counterterrorism mission that the forces in iraq are performing. >> sean turner, i want to look back at the president's surprise announcement last week on syria, saying he is going to pull u.s. troops out of syria. listen to how the president described the fight against isis just last week. >> we have won against isis. we have beaten them and we have beaten them badly. we have taken back the land? >> so last week he says we have beaten isis, we're going to take back the land or we have taken back the land, but today in iraq he said that, well, we could use iraq as a base to strike syria or strike at isis targets if syria if we need to. it doesn't sound as though they've been defeated or knocked silly as he said earlier today. >> yes. i think if the president is listening to his national security advisers, one of the things we know he knows is that isis has not been decimated the way that he says they are. i thought it was very interesting he said we have beaten back isis. one of the things that everyone who works in national security knows is that isis exists really in two places. there's the physical existence