more than 100 other top isis officials have been eliminated and tens of thousands of isis .ighters are gone they are gone. together, we have freed more than 5 million civilians from the grip of these bloodthirsty killers, and you know the killers they are. you see it. we used to see it to an extent we couldn't believe, where our people and our friends and our people in many cases, whose parents i had gotten to know, had to wear the orange uniform prior to you know what. we don't want to see those scenes anymore. thanks to the global coalition, including all of you here today, and to our other partners, the isis caliphate has been decimated. nobody thought it was possible to do it this quickly. iraq weeks ago, i was in and i was talking to some of our great generals. i gave them the absolute go ahead. i said go at it. how long will it take? once you get started? you said sir, one week. where does that come from, one week? and he meant it. it is about a week since they really got going and they'll be informing us very soon officially that it is 100%. isis can no longer claim widespread o

we have defeated isis. isis is not defeated. it's degraded. there's a huge difference between defeated and degraded. in fact, let me say this one, i hope the president does not declare victory because if he does, this might really come to haunt him in a similar way to the mission accomplished statement by his predecessor, george w. bush when he declared the mission was accomplished on the invasion in iraq. we know what happened between 2003 and 2007 or '08. the fight, the battle against isis goes on. this is what the president and his advisers must realize. not the military means, but the social political and diplomatic aspects of this fight. >> right. you always point that out when you come on the program because you can't physically see pockets of isis in syria. that does not mean they have gone away. as you say, defeated, but not degraded. the question for you is, the secretary of defense of the united states highly regarded, mattis quit over mr. trump's decision to pull out of syria. the question is, who is he listening to now? who is arou

isolated pockets of isis resistance remained. the task of mopping up isis resistance and check out what's been left in the hands of different local militias one of the most high profile of these is led by we're here to mohammad al jamal the better known as a model. i think that there is special for you and i disappointed never let anything. on my i mean if you're not an understanding and i know many muslims and you know. that this is the photo of it all and these are quite a. whole ft she is special in height. so. we're unsure cat about eighty kilometers south of mosul accompanied by our interpreter we're about to meet the local militias near legendary commander that is it. so. warmly received by wahid a mohammed first glance it's hard to imagine how this forty year old woman could have such a ferocious reputation but she and her eighty man militia played a key role in driving out of town and i've since shown the determination to keep it that way. and. a lot. of it's been home and. surrounds us africa. more than our. mamie is eac

isis is becoming an insurgency. an insurgency is much different than a group with a flag that controls buildings and territory. those people you can fin -- find them and you can strike them. an insurgency are people that blend into the population. by day they are a baker or accountant or a merchant, but in the evenings and at night, they are an isis fighter planting bombs and killing people. insurgencies are very difficult to fight and almost impossible -- if not impossible to fight from simply air power. which is why the situation in syria has been so positive. 2,000 american servicemen, special operators, alongside thousands of syrian democratic forces and kurds who are primarily doing the ground fighting with our logistical support and air support have eroded isis's control of territory in the country. but they have not eliminated them. and there is enough of them left that they can reconstitute itself. in fact, it's in the process of doing so already. they are clearly capable of killing american servicemen, as t

maybe not isis but another group of. inside syria and iraq because this is i think the main reason that to the to the. resurgence in the first place so here again we. be enough vicious circle which is a bug but governance is corruption and appealed and we have to know are actually that's many people in during the caliphates the three years of the caliphate were actually not ideologically affiliated with isis but they were happy because they are please provide the security and the kind of order and little flaw in their way i mean the caliphate even if we don't like the way i mean the be heeding successor about it successfully managed to put the order there so the question here is if the next step is to is to money the situation to put things in order if this is not addressed i thing. it's like pouring water in the sand and mr al about the how do you address that i mean i guess that is the million dollar question and how do you stop the vicious circle even now when you know mr masters talking about other groups and you've

isis in iraq we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly now we've won it's time to come back. now it was this reported defeat of isis that was given as the reason that donald trump was going to withdraw u.s. forces from syria now that was a controversial decision and james madison apparently resigned in response to it now at this point we're two months later and we're hearing from from trump that apparently there is talk that the usa could return to syria in the blink of an eye if need be this is recent comments from top you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of isis see a resurgent you know they're really doing no good come back if we have to. now the report also seems to indicate that's the report from the pentagon that isis could indeed resurgent in iraq and that's why the u.s. forces have not been removed from that country however in iraq people are not quite happy about the u.s. military presence there lawmakers in iraq are actually planning to put forward a bill to stop the foreign adviser presence in the country so at this point there clearly seems

but we have remnants of isis. we look forward to giving our brave warriors in syria a warm welcome back home. rest assured, we'll do what it takes to defeat every ounce and every last person within the isis madness and defend our people from radical islamic terrorism. i commend the 30 other nations who are already contributing troops to this vital effort. it's a different effort than we had initially. but totally vital. in recent months, germany, the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have all made commitments. this is a shared fight. we do it together. if we don't do it together, it can never be the same. everyone must do their part and contribute their fair share. we must also recognize that immigration security is national security. and that foreign fighters must not gain access into our nations. we've been extremely tough on people that we think can be in any way working with or even be a part of radical islamic terror. been very, very tough on that. i hope every other nation is, too. i just want to thank e

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we've melted more than 60 mile high value isis leaders so we have a -- if you look at the isis leaders of the 60 top, we've eliminated almost every one of them. now they reform. we know that, but they're having a hard time reforming and i wouldn't say it's a great job to have because of us. it's not exactly hopefully will not be a sought after occupation. more than 100 other top isis officials have been eliminated and tens of thousands of isis fighters are gone. they're gone. together we have freed more than 5 million civilians from the grip of these blood thirsty killers and you know the killers they are. you see it and we used to see it to an extent, we couldn't believe where our people and our friends and our allies in many cases, people who's parents i've gotten to know had to wear the orange uniform prior to you know what. we don't want to see those scenes any more. thanks to the global coalition including all of you here today and to our other partners. the isis caliphate has been decimated of the nobody thought it was possible to do it this quickly of the three weeks ago i was i

isolated pockets of isis resistance remain and. the task of mopping up isis resistance and check out has been left in the hands of different local militias one of the most high profile of these is led by we're here to mohammad al jamal the better known as a model. i think that there are special for you and i disappointed never anything. on my i mean enough not enough money and i know many muslims and you know . this is the photo of it all and these are quite a. whole fish you have special insight. so. we're in sure cat about eighty kilometers south of mosul accompanied by our interpreter we're about to meet the local militias near legendary commander of the desert. so. warmly received by what he did mohammed first glance it's hard to imagine how this forty year old woman could have such a ferocious reputation but she and her eighty man militia played a key role in driving out of town and i've since shown the determination to keep it that way. that she. left a lot. of it's been home and. surrounds us africa in more than our. may may

that isis is completely defeated.nt is closer to going to the truth here. isis is going to continue to be a threat. but let's remember where we started. isis invaded iraq, took over a piece of syria. claimed it was going to set up its own sovereign government. and it did pose an unprecedented threat. but that is no more. they lost 90% of their territory. they are going to lose again today. the foreign fighters are down, and since they are not wing. the tra -- the attractiveness oe isis model is not working. so i think the president is right. now, will they commit terror acts? will they all disappear? some will retire, some will disappear, and some will keep fighting. but the threat is nothing like the was when this thing started. eric: that's something to be thankful for even though the radical islamic threat continues in europe. president trump: my administration has acted decisively to confront the world's leading state sponsor of terror, the radical regime in iran, it is a radical regime. we'll not avert our eyes f

part of this tragedy has been achieved the isis caliphate has been defeated but isis and al qaeda are still acting in the region and threatened our homeland. both priorities competing with russia and the county are in syria. in syria we must support our partners and friends. i must mention how we are going to prevent isis resurgence. it's one thing to come out and of course to stop them from coming back up. we believe that's going to happen in the right person is here to explain that to us. we welcome you general votel.>> thank you, very much mr. chairman. welcome back which will likely be our last hearing before the committee. let me thank you for 39 years of exemplary service to the nation. we owe you and your family and incredible debt of gratitude for the contributions you've made to a national security throughout your career. especially, during your leadership of the joint special operations command, the special operations command and now central command. we sincerely thank you, general. the focus of the nancy defense strategy is to return to more research is to approach conard h

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part of the strategy has been achieved, the isis caliphate has been defeated, but isis and al qaeda are still active in the rege nd and threaten our homeland. both priorities competing with russia and countering terrorists are at stake in syria. as we draw down in syria, we must continue to support our partners and friends and i'm also interested in how we're going to prevent isis resurging. it's one thing to come out then of course to stop them from coming back up. we believe that's going to happen and the right person is here to explain that to us so we welcome you, general votel. senator reid? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and general votel, welcome back. which will likely be your last hearing before the committee. let me thank you for 39 years of exemplary service to the nation. we owe you and your family an incredible debt of gratitude for the contributions you've made to our national security throughout your career but especially during your leader state highway patrol of the joint special operations command, the special operations command and now central command. so we si

so isis try to make you stay?ake us go," halah mohammed, a mother of five, told us. "we had to risk our lives to get here." every day, they've been streaming out of the village, many more than troops here had anticipated and what is striking is the number of children we're finding, children who have only ever known life under isis. if there is a positive note about the mass exodus, it's that the people here say there are now very few civilians left inside, just 500—600 isis fighters facing inevitable defeat. for halah, whose husband has already been killed in an air strike, there is no love lost. what does it mean to you to see the end of isis? "they mean nothing to me," she said. "they're trash." with fewer civilians left, the us—led defeat of the last isis holdouts in syria may be imminent and each person, every child, who escapes that village, is one less civilian to worry about inside it. charlie d'agata, cbs news, near baghuz fawqani, syria. one of the three schoolgirls from east london who travelled to syria

and how powerful isis might be. here to help us make sense of it all is defense analyst ivan a lens thank you for joining us on the program so we have trump saying isolate defeated because the pentagon who seem to be saying the open as it says should we believe. well i think you know the president wants to get out and i think he's probably overstating the fact that the isis is vanquished permanently however the pentagon also it has its own motives they would like to stay they tend to like to stay in the country in conflicts. you know ad nauseum you know until the cows come home as we see in afghanistan so i think you know this war will never be won i think isis may really do your resurgent no matter if the u.s. is there or not i think that's not the issue i think the u.s. can withdraw like the president says but i think we have to say well russia iran the syrian government and maybe even turkey on a good day have have incentives to beat back the militants because after all syria does want to regain. the syrian gover

-backed forces are closing in on isis in syria. look at it, this is what liberation looks like in syria. she says she left fearing for her and her son's safety. >> there was nothing in the market, nothing in the shops. we were eating what was cow food. and we just plucked grass from around our houses and fried it. seeing him eat grass, that was my last day. >> reporter: after spending two nights in the desert, she was captured by kurdish forces and placed in a refugee camp in northern syria. she's believed to be the only american inside the camp. can you see why people in the united states would be skeptical of your story that you now say you regret having joined the islamic state, but it's only really because i want to come home. >> yeah, i'm sure everyone thinks that, but i hope they excuse me because how young and so stupid i was. i have none of the ideology. >> reporter: countries around the world are grappling with the issue of repatriating isis brides. president trump has said he wants american isis militants brought back to

isis scoops in, more chaos and fighting breaks out how quickly could the u.s.k in or would that even be part of the plan? >> yeah, well i think the concern is that we'd be outsourcing to some extent, our security to nefarious actors like iran and russia and syria, and then turkey has been a challenging allie of ours, in that region, and of course the syrian democratic forces are at risk right now, if we depart, i think that's a question that our congressional oversight is going to be asking the administration. i think the media will be following up on it as well and perhaps the administration will provide a more detailed plan of action for how we combat isis going forward. i would question whether we can do it all from our base in iraq. i think having some troops in syria where isis is continuing to grow in that failed state even if they are disbursed i think there's value there. >> yeah, in iran and russia they're waiting to come in and take over. they want that piece of landover there. >> right. >> and then the other within if i may, you know, can the u.s. en

maybe not isis but another group of. inside syria and iraq because this is i think the main reason was led to the to the. resurgence in the first place so here again we. be enough vicious circle which is a bug but governance is corruption and appealed and we have to know actually that's many people in during the caliphates the three years of the caliphate were actually not ideologically affiliated with isis but they were happy because they are police provide the security and the kind of order and little flaw in their way i mean the caliphate even if we don't like the way i mean the be heeding successor about it successfully managed to put the order there so the question here is if the next step is to is to money the situation and to put things in order if this is not addressed i thing. it's like pouring water in the sand and mr al about the how do you address that i mean i guess that is the million dollar question and how do you stop the vicious circle even now when you know mr masters talking about other groups and you'

the assad are tkpwaoepl has massacred more than isis. isis exists because of the massacres and the offenses of the assad regime. we can't solve that problem until assad goes, i'm convinced. he's not a friend. she needs to get more perspective there. by the way chelsea gabbard has met with president assad personally. think it's a tremendous mistake. i want to make a point on hostages. we have an american journalist austin tice missing and believed to be alive for five years. we can't lose site on getting him home. >> dana: you have been on missions looking for people taken by the enemy. any thoughts on what to do now or is it so classified it's a secret. >> that's one of the reasons we need to be engaged in that region. we have to bring, if the regime or another group has him we need to demand that until we get all americans home. that needs to be up front and center like the president did in north korea before we have any other discussions. >> dana: i have so many questions. afghanistan, venezuela and north korea. we will have to have yo

the isis trekkersjust themselves. my show is two hours long. the isis trekkers just a few minutes.an overall message. joan rivers said soon after the tragedy of 9/11 she started making jokes about the 3000 widows who have lost their husbands in the attack and she said after she had made thatjoke she was spat at on the street and... i have never madejokes about on the street and... i have never made jokes about the victims. i have made jokes about the victims. i have madejokes about made jokes about the victims. i have made jokes about the victims. i have made jokes about the violent people, isis. for us, thejokes... made jokes about the violent people, isis. for us, the jokes... she talked about the families of the victims. it would help if something we re victims. it would help if something were to hear thejoke, but victims. it would help if something were to hear the joke, but the joke and the context of it is how we made fun of isis by making them thejoke. so like they are wearing flip—flops and they are fighting a kind of thing. and that makes them seem weak and they are not. t

watch this. >> we have won against isis.m and we've beaten them badly. >> isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. >> we have a great chemistry and we're well on our way. we signed an agreement. it said we will begin the immediate denuclearization. >> north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities. >> lisa, if they get rid of dni coats, what does that tell you? >> if the reporting is true and they get rid of dni coats because he was given his unvar nishd intelligence assessments, based on the work of career professionals who serve without fear or favor across the political spectrum, that's another blow to the intelligence community which frankly has had to endure a daily pummeling from the president who seems to agree with vladimir putin's assessments instead said of his intelligence community. people need to remember dni coats and others who serve in political as well as in career positi

the vast majority of these isis wives, isis brides and the children who have lived under isis for fivesix years who know nothing but. just a few miles from there is that last isis pocket. they say it's about the size of central park. they are fighting to tend. also, we are hearing just now today that there is a negotiation going on between those last isis fighters and the fds. they want safe passage out in exchange for a cease fire. previously when i was there witnessing these things the fds said we want to finish them here and now. the isis fighters saying they have western hostages among them and dozens of kurds. today there's been a slight lull while they try to figure out if they're holding the italian priest and an aid worker. >> dana: listen to what a commander said about isis and the american forces. >> are you worried about what might happen after american forces leave? >> translator: yes, there is a worry. we fought together. it wasn't a wise decision. it's a decision to leave halfway through. >> dana: did you hear anything more about that? >> that's what we heard out there. t

is this the end of isis? not at all.yria, who escaped from devastated cities. ready in iraq you have a low intensity insurgency. isis has been targeting security forces probably ona targeting security forces probably on a daily basis in iraq and the fight against isis will take years the physical state is no longer because ice is still have thousands of fighters not just in because ice is still have thousands of fighters notjust in iraq and syria, they have also expanded beyond the borders of iraq and syria. —— isis. 20 or 30 countries have contingents of isis. what kind of threat does isis pose, bearing in mind that physical caliphate does not exist? are we talking about essentially terror attacks or are we talking about more of a structured force that could perhaps cause problems for the security forces, say in syria or iraq or neighbouring countries? you are asking multiple difficult questions to answer. even though isis has taken a major beating in iraq and syria, the ideology is still there. point two you still have

folks in the pentagon about what exactly to do about isis and how powerful isis might be a security analyst charles c. bridge told us that fighting i still was never the top priority for the u.s. in syria well this analysis today isn't a complete surprise of course because when donald trump announced his decision to withdrawal from syria a couple of months ago. there were a huge amount a huge number of off the record briefings by the pentagon by security intelligence agencies we see that the intelligence chiefs are suggesting that u.s. troops should stay in. in syria because of the threat from isis. trump himself of course has said that in relation to iraq and in relation to syria that the reason why the u.s. troops there isn't to do with isis anyway it's to do with. protecting the interests of israel by keeping iran at bay and stopping the expansion of iranian influence across that country and. there's anger in sweden after security offices forcibly removed a heavily pregnant black woman without a valid ticket from a train and pinto to a bench the incident has raised questions about the tr

the isis caliphate. has been decimated the. president declares victory of soul and says the group will lose its remaining territory in syria in around a week. that i've been. with the special place.

al-qaeda in iraq was degraded in 2007 height night, and it mutated into isis in 2014, so what isis isnt attacks, and biding its time for the next phase, because the war goes on in syria, and society in iraq and other countries are very much polarised, and that is why the post—war reconstruction, civilian, social, economic investment, giving people hope, basically, and reconciling communities, this is the challenge facing iraqi society, syrian society, libyan society, and sadly and tragically, i don't see the western states really concerned and interested and having the will to invest in the post—war reconstruction in these societies. and in the end, i suppose, isjust had so many enemies, including the united states. the reality is that isis has alienated the entire world, the entire world, and no wonder we are seeing the end of the physical caliphate. sadly, the ideology remains very potent, so even though the territorial state is no longer, the territorial state is no longer, the ideology is there. as long as there are conflict zones, isis and al-qaeda will continue to exist. we have

when the isis state is replaced by the isis insurgency an arab fighter tells me, it will pea tougher still. this war is easy, he says. we're fighting on a front. it will become different when it becomes guerilla warfare. victory of sorts is at hand. peace in this tortured land still elusive. and of course one of the problems as this offensive moves ahead, rosemary, is that there are still many civilians trapped inside. some of them apparently held as human shields by isis. what we've seen when we were closer to the front, we were able to see before the battle began, a lot of movement inside their basically camps of displaced people on the edges of the town. and we are hearing that as many as 1,000 civilians may have managed to leave the town within the last 48 hours. in fact, from the position we had to leave from, we did see through binoculars groups of people trying to reach the higher ground where the sdf is positioned and is prepared to take in these people. but really the plight of the sicilia civilians as this battle goes ahead and the bombardment by the coalition continues the

isis isn't giving ground easily.k. [ gunfire ] heavy machine gun fire didn't stop them. the troops had to retreat. by day's end, reinforcements arrived, and they were back on the offensive. not, however, without cost. the next day starts with a mortar bombardment. theed the adjacent town the objective. a soldier carries a baby, the family follows. but the soldiers are wary. these last villages are full of isis' most hardcore supporters. everyone is treated with suspicion. they order the young men to take off their shirts to show they're not concealing weapons or explosives. this family's next destination, one of many camps out in the desert filling up with tens of thousands who have fled the fighting. civilians want to escape to safety, says this soldier, but isis threatens them with their weapons to go back so that coalition airplanes will hit them. those who defied isis paid the ultimate price. under these blankets, the soldiers say, are eight children and two women, killed while trying to escape. the images too gr

we are not talking about the defeat of isis.ause it loses its territory doesn't mean the group has disappeared. we still have thousands of fighters out there hiding in the desert between syria and iraq. we still have insurgency attacks that are being conducted, especially against the anti-isis coalition. so having these troops on the ground i think is crucial because the battle is far from over against this group. all we are achieving now is taking its areas back but not defeating the group completely. >> your thoughts then to the president's distinction here that you know this is a victory, making, pointing out the difference that you are pointing out. >> well, i mean, she saying that the united states under his leadership has achieved more in a matter of a few weeks than people have achieved in years. i think this is slightly a myopic determination of the six. isis when it becomes an insurgency will be similar like al qaeda in its heyday so we have to bear that in mind. the battle is far from over. 400 troops is actually not e

syria because of the threat from isis. trump himself of course has said that in relation to iraq i did relation to syria that the reason why the u.s. troops there isn't to do with isis anyway it's to do with. protecting the interests of israel by keeping iran at bay and stopping the expansion of iranian influence across the country and. there's anger in sweden after security officers forcibly removed a heavily pregnant black woman without a valid ticket from a trade and pinned her to a bench the incident has raised questions about the treatment of minorities in a country that has often portrayed itself as a beacon of tolerance. officials say the woman was taken to hospital by ambulance the alleged victim insisted she had her travel card with her but failed to find it immediately and by the time she pulled it from her pocket the ticket control had already issued a fine here's how she recalls what happened. they took me by the arm very hard the first me out they put me on the bench with my stomach down one of them put their

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the knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to u.s. officials tell b c news the president reluctantly agreed to keep troops in syria. we are there until the isis territorial caliphate is removed they've won they haven't won they haven't won that they're not going to it goes on and on and on. this conference and we have any further developments on what the u.s. have decided to do you know what no one can still say for sure what's going on with this pullout the conference didn't help another important participant of the event was u.s. secretary of state mike and we thought that he could have shed some light on the american plans in this case instead he made a rather vague comments saying that america in fact he reassured his coalition partners that america will quote unquote continue to wage alongside them and also he said that the u.s. army was only in the middle of some sort of tactical change let's not forget that iran is still being quite active in syria so this could be the reason why washington is hesitant yami not perceive the ira

this is the amount of isis territory they held in january 2015, we can compare that to isis territory february 2019. a dramatic difference so something has been working. >> definitely working. we have taken isis, brought it down, been able to put it down to where it no longer has military capability to hold onto its caliphate territory. that is a positive development. we need to put in place as we withdraw our forces, ability of those who have fought isis, the kurds, syrian democratic forces and others, to make sure they have the intelligence, logistic support, training if necessary to make sure isis fighters cannot regenerate, cannot reconstitute as a fighter. if they suspect one village is taking over, to send a signal that this will not be allowed to happen. heather: what would that entail to ruthlessly stomp it out? >> keep the intelligence on the ground, to make sure we not have an active presence with troops but an ability to monitor, gather intelligence, listen to the fighters, ensure that the kurds who bore the brunt of this fighting are protected from turkey and allowed to co

troops from syria. >> we have won against isis. >> reporter: tonight there are growing signs isis isown but not out. a draft pentagon report expected week warns, without continued military pressure, isis could regain territory in six to 12 months, two u.s. officials familiar with the draft tell nbc news. and interpol's secretary-general warns america's security is at risk. the u.s. and its allies urgently collecting biometric data, fingerprints, and dna on isis fighters, data that directly enables america to defend its estimated 2,700 former isis members now in prison may not be on the database. >> it's still a program that is work in progress. so we are -- >> how many are still missing? >> i don't know how many are missing. >> reporter: he says gathering data on isis prisons in syria relies on the u.s. military. in a few months the u.s. won't be there. lester? >> all right, keir simmons, thank you. >>> tonight while many government workers are still recovering from delayed paychecks, new numbers show strong hiring in january despite shutdown. employers added 304,000 jobs. >>> now an

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allies fighting isis on the ground. as you say that whole area falls apart. let's take it piece by piece. you said they've come back to britain. you know very, very well, both of you, from different vantage points, how britain has been dealing with this historically as well. i just want to quote you the home secretary who said just this week, as home secretary my priority is to ensure the safety and security of this country and i will not let anything jeopardize that. these are not judgments to be taken based purely on emotion and empathy. we look at the facts of each case, the law and threat to national security. he's reacting to shamina begum, 19-year-old girl, she went away at 15. you can say she's misguided but she doesn't say she's misguided. she went willingly, knew what was going on and she even supported beheadings and things because she thought it was islamicly acceptable. >> when i went to bosnia i was 16 and i knew what i was doing. and then at the age of 19 i pledged allegiance to osama bin laden. at age 20 i realized the errors of my way and left

the isis, former isis members, in syria, if they can be got on to this terrorist list, pulling out of, entirely possible. yeah. if you have isis members and don't know what's going to happen to them and they are allowed to, like, be freed or handed over to assad, who knows? you could be putting americans at risk everywhere. it's a question. the type of things if you want to withdraw troops from anywhere you want a long-term plan and a lot of these questions answered and he seems to have made a decision without properly consulting all of his advisers and having a long-term plan. to this day we don't know exactly what they're doing. pulling off of these troops out? when will it happen? it's still unclear. >> thank you. >>> coming up, president trump doubles down on the russia probe. if robert mueller's report doesn't go his way works he make a move to keep the results from going public? that's next. going public that's next. managing managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there. so, i talked to

it's a woman believed to be working with isis has also been captured. i don't mean to be a gun i'll get a little i don't know it's just not there to most of us about money but on the other minute upmost didn't i didn't know how did it come up that i was with thomas trying to do just about everything that's not about to say that only a little crazy of us. was at the moment the woman was loaded up with two separate trucks the mail business and or driven convoy back towards what he was had called the further interrogation. and yelled. at me come up. to me. on the way back to shake out some of the vehicles a hole to it in the middle of nowhere and. cut. the commitment of cutting down on the continent. are interpreted tells us oh he just stopped the convoy to execute the two male captives of some of the colony. now. ok they get it or. it turns out to have been a mock execution intended to terrify them to making confession. base orders the rest would be taken to an office. the men a locked in a container outside. the gentle spin down to them and said that the

in syria because of the threat from isis. but in trump himself of course has said that in relation to iraq and in relation to syria that the reason why the u.s. troops isn't to do with isis anyway it's to do with. protecting the interests of israel by keeping iran at bay and stopping the expansion of iranian influence across that country. after a twelve consecutive weekend of yell of us protests in france president among you michael is under attack from this but the tacl rivals marine le pen who had the national rally party accuses him of peddling conspiracy theories rather than tackling the crisis head on by doma from continues when he claims to wants to do yellow vaster manipulated from abroad yes of course it's conspiracy theory and it's rather disturbing to see something like this from the president of the republic this is above all about his wish to never doubt himself it's always others yellow vests russia the united states everyone except him. drew is a media product a product of social networks we saw it on facebook t

is there anything funny about is, isis? oh, my god, oof... weapon in the biggest war going on in the world today, which is the war of narrative. i believe that the biggest war in the world today is narrative. it isn't weapons. even if you look at is, the so—called islamic state, they're winning by pushing an ideology — or losing — but they're basically, their battle is to push an ideology of hatred. it isn't their tactical brilliance, it's their ability to recruit people. narrative is very powerful. the most powerful weapon of narrative is comedy. if you make a joke out of isis, and in my comedy, what i do is i show the power of humour, how when three isis suicide bombers blew themselves up in lebanon, killed 56 lebanese people, the next day, the lebanese were making jokes. and that's how lebanon has handled violence. we makejokes, ‘cause we don't allow the enemy to realise... but that's jokes amongst lebanese people. but when you tell these kind ofjokes... oh, no, no... ..to a western audience, are you notjust perpetuating the stereotype of,

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