we want to defeat isis. we have to defeat isis, because isis is trying to plan major attacks against us and our partners as i mentioned. and they are still trying to do that. so long as they are still holding territory pretending to , hold this caliphate with people under its domain the , long-term political settlement in syria will be out of reach. our first priority is to protect our homeland. number one, defeat isis. in parallel with phase one, we want to de-escalate violence in syria through a combination of de-escalation, deconfliction arrangements, and de-escalation such as the cease-fire we have reached in the west. we are in the phase one, where we are in the escalating the situation. and we have imported talks about a constitutional process in the future, internationally monitored elections in which the syrians can vote. that is a condition enshrined in 2254, and welution are determined to get to that point. the secretary discussed defeating isis, get arrangements in place, quiet down the overall si

this is a cell for isis near the number four. they are an isis affiliate. when they come in and capture a village like they did there, they capture locals, they do beheadings, and they terrorize the local population. we are determined to remove that sell from the southwest -- cell from the southwest. were aed with the -- who critical driver of the process, are critical ally jordan. and a cease-fire in the southwest with jordan and russia. the cease-fire was concluded on july 9. it was finalized in hamburg between president trump and president putin. it went into effect on july 11, so we are into the third week now. and the results have been quite promising so far. the fighting has largely stopped. there is a couple reasons for this, unlike other cease-fires, this cease-fire was the result of months of negotiation with the geraniums who know the terrain, and the russians that were representing effectively the syrian regime. painstaking negotiations, meter by meter, throughout the southwest and throughout the city. everybody understood where they could go and

fighters or isis supporters.he back and i am examine this side of the shrapnel and this... and just outside, another explosion. a reminder that this war is still not over. at the height of the fighting, dr hazim was treating up to 700 people a day. now the numbers have dropped to 500, and notjust from injuries but illnesses caused due to the lack of clean water. returning home could be deadly. according to the army, retreating isis fighters have rigged 90% of the buildings with improvised explosive devices. do you have the resources? i mean, do you have enough men to... explosion they've just. . . is that another one? so many more still in this area? the iraqi military is now accused of targeting and killing people they suspect of belonging to isis. the government say they're investigating these allegations. when islamic state swept into mosul three years ago, the world watched in horror as they unleashed their reign of terror. initially, many here welcomed isis. they saw them as liberators from an oppressive shi

that produce isis. we're not looking at countries that fit those descriptions that are not producing isis. and so this is something that i would really encourage people to think about. we have states that are producing isis and we have states that are not. there is so much variation between indian states -- in act, two are very devin in many ways than north india is from pakistan. one is producing isis and one is largely not. the united states. we really are the dog that isn't barking here. right? we were the object of al qaeda's largest effort. why is it that france is producing so many isis fighters but we aren't? this is the other thing i wish the trump administration would perhaps understand that i think that even though we have islama-phobia here a couple things are really different. the nature of immigration of muslims in the united states is not -- cannot be compared to france or the u.k. many of the countries, germany is an exception, experiencing this have had colonial histories of oppression w

isis ground? host: something you could speak to charles johnson? guest: we don't have that breakdown. i would say all efforts we're talking about, i would take isistance out of that, which about 6 or 8 billion and say funding to deny isis as safe haven and destroy prevent spread of isis in that region. that would be the answer i would give you, the bulk of the money isis and denying creating safe haven. host: democratic line, hi, jesse jesse. caller: hi. want to get in on this conversation. spending and anybody we are bout is -- spending money in south korea, missiles over there and they don't want them, we are protect hem there to -- h korea, and military with g money, i keep up this stuff. [indiscernible] -- war ships and stuff, that is where i start voting for the comesrats because everyone want re, first thing they to do is dump money into the military. people around here, ain't got a in four years and probably other areas and it is being wasted.ey i could go on and on with this. keep up with

we are not anti-isis. we stand for legitimate governance, the protection of human rights, we are against genocide, we are for the protection of the people, and that is the message that would -- and that is the message to use to counter isis. until we stand for something, there's nothing to rally people to our cause. >> guide is i think an excellent place to stop. -- that is an excellent place to stop. thank you for an enormously rich discussion about a topic that needs more elucidation in congress and discussion in the public sphere. join me in thanking katie. [applause] for those of you that are interested, can you report on this topic, which she was kind enough to bring me a copy, apparently in short supply, you can get it on the american enterprise institute website. as i said, for those of you interested in following our on radical islam, feel free to sign up on the sheets outside. we are happy to share with you our original publications and our future events. with that, thank you. the meeting is adjou

if we are not willing to spend the time to look at the ways in which isis is able, and not just isis,isis's new flavor of the day but all these countries have more serious islamic militant groups. we are not going to buy our way out of this with a development program. what we need to be spending a lot more time doing and this is the entire resources is understanding what is the source of political will these organizations have. finally, burma. not going to talk about it here, i don't have the time but burma if you pay attention, all of these groups are active in burma. isis, burma is a country that we talk about for a lot of reasons but probably not for the reasons of this aggression yet both a dys, al qaeda in the continent and isis have made numerous statements and appeals to the rohingya's who as you know are being into some fairly serious fatalities by me on our government. >>. >> okay. >>. >> says you have to go, do you have any directed questions on finance erected at the audience . >>. >> particularly on finance. >>. >> my name is mohammed with the iraqis. my question is to mis

you got isis out of there. if there is not some form of governance, they're going to be fighting them again and again and again. and my perspective on isis is just like any dictator or people -- it is not really about religion, it is about money and power. what is the trump administration going to do to bring in some sort of governance so this will not happen again? thank you very much. ms. kikoler: thank you for that question. [applause] ms. dakhil: [speaking in foreign language] we are to different communities of yazidis in syria. one has been abducted by isil, and also those who fled, there was a war -- ms. dakhil: [speaking in foreign language] translator: both of them are old people and we have to work to save them. ms. dakhil: [speaking in foreign language] translator: we know there is a whereplace in raqqah yazidi women are sold. ms. dakhil: [speaking in foreign language] translator: regional government has helped us, the yazidi people, and the marketplace is safe for them, but unfortunately the iraqi go

it was attracted both by the fact that isis had risen to the global stage, that isis had brought the idea of a caliphate which is very resonant within those who believe in this and i have been told that the non-isis recognized leader of boko haram, he recognizes al-baghdati as the caliph and it's resonant with him. there's a religious ideology behind this. it's not just resource, though of course the fact that isis was one of the richest affiliates to come up meant lot of groups rapidly admered to isis and the branding where isis was able to take a stabbing in a tanzanian cave and make ate global event where everyone knew that a soldier of the caliphate stabbed someone in a cave in tanzania. we didn't have that fra al qaeda. there's a global stage that isis is offering. i think the next year will show whether isis is going to realign itself to actually add power to the branch, add power to its branch in the philippines, to its branch in nigeria, to reconstitute inside libya, to build in the sinai and elsewhere and whether it will exist beyond the collapse of the core inside iraq and

or isis-directed attacks. but there's another piece of this, which is that in the terrorist attacks from the pre-isis period, there was always a worry about a follow-on attack. what else is there, what other place is going to be simultaneous, like you saw in france with isis. and so there's always a concern, is there going to be another attack. so whether this one that you're looking at is part of the investigation, the getaway, the aftermath or if it's part of something else, we just don't know. >> that's the question as to whether or not it's connected. evan perez, our justice correspondent, let me bring you in again. we've been reporting on this initial ramblas attack with the white van, 13 dead, 50 injured and now we have this driver running over two police officers at a security checkpoint. i imagine it's too early to know whether it was connected. >> reporter: right, brooke. i think all signs do indicate that it was at least somewhat related, according to the catalan police on their twitter page. they sa

it tells me they subscribe to the orders of isis or al qaeda or directed by other isis and al qaeda. i keep mentioning al qaeda because we should not dismiss al qaeda from the equation. al qaeda has always had a major presence in spain. remember 2004, al qaeda carried out multiple attacks in madrid against trains. 91 killed. 1,800 injured. the reality it seems to me that vehicles and vans have become a weapon of choice not only for al qaeda and isis but even for radicalized individuals. they are easy weapons to use and available. had the truck basically been filled with gas canisters, this could have basically -- basically hundreds of people could have been killed and injured in barcelona. >> it is fascinating that as isis is being squeezed out of its physical territory around europe, you see isis inspired if not isis-executed attacks. we don't know which this is. how concerned are you about how easy it is to get a truck in a major metropolitan area in europe and maybe have no connection whatsoever to syria or iraq but be able to carry this out? t the. >> absolutely, christine. thank

, isis organized or isis-inspired attack, would this be the first isis-related attack in spain? >> i believe it would. certainly the mass casualty attack that we have not seen any mass casualty attacks in spain related back to isis. so this would be a very significant and worrying moment for spanish authorities. but it comes, really, as no surprise. they've been preparing for this. they've known there's a threat out there. they've been stepping out in kind of terrorism activity, been around a couple hundred arrests of suspected islamic extreme s in the last few years since isis emerged in syria and iraq. so no surprises here. they knew this day might come, but what quite we're dealing with at the moment, we don't yet know, because there hasn't been any claim of responsibility. this is really just minutes, still, and, in fact, this attack may still be ongoing. >> local police says one dead. they expect that number to rise. 32 injured. many of them are in very serious condition in hospital. evan, more information? >> i wanted to add quick to what paul cruickshank was saying. this

to pry information out of them about their isis affiliations or their isis contraacts. isis doesn't claim attacks in the west until the people who committed the attacks are known to be dead. so isis claiming responsibility for this barcelona attack today while the alleged attackers were not dead or at large or in custody, that was weird. that's an unusual thing. we're going to take life in a couple of minutes with a reporter who specializes in isis in al qaeda, one of the foremost experts in the world in terms of explaining their m.o., their strategy and how they remote control attacks in places like western europe from their home base in iraq and syria. we've got that life report coming up in a moment. >>> here's the latest in what we know about the terrorist attack in barcelona today and perhaps another attempted attack that spanish police may have thwarted tonight in a city south of barcelona. a police operation that took place just in the last hour or so. in the barcelona attack from earlier today, spanish authorities say 13 people were killed -- actually the number

but here closing in on isis and the objectives we have is not to defeat isis. out to make sure they'll never rise again if want to close by one thing. where is this one mant who wanted to know what argument is could give him to go back to iraq. where are you? don't fear fear. okay? there are many psychological barriers put against us to go back and help. one of the most heart-warming things i've seen in the last two or three weeks was a conference organized by the world bank on the reconstruction of liberated areas, and one of the things that, like i said, give me a lot of hope was the representative of chaldean americans who were very fortunate and very successful, came to see him to see what they could do to help rebuild their ancestral area, now there's a very cavable -- capable iraqi community in the united states. think what you can do to help us rebuild. think of the villages where your grandparents came from. you yourself, sir, think what can you -- this has been said before. what can you do for the country of your parents and your country? please come b

isis used a site for public execution-- iraqi soldiers, doctors who refused to treat isis fighters. all were brought her to be executed in front of a public forced to watch it on the big screen. these isis videos show public punishments routine in mosul. shayma ali says isis executed her father, an iraqi policeman, and brutalized children simply for cursing. >> ( translated ): i swear they cut the head off a nine-year- old. he was playing soccer and missed a goal, and he shouted, "goddamn!" after that, isis went to his family and said we are sorry, but we killed the child to make an example of him. >> reporter: ali stopped sending her children to schools like this one taken over by isis, which used its curriculum to radicalize and indoctrinate children. these isis videos show children being taught about weapons and these are textbooks where tanks and guns were used as examples for math problems. isis even forced some of the brainwashed children to become soldiers, calling them their" cubs of the caliphate." 12 year old ahmed escaped that fate. did you like school? intabtheb madrasa?

government to keep the battle against isis. what is it saying? uest: on this special publication we identify nine key issues that we think need by the administration and congress. this report basically is attention to aw what we have identified the past two years of work we have done folks need to nk pay attention. among them is looking after the iraqi security forces and money spent on air in iraq and averages and iraq and oversight of humanitarian assistance because here's a serious crisis in isis. and disrupt host: $21 billion. however back does that take us? that goes back to 2014. estimate from 2014 to 2016. ost: is that high or low or expected? guest: $21 billion in taxpayer that is a lot less than what we have spent in averages past.raq in the host: let's break it down before we start taking phone calls. the 2 (100) 000-0000 it is broken up like this. 10.9 from the pentagon for the purpose counter isis operations. by the state department and u.s. aid on humanitarian assistance. that goes to syrians and other impacted by the syrian. billion

you have isis out of their. if there isn't some form of governance we will be fighting them again and again and again. my perspective on isis is like any dictator or people like the nazis that took over, it is not about religion, it is about money and power. what is the trump administration going to do to bring in some sort of governance so this will not happen again? thank you very much. >> thank you for that question. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: we have two different communities and one of them has been abducted by isis and those who fled or went somewhere. [speaking in native tongue] >> we have to work to save the lot of them. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: we know there is a market place in rocca. we tried to save them. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: the government has helped us with these -- marketplace has taken them but iraqi government hasn't helped. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i apologize, it didn't help us. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator:

of isis? >> if it is isis it is the first isis attack in spain. the very first one. you have correct in portraying it that way. spain is much lower down than the u.k., than the isis, than germany. those other countries have been repeatedly threatened. spain has been threatened. the very first terrorist attack was the attack in january of 2015 in paris. it is a couple of days later. the man who did that is considered the first isis inspired directed attacker in france. it is not as a place that would necessarily host its own attack. >> thank you for joining us tonight from iraq. i appreciate you taking the time and effort to be here. >> thank you. >>> we have so much news developing tonight from around the world, from around the country, from inside the white house. stay with us tonight. lots to come. my sweetheart's gone sayonara. this scarf all that's left to rememb... what. she washed this like a month ago! how's a guy supposed to move on?! the long lasting scent of gain. now available in ma

>> well, we have a database of 1400 isis videos, the complete set of isis videos.ver the last three years. and studying particularly the isis videos really gives us insight as to what has been happening. so particularly since the fall of mosul, isis has been calling over and over for individuals, inside of the country that are bombing or otherwise directing military activity against isis to attack those countries. rather than to leave those countries and travel to syria. in the past, if we look at the videos, and the recruitment appeals, a very different pattern. they did call for individuals to attack in those countries, but many of the videos were calling for travelers. people to leave. in the last few months since mosul fell, you are seeing a dramatic shift in the video propaganda which is the heart of isis's threat to the west. >> martha: i just want to point out, i'm going to get to you in just a moment. a learning spanish police telling us that there is an operation that is ongoing at this hour outside of barcelona. we also have, so far, our understanding, an

if it is indeed linked back to isis as isis claims.ring some very troubling details, wolf, including about this house explosion, the night before the attack in the local area. which killed one person, injured another person nap brings up the possibility that this cell were planning some kind of bomb attack and then switched to plan b after a mishap. we're waiting to hear more from spanish authorities about that. certainly any time you hear about an explosion in a residence, that brings up the responsibility of explosives of some kind of bomb-making being involved. worrying that there could be others still throughout, they don't appear to have the perpetrator in custody at this point. they're on red alert right now. >> and we do know that police suspect that that explosion the night before at that house was connected to the individuals who were involved in the car ramming, killing those pedestrians in barcelona. i want you to stand by, i want to bring in phil mud whose been looking closely at all of that. phil, take us inside this inves

in the state department about the future of iraq post-isis. the government will work to assist the middle east or anywhere else around the world we have seen president trump highlight the vicious attacks perpetrated against christians, muslims, jews and others. and of course we've recognized they perpetrated against the. what can we do to ensure that the future minorities that is going to be difficult but we have many lines of effort underway. first is what we heard from the security to ensure they are incorporated into the various police forces. there's the issue of ensuring equal treatment and the human rights and equal citizens. citizens. there's concerns about stabilization. what can we do to see the communities that isis destroyed or rebuilt and people can go home? but in this rebuilding of structures there's also rebuilding relationships into the question of reconciliation. how do we encourage communities to come back together and then of course the shoes all iraqis want, an economwon't come an ecs for education for children end up in th

. -- peshmerga forces -- once taken by isis. more than 100 -- peshmerga have been killed and close to 11,000 have been injured. laws and has passed includes articles in its draft constitution that protects the rights of all people of all phase and backgrounds. we recognize this is not enough. kurdistan where the situation for communities is far better than in other parts of iraq and the middle east, we need to accept that society evolves and demands change. for example, we have a system of allocating a quarter to minorities in the christian -- kurdistan. it should be studied and carefully considered so the inclusivity we are so profit -- product and kurdistan is maintained and enhanced. this is just one example. pictureut the broader outside of kurdistan? what do we need to do? to enable people to live a reasonable life. i don't speak of reinstating trust since trust was lacking even before isis came and is now i would argue out of reach in the near future. speak ofe realistic to security, stability, protection. the steps that n

you have got isis out of there. if there isn't some form of govern nance we will be fighting them again and again and again. my perspective is like any dictator or people that took over. it's not really about religion. it's about money and power. what is the trump administration going to do to bring in some sort of govern nance or this will not happen again. thank you very much. >> thank you for that question. [ applause ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> you have two different communities. one of them has been abdukted. >> we have to work to save both of them. [ speaking foreign language ] >> it has helped us in buying the marketplace and unfortunately iraqi government hasn't helped in this regard. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> of course you know that for me and everyone they need help. >> thank you for highlighting the fact there are large populations in syria as well and we sought refuj outside the realm as well. would you be able to respond to the qu

isis is just one of one of the many things that we suffer from. yes, it may be the one that made news in the recent future but you have to take it -- you also have to look at the issue from two layers. there's a national layer of the iraqi layer and i like metaphors. ice rack as a ship in a turbulent sea that it has manyci damages and you try to address all these issues focusing on the minorities issues in that picture was just one that would not prevent the ship from thinking if you do not addresser the other parts. it is important to address thetf totality and that would be one of the biggest savers of international communities could do to help minorities the biggest problem. the memories themselves, at the local levels, there are specificities -- there is at least a dozen tensions and public layers they will point out to you whichever community that point out this is across the communities.n for reconciliation, for them, is to get back to what ambassador said -- is practical. there is nowhere near -- and no context is that more true than the co

or directed by isis. now, i will say these vehicle attacks, this is the 14th vehicle attack that we have had in the west since 2014. terrorists much like school shooters learn from other incidents. the thing about a vehicle attack requires no special training and it's very hard to deter. unfortunately, we have seen 128 victims of these attacks just in the last three years. >> you are absolutely right. no special training simply to drive a vehicle into a crowd of innocent people. there is specialized training if you escape from that and do a get away. it looks like there was some sort of escape plan. i want you to stand by and get back to you. i want to bring in congressman democrat on the intelligence and foreign affairs committee. congressm congressman, we know that isis has claimed the terrorists were what they call soldiers of the islamic state. what are you hearing about who carried out this attack to what degree isis was directly involved in planning and executing. >> since it just happened so recent

isis person of interest, isis matrix. isis american sniper. study, over -- of the videos of isis, 50% depending violence are copied .rom the images this is the way that isis is citizen people around the world. they're are doing specific campaigns in latin america, especially in the caribbean. it is a global phenomenon that rootsly started and the is in the region. if some other groups or to copy what isis is doing, the risk of terrorist movements in latin america will be a real fact. i am more than happy to solve your questions. thank you. [applause] >> good morning. i would like to start by expressing my gratitude to the hudson institute. i am going to speak about venezuela. the main parts of my presentations about political violence that i'm going also to speak about terrorists. -- but i'm going also to speak about terrorists. i start with two quotations. the first one from nicolas maduro. herbertod one from give aruevara. guevara spent more than a year in communist school in cuba. that's why the second quotation is from ernesto guevara. has

then, rebuilding after isis. a look at the challenges facing one syrian city, as it creates a future from the rubble of terrorism. >> the start of liberation was a challenge. it is hard to organize a city that was ruled by terror for two years. and after we freed manbij, we needed to clear the city from the isis ideology. >> woodruff: and, it's friday. mark shields and david brooks take on a far-reaching week of news, from the president's decision on the war in afghanistan, to his own war of words with other republicans. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. t

isis was simply a pretext for establishing u.s. influence in this area now once the jihadists are defeated the u.s. can do two things and will likely do two things number one try to replace the in syria air base in turkey which the u.s. used to handle its rebel army equip operations in syria with a new base that it controls through the kurds who are the u.s. considers a much more reliable ally then turkey number two and this is most important and most dangerous which is to challenge what the us sees as iranian and shia influence in the area and this started at the our lead border crossing in the town of autonomy for the us first set up troops on the syrian iraqi border and the whole point of that was to prevent a contiguous route from tehran through baghdad which is now ruled by a shia majority government through syria all the way to hezbollah and this is what the. u.s. is doing partly on behalf of israel but also its allies in riyadh and in the united arab emirates and i want to get your take now on the u.s. they claim to still be

>> the word against isis is clear and the president has been clear, we will do fight isis and eliminate their capability to organize, raise financing, to plan new recruits to their fight to carry out terrorism acts roth world. that fight is progressing well. were well on our way to the feeding isis. we have taken the caliphate from them in iraq. over 70% of the territory has been recovered. none has been lost back to those forces. most 2 million displaced iraqi people have returned to their homes. in the fight in syria where the process of liberating raqqa which is there self designated capital. that liberation is going well. it's our expectation that we will defeat isis and syria and iraq. then our effort is global to make sure that isis does not reemerge elsewhere. all terrorist organizations have somewhat different objectives. whether it's isis, al qaeda, the tell banner others, our objective is to deny any terrorist organization any territory with which they can organize, raise financing, recruit new fighters, develop techniques for carrying out attacks and applying those. if we den

they say now fighting isis has become their main priority. christine? >> fred pleitgen for us in syria. thank you very much. >>> it's an annual showcase of russia's military might. this year, their international war games involving china -- they're international war games involving china, iran, and other countries, taking on added significance with north korean tensions running high and u.s./russia relations at the lowest point since the cold war. let's bring in cnn's oren liebermann live in moscow with more. good morning. how significant is this particular show of strength? >> reporter: from one perspective, this is a war games, a spectator sport. many families view it like that. they come out to cheer their country. of course on the home turf here, in most cases that's russia. from a different perspective, war games seem to be send a clear mayor-eleessage that russ its own allies. largely from the competitive list, mostly non-nato countries. russia showing off that it has its own countries, allies, and militaries that can work with. what's worth point

your bring about the end to isis . in another year, that organization will cease to exist inside of iraq and syria. it is oaken a la for them. they will not survive. andpt for their wives children, except that is the next generation of trouble was. many of them are americans, russian, german. whatever. they have kids and these kids are living in refugee camps. we carried out action in this administration where we cut the funding to the free syrian army. the last vestige of what came from the revolution of syria and we essentially just turned syria, everything west of raqqa, over to the government of a sodden and russia. -- over to the government of assad and russia. those guys we screwed because we cut the funding, they will start thinking about the united states as a terrorist target in the future. we have to keep up the kinetic warfare. i take better claim that donald trump is using more of my policies on syria because he told time magazine last year the last book you read was "defeating isis." it said we need a join

but isis fighters were also killed in the attack.ding to the monitoring group airwars, american-led airstrikes have killed at least 3,000 civilians since the fight against isis began. in the next town just outside raqqa, ali abdullah mabrook showed me the one thing he had left of his three daughters-- a single digital photograph of his youngest, alaa. mabrook told us his three daughters were killed when a coalition airstrike leveled his family's home. >> ( translated ): i have been working for 45 years to build this house. how can i do it again now? where should i go? does trump think that all of us are businessmen with billions of dollars? we are people who don't have the food of their day. would he donate me money now to build my house? i sleep in the streets now. >> reporter: but his wife pointed fingers much closer to home. she said isis fighters, living on her street, had been using her house as a base. it was revenge against her son, who was battling the islamic state with the syrian democratic forces. by fighting from her roof

isis is expanding.e defeating them in the middle east, along with their allies, they are moving to other places. they are in afghanistan, they are in pakistan, the philippines, and they are still in europe. there are two things we have to do. first we have to understand how they communicate. we had huge compromises with snowden and bradley manning. they compromised to the enemy and the enemy watches what we do and how we receive communications. the old-fashioned espionage, the second oldest profession. you defeat a network by penetrating a network. and we haven't done that. there was a report today that the cia did give some level of warning to spain. credit to mike pompeo. he's not trying to be the best gay and lesbian employer in the country, and i'm not kidding about that. that was john brennan's focus. gregg: steve bannon who is the president's chief strategist at the white house, gave an unexpected interview to a jelt never met before. there is no military solution to north korea's nuclear threats.

let's call it isis 1.0 versus 2.0. the new attacks seem to be inspirational i am employee ploring attacks to use whatever they have at their disposal and a lot of people say it won't wane. >> it jettisons the political correctness of the last eight years and call the enemy for what it is, we don't say they are unemployed people and need more jobs. >> how does that stop an attack? >> may i answer your question without being interrupted? >> go ahead. you cannot solve a problem unless you're allowed to talk truthfully about it. we call it radical islamic terrorism. this is the crucial part, we're not here to invade other people's countries and occupy them. he thinks that's un-american. we are here to help those nations that share our values and interests and help them fight the fight, whether it's the iraqis and kurd s in iraq or egyptians in the sanaa or european allies that deal with this severe threat to their own countries. >> i don't understand how calling it by its name helps stock the attacks in paris or belgium --

a man escapes death by crazed isis terrorists for the second time this year.ther: chris pauli says he was steps away from the barcelona van attack months after he walked away from a concert bombing in manchester, england. >> can't believe we are in the same place is another terrorist attack, hope everyone is okay in barcelona. sadly they are not. heather: more live coverage of the horrifying terror attack in barcelona, the latest from live coverage continues up next. , or activity in one place and save, where would you go? ♪ expedia. heather: we follow this developing story, lots of curves since yesterday when this began in spain, 13 people dead, 100 injured. rob: van attack in las ramblas which occurred in the afternoon in the united states, injured 100 people, terrible attack and another attack foiled in cambrils, a coastal town south of barcelona where seven people were wounded, five terrorists were killed by police so that went better than we could have hoped for. heather: we continue to follow all the latest developments. stay right here on fox news. "fox

into that vacuum, isis poured , if there had been 20,000 american troops, isis would've been stuffed at birth and 500,000 people would be alive and 20 million refugees were created because of obama's policies in the middle east. of course he overthrew an , american ally in egypt, whereas when the iranian people revolted in 2009, he was absolutely silent because his policy of strategy was was to embrace america's most brutal enemy. this was the iranians. he concluded his betrayal of the deal with iran. i am one of five people on this panel with these views. [applause] >> keep doing that because the sentiments that reflect 63 million voters in the country, half of the country, and of course the administration in , washington. >> let's stick to the middle east. >> i'm not talking about stupid polls. i am talking about actual votes. who is president, hillary or trump? if you want to understand donald , trump has been in office for six months. he has put together a coalition of arab states. in those six months, mosul has been liberated which was a chief with isis in iraq. they are on the

they pledge loyalty to isis in 2014 and since then they increased their capability, just as the isist look much like the insurgents that we had seen a decade earlier. now, with isis losing ground in iraq and syria, the fear is that we're going to start seeing a lot of the expertise and tactics and so on shifting to the philippines. >> you talk about that being the fear. do you think that is the reality we're seeing right now, or are we still a little ways away from that? >> we're seeing the leading edge of it. as bill's piece said, their game has improved. they're using their communications better. there are rumors that we're seeing a lot of foreign fighters. some locally, some just indonesians and australians and also perhaps some coming russia and the caucuses. >> we talk so much about russia a we forget isis controls the city. >> this is a muslim town in a largely catholic country. so, it's no surprise that there's an insurgency here. but, the type of isis capability it's command and control and tactics coming and, again, raising the game of this long-standing group is a real conc

so as we talk about our wars on isis oral al qaeda and isis having their back to the wall, what is theignificance of being connected to and directed by them versus being inspired by them? >> well, both present problems. those who are directed and connected to them generally have greater resources. isis oral al qaeda and others have provided them with guidance, perhaps with a bomb, with funding, with cover, with assistance of all sorts of types. these may have been individuals who were on the battlefield, who know how to conduct bombings, who know how to conduct assaults and have been in that male strom of urban warfare. so for them this is an easy operation. so that's the threat from that side. from those that are not connected, the problem is different. they may not have the same level of training and support, but they often don't have any signatures or any fingerprints that would have shown them to be a threat in the past. you indicated that many of them are known to the police, but they may have been known for petty criminal activity, but for individuals who are simply inspired by t

first isis attacked our village then came american air strikes now we don't have anything everything is destroyed. while fighting has intensified in afghanistan this year with the taliban stepping up its attacks international relations professor jamal wakim says that's because the u.s. airstrikes have proven to be ineffective in countering the root cause of the violence i believe that the syrians are the primary victims of the war going on in afghanistan and for the world isis. and other protest groups in afghanistan. no. consideration to human lives. for the united states which claims that it respects human rights. rights to promote democracy less about human lives especially when it comes to an un-american and human lives it's not easy to wipe out these groups you need to work again on the grass roots of the problem fighting radical wow. now the latest major reshuffle among donald trump's top team has seen a series of sackings among his national security aides but even the man in charge of the dismissed it was in the firing line over what might have driven his decisions his kind of