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always announcing what you are going to do. he used on the campaign trail to make fun of the administration to say we are going to invadee mosul in three weeks. we re going to invade mosul in two weeks.ks does he have a point? he has a point. first of all, i was not in the obamaio administration. i worked for his campaign and previous to that i worked for the state department actually under president bush. i was based in baghdad. president trump has a point the u.s. goverment was slow to respond to isis and have a military campaign against isis in iraq and in syria. but it s going pretty well now. i was in iraq last in december, two months ago. and the campaign is going quite effectively. in fact, we have pushed isis out of the eastern part of mosul. they are in the western part of mosul. they will be out of iraq soon. the real struggle right now will be to come up with a plan to pacify iraq after isis is pushed out and to find a way to push isis out of syria where theis battlefield
u.s. invasion of vera cruz in 1914. it is terrible right now. chris: of course, what president trump would say is, that s because there has been a soft policy, we haven t been enforcing our border and finally we are. well, what i would say is that president trump is wrong. there is no invasion of mexicans coming to the united states for the last five, six years.. the undocumented population has remained stable at about 11 million. by the way, more mexicans live in the united states than coming to this country. there is really no invasion. the problem right now with the mexican government is that trump wants mexico to pay for that wall, and mexicans, believe me, they won t pay a cent for that wall. jorge, good to be with you. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. the president flexs his military muscle and promises to obliterate isis. what is his plan? we will take a look. as republicans promise to repeal and replace obama
every country they want to have competing source. chris: you are getting it awfully broad here let me bring ricbring ric in to wrap ts up. is that what s needed to end this war? i believe that is what is needed. it s good that general did you knowford is reviewing the plan to take on isis. part of that should be adjusting the troop levels, increasing them in iraq. should consider having a permanent presence in iraq and kurdistan region of iraq and increase troop levels in syria. we also have to do a better job of arming the local forces and givings themth types of things they need to take on isis. all that happens, we will beat isis. chris: gentlemen, thank you, president trump says obamacare doesn t work but what should it be replaced with? we will talk to one of its
power move by general michael flynn former u.s. corredirector defense intelligence agency. s shaping the nsc to be like his operational command that he had working with at the defense intelligence agency and putting things more in his pocket. the director of the national security council is not supposed to be a person who has his fingers in every pie. and it remains to be seen whether he can macro micro machining everything on the security council and take away authorities from the other cabinet members. that remains to be seen. but based on flynn s background and everything that we ve read about him, that is exactly what he intends to do. that do create a lot of may help. on the other hand, let s talk about the defeating isis. blast august donald trump claims that the last book he read was my book called defeating isis. i find it interesting since it s 544 pages.