in 2015, 20 tourists were killed by islamist gunmen at tunis' bardo museum, a cultural treasure. a lone gunman killed 38, mostly brits on holiday, at a coastal beach resort. isis claimed responsibility for both attacks. tunisian-born radicals have also carried out attacks abroad, including those in nice and berlin in 2016. authorities here say about 800 tunisian fighters have returned and are now sitting in jails. but hundreds more may have snuck into the country through neighboring libya. >> ( translated ): if you ask any tunisian family, ¡do you know of a tunisian who went to syria or tried to go?' he will say ¡yes, of course i do.' >> brown: mohamed iqbal has spent the last several years tracking those who left, and in 2013 formed an organization to help them return. a young boy. >> yes, a young boy, about 16 years old. >> brown: he was 16 when he went to libya? >> yes, 16 to libya and to syria. >> brown: iqball sees a lost generation, many of them poor and vulnerable tunisians succumbing to economic hardship and a sophisticated network of hardline islamists recruiting them fo

.' >> brown: the medina of tunis, the old center of the city, dating back to the 7th century. narrow walkways, vibrant colors, and grand architecture evoke a rich past. now nestled within a sprawling modern city, the medina remains a home to some 100,000 residents, 15,000 homes, 700 monuments, and abundant commerce within its sprawling souks, or markets. for hundreds of years, places like this were the heart of life in the arab world. the question today is how to preserve something of their old character, even as the society around them changes. architect zoubeir mouhli grew up here in the medina, now heads an organization to preserve it. >> ( translated ): when i was a student, i dreamed of working in the medina because i knew there were so many hidden things people didn't know about that are incredibly valuable. >> brown: for him this place represents a way of life, an alternative to the modern city. >> ( translated ): there is no soul there, yes yes absolutely. done for the cars, not for the people, not for the pedestrians, not for the people who want to see each other, to

foreign fighters are the strategic threat, should they return home to tunis, to kuala lumpur, paris,etroit, wherever , by taking the time to surround an attack, we carry out the annihilation campaign so we do not simply transplant this problem from one location to another. , do we see an actual plan on fighting isis formulated and if not yet, when do we expect that? guest: i think this is sort of the communication of the plan. the pentagon, certainly under the trump administration, has become a little more tightly controlled in terms of the information they divulge to the public and through the media. we have been told that more or and, what secretary mattis dunford spoke about yesterday, is how the pentagon is defining its approach to fighting isis. for all intents and purposes, the plan is as you just read, encircle, annihilate. host: we are speaking with andrew degrandpre, pentagon bureau chief and senior editor at the military times about the latest update to fight isis by the pentagon. democrats can call (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001, and .ndependents, (202) 748-80

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it is an on tunis tick bet. can they do it? yes. should they be doing it at this particular time? no. >> steve, this is an investment they are not alope in making, but they make better headlines. there's fidelity, blackrock, pimco, and are you telling -- is the message that no u.s. investor should own any of this debt? >> well, i think any investor should be free to invest in whatever they want to invest in, and they should face the consequences both financial and in terms of their reputation capital that are associated with those trades. that's it. and in this case, goldman is suffering. they did not manage their reputation risk in a prudent way. they did not think it through. it was the stupid trade from that point of view. >> yeah. one second, let's get the facts about this out there according to the story. the government was under duress to raise cash because reserves were dwindling, so whoever the investors are were able to pick up the bonds fcents on the dollar, and some improves, and what they are going for, and so that's been played in a number of political outcomes from a