to get the leaders of isis who they felt were in mosul and about three months ago i started reading they want to get the leaders, and they are going to attack mosul. whatever happened to the element of surprise? trump s comments on the push into mosul led one reporter to write this article, and it shows how little he knows. and a foreign affairs reporter from the washington post, good to see you and have you with us. good to see you. let s see what donald trump got right about iraq in the debate? what do you think he got right in the debate? well, not very much. he began his whole response on mosul on relatively solid footing, this argument he and other republicans make about clinton and the obama administration s premature with draw from iraq has a bit of validity, but then he goes on from there to take all sorts of interesting tangents, including
francois hollande both refused to rule out sanctions against russia. meanwhile, iraqi prime minister says forces are advancing on mosul, quote, faster than we thought. that as iraqi and peshmerga forces continue to liberate cities on their way to mosul. iraqi special forces have joined the fight, making a predawn advance on a village held by the terror group. this is viewed as a significant step as those troops are expected to lead the charge into mosul. meanwhile, french president francois hollande says there is evidence that isis militants are fleeing the city. nbc s matt bradley will be joining us short. last night, donald trump tangled with the moderator over comments made in the last debate over aleppo that chris wallace said were, quote, not true. you said several things in that debate which were not true, sir. you said aleppo has basically
after mosul for about how long now is it, hillary, three months? these people have all left. they ve all left. the element of surprise. dougl dougl douglas macarthur, george patton spinning in their graves at our stupidity. you know who the big winner in mosul is going to be after we eventually get it and the only reason they did it is because she s running for office of president and they want to look tough. they want to look good. he violated the red line in the sand, and he made so many mistakes. he made all mistakes. that s why we have the great migration, but she wanted to look good for the election. who is going to get mosul really? we ll take mosul eventually. if you look at what s happening, much tougher than they thought. much, much tougher. but the leaders wanted to get are all gone because they re smart. they say what do we need this
in fallujah and ramadi earlier this year, they were the tip of the spear moving into the center of cities. so that means that their movement into the front lines just this morning indicates that we re going to start seeing an actual pressure around mosul. now, today could be a really big day for the fight. we re starting to see some of the peshmerga planning to liberate some of the christian villages to the north and to the east of mosul. these are actually some more heavily populated villages. that means we re actually going to start to see more refugees. we may start to see some slowing of the fighting. early on, just after this offensive was announced, it was a pretty fast love toward mosul. now we might start to see some real problems when it comes to dealing with some of the civilians. again, there s 1.2 million civilians in mosul. that s going to be a major issue moving forward. alex? very much a potential humanitarian crisis. matt bradley, thank you so much.
for. so mosul is going to be a wonderful thing and iran should write us a letter of thank you just like the stupidest deal of all time, a deal that s going to give iran absolutely nuclear weapons. iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much because iran, as i said many years ago, is taking over iraq. something they ve wanted to do forever, but we ve made it so easy for them. so we re now going to take mosul and you know who is going to be the beneficiary? iran. you re not there. you might be involved in that decision, but you were there when you took everybody out of mosul and out of iraq. you shouldn t have been in iraq, but you did vote for it. you shouldn t have been in iraq, but once you were in iraq, you should have never left the way the point is the big winner is going to be iran. well, you know, once again donald is implying he didn t