made. >> michael when you are not getting answers for a long period of time, the general public says what does that mean? what aren't they telling us? the they start to fill in the gaps themselves or wonder if there's a reason, maybe because it looks bad that information is kept from the public. what's your take as someone who is very much involved in analyzing what's going on with isis and the u.s. battle against it? >> october was supposed to be the month we declare victory in a sense and isis has now lost raqqah, the de facto capital of its ka la fit. the president has said he's done more than barack obama had done to smash the terror organization although the media coverage hasn't been so kind. you have the disaster in niger and the calamity in northern iraq where baghdad is pitted against our ally and u.s. backed forces facing off in what could be a civil war. so it's not quite the mission