but jolani's success was a problem for baghdadi.wanted nusra's territory. >> these two men did not trust each other. and baghdadi relocated to syria to keep closer tabs on jolani. >> man (inrabic): >> smith: around this time, jolani agreed to an interview with an al jazeera reporter. >> (in arabic): >> smith: his face hidden, jolani tried to downplay the split. >> jolani: >> smith: a frlance reporter from vermont, theo padnos, listened to that interview from a nusra prison cell where he was being held. >> all the guards were outside watching their leader being interviewed on al jazeera, and i'm, like, "well, i wonder what any of those media people were asking jolani about their american prisoner." but instead they were asking, like, strategic questions. "do you intend to attack the regime from the left flank or the right flank?" or, "what are your demands?" and, you know, i'm, like, "well, how do you treat your own people?" my name is peter theo curtis, today's date is july 18... >> smith: padnos had been a hostage for 22 months. he

you worked with abu bakr al baghdadi, the emir of isis. so for you to say that you were not committed toighting americans, when that's in your past, is impossible for people to understand. >> jolani: (loud explosions) >> and we're seeing a

former al baghdadi chief, scott gottlieb, says the variant first detected in india is more transmissible. he says it could set off another spike in cases this fall. >> right now in the united states it's about 10% of infections, and it's doubling every two weeks and it's probably going to become the dominant strain in the united states, and that doesn't mean we will see a sharp uptick in infections but will take over, and the risk is to the fall, this could spike the epidemic head into fall. >> the same variant is causing concerns in the uk, and with more, scott mcclain joins us from london. any delay in lifting covid restrictions will clearly not be welcomed by most brits, but is not the only option as a result of the variant. >> rosemary , a week from today was supposed to be the uk's freedom day when all covid restrictions were to be lifted and now according to several media outlets, it's like groundhog day and the prime minister must have saw his shadow because we are in for four more weeks of restriction. with more than half of the adult population having been fully vaccinated, and

of american media at this aku bakr al-baghdadi to make a considerable effort to reese one - - with those god-fearing liberty loving ideals that i grew up on but that is eric or and essence. >> following up on that one of the things that you say is we can no longer hide from the left. time is of the essence the left cannot be appeased they do not want compromise and then become one of them are they will come for you it's only a matter of time. that seems pretty dire. >> i think it is. we have sound weapons i disavow political violence but this is lesson i learned from andy breitbart and i was the first employee he was a fearless warrior and told me very early on that doing with the left once will not win them over the only way is to be converted to use you as a bludgeon and they want to see you crashed and breitbart is a perfect example. we possibly have become one - - have been called racist again my top senior editor is a orthodox jew diversity within the company of course this isn't applauded so the left is mad we put up more opinion pieces that were more inflammatory we don't do that

we killed al baghdadi, the founder of isis, who was trying to build it again.assem soleimani, dan. he is the father of the roadside bomb that killed so many of our soldiers. he is gone. he was killed. we rebuild the u.s. military, created space force. everybody laughed. [applause] remember when the press secretary with the extremely red hairm remember what she said? she left at space force. remember that? she got decimated by everybody when she left, because we need space force. remember russia is up there, league, china is up there, big league. we were sitting down watching them. know we have overtaken them in space already, during my term. but they will blow that soon. we got our allies to pay their fair share for defending them in nato. i got $430 billion from them. they were not paying. i said to other countries -- nice countries --but why shouldn't they pay? i said, you are delinquent. you are delinquent! i said, would you leave if we don't pay? we got $430 billion. we were paying, in my opinion, close to 100% of the defense of european nations, who -- exc

that in the trump presidency, the action of the targeted killings of qassem soleimani, abu bakr al-baghdadi and so forth. similarly, on economic issues in general -- holding trade aside -- trump understood intuitively that the voter was not necessarily a devotee of friedrich hayek or milton friedman. the difference is -- and it gets back to the george h.w. bush speech, the conception of conservatism viewed the free market as an instrumental means towards the ends of the flourishing of common goods. the libertarian strand saw it as the market -- [inaudible] trump tapped into that as well. here is that issue. the issue is that libertarianism in general is a very small percentage of the american population. a political scientist famously did a study after 2016, after the election, a little xy, four-quadrant plot that maps american voters based on economic, conservative, economic liberal, social conservative and socially liberal. it turns out social liberals are like 6.3% of the american population. shockingly small. however, a certainly large plurality, can't remember the number but a poorly o

we proved that with soleimani, proved that with baghdadi and a lot of cases.- the thing that keeps me up at night, does this administration have the will to protect america by going after somebody hard. i hate to say this because he's our current president, but his track record isn't real good. he's the individual that didn't want to go after osama bin laden. sat in the situation room ant didn't want to go there. that's what keeps me up. are we willing to go fight when we need to go fight to protect the american people. >> general tata? >> an incurious press is our biggest threat. you heard general kellogg talk about matt pottinger, wuhan reporter, talked about what was happening there as the deputy national security adviser. when you think about how the media, once they found out the virus was harmful to the president presidency, doubled down. we were not allowed to question whether or not this came from a lab, which would have supported the president's position of being tough on china. so an incurious press that is advocating for the administration doesn't l

it was from this spot in mosul's 12th-century al-nuri mosque that isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi announced the group's self- proclaimed "caliphate," seven years ago. their reign of terror here, and the fight to defeat them, claimed thousands of lives and would leave the ancient city pounded into dust. four years after the battle to retake the city, much of west mosul remains in ruins, an known number of bodies beneath the rubble. exactly how many people died in the assault here is still unclear. part of the city is starting to get back on its feet, with work focused on the old city's historic sites. the mosque complex is being rebuilt, as is the neighboring square that's home to four ancient churches-- a reminder that mosul was once famed as a safe haven of religious diversity. this square became famous when the pope came here to preach of renaissance from amidst the ruins. but the visit also put a spotlight on how much work there still is to be done. these moslawis, working with unesco, the u.n. agency that works to preserve culture, are doing everything they can to restore their home to

we killed al baghdadi, the founder of isis, who was trying to build it again. soleimani gone. he is the father of the roadside bomb that killed so many of our soldiers. he's gone. he's gone. he was killed. we fully rebuilt the united states military. created space force. everybody laughed. everybody laughed. [applause] remember when the press secretary with the extremely red hair, remember what she said? she laughed. when space force was mentioned, she laughed. remember that? and she got decimated by everybody when she left, because we need space force. you know, russia is up there big league and china is up there big league. and we were just sitting around watching them. now we have overtaken them in space. it is great. already, during my term. but they will blow that soon. we got our allies to pay their fair share when it came for our -- when it came to our defending them and nato. i got $430 billion from them. they were not paying. i said to other countries -- countries -- but why shouldn't -- but why should they pay if we are not asking? i said, you are del