back in september of 2014 when the president announced he ordered these actions, the primary purpose of carrying out military operations inside of syria was to start to take action, deny them a safe haven so they cowl not use a safe hafen inside of the chaos of syria to carry out attacks in west. we have made progress. 20% to 25% of the populated area that isil previously operated in in iraq and syria is no longer an area they can operate. we made progress but there s more important work to be done. we may have made progress in terms of territory but the very fact they were able to carry out this coordinated, deadly attack in paris, didn t that the mean we have not, obviously, done enough to stop isis? alisyn, of course there s more important work to be done. the president made clear back in september of 2014 when he discussed this issue, when he ordered this military action, made clear that this was going to be a long-term proposition. isil made significant gains in