, hillary clinton, leon panetta strategy right now. are we as a result engaged in the syrian civil war? >> well, we're certainly engaged in syria. now whether or not you can say there are support for the sunni opposition translates into engagement in the civil war against bashar al-assad is actually still premature. the strike that we saw is potentially a strategy inflection point and certainly sends a message to friends and faux alike this president will take action when lines are crossed and that is, again, potentially very significant. but as you've just pointed out, echoi

he, in fact, took over iraq in 1979. he ruled iraq in the name of the party for more than two decades but the party took over iraq all the way back in 1963 which was basically the exact same time that the party took over next door in syria. the party mounted the coup in baghdad on the 8th of february 1963. by the 8th of march 1963 one month later they mounted their coup in damascus, as well, in syria. the party took over in iraq in february and took over in syria in march and in syria as in iraq thereafter they had a few different stops and starts in terms of what their new governance would look like, in terms of what their new leadership would be like. they had a couple more upheavals but by 1970 in syria they had their leader for life. his name was hafez al assad. he took over in 1970 and never gave up power. in iraq hussein ruled for 24 years. the occupied iraqi government executed him in 2003. next door in syria hafez al assad held on until he died on his own terms. he had a heart attack in the summer of 2000 and syri

in-law, a a. top adviser right now to iraq during a very sensitive time when the u.s. is trying to assist the iraqis in the fight against u.s.ist. he's with the chairman of the joint chiefs. so sean spicer trying to make the case this is a team effort over here. no question about it. it seems almost every week that happens here at the white house we see jared kushner's portfolio getting bigger and bigger and this trip to iraq seems to be another indication of that. >> let's listen to sean spicer responding to this rolling portfolio of president trump's son-in-law. >> handling all these issues, there's mexico, canada, iraq, saudi. >> on iraq, don't go too far here. he was invited by the chairman of the joint chiefs. the assistant to the president for security to see the work that's being done there firsthand. i don't think to that trabs late into he's overseeing iraq. he was had invited to go see something by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and he's doing that. >> i appreciate how he's in such a unique position and trusted by the president. there are people who

in iraq, and iraqi proxy leaders, like two iranian proxy leaders, like two iranian proxy leaders, if a we will attack and kill americans. we have known about this for 18 months. we have taken precautions about this for 18 months. we have ta ken precautions hopefully about this for 18 months. we have taken precautions hopefully to make sure we are on a high alert and intelligence services are looking to make sure there is no traffic from these proxies hinting at an attack against american forces. that is one of the biggest problems. that was by design. to get the iran deal we had to limit the amount of us forces in iraq. then we parted with these proxy munitions. we were already warning we were making ourselves targets in iraq if we went against policies in the region because we are training their proxies and the proxies know who we are and where the bases us. i am sure we are taking precautions. in the longer term, what do you make of rex tillerson's quote, there is no future for bashar al—assad as the leader of syria. surely he will step down, but there is no shortage of people in hi

i was out in iraq and syria. it's clear that the pace of operations in the middle east is accelerating. a lot of this follows the trajectory that president obama set. there is not a dramatic departure in the strategy, but it's sort of obama strategy pumped up a bit maybe by 20% and, at the same time, since i used to cover the state department, it's rather striking that the administration is talking about slashing the state department budget, including the kind of programs that one might want to have in place to help consolidate a military gain in iraq or syria, and there is very little talk on the part of the administration about what happens after mosul and raqqa is taken back from the islamic state. >> rose: what are the options as to what might happen when mosul and raqqa are taken back? >> well, they are entirely different cases because, in the instance of iraq, we have an ally, the iraqi government, and we also have the kurds and northern iraq whom we work with. mosul will be taken back. it's being taken back

they said that there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq and these accusations were a pretextto invade and occupy iraq. , maybe of you remember some of you remember, that this counsel decided at the end of 2008 after investigation into so-called iraq w indies was wased decided -- wmd's close, decided to bury the report to overlook these reports and area them in the ground so for no one can reach except the secretary general. thatburied them and said these boats would only be opened after 60 years. can you imagine the secrets and these votes? brexit from the european union might have encouraged it to look for a new using anhe world by irrational and extreme position in this counsel. this reminds us of the criminal role of tony blair, his role in the invasion of iraq 14 years ago, after fabricating the lie of iragi wmd's. pushing the american elephant to destroy the , which the iragi people continue to pay the price for today. madam president, i deliver my statement today after i have been absent for more than three .onths i was leading the delegation of the syrian arab republic

troops in iraq and syria. jared kushner, donald trump's son-in-law, went to iraq before the secretary of state rex tillerson has. meanwhile, president trump has signed a directive classifying parts of somalia as areas of active hostilities, meaning the pentagon now has more power to carry out airstrikes and ground raids in the region. the new classification also means the pentagon will have more permission to kill civilian bystanders. trump also declared parts of yemen areas of active hostilities last month. in russia, authorities say at least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a bombing on a metro station in st. petersburg monday. kurdistan authorities identified the attacker as 22-year-old akbarzhon dzhalilov, who was born in kyrgyzstan and had russian citizenship. authorities say a second bomb, which was disguised as a fire extinguisher, was placed at another station but was disarmed before it exploded. st. petersburg residents gathered monday to mourn the victims of the blast and call for pea

appreciate it, will. >>> breaking news as well trump senior adviser jared kushner just landed in iraq. the president's son-in-law traveling with the chairman of the joint chiefs. we've got cnn correspondent barbara starr live from the pentagon with breaking details. we're told he was invited by the chairman, what do we know about this trip? >> good morning, chris. jared kushner landing in baghdad, iraq, a short time ago. the pentagon general dunford's office putting out a statement about why he is there. let me read you part of it, the statement saying about mr. kushner, "as well as receiving braefr i briefings and updates mr. kushner is traveling on behalf of the president to express the president's support and commitment to the government of iraq, and u.s. personnel engaged in the campaign." we are told jared kushner as a senior adviser to the president will attend many if not all of the same meetings that general dunford will be in. he will get a chance at least to see what happens in the complex that houses the u.s. embassy and the u.s. military mission there. whether he actually