we begin this evening with brett mcgurk. he is the special envoy to the coalition fighting against i.s.i.s. >> i.s.i.l is -- director brendan last weekend called it a fee phenomenon. it is a phenomenon, and it's important to understand how we analyze it how you make sense of something like this. we analyze it in three dimensions. there's the core in iraq and syria which we're talking about. you have to shrink the core. you have to shrink the amount of territory they control, and we are shrinking it about 45% in iraq less in syria but strategic plans in syria. 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. >> rose: we conclude with maggie haberman who covers politics for the "new york times" and cnn. >> paul ryan is a very conservative figure. yet at this moment in the conservative party which has lurched so far right, he is not treated that way anymore. h

we begin this evening with brett mcgurk. he is the special envoy to the coalition fighting against i.s.i.s. >> i.s.i.l is -- director brendan last weekend called it a fee phenomenon. it is a phenomenon, and it's important to understand how we analyze it, how you make sense of something like this. we analyze it in three dimensions. there's the core in iraq and syria which we're talking about. you have to shrink the core. you have to shrink the amount of territory they control, and we are shrinking it, about 45% in iraq, less in syria but strategic plans in syria. 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. >> rose: we conclude with maggie haberman who covers politics for the "new york times" and cnn. >> paul ryan is a very conservative figure. yet at this moment in the conservative party which has lurched so far right, he is not treated that way anymore

we begin this evening with brett mcgurk. he is the special envoy to the coalition fighting against i.s.i.s. >> i.s.i.l is -- director brendan last weekend called it a fee phenomenon. it is a phenomenon, and it's important to understand how we analyze it, how you make sense of something like this. we analyze it in three dimensions. there's the core in iraq and syria which we're talking about. you have to shrink the core. you have to shrink the amount of territory they control, and we are shrinking it, about 45% in iraq, less in syria but strategic plans in syria. 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.

brett mcgurk, president obama's special envoy to the global coalition against isis was in amman yesterday and he addressed this in a press conference. here's what he had to say. >> and now the caliphate as they call it, this perverse caliphate is shrinking. so they are very much on the defensive. they have not retaken any territory really since their operations in ramadi going all the way back to may. >> reporter: u.s. officials say that isis has lost about 45% of the territory once controlled in iraq and about 20% of the territory controlled in syria. while it has lost territory as the past couple of weeks can show that the group still has that ability to carry out these continuous, really high-profile attacks we have seen taking place almost on a daily basis now in iraq. rosemary. >> just after 10:00 in the morning there in amman jordan. many thanks to you. >>> rosemary, jihadist groups are threatening to drive christians out of syria, burning churches and desecrating priceless icons. the historic town of maloula was recently freed after being seized by isis militants. but some christia

special envoy brett mcgurk visiting jordan says isis is resorting to terror to make up for a series of losses on the battlefield. >> it relies on suicide attacks or getting spectacular headlines. >> reporter: the u.s. is now trying to add to isis' battlefield. working with local security forces and local tribes to retake the strategically important town halfway between jordan's capital, amman, and baghdad. but the bigger prize is mosul. under isis control for nearly two years, iraq's second largest city is the target of repeated coalition air strikes and intelligence operations. >> we have already begun the process of isolating daesh in mosul. we are doing precision air strikes in mosul almost every day. we have a lot of information from working with the people who are inside mosul about what daesh is doing inside the city. >> reporter: president obama has vowed to retake mosul before he leaves office. >> my expectation is that by the end of the year, we will have created the conditions whereby mosul will eventually fall. >> reporter: but now the timeline appears to be sliding once aga