just 25 miles from raqqah.heir commander told us they'll reach the city by nex could capture it by the end of the summer. that's a long time for these people, who've escaped isis only to find themselves stranded in the wilderness. holly williams, cbs news, west of raqqah. >>> coming up next, a surprising revelation from gentlemiselle bn on cbs this morning. h jeremy. so let's be clear: clearasil works fast on teen acne, not so much on other teen things. you knmegared omega-3s... but did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too? megared advanced 4in1... just one softgel delivers mega support. no matter who was in there last. protection. new lysol power & fresh 6 goes to work flush after flush for a just-cleaned feeling that lasts up to 4 weeks. lysol. what it takes to protect. >>> this morning that her husband played through a concussion on his way to his fifth super bowl ch

and boot isis out of raqqah once and for all, which the u.s. considers a vital military objective. so the president approved this just in the last hours yesterday, we are told, and those arms, those supplies, should start flowing to these kurdish groups. now, because of the turkish opposition, top administration officials have made a series of phone calls, had conversations face to face with their turkish counterparts to explain all of this, to explain the reasoning and the fact secretary james mattis talked to his turkish counterpart, the state department talking to their turkish counterparts trying to keep the turks relatively calm about all of this but the turks are clearly going to be upset about this. they have already conducted some of their own military missions against some of the forces working just inside northern syria and iraq. >> good point about turkey and the opposition in the wake of the news. we will look to questions on that to sean spicer momentarily. thank you, at the pentagon. and another topic that sean spicer is likely to

continues to prioritize support for arab elements of the sdf, raqqah and all liberated territory should return to the governance of local syrian arabs. the fight for raqqah will be long and difficult but ultimately, yet another defeat for isis and another step towards eliminating the isis threat that threatens peace and security in the region and the world. >> the secretary of state is meeting today with his counterpart from russia today, the foreign minister of russia, sergey lavrov. are you expecting deliverables from that meeting? >> we will have a readout when that's done. >> reporter: i have two brief. first, are you expecting after again afghan review to be done by the time the president heads to saudi arabia? >> that's a question i will leave up to the national security team. i'm not going to -- the president is not putting a deadline on that. this is obviously what we announce today is part of that. it is not entirely it. we will have more as we go forward. i don't want to pin down a timeline on it. >> reporter: one more. in this briefing you talked about the president's desire

necessarily move against raqqah? or did he put it on hold because the trump administration was going to do this big review of the isis strategy going forward and they weren't ready to commit to anything? the same issue coming up now with the obama administration on the plan to arm the kurds, which we've now seen happen under the trump administration. >> right. >> those kurdish rebels that are going to help retake raqqah. this was all happening during the transition, a lot of decisions back and forth. michael flynn putting some things on hold when the obamas said, look, we'll go ahead and do it, and that way, the heat won't be on the trump white house in its opening weeks, but flynn putting it on hold. so, i think what we have here is it goes to the nuance of all of this. not all of it very clear cut. two great examples. did michael flynn put things on hold because it served his business interests with the turks? did he put on hold because the trump administration wasn't ready to commit to new policy on isis and wante

it's still active in and around raqqah, the isis headquarters attorn ton town. they are in touch with a variety of extremists in the west, in europe, in the united states to try to get them to carry out terrorist attacks in isis' name. we have senior line direction over these encrypted apps in half of all the terrorist plots that we have seen in europe since 2014. a very big part of this terror threat coming from isis using encryption online to communicate with sympathizers back in the west. it's very, very difficult to intercept any of that, if not impossible in real time, anderson, if you don't know who your target is, you don't have a suspect. so european security agencies have been flying blind. u.s. security agencies have been flying blind despite the huge amount of money spent on gchq here in the uk, spent on the nsa in the united states. the case of the brussels attack, they were actually able to record audiotapes and then it appears send those audiotapes, audio briefings over the internet using the encrypted apz apps giving them feedback about their plan

to keep those skirmishes under control, to keep the focus on moving towards raqqah, the u.s.on friday began these patrols very visible, flying the american flag. they want everybody to know they're there, basically not formally as peacekeepers, but essentially as a visible peace force, saying to everybody, calm down, behave, no more border skirmishes. dangerous business, nonetheless. this is a very volatile area. the turks are not happy, and the u.s. has to keep its support for the rebels but has to keep turkey happy as well. the u.s. needs access to those air bases just over the turkish border, but it doesn't want turkey attacking the rebels because it wants the rebels still focused on raqqah. in the middle of all this, those u.s. special forces conducting those patrols, putting themselves out there right in front. no telling how long all of this will last. >> and barbara, this is two weeks ahead of president erdogan of turkey coming to the white house. >> reporter: well, it is, and he comes at this very delicate time with all of this going on. the turkish government, erdoga

he had a plan to take raqqah. using turkish forces. something opposed. >> this was run by general flynn who told the obama team to hold off for reasons unclear. trump went through with the plan and then fired flynn for lying to vice president pence. >> all of this before he stood before graduates at the academy and said life is not always fair. he instruct ted them to put the heads down and fight and never give up. he seemed to be wallowing in his problems. he took a shot at the media on a day that should have been all about the students. >> look at the way i've been treated lately. especially by the media. no politician in history, and i say this with great maturity. has been treated worse. >> with all the complaints over the media, kellyanne conway was supposed to be the first adviser to go on tv and talk about the appointment of robert mueller. last night on fox news. she canceled at the last minute. we expect to hear more from president trump when he welcomed colombian president juan santos later today to the white house. >>> and s

. >> last month they killed 70 people in raqqah and aleppo and it's killed the source that was going out from that air base to kill other syrians. >> charlie: what does your organization do? >> it's an organization mostly concerned with development, education and relief. and so our model is based on community centers. we set up community understands in the under privileged communities in the neighbors communities. we're responsive to their communities and their needs, we have schools, small grants, women empowerment programs, etcetera. >> charlie: and you train people every day. >> yes. >> charlie: you live in jordan? >> yes. >> charlie: you go back and forth. >> yes. >> charlie: what do you want the united states to do? how can the united states do more to help the syrian people? >> it's a difficult question but i think they've already been involve in the military face of the problem or the conflict. sadly they were only focussing on isis. it's still in power. >> charlie: explain to america why that's true. >> assad only exists because of the regime. in 2012 when the uprising starte

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it means people may think you are compromised when the raqqah operation comes up.u can be against it for a million reasons. >> looking through the lens. >> it is a question of judgment. how can you hire this person? >> he's a good guy. he is loyal. he went against obama. >> those are the things that trump looks for. >> this is national security adviser. the most important job at the center of american foreign policy. >> this is not donald trump. this is someone telling you how they are thinking at the time. >> one of the things we have seen with the president over and over is he has been very good over the course of his life and the course of the campaign and the transition to bending reality to how he wanted it to be. that becomes really impossible with the special counsel in place right now. it is why you somewhere seyou he seen the reaction. he can go back to the last time he did that. he will never change. this is the way he views the world. through the prism of who is loyal to him. >> chris, about don mcgann now. he gets the warning from flynn january 4th. he

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of course this is being seen in the wider context of the push on raqqah itself which is only about 30es to the east. the kurdish forces are saying that that operation will begin later this summer. this all comes ahead of course of president trump's inaugural foreign visit where he'll be going to israel and saudi arabia. of course the defeat of the islamic state is going to be very high up the agenda in both countries. it's something that he has campaigned on consistently. one of the issues that he'll have to confront is the announcement that they're going to arm america the kurdish forces in syria, which puts them on a collision path with their traditional ally in this area turkey. so there's going to be quite a lot of diplomatic maneuvering to be done to try and thread their way through this. but be it no doubt that the pressure on the islamic state both in mosul and here in syria around raqqah is growing with every day. keir. >> itn's dan rivers in damascus. thank you. pope francis, an outward critic of president trump's policy says he won't push president trump to soften his stance

forces to retake isis's capital of raqqah. it worked hand in hand with syrian kurdish forces which turkey opposed. the obama administration lood in the incoming administratio sie th plan would likely be executed once trump was in office. the president did eventually approve the raqqah plan but not until weeks after flynn was gone. one of the things that reportedly raised alarm bells in the justice department early on was an editorial flynn published in support of turkey and called for the extradition of a clashg living in pennsylvania. on november 8th, election day, he wrote in part, quote, it is fair to say most americans don't know exactly what to make of our ally, turkey, these days as it endures a prolonged political crisis that challenges its long-term stability. we must begin with understanding turkey is vital to u.s. interests. turkey is really our strongest ally in islamic state in iraq and syria. according to the "new york times," the justice department notified him they were looking into his work. >> nbc news has con

. >> reporter: tonight abc news has confirmed israel does have a spy in raqqah who infiltrated isis andse life could now be in jeopardy. >> the real risk is not just this source, but future sources of information about plots against us. >> reporter: add to that the new scandal about the comey memo and trump could be in real trouble. this weekend at the president's commencement speech at liberty university, we met several trump supporters who aren't entirely comfortable with the way he fired comey. >> it certainly looks like obstruction of justice. >> i don't think the actual decision was a poor decision, just the way he went about it was poor. >> i am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. there's two narratives to -- to what's going on out there. so the disappointing part is what side do you follow, which one's the truth, you know. we all just want the truth. >> reporter: the republican chair of the house oversight committee sent a letter to the fb notes, summaries and recordings having to do with comey and the president. >> we're going to need to see evidence. do the tapes exis

administration has announced planned to arm syria's kurdish fighters to help recapture the isis stronghold of raqqah, syria. he said they're the best bet to free the city, but arming the kurds angers turkey, a key nato ally. the kurds have been fighting in southern turkey for years. turkey's president is expected to visit president trump next week. >>> south korea's new president says he's willing to visit north korea under the right circumstances. moon jae-in said he'll go anywhere to solve the security crisis of north expanding nuclear weapons and missile program. >>> it is unclear why a tunnel collapsed at washington state's hanford nuclear reservation, but officials say that there was no release of radioactive material. hanford is located southeast of seattle. no workers were inside the tunnel when it collapsed. the problem was discovered as part of a routine inspection. john blackstone reports. >> reporter: the collapsing soil created a 20x20 hole creating a tunnel. it's the nation's largest site of nuclear storage waste. he said nearly 5,000 work is had to take cover. >> what that means is she

mosul will fall by the end of the week, raqqah by the end of year. what's happening is two things. one is isis is saying to the world don't come to iraq and syria anymore. conduct attacks for us where you live. so that's becoming a stronger message that may have played a role here. and second is 7,000 people from western europe went to fight in iraq and syria. 2,000 have come home already. some have died on the battlefield. but as they get squeezed more and more in mosul and raqqah, more and more are going to come home and that actually raises the threat level. >> you have to have watched former cia director brennan's testimony yesterday. what's your takeaway from that. >> >> what struck me, charlie, is that concerned enough last summer about russian interference in the election that they had the cia director make contact with his russian counterpart and tell them to stop and the russians clearly didn't. so my question is what did the obama administration do after that, after they learned that the warning had fallen on deaf ears? >> it appears they did nothing. >> it appears they d

the kurds are working their way toward raqqah, the place isis calls their capital, and holly williamss with them. >> reporter: we were 12 miles west where these kurdish fighters are gradually encircling the city and watching closely for isis fightering trying to flee. they're america's closest partners here in syria, backed up with u.s. coalition airstrikes. the americans are helping, and we appreciate who had been fighting the extremists for three years. but without us on the front line, it will be no use. there are several hundred u.s. troops also on the ground here. so it's the new weapons from america, mortar shells as well as artillery and armored vehicles that the kurdish soldiers say will help the most. but it is also those weapons that have so infuriated turkey. it says the kurdish fighters are linked to terrorists, accused of carrying out a spate of suicide bombings inside turkey. salappi is a kurdish fighter here and says that donald trump has proved that he is a true fend friend by sending weapons. he'd be arrested if he weapons could be used over the border in turkey. if s

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they're clearly making progress in mosul and raqqah in terms of land and reducing the size much their caliphate but we've also seen an uptick in terrorist attacks. >> i think that's a problem even as you get the land back. this is the franchising and inspiration that comes from whether it's al-qaeda or isis and isis in particular. it's not going to go away. i think it can be contained and we need to continue our focus. i don't think it's existential to the country and fundamentally changes our way of life. at the same time it's a priority i think we have to pay attention to. in particularly as the focus and i'm not a big fan of president putin but one thing i've talked to the russians about for years is they're really concerned about terrorism. they have a focus on that. i think we can have a meaningful long term discussion so syria doesn't become the terrorism headquarters of the world. >> charlie: thank you for coming. >> good to see you. >> charlie: back in a moment. stay with us. >> charlie: the alzheimer's center was founded in 2007 and treats those who suffer from the disease. t

in the fight further south to retake raqqah and other areas to push isis out. as the skirmishes continue, the u.s. moving in trying to keep peace in the region so the rebels the u.s. wants to fight rack kqqah can continue to do t and not diverted along the fight along the border. it is politically vital. the u.s. wants continued access to the turkish air bases. the turks are upset that the u.s. is in the reason. >> barbara, thank you for that. >>> instead of getting roasted at the white house correspondents rival event attacking? guess who. >> let's rate the media's 100 days. they are a disgrace. >> every time donald trump goes golfing, the headline should read. trump golfing. apocalypse delayed. take the "w." >> we have more of this for you. our media experts are here next. ♪ , ank. i take movantik for oic, opioid-induced constipation. had a bad back injury, my doctor prescribed opioids which helped with the chronic pain, but backed me up big-time. tried prunes, laxatives, still constipated... had to talk to my doctor. she said, "how long you been holding this

and within a few miles of raqqah, the self-declared isis capital in syria. u.s.-led coalition airstrikes have been paving the way for that advance. here in the capital, we keep hearing from people how they have gotten used to the war as it grinds on into itselfenth year. people say they have opened businesses or found ways to try to move on as they just don't know how long they'll have to,,, >>> former fbi director james comey was out on the town in washington saturday. he showed up at the matinee of the musical "fun home." now we have more on the candidates running to replace mr. comey. >> reporter: attorney alice fisher was the first to arrive at the justice department saturday morning to interview for the job of fbi director. one by one, seven other candidates were paraded in full view of cameras, before heading in to interview with attorney general jeff sessions and his deputy, rod senstein. while the interviews were under way, president trump took a moment aboard air force one to praise the people that his administration is considering to replace james comey

in light of the tragedy in manchester last night, doesn't it lend significant urgency to retaking raqqahginates? >> well, that won't solve the problem, particularly the homegrown and inspired attacks clearly going to the heart of isis and driving a stake through that heart. we assess it will significantly improve the situation. the plotting and the planning that comes from a centralized caliphate or safe haven for isis, we've seen the damage that's occurred. we do assess, however, that its ideology and methods have spread like tentacles into many places, most of them ungoverned countries and sent some foreign fighters back home that might want to carry on their mission. but clearly, the strategy, i belie believe, is the right strategy, and that is to go to the heart and disperse their planning and their leadership. >> the defense science board told this committee, at least in the next decade the offensive cybe

will soon lose control of mosul and the capital in raqqah is nearly us lated. we have killed many isis and isil leaders. the trend lines are moving in the right direction but this fight will not end soon. the enemy remains highly adaptable and capable and may have opportunities to resurge. i'm particularly concerned about the long-term impact of returning foreign fighters and the potential for these groups to capitalize on the proliferation of armed unmanned aerial vehicles to do harm to u.s. and our allied interests. mr. chairman, the men and women of your dia providing unique defense intelligence around the world and around the clock to war fighters, defense policymakers and planners and defense acquisition community. they're doing so on the battlefield of combatant command headquarters, here on the banks of the potomac and in the capitals of the world through our defense attache service. it is a privilege to serve with them and see their service and contribution to our country. i look forward to the committee's questions. >> thank you very much. director coa

democratic forces a key ally in the fight against isis an important player in the efforts to liberate raqqah, which they consider the capital. shipments of kurdish forces included equipment and weapons, declined to go into specifics. trump administration announced the plan earlier this month which did not sit well with nato ally turkey which considers kurdish forces terrorists. >>> staying overseas, anti-government protests continue on a daily basis in venezuela as the situation continues to escalate with no end in sight. protesters demanding maduro step down and pro-government forces disarm. the country started to use military tribunals. roughly 60 people killed so far in protests against maduro's government. >>> mexico's foreign american sister proclaimed venezuela is no longer a functioning democracy and we're, quote, seeing authoritarian actions. later today, foreign ministers across the americas set to convene over the venezuela crisis. >>> the police officer charged in the deadly shooting of a man in a traffic stop set to begin picking jurors. 50 prospective jurors sworn in as the mans

. >> as isis loses on the battlefield and they have strongholds in syria and raqqah.seems like they are encouraging people to stay where they are and do what they can. >> last two years, that's their message. stay at home. it's too dangerous to come here. if you aren't here, don't come. you can get a truck and you can drive into a crowd. you see in the united states, for example, i was at the boston marathon this year. all along the route, big, big trucks blocking all the side streets. out of fear that someone would just go and get a truck and drive it into the marathon. >> can you compare al qaeda to isis? >> isis is more effective. >> isis is more effective? >> much more. >> in getting people and reaching out to people? >> in recruitment. much, much thousands more people have been in isis than ever were in al qaeda. many of them have been killed. very large number of them have been killed in iraq and syria. but they recruited a large army. they occupied cities in libya, in iraq and in syria. al qaeda never occupied a city. this is -- you think of isis or daesh, it's

and what obama former officials say that that decision delayed the eventual assault on raqqah. all that being said, a couple week bs al go the trump administration did decide to directly arm the kurds and the kurds will play a role in the dl will i be rafliberation of raqq. >> and there is new reporting that there are renewed strengths in syria. >> and there is a reminder of just how comp colicated the battlefield is. the main fight in syria is the u.s. going against isis. but you also have the assad regime which is closely linked with russian forces. a militia that has alignment to the as ssad regime was getting o close to american special operators. american forces warned them, they didn't heed the warnings, so these american special forces because the u.s. military thought danger, they struck the militia allied with the assad regime. again, not direct forces. and we don't know the number of casualties. no americans were injured. but these are special operations forces in a very comp licated neighborhood and the strike bes that happened earlier this morning just an indication

for turkey, even though we now learned that he had argued against a key military operation against raqqah because it involved syrian kurds and erdogan was not happy about that. so he was taking policy positions while being paid secretly as a lobbyist for turkey before he was even national security adviser. and mcgahn -- dan mcgahn knew this, and it really raises serious questions about what they considered a vet. i think they considered it vetting him to know what his problems were rather than to disqualify him. and it's similar to the fact that they were sending nominations up of people for cabinet positions who had not yet been given fbi clearance. they took this all so casually, and it seems to me it's because the big man, the boss man wanted him, and therefore it was good enough for them. they have a lot of answering to do, the legal team, for how they let these people get into that high position. >> nicolle wallace, we've been talking about the president's state of mind, what it's like to work for him. "the washington post" reports they're going to stages of grief. i want you to imag

in syria and raqqah, they're trying to surround all of the villages and allow no fighters to escape sohey don't then become foreign fighters in europe or the united states. >> and hans, what's the latest about this north korean missile test that we saw last weekend? we're learning more about it. >> reporter: it's very troubling what we're learning. this was a kn-17 rocket, a range of around 28,000 miles. what we learned is when it reentered the atmosphere, it looked like it reentered in tact. it was a controlled reentry. that was all one of the main obstacles that north korea had had on their missile program, on their ballistic missile program. what they did is they shot it straight up in the air. so the arc came down like this. but it was very controlled and they wanted to see if it could establish reentry and do it. it did that successfully. that's a great deal of concern, according to two military officials on the reporting to be transparent about that. it is a great deal of concern at the pentagon. they tried to test the kn-17 now four times. this is the first time they did it. and

that the pentagon should go ahead with this plan in syria to take raqqah and work with the syrian kurds. and flynn, at this point, according to the story says no, that they should not go ahead with the plan. and he of course in this way in saying no comes down on the side of the turkish government. and at that time he is being paid as you said half a million dollars from the turkish government. after he leaves and the plan unfolds and the pentagon goes ahead with this plan in syria, but again this gets back to what the trump administration knew, what donald trump knew about michael flynn, why he did not act earlier to get him out of the administration. all of these warning signs that go even further back, even the transition team's warnings go further back to president obama saying that he did not think that michael flynn was a good choice for national security adviser. and of course, we know that donald trump goes ahead and names him, and this is why he is in so much trouble now in terms of his special prosecutor, special counsel, and why he leaned on jim comey according to "the new yo

to be taking place here is should the attacks by isis if they are traced back to the caliphate and raqqah, should that trigger article 5. should there be more nato involvement in syria, in iraq to stamp out isis. so all these are the backdrop. we have a leader summit tomorrow night. a lot of these guys may take an opportunity, some of them, to be critical of donald trump. it's really their first chance to see him in person. stephanie. >> thanks, hans. i want to bring in my panel. ned ryan is ceo of american majority and a former speechwriter for george w. bush. z et zerlina max well and richard stengel, undersecretary of state for public affairs under president obama and currently is an msnbc analyst. rick, i'm going to go to you first. let's walk through, the president just sat down with the pope. the pope brought up health care, he brought up immigration, education. these are issues that the president could radically change. was the pope sort of putting out a plea for status quo? >> i think the pope was being ministerial and trying to minister to donald trump. the pope is the polar oppo

one is those that are directed by isis, those who have gone to raqqah and sent back to attack. we've seen that in france, belgium, germany. there's that pool. you have the newly radicalized, individuals who live in the country inspired by the message of isis or al qaeda and decide to learn online or perhaps get some help from people in country but haven't traveled and aren't directly foot soldiers of isis, but carry the banner and flag. so that's a problem. the other problem -- we've seen this in france, for example, is the long line i can't imagine ofro -- of radical i'd say networks. those provide an infrastructure and ability to support any sort of attack and they can then support a radicalized individual who's coming back from fighting with i.c.e. or al qaeda or simple support a radicalized individual. this is difficult work, counterterrorism work, and the brits have done a really good job in recent years in part with u.s. help, but due to their own efforts largely. we may be seeing something that made it through those security protocols and efforts. >> i just want to note

and i understand that in terms of taking down raqqah, the capital of caliphate of isis inside syria butwith the syrian kurds and what i disagree with u.s. policy is that syrian kurds militarily make sense but politically makes no sense. when you're conducting military operations, you have to ask yourself two questions, what does it take to succeed militarily and what political end state are you trying to achieve. in this case, we can't succeed militarily using the syrian kurds but the political end state is unacceptable. we are at a collusion course there and erdogan will talk to the president about that but the president has a lot to talk about with erdogan because why are you supporting the al-qaeda in syria, why is your border still open to isis between the turkish and syrian border and why are you moving into the orbit of the russian and the iranians, so there's a lot on the table for this discussion. there's probably one of the most serious discussions since president. maria: those are answers he's going to we wanted to from erdogan. jack: yes, most definitely. the president is goi

southeast asia have been connected in some way, shape or form to isis' command and control there in raqqah, in syria. and we tend to refer to some of these attackers as lone wolves. it's really a term that has come and gone. because these individuals are not just self-inspired, self radicalized and made self-capable by their activities. they're connect to a much larger network. where they got their inspiration, whether it was a website, a chat room, a telegram chat, some sort of online radicalization usually can tell us the origin of the radicalization, where they're connected and where other plots might be coming from. >> jeremy bash, thank you. commissioner bratton remains here with us in our studio. do you agree with jeremy's points? sounded good to me, that lone wolf is not an accurate term to use. >> no, i think it's still accurate because you've heard the term operating on their own. we've had ten abled that they learn how to make the bomb. think of the two brothers in boston. and we certainly had the directed types of attacks that we've seen so frequently in europe. so lone wolf i s

quickly, if you see most you will actually liberated and isis driven out of its pseudocapital in raqqah. because for israel that may mean it faces a significant and very different extremist threat somewhere on its border area. there also is the fact that uring all of these conflicts that hezbollah has steadily built up its missile forces. effectively rearmed, gotten better capabilities so you have lesser threat of hezbollah in lebanon than at the point that israel fought the war over the threat in that rea. and then there is always the question of preserving israel's edge. there is already a memorandum of understanding which seems to give israel what it needs for a security posture but it's always interesting to see what happens during a presidential visit. the saudis i think will always be more problematic. every time we have vaste to saudi arabia we again discover we have a major ally that has a very different political system and culture and a very different approach to human ights. and i think some issues are fairly obvious. one is president trump like president obama raised the iss

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