mcguirk. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> thank you, mr. engle. this morning we're pleased to be joined by special presidential enjoy brett mcguirk. mr. mcguirk was recently promoted from deputy special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter isil. prior to these assignments special envoy mcguirk served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for iraq and iran. mr. mcguirk has been a valuable voice in the administration, pressing for a more robust u.s. role. i appreciate that. without objection, the witness's full prepared statement will be made part of the record, and members will have five calendar days to submit statements, questions, and extraneous materials for the record. so, we'd ask if you can summarize your remarks, ambassador. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member engle, and members of the committee. it's a real honor to be here. i first appeared before you and this committee in november of 2013 to talk about then what we knew as al qaeda in iraq and the emerging threats which we now know as isil. i've been back a

and then gutfeld and mcguirk on the iowa vote.ght back. >>> thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the is it legal segment tonight, violence in chicago remains out of control in the minority precincts and i believe this is racism. you want racism? this is it. but, first, big time money flowing into hillary clinton's super pac. george soros, far left guy as you know, donated $6 million to mrs. clinton's osgáh(ac a few weeks ago. that on top of another million he had already given to priorities u.s.a. with us now attorneys and fox news analyst kimberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. where does the soros money go, exactly. >> it's a super pac as you said. if it goes the same way as the last national election, attack ads. they attacked romney on when he was working at bain as you know. steel company that they shut down and apparently. >> television ads. >> television attack ads, exactly. >> attacks people that mrs. clinton wants attacked? >> right. >> you say it's a super pac. >dyww super pac. >> with all due respect people don't

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nbc 10 was at mcguirk's pub and grill in ft.ton where students from the montessori children's house held a fund-raiser for teacher vanessa. she suffers from a rare condition that gave her her first stroke at the age of 26. the students with help from parents, organized this benefit hoping to find a cure someday. >> i'm so blessed to have an amazing family. i love the kids so much. these kids are the best. they really make me so happy. >> mcguirk's pub will donate a portion of last night's sales to the association. >>> the auto show came to a close last night. car enthusiasts of all ages got to check out 700 makes and models from all over the world. auto show officials are telling us this year's event may be one for the recordç books. they tell us some 250,000 people came to the pennsylvania convention center during the nine-day event. >>> good samaritans to the rescue. next, we're learning new details about two people who jumped in to help a little girl being attacked by a raccoon. >>> nbc 10 breaking news. >>> flashing lights,

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brett mcguirk: we have u.s. forces on the ground in iraq and the area, we welcome our partners to join us in that denver -- endeavor. andave done damage to isil, we are looking for others to join us. that is so that is something where we have lead. secretary carter is meeting in brussels today with the defense ministers of the coalition. he's puttingings on members of the coalition, including members of the is il is a threat to you. isil is in audi arabia. we want them to do more. partners toof the do more. this is a constant discussion that we have. our interests don't always align with many of our partners interest. this is natural and foreign friends.th our this is something that we're discussing constantly. i know the foreign minister was yesterday. he saw the secretary. we'll see him -- i know he saw a number of you. we'll see him in munich tomorrow approaches.ign our we try to get the focus on the threat and try to align our resources. when it comes to the regime, we processget a political on track. otherw

the committee raised this with ambassador mcguirk yesterday. and i pass these concerns on to you. mr. royce: these individuals need protection. the u.s. government needs to guarantee that protection. and we have seen what has happened of late. in terms of the loss of human life there at the camp. so, i would convey to you what i conveyed to him yesterday, to the ambassador yesterday. which is, this needs to be a priority. we appreciate the time of both of you as witnesses here today before the committee. you've heard the deep concerns that many of our members have about iran policy. and how it's being carried out. so i know that you'll want to continue to be in touch with members of this committee as we move forward. at this time we'll adjourn the hearing. thank you again for your appearance. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> on today's washington journal, we look ahead to the democratic caucuses in nevada and the role o

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so on the good side, great mcguirk, in charge of the president's fight against isis, he said in his testimony in terms of territory that isis has lost 40% of the territory that it had in iraq 10% in syria. the u.s. has killed 90 senior mid-level seniors. a reference that seems to say that when they did this raid to capture abu sigh jeayyaf, we kn that, but it was the most ever for a special operations raid. on the negative side, he said russian activity there is directed principally at directing regime of of bashar al assad is having a negative effect in the fight against isis. here's what brett mcgurk had to say. >> assad cannot remain in power if we are going to get out of this incredibly difficult situation. as i mentioned, discussed with the chairman, what's going on north of aleppo, my job on isil, fighting isil, we had real progress to push across what we call if mare line and the russian air strikes have pulled those forces to fight the regime. so what russia is doing is enabling isil. >> so u.s. allies on the ground that were fighting isis that the u.s. was backing with intelligence,

listen to what brent mcguirk had to say. >> as the russian campaign has begun, those fight verse peeledne to go fight the regime advance. this is causing us real problems for the counterisil campaigns. >> what it's doing is taking fighters the u.s. was backing, moderate rebels on the ground that were contesting isis and they're now fighting against the assad regime. >> this is coming the day after that director clapper said there are more terrorist regimines th ever. >> isis is in eight countries and counting now, yemen, syria, and they have a new focus on attacking the west, not just inspiring attacks there and warnings from director clapper about attacks on u.s. soil this year, anderson. >> thank you very much. south carolina is home to a lot of troops and veterans. it not a stretch to say when voting they do not grade on a curve on the next commander in chief. last night's exit polls, nine out of ten americans are worried about another terrorist attack. republicans in all of the early states, it was third. iowa was two, south carolina goes back between the number one and number two i

envoy brett mcguirk dealing with this went to kobane and met with official says and that angered theecause they consider the pyd which does have links to the p.k.k. which is considered a terrorist group by both turkey and the united states. the turkish view is that the u.s. basically was coddling terrorists. the u.s.' view is no, we are not. we do not consider the pyd a terrorist group. but all that have to say, that is why the ambassador was called in to ankara on tuesday for talks with the turkish officials. the turks are not happy with the idea that united states might be showing any support or encouragement to any during dish group whether they are in syria or iraq because of the fears of the threat to their own national sovereignty. it's a long going, ongoing dispute the u.s.' position is syrian kurds no matter what group they belong to are doing the works that needs to be done to defeat isil and we will continue to stand with them. they are not being persuade today change their mind by these complaints by the turkish government. >> it shows how difficult it is all. rosalind tha

listen to what brett mcguirk had to say. >> as the russian air strike campaign has begun, particularlypo, those fighters have now peeled off that line to go fight the regime advance. and this is causing us real problems for the counter-isil campaign. and frankly, we tell the russians this very clearly. you say you're fighting isil but what you're doing is actually having a detrimental effect to the fight against isil. >> what it's doing is taking fighters that the u.s. was backing, moderate rebels on the ground there that were contesting isis, taking them away from the fight. they're now fighting against the assad regime. it's a real damage to the u.s. strategy there. >> and this is coming just a day after the director of national intelligence clapper said that there are more terrorist havens in the world now than at any time in history. >> that's right. i've rarely seen director clapper more blunt or more sobering. he says basically two things are happening. one, they're expanding their global footprint. isis, it's in fete countries and counting now. failed states like yemen. syria ce

the committee raised this with ambassador mcguirk yesterday. and i pass these concerns on to you. mr. royce: these individuals need protection. the u.s. government needs to guarantee that protection. and we have seen what has happened of late. in terms of the loss of human life there at the camp. so, i would convey to you what i conveyed to him yesterday, to the ambassador yesterday. which is, this needs to be a priority. we appreciate the time of both of you as witnesses here today before the committee. you've heard the deep concerns that many of our members have about iran policy. and how it's being carried out. so i know that you'll want to continue to be in touch with members of this committee as we move forward. at this time we'll adjourn the hearing. thank you again for your appearance. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> on the next washington journal, analyzing the presidents budget proposal. our guess is maya mcgu

the committee raised this with ambassador mcguirk. i pass these concerns on to you. these individuals niece protection. the u.s. government needs to guarantee that protection. we have seen what has happened of late in terms of the loss of human life there at the camp. i would convey to you what i conveyed to him yesterday, to the ambassador yesterday, which is this needs to be a priority. we appreciate the time of both of you as witnesses here today before the committee. you've heard the deep concerns that many of our members have about iran policy and how it is being carried out. so i know that you'll want to continue to be in touch with members of this committee as we move forward. and at this time we'll adjourn the hearing. thank you again for your appearance. >>> tonight on american history tv, oral histories and explorations of black leadership. starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern, phyllis leffler talks to us about tonight's oral histories. at 8:15, radio talk show host armstrong williams is featured. just past 10:00 p.m., former national education association preside

. >> two parallel what we heard the other day from mcguirk. >> i think there will be some other elementsat will be included in the meeting, including an update on our counterfinance efforts, i certainly wouldn't rule out discussion about isil's effort to gain a foothold in libya as well. the united states military took a pretty significant air strike earlier this week that targeted a leading isil figure in libya. that's not the first strike that we've taken there. but anyway, the confers will be somewhat broader the presentation that brett made earlier this week. >> on the supreme court reaching out to members of the judiciary committee, the president didn't make any of those calls, or did he? >> the president made many of those calls. not all of them. >> so he spoke to someone in etch ooh member's office? did he speak to any members directly? >> maybe we're talking past each other. someone from the white house has contacted every single office on the senate judiciary committee. many of those calls were made by the president of the united states to members. the president did not call any