so there's a core in iraq and syria. there is then the global networks, the foreign fighter network, the propaganda, recruiting and financing networks, and then they have eight self declared affiliates around the world.

is iraq lost? >> i think iraq may have been lost in 2011 when president obama with drew all troops. troops were leveraged. they were balancing between the competing interests. they were our ability to suppress shiite malitia. now you have the president playing an incrementalist strategy. it's very unlikely that anything like that will happen unless you have a commander in chief who is willing to be serious about the stakes of another middle eastern state that becomes a bigger home for isis. >> on that note, the commander in chief, barack obama, does he want to leave, to get out? does he want to do that? >> he wanted to leave and he never wanted to be there. i think it's a fundamental goal of barack obama's presidency not to commit himself to the middle eat. no with standing the fact he has over 4,000 troops there. pretty much a brigade. his goal in the middle east was the iranian nuclear deal. he's got that. what's going on now has nothing to do with it. it's left people like his defense secretary, ash carter, to try to hold the fort until we can get past this presidency. >> what's

therefore between isil and syria and isil in iraq. we also see results in targeting isil's leaders and finances. we eliminated isil's cabinet, having taken out it's so called ministers of war and finance. we captured one of the principles of isil's chemical warfare enterprise, remove external plotters from the battlefield and most recently took out the isil emir for southern isil, weakening their hold there. our taxing infrastructure from oil wells to cash storage to isil's financial leaders is putting a stranglehold on isil's ability to pay its fighters, undermining its ability to govern and making it harder to attract numerous recruits. these are the result and there are also results in our coalitions train and equip efforts as well. so far with your support in congress, we've trained over 20,000 iraqi security forces and provided six over grade that's of equipment to the iraqi army. we provided two brigades to the passion you parted more than 12 million pounds of critical applies donated by more than 20 countries for our part rangi

is -- iraq is -- like tom, i am very concerned about iraq today. and i thought what we saw with the takeover of the green zone was very, very disturbing because it is more of what we saw before. mr. markey: and you see it as an extension of an iranian -- mr. baker: yes, and i don't think there is any doubt in the world that i ron is the most important player, the most important nation-player in the world today, not the united states, not anyone else, but i ran, a have an influence on the shia government. is aurse, iraq shia-majority state, of course, so yeah, i have seen a lot of iranian influence. mr. markey: so what, from your perspective, should the united states be saying, doing, in terms of long-term iraqi stability in order to make sure that this shia perspective, this radical shia perspective, does to bringn any ability the sunnis and kurds long-term back to the table to have a united country? mr. baker: i don't know anything we can do other than continue to work with the iraqi government. president obama is incrementally increasing the pres

they determine that iraq, they went into arak, everybody thinks i'm saying iraq. but arak heavy water research reactors. al they determined iran was not pursuing the construction of the kpa existing reactor. they had removed the existing one from that reactor they had rendered it inoperable by filling with concrete which is part of the agreement. they had stored monitoring uranium pellets and fuel. they modified the fuel process line at the fuel manufacturing plant. so that it cannot be used for the fabrication of fuel. iran was not accumulatediing uranium through his activities. it goes on. i got 27 seconds left. a lot of good stuff in here. these are people who have actually been in iran doing the inspections. m iran was not conducting any uranium enrichment. had removed all of its nuclear material. this was all pursuant to the agreement. so and -- i'm getting to eight seconds. completed the modalities and facility inspection arrangements to allow the agency to implement all transparency measures provided in the agreement. so that's what the iaea is doing. you k

was supporting iraq and sadaam hussein. they turn against sadaam hussein, he didn't have weapons of mass destruction, why weren't we waiting for the u.n. weapon inspector saying wait, let us do our work. but president bush was intent on attacking iraq from almost the minute, give a day or two, after september 11th. you hear his national security, his national security czar and others saying, he was talking about iraq when we understood full well this wasn't coming from there. another issue that is a kind of sacred cow with the media that must be challenged. the rule that it has played over the years. if you ask most people, who was in those planes that wept went into the world trade center, you would think it was iraqis. this team of 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia. what did president bush do at the time? he's on the truman balcony smoking a cigar with the ambassador. >> what's the motive of george w. bush? relationship to the saudis. >> they were on intent at the time on attacking iraq. there's a joke of a little by sa

all of this political unrest in iraq. did they bargain for this? did they think that they would get this when they exited the country? >> their behavior has been so frustrating. bush gave them a victory. the situation was stable. they needed to help them grow and political process and development. not surprising the iranians came again, isis arrives, why? because we pulled away from them militarily. we pulled away from them politically. they were also able to occupy a safe haven in syria. a time where we were supposed to help the serious moderates. we did not. he was able to establish that. >> what happens in a power vacuum? chaos. >> we cannot take it lightly. the government is crippled or dismantled. very difficult. this has been festering the crisis for months. they will have the advantage here. the lack of stability in the government. this is what we have all been focusing on quite naturally four months. it is crucial. >> you have to be able to work without military. our government has to be able to work without government. if we do not have th

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 mosul. i saw a lot of setbacks in the north. on this trip i was able to see, in the euphrates valley that stretches from falluja, towards the jordanian border, there has been a lot of progress made. there was evidence i found that the tribal sheiks were very pragmatic, opportunistic, to be blunt. 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 the primary residents of falluja, hated, but it will also involve sunni militia and the popular militia forces. watching how that plays out is going to be really interesting. it will tell us a lot about whether the campaign will work. charlie: and that is

iraq was not a mistake. and i remember just sitting there saying, finally, at least somebody won't cave in to, i think, that narrative. hopefully, the reality is that whoever the next commander in chief is whether it's trump or cruz is willing to truly unleash total war on the islamic state. and so what i do take issue with is the way people characterize ted cruz and donald trump's whether it's carpet bombing or the willingness to unhandcuff the enemy, is their focus is on doing whatever it takes to focus the islamic state, not we want to find a way to kill civilians. carpet bombing is not targeting civilians. carpet bombing is if we know where the headquarters of isis is in raqqa, we're going to bomb it even if there happen to be some homes nearby. or when we're looking at the fuel trucks leaving to turkey to sell on the black market we're not going to drop leaflets. we're going to bomb the oil trucks. i think it's a difference of disposition, for sure. mr. sean reilly. right there in the back. sorry. >> ho

bush, for the iraq war. there is a lot in the background. 43, he was not going to go to the convention. he did not go to the convention in 2012, the last time around. he was not going to go to the convention but what was interesting about this is he clearly will not endorse donald trump and neither will his father. they have re: put out a statement saying we will not have any comment on the campaign. that is a way to say to reporters and others, do not ask me what i think. many thought for jeb bush's campaign, would be the bush name. his brother, george w. bush, stayed away. he did go to south carolina where the president, the former president remains popular. i want to show viewers what he had to say then. listen to what the president had to say then. >> facing challenges and prevailing. enduringsacrificing an and emerging a better and bigger person. set of coreing a principles, beliefs that are true on the campaign trail and will still be true in office. rhetoric.s not empty it is not bluster. it is not th

killed in combat in iraq. that's next. >>> u.s. forces moving dangerously close to the front lines in the battle against isis in iraq. more than 4,000 u.s. troops in the region right now, some of them supporting the iraqi army as it prepares to retake mosul. the u.s. suffered its third combat death in iraq directly linked to isis. u.s. navy s.e.a.l. charlie keating iv was killed in a fire fight with isis forces earlier this week. charlie keating, fourth generation military and navy s.e.a.l. killed in a coordinated attack by isis. what do you know? >> reporter: john, what we're hearing from u.s. officials was that this was a coordinated and complex attack by isis mill about its using suicide car bombers and bulldozers to attack a peshmerga front line about 20 miles north of iraq's second largest city, mosul, that is under the control of isis as you know. early tuesday morning, roughly about a hundred isis militants launched this attack on this area. they managed to breakthrough the kurdish peshmerga defense lines. the navy s.e.a.l.s

back to iraq, this time to fight isis. his commander said he fittingly went down swinging alongside his brothers in a withering fire fight right where he wanted to be. his death got a lot of attention because of his name. but when you find out who c-4 was and how he lived his 31 years, you owe him not just attention but as the the governor of arizona said, "our thoughts, prayers and eternal gratitude." david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> and that's the overnight news for this thursday morning. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. ♪ ♪ >>> hi, welcome to the "cbs overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. last man standing in donald trump's path to the republican nomination stepped aside. john kasich dropped out of the race late yesterday, cementing trump's status as presumptive gop nominee. kasich's decision after ted cruz suspended his campaign tuesday night following

sent to iraq? that is a very serious question. one of the people who signed up to be in the military who wasn't was edward snowden. one the great whistleblowers of our time. he ended up having -- his leg broken in training. he didn't go into the military. ended up working for the nasa. -- the nsa. had a deep commitment to the united states and ended up showing it in a different way. brian: from your perspective, why do you think -- was don rumsfeld and george w. bush, were they evil people? amy: when you look at the actions they engaged in, were they evil actions, committing so many lives leading to loss of not only american lives but lives in iraq and afghanistan, it's horrific. brian: why do you think -- what motivated them to do it? that's the question that never been answered. obviously you were against it from the beginning. you demonstrated before it started. what's the reason? amy: that was a matter of saying, what would be the reason after the september 11th attacks when harmed so seriously

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i embedded in iraq and afghanistan with them. and to spend time with veterans of my era of the vietnam war. they have had, hard to say this since the wars were equally silly, they have had an easier time than you guys had. they were all volunteers. many of them volunteered on september 12, 2001. they went over as units and came back as units. vietnam veterans went over alone and came back alone. because of the experience of vietnam veterans the doctors and many clinicians at the v.a. and elsewhere knew what post traumatic stress disorder -- i have dropped the disorder part of it because it is not disorderly to respond to the experience of combat by having some troubles reintegrating into a society that knows nothing of combat. and they have treated each other differently from the vietnam generation. they formed their own organizations to help each other and help us. 90% of them according to polls want to continue service in their communities because they are a generation of volunteers. and they have looked now more recently to th

they have training camps waiting inside iraq and syria. they look at the women, they have a purpose for young unmarried women. they can go to be sex slaves for their fighters. you know, so there is a system to what they did, and the difference is that they wanted to erase the yazidis -- >> and how many people were estimated to have been killed and enslaved. >> the numbers are very, very difficult to confirm. we did a lot of work on this. what you can establish is some 5,000 ya i dzi what you can establish is some 5,000 ya i dzdis are known to h been killed at this point. the mass graves are still being excavated, still being found, and that number is expected to rise. there were some 5,000 to 6,000 moria i didd -- more yazidis we kidnapped. >> and in the meantime the world watches, you know, as i said. this could have been taken care of a while back if the whole world would come together but i think the importance of your report is the comparison between the third reich and their systematic extermination of jews and gypsies and other peopl

and three others in the war against isis in iraq. that includes josh wheeler, a delta force commando whose wife ashley held their 10-month-old son david during today's ceremony. wheeler was killed during a rescue mission to free 70 hostages held by isis. >> we were already dead, the hostages said, then god sent us a force from the sky. that force was the u.s. army. including josh wheeler. >> reporter: a fitting tribute to all who have served and sacrificed. jim miklaszewski, nbc news, the white house. >>> on this memorial day, a major offensive is under way to retake a key city where 100 american troops died during the iraq war. circumstances have changed since the battle for fallujah in 2004. now iraqi forces backed by iran trying to drive isis from its stronghold in the city. nbc's keir simmons has our report. >> reporter: a blast of artillery beginning the offensive this morning. a multipronged assault on fallujah's suburbs but victory to these iraqi forces is likely a long way off. tonight isis is fighting back putting out video

kennedy: new video of the firefight in iraq that killed a u.s. navy seal. it's raising questions about how involved american troops are on the ground in iraq. keating was on a rescue mission to save a small group of american advisors pinned down by isis. pete hegseth is here. he joins me now. let's talk about this a little bit. after you saw that footage, what went through your mind? >> it reinforces war is chaos. war is uncertain. you have advisors behind enemy lines but there is no real line. there kind of is one. but isis penetrated through and rather than retreat which they

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covering iraq extensively. always worked unembedded. >> i was a correspondent of a turkish newspaper. when we first met it was the meeting of two journalists but then, you know, we became friends because i went to iraq many times and he was also coming. >> how much longer do we have? >> about two hours. >> we were heading back in to cover the deteriorating situation in northern iraq. the story we wanted to get was the one happening all over iraq and not being told. that was the human suffering. if people want to make a decision about the war, they need the whole truth. >> in 2004, iraq was a dangerous place to go because for example you go to a market and buy fruit and five minutes later you get the news that that market was bombed. >> kidnappings have been on the rise, there's no question. i did understand the dangers. at this moment i felt particularly in the north with the contacts that i had i would be safe. i was ex-soldier. i loved the military this was this dual adventure/sowing of wild oats. the plan wa

iraq. it blows us into a false sense of security about all the concessions made to iran. the sunset component of the nuclear deal which is iran a completely legitimate program and the ability to move quickly towards a weapon. we are supporting a process of moderation in iran, then allowing it to have these capabilities is really no danger. second deception is falsifying the chronology of the negotiations, which began much earlier than the election. iranck to july 2012, initiated by the united states. the third reception is a racing concessions from the united states along the lines of what mr. rubin just discussed. before that is hiding the regional cost. the president has, in effect, recognized syria as an iranian spear of influence. one of the goals of the deception of mr. rhodes is to prevent people from connecting the dots between the syria policy and the iranian nuclear policy. the fifth part of the deception is blaming allies. the white house on background is on public -- in public ve

i am from iraq oil report and we iraq-centric news reporting division. certainly very interested in the issues we're talking about here today and a lot of my work has shifted to really focus on that and away from some of the other things that we were focusing on wasiously, such as what then viewed as the oil boom in kurdistan and the opportunities in basra. crunch andof fiscal reform and how to move forward. so by means of a brief outline emma i will sort of be talking about two different entities, iraq and the kurdistan region. they are at present bifurcated enough in terms of governance, energy sector reform efforts that i couldn't really glom them together. i guess to just throw water at me if i go on too long. at the outset, by means of said in the context, iraq is in the headlines right now, particularly in d.c., because of the isis crisis and the ongoing fighting in the western and north of the country and also the chaos in baghdad. if people are following the news affiliated with the old american friend recently stormed into the green zone and occ

. >>> turning to iraq now, where isis is continuing its deadly rampage. more than 100 people have been killed in several attacks in the last 48 hours as a sitting congressman and marine is blasting president barack obama, the leader of his own party for his isis strategy or lack thereof and blaming the white house for the death of his friend. seth molton tweeted a photo of himself with an iraqi counterpart. "just to be clear and to contradict the white house, this is a combat mission in iraq." joining me live is seth moulton who serves on the armed services committee and was deployed four times. thanks very much for joining us. you blame the failed isis policy for the death of your iraqi comrade who you described as your, quote, closest friend. why? >> he was my closest friend in the iraqi army. the bottom line is, we have a military strategist to defeat isis but no long-term political strategy to ensure the peace and that's why we find ourselves back in iraq refighting the same battles that i and my fellow marines fought eight or ten years ago. >> what n

there's been a series of successful strikes, not just in the afghanistan-pakistan region, but iraq and syria against isis, in yemen against al qaeda, and somalia, and looking at that, is that investment in intelligence? do you see something interesting there in the string of successes? >> jim, it's important to note that the granularly of the intelligence is absolutely key. what you're looking at is really the ability to have finite intelligence that is corroborated by multiple sources, and those multiple sources are the ones really putting everything together, so everything from electronic intelligence to communications intelligence, all the way to image imagery, all those things become incredibly important, and as they put together that whole picture, they basically developed a pattern of life analysis, and that pattern of life analysis is what allows these kinds of operations to take place, and i think we're seeing the results of that not only right now with afghanistan, and in this particular case, but also in yemen and iraq and syria as you mentioned. >> patterns is a word i hear

talking about iraq. here is a general talking about the fight for mosul today. >> that it will get harder the closer we get to -- as you saw ramadi it took six months to get that city clear. they have only been there for a few months. they have been in mosul two years. mosul is three times larger than ramadi. >> back with the panel. laura, our pentagon team has been talking to a lot of people, generals earlier this year back in february saying they weren't optimistic it was all going to come together this year. to hear the dni say not in this administration is kind of interesting. >> i mean, it doesn't seem like there was ever a real will in this administration to take on isis and defeat isis. i mean, we have sent some troops over and congress never voted on new troop deployment. and they said isis is on the run. isis is doe graded. isis is decimated. but i think most americans look at this situation and say this is a disaster. i interviewed this public priest on my radio show this week. he said there we

iraq and the kurdistan region. they are at present in terms of governance energy sector reform efforts that i couldn't really glom them together. so i guess just throw water at me if i start to go on too long. so at the outset, iraq is in the headlines in d.c. because of the isis crisis and the ongoing fighting in the western and north of the country and also the chaos in baghdad. protesters stormed into the green zone and occupied parliament. so i'm not going to get into the weeds on that exciting stuff. i'll sort of only touch on that as it relates to some of this reform effort stuff. so certainly as the other folks on the stage here have said iraq is struggling with a lot of the same problems that sounds like algeria and nigeria and other oil producers are. namely in the time of high oil prices they didn't do a lot to inoculate themselves against a potential crash. in fact, certainly in baghdad and kurdistan, i have personally heard from people back when oil was over $100 a barrel, this message that this is goin

americans in iraq are totally engaged. the video is obtained by the british's newspapers, "the guard y yan." outside of mosul, the u.s. is trying to recover from isis with the help of iraqis coalition forces. that's not yet planned. nbc news has not authenticated this video. >> it is entitled "alter egos." anyone interested in what kind of president or commander chief hillary clinton maybe. mark is joining me now, congratulations on this spectacular book. you covered the white house and barack obama and you took time to write this book on competing philosophies and their political and relationships. a fascinating insight. let's start with iraq and where she stood. we saw in '02. she was against the war. >> that's right, as you recall since you were there traveling with me on many of these trips. she did not come in secretary of states as many interest in iraq. there was a sense she was welcoming that. she did not think there was not much upside or policy upsi to dm deeply in iraq. >> there was a trip that you and i went on

president bush came twice for iraq and 9/11. in determining what's in our national interest we can get to what's in the national interest. that means congress has to retain some authority and that we should ask. particularly before libya. he should have asked. my guess is the debate would have been messy but gadhafi might be there still, we might have problems but not chaos. >> i agree with that, senator paul. it is always best if the legislative and executive branches are on the same wavelength when you're talking about sending our young men and women into harm's way. president should come to congress and seek approval. we had a democratic senate. it was unpopular to do what we were continuing to do. the only way we got approval of congress was to go first to the security council of the u.n. and get a use of force resolution by them. still, president bush took the matter to the congress -- president bush 41. had congress turned him down i think he would have done what he did. i don't think we'll ever resolve that issue of who h

iraq's phantom weapons of mass destruction and 9/11. do you thing of waterboarding as a dark time in the history of your agency? >> sure. waterboarding was something that was authorized. it was something that i do not believe was appropriate. it is something that is not used now. and as far as i am concerned will not be used again. >> you were in management here at the time. you've didn't stop it? >> no. i had expressed to a few people my misgivings and concerns about it. but no i did not, you know, slam my fist on the desk. i did not go in and say we shouldn't be doing this. i think long and hard about what i maybe should have done more of at the time. but it was a different time. the ashes of the world trade center were still smoldering. we knew other waves of attacks were planned and some that were under way. >> in the year or so before 9/11, the cia had a covert action plan to attack al qaeda in afghanistan. the administration at that time said, "don't do that. we have time. we'll deal with this later." and then 9/11 happened. is th

to bolster its own ranks in iraq. so this pre-existing divisions tensions,e-existing they have used to their own advantage. i will fast-forward. i already have a time warning. suffice it to say, it is extremely harsh. as soon as isis took over, it imposed what it called a city charter. 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. al

conor, what's behind this increased aggression by isis in iraq? >> reporter: today's attack the latest in a string of bombings in and around baghdad in the last week or so. after that initial car bomb went off, at least six fighters then rushed this oil and gas plant which isis claimed was an iraqi military command and control center. the militants were ultimately stopped, but they did kill at least 11 people and wounded more than 20. earlier in this week isis attacked several markets in and around baghdad, killing more than 100 people in 24 hours, wounding dozens there as well. the sunni militant group really does seem to be targeting predominantly shiite neighborhoods, and there's the belief that they are sort of trying to ratchet up sectarian tensions in iraq in large part because they have begun to lose significant territory in iraq and in syria. the latest string of violence comes as they are beginning to be pushed back in places we heard according to thes military that they heard that isis declared a state of emergency in their capital raqqa

forces in iraq and syria as engaged in a combat medication. hours later, president obama's pokesman performed more gymnastics on the subject saying sometimes troops are in a combat situation but not a combat mission. former secretary gates made ms nbc. ments on guest: the white house has backed itself into a corner on this. they promised no new boots on the ground or combat in the middle east. 3,000 new troops floating around the area and three u.s. service members have and the ed over there white house is desperately trying to say this is not a slippery slope escalation into another iraq war. host: next call in cooper, texas, margaret on our democrats' line. caller: good morning, c-span. host: good morning. question. have are a i'm one of the 65,000 or so plus widows whose husband died from a service-connected illness, and d.i.c. and f.b.p. wondering if was there was anything in this budget to finally fund it to here we could be able to get back our f.b.p. that my husband and i paid into during our marriage, and now i'm being denied because i

how will do be do in iraq? when you trained counterterrorism forces, it is not simply a technical capacity. you can train them to certain technical standards. you have to have political unity. it is a long horizon. we're looking at a very long time. we have this immediate isis threat. we need to be looking at the long game. it is going to take a long time. david: let me follow up on that with you. the governments that were represented indiana has indicated support for lifting the arms embargo on sales of military equipment to the government. assuming that gets through the un security council and i -- and my understanding is it will take a un security council vote. i don't know what russia might do at this stage. assuming there is a un security council resolution, is your government also going to request specific assistance in terms of training its forces and how would that be organized? and where? would it be on libyan territory? would it be in tunisia? i don't quite understand how you form the armed forces for

we see it not just in syria in iraq, we see it in libya, nigeria, and other countries. we're going to have remain very focused on destroying all elements of the organization. >> is isis more appealing to jihadis in some ways than al qaeda was? >> it has set up a so-called caliphate. it has put its roots down in territory. they have been able to attract a number of individuals from outside that syria and iraq area, over tens of thousands of individuals who have traveled to join this so-called caliphate. i think it has had a res nnls that appealed to the hearts and souls and minds of individuals who have been misled by their narrative of it being a religious banner. >> it was the failure to see isis, the rise of isis, as quickly, was it an intelligence failure. the remember the president referred to them one time at the jv. team. that's a remark he seems to regret and he says was taken out of context. was that because the intelligence was downplaying isis. >> isis comes from al qaeda in iraq, which has been around for the last 10, 15 years. what we need to do is understan

>> i think there israel momentum to the campaign and iraq. -- in iraw. q. -- in iraq. it took eight months to liberate ramadi. it took eight weeks to liberate the next. probably a week or so to liberate the next town. there is a real sense of momentum on the side of the iraqi and kurdish forces. that needs to be sustained, and the united states has made it clear to the coalition that this is the moment to step up. they asked members of the coalition to look and see what else they could do. whate looking to see further we can add to the fight. committee ought to hear it first -- i am announcing your sending an additional air carrier aircraft into the theater to improve the air surveillance could build team we have. this is an aircraft that collects and analyzes intelligence, which helps us to better quickly identify and select targets in the campaign. we are continuing to step u

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and we've taken out a number of siel leaders in iraq and syria. we've substantially degraded the economic resources by hitting cash storage sites as well as oil infrastructure that they've been using to raise revenue and we've seen evidence of their ability to pay their personnel at the same rates they had in previous years is diminished. so on a number of dimensions, in fact, the campaign has made real progress. >> but a lot of people say that particularly the effort to take mosul, the second largest city in iraq has slowed down because of this problem, the iraqi army not being viewed favorably by a lot of people. >> i think that is -- in fact, we have two significant remaining objectives. mosul and iraq, raqqa and syria. both of which are going to take time to -- to take back from isil. these are heavily and densely populated areas an major cities and each context will require a ground force in iraq led by the iraqi army and joined by the kurds and others to first encircle and then ultimately seize mosul. in syria, obviously we need to continue

troops pulled out of iraq. while all that was happening, the arab spring was spreading throughout the arab world. demonstrations and riots and civil wars of people challenging their leaders. on january 25th, 2011, egyptians quaer gathered in cairo's tahrir square to protest the policies of egyptian president whose know mubarak, the u.s. ally. >> i've always considered egypt to be critical to our ability to provide stability in the middle east. >> when it became apparent mubarak had to go, the military urged caution. but the president pushed for his immediate removal. >> literally, the entire national security team recommended unanimously handling mubarak differently than we did. and the president took the advice of three junior back benchers in terms of how to treat mubarak. one of them saying, mr. president, you got to be on the right side of history. and i would be sitting there at the table and i say, yeah, if we could just figure that out we would be a long way ahead. >> i don't think he believes that gener

second largest city in northern iraq. this was an early morning attack on tuesday with about a hundred isis militants attacking these positions. u.s. officials say, christine, that the navy s.e.a.l.s were not on the front line, as is standard practice. they were a bit back, about two to three miles. they were visiting temporarily a kurdish peshmerga base there. but the isis militants managed to breakthrough the defense lines of the peshmerga, and a fire fight ensued. that is how u.s. navy s.e.a.l. charlie keating iv was killed in that fire fight. we're also hearing from the peshmerga that also a number of casualties that they suffered in this attack, the u.s. responded with an f-15, drones, and dropped more than 20 bombs. we're also hearing from the peshmerga commanders in the area that this was not the only attack that isis launched on tuesday. it was one of several similar coordinated attacks on different peshmerga front lines in northern iraq. really highlighting isis' ability to still carry out major attacks like this

i had a vision of an iraq man i knew who had no fingernails. and then it goes on at length about this man who used to come into your office in iraq, who had been tortured and all his fingernails taken off, and holiday every time he saw your baby -- how every time you saw your baby and it's incredible. like you started saying, you met these people, stayed close to them and wrote horrific things. so what draws you -- i mean, syria right now is just about the most dangerous place on earth. we have all lost friends there. are you going to go back? >> well, i feel very committed to it, and i also feel that last week after the hospital was bombed, the attacks on medical workers, i find absolutely horrific. and so i feel the need, and it's not -- it's interesting because i do have friends who i would say are addicted to war and clearly are taked. the like the adrenaline. like the fact they're taken out of their ordinary, boring day-to-day lives where we have to pay bills and drive kids to school they good into a war zone where you very much live in th

have a listen. >> a year ago here in iraq, the bar barbarians were at the gate. baghdad was threatened and in theory, it was in direct danger of being invaded by the animals we call isil. now we've driven back them and lost 45% of the territory they once held here in iraq. they lost 20% of the territory held in syria. we are seeing the iraqi security forces that in 2014, quite frankly collapsed under the pressure that isil put on them. we see them begin to rebuild. >> it's good to hear that, but at the same time, you hear the terror attacks in the arabian peninsula, in africa, and one has to wonder if the next administration is going to have to consider deploying to different regions because isil doesn't seem to be holding back in it growth. >> that's true. and when you look at it, every time that something happens, it's going to be something that occurs in a place we've never heard of before and that's one of the biggest challenges that you have is because when you don't know of the places where, for example, isis is going or another group, a future group of som

secondly iraq and syria and getting bad press. people understand that the not a utopia and diminish initials recruits. for african recruits they have to libya and a fourth thing turkey has been clamping down on people trying syria.el into not perfectly but that also iminishes the number that can get to the battle space. >> we heard recently that the to get access to what could be called a data base recruits.tion about how valuable is that? >> very. use that ght we information for? >> a lot of things. having the information on the eople in their data base of recruits allows you to get background information on the their and understand who web of connections are which is elpful whether you look to places where terrorist networks might have roots in europe. it allows you to go through electronic communications that they have undertaken and himself is in the battle space in iraq, syria and plan specifically relate to their personality. very g who the enemy is helpful. >> in closing if you could any words of advice for the pentagon wha

talking about iraq. here is a general talking about the fight for mosul today. >> that it will get harder the closer we get to -- as you saw ramadi it took six months to get that city clear. they have only been there for a few months. they have been in mosul two years. mosul is three times larger than ramadi. >> back with the panel. laura, our pentagon team has been talking to a lot of people, generals earlier this year back in february saying they weren't optimistic it was all going to come together this year. to hear the dni say not in this administration is kind of interesting. >> i mean, it doesn't seem like there was ever a real will in this administration to take on isis and defeat isis. i mean, we have sent some troops over and congress never voted on new troop deployment. and they said isis is on the run. isis is doe graded. isis is decimated. but i think most americans look at this situation and say this is a disaster. i interviewed this public priest on my radio show this week. he said there we

do you want to fight in iraq? and i said, "yes, of course, i want to help my muslim brothers and sisters. they kill them for no reason." i was almost going, because i had my suitcase already done. my mom, she prevented it, gladly. >> sreenivasan: his mother, fatima, had noticed a change in mahmoud. >> ( translated ): i have to know what he does. so i found his passport in the drawer in his room and i took it and i hid it. i was scared, my son shouldn't be going to somewhere that's not good. >> sreenivasan: she also called her local community police officer to intervene. and the officer confronted tighadouni in his house. >> he said, "listen, mahmoud, this is the time you need to stop with this." and i was very upset on the same time, but i was also listening to him, because he was very clear. that's the moment when i started not to be normal, but when i started to think, to de- radicalize. >> sreenivasan: there are more than 3,400 community police officers, known in dutch as a "wijkagents," across the netherlands.

i was against the war in iraq, totally against the war in iraq, totally against it. and hillary raised her hand, hey, it happened and a disaster. president obama got us out very badly. he set a date, we are going to be out a certain date. the other side did not believe it and could not believe it. they thought it was misinformation. general douglas and general george patent getting in their graves when they see what's happening with our country when this great country cannot beat isis which is essentially 30,000 people and smart people -- but, when they see that we cannot beat them and you know we are fighting not to win. we now fight war in a politically correct manner. we got to get out of there and win. we got to get out of there and we got to win, we got to build up our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before. [ cheers ] [ whistling ] >> you know donald trum-- >> donald trump there with a rally with a large group of farmers there spending some time talking about his views on foreign policy saying vladimir p putin calling him al genius and reminding fol

i take issue with his characterization of the iraq war. i think that this book is a push back against that narrative. i do not think we should be falling in with the code pink moveon .org narrative. it may feel politically expedient to answer that way, but it is much more politically powerful and principled to argue that even if you didn't like how we got into the war ultimately finishing it properly is important and has massive implications, and george w. bush surged and had a successful strategy in this president give it away. if you want to look at the cons, point to the abandonment which hangs on the neck a barack obama and hillary clinton. interesting, it has been difficult to campaign for a lot of people. very few moments when i have been proud of republicans on that articulation. i can only think of one. i remember just sitting there saying finally somebody won't cave in to that narrative. hopefully the reality is to over the next commander-in-chief is is willing to truly unleash total war on the islamic state. i take issue with the