host: what is isis k? don't have the correct pronunciation of what it stands for but it is the islamic region they envision for their territory, which includes much of afghanistan. it is the evolved isis threat, as they have been defeated in iraq and syria. the threat is serious. it must be addressed. host: first call from memphis, tennessee. this is rachel, democrat. jim banks. comment onanted to the representative's assessment. i have to 100% disagree. there has been more violence against afghan forces this year, palming constantly. -- bombing constantly. we are not fighting terrorism. we are establishing a military, permanent military presence ultimately to encircle china. this has been discussed in various think tank papers. we have three more servicemen died for no reason whatsoever, while defense contractors are making record profit. we have no oversight from congress. lets the pentagon spend and do whatever they want while we have so much hardship going on at home. disagree andongly angers my frustr

first of all, you cannot ensure the enduring defeat of isis. that's what we experienced, including me personally, in iraq, in 2010 to 2012, of any terrorist organization. if you don't deal with the root cusses cusses -- causes of it. the root causes of isis, mainly in syria but some degree in iraq, have been, first of all, the horrific behavior of the assad regime against its its own people, give can those people no other chance but to turn to whomever to take up arms against assad and that was unfortunately including terrorists. secondly, it is the role of iran, spreading its tentacles around the arabic sunni world. this is an outside force that creates malignant antibodies, if we, that is the international community, do not respond in a proper way. we did not respond in a proper way to iran's encroachment into these areas so the peoples of the area, in desperation, fell victim to the false claims, the false promises of isis and other terrorist organizations. so we do have to do all three. we cannot just rely upon the military defeat of the ca

with that we have seen isis p h pushed into afghanistan gaining a foothold. isis knows that if they can disrupt the situation in afghanistan, perhaps there's nowhere elsewhere they could cause harm to the people there that would gain headlines and news as much as it does in afghanistan. wednesday as we were leaving afghanistan to come home to our families, there was an attack on a ceremony that killed 50 people, injured dozens more of the afghan people that isis took credit for. so that's an example of the type of disruptive nature they are bringing to the situation there. it complicates the picture. >> even as you mentioned that, we showed the headline that three soldiers dying in an a attack by the taliban. >> that's right. it's important for the american people to remember that we are at war in afghanistan. we continue to invest heavily there in blood, sweat and tears, the financial informsment by the united states of america and nato into afghanistan is substantial. and it's not going to go away any time soon. the situation is as dangerous is and complica

which is the defeat of isis.are not picking winners and losers in terms of any political movements inside syria. the way we will try to eyhelp a syrians, whether in the northeast or elsewhere, is to find a political process that allows a better government, democratic elections, and peace that everybody can profit from. it's just like we work with groups such as the kurdish katie p and the shieh arab islamic revolution before 2003. in iraq. when we went into iraq we do not support a political party or this elpolitical party, we just try to work with all iraqis to help provide a constitutional democratic system and this is what we are working the international community to do for all syrians. >> thank you, my time is up. i would just say one must be very careful about preserving the integrity and good name of the united states. it's one thing to decide we are not taking political sides it's another to abandon an ally that put blood on the table when they were the only ones willing to do it. the kurds fought and won

isis continues to grow.ry day we continue to just keep this thing going our sworn extremist enemies are getting stronger. lastly, the argument is made that if the united states is not involved in the saudi's being humanitarian nightmare would be worse. how could it be worse? how is that a justification? 85,000 children under the age of five have died of starvation and disease. 22 million people in the country, three quarters of the population, cannot live without humanitarian assistance. the world worst cholera epidemic in the history of the world is happening right now inside that country. why?because the saudis have been deliberately hitting the water treatment facilities. i'm not making this up. they been targeting the water treatment facilities so you can't get clean water so people get color it. today humanitarians supplies have been reduced by 50% into the port because as we speak the saudi's with u.s. support are bombing all around who data. and humanitarian agencies have cut off many of the supplies

congressman: isis has lost its territory. isis has not lost intent. with the internet and other resources, they are able to reach and threaten not just americans, but our allies. should we be reducing our investment to counter them, or should we be looking to increase our investment, look for leverage with allies and bring to bear, as you said, the full government approach to address the threat, not just of isis, but groups around the world? >> i think that's exactly right, congressman. that is where the whole of government approach comes in. as the military phase in the campaign draws down, it is important to bring to bear other tools, so law enforcement, prosecuting isis fighters, making sure they face justice, border security tools so we can track them as they move internationally, designations and sanctions tools to cut off the flow of money to isis affiliates that have metastasized around the world. and various other civilian sector tools. congressman: i may have heard you wrong, and i'm way over , so i will close on this but , you indicated we p

pre-isis. and it seems to me that we may be counting our chickens a little bit too early. we need to be thinking of different ways to counter this threat. but not resting on our heels and going back to the way things were, but looking forward to where we need to be in the future. >> the only thing, congressman, if i may, before we leave this topic, the only other thing i would add to that conversation is if i felt like i didn't have the resources to do my job properly, i would tell my boss, and i would tell congress. so i'm satisfied with the resources we requested. and we will expend whatever resources i'm allocated. >> and in the future i look forward to continuing the conversation to see how what impact we are having and you will have results to show your -- >> thank you. >> i have a few questions. going back to this list of proxies that i asked for earlier, and i mentioned, can you provide the committee a list of the iranian proxies and where they are in the world? >> yes, we're happy to do

i think very clearly isis you know the organization has had a massive threat in the months of massive consequences on the populations in syria and iraq particularly but elsewhere in the middle east i mean having spent time over the years in iraq it's been devastating and it's been a very dark time in the history of the country and you have many families and many people affected by the organization including the governments of these countries that are still unable to kind of rebuild so how do you think for example western governments which are trying to formulate their own security strategies their own policies in the middle east how should they now be reacting in this new environment when i solute been physically removed from the scene in iraq in syria but as you say it still poses a threat what would you be saying to governments in the u.k. and from the united states about their position on i still in the middle east at least i mean you know we get this question all the time and there are many different governments that are you know trying to figure out what to do very clearly what's

like al qaeda and isis. in addition, it's no secret that certainly not to the subcommittee, iran remains the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. iran spends nearly $1 billion a year to support its terrorist proxies. $1 billion a year. the regime has a truly global reach. we must elevate our efforts to counter its influence around the world. our strategy is in america first strategy but that does not mean america alone. quite the contrary. terrorism is a global threat and all nations have a role to play in countering it. strategy specifically highlight the need to leverage existing counterterrorism partnerships and develop new ones. and to build our partners to be bullies. our goal is for our partners to be able to confront the terrorist threats they face independently. without needing to reach amy return to the united states for assistance. i quickly run through some of our most important efforts. first, countering iran and its terrorist proxies is a top priority for the trump administration. we are using

isis mortars close in. up on the roof isis snipers pin them down.t is startling how this chaotic and young force loosely in control of their weapons have got so far. then the constant in this war, american air power behind both its advances and much of its destruction intervenes. >> uncle trump never disappoints yet the sheer force can't answer the question of how the civilians who gave isis shelter and numbers in the long term. the biggest battle, he says, is going to be freeing the people from isis's way of thinking. they've been dragged here from isis and they think isis will come back some day and give them a caliphate again. i was in a refugee camp, he says, but isis surrounded and imprisoned. it's impossible to balance their immediate human needs with what their real sympathies may be. they asked him why didn't he die in the airstrikes? it's in the hands of god whether i live or die, he says, and so they return like thousands of others to the camps behind the front line where isis's victims and possible future flag barriers will help for years

support for isis. and the last slide in the deck here is put in there that this was one of the more comical instances of this. they released in november of 2017 russian ministry defense released the photo on the left claiming that was a u.s. vehicle leading a convoy offists fighters out of syria and into safety in iraq. some air force officer or enterprising gamer said that photo looks exactly like an image from the gun ship simulator special ops game. so that was publicize d. it's a screen grab and the russians said, yeah, that was a mistake, but the u.s. still supports isis and they just move on. they are not emotionally invested in the lie. it doesn't cost them much in terms of time or efrt. to put them out there in the information space, they understand that et we will then have to respond to that. which does cause us to chase our tails. so it really is a way that they can dominate the information space. every once in awhile you see them strike the u.s. partner force. they did it a couple times whe

down in the media we don't talk about it as often politicians aren't talking about the threat from isis the attacks seem to have gone down compared to you're a target is that fair it depends on what you're calling the west if you're. calling north america the west and absolutely the number of attacks have gone down the statistics for twenty seven thousand was that there were sixty five terrorist attacks or terrorist events in the united states last year more than fifty percent work stream right wing but if you're looking at other places if you're looking at western europe or you're looking at the rest of the world we are largely ignoring places like nigeria where the attacks have actually gone up or places like southeast asia where in indonesia or the philippines we really have to be concerned so it's a combination of being concerned about the returning foreign fighters to europe but also the fact that there is a bit of a whack a mole that a lot of ice is propaganda and activity has moved from the west from the middle east or at least iraq and syria to other parts because out in the old

but now, they have defeated isis, at least isis the army, and there still will be isis insurgent groups and isis terrorist sales gusts cells -- cells. the same ring that we did with those who reconcile during the awaking, the sons of iraq program. they might want to dust that off because it worked seriously well for the first three and half years after the search until unfortunately it was undone by the prime minister in a series of secretary and actions that alienated the sunni arabs and to about the fabric of society that we have tried to put back together. this is going to be a challenge and it will be one of the top challenges, but by no means, the only. if they cannot drive down corruption and improve basic services, the iraq people will be very upset in the. >> i am going to have to leave iraq and move to syria. i want to say one thing about a rack being essential in the so- called persian crescent that we had always spoken about, and let's address that point and we will do syria in a bit. i like to say that we at the beirut institute are very proud that the doctor has been a memb

somalia there are going to be people roaming around the middle east screaming that there are members of isis because it's what one does who are probably entry trouble but it's not it i don't think is even a major problem there overall and certainly far far worse than it was earlier when they control these and when they're able to actually do these massacres that you talked about i'm going to disagree with that a couple of them have to get out so the reason i disagree is a lot of the foreign fighters that have left iraq and syria have gone to places like libya they've gone to southeast asia they've gone to pakistan and afghanistan and so the idea that these are not actual threats to the governments i disagree having spent time in pakistan having traveled through these areas talking to people who are former members of terrorist organizations this is an actual threat to some governments but he's right not to the american government you know you used the phrase earlier of what kabul is not part of the problem that if you've got this organization that can just pop up because it's an ideology is a

against isis. in that sense, they were effective early on at claiming their part of the conflict and slowly starting to work on it. with respect to terms of friction and putin, there's some inherent problems in any coalition, plus it's the middle east so you're going to have some pretty big contradictions no matter which region nal partners you pick. if your partners are iran, turkey, israel. you have a deconflict line. you're going to have a lot of issues. i think on the whole, probably the biggest problems for russia came more some years back in that they had advanced themselves on an aspirational role as a great power broker, on behalf of the coalition. the reality was that both because of the realities of the middle east, no external power can successfully change the policy of local actors when it comes to their core interests, you cannot tell israel what to do and russia cannot tell iran what to do with its core interests. the reality is that beyond that, they intervene in such a manner as to

-led coalition continues to fight isis, there are thousands of u.s.and according to the white house and trump administration they won't pull the troops out of syrian until the iranians pull their troops out of syria. >> bill: what about the iranian involvement in syria and how it will be addressed by trump and netanyahu? >> this is what president trump has been trying to do for the past number of months now when it comes to reimposing sanctions on the iranian regime and key players in the region. the issue has to do with pressuring the iranians to stop a number of proxy wars in the region whether you look at yemen or involvement in syria trying to help the regime of bashar al-assad take control of the country, fighting off isis pockets in east syria or fighting militants trying to take over the regime of bashar al-assad. the key issue for the prime minister here in israel president netanyahu and president trump does have to do with the pressure iran is putting on israel and other key allies for the u.s. in the region. you look at gaza and islamic jiha

he would fight isis for us. the temporary transactional and tactical decision had massive strategic locations in the form of with turkey. the second thing being developed is the russians and the re- uranium major military movement into syria which the obama and ministration turned a blind eye to. it was the disintegration. so now, the trump administration has followed the logic of the obama counterterrorism strategy and pretty much defeated isis. there is still some fighting going on. but isis is nearly eliminated. there is a greater thinking about that should have been going from the sitting beginning. about the political order that they want to see in the and. they have identified eliminating command and forces on the ground in syria. i think there is another unstated goal there. a reconciliation with turkey. exactly how that is going to happen and exactly how that is going to affect the why pg relationship is unclear. it's going to be in negotiated. the other thing, they want constitutional reform in syria. a

congressional delegation which visited the country this week specifying the rise of the isis branch in the region known as isis kate jim backus and six others had to leave on tuesday just as they had learnt of a suicide bombing in the afghan capital the attack on a religious celebration in kabul is one of the deadliest this year killing fifty five and injuring close to one hundred others islamic state is suspected of carrying out the bombing there's been a wave of bloody violence in recent weeks in which hundreds have died as militants stepped up their assaults amid a flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the seventeen year on terror yet in all that time more recently unveiled research shows it's had a severely limited effect on tackling extremism. the horrendous attacks that took place on september eleventh two thousand and one in which nearly three thousand people lost their lives were followed up by the launch of the u.s. in the war on terror that was seventeen years ago and the war on terror is still taking place it certainly produced results but not the kind of results that many wer

at least isis the army was defeated and there will still be isis terrace sales -- terrorist sales -- cells. but you have to get him under the chain of command and response to them or you are going to have to get them into other positions and job training the same way that we did with those who reconciled during the awakening in the sons of iraq program. we might want to dust it off and it worked seriously well for the last three and half years until unfortunately it was undone by the prime minister in a series of actions that once again alienated the sunni arabs and tore apart the fabric of society that we had tried to put back together. this is going to be a challenge and it will be one of the top challenges, but by no means, the only. if they cannot drive down corruption and improve basic services, the iraqi people we be very upset indeed. said i have so much different stuff to share and i will have to leave iraq and move on to syria. i want to say one thing about iraq being essential in the so- called persian presence that we are always talking about. i also would like to say that

meanwhile on the other side of syria isis terrorists have gained a ground close to the border with iraq killing more than forty u.s. backed fighters during an offensive that is despite washington's earlier claims that the terrorists were almost defeated that you got a ton of comments from all the boasting you may have gotten the idea that muslim mixtape in syria is so two thousand and sixteen the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory we do a good job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis but the latest carnage is a clear signal that the terrorists are not ready to buckle just yet they've squeezed every drop of profit from the victory they've been craving for so long from obvious territorial gains to a massive p.r. push they filmed their operation and spoils of war from all thinkable angles it seems even with reinforcements america's proxy ground force the kurds couldn't hold off the surprise onslaught hard for its incursion tuesday both sides but we will continue to go after them in the weeks ahead i thought the latest p

they led the counter isis coalition. the problem with syria is it's so complex. >> i know. >> there are so many layers to the conflict. i think the eu played a role in terms of wanting to in particular play a strong role in supporting the geneva peace process. but unfortunately that, process has more or less stagnated. we'll see what happens with the new special envoy just announced i believe today. >> these are peterson. he'll be able -- he is the person in the region. okay. but is there going to be a political solution in syria? i mean i don't really know what's the road map to that. because you have already a problem with the continued presence of iranian troops and the allies in syria. and it seems that the russians are not willing to say let's help the u.s. get them out. >> willing or able? you know, it's a question of both. will and the capacity to do so. i think fwheerwe're in a very dangerous moment. again, iran is entrenched in ways they've never been before, right on israel's border. we have seen the israelis r

still supports isis. they are not emotionally invested, it doesn't cost them very much in terms of time and effort, it cost them nothing in terms of money. they understand that we will then have to respond to that which causes us to chase our tales for a while and to put work into finding out where the photo actually came from and refuting it. it really is a way that they can dominate the information space. every once in a while you will see them strike the u.s. partner forces and democratic forces. they did that a couple of times when i was there in the fall of 2017, they have done it a couple of times since, often it is just an attempt to strike near or very closely in front of the u.s. partner force to deter it from moving further then where the russians don't want it to move. the final thing you will see is the general agreement with the russian confederation. the euphrates is the d confliction line in syria so we stay east and north and they stay south and west. they came across the euphrates and the

>> isis. they are rebels. >> recently hezbollah has become heavily involved in the war in syria, in defense of the asad regime. complicating matters and uncomfortably enough they are probably the best organized, best equipped most serious obstacle to isis and al qaeda in the area. >> most of the villages in eastern lebanon, they are christian and they are sunni. >> correct. >> if hezbollah wasn't there, it was christian in that area. this is the only reason, this is the only reason just to protect my children and my wife. >> 20 years, 30 years? >> yeah. >> will things be better? >> i hope so. that many years, now, next year. i hate war. h. l'oréal's true match blends seamlessly for a true-to-you finish. now in 45 shades. it's perfect for me. find your true match. from l'oréal paris. so did you gkind of. car? thanks to navy federal it only took 5 minutes. so vets can join? oh yeah. how do you kind of buy a new car? it's used. it's for mikey. you know he's gonna have girls in that car. yeah. he's gonna have two

that is certainly aligned with our interests and is part of the final defeat of isis. to defeat isis you not only have to defeat them on the battleground, but also roll what they have taken from people. ben: was there push back on some that seemed tong prioritize religious minorities, christians in iraq in a lot of cases? back against the vice president's office, saying, we need to prioritize those most in need, and in most cases it does include minority groups? push back.no need to we are lined with the vice president. these are people who have disproportionately suffered and continue to suffer, so the fact we have programs to rebuild the economic fabric of those communities is in line with what we do in many parts of the world. this is a country that is closely tied to american defeating and again, isis means we have to rebuild the fabric and a part of the country that may be distant from baghdad, but we know is an integral part of the future. since we are in the middle east, you have spoken about how there needs to be an improvement in conditions in some of the camp

in fact miles away from all the action we don't have a contouring in mission here we have a defeat isis mission that competition between all these forces allows for isis to play back and forth every surrounding neighbor of syria including the syrian government have had other enemies to fight in other concerns isis is opposed calm number two it's a difficult problem it's also a divided syria because you have a border region where you rocks on one side the syrian the democratic forces on the other backed by the united states and a syrian army backed by russia and iran are on the other there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them are hungry for geopolitical bounty in syria and writing off i still really means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence. caroline cox a member of the u.k. house of lords believes western powers need to rethink their stance on president bashar al assad if they want to bring peace to syria. i've had very vicious articles about me in. the newspapers like the london times there is a big media i think is very biased indeed and it really does not

our is in line with interests, and it certainly is part of the final defeat of isis. notink to defeat isis, you only have to beat them on the battleground, but you have to roll back what they have taken away from those people. ben: was there push back on your part with some of the messaging that seemed to prioritize just the religious minorities? theyou push back against vice president presidents office saying, no, we need to prioritize those who are most in need, and it just so happens that sometimes it includes those minority groups? mark: we are in line with the vice president. again, these are people in communities that have disproportionally suffered and continue to suffer. so the fact that we have programs, that we are building the mosaic and economic fabric of the community is in alignment with what we do in many parts of the world. a country that is clearly very closely tied with america's interests. isis in a defeating part of the country that may be distant from baghdad, we know it is an integral part of its future. >> last question. carol: since we are in t

the enduring defeat of isis which requires not just battlefield victory, but stabilization so isis can't re-emerge. ending the military presence of iran and its proxies which are significant dporses of instability and conflict in syria and the neighborhood, and we want to see a syrian political process progress because without it syria will not achieve stability, security and prosperity. syria will end its support for terrorism and verifiably eliminate its wmd stockpiles and programs and it's essential to create conditions for the safe, voluntary and dignified return of refugees and interior displaced persons and we join in a political resolution include g missile and strucks in houthi-controlled areas in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. we support the efforts of u.n. special envoy martin griffiths and encourage all sides to work through the u.n. for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. as secretary pompeo said, substantive consultations must commence this month in a third country and implement confidence-building measures to address the underlying issues of the conflict and

but now, the defeated isis at least isis the army, there will still be isis insurgent groups, isis terrorist cells that will have to be pursue and pressure kept on them. there is always a latent possibility. but you've got to get the hash tashabi either into the iraqi security forces officially and under that chain of command and responsive to them, or you are going to have to get them into other positions, job training, or what have you, the same way we did with the, those who reconciled during the anbar awakening. the sons of iraq program that we had. and so they might want to dust that off. it worked seriously well for the first three and a half years after the surge. until unfortunately it was undone by prime minister malaki in a series of sectarian actions that once again alienated the sunni arabs and once again tore apart the fabric of society that we had tried to put back together. so this is going to be a challenge. and it will be one of the top challenges but by no means the only. again, if they can't drive down corruption and if they can't improve basic service, the iraqi people wi

they were feeling threatened by isis not just because isis occasionally kill them and do little but also because isis was starting to gain for the control of the black markets and smuggling routes and those kinds of things. they figured if the allied with the records they would have the camera with which to smash isis, the islamic state at the time. so we start going through romani and bringing -- romani and fallujah and these other places and we think that we're winning the war. at the time islamic state was putting on a stretch of fighting back. the slogan for the strategy was, this was in 2007, was nine votes for the apostate, one for the crusader, right? nine bullets for the sunni sheiks and sunni tribesmen who are outlying against us,in only one for the americans, right? and so even as we were bringing all these gains and setting up these local militias told the piece, islamic state was referring the groundwork and strategy by which they would eventually come back which is what happened with after 2010 that shia prime minister started attacking sunni politicians and they were able t

these global politics be very locally relevant and that's where it becomes problematic so that the isis fighters go in but they link up with local groups who have local grievances and many of these governments are very imperfect and this is where it resonates and they become very popular with the rank and file were not a joiner suggesting that even in the middle east the threat could be seen as overblown in parts that they're not a threat to a lot of governments is that you will view. i think very clearly isis you know the organization has had a massive threat than a massive massive consequences on the populations in syria and iraq particularly but elsewhere in the middle east i mean having spent time over the years in iraq it's been devastating and it's been a very dire.

and isis took -- obama administration was wrapping up. special operators on the ground. they always kept saying, we are not putting boots on the ground. buddy of mine said, really special operators where combat slippers. [laughter] then they always assess, if we had troops in combat. we are not sending troops into combat. on occasion, there may be troo troops, describe the fact that it is true that there have been people who have engaged in combat without saying they've been in combat. during this period, we are introduced, me in the congressman and a couple of people and we were talking about better transition, and he said, it's very important, the subject. the audience was a lot of military folks in about a dozen severely injured troops. guys missing, legs, they had been burned all over the body, missing ears and noses and such. she said, one of our protestant establishment in the obama and ministration is ending those worse. somebody in the audience went -- i was looking around, and i thought, are you lying to us? or are you lying to y

isis is not completely dismantled the. more rewarding efforts by the syrian army with the help of the russian army with the help of the iranian forces in order to completely destroy these terrorist organizations. that are affiliated with that i think the world these sanctions are illegitimate they are illegitimate against syria they are illegitimate against illegitimate against hezbollah because they are baseless they are not based on the decision made by the united nations or by some actions that are proven to be illegal actions or by direct support for any terrorist organizations. leonardo da vinci as being dragged into a riot between the french president and italy's deputy prime minister who have been trading insults online no room is reconsidering loaning the masters priceless works for a major exhibition in paris we need to renegotiate everything the french cannot have it all there now is a talent he only died in france to give the louvre all these paintings would put italy on the margins of a major cultural event whi

escalatedwar in syria in order to defend the syrian people from isis and to theoretically prevent isis from growing. now, the war in syria has actually done quite a bit and the united states can say that i think they did a good job in certain respects, but much of syria and iraq were left in rubble as part of the 2014 response to the threat of isis. the same could be said in afghanistan and pakistan. and, you know, in yemen. that these wars, they leave a trail of destruction. thousandt to get a few or many thousands of militants that might pose as recognized states, we have left a trail of destruction. a couple post-9/11 veterans waiting to chat in kentucky. go ahead. caller: yes. know,d just like to president obama, basically let iran have $150 million for the sanctions. and also paid 500 million in cash for our hostages. we did not get any kind of deal for that. people like me can't get any help. that don't make sense. could you answer my question for me? when you talk about $100 million, five hundred million dollars, you are talking about a lot of money. but i'm talking about many h

>> the president of mama said, president has said gang members and isis have infiltrated the group. we want people to see countries that need -- >> recreational marijuana. >> i would like to. see more results come out of colorado where they legalized it. i biggest concern is, with the doctors say is brain 2 developmt up to 24 years old. i am all for medical marijuana. illnesses can keeping taken care of. more research. i think the government has a big role inor playing in this. recreational marijuana, i would leave it up to the states. h >> i don't disagree. this is a question for the state legislator to answer. i think it is important for the federal government to step back. let states make the decision. i agree that you've got to reclassify marijuana. i think you've got to make sure that if you do want to have an economy, you should have the companies be able to do banking. it's very hard to do today. i long supported medicinal marijuana. i think the federal government should step back. let the state government make ise decision for themselves. >> that's what i want to do. they've

two problems first we are in the schengen european zone where there is freedom of movement so when isis was around there was a very strong terrorist threats against europe and notably our country in particular was bloodied by terrorist attacks isis planned to infiltrate via the must have climbed this time immigration networks which destabilized the functioning of europe dormant networks to attack the states that were sending armed forces to fight in syria today massive illegal immigration has created a political problem for europe germany is directly affected to the stands of i'm glad merkel italy as well but surprisingly their new minister of the interior has decided to slam their borders shut it is true that we could occasionally close the borders for example for a weekend during those big international protests at the big international summits but right now there is insecurity linked to illegal immigration in the public opinion even if it's not justified there's also the terrorism risk of course but there is above all a populist reflex that we can observe in hungary and italy among o

somalia and there may be people roaming around the middle east screaming that there are members of isisbecause it's what one does who are probably in create trouble but it's not it i don't think is even a major problem there overall. certainly far far worse than it was earlier when they control these and when they're able to actually do these massacres that you talked about i'm going to disagree with that a couple of them to go to so the reason i disagree is a lot of the foreign fighters that have left iraq and syria have gone to places like libya they've gone to southeast asia they've gone to pakistan and afghanistan and so the idea that these are not actual threats to the governments i disagree having spent time in pakistan having traveled through these areas talking to people who are former members of terrorist organizations this is an actual threat to some governments but he's right not to the american government you know you used the phrase earlier of what kabul is not part of the problem that if you've got this organization that can just pop up because it's an ideology is about as

against isis you know all this but isis is not defeated yet politically or socially it is maybe close to being defeated militarily but they still keep their tools and services they still have followers of these and so we don't know. why their propaganda on the internet do you think that now that i says is almost defeat ate their internet propaganda is still as dangerous as before. yes yes of course because when you do something you have to have people know what you did. on the second thread i want to talk about that exists in france is a thread from the inside to flip it exists in our territory there are people who use this kind of internet communication that we're talking about to fulfill their need for respect for being useful we also have cases unfortunately linked with mental illness troubles and all that kind of stuff leaves us with low cost terrorism and the potential for action it any time so we should not bring our guard down. but to go back to the question to saying there french surveillance services are doing fine without the state of emergency. yes in the sense that we also