isis controls, that territory, i believe must be retaken by mostly sunni arabs. and we have. it s not easy to get those people no it is not. equip them and train them yeah, but bill, okay. it s doable but not easy. on that note. it s not easy but by the way it s worse when we are helping iran, their arch enemy and because we have helped iran, they don t trust us right now. now tonight in south carolina, donald trump said this about all muslims. roll it. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. [ applause ] . [cheers and applause] you have no choice. we have no choice. so what do you think
isis controls, that territory, i believe, must be retaken by mostly sunni arabs. and we have. it s not easy to get those people no it is not. equip them and train them yeah, but bill, okay. it s doable but not easy. on that note. it s not easy but by the way it s worse when we are helping iran, their arch enemy and because we have helped iran, they don t trust us right now. now, tonight in south carolina, donald trump said this about all muslims. roll it. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. [ applause ] . [cheers and applause] you have no choice. we have no choice.
which is you do not have a ground force that can take and govern the territory that isis controls. until you figure that out, you can you hough and puff all you want. you have to go along with the strategy that they have. air strikes, special ops, working with locals, trying to get the turks more involved. you know, for all the if you look at donald trump tweets, his response to the speech was why does he keep calling it isil? why doesn t he call it isis like everyone else? if that s your substantive critique of the speech, that tells you us you don t have an alternative. fareed zakaria, thank you. appreciate it. coming up, will donald trump s proposal device the gop? that s next. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. de the gop? that s next. ght. ivide the gop? that s next. and can you explain why you recommend synthetic over cedar? super food? is that a real thing?
belgium. why is that short span so difficult to control? we re told that the turks have closed down two border sort of crossing locations and they see that as a positive sign but there s more work to do. the president put pressure on erdogan being the president of turkey to try to deal with that. that area is still very important. in terms of some of the other issues that are coming out, the diplomatic track, of course, remains important, but i think what officials wanted us to know is they believe if you reduce the physical territory that isis controls, that begins to further degrade it. part of what is so hard to predict about this group is their ability to adapt, their ability to change tactics. and so part of what officials are trying to do in this sort of traditional military sense is if you have less physical space and you cut off some of the pathaways for them to get to their internal structures, meaning where are their kind of foreign fighters located in a
of consensus? reporter: well, we talked to ben rhodes about that comment, and it is true according to the united states that isis has been pushed back territorially, but they also admit they have not been able to decapitate, to use their words, the command and control center which is somewhere in syria or in northern iraq, the areas isis controls, and the question is still whether these attacks that happened in paris and the attacks that happened in beirut and the downing of the russian airliner last week, if those attacks were coordinated and planned from a central location. if, in fact, that is the case, ha speaks to the problem that the united states and the coalition still has even though they may have stopped isis expansion, they ve not been able to kill it at its headquarters and these attacks in paris and elsewhere have shown that they have that ability to do so. so while, yes, the territorial expansion may have lost momentum, there is still this