turning to michael o'hanlon from the brookings institute. michael specializes in u.s.se strategy and just wrote a column "how do we prevent isis 2.0. withdrawing from syria is not the answer." to begin with, thank you. when we did this a year ago, 59 tomahawks, did that have any effect on the conflict? >> no, it did not in any way that i can detect in second and third order details that are hard to measure. probably did eliminate 15 to 20% of the syrian air force. but assad still has enough airplanes and artillery to bombard neighborhoods and may have slowed him down. he has russian help and has iranian and hezbollah help on the ground. so since that time he's continued to win the war. we've seen as you know a second war going on in the east where our allies, the syrian democratic front, mostly the kurds from the north, have on the ground with our air power support defeated much of isis's presence in the east. isis not completely eliminated and there's still al-quaida presence in the northwest. that's the other major development. that had nothing to do with the air str

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joined now by michael -- -- o'hanlon from the brookings institute. think we should take them at their word? >> it's encouraging. president trump should feel good about his strategy so far. it produced anxiety in china and north korea, which has contributed to kim's charm offensive. president kim will try to get the best possible due for the fewest possible concessions and probably is not really interested in quickly denuclearizing. if what we mean by that is a complete elimination of his nuclear arsenal. i think we have to be realistic about what he is talking about. it's very important for president trump to stay very calm and realistic about what could be on the table here and to think through with his team various scenarios so we don't give too much for what turns out to be a small north korean concession. i'm encouraged, but a long way to do. >> jon: here's what the president tweeted about this yesterday. he wrote "we are a long way from conclusion on north korea. maybe things will work out, maybe they won't. only time will tell. the work i'm doi

meanwhile, brookings ininstitution's senior fellow michael o'hanlon had this to say on friday. >> president trump is going to have to rein his m more ambitios goals and yet still drive a relatively hard-line and not give away too much for interim or partial agreement. the denuclearization idea, however, is a long ways from even getting seriously started because we have heard this kind of talk before. we know ththat north korea means something else by the concept of denuclearization and we think we hear with our western ears. i haven't seen any realistic discussion of what would be the first ups or any kind of intntem deal along the way. amy: tim shorrock, your response to these comments? so many been wrong on things like iraq and afghanistan for so long, i don't know why anyone is listening to him. he is completely wrong. he apparently has not read this panmunjom declaration. let me get back to that "times" piece. quote from that and is bad for the u.s. national security because it will prevent trump from taking military action? what kind of talk is that for reporter? he depends on all the

meanwhile, brookings institution's senior fellow michael o'hanlon had this to say on friday. >> president trump is going to have to rein his more ambitious goals and yet still drive a relatively hard-line and not give away too much for interim or partial agreement. the denuclearization idea, however, is a long ways from even getting seriously started because we have heard this kind of talk before. we know that north korea means something else by the concept of denuclearization and we think we hear with our western ears. i haven't seen any realistic discussion of what would be the first ups or any kind of interim deal along the way. amy: tim shorrock, your response to these comments? so many been wrong on things like iraq and afghanistan for so long, i don't know why anyone is listening to him. he is completely wrong. he apparently has not read this panmunjom declaration. let me get back to that "times" piece. quote from that and is bad for the u.s. national security because it will prevent trump from taking military action? what kind of talk is that for reporter? he depends on all the est

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i'm michael o'hanlon. you're going to talk about somalia. in all of its manifestations. with a particular eye on security conditions and political transitions and by thatchallenges faced country of 11 million and the horn of africa. i have a distinguished panel here. us and discuss matters. then we will go to you for the second half of the program for your questions. stephenme is ambassador schwartz, a retired u.s. ambassador of foreign service officer, who was united states ambassador to somalia through last fall. spanning both recent presidencies in somalia, as well as both recent presidencies in the united states. he was also a foreign service officer and ambassador at another -- and a number of african countries and really pleased to have him here. on a personal level, he was a peace corps volunteer in africa in the early 1980's. in my case, in drc. in his, cameron. to his left is my good friend and co-conspirator, vanda felbab-brown, who in addition to her book on wildlife trafficking, has studied africa in many dimensions with her ongoing focus on transnational cri