and if you look the a tunisia, tunisia's considered to be a big enough hope for the success of the democratization process in the region, an experience that our partners like to consider as a model, even though we do firmly believe that there is no ready-made recipes for democratization and the democracy itself is a very relative concept that to be implemented has to take into consideration particular countries' specificities, like historical background, culture, and so on. now, this model is under serious threat, meaning tunisia in that very case. it is under serious threat and it is in the global interest that we come to terms with these threats and continue on the path to success. if proof is necessary that extremism and terrorism are alien phenomena for tunisians, the recent events which i mentioned earlier in godan, and the first of a kind defeat ever inflicted to the so-called islamic state are nothing but the -- the reaction was huge and you could see not only the security forces but population fighting without weapons, without arms, without anything. i mean chasing those terrorists all ove

two frfrench presidents called tunisia and economic miracle. it was miraculous for the family of the presidents wife who own perhaps 30% of the national economy, but not summer oculus -- miraculous for those who ststarted the uprising. and if i want to thank you for being with us, professor joel middle easthes history at stanford university. author of several books, most recently, "w"workers a and thie: labor movements and popular uprisings in tunisia and egypt." of course, we will bring you excerpts of the democratic presidential debate that will take place in brooklyn tonight, tomorrow on democracy now! one gonzalez will be cohosting who got a chance to question both bernie sanders and hillary clinton at his new york daily news editorial board meeting. we will get more from juan on ththe meetings. i am amy goodman. when we e come back, kids are involved in the lawsuit around climate change. we will find out more. ♪ [music break] amy: "on the road," again by ---- amy: "on the road again," y willie nelson. this is democracy now!, democracynow.o

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even tunisia is suffering from the chaos. a new report suggests tanisha could slip into chaos if the government fails to address economic and security challenges. president at the carnegie endowment. let's start with the regional connection. to what extent is it having a huge.on effect? >> you have more than one million that have emigrated coming through or staying. they have done extremely well in terms of the lyrical in vision progress. from an economic slowdown because of terrorism. the world is not expected to be more than .5% this year as well as terrorist attacks. it is having quite an effect. tunisia, it was the great hope of the arab spring. one indicator, tourism has declined by 50% in the last year or two. how bad is the economic situation? >> it is bad. someovernment needs to do badly needed programs. we need to do is not invent the wheel. they agree on what needs to be done. but some capacity building mechanisms and ways to help them implement what they themselves need to do. there is no question the security envi

for example, we have seen important democratic aids in such countries as tunisia, nigeria, sri lanka, and burma. the lineage there are challenges that still need to be overcome, but we are working closely with each of those countries and efforts to help meet those challenges. vietnam is another example. the country remains a single party state, but and away has pledged as a member of the transpacific partnership to allow for the formation of independent trade unions for the first time, a potential significant advance for freedom of association for workers. we have welcomed the release in the past month of a number of political prisoners and we hope for more. we believe that expanding freedom of expression and political participation will do much to strength in that country and our relationship. s spellan rights report out our concerns on every continent, but the most widespread and dramatic violations in 2015 for those in the middle east. where the confluence of terrorism and the syrian conflict caused enormous suffering. crisisdiscussed in this in this region repeatedly in recent wee

. >> the done country -- the one country that's being held like that is tunisia. how stable is democracy there? >> impossible to say because i would fully agree with what was said. i would not look at religion as the decisive element here. i would look at the complicated mixture of economic problems and power politics and the fight betweener let's there are islamists elites and muslim elites in these countries. so it's not just one side only. so tunisia will suck seize r -- itf it saw some of the solves some of the demick economic d -- problems. it wou have deal wh the economy and if that does not succeed, it will not be a question of islam or not. it will not be a very prosperous society, let's put it that way. >> let me add something to this. the interesting thing is that tuesday thing? sha has since -- in numbers, the maximum of female the islamic state but they really all come from the internal part of the country which is much less developed, where young supreme no perspective whatsoever. that is something where they go where they can identify themselves wher

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rodriquez: i think the worst threat providing to the neighbors is really tunisia first.t is the biggest one. then follow the european thing, the european threats. but they have not at this point been able to project that power toward europe. aspirational this point. ok? >> as you may know, there are many in libya right now. how would you describe the situation -- relationship with egypt or counter the situation in libya? gen. rodriquez: diplomatic efforts are all focused on trying to eliminate the focus is that are trying to shift the balance of power in libya. so the governments, as you know, the general national congress in the west, we want to do the best we can, that they can have self-determination instead of from external influences. trying to mitigate the influences. >> i know the fresh take a lead on this, but we have seen a big jump in the last few months. how worried are you in putting aside how the french are doing and what can you do to work with -- how do you combat? gen. rodriquez: first, it is a huge, international effort. trying to help the best we can. f

it's given a lot of wet weather over algeria and tunisia, as well. algeria, 27 millimeters of rain, that is a lot for algeria, the ground is baked quite hard from the sun. any rain rubs off and causes problems with large standing areas of water. lots of rain, sticking around through thursday, as well. more rain for algeria, but the clouds are over tunisia at this time. we are going to see the wettest of the weather thursday, including tunis. ahead of it, all looks fine, doesn't it, but the winds are speeding up from the southwest and bringing dust and haze with them, and also bringing an increase in the temperatures, as well. cairo, we'll see the temperatures shoot up as we head into friday. this time our maximum will be up at 39 degrees. that's a long way above what we should be at this time of year. we should be at 28, not 39. warm weather is feeding up into the southwest corner of europe. at the moment, it's all very pleasant. this is what it looked like in prague yesterday. we had more unsettled weather pushing across, but for the southeast, it's

we saw the egyptians responded and tunisias. the other is the iran deal.oday we have information that the iranians are obtaining the s-300 advanced anti-aircraft missile. deirdre: from russia, yeah. >> from russia. they're not accepting to negotiate the missiles. the deal, part of that, is catastrophe because it is allowing iran to obtain the cash to buy these weapons which would deter us and future administrations. >> point well-made, unfortunately for the world. the state of play. chris wallace, grilled president obama on this theme yesterday for the way he responded to terrorism. so here is that exchange. essentially, chris wallace was saying to president obama, just going to paraphrase, walid. we have found it. here it is. >> i think it is fair to say some of the sharpest criticism of you from both sides during your presidency has been the way, that you have responded personally, not necessarily in policy to terror attacks. after james foley beheaded you went out and played golf. after paris you said it was a setback. after san bernanadino, you talked

finally, there's other countries, including tunisia, morocco that are providing a significant numberese foreign fighters that are fighting in syria and they have access back to tunisia, back to libya, and also into europe. >> okay. i want to go back to -- i believe it was the french authorities who thwarted another deadly attack on their soil. i mean, they must be doing something right. how do you see it? >> i think they are doing something right. they continue to look at this particular network, they're looking at trying to predict where some of the vulnerabilities are. the french as well as the united states are looking at the data that's available from all this intelligence that's been gleaned from both the paris attack in november as well as the belgian attacks that have occurred. this intelligence is informing a clearer picture of their actual network. that's going to provide additional pre-planned response capability for the intelligence and law enforcement communities to go after these areas. i think there also needs to be a greater outreach into the communities. i think belgi

tunisia rose 30 places in the rankings to 96th.ort praised on line media for tackling sensitive subjects. in germany, the country fell four notches to 16th place, citing violence against journalists covering radical, right-wing groups, especially the anti-refugee movement. the world's spotlight was on south korea during the 1988 olympic games. thousands of so-called vagrants were rounded up off the streets, most were children are disabled people, and they were simply sent away, where they were raped , tortured, or killed. coverups at the highest level stop the full extent of the abuses from being known, and until now. we have this report. >> he was 14 when he says he was tortured into confessing a crime he did not commit. the police dragged him to an instution caed brothers home, where he says he enjoyed five -- endured five years of rape, slave labor, and assaults. >> what happened there was like some thing you would only see in a movie, a murderer dragged people around and beat them. who would not be frightened by seeing that? es

. >> reporter: saudi arabia, tunisia, and morocco were the top suppliers of fighters. 14 came from the u.s. but when taking population into consideration, the u.s. dropped to near the bottom. new arrivals were asked to choose fighter, suicide bomber, or suicide fighter. only 12% of recruits chose to die in suicide attacks. the rest wanted to live under the black flag of the so-called islamic state. >> many of these individuals are buying into that message and they're going there to live, not die. >> the data shows about 30% of the fighters were married, many brought children. it's a very different profile from al qaeda. lester? >> richard engel, thank you. >>> terror in jerusalem today, where a bus exploded into a massive fireball. wounding at least 21 people, including two onboard that bus, and others at a bus nearby. authorities say there is no doubt it was a terrorist attack, though they say it's too early to know who the attacker was. >>> the supreme court today took up one of the biggest cases of the term, one that's been a hotly contested issue in the 2016 race. it's a fight over

phenomenon, as we know we have in the region -- 1000 from algeria, 5,200 foreign terrorist fighter from tunisiaand when we move to the north in europe, we have 1,700 from france, 815 from belgium, so we have a very clear idea of the nationality and where these terrorists, from where they are coming. scott: when it comes to fighting terror, some have argued that it's not the u.s., it's not the u.k., but that its morocco that perhaps has the right formula -- the formula for success in fighting terror -- is that true? dr. benhammou: i think that on casablanca on may 2003, have developed a very good experience. scott: the 2003 casablanca attacks were a wake-up call. 12 islamic extremist suicide bombers killed 33 people. tens of thousands of moroccans responded with marching banners that said "say no to terrorism." within a year, 2000 had been arrested in connection with the attacks. dr. benhammou: we know more about these terrorist groups, the networking, how they greet and look for the founding. the second pillar was to manage the religious spectrum, of course, managing the mosque, that imam role

they were fighting, and they ended up with a report on the desk that been captured in tunisia. it was report that showed some results from studies that were done in the adobe villages of tunisia using this drug from behr. behr was the most advanced and coming up with these potential synthetic quinine's. the studies showed not only work as a prophylactic by the insecure and it was nearly 100%. so the malaria project finally have something to work with, but they just all other state hospital patients because there were not than many state hospital patients so they didn't have clinical material. many of them just refer to the patients as clinical material, including james shannon who would become the head of the nih. so they decided that they should go into prisons. that they could have plenty of men to do the research on in the prisons. so in goldwater memorial hospital would have been running malaria studies, this is what was walter island, teddy roosevelt island, a group of parasites the were captured and then coming home from the war, they drew them in goldwater memorial and m

in tunisia. this is isis now in libya to come over the border and carries out attacks specifically against museums and, of course, in libya they are destroying these cultural artifacts that date back to the carthaginian period or roman. maybe i can ask mr. fanusie, can you expand on why terrorists and criminal groups like isis are so attracted to antiquities smuggling as a means of getting that revenue, that hard currency? and can we approach this in the same way as we did on the legislation that we had authored on blood diamonds, some methodology to try to shut down the ability to traffic in this? >> yes. i think there are some parallels. for the first part of your question, it's a unique strategic resource. ifill look at isil, all of the revenue that they get, much of what they have gotten they have gotten early on was from, taken over territory, and dispossessing the people that they took over. but antiquities provides this opportunity for them to consistently continued to get new resources. y

so if you want just a free trade agreement, like tunisia, you will get just that. but not a single market. >> i would say in response to that that we've got to look at the british economy as a whole. alec, can i take you up on one or two issues. we've compared nato to the eu. in one sense, sovereignty with nato, because we could go to war to defend another country. but we know the downside, we know what our commitments are. is there a fundamental difference between nato and the eu, it is an open-ended possible sacrifice of sovereignty. concession that the prime minister gained, the so-called red card, means that we have to gain support from 14 other countries before we can say no to a piece of unwanted tax directed or regulation. it is like a football referee stopping the match, issuing a red card to a player, but before it can actually take effect you have to go around and consult 14 other officials by which time the game is probably over. it is nonsense. that's the fundamental difference. it is open ended sovereignty that is at stake here and we cannot stop the e

the absence of opportunity. .hat explodes it exploded with a fruit vendor in tunisia who live himself on fire and ignited the whole northern part of africa. that is what we are dealing with. it is in south-central asia. government.er one of the things i have discovered is the breadth of bad governance which feeds that. corruption is an enormous problem on a global basis. that are whole states seeing their future robbed by so-called leaders. by the way, with the aiding and abetting of legitimate banks that harbor their money. charlie rose: you were almost a successful presidential candidate. john kerry: but for a certain state called ohio. charlie rose: when you look at the world today you can see it being defined by nonstate actors. our largestke isis and toughest and most challenging national security kerry: it is the most immediate. .hey are out to kill people they have targeted us. they are targeting our allies and our friends. they are creating severe disruption in the region. where we have significant interests for stability. ofy are feeding frenzy thattial sectarian divide could

jordan and tunisia, we are working with them, make sure they continue to be stable countries in the regionly also to work with iraq, and we have just started training of iraqi officers, enabling them to step up their efforts to fight isil. nato can do much more of this. in the long run, it's a much more sustainable solution that we enable local forces to stabilize their own countries and to fight isil themselves. capacity is very high on the nato agenda. >> you seem to have a good relationship with the current president. how do you make sure your relationship, nato's relationship with the u.s. into your's no matter who wins the presidential election in november? of --o is an alliance democracies. we have always been able to work together regardless of different elections in now -- in nato all ied countries. and what i would like to do is say what nato is doing. is making sure that both united states and europe stand together, and together we are strong and protecting each other and that is good for the united states and europe. >> what is the latest on nato expansion? process ofow in the i

mostly has traded in line with other emerging market currencies across the world, whether it is in tunisia'sy or the south african rand. for a particular country like brazil, the macro factors that currencies,l e.m. probably are going to be the main drivers of the real for a while regardless of what happens in the political situation. carol: you guys will be talking more about argentina. joe: absolutely. carol: coming up on "bloomberg markets," the close of markets is just minutes away. here is your look at the major averages. we are down across the board. for the nasdaq, it is down just about four points. doing better in terms of percentage basis. take a look at commodities, if aycrude down a bit more. talking about some of the emerging markets turns -- let's take a look at the euro. the ecb out today. the euro racing for the game. ♪ carol: you're watching "bloomberg markets." markets closing in just about 10 minutes from now. julie hyman has your markets desk. stocks are not responding very positively to all the news. theecb this morning, movement we have seen in the market states. there's

comes back and asks us about the godfather and say the scene is telling and we're about 90 miles from tunisia know our identity. >> stephen: but you got arrested. >> yes, because a few people did deny it and they belong to this -- i think it's accurate to call them a white supremacist group and they were very anti-immigration, very purity of race in sicily. >> stephen: how did they get you arrested? >> well, i brought out a plate of food that was ingredients and things they ordered and i said these sesame seeds and fried rice balls, this is north africa food that migrated from sicily that you guys migrated into your culture but you can't deny where this is from and the roots of your identity, and they really wanted to deny it. (laughter) so they tried to take the footage off us. we went in the van. they started banging on the van. they called plain clothed cops. we got thrown in a sicilian jail. people are similar everywhere. in china, everyone wanted to know how to make spaghetti and meatballs. i went to silly, in jail, the cop says, hey, how do you make a good hamburger because he said, we

tunisia se zha -- in we are working to strengthening the most hopeful model of governments to emerge from the air rab spring. in iraq we'll be advancing our campaign against daesh and striving to do so in a way that restores good governance and gives i.v.p.'s, including minority groups subjected to genocide and crimes against humanity the confidence to return home. in venezuela we'll be working with regional partners to persuade the government to listen to the will of its people by releasing political prisoners and respecting its newly elected parliament. in sri lanka we'll be encourage regular conciliation and justice in keeping with the joint resolution its government co-sponsored with us at the u.n. human rights council. in china, given all the hardships that people working for better governance there now face, we think it is especially important to stand by the lawyers being imprisoned for doing their jobs, the religious minorities persecuted for their faith, the activists and journalists being abconducted, in some cases from other -- abducted in some cases from other countries,

i think he saw what happened in cairo and happened in tunisia. and i think he feared that it was going to happen to him. i think that would be certainly a key factor, i think. it wasn't just that there were drafts. that was well known. davis is completely right. it's that they were actually given full paragraph to write in "the washington post" as a prelude to this great announcement. and then when it completely ended up being the reverse, i realized that we were going down a very, very different road. and i think it's -- you know, one of the things that truck me the most living in syria, especially was how much more unpredibtable bashar was than his father. they used the word moody. in this case, i think he probably was on the horns of a dilemma. he could go down the road that david had mentioned 4 or he could shoot his way out of it. >> i think what we've seen from assad is the regime is extremely brittle. he can't really reform. it can expand, but it can't reform. if they desemiable their regime, it will fall apart. say, i'm sure most people k

>> we went to paris, tunisia and studied the attacks in detail an asked the authorities to teach us what they learned. and we took their lessons and put them in effect here. we went from having 500 people trained in special weapons and tactic to 1800 in the course of those months with the support of the commissioner and the mayor, we were able to hire 1400 more police officers and 500 of those went to the counter terrorism effort. >> fascinating stuff. we will be right back with more about all of this. we're going to talk about trump, cruz and the politics of terror when we come back. my belly pain and constipation? i've heard it all. eat more fiber. flax seeds. yogurt. get moving. keep moving. i know! try laxatives. been there, done that. my chronic constipation keeps coming back. i know. tell me something i don't know. vo: linzess works differently from laxatives. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. it can help relieve your belly pain, and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements that are easier to pass. do not give linzess to child

tunisia is the same. they are a stable democratic country in modern africa, but they are under heavy pressure from terrorist organizations and we should help them now. we should not wait until they are really into deep trouble and then help them. prevention is better than intervention. that's a golden rule. we should help them now, not wait until later on. capacity building is also about building capacity before a country slides into conflict or crisis, and then if the country is in crisis, we should help them build capacity to get out of that crisis. as we should do in iraq, and hopefully also, in libya. karen: what about syra? d-- what about syria? do you see any role at all for nato? mr. stoltenberg: it is a great advantage for the coalition that so many nato allies and nato partners have been able to draw forces because nato has developed what we call interoperability, experience to work together in high-end, dangerous military operations, and we have developed that through nato exercises, nato standa

libya, tunisia and morocco, none of them had done that. they are at risk at some point in time and any number of countries at risk. so that is the reason why 1493 is needed to bypass primarily just that requirement of a request. and 1493 is written so that at the point when relations are normalized between the united states and syrian government in the future, that government is expected to bring a request under the normal process. now, how this helps is that it changes the burden of proof and what needs to be proven at the border. if i show up at the border with an object that may have recently come from syria, once it matches what's called the designated list that the state department and homeland security promulgate, have to show it left syria before march of 2011. >> that helps law enforcement significantly and does not impose a huge burden on the industry because showing where it was just four or five years ago shouldn't really be that difficult if it really was out of the country before that point in time. so that documentation needs

tunisia, this intricate a stable, democratic country in northern africa, but they are under heavy pressure from terrorist organizations. and we should help them now. we should not wait until they're really into deep trouble and then start helping. prevention is better than intervention. that's a gold will. so we should help now, not later on. for capacity building is also about building capacity before a country slides into conflict or crisis. and then if the country is in crisis, we should help them build capacity to get out of the crisis, as we should do in iraq or hopefully also in libya. >> what about syria? to see anyone at all for nato? >> it is a great advantage for the coalition that so many new allies and nato partner countries have been able to draw forces. because nato has developed what we call interoperability, experience to work together in high-end, dangerous military operations, and we have developed that through the nato exercises, nato standardization and, of course, operations like in afghanistan. and this experience, this interoperability develop among nato allies and p

obama let them down by the arab spring and not backing the egyptian president and not backing the tunisiathrown. this mistrust comes at a time when president obama wants to come here and sort of bring more regional stability and security and find a way that saudi and allies and the united states can tackle isis. president obama's view on the bill before congress is that it can also damage u.s. interests because it could lead u.s. citizens and the government open to reciprical actions from other countries. he is facing this issue domestically and internationally coming to saudi arabia when you have already the existing tensions. the saudis reaction to the possibility of the bill to say look, we will withdraw $750 billion of assets in the united states. it is fuelling tensions for president obama when he arrives here with what was already a tough diplomatic task. >> both hillary clinton and bernie sanders come out in favor of the bill. which the white house says the president would veto. nic robertson, thank you. >>> let's get an early start on your money. dow rallied above 18,000 for the f

and iraq, tunisia, to enable them. to protect themselves and to fight isil. afghanistan is our biggest mission ever. we'll continue to be in afghanistan and that is a direct response to an attack on the united states. and actually, that should be the only time in our history we have invoked our collective defense clause after 9/11 when all nato allies stood together with the united states in the fight against terror. >> nato secretary general. thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you. >>> and just ahead, take me out to the ball game. a day ahead. who are brewers fans rooting for? you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a stag pool party. (party music) (splashing/destruction) (splashing/destruction) urke) and we covered it, october twenty-seventh, 2014. talko farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ headache? motrin helps you be an unstoppable, let's-rock-this-concert

well, at the bush institute we've had four classes of women fellowships, two from egypt and two from tunisia. we began with those two with countries because they were the first and most active in the arab spring countries. we bring women all from the same country for a fellowship so that when they go home, they have each other, and they can introduce each other to their colleagues and their families and their friends and thereby broaden their networks. there's a new professor that did research that shows that your network is as important as your education level to your success. and in societies where women are inside more, they didn't have the chance to build the kind of networks that we as american women do. so we've had now four classes, two egyptian classes and two tunisian fellows, and we'll do another group this year of egyptian fellows. and our idea is just to continue to focus on these two so when they go home, they really have a broad network now with the two groups and everybody else they've introduced each other to. so that's one of the things that we're working on as part of our w

>> it's off the coast of tunisia, it's italia-- italian but actually it's africa. and when i got the opportunity to make these loosely remaining of the movie lapecine, my instinct came back to that island, to the memory. and i felt okay, that movie was about four french people lounging on the cote da glurks re and i was remotely interested in that. i said let's bring people who were foreign and be challenged by a very-- a place that brings a lot of otherness to it. and that is how everything started. >> well, you do have a sense of the place almost kind of haunting these characters who are-- yeah, who are foreign to it. and i mean they're tourists. they're on vacation but there is something more sinnister afoot that does seem to come from the place itself. >> i like when you have this paintings and you say what is it, the figure in the lance scape, that is a scripg of what i really like. and i think both figures in the landscape are protting a nises so i think it is important to have that kind of interaction, not only visually but in terms of how they both interact

looking at a little bit on tunisia, focusing on egypt and libya. the fallout of the arab spring from libya and a chapter on what happened in mali and boko haram in nigeria. one thing i didn't mention is that a lot of boko haram trained fighters in mali after the mali afterined in the overthrow of the democratically elected government, after al qaeda and the islamic state came in when the weapons and the fighters came in from libya. that has spread now to northern nigeria. there are all these connections. that is the focus of the second book. >> i'm a retired u.s. army. i worked at africom for five years in the strategy division. i will make a quick statement of the previous question. it's an overstatement to say we have militarized our foreign policy. the amount of money compared to usaid is a miniscule. it competes worldwide for funding some training effort, which is what i did in africa. so it's not very large. every training activity is required to train soldiers and their leadership in the right ways to handle civilian populations. we don't alw

tunisia, your daughter, said she is a fan of yours. >> who's bev? >> a person i talked to on the subway. >> during the workweek. >> you know, hanging out. >> good morning, bev! >> anyway, thank you. she's up with her coffee, you know, hanging out with us. so thank you, cheers. i'm michelle charlesworth. >> i'm rob nelson. speaking of the bronx, guess who's out there this morning. with the run for the wild 5k run and walk will kickoff. i'm justed just saying that. >> great lace to be. >> that's rate. you -- great place to be. >> that's right. >> reporter: you know, it's all about the animals this morning, wildlife conservation. expecting 5400 runners. as you mentioned, this is an event that we've had for almost a decade here in an effort to support animals. the bronx zoo is a place that does that like none other. the race starts at 8:00 a.m. we're starting to see the runners trickle in. weekend for sure. we check in first with the official reporting station at central park currently in the upper 40s. we'll see the overcast skies break for sunshine la

you were in iraq, syria and tunisia.about the isis in the form we have today? >> we met with christian refugees and you spoke about and heard stories about their atrocities and yazidis and kurdish forces. what i point i would make, kurdish and yazidi forces are not getting support they need from the united states with the weaponry, they're fighting with 40-year-old weapons. they need anti-tank weapons to stop these suicide vehicles. we saw one of the suicide vehicles that had been captured. it is encased in iron by isis with a cow catcher in front of it. the kurdish troops called it the mad max vehicle. and they said seven of these had been driven into their lines to kill their people. the 8th won they got a lucky shot in through the window. that is how they captured the one they showed to us. i think clearly what we need to do is listen to their appeal, to get them directly the weapons. i have legislation to do this. the administration needs to give them the anti-tank weapons to defeat isis because isis is using those s