and everybody is calm and isis quiet and isis peaceful and isis nice and isis i would say. >> reporter: and he's being held on charges of attempted murder for that shootout with police. the authorities build their bombings perfection and there were the pipe bombs and pressure cooker bombs using tanarite. where did he get the it recalls and build the bombs? >> reporter: what exactly happened during his recent yearlong trip to afghanistan and pakistan? perfection they're going to look at where he said they went. does it match or did he go to a rogue mosque or hooked up with someone who could have trained him to become a terrorist. >> reporter: most of the new yorkers we talked to wanted to get back to perfection and the supway is as crowded today as on side. >> reporter: and that new york like always will bounce back perfection and we might be shattered but we're not broken and we're good and happy we're back open and very grateful to everyone in our community. >> reporter: as things are getting back to normal in new york city and isis authorities are still working to make sure that he w

for every pro-isis twitter account, there are now six antiisis accounts criticizing and challenging isis's twisted theology. so for a while these guys continue to take -- isis fighters continue to take their hits on the battle field and have a good spanking applied to them. but they're still doing well on -- but where they were still doing well on social media, not so much anymore. when they move over to places like libya and try to set up a mini caliphate, we have shown that ain't going to work either. on balance this is going in the right direction, mr. president. it's not time to spike the football. a pretty good coalition working together, and we're starting to hit on all eight cylinders. so i would just say to our troops and to those that are part of this coalition, as we say in the navy, an old navy gay, we say bravo zulo whether people do a good job. we're not going to spike the football yet but things are very much encouraging. we're grateful for everybody that's helped to make that possible. and with that, mr. president, i'm going to yield the floor. thank you very much. a senator

you speak of isis. i've heard some officials, including the president, speak of isil. >> yeah. >> and then decision i've heard others use the term daish. could you explain those three, please? >> yeah. if i could get away with using daish, i would use that. and the reason is it really all boils down to an attempt to trans-literate arabic. so what isis calls itself is now just the islamic state, but it's the islamic state of iraq and al-sham, sounds like an s for the second s in the abereave shakes. sham is this big region, essentially ignoring countries that were created like syria, jordan and israel, that didn't exist 110 years ago. it just lumps it together in this ancient place called sham. and so when you hear isis, people are saying sham. if you're hearing isil, people are saying levant. so not trying to be clever or cute or trying to be politically correct, it's just a struggle to figure out a way to transliterate the words, but thank you for that. >> thank you. >> let's do one more. >> hello, sir

i hate when people use that term about isis. it is not that. it is something very modern. >> it is very much a narrow casting. if you are on facebook and only look at one newscast and that goes to only newscast of that political intent. it is similar to isis recruitment online. it is an echo chamber. you are only listening to stories of things that reinforce your already held beliefs and that plays out time and time again and descent voices are pushed to the side or kicked out so there is not a way to interject in the conversation. >> host: are we talking specifically about isis or are other groups using social media tools? >> really the big lesson learns as a result of the astonishing success of the islamic state say over the last couple years in the social media space is how other jihadist groups have adapted in how they change. one of the big leaders has been what used to be called al-qaeda in ciancia when has really upped their game. they have adopted ways of doing media the way isis does media. they have adopted a certain set of visual sty

that has been the primary magnet for isis. we should not belittle the importance of the ultimate destruction of that caliphate the problem will become more diffuse. isis will look more like al qaeda. in some ways, they will be more pernicious. they are more adept at social media. in i don't want people to be discouraged and say we are winning on the battlefield, but that's just going to make the problem worse. it does mean that we are going to have additional challenges in the near term as isis tries to maintain its recruitment and it deals with these battlefield losses. it will be very difficult for us to erase their caliphate. deb: isis broke off from al qaeda over a disagreement about a the caliphate. if they are losing ground and territory, if the caliphate is dissolving, is there any thought that is to could join back again? congressman schiff: it's certainly possible. the terrorist organization, they are trying to distance in themselves from al qaeda the moment. and if you want to associate themselves with isis. if isis

isis. isis has it. so we knock them out and isis now is all over libya and they've taken over the oil. remember, i've been saying this for years, folks. keep the oil. shouldn't have been there. if you get out, keep the oil. and we should have kept the oil. and we didn't. we didn't keep the oil anywhere. we got out. we spent -- i've been saying $2 trillion for years. i know one thing, it's now i'm hearing $4 trillion. you look at what we've spent, $4 trilli trillion to $5 trillion in the middle east and we have less than what we had 15 years ago. it is a total disaster, on top of which you have the migration which is destroying europe. look at what happened to merkel the other day in the election. i knew that was going to happen. germany is a disaster now. france is a disaster. i have friends, they love the city of lights. right? i said to one of my friends the other day, so, how was paris this summer? he always goes -- he says i don't go there anymore. he said it is not the same place. it is a totally -

-- isis easier? guest: yes. a allows isis to portray powerful image of itself they can be all things all people. you want to? you want religious? you want revenge? you went wacko ways of killing? you have that as well. and allows them to reject a complete package in a way that bypasses television, the regular media, the -- and it is accessible for all people. -- uci's is using it in three ways. grooming. english linesis' which twitter accounts. what you find is you have a number of individuals interested about their faith. they are naive and have questions. you ar -- there are spotters online grooming them into the process. the answer in an innocuous way. slowly the introduce the isis ideology. that is the first scope in terms of grooming. the other way to use the online environment is logistical support. i think back to a case of mohammed khan. a 19-year-old kid goes to o'hare airport with a 17-year-old and 16-year-old brother in syria -- sister. they will go to syria to join isis. they found numbers of people

isis, isis has it. so we knock them out and isis now is all over libya and they've taken over the oil. i've been saying this for years, folks, keep the oil. shouldn't have been there. if you get out, keep the oil. and we should have kept the oil and we didn't. we didn't keep the oil anywhere, we got out. we spent -- i've been saying $2 trillion for years. i'm now hearing $4 trillion. and think of it, what do we have? less than what we had 15 years ago. it's a disaster. it's a total disaster on top of which you have to migration which is destroying europe. look at miracle, what happened to her in the election is incredible. germany a disaster now. france is a disaster. i have friends that love the city of lights. i said to one of my friends the other day "how was paris this summer? "he always goes. he said "i don't goer there. it's not the same place. that's not paris anymore. we're destroying our planet. we're destroying ourselves. you look at the election results, they were so bad. people were saying i

seemed to behreat the isis inspired. they are going to get worked up over the internet and then commits of atrocity. what are you most fearful of? congressman schiff: i have a different take on this than some representative been speaking on post 9/11. the emphasis has been on degrading isis in syria and iraq. they are losing ground. this is just going to make the this isisse from around the world. they are going to feel the need to be more aggressive. that may be true. as they lose ground, they will feel the need to continue to recruit people enhance their reputation. that doesn't detract from the fact that it's a very important development that isis is losing ground. they are losing battles. they are losing followers. all of that is very necessary. it's not sufficient. it doesn't mean the end is near. we have to do with that caliphate. that has been the primary magnet for isis. we should not belittle the importance of the ultimate destruction of that caliphate the problem will become more diffuse. isis will look more li

we have to get countries affected by isis. a lot of people say as an example russia, hillary likes to play tough with russia. putin looks at her and he laughs, okay? [ laughter and applause ] putin looks at hillary clinton and he smiles. boy would he like to see her. that would be easy. look how bad her decisions have been. virtually every decision she's made has been a loser. russia doesn't like isis any better than we do. wouldn't it be nice if we got along with russia and you could knock them out together? wouldn't that be a good thing as opposed to tough talk? she tries to do the tough talk and then she leaves -- you know, she goes. i watched it yesterday on the airplane talking tough about russia then she turned around and sat down which, by the way, wasn't even played on the national media so we have to get along with people we have to get along with certain nations because it would be awfully good to have russia and others with us on major attacks on isis. >> and to stay on isis a bit, because this is a really -- i thin

they receive instructions from their isis handler in syria. throughout the journey they're only given enough money and information to get to the next stop. >> isis is accelerating its international attack and planning. it set off an support system for these terrorist cells throughout europe. >> reporter: in the middle of the night the team makes the crossing to greece. they picked up by the greek navy along the way. the two bombers that would attack the paris stadium make it through and move north toward their target but the men's fake syrian passports are discovered. they're arrested and they're money is taken. they're held in greece for about a month. greek officials would not say why they were released, but authorities believe that delay was significant. they would not have a chance to become a part of the paris attacks. one man tells investigators they contact their isis handler who arranged more money for them. with cash the pair continue along the refugee route. as they work their way across europe a man identified by a bomb maker from a

if we had taken the oil, you wouldn't have isis. isis formed with the power and wealth of that oil? >> how are we going to take the oil? >> leave a certain group behind and take various sections where they have the oil. people don't know this about iraq, but they have one of the largest oil reserves in the world. and we're the only ones, we go in, spend $3 trillion, lose thousands of lives and what happened is, we get nothing. you used to be, to the victor belong the spoils. now, there was no victor there, believe me. but i always said, take the oil. one of the benefits we would have had, if we took the oil, is isis would not have been able to take oil and use that oil to fuel themselves. >> let me stay on isis. when we've met in the past and you've talked, you say things like, i'm going to bomb the expletive out of them very quickly. when people likely press you for details like that gentleman just said on what your plan is, you very often say, i'm not going to give you the details because i want to be unpredictable. >> absolutely. the word is unpredictable. >> but yesterday you ac

saying what happened is their fight against isis was undermined, their troops under siege by isis in the first place and then got bombed by coalition aircraft. a lot of anger on the part of the syrian regime and the russians as well, saying that this was erroneous strike because of what they call, quote, unwillingness to coordinate. apparently was some coordination there from what we hear from barbara, but russians making displeasure very well known. >> thank you so much, bring in retired air force lieutenant. talk about what he just said, anger among the russians as quote, unquote, lack of coordination, if error yuns strike where regime forces were killed and not isis, according to statement there was some coordination but russians angry believing not enough before the u.s.-led coalition air strike began. what is political fallout? >> might put in danger the joint center the u.s. and russians are supposed to set up to coordinate the erchts against isis and prevent what just happened from happening again. i think the russians probably angry didn't give the exact coordinates of the st

secretary clinton is talking about taking out isis. we will take out isis. well, president obama and secretary clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of iraq, because they got out, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the they they got out was a disaster. and isis was formed. she's been trying to take them out for a long time. but they wouldn't even have been formed if they left some troops behind. like 10,000 or maybe something more than that. and then you wouldn't have had them. or, as i've been saying for a long time, and i think you'll agree, because i said it to you once, had we taken the oil, and we should have taken the oil, isis would not have been able to form either, because the oil was their primary source of income. and now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil, a lot of the oil in libya. which was another one of her disasters. >> secretary clinton? >> well, i hope the fact checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. donald supported the invasion of iraq -- >> wrong. >> that is absolutely --

it's called isis. isis is fighting syria. now, we've built up iran to be a big power. iran is on the side of assad, sere y. >> notice that donald trump has not yet said yes or no to that simple question of do you support regime change in syria? he goes on with that answer. his answer goes on for 665 words and he never answers the question. he just talks about what a bad job john kerry did negotiating the iran deal, which is exactly what donald trump had said an answer to a previous question. and here is how donald trump's 665 word nonanswer actually ended. >> so these are the thing that is we're stuck with, folks, but we will fix them. great. >> the questioner who did not get an answer to his question, nothing even close, grades the nonanswer, great. then general flynn asks another very good question, to which he got lots of words, but no answer to his question. >> what would you do in libya to defeat isis and just talk a little bit about your commander in chief philosophy for how you would deal with this. >> it's more of the change, another place they're taking over.

directed or inspired by isis. would your message as the next president of the united states, be to americans that we simply are living in the reality that those attacks will happen, and can you guarantee people that after four years of a clinton presidency, they'll be safer on the streets of san bernardino or boston than they are today? >> matt, i'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that's the result. i'm not going to promise something that i think most thinking americans know is going to be a huge challenge, and here's why. we've got to have an intelligence surge, and we've got to get a lot more cooperation, out of europe, out of the middle east. we have to do a better job of not only collecting and analyzing the intelligence we do have, but distributing it much more quickly down the ladder to state and local law enforcement. we also have to do a better job combatting isis online, where they recruit, where they radicalize. and i don't think we're doing as much as we can. we need to work with silicon

they name an isis operative. have an exclusive report. >> reporter: november 13th, ten isis operatives attacked paris targeting bars, restaurants, concert hall and stadium, shooting as many people as they could before blowing themselves up. by the end of the massacre, the worst terrorist attack in europe in a decade, 130 people were dead. cnn has gained access to thousands of pages of documents and photos from the european investigation which shed new light on the sophisticated network isis uses to coordinate terror attacks across europe. the documents reveal another suspected terrorist never before made public who investigators link to the cell that carried out the paris attacks on the loose in europe for more than six months. other operatives are believed to be living among ordinary citizens in europe plodding other strikes directedly senior isis handlers in syria according to multiple sources. within days of the shocking rampage in paris, police learned that two of the three suicide bombers at the stadium ente

not all of them were isis related. and even as germany is trying to open to islam, the country is certainly not protected against islamic terrorism. some now even say today that because germany is open to islam, there is terrorism, turning the argument around. let's face it, germany cannot turn back the clock on immigration. chancellor merkel last month, after the week of terror, repeated her commitment to immigration with the new mantra [ speaking german ] we can manage that. and we have to realize multiculturalization which has taken place all over the world, europe in particular, is here to stay in germany and in europe. any attempt -- think about it -- to recreate homogeneity will not work bay of -- because of the costs and because of the complex composition of our societies but this also means, of course, every conflict in the middle east runs right through the middle of our own society. just look at france and minorities, north african, and then islamic minorities in this country, germany and everywhere. conflict

isis is our enemy. assad is supposed to isis. we are opposed to isis. the russians they come in to help assad and they were opposed to isis. the trouble is we are aligned with the rebels who are fighting boshar al-assad he we have now come to the point where the enemy of my enemy is my enemy and so we have got is very role going on today. that's where we get into this book world war for. i was asked representative of the publisher because they designated the war as world war iii. that's the question of what he what happened to world war iii and what i ended up doing was creating nine scenarios and the idea, this is not intended as a futuristic look. in fact i'm the military in general historian and this is 70% history, 30% future so as a result you have a great deal of history that precedes each chapter. furthermore it's not all military so the first chapter goes heavily into the hero and brexit and all these other things that go on with the eu and the european economic community and so forth. so you go into that before you get into the military aspect.

secretary clinton is talking about taking out isis. we will take out isis. well, president obama and secretary clinton, created a vacuum the way they got out of iraq. because they got out what they shouldn't have been in, once i they got in, the way they got out was a disfaster. and isis was formed.me she talks about taking them out, she's been doing it a long timem trying to take them out a long time. but they wouldn't have even been formed if they left some troops behind like 10,000 or maybe something more than that. then then you wouldn't have had them. or as i've been saying for a long time, i think you'll agreee because i said it to you once, had we taken the oil, taken the oil, isis would not have been able to form either because the oil was their primary source of income and now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil a lot of the oil in libya which was another one of her disasters. >> secretary clinton? >> well, i hope the fact checkers are turned -- turning up the t volume really working hard. donald supported the invasion of iraq. >

that being isis. what do you make of the fact that in new jersey and here in new york almost 24 hours later no claim of responsibility? >> isis doesn't always come out immediately even in an isis inspired attack. part of the reason might be the way this was initially reported especially when they said the act was intentional but they weren't going to link it to terrorism that isis may have been a little cautious thinking this could be a psychopath who learned how to make a bomb and decided to detonate it and harm people and get attention and isn't really a true soldier of the islamic state unlike the situation in ming yap lis where there was more information to indicate it probably was somebody inspired by isis. >> stay with me because i want to take us back to debra on the ground tonight. you have police vehicle in front of this subaru that they are looking at. do we know why? >> we don't. it looks like there's a forensic investigator from the nypd. she's taking photographs. it looks like right now s

about isis planning against the west. new details houn the paris attackers traveled among syrian refugees. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> on this labor day when the general election campaign heats up, a new twist in donald trump still evolving immigration plan. trump says he's keeping his options open on whether to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants. just last week trump vowed there would be only one route to legal status, go back home and reapply for entry to the united states. hillary clinton says there's nothing new about trump's immigration stance insisting he's taking as hard a line as ever. tonight, the democratic nominee is answering questions from reporters flying with her on her plane. stand by for that. >>> also tonight, president obama cancels an upcoming meeting with the president of the philippines. this after the president lashed out at mr. obama calling him, and i'm quoting now, the soften a whore and saying

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we haven't been able to find the command and control center for isis, isis continues to be strong. what we have is u.s. allies, the kurds and the turks fighting each other. assad is beginning to take a advantage of this, yet, the policy is assad should go, the russians are there propping up assad. our policy is a mess, and i'm hoping we can have the next president change the rules of engagement so we can have more boots on the ground to get timely and accurate intelligence to be able to go after the command and control center for isis and defeat it immediately. >> i want to get you into the conversation, general. what's the impact from your perspective do we know if there's another person ready to take his place? >> he was the walter cronkite of isis, he was a big deal, the chief propaganda for isis, and what his assassination means is a couple things. first of all, what's been missing in the news in the last couple months, on the march to moos you will, the coalition has vacuumed up tens of thousands of digital documents on pc's and thumb drives and disks that have opened up the s

take out isis if isis wore condition send traited in one area but they're no. they're in syria, libya, iraq, tunisia, in europe. they're in the united states. they're all over the place. there's an article i read one whens the term "isis" aim out tot a squad drop hoff u.s. aircraft successfully attacked and destroyed an isis pickup truck and all everycraft returned home safely. so, i mean, is that correct? are they scattered enough that we can't take them or could we send an armored brigade and gather them all in one place? >> when i talk in terms of defeating isis i'm talking in the same vein of defeating al qaeda. al qaeda is still there they're around the world. isis will still be there around the world, but what you don't -- when i talk about defeating isis i'm talking about defeating isis in having their homeland and have allege base of operations. you have to take the base of operations away. you can't allow them to have access to population centers. you can't allow them to have access to scarce resources, oil and so forth. you can't allow them to have te

. >> we have to defeat isis. that is my highest counterterrorism goal. >> i don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is -- >> but you're -- >> at the commander-in-chief forum here at the "intrepid" which ended just an hour ago. both presidential candidates, hillary clinton and donald trump, said their primary credential for being commander in chief is their judgment. >> steadiness. an absolute rock steadiness. and mixed with strength to be able to make the hard decisions because i've had the unique experience of watching and working with several presidents. what you want in a president, a commander in chief, is someone who listens, who evaluates what is being told to him or her, who is able to sort out the very difficult options being presented -- >> judgment. >> -- and makes the decision. that's right. >> so judgment is a key? >> temperament and judgment, yes. >> what have you done in your life that prepares you to send men and women of the united states into harm's way? >> well, i think the mai

isis and its formation and how it developed and all of those things. so you can walk away from the briefing. i've walk away from many of them when i was chairman and said the administration's policy is not jiving with what the intelligence services are saying happened on the ground. i don't know but i'm guessing that's what he's talking about when he said they were not listening to each other. i'm not sure how they said that. i think that's what he was saying. >> i would recommend to viewers. it is very easy to get these declassified presidential briefings from the past. take a look at them and you will see as mike rodgers says, the intelligence community is scrupulous about it. >> i want to play something that trump said about the generals and then talk to our retired military folks. >> when people like me press you for details what your plan is, you very often say i'm not going to give you the details. i want to be unpredictable. >> absolutely. the word is unpredictable. >> yesterday you told us a little about your plan in your speech. you said this.

clooney has courage too, because together they are taking on isis. traveling the world, taking the testimony of survivors, making their case against isis with world leaders. >> i believe in international justice. i believe it's important that you don't just turn the being held to account. >> reporter:s as the nazis were held to account at nurem bourg. >> reporter: they want isis commanders on trial for genocide, crimes isis brags about committing against the yazidis. a religious minority from northern iraq. 5,000 of them have been slaughtered. and 3,200 are still enslaved. >> i can't imagine anything worse being done by one human to another. >> reporter: we know that even in the last few days, you've >> translator: yes, i put my own life at risk, but i don't have a life without giving hope to other victims. >> reporter: you put your life at risk as well. >> i don't think anyone can feel that they're being courageous compared to what nadia is doing. it's no joke. this is isis, and they've sent her really specific threats saying, we will get you back.

this is what isis wants. i call it the invisible soldiers to baghdadi. >> you are still piecing the incidents together in new york and new jersey and the shopping mall in minnesota. the father of the suspect identified him as a 22-year-old college student. his friends said he was a straight "a" student there. you roll your eyes about this case. what do we know about minnesota? likely an attack in minnesota? >> one of isis former spies who defected, i profiled over a year ago, he told me and he feeds me information because he has informants who work within isis. he said this was several months ago within the next three months, they are planning something in minnesota. drawing from the somali-american aspect which has had a hard time integrating in america. somalis in minnesota, in particular, it has been difficult. a lot of cases of those who have shown loyalty or sympathy to al shabaab. it is not uncommon for isis to try to pull people way from other going jihadi franchises to join this fold. whether or not t

because obviously isis can't be isis if it doesn't have recruits, neither can a. q.r boko or any of the other recruits. so how powerful is the ideology and how is it spreading both off and online and what are we doing about it? so i would say to you that as we look through that identity crisis and you begin to think about why one billion muslims, that's the number under the age of 30 globally, are dealing with this. you think about 9/11 and you think about them asking questions that generations before them didn't ask in the same way. and there's sort of a perfect storm where ideas are able to be spread among their peer group all over the world and when they're asking how to be uber muslim, answers come from the bad guys and that ideology is percolating in all parts of the world so whether it's dhaka, whether it's paris, detroit, san francisco, it's there and i don't see a mammoth effort to face the threats we face ideologically. >> what do we do? what effort should we be undertaking? >> the good news is in the 15 years since 9/11 we have piloted a whole host of thing

if we had equipped them a number of years ago, we would have defeated isis in iraq and isis would be out of iraq and there would be no isis there. there would not have been a cali caliphate. but no, we are not working effectively with the kurds or the sunni tribes. plus, we made major strategic errors. getting rid of gadhafi. going into syria. which both of those countries are now failed states. they john iraq, yemen and afghanistan as being failed states. and so no, there's a lot of mistakes that have been made over the last number of years. a president trump understands those mistakes. >> he supported that military intervention. >> which military intervention? >> both in iraq and libya. >> the -- it's clear we would be much better off if -- if gadhafi had stayed in power or if we had gone in, had overthrown gadhafi, and president obama has admitted, we didn't have a plan for what happened the day after gadhafi left, so whether -- >> mr. chairman, just to be clear, donald trump supported going into libya. in a video in 2011, he said on a humanitarian basis, immediately go into libya

one thing isis has done is to develop these franchises around the world. a lot of these terrorist organizations that have raised the isis flag in different parts of africa and the middle east and south asia, they were already existing terrorist groups and they tried to jump on to the bandwagon of isis, but even those organizations have suffered serious setbacks. when i look at nigeria, in terms africa, also the heads of these organizations, whether it be in saudi arabia, algeria, afghanistan, they have been taken off the battlefield. progress is not being made just in iraq and syria, but also beyond. >> dickerson: the "washington post" has reported that the attraction to isis is also diminishing. the number of foreign fighters wanting to join the cause. is that the way you see it? if so, why? >> i think initially when i was able to roll across a number of these ungoverned spaces in iraq and syria, that generated quite a bit of attraction. that's why the foreign fighters were flowing there. they thought it was a winning organization. it's now a failing orga

if we would have taken the oil, you wouldn't have isis, because isis formed with the power and the wealth of that oil. how were we going to do that? >> you would leave a certain group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil. people don't know this about iraq, they have among the largest oil reserves in the world, in the entire world. we're the only ones, he go in, spend $3 trillion, lose thousands and thousands of lives, and matt, we get nothing. it used to be to the victor belong the spoils. there was no victor there, believe me. there was no victor. but i always said, take the oil. would have had if we took the oil is isis would not have been able to take oil and use that oil -- >> let me -- >> -- to fuel themselves. >> when we've met in the past and we've talked, you say things like i'm going to bomb the expletive out of them very quickly. when people press you for details like that gentleman did, you very often say, i'm not going to give you the details because i want to be unpredictable. unpredictable. >> but yesterday you actually told us a little bit abou

is a particular that precedes isis. isis has elevated the rhetoric because now isis can claim look, we actually have a state here. >> reporter: it's still unclear how closely linked to isis the suspects in this weekend's violence were. he says isis works with loose connections, general encouragement the only formal order. >> isis benefits in that way because they don't want to sort of have a paper trail that leads the authorities to them. >> reporter: stopping the difficult task, but the professor says as isis loses ground, their clout flynnishs. he notes in france fewer -- diminishes. he notes in france fewer are leaving to join them. the fear then is that another will take their place. >> even if we destroy isis tomorrow, we are still going to have this problem on our hands. >> reporter: in denver whitney wild, 9news. >> law enforcement tells nbc news that the suspect in the new york and new jersey bombings may of any specific terror cell. >>> again 28-year-old ahmad kahn rahimi is the main suspect in those bombings a

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one of them is a survivor of isis brutality. the other an international human rights lawyer with a famous last name. amal clooney. nbc's cynthia mcfadden has their story of bravery. >> reporter: you may not be able to measure courage, but you know what you are in its presence. nadia murad has courage. she survived being captured by isis, having her six brothers murdered, and her mother. and the terror of being gang-raped. >> she's incredibly eloquent, and incredibly strong. >> reporter: amal clooney was so inspired by her, she became her lawyer. >> reporter: you brought her home, i understand? >> yes, we sat on the floor for a couple of hours and just spoke about it. >> reporter: and from then on, you knew you were going to do this? >> yeah. >> reporter: no matter the price? clooney has courage too, because together they are taking on isis. traveling the world, taking the testimony of survivors, making their case against isis with world leaders. >> i believe in international justice. i believe it's important that you don't just

france has been terrorized by isis.ow everybody from senators to soldiers, even moms, is trying to keep the terrorists at bay. abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is there. >> reporter: we're on our way to see a single mother who had a son she feared would be claimed by isis. this is a scarily common story here in france. where the government says there are more than 8,000 muslims who have shown some sign of radicalization. like this woman's 18-year-old son. when your son told you he was going to syria, what did you say? >> i was shocked. >> translator: when he came up to me and said that i was like, wow, there's something i missed. >> reporter: after two years of jihadists terrorizing france, with nearly 230 reported murdered by isis radicals, officials are desperately trying to connect the dots. stopping attacks here and abroad. sometimes hunting attackers home by home in neighborhoods like this one. this is st. denis outside paris. it might as well be another world. this is an area where there are

new details about isis plans to strike in the west.btained nearly a hundred thousand pages of int n internal documents into the investigation into last year's horrific attacks. and a sophisticated web of operatives fanned out across europe with plans to carry out more terror. the document trove includes never before seen photos, interrogations and actual communications between the isis terrorists and their handlers back in syria. cnn's senior national correspondent spent months digging into this story and she filed this exclusive report. >> november 13, 10 isis operatives attacks paris. targeting bars, restaurants, concert hall and stadium. shooting as many people as they could before blowing themselves up. by the end of the massacre, the worst terrorist attack in europe in a decade, 130 people were dead. now for the first time, cnn has gained access to thousands of pages of documents and photos from the internal european investigation. which shed new light on the sophisticated network isis uses to coordinate terror attacks across euro

groups like isis are kind of rooting for trump. a recent article in "foreign affairs" interviewed a number of jihadists and many of them are hoping for trump to succeed in the campaign. they've even put out recruitment videos featuring him. since donald trump's talk of this un-american banning of all muslims plays right into their hands for propaganda purposes. [applause] senator kaine: now, donald trump has famously said his plan to defeat isis is secret, but it's a secret he's glad to talk about frequently. he has said, for example, it's simple. just bomb the oil fields and take the oil. bomb the oil fields and take the oil. well, let's play that out. if we bomb oil fields it will create massive fires. ok. so then we would have to do something to put out fires. that would involve sending in an awful lot of contractors and others to put out fires. and since there's a civil war going on, if we put in contractors and others to put out fires, we'd have to put in a lot of troops to protect them in putting out the fires. and that doesn

i will work with our allies to defeat isis.d true to our country's most cherished values. you know, even with all of the attention being paid to the campaign, we cannot forget how important this decision is. this weekend is the 15th anniversary of 9/11. i will never forget the horror of that day. but i will never forget either the victims and survivors and the brave first responders and emergency responders that i met with and served and worked for as senator from new york. that's what kept me working so hard in the senate on behalf of 9/11 families. that's who i was thinking of ten years later, in the white house situation room with president obama when the decision was made to bring osama bin laden to justin. that's the kind of commander in chief i will be. someone who will bring us together in common purpose to keep our people safe and our country strong. >> 2.18 percentage points over dthd. given what you say is his inadequacies and d disqualifications that you just made, shouldn't you be running away with at this point? >>

isis controls large portions of territory.s now threatens europe, and the united states. and hundreds of thousands of people are dead. in egypt, terrorists have gained a foothold in the sinai desert near the suez canal, one of the most essential waterways in the world. iraq is in chaos, and isis is on the loose. and iran, by the way, will be taking over iraq and their vast oil reserves. isis has spread across the middle east and into the west. iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism is now flush with $150 billion in cash, being released, and released, by the united states, plus another 1.7 billion that we just learned about last evening, in cash ransom payments. we thought it was 400 million, turns out that it's now $1.7 billion in cash. in other words, our country was blackmailed and extorted into paying this unheard of amount of money as ransom. and our president lied to us. worst of all, the nuclear deal puts iran, the number one state sponsor of radical islamic terrorism on a path to nuclear weapons. and that