the russians only struck rocca on a handful of times.most of the russian flights are concentrated to the west of syria. we are striking both in the center of rocket itself and of course the countryside. there is no area where we are not able to strike with extraordinary precision. we will take our strike wherever we deem necessary. russians, there hasn't been a problem there. they have taken a few strikes and rocca, but it's been a wild. -- while. we have these weekly calls with the russians to work out how to make sure our planes don't bump into each other or come into inadvertent contact. that has worked generally fairly well, as general brown described on thursday. we will continue that. >> hi. ditto all the thanks for your work. we are looking forward to meeting and working with your successor. to follow up on falluja, you had said a few weeks ago that you did not see any military reason to liberate falluja now. i realize a lot has happened since then. i'd be interesting to get your assessment on whether you still feel that way, what

of months there will be pressure put on muscle and pressure ultimately put on rocca and syria as well. as we do that. also have to keep our eye on the external activities of isis. thernal meaning outside iraq syria theater. challenge for us going forward because we are in a new phase here where isis as they get squeezed and they will get squeezed in iraq and syria. as they get squeezed they will act out externally from there. we are seen that in libya and most importantly we saw in europe. me just watching from where i sit at a small table that the u.s. has some really good sources where these people are. i mean he knew that she must know and any isis leader or any taliban leader or al qaeda leader knows that there's nothing that more that the united states would like and to get them available for a drone strike. it was somehow find out where they are. they're been a significant number of successful strikes against top leadership in the aforementioned groups. >> there have been in the tribute to the u.s. military and our intelligence services. and it's an important message to stand --

. >> pauley: mow rocca questions a preacher. anthony mason follows a tireless big city walker.teve hartman hears a contrite defendant tell it to the judge. first, here are the headlines nor "sunday morning" the first of may, 2016. more severe weather is expected today in the southwest. a wave of thunderstorms spawned tornadoes and flash floods over the weekend in east texas, claiming at least six lives. iraq's prime minister is ordering the arrest of violent anti-government protesters who stormed baghdad's effort fight green zone this weekend. many occupied parliament demanding government reform. jesuit priest and peace activist daniel bear began died yesterday. he was a leader of the 1960s and spent two years in prison or burning draft files as a protest against the vietnam war. he was 94. 3lions airlifted from south america were released into a big cat sanctuary in south africa this morning. the lyons were rescued from circuses in colombia and peru where they lad been physically aboutsed. president obama drew his last laughs as president at the white house correspondents' din

in rocca we had seen this declaration of emergency in rocca, whatever that means.we know this enemy feels threatened. as they should. i've detailed all the straits and we've done that over time, they see the syrian democratic forces in all the syrian air coalition maneuver both to their east and west. to the west and to the east that should dottie. although these areas are becoming increasingly secure. the syrian democratic forces are generating their own combat power in those areas. so certainly we are seeing some reactions to this. we have had reports of isil reese positioning both of their combat capabilities against what they think may be coming next and we've seen reports of them repositioning personnel either in the city or even out of the city. so rightfully isil understands that their days are increasingly numbered. we we are going to continue to keep pressure on them and we expect to see them collapse eventually. >> do you need a quick follow-up? >> to follow-ups, is this a case where you been so focused on the north and the offenses to come that you keep

. >> osgood: mo rocca has the story of a decision to return home.nighton is on the trail to petrified forest national park. gary hart signs off on one very tal order and more, but first the headlines this morning, the 8th of may 2016. the huge wildfire raging in the western canadian province of alberta has now consumed more than 500,000 acres. it's forecast to be the most costly natural disaster in canada's history. parts of the town of fort mcmurray no longer exist. 100,000 people have been evacuated. mexican drug lord "el chapo" guzman, who was has twice escape from jail, has been moved. he's now jailed in northern mexico, just across the texas border. guzman's attorneys are fighting proposals that he be extradited to the united states. sadiq khan, the british-born son of pakistani immigrants and a muslim, is now the new lord mayor of london. he celebrated his victory yesterday with a multi-faith ceremony at an anglican cathedral. at the 142nd kentucky derby run at churchill downs in louisville yesterday, the favorite did not disappoint. >> exagge

there are more pity in people in there that rocca yet supposedly this did not sink into the public consciousness. heather: why is that? why are they not getting the same coverage as isis? >> isis wants to slit your throat and tell you that whereas al qaeda wants to stab you in the back. al qaeda doesn't want to basically draw the attention to everything they are doing. they quietly are trying to build these states in several countries. that's why it's important to expose what they are doing because you can expose their long-term plans but in yemen and syria, since early 2015 in syria they gave more territory than isis. they do it through coalitions, by masking and other influencesand it's very disturbing thing. they are triangulating and saying weare basically the my moderate hottest cause as opposed to isis . heather: i want to ask you about isis in paris but before i get to that, this text detainee featured in the magazine . >> ran out cozy, when he was transferred a couple years ago, a lot of people referred to him as a former cook for bin laden. that's not true, he was a former moneyman and

the obamahink administration has been accelerating its campaign in raqqa,against rocca -- mosul.insthere are very few people who think the clearing can be accomplished before obama leaves office. , in part is aama legacy issue, and as role in commander in chief, wants to push hard using the tools he has at hand. that is what i was able to see. the most interesting thing i found in iraq -- we will talk more about syria, but in iraq, i was just there on my own three weeks ago looking at the campaign against most of -- mosul. i was able to see, in the euphrates valley that stretches towards the, jordanian border, there has been a lot ofmosul progress made. -- a lot of progress made. sheiks were very pragmatic. they are beginning to think isis may not be the winning bet. in classic fashion for tribal leaders, they are beginning, but our experts listed it for me. i know some of these tribes are beginning to flip. i thought that story in the euphrates valley was interesting. the battle for falluja that has been launched is some ways the trickiest. shiite militias, with the sunnis who are t

this is not rocca, it's close to the sea born air assets of nato countries. there are these libyans factions that have been described quit well, i think by fred that threaten dash in one way or another. do they really see this as a place that they can build a fate long term? >> honest answer is is that i am not convinced and it's the best for now. it's the best opportunity that they had from late 2014 to 2015 to acquire a solid territory foothold with with links further and elsewhere on the coast and further south. i have not enough of an expert but from what i can see they have made attempts to go further south in terms of recruitment they're not just through to libya and also from more on the further african continent. i think that it's going to be there and i have little doubt there will be a fielt for the city at some point and isil and knowing that they appear to be led by commanders that have come there from syrian and iran, they will seek to sew as many as they can and other communities so as to prolong the control and approximate the surrounding areas

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tos videos have shifted winning battles instead of giving candy to people in rocca. thing, that has been , when you bring up families and the dangers -- individuals when an leaves the family behind, there is a level of effectiveness there. i'm talking to a number of individuals are true believers on this. when you bring up family members and say, have you talk to your mom lately or what you think about the fact that you left them behind? they tense up in a way that i'm not used to seeing. radicalization is a highly complex and not in your process. humans are complex. disengagement and the relatives asian -- the radicalization will not be linear. had we figure that out. how do we figure that out? it is difficult to figure out the dynamic. >> thank you all for coming out. we appreciate you coming out. we have upcoming events and the next few months. dry out on the mailing list. -- keep your eyes out on the mailing list. have a great weekend. [applause] >> we will have more tomorrow about combating isis and other terrorist threats. we'll take a look at recent attacks in

whole lot of things and be eyes on the ground and be talking to people that are going in and out of rocca, also more trips-- troops in iraq as i suggested. there seems to be an effort on this president even though he has held to his strong position that he is not going to reengage a large amount of american troops, to get some things dn before he leaves office. >> i think that's fair, charliement and there are a lot of things that the united states can do between doing nothing and putting 100,000 troops on the ground. and i think you're seeing that in both iraq and syria. where the united states is focusing on training up those indigenous forces that can push back begins and defeat isis. this say big effort in a tough effort. but at the same time, becoming more increasingly, more closely involved in terms of the training and advising of these groups, in order to enhance their effectiveness. what has to happen in my judgement in iraq and syria, and i think it is happening, is that the narrative of success that isis has had, the narrative of success that has allowed isis to recruit from aro

this is something they did in rocca, syria and molzahn, i rock. -- molzahn, iraq. it lays out a full approach to how civilians are expected to behave. women are subject to many dress code regulations. and men have similar regulations to the length of their trousers. there are three prisons where basically establishing three central prisons, depending on the magnitude of your alleged crime. behavioral police that was established, patrolling the streets. internet is now restricted only to internet cafes run by isis. so, the acquisition of outside information is particularly restricted, unless one is able to travel outside of the city. l areas of of misi control. fare is little evidence so to suggest that isis is earning a lot of money. all of this basically underlines exactly the same model isis has used to control through fear populations under its influence. for that reason, i would briefly turned to the iunter-isis efforts in libya, would actually advocate that in this current phase not rushing. i think there is an impetus in political discussions to rapidly bring

whenever you hear about refugees fleeing rocca and iraq, or you hear about bombings in iraq or you hear about these kinds of things, who do you think they are killing? they are killing muslims. most of the blood on the hands of daesh and al qaeda and these maniacs are people who are muslim. there is no love for these people, or al-shabaab. when al-shabaab kills people in somalia, who are they killing? cares think boko haram about the religion of the people they are blowing up or the girls they are stealing and raping? no, these are homicidal maniacs who quest one thing -- power. that is what they want, and they need a legitimacy. the united states, where islam is a minority religion -- you may not sense this, but in places where islam is the majority religion, anti-muslims who live in america, islam is a good thing. why wouldn't these murderers sort of try to cover themselves with it, and use it to legitimate their evil, just like the klan says, we are christians, or timothy mcveigh says he's a freedom fighter? this is simply exploiting a philosophy beloved by literally over one billion

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devices to help them take sin jar, cutting the line of communication between isil's power centers in rocca and mosul. we introduced an expeditionary targeting force. targeted isil's leadership in iraq and syria and we started to expand the military campaign against isil to every domain including cyber and space. all these capabilities were marshaled against a clear coalition military campaign blend focusing on operations on three objectives . one, destroying isil's parent to murder in iraq and syria which is necessary , not sufficient but necessary. second, combating the mess taft this is of the isil tumor worldwide wherever they appear as has been noted by the chairman and senator reid and three, are most important mission which is to help protect the homeland. in addition to accelerating the campaign with additional us capabilities, we renewed our outreach to coalition members and over the last three months i've conveyed my counterparts several times in paris, brussels, and last week in riyadh. next week in europe to brief them on the coalition military command plan but above all to urge

. >> and if we have as immediate objective to recapture crock of him i correct in-- rocca and my correct in stating that. do you believe the deployment of these 250 soldiers will pacific-- specifically connect us to that golden? >> let me talk to their purpose and the chairman ken pitching as well, but that is precisely their region-- reason we are deploying those forces and to identify and then enable forces that are local to the region and who want to expel isil from that territory and along the lines of what we have seen in should dotty with the syrian arab coalition, which enabled bios expelled isil from that important town and we would like to do that as well-- chairman, do you want to add? >> if i could clarify the point. are you talking about sunni forces in the area, cass-- >> yes. arab forces. >> and neither you mr. secretary or general, how many sunni forces-- forces do you believe will be required for this operation to be successful and for us to reach this goal? >> senator, to wrap back on the purpose of the special operation forces on the granite syria is to did two things t

week they announced that they have the young regular operations to liberate the countryside north of rocca. we have always been focused and will continue to support , particularly the syrian arab component as they can background operations to further isolate the city. there are more than 200 american advisers in syria working with the syrian arab coalition as they continue to pressure isis against a broad front stretching. recently there were images of two cg atf servicemembers wearing why pg packages. i want to make it clear, and this is coming from the commander that our focus is to provide advice and assistance to the syrian democratic forces, particularly the syrian arab component of that force. i just wanted to make that clear up front. now, finally as we move into memorial day weekend let's not forget the three americans who have lost their lives supporting this operation. army master sergeant joshua wheeler, marine staff sergeant lewis garden, and navy chief petty officer charles keating. these men are american heroes and will not be forgotten. every warrior knows that when we speak