themselves in the rural areas around major population centers and the fear is if americans pull out, those population centers are going to be overrun. if the afghani taliban has always been a haven for al qaeda, never backed away for this and not just al qaeda but a number of other groups, like the one behind the mumbai attack and pakistani taliban, which claimed an attempted attack in times square a couple of years ago. at the same time you spent time recently in syria. yes. and there s talk about isis being resurgent in of this sm z places. how do we describe it? pompeo said they don t control land, the caliphate. there may be fancy footwork going on there. what do we need to know about terrorist groups, isis in particular, in iraq and syria? it was clear when i was there in february and first days of march that isis had never been defeated. this was a group that still had
very dangerous people threatening the country, and that needs to be continued. not part of the war on isis in particular. i want to ask you something that has developed in the last few minutes, ivanka trump, it came out that she was using her private e-mail for government business inside the white house. she was just asked about it on abc. let s listen to what she says. in my case all of my e-mails are on the white house server. there s no intent to circumvent, and there were mass deletions after a subpoena was issued, and there is no connection between the two things. the idea of lock her up doesn t apply to you? no. you were in congress during the hillary clinton e-mail questions, and ivanka trump says nothing to see here. is that explanation good enough?
this is tied to calls by other terrorist groups, isis in particular, for attacks during the holy month of ramadan, which has become a trademark of isis. it s an anathema to every muslim in the world but isis sees this as special mission period. if you tie this to the ariana grande concert, you have a continue wum of attacks that take place every three to four weeks. the british intelligence mi5 are going to be tearing this thing apart. you ll hear the next 24 hours numerous raids. they can t take any more chances that there s another team of people or an individual who may be ready to carry out this attack once he sees the enormous publicity that this is going to gain. given that this suspect could be listening and could be watching and is seeing now that this marker has been used, that these are now being called terrorist incidents by the
heightened alert here, because, you know, isis in particular has put no boundaries on its encouragement of its it s adherence to carry out attacks like this, but i think we do have the advantages of sharing, we have the advantages of size and now of experience over the years since 9/11. and that post-9/11 world, as you were intimating here, john, are the inbeds that come from large police forces like the nypd that have been stationed in terms of counterintelligence efforts and specialists from the nypd, based around the world, full time, year after year after year. when i was in southeast asia they had one or two embeds, if you will, there with counterterrorism efforts. so that coordination functioning so importantly, and so seamlessly as we re watching on the screens right now, but
everything computes. details are emerging of the terror threat discussed with the russians last week. isis is apparently trying to down airliners with laptop bombs. the president was meeting with the foreign minister about the terrorist threat. the president was emphasizing, we have some common interest here and we have to work together. we have an area of cooperationth with the national terrorist organizations, isis in particular, an organization that had already taken down a russian airliner and murdered over 200 people in october of 2015.ar command performance, fourpe stars? five stars? so dana, mcmasters, we love it. obviously i think, when you have somebody that s a subject matter expert that can come to the podium and calm people down,