so much for explaining this whole region to us. we really appreciate all of your expertise. thanks so much. chris? thank you, alisyn. let s turn to the battleground of politics and donald trump is making headlines for going off in iowa, a 95-minute tie ride that even by trump standards left the audiences and analysts stunned. cnn s athena jones is live in des moines. good morning. good morning, chris. it was a sight to, hold last night. one of the longest and most eye-rising tirades from trump yet, full of insults against his gop rivals, democratic leaders and the media and more tough talk for isis. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. cursing and mocking chief rival dr. ben carson. how stupid are the people of iowa? reporter: unleashing his most aggressive attacks yet in what amounted to an hour and a half long ran in the iowa. how stupid are the people of the country to believe this
they took the shot. another official tells cnn emwazi was in a vehicle near raqqa. emwazi appeared in a series of isis beheading videos, documenting the murders of several murder, american and britain japanese hostages, he was seen taunting u.s. and british leaders. we ll continue to strike the necks of our people were this morning, the uk government saying britain was working hand in glove with america over the jihadi john drone strike. this was an act of self-defense, the right thing to do. reporter: emwazi, in in his mid-20s. if this strike was successful and we still await confirmation of that, it will be a strike at the heart of isil. reporter: one of the things that he also said was that this was a long-term operation of the two intelligence services and
master the issues of policies that are important. that s why we invite the doctor on to talk about policy. there s a lot to discuss. armstrong williams, thanks for being with us on new day, as always. thank you, chris. over to you. i ll take it, chris, thank you. i llson. this is cnn breaking news. we do have breaking news for you now out of iraq. we understand the critical city of sinjar is back under the control of iraq. it has been wrestled out of the grip of isis. cnn s senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is live on the ground in sinjar with all of the breaking developments. nick? reporter: we ve just come out of the city of sinjar which seems to confirm what kurdish leader is saying, that they have liberated that city. he called it an important step in the future for the liberation of the other major city here, mosul in iraq. also in the hands of isis. but simply declaring the city behind me as liberated isn t the end of the job.
aggressive attacks yet in what amounted to an hour and a half long ran in the iowa. how stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap? reporter: the billionaire gunning for carson. the two are virtually neck and neck in recent polls here. after the retired neurosurgeon wrote in his autobiography that as a teen he tried to stab a friend only to have it stopped by a belt buckle. i have a belt. somebody hits me, it s going in. the belt moves this way. it moves this way. it moves that way. he hit the belt buckle. anybody have a knife want to try it on me? believe me, it ain t going to work. reporter: trump comparing carson s self-described pathological temper to an incurable disease. i don t want a person that s got pathological disease. if you re a child molester, a sick puppy, you re a child molester, there s no cure for that. reporter: a theme of attack he used earlier in the night on cnn prompting carly fiorina to
that was going on. let s discussion. cnn political commentator and political anchor at new york one, mr. errol louis and also dr. david chalian. this is unusual. what is the strategy here. i think the strategy is to stop losing new cycles or being wleft out of new cycles. that doesn t work for donald trump. he s running as a celebrity candidate. there s nothing wrong with that. what can go wrong with that strategy is if all of a sudden we re talking about marco rubio, ted cruz, actual foreign policy in sort of a realistic approach to the presidency, then all of a sudden donald trump gets shuffled off to the side and that won t work for him. he s been leading in the polls pretty consistently but others are creeping up. i think he knows as well as anybody else, certainly the people on his team know that s not a strategy that you can just sit and watch for 80 days. we have 80 days to go. that s an eternity in politics. he can get passed between now and the iowa caucuses.