this is a hienus crime that they do sell women and children in iraq and syria. this terrorist group must be completely killed and what we have achieved in iraq is that we forever can destroy and des mate this terrorist group by being allies and unifying our efforts and remaining focused on destroying daesh and not to be distracted by regional differences and regional conflicts. in iraq, as we decentraled and 2 1/2 years after our government has come to place we made many efforts to provide many powers. we have a local council in every gover and we have a governor who is elected and we deal with the local councils and the governors as the local governments. this centralization strengths iraq and we provide more powers and more solutions. we are committed to that and we cannot ever go back on that. just as we launch our major project to stabilize and return major essential services through the liberation and through also having a major committees in each governor that were prove the governors to implement these projects through this great corporation, we were able

we see a completely new approach to north korea and syria and also the rock. -- iraq. a strong message regarding the iranian regime and we are satisfied and have enough patience to wait for concrete steps. >> thank you, everyone. >> tomorrow is earth day and then washington, d.c., protesters will begat bring for the march for science rally with speeches from scientists and activists as well as musical performances. you can watch our live coverage on c-span and c-span.org. or you can listen live with the c-span radio app. mcculloughk, david on his book the american spirit. a selection of the speeches going back to 1989. books about a dozen joe mccarthy. there was no biography of the senator who had the backbone to stand up to them first. >> do you remember how you went about preparing for that speech? >> hardest i've ever worked on anything i've ever delivered from a podium. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. it is brought to you today by your

they are trying to as i mentioned to undermine the stability even in yemen and iraq. their effort to create more proxies. i think it is selling that. i think that iran is clear that exist as their position it is is crucial to place more pressure and more sanctions on the regime. >> the next question will be from bob burns. can you confirm that israel estimates that the syrians retain between one and 3 tons of chemical weapons and can you provide any evidence that the is a case and a question in question for secretary matus. -- mattis will be the implication for this large quantity of chemical weapons still been in syria. it has moved the aircraft. what that might imply for future u.s. options. with the intelligence information. i clarified my position. sometimes that we had 100% permission at the regime that they used chemical weapons i think it was very clear position. and i strongly support the last one. it was very strong in a new message of this region. >> the bottom li is there can be no doubt in the international community that they had retained the violation. th

would you do if it was you and your family in iraq or syria today7m would you do if it was you and your stay. if i had to look after a family with vulnerable people, children, the elderly, i would look after their interests. that is why i say it is a particular personal decision that we can't take away from people. they need to make those decisions for themselves and to be able to ensure the lights... we live in freedom, dignity and safety, and i don't think i should expect less of anybody in the world. thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thank you. hello. spring, thus far, has been marked by pretty settled fare. and i suspect that is going to be the overriding theme of the next few days, with a quiet spell of weather set to continue. not just for the next few days, but right on into the forthcoming weekend. but gardeners and growers take note: night—time frost will still be a consideration. not so much for the first part of wednesday, across the northern parts of scotland, you've got a weather front there spreading a veil of cloud. that will keep the temperatures up. but further

yes they can live syria and iraq and have they left the islamic state completely?me there is an attack in europe, isis loves tojump oi'i attack in europe, isis loves tojump on it because it knows it is being weakened in syria and iraq and wants to appear strong in europe terrify people in cities in europe. this does show that they are being severely depleted in this countries but as you say it is whether they are leaving islamic state mentally as well as physically. some people have certainly as well as physically. some people have certa i nly left as well as physically. some people have certainly left that area but haven't left that ideology behind and the role. .. haven't left that ideology behind and the role... the role turkey plays once they arrive in turkey will be interesting. that is positive because they have been more robust at closing the borders and try to pick people up. time to squeeze to morin. let's talk football. the taxman tackles football. the taxman tackles football elite. in regards to west ham in newcastle today. this will continue to evolve o

and islamic state. the islamic state is a partner linked to the history of the iraq war. one last point to make, i think we as americans have the senseee that we are very important, and we are but whenever i am there there's always a humblingch tha insomuch as we are not, at least my belief is we are not the central actors in this. these are questions that sunni iraq's, these are conflicts between the kurds.e if the u.s. can just figure out the correct policy solution these problems will go away, iu think that's dramatic. >> it's also understanding the nuance of culture. in northern iraq i spent a lot of time to the build up to the iraq war. i wanted to go hang out with these kurdish fighters and i'm getting ready and packing up too go in they come out and say bring ago. and i said what? and they said it's a sign of respect in the slaughter the goat and they will take you a better. it's little things like that that go along way. syrians. >> i would like to bring the conversation back to syrians. this is true, there's a lot of debate as the u.s. completely incompetent and d

the coalition campaign against isis and syria and iraq, as you noted, minister, it is on track, and we have accelerated and intensify that campaign to surround and isolate the enemy so we methodically remove its physical caliphate. in addition to our campaign to defeat isis, we also recognize the need to confront the destablizing activities of iran. iran continues to threaten israel and its neighbors with ballistic missiles through its maritime and cyber activities, and through proxies and surrogates, including lebanese hezbollah, a terrorist organization helping to keep assad in power in syria. in the face of these threats the united states maintains absolute and unwavering commitment to israel's security and to its qualitative military end over iran or other threats. the foundation of our long-term commitment is the significant 10-year security assistance package we signed recently with israel which will enable israel to continue to acquire the most advanced u.s. military technology. this compliments our expanding cooperation on intelligence sharing, counterterrorism and counterproli

east, isis and iraq. and south, severe fundamentalist islam in saudi arabia. a collision of tribes and religions, not confined by borders drawn with a british t-square and crossed by american tanks. in 1990, king hussain warned george bush to stay out of iraq. in 2003, the son of the king gave the son of the president the same advice. >> it seems like american presidents know this region better than you. >> they seem to understand us better than we know each other, and as a result, you can see the train on the track coming to the wreck and we do advise that if we keep going that way, it's pretty obvious to some of us what's going to happen. and, you know, you can only express your views as much and as emotionally as you can. >> reporter: you're frustrated by that? >> the ethnic makeup for the region is pretty obvious who live in the region. but advisers and think tanks in the west seem to know us better than we supposedly know ourselves. syria, when it started, everyone was saying six months. i was saying six years. we're in for the long haul, not only in syri

and syria. in iraqr have left. in syria, the figures are getting close to that as well. christian communities are almost eliminated. could that happen in egypt? it is going to be more difficult. there is going to be greater pressure, this is not the end, this is only the beginning of the campaign. your numbers are going down? some have said coptic christians are 10% of 90 million, others say it is fewer. the numbers seem to be going down? the numbers tend to be somewhere between 9—13%. we have indications of about 15%. i think what we have seen, because it is such a book, it is very difficult to get what we have seen in other places. for every five christians in the middle east, four are in egypt. they have become a target and they live under greater pressure. there will be some relief, but i can't imagine we will have that amount of haemorrhaging we have had in other places, because what used to happen was that there would be persecution in one place, a person would go to a neighbouring middle eastern

foreign policy in kosovo and iraq and libya, and sudan, to say that the u.s. seems to have this fixation with ousting dictators and countries end up in much worse shape afterwards. tillerson giving brief and not nearly as aggressive answers as lavrov did. he didn't seem to want to come looking for a fight. lavrov was very comfortable looking for a fight and taking the argument very much to the u.s. >> melissa: yeah. >> i thought lavrov was noticeably more aggressive and, frankly, dominated the news conference. >> melissa: he did hit very hard, especially on that point. he went through the litany of history of what has happened when secular deck taters have been deposed and how badly that has worked out for the u.s. tillerson was clear on what he thought assad's future role was. let's listen to that an get your reaction. >> we did discuss at length the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. clearly, our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. it is possible that the threshold necessary to charge indivi

speak, iran and iraq have common interests and defeating isis. once isis is defeated, iran has in mind to re-create the shia crescent through that region. isis and thet question about how governance takes place after that with the existing government in iraq, what do you see as the future with us ultimately defeating isis, and what happens with these iranian-backed shia militant groups, and what happens there with the iraqi government in trying to reestablish some type of government in control with those regions without isis? thank you: congressman. i share your concern about iran and long-term intentions. with 100,000 plus shia members on the ground this is extraordinarily a big concern as we move forward. the embassy is welling gauge with the government iraq -- of iraq as they engage paramilitary law in their country. the prime minister has appointed a committee to work through this aspect. we have provided advice and examples of how we employ national guards here and how we would look at that. is that the paramilitary forces do not become dupl

terrible, but yeah. >> now he is back, more than a hundred bell yums who have returned from syria and iraqaduates from isis and other extremists groups here, now, walking the picturesque streets of belgium. >> we have to represent. it's a must. >> so we hear from a lot of people who support isis they believe this idealology will spread to europe and across the whole world. do you believe that? >> it's already here. i said it before. it's already here. >> but people will want to know, would you ever participate in a terrorist attack? >> why should i? i'm here to live. >> so that's a no. >> it's not on my agenda. >> but unis and those like him are what people fear most. >> people who come back after they are trained in syria are very dangerous people one day. >> a lesson belgium has learned the hard way. a year ago isis murdered 32 people here and injured 300 others. >> in two locations in brussels, one at the main airport. >> and remember what happened four months earlier many paris. a massacre organized from across the border in belgium. >> all of europe is going to suffer because of this.

and iraq had before they pulled out in 2011 which we should note continues to this day and has 5,000n the country. the point here about that, the mountain, mount sin jar, in both cases targeted responsibility to protect humanitarian interventions, in both cases they didn't stop at that. and i think watching what happened last night, what does history tell us about how likely they are to stop zbllgtsz everywhere u.s. forces are deployed, they take on additional missions which they did not intend to do. this is not a slippery slope, it's a fact of all military interventions. once forces are in theater, they come at risk. the initial humanitarian impulse as was the case in syria and then regime change, you can imagine how these mechanism crews will lead to regime change against assad. >> i want to bring in a syrian civil rights attorney. everyone in syria almost feels paralyzed by the sheer horror of it all and the number of horrible players are there from assad to isis. there's also skepticism of the u.s. military of being an instrument of improving the lives of syrians, but lots syria

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

the battle for mosul and iraq continues. apparently some progress is being made there, and maybe even some progress against mosul iiraqa. how will this action impact the overall fight against isis in both syria and iraq? >> well, wolf, i think it's going to have a significant impact. i don't think we know exactly what that impact is going to be. but what i see happening right now is some of the sources of support that we have for the anteisis fighters that may be going through the syrian government controlled territory or russian controlled territory, that may dry up. that could limit or ability to do things with our partners, especially in iraqa, maybe not so much in mosul. and if that happens you're going to have a much more difficult fight. it's difficult already. but the agree of difficulty may increase any further because of these attacks. so there are certainly some consequences to this. and there are possibly some areas in which the u.s. could see its efforts hurt a little bit by this. >> tony blinken what do you think

. >> we have 1000 us in turkey and iraq, understanding the syrian regime works with the iranians and russians. >> it can come from the iranians. the iranians are good at conducting -- against us troops. and was explosively formed projectiles which came from iran. i can see the irani and doing the same pink. >> inside the calculus of the syrian regime. he was regaining control of the country, why use chemical weapons now? >> two answers to that was one, there is a lot of evidence that syrian military controlled by not damascus, lower-level commanders. back in 2013 when obama threatened to move the previous use of chemical weapons, deployment of sarah and that got away from a local commander, too much was used. these weapons, and the syrian government did not expect a serious us weapons of this usage. >> one of their airbases, the trump administration can keep this narrowly tailored and contained and not grow into a larger conflict. >> i don't think the syrians or russians have an interest in escalating further. russia shares a lot of interests with the us government in a broad array o

not just from central asia, from inside syria and iraq, haven't they? from the caucasus as well. there are a number of people, russian citizens and former soviet citizens, we know, to be fighting alongside islamic state militants inside syria. certainly russia has a long history of a problem with extremist islamists, there's an insurgency in the north caucasus. central asia has also been the source of fighters going to fight alongside islamic state in syria. so at the moment it's not clear if this is a man who had potentially been to syria to fight fair, it's not clear if he was inspired by that ideology, we don't know about that yet. but as you say, there is a known insurgency and it was a reason that president putin gave for beginning his air strike since syria 18 months ago. he said there was a terrorist threat from central asia and the north caucasus, people going to syria to fight that fight back home to russia. he hoped that by carrying out those air strikes he would be containing that threat and keeping it from russia's shores but this suggests p

incomes up to $125,000. , former u.s.ker ambassador to six countries including syria, afghanistan, and iraqoks at recent tensions in syria and afghanistan. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, coming up at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. this week on q&a, historian david mccullough on his book "the american spirit: who we are and what we stand for," a selection of his speeches going back to 1989. >> joe mccarthy. there are a dozen books about mccarthy, yet there is no biography of the senator who ha d the backbone to stand up to him first. margaret smith. >> do you remember how you want about preparing for that speech? about it. i do hardest i haven't looked on anything i have ever delivered from a podium. >> historian david mccullough on his book "the american spirit," a selection of his speeches during that in 1989, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> while overseas this week, vice president pence made an unannounced stop at the demilitarized zone during his visit to south korea. there, he received a briefing for military officials and toward the

and those places like iraq and minorityere you have or shiite related governments completely marginalizing large parts of the sunni population, i don't think we ought to be arming radical jihadists in syria. at the same time, there is a fundamental problem if you want to get any kind of handle on these conflicts in syria and iraq. you have tens of millions disenfranchised sunnis that you have to figure out what to do with these people. how do you get a better degree of governments to bring them into the process and really begin to take the ground out from under groups of isis and al qaeda. guest: the caller makes an important car -- makes an important point about the change fundingconsequences of and arming opposition to overthrow the government. sometimes people don't like to admit it but there are many syrians who do still support president assad, even some sunnis who are afraid of the opposition. and the truth is that we have been supporting a strategy for six years of hoping the opposition would get strong heugh to get to the point would negotiate his own party are but i think that is

rung its hands over what to do and who, if anyone, to support, militant jihadists groups quickly mufbd in. unez joined the most violent of them all, islamic state of iraqnd syria, isis. >> they were clear in what they were trying to accomplish. >> isis's unbridled brutality yielded huge gains on the battlefield. the group would soon declare it had carved out a caliphate, the size of michigan according to u.s. authorities ruled under its version of sharia law. unez denies committing atrocities in syria. you didn't commit any crimes while you were there? >> no. >> it's hard to fathom how anyone can endure tactics so ruthless that even al qaeda -- >> it depends on which content in america you are executing people with needles, with electric chairs. it's also execution. >> amid the rubble and death and chaos of the civil war, there was an allure for young zealots. the jihady lifestyle looked cool at least in the online postings. they presented themselves as god's warriors, islamic bad asses. and jihadists here point one finger for one god, a sign of the ilaumic proclamation of faith. there is no god but one god. a message set to the a cappella. >> you can

our country is active in iraq and afghanistan. i think that the stabilization work will be decisive, the stabilization work of iraq after the military defeat we expect for daesh. we know this action against terrorism must take place within our own individual countries in andpe, with the social cultural commitment against radicalization, by cooperating with islamic communities. italy contributes to peace and stability in the mediterranean. where i believe the u.s. choice to react to the use of chemical weapons by bashir a negotiatedere solution is more necessary than ever. in libya, and we discussed this, where we need to work against the division of the country in order to stabilize it. this is a very decisive task. if we want to manage the migratory flows. values giving up on our and our humanitarian principles. and we need to contrast the horrible traffic of people and refugees. about commonspoken statements in nato and the goals that were identified in 2014 and the commitments on military expenses and the contribution that each

the fight against isis and iraq and syria expected to be at the top of the agenda, the first official visit to ab del fa la el-sissi. on wednesday he meets with jordan's king and thursday he travels to mar-a-lago to sit down with the president of china. >> employee holdings as they entered the white house, one big discovery, former national security adviser michael flynn did not include thousands of dollars in speaking fees from russian companies, they were absent in february just before he resigned. they were in a second filing. he was asked to speak in russia. some people consider a propaganda arm by vladimir putin. flynn's lawyer says the first filing was a draft and he has filed extra paperwork since being let go. >> and ivanka trump owns a large piece of trump hotel. her stake 5 to $25 million. it earned her up to $5 million in income last year. lawyers say she will submit her own paperwork since she's a white house employee. and unclear whether she divest her interest in the hotel, but the documents show they are worth an awful a lot of money. >> $740 million. do you think she w

ambassador to six countries, including afghanistan, syria, and iraq. welcome this morning. toasked you on this morning talk about recent efforts in syria and afghanistan in particular. the military efforts, the tomahawk launch in syria, and the mom dropping in afghanistan. the military side early on of the trump foreign policy. what do you sense from where you sit and the people you talk to, that the trump administration is seeking to do on the diplomatic side of things in regards to syria and afghanistan. guest: thank you for having me. thanks for having me. it has been a fascinating 100 days. we have not had a president this internationally engaged this early in the presidency since the george herbert walker bush. ran on hisvidual who america first policies, he has been a very international president. today, you've got vice president in east asia, you have the national security adviser in south asia, and you have the secretary of defense in the middle east. it doesn't get much more intense than that. host: the new york times writing about one of those foreign visitors, nat

by july 15, all army training will cease except those units deploying to afghanistan and iraq. our collective training exercises and ntc, j rtc will be significany adednd all forts increase ay resante in the national defense authorization ,ct by you for the regular army the national guard and the army reserve, will also cease. the cumulative effect of training shortfalls combined with personal restraints will result in an army that is less ready to meet not only current requirements of combat limit our, but ability to deter adversaries now and in the future. also, procurement efforts are currently on hold will remain on hold. for venting the army from addressing known shortfalls and gaps in combat systems and importantly, in munitions. electronic warfare, cyber programs, air and missile defense, on range fire, and protection and mobility programs along with modernization initiatives. we will lose our current overmatch. the current battlefield is already very lethal. a future battlefield will likely prove far more lethal than anything we have recently experienced. our and iteris

and the former ambassador to six countries including syria, afghanistan and iraq look at recent tensionsn the region including military action in syria and afghanistan. the fruit to watch washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. while overseas in made aek, mike pence unannounced stop at the militarized zone of south korea. he spoke briefly to service members. that building on the far right is the building i was talking to you about, serve. [indistinct conversation] >> the line follows the white p ickets. >> those are the north korean guard post. anotheriers and then inside the building. if you look very carefully, -- you also see them on your next stop. >> this building ever hear is built for the same purpose -- samehere was built for the purpose. that make suregs their building is taller than ours. those type of posturing things. these are observation towers. >> do those run the whole l ength? the demille's tri-zone is fitting on the cross - lesmilitarized zone is 15 mi across. [indistinct conversation] >> the white line is as far as you can go. >>

there is ross and porter right there. you were posted in iraq for a while. you have got a sarin gas depot, right? and a bomb comes in and blows it up. is that sarin gas then just released to the area? pete: it could be. it depends on how it is container rised. we would know that some of it would be eviscerated in the actual explosion. you would definitely risk pushing that out into the population. ainsley: we warned russia 30 minutes before we warned these missiles. is russia contacting assad and saying get those chemical weapons out of there? pete: not the chemical weapons but likely potentially fighter jets and other personnel a lot what we will hear in the aftermath is d. jets get away. this is standard protocol. he hey, let me tell you so you can get out of there. 24 is president trump and his team talking about the targets he wanted to hit. make sure it was hit the intended target and not the russians to escalate. ainsley: not to kill people but actually destroy their base so they can't do this again. steve: and poison gas. here is the thing, ainsley ab

the kurds are independent in iraq and they are not going back in. sunnies are not going back into an iraq that's dominated by the ayatollahs in iran. and the sunnies in syria will not go back. you can let it descend further into chaos or leave isis alone and that's your choice. kennedy: i know it get heated. i think you are better versd on the subject than just about everyone else, just because i don't agree with every one of your points -- >> if you would only let me talk a little more i would convince you. kennedy: let me bring in my freshly painted man panel. pete hegseth. kmele foster. and co-host of the fifth column podcast. jamie weinstein. so i know everyone is so excited to continue this conversation. we are going to shift gears because there is big news in the senate. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell pressing the button on the "nuclear option" to confirm neil gorsuch. the gop didn't have the 0 votes to pass gorsuch without a fight. mcconnell brought out the big guns to force gorsuch through the senate. make no mistake. this is a risky

their slick pr machine grinds out their killing narrative, don't come to syria and iraq, stay at home and kill, use a vehicle and now sweden. thrust in the path of isis' killing propaganda drive. >>> still to come here on the program, it wasn't all missile strikes on thursday for donald trump. what we know about his talks with china's president coming up. >>> u.s. lawmakers had some strong reactions to those strikes. what they're saying about military action in syria ahead. >>> welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. >> you're watching cnn newsroom. >> u.s. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been broadly supportive of president trump's decision to strike syria. >> but one house democrat said she's skeptical the assad regime was even behind the chemical attack and calls the president's actions reckless. >> what i believe, what you believe or others believe is irrelevant. what matters here is the evidence and the facts. if president assad is found to be responsible after an independent investigation for these horrific chemical weapons attacks,

we see that day by day in syria and iraq. these are very narrow targets and very specific areas. but when you're going after a complex of caves and tunnels that may extend for some distance, a large footprint, this makes this weapon more optimum. it explodes in the area. it has a large blast area. and you presumably can cause the damage you want with just using this one detonation. but again, they're going to have to see in the coming hours if it did cause the damage that they hope it did. >> we're standing by to hear from sean spicer, the white house press secretary. he's about to have his daily briefing. i'm sure he's going to be asked whether or not president trump personally as commander in chief authorized this first ever use of this moab, this mother of all bombs, 21,000 pound bomb. nick, you've been in that region. tell us a little bit about that area. >> remote very hard to operate. let me explain the history of action and why it's important to the group we call isis and afghanistan. a historical name for afghanistan and pakistan, the kind of kingdom they want to create.

i want to talk about islamic state in egypt, we talk about it a lot in the context of syria and iraq, egypt? no one really knows because there is an emergency law being implemented on coverage in sinai which is where they function. so basically, nobody really knows but in the past few months, we've seem that the coptic egyptians and christians are being targeted wide dunne on a wide scale. the other thing, land, territories, pa rt the other thing, land, territories, part of the main ideology of isis, so what happens in syria and iraq, i think they wish to achieve in egypt as well, whether they succeeded in northern sinai or not, frankly, we don't know because there is no coverage in northern sinai apart from what the army is issuing. in a few minutes, we turn to hungary, which has seen some of its biggest protests in yea rs, which has seen some of its biggest protests in years, over the potential closure of a university. we will hear all about that story in a few minutes time. the funeral of pc keith palmer has been held at london southwark cathedral. thousands of police officers from

no iraq and no iraqis. i get why the chairman of the joint chiefs would want him there because he knows that curber cur kushner has the president's ear. but is it weird that the secretary of state's not involved in this? >> i don't want to comment on that, but i will say that if i were chairman of the joint chiefs, i would do exactly what general dunford has done. i would ask kushner to go with me not only to iraq but to other places because he does have the trust and confidence of the president. this is something in the military we call leading up. you get to the principal through other people by informing them and helping them become part of your argument. and i think since mr. trump, mr. tillerson and jared have not been to iraq, just the very visit to baghdad, meeting with prime minister al-abadi, and it's interesting seeing some of the pictures, i know some of those guys, and they are going to say, is this the guy we deal with? and kushner will suddenly get some real quick information in a very short p

airstrikes in syria and iraq. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the longtime fox news star bill o'reilly is out after more than half dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. his departure follows a similar ouster of longtime powerful fox news ceo roger ailes, who was also forced out this past summer after more than 20 women accused him of sexual harassment. over 50 advertisers had boycotted the "o'reilly factor" over revelations o'reilly and fox paid $13 million to settle lawsuits by five women who accused o'reilly of sexual harassment and inappropriate sexual behavior. a sixth woman, dr. wendy walsh, has also accused o'reilly of harassing her and then retaliating against her professionally when she refused to have sex with him. on tuesday, a seventh woman, who remains anonymous, accused o'reilly of harassing her for months with sexually and racially offensive comments and actions. o'reilly has called the claims unfounded. on wednesday, protesters gathered outside the news corp.'s

the united states priority in syria and iraq remains with the defeat of isis. g7are calling on our partners to sustain the fight against isis well after the liberation of most. , syria, on the ground in other countries, we must eliminate isis. support will be critical. to stabilize syria will need the direct precipitation -- participation to settle the conflict in syria and the civilian population. normalcy for a unified syria. i am happy to take a question or two. >> obviously over the last day or so -- conflict he must out of the administration. growing pains? can you settle some of those conflicts? do we want bashar al-assad out now or later? -- chemical weapons pressure -- strike undertaken was in direct response to the use of chemical weapons. as i indicated we do believe it is in the national interest because it is a threat that unsecured chemical weapons pose given the chaotic conditions on the ground in syria. afight going on against isis, war, a large presence of al qaeda individuals. that important to us whatever weapons are there are bound or secure

the united states priority in syria and iraq remains the defeat of isis. tocall upon our g-7 partners sustain this. we must eliminate isis. g-7 support will be critical. to stabilize syria, we will need the g-7's direct participation to protect the civilian population and help with the reconstruction of a unified syria. i will take a question or two. >> obviously over the last day or so, there have been [indiscernible] -- coming out of the administration. pains?se growing can you settle some of that conflict? [indiscernible] sec. tillerson: i think i just indicated, the strike that was undertaken was in direct response to the use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime under assad. we do believe it is in the national interest because of the threat that unsecured chemical weapons pose, given the chaotic conditions on the ground in syria. we have a fight going on against isis, we have an internal civil war, a large presence of al qaeda individuals. it is important to us that whatever weapons are there are found and secured and ultimately destroyed. in terms

it does not help the fact we have hundreds of men and women in harm's way in iraq and syria, they're within striking distance of iraq and hezbollah, and many other actors that would gladly strike against our men and women if they feel threatened. and they may feel threatened just because we're being so unpredictable with our actions, including the men and women fighting in syria, this is why we have operations to make sure we're not shooting at each other. whatever we're doing over there we should be predictable, but predictability just means we'll be able to work in a manner that brings some type of strategy, some type of doctrine that would potentially bring us good outcomes without actually getting us into a shooting war in a very volatile area of the middle east. >> congressman gallegos, in an area west of tempe, congressman, thank you very much for coming on the broadcast, we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me, brian. >>> and coming up, congress heads home for recess, but not all members are willing to face their constituents while they're at home when "the 11th hour" cont

ambassador to syria and iraq are ryan crocker will join me more entirely. reports of tension within the president's inner circle. steve bennett and jared kushner sitting down to smooth things over. is there much ado about nothing. karl rove circuit all out. where does it go from here? following the president's meeting with the president china. i'll talk with wilbur ross coming up as we look ahead right now on a "sunday morning futures." we start with a news alert. fox news alert. isis has claimed responsibility this morning for attacks on two churches in northern egypt, killing dozens of worshipers, celebrating palm sunday this morning. the first attack senior killed 26 christians. nearly 70 others were hurt. authorities say the second a few hours later happen when a suicide bomber tried to enter another church but was stopped by police before blowing himself up. 11 people killed in that blast. 35 others hurt. meanwhile, president trump is keeping the pressure on syria this morning in a letter to congress. mr. trump says he is not ruling out further airstrik

we have planes helping over syria and iraq. and train iraqi officers to help them fight international terrorism. >> what is nato doing in syria? >> we are helping with air picture, with the air operation with our awacs planes. but all allies participate in different ways. >> there are about a you this ground troops in syria right now. how many other nato troops are in syria -- >> nato allies, united states and united kingdom and some others have trainers inside syria but nato alliance is not on the ground in syria. what we do is deploy support with our surveillance -- >> you know the president repeatedly said president trump that he is upset with nato because nato as an organization is not doing enough to fight terror. did he say that to you today? >> he said that he would like nato to do more and i totally agree with him. nato plays a key role in afghanistan and the reason why we are in afghanistan is to fight in national terrorism. have a safe haven in terrorism. then we are present in iraq and we are scaling up training activ

in afghanistan and syria and iraq, a small number of really fanatical terrorists. we are not at war with the general population. a lot of the general population is victimized by the same people we are at war with. you have to have screening and security and investigate people. to an that has been done incredible degree in the united states and has worked. there haven't been any attacks by immigrants in the united .tates since 9/11 the system seems to be working pretty well. there have been a couple of attacks in germany. terrible, but the alternative -- what are the alternatives? you just shut the doors and let these people languish in refugee camps or send them back to the war zone in syria? there are risks involved. on a whole, it's been incredibly positive. host: is it a binary choice? the trump administration talks about save zones, which could be a third option. guest: i don't know about safe zones. it might be an option. i don't see it in syria. they wouldn't be established easily. assad has turned aleppo into his latest zone for tax. -- attacks. it will requ

strikes against one airfield but they don't want in this game after what happened in afghanistan and iraq and that we gamble and will once again step away. i don't imagine it's a huge step for the future unless we follow-up. >> let's not forget isis. isis is going to be happy about this airstrike. we know the opposition groups are going to be happy the united states is finally getting involved. russia and trump are going to agree they want to take out isis. you just had the attack in st. petersburg last week, putin gets up and thinks about those who want to under mine his own regime, that's why he supports assad. he doesn't want to give any room to isis. >>> spider, do you believe this is just the first move in the which he is game? >> i am a little more tsesangui that the united states has a plan or sequence or series of options available. >> what does that look like? >> at least we've opened the door in terms of conducting military operations in syria. we have not done that before except on a very small level. significantly we have special forces doing precise targeting and artillery ca

and i say this being the commander who oversaw the holding of more detainees in iraq than at any othere. 27,000 of them, so we have some experience with what works and treating them humanely while still eliciting information from them is the way to go about it, and afghanistan as well. david: you never before had people working directly that were killed in combat. what was it like to have command of people who were dying? general petraeus: it is a chilling experience actually. i remember the radio call when our first soldier was killed and it takes the wind out of you. i remember hearing a sister unit, the third infantry division, which really spearheaded the fight along with the marine division up in baghdad on the ground with tanks and bradley fighting vehicles, i remember the radio call. i was monitoring their net because we were fighting together and hearing that they had had a couple of heavy vehicles blown up. david: right. general petraeus: it is chilling. david: right. you were there for how long before you were sent back to the states? general petraeus: it was about a year-lon