isis has fewer than 1,500.release this video, the clanging of the swords number four. beyond the flashy drone shots, it shows footage shot just a few months earlier. >> when the islamic state helped take over fallujah in early 2014, it shot videos of its soldiers going around town, rounding up police and security forces. >> this video was an particularly effective form of psychological warfare, of psy ops. >> a nighttime raid, a band of soldiers appears at the door, but they're not really soldiers. >> burst into a person's house is maybe the iraqi police or the iraqi military. i'm here to arrest you, you're with the rebels and the guy says, no, no, no, i'm one of you guys. i'm with the government. here's my government i.d. and they realize, as he's talking to this guy, that actually, he's talking to isis. and he's basically, he's convicted himself in front of them. he's been punked and he's going to be killed for it. it's chilling. if you're a policeman or a soldier in mosul stuck in some lonely police station

isis has fewer than 1,500.hat's when they release this video, the clanging of the swords number four. beyond the flashy drone shots, it shows footage shot just a few months earlier. >> when the islamic state helped take over fallujah in early 2014, it shot videos of its soldiers going around town, rounding up police and security forces. >> this video was an particularly effective form of psychological warfare, of psy ops. >> a nighttime raid, a band of soldiers appears at the door, but they're not really soldiers. >> burst into a person's house is maybe the iraqi police or the iraqi military. i'm here to arrest you, you're with the rebels and the guy says, no, no, no, i'm one of you guys. i'm with the government. here's my government i.d. and they realize, as he's talking to this guy, that actually, he's talking to isis. and he's basically, he's convicted himself in front of them. he's been punked and he's going to be killed for it. it's chilling. if you're a policeman or a soldier in mosul stuck in some lonely

isis has fewer than 1,500.t's when they release this video, the clanging of the swords number four. beyond the flashy drone shots, it shows footage shot just a few months earlier. >> when the islamic state helped take over fallujah in early 2014, it shot videos of its soldiers going around town, rounding up police and security forces. >> this video was an particularly effective form of psychological warfare, of psy ops. >> a nighttime raid, a band of soldiers appears at the door, but they're not really soldiers. >> burst into a person's house is maybe the iraqi police or the iraqi military. i'm here to arrest you, you're with the rebels and the guy says, no, no, no, i'm one of you guys. i'm with the government. here's my government i.d. and they realize, as he's talking to this guy, that actually, he's talking to isis. and he's basically, he's convicted himself in front of them. he's been punked and he's going to be killed for it. it's chilling. if you're a policeman or a soldier in mosul stuck in some lonely p

isis doesn't have money. and they have decreased food rations, so those are the guys who are trying to defect to other groups. isis has a very big problem with that. so right now, they're drafting everyone that they could be possibly get to their territory. previously, the people sitting in the isis office, some bureaucratic office, now they're all fighting. >> the fight against isil. stay us, we'll be right back in a moment. it's "inside story". >> every monday night. >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping... inspiring... entertaining. no topic off limits. >> 'cause i'm like, "dad, there are hookers in this house". >> exclusive conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> these are very vivid, human stories. >> if you have an agenda with people, you sometimes don't see the truth. >> "talk to al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> my guests are here. something? >> i want to add to whatvera said.

isis did not start the looting, just carried it on. moreover, it actually institutionalize the process and intensified it to a great degree. in fact what we can say is isis sees cultural heritage as a resource to be exploited like any other. we know know this because isis has a dedicated department for the administration of the looting of antiquities. you can see her for example this is one of the offices and it is placed under the office of resources which also manages oil revenue, taxation and any other source of revenue that isis wants to use. licenses are issued to looters which allow them and gives them permission to loot an article archaeological site. in fact it's a source of revenue as our extension says using this case here. this looter having dug up the site decided he needed an extension so he purchases an extension and then needed to use heavy machinery. the second image on the right you can see that he purchases an actual extension to his license allowing him to use heavy machinery. the heavy machinery is being used togeth

isis still live in their home.rvived by his neve knew. >> my brother called our father to tell him the death was on facebook. we couldn't bury him as we didn't have a body. pieces are probably lying where he was blown up. >> decades of trauma here and somehow it gets worse. >> we are joined live from kabul. nick, early on u.s. officials would tell us it was a limited number of turn coats in effect from taliban and other groups joining isis. do we have a sense of how many afghans have joined isis? >>. >> the afghans seem to be limited to some. the men there are pragmatic. they claim that isis came across the border from pakistan. pakistan is in fighting at the moment that taliban are having with other taliban saying hey, join us, we will look after you. that's how they claim to be part of isis. most people we spoke to suggest it isn't pakistani foreign, most prevalent in the east in early parts of last year to fwet more territory and the air strikes pushed them back. some u.s. officials say they may have lost ground

s fight against isis. we're with the defense secretary in iraq when he told us about putting hundreds more american troops in harm's way. >>> immigration furor at the supreme court. the fate of millions now hanging in the balance. what happens if there's a tie? >>> and sudden impact, a drone slams into an airliner trying t land at an airport. a major new alarm about a growing danger in the sky. >>> "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt reporting tonight from the middle east. >>> good evening from the air base in the united arab emirates. we returned just a few hours ago from a day in baghdad where secretary of defense, ash carter, who said 200-plus americans will be deployed to iraq, and some additional firepower will likely join the fight in addition to these fighter jets based here that are part of the ongoing campaign. the breaking news from iraq and exclusive interview with the secretary in just a moment. but first, to the breaking news back home. a

and the looting of antiquities is big business for isis. experts estimate that the group has earned millions of dollars from the sale of stolen artifacts every year which are often peddled by middlemen in old fashioned markets or online. unfortunately, buyers in the u.s. appear to be a primary end destination for many of these pieces, as does europe, as does asia. mr. speaker, i just returned from the middle east and i was honored to speak at the iraq museum in baghdad about the need to counter isis' trafficking of priceless antiquities. this region is steeped in history from the rise and fall of empires to the evolution of write, mathematics and art. much of this heritage remains at risk due to loot big isis and i should add other parties to the conflict in syria including the murderous assad regime. and that is why last year, ranking member eliot engel and i introduced this legislation which will help the u.s. do its part to counter this black market trade. specifically, this legislation will prevent those antiquity rerks moved since the

two rugged former taliban fighters turn to isis and decide to defect from isis.thing that is happening more and more. speaking to cnn, they describe the tactics as too brutal to handle and isis promises to help afghans empty. let's bring in senior correspondent nick paton walsh live in kabul. nick, you spoke to these men face-to-face. >> reporter: yes. it tells you something about how brutal isis have been perceived in southeastern afghanistan. a place ruled by decades of war. the two men who used to be taliban fighters were disgusted by beheadings. they were put into a camp and they were sickened by that and they chose to defect away from isis. we have seen since early last year, isis move into the east of the country. many accuse them of being foreign and often from pakistan. they play on disputes from the taliban ranks to get a foot hold. u.s. drone strikes came in to try to push them back. that seems to have predominately worked, but these defectors left because their goals isis pursuing were not the same. now remarkably, these taliban men were at one point t

committee discussed the routes isis used.d isis is using similar routes to smuggle antiquities out of its territory. in addition, he knows that lebanon is being used to smuggle antiquities and other illicit commodities. there is low risk of being caught. we need to do a better job policing these routes so isis can no longer smuggle antiquities out of the territory it holds. as lawrence shindell and dr. patty mentioned in their prepared remarks as well about isis's ability to profit is a system of trade based money laundering in the art based industry. we need to bring together rules of transparency, so antiquities trafficking is no longer profitable for terrorist organizations. as dr. gerstenblith suggests, we should require export declarations for antiquities worth more than $10,000. and also consider a tariff on imports of these items. i look forward to hearing the testimony of our witnesses so we can further examine this issue in detail and i yield back the balance of my time. >> i recognize the vice chairman of the task force. >> thank you for your dedication and hard work. i woul

of how isis makes its money. on the demand end, i would suggest when you buy a car there's a vin number on the car and you can't sell it without that. why can't we do the same for objects, it's simple, make sure you have that and it's on the buyer and seller to make sure that information matches. you're not relieved or absolved of responsibility under the law currently as i understand it. >> thank you very much. >> there's a need for short term solutions and long term solutions and many of the great ones suggested are short term focused as they should be. long-term issue goes back to what we keep saying transparency and accurate information. how do we know it's real fake or the information associated with the object is accurate? >> a clear way to intervene today through the financial industry and sector because of the intersection of money and these objects. technology solutions which can put -- it's a very complex issue for sensitive objects where the integrity must be in place for decades if not centuries but t

isis has no air force, navy, army battalions,ave why are they an ongoing threat? why is there no well in the west to destroy them? guest: that's a good question and we talk about these no-fly n zones for syria and its-- isis does not have an airport or navy. they have a lot of it. equipment and weapons and lots of money, but they don't have these big weapons systems and we have not been able to push them out. it's a coalition with 60 member nation and what strikes me is the fact that when they take over territory there is no resistance. we have not seen anyig awakening kind of movement of people fighting them because their ability to control the local providences and there will over territory-- no one challenges it and so until there is a way to deny them their safe haven and there is a way to sort of counter and challenge them in their heartland it will be impossible to see-- defeat this ideology. l host: bob in overland park, kansas. go ahead, bob. caller: hello, peter. or love your show. my curiosity stems fromm the extension of what is called an extension of w

. >>> now to an nbc news investigation tracking the money trail behind, left behind by isis. we've seen horrific images of isis destroying history by tearing down ancient treasures, but now we've uncovered evidence that isis is also selling some priceless artifacts on the black market to fund its campaign of terror. c engel tells us more. >> reporter: from the air, the ancient city of palmyra ravaged by isis. the world had already witnessed the barbarity with which they treated precious monuments, but an nbc news investigation revealed that isis is also making thousands of dollars on serious endangered heritage. they have destroyed those big statues that are too big to move anyway for the cameras, says this man, who calls himself

isis doesn't talk about it. isis does it.is not possible to overemphasize the geostrategic where isis has failed. that's why i wrote this book. isis is at the super bowl and they're going to walk away with the ring. .. that's just isis. all over the country from texas to california to new jersey. it's not a question of where the threat comes. it's a question of where the threat is. they are here. san bernardino. they swore allegiance by us to the islamic state and al qaeda as they executed the second largest attack on u.s. soil since september 11. the really scary thing is 30% of the people we have arrested have no intention of going anywhere. of them want to go to the middle east but 30% have decided that the best way to serve the new caliph is to kill infidels or u.s. soil. these are the unclassified facts of the matter of isis threat to america is today. >> could you also update folks on the state of al-qaeda today? today we just talk about isis. >> thank you. so, isis got to be really big. why? because they are obsessed w

they were telling us that isis kept them as human shields. isis gathered them into homes at the center of the village and would not let them leave as the iraqi army advanced. we spoke to two who had loved ones die in the crossfire. also of great concern to the u.s. is the possible collapse of the mosul dam. it is considered to be one of the most dangerous dams in the world and it was built back in the 1980s on a very soft foundation called the gypsum rock. this means there needs to be a 24-hour process that is pumping concrete into the soil to try to ensure that the dam does not entirely collapse. this is a process halted when isis took over the dam two years ago. although it has been going on, the u.s. is concerned about the actual foundation of the mosul dam. issuing a stark warning telling people should the dam collapse, they need to immediately have an evacuation plan. now the iraqis are saying the damage won't be that bad, but the u.s. says 1.5 million people's lives would be at risk. if the dam were to collapse, the city of mosul would

to us as isis is. and we can -- we don't have to work against them. we don't have to impose costs on the russians and iranians for what they're doing. and on that side you have -- if you divide it up that way you see some remarkable things. on that side, the side that says basically we can work with the iranians and the russians in syria and iraq, you find that president obama is there, donald trump is there, ted cruz is there. right? they like to blur the lines a little bit by not admitting the degree to which they want to work with the russians and iranians. but that's the way it is. and i think that the american public, unfortunately, does agree largely that there's nothing that we can do, right, and that we really do need to just kind of take a step back from this and let whatever happens happens. there's nothing that's going to come up in domestic politics that's going to make a president change his mind about that. so the preconceived notions that they come in with are what's going to determine i

i'll read it off. 2015, isis has lost 22% of the territory it controlled in all of 2015, isis lost control of 14% of its territory and 2016, isis lost a further 8% of its territory. islamic state had some of its most significant losses in northern syria, kurdish forces, have regained some areas near the turkish border and the kurds now control parts of a strategic road between syria and iraq. i ask you, ambassador, as we know, isis is still in control of raqqa, syria, mosul and iraq. are you optimistic that the u.s. coalition can regain control of those two major cities? >> i think we have a very good chance. we may need some more marines and special forces on the ground leading and not leading from behind. but leading. i think -- and training. but i think we've got a chance of taking mosul and raqqa. this is important because what these guys are trying to do is recapitulate the early centuries during and after mohammed's lifetime. they're trying even to conquer some of the same areas and some of the same order that was conquered in those days. and if we disrupt that by taking some of the

you to the front line of isis and iraq.hat premieres on thursday on "connect the world" at 4:00 p.m. in london, only here on cnn. >>> well, after the terror attacks in brussels, nato has been criticized for not doing more to fight isis in iraq and syria. the nation's secretary-general has been on a visit to the united states. he met with troops in the state of north carolina and with president barack obama. he also spoke with our wolf blitzer. >> nato countries individually are fighting isis, which is a grave threat, as you well know. nato as an organization has not gone in to fight isis as it did to fight the taliban, for example, in afghanistan. why can't nato play a role as an organization in trying to crush isis? >> as i said, all nato allies participate, contribute to the fight -- >> why can't nato do against isis what it did against the taliban? >> we have started to build more capacity to fight isil. we believe in the long run we enable local forces to fight isil instead of us -- >> but you're headquartered in brusse

coalition forces have killed more than 10,000 isis fighters and 20 key isis leaders in recent months, including isis' chief propagandist and executioner. and just over a week ago, american forces carried out a strike that lead to the death of isis' finance chief and second-in-command. simultaneously, we continue to enhance the capabilities of the iraq counterterrorism forces. iraqi forces captured ramadi from isis just two months ago. and a battle to seize the isis stronghold in mosul is well underway. and with the cease-fire in syria holding so far, more guns are being turned on isis. isis is being pushed back on its heels in iraq and in syria. consequences may very well be that the group, out of desperation, will seek to project a facade of power and momentum by directing or inspiring terrorist attacks against unprotected targets in europe, in the united states, and other places around the world. we must not let these cowardly acts deter our resolve. to the contrary, we must redouble our efforts to destroy isis, take away its safe havens, but we must also learn from the brussels ter

territories where isis has a direct presence. 74 isis plots or attacks including 21 in the u.s. against west since 2014. 300. about the number of americans who are spreading isis propaganda or engaging in other isis individuals. 6,600. those who traveled or attempted to travel to join isis in syria and 11,539. those are the air strikes conducted in iraq and syria as of yesterday. >> this is often an excuse. the spread of isis is an excuse to say, well, it is everywhere. ideology, the internet. what's the point of risking anything in the middle east? the fact is as we've seen with al qaeda. if you have a safe haven from which to operate, do you know tremendous operate. if it was destroyed which it was, the amount of damage is smaller. you don't have a safe haven. the place to train. also the psychology. these pock limitic movements are about who is winning and who is losing. it will be a tremendous defeat for isis and the cells spread everywhere in the world if they were to ultimately lose their safe haven. they would not be able to say we are the wave of the future. bigger than

they would be forced to give their daughters over to isis.hose who are worried about the wrong step, the wrong word. that would end up seeing them lashed or, even, woulrse, executed. isis going out and kidnapping people who they suspected were part of the iraqi security forces and how they managed to effectively manipulate the population in these villages and in the city of mosul by convincing them to stay behind, convincing them that they would not be impacting their lives and then seeing the truth emerge and having to suffer under this brutal isis regime for so long. it's an impossible situation that they find themselves in, wolf. >> you spent a lot of time, also, arwa, with the iraqi army. what's taking them so long? it's been two years now since isis took over mosul, the second largest city in iraq. why can't the iraqi army, which has hundreds of thousands of troops, simply move into that city and recapture it, liberate it? >> wolf, they're still fraught with problems and challenges at every single level. so far, when they initially launc

isis doesn't have money. and they have decreased food rations, so those are the guys who are trying to defect to other groups. isis has a very big problem with that. so right now, they're drafting everyone that they could be possibly get to their territory. previously, the people sitting in the isis office, some bureaucratic office, now they're all fighting. >> the fight against isil. stay us, we'll be right back in a moment. it's "inside story". >> my guests are here. and did you want to say something? >> i want to add to whatvera said. i think even with the u.s.-led coalition and the bombings going on. what has affected isis, the drop in the price of oil. they're not getting the money they used to with the oil sails, and there has been a lot of introduction of facilities, but they don't have the money. >> let's remember that this group had the announced ambition to be a state. and when they were on the upswing, if you look at the map, their footprint was cities connected by the sort of connective tissue of

isis may be muslim but so are the people who are fighting against isis. people on the ground who are risking their lives battling this cancer. they're monday him, too, so if isis is muslim and their victims are muslim and the people fighting them are muslims, this done really say anything all that generalizing about islam itself. >> host: more good more people are identifying as athiests. >> guest: it's true, more people are nying is a athiest. in fact there's been a doubling of athiest numbers, but let's just be clear. that's now two and a half percent of the united states. so, yes there has been a surge of people identifying as athiests but it's still in ridiculously small amounts. when it comes to the united states of america, which is a country that form a -- is 71% christian. so we're still deeply influenced by christianity in this country. no way to get around that. >> host: reza aslan is our guest help has appeared on booktv's in-depth program where we spent three hours talking with him and taking your phone calls, talking bit his books, his most r

territories where isis has a direct presence. 74 isis plots or attacks including 21 in the u.s.4. 300. about the number of americans who are spreading isis propaganda or engaging in other isis individuals. 6,600. those who traveled or attempted to travel to join isis in syria and 11,539. those are the air strikes conducted in iraq and syria as of yesterday. >> this is often an excuse. the spread of isis is an excuse to say, well, it is everywhere. ideology, the internet. what's the point of risking anything in the middle east? the fact is as we've seen with al qaeda. if you have a safe haven from which to operate, do you know tremendous operate. if it was destroyed which it was, the amount of damage is smaller. you don't have a safe haven. the place to train. also the psychology. these pock limitic movements are about who is winning and who is losing. it will be a tremendous defeat for isis and the cells spread everywhere in the world if they were to ultimately lose their safe haven. they would not be able to say we are the wave of the future. bigger than anything we can do. >>>

isis releasing its latest hit list. huma abedin is targeted and we'll await comments from barack obama on the matter. >> when you look at colorado and people can say that's the way the game's played. they should have had an election. they didn't have an election. that system is set up so the crooked politicians can make sure they get somebody in that's not part of what we are doing. charles: we heard this a lot in the last few days. so finally the rnc and reince priebus fired back. saying it's the responsibility of the campaign to understand the rules. this as we have breaking news donald trump hired veteran political that just rick wylie to help the field operations. let's go to president obama on this isis news. >> good evening, everybody. as president and commander-in-chief ply top priority abeautiful else is the security of the united states and the safety of the american people. and that means preventing terrorist attacks and at the moment, it's focused on making sure we are dismantling and destroying the isil netw

the president's policies against isis are 250 here. 500 there. but they are not really boots on the ground. they don't really have guns, they don't really shoot. none of that stuff is going to stop the kinds of things that john mccain is worried about. because this administration doesn't have the stomach for it the congress doesn't want to declare war. the american public is not ready for the type of massive land assault that's necessary. but something needs to be done. sending joe biden there, to try and rehabilitate what has become a political military cultural religion disaster is not going to move the dial. >> what's so tragic here is obama himself said in december 2011, as our troops were leaving, we are leaving behind a sovereign, stable, self-governing iraq. and we were. what we needed was to maintain a presence as we did in korea and germany after japan -- japan and germany and korea later after those wars. we didn't. and that's the reason we have almost no influence. it's why biden has been away for half a decade. iran is ruling the roos

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isis exploits it to great effect. in terms of also just to point out it is not just isis that loots. looting was also done about it regime. these two items were looted from paul maya but this when it was under regime control and they are currently on sale in syria and about to be exported to turkey by the dealer who has them. he purchased them from an army officer one year before isis took control of the site. what can we do about this? the destruction, efforts are being done to protect cultural heritage inside of syria. 70% of the syria's cultural heritage is actually outside regime-controlled areas and outside the reach of its government institutions. therefore it falls on non-state actors to local activists, museum curators and archeologists, and people like the day after with heritage initiative. we try to monitor the damage, we try to monitor the destruction. we try to document any activity that occurs related to this but at the end of the day we're just civilians. we don't have the institutional support. we do g

isis still controls the city of fallujah and u.s. military advisers are now back in the surrounding province of anbar, one of the bloodiest battle fields after the american covasion of iraq. mosul, iraq's second biggest e ty, has been ruled by isis since 2014, but according to a u.s. intelligence official, mosul probably won't be recaptured before next year. across the border in syria, regime forces and a kurdish-arab alliance backed by the u.s. are both closing in on raqqa, the so-called "isis capital." but even if isis is defeated in syria, that's unlikely to end the country's bloody, multi- sided civil war. the syrian ceasefire agreed to months ago is now in tatters as regime forces pummel the city of aleppo. even if isis is completely stripped of its territory, at least some of its fighters would probably then turn to guerrilla ngrfare, and, scott, we're already seeing isis use those tactics around ramadi, which was recaptured from the group in february. >> pelley: holly williams, reporting for us from istanbul y,night. holly, th

if we see a tanker truck carrying isis oil, to support isis, to help them behead people, and we know they will export the oil, we do not vomit if it is moving. if the driver takes -- we do not bomb it if it is moving. if the driver takes a break, and is far enough away, then we bomb it. we do not want to hit the driver, who may or not be civilian. compare that to what we did in france in world war ii. something like 70,000 frenchman died due to our bombing. we were welcomed as liberators because the french new that we did everything possible to minimize civilian casualties, but they were an inevitable outcome. a train failed to bomb in germany or occupied france because it was moving. host: in the washington post, what young arabs want. he writes about the recent poll men,ung arabs, women and and they find that 52% say that religion plays too big of a role in the middle east. 61%, including saudi arabia sharing that view. he goes on to say that young arabs are freer, but wiser. they are skeptical about easy answers from religion or democratic elections. they know they are in a long t

isis attacks on saudi civilians?amela, i think this is just the beginning. the target for the islamic state is the royal family and the islamic state has gone on record it wants to take back mecca and medina and in order to do that it has to get rid of the royal family, and this was unthinkable two years ago but with the war in yemen, and the chaos, and there's a ground swell of support for radical islam in saudi arabia, and the saudis have held down over the years and how much longer can it go long especially with the economic problems. >> you just think that if isis is able to convince people to kill their own family members, it shows you the kind of influence the terror groups wields, right? >> saudi arabia is a tribal society and the clans are close and there's a lot of loyalty inside the families and when you see families turn against each other, i have never seen this. >> we know president obama had a high profile trip to saudi arabia last week and a prominent member of saudi royal family said, quote, a recalib

the latest arrivals at this refugee camp are not those who fled isis. they're those who say isis used them as human shields and didn't let them leave. they're from a handful of villages the iraqi army recently recaptured from isis. the men are kept at the camp's mosque, a security precaution amid concerns isis fighters may be among them. isis put five families into each home in the middle of the village, this man recalls. like many here, he does not want his identity revealed. he still has loved ones at the mercy of isis, and has already witnessed and lost too much. he and his family could hear the army's advance. hope finally that they would be saved. but in the fierce clashes, his younger brother was hit as he pulled his niece away from the window. he shouted "i am shot, get me." the memory of that moment so painful, he can no longer control his emotions. he said "i don't want to die," but he bled out in his arms. with us, he is able to leave the mosque grounds, and we head to see the rest of his family. he says they did not flee when iis first arrive

they have demonstrated a victory against isis in the last few months, but isis controls a lot of territoryiraqi forces are trying to make an offensive against mosul. the prime minister and others are saying we know you need to take care of this crisis and to combat corruption is important. encourage them while we're dealing with the political issues, there is a need to stay focused on the fight against isis. especially with the campaign to retake mosul. >> elise labott in baghdad. thank you. >>> the explosive leak of the panama papers is shaking up political leaders around the world. vladimir putin is calling the revelations of shell companies and tax havens an american plot to destabilize his country. the panama papers indicate some of putin's close associates moved $2 billion in offshore accounts. and prime minister david cameron now admits from profiting from a trust set up by his late father after first calling the issue a private matter. former prime minister in netherlands resigning after he was linked to an offshore account. and in argentina, an investigation calling for the preside

i think the idea is to reach people who aren't isis fighters so they don't become isis fighters. >> putt in your pipe and shove it up your -- >> knick-knack patty whack and give a dog a bone. >> tom, i thought it was a little odd that you have your own twitter habits. >> i was going through today's security foot tj as something i do before every show. can we roll that tape? >> just had an amazing meatball. who is watching? # red wedding. just open uber eats and press tacos. a guy road up on a bike and got me fresh tacos. amazing exclamation point. is that under 140? >> yes. >> first of all i get excited about lunch, what i have for lunch. i like to tell people about that. >> you know i go through the security footage every night. >> i think it is helena. >> it was a snide remark and you mentioned you had a lot of followers. indeed you have almost 190 followers. andrew has a little over 90 thousand. >> madonna is my aspiration. she has 20 million. i figure i'm on the way. >> they said they are mostly illiterate and that's not true. >> it is mostly true. >> the celebrities wanted to date

well for isis moved in. the basic problems. isis as theook at military or security challenge when it actually is a fundamental political problem. you do not have a popular, credible, viable government and you saw the uprising has been exploited by everybody in the region. the question now is can you can reconstitute every state? and where the borders that revival ever? -- edward a borders that were viable ever? we do not know the answer. but one of the problems of u.s. policies of the moment is we're not putting those fundamental questions on the table. should we be using our military might and muscle? actually be using our economic treasure, should begin using our human capital to protect the borders? while we talk a lot about how much we want to do to defeat crisis, we are not talking about what is viable for this region. onlyve gone through not the rebalance of broader power, whether it is three emergence of the increasing marginalization of saudi arabia, the rebalancing of power within states and what is

and fell to isis in 2014. and we are beginning to have more on this and the coalition effort to push back isis in iraq and syria later in the hour. >>> well, one's lying ted. donald's a train wreck. the pressure really is on as the wisconsin primary could help make donald trump's bid a little bit rougher. what they're saying today about the race. vo: across america, people are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes with non-insulin victoza®. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza®. he said victoza® works differently than pills. and comes in a pen. victoza® is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. it's taken once a day, any time. victoza® is not for weight loss, but it may help you lose some weight. victoza® works with your body to lower blood sugar in 3 ways: in the stomach, the liver, and the pancreas. vo: victoza® is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with die

may have to deploy but to kill isis and destroy isis. gone further in saying air strikes, if necessary, if these terrorists are hiding among families, he wouldn't rule out necessarily going out and killing the families of terrorists if necessary to destroy isis and as far as the water boarding policy which some call torture, he said that would be fine and go further. he said isis, they behead people, put them in cages. they drown them. the u.s. can't be tied with one hand behind its back. you heard him say all of that and may get into some of that in his speech. >> i hope so and i think gloria is right. you need some consistency on foreign policy. he suffers from briefings. i'm positive someone said nato isn't paying up their fair share to keep up their percentage as they agreed. he took that, poured gas on it and said nato is obsolete and i'm setting them up to get a deal in that whole exchange. meaning he's going to go get that extra 2% or get them to meet their 2%. >> a few of the 28 allies in the nato alliance, only a handful meet th

for isis and agents of isis posing as war refugees. although we passed bipartisan legislation to tighten some screening requirements, we need the administration to enforce the law rather than attempt to undermine a work around it. third, as a final line of defense, we need to better secure the homeland. we must make sure the intelligence community, law enforcement and homeland security officials have the tools that they need to deter attacks and to stop plots before they are launched. this includes the need for constant reassessment of our vulnerabilities so that we stay ahead of threats. tomorrow i will chair a hearing at the commerce committee with transportation security administrator peter neffinger who happened to be in brussels during the march 22 attacks. while we mainly see and know the transportation security administration or t.s.a. as the agency behind airport screening of passengers and baggage, the organization actually has a much broader charge. t.s.a. is the designated federal agency for all transportation security matte

not focusing on isis. so i think you see a distance on both sides of the aisle in terms of what is being called for. but i think the administration is starting to take steps in the light direction. it's too limited in my opinion. and we need to build on some of the positive momentum that we have seen over the last couple of months. and hopefully that will happen. but i think there has been some atlanta criticisms of the white house approach -- legitimate chrisims. that we did not leave a force in iraq in 2007. that we were slow to meet the threat from isis. so i think there are legitimate criticisms on both sides of the aisle. host: and we have some news this morning coming out of bagdad according to the "washington post." protesters have stormed the iraqi parliament in baghdad. guest: this is exactly what people have feared that we were approaching a political crisis in iraq. and this will have an impact because this is an iraqi-led effort and as i indicated before, the sunni tribes need to have confidenc

. >>> nbc on the isis money trail. how brutal killers are smuggling and selling some of the world's great antiquities for their reign of terror. >>> how much time does it really take to work off some of your favorite snacks. over an hour for two slices of pizza? that's just a start. >>> and the oaky from muscogee is gone. tonight, we remember a country music legend. >>> "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. did we just witness a turning point in the republican race for president? and the contest now turns to new york, following donald trump's 13-point loss to ted cruz in wisconsin. the cruz and stop trump forces are claiming wisconsin has provided the foothold they desperately need to deny trump the delegates he needs to win the nomination. perhaps more telling, our exit polls show deep voter anxiety even fear about trump. we may know for sure what it holds when they hold their primary in two weeks from

we do have to get rid of isis. we are going to make it impossible for isis to survive. they're cutting off heads. they're drowning people in steel cages. it's like medieval times. i've never seen anything like it. nobody has ever seen anything like it. we are going to get rid of isis. by the way, speaking of that, our military has been decimated with cuts and everything else. we're going to rebuild our military. it will be bigger, better, stronger than ever before. hopefully, we don't have to use it. the one place we will be using it is to get rid of isis. great question. thank you. >> thank you. >> just to make sure i'm clear here, you're going to bomb the you know what out of isis. but you have a comprehensive plan? >> i do. >> for what to do in that region afterwards? >> one of the things that -- running for office is interesting. they'll ask you questions like that. i said that from the beginning. they never did it. then they started it on a limited basis. libya, right now, as you know, has fantastic oil, some of the finest oil in the world. who has the oil? isis. d

logistical support of those who are isis members.is the kind of thing i think is the information that needs to be gleaned from him and mr. abrini. >> they currently had a support network. i have to leave it there. thank you so much. >> sure. >>> moving on to syria now, where rebel groups say they have taken a southern town back from isis. pro-rebel news agency called smart posted the video you see here friday on its website, saying this was heaviest fighting that was seen near tasil. they say they welcomed the armed rebel groups as they drove through town. last month the syrian observatory for human rights reported a militant group loyal to isis took over tasil. >>> more now on the secular blogger who was hacked to death by machete for criticizing islam. we now know an al qaeda-linked affiliate is claiming responsibility for that brutal attack that played out in bangladesh. this newest claim is according to a group that monitors jihadist groups. the blogger, nazimuddin samad died this week. his death has sparked protests by universit

rebels don't want to fight isis unless isis engage them. are supporting and training want to get rid of assad. >> seems like we do. we are trying to train the people who want to take down assad. what kind of mess is this? 250 special forces because president obama doesn't want to commit ground forces to defeat isis. this is not moving the ball down the court or whatever you want to say to defeat isis. it's shamable. it's bad strategy. don't expect anyone to take up our back on this. the trip he took was a complete disaster, unmitigated. there's going to be no support from allies to push this forward. >> it comes after his trip to saudi arabia. >> right. >> which didn't go well. >> eric, deep thinking? >> i'm thinking two things, 250, what's that going to do? i hate to put people over there that could be in harms way when we don't know the country right now. you have the anti-assad forces, isis. russia comes in. it's -- i have said this consistently, the best thing to do is support the kurds, peshmerga and push everyone back into syria. let

three villages from isis. we went with them to one of the locations where we saw some of the tactics that isis has been employing with wave and wave of suicide bombers. the isis fighters, one in particular, managed to sneak into a house and launch a counter attack to push the iraqi army out. they were able to call in for a coalition air strike which gave them the upper hand on the battle field. we were taken through a labyrinth which included tunnels. despite the successes they had in the recapturing thevil villa. they tried to take another village and they faced opposition. they had the coalition backing them and they had advisers that had gone over their plan with them beforehand and although the iraqi army managed to get into the village and gain significant ground, there were a series of battle field misstep and miscommunications that resulted in what would be a basic mistake. the iraqi army regrouping in a way that saw them withdraw from the village. at the end of the day, they lost the key territory they