well. unfortunately like you said, they used to do good work and now their hate level has become a joke. they attack catholics, nuns, veterans, muslims who are fighting muslim extremism. they typically hate everyone who typically disagrees with their left-wing ideology. it s disappointing that abc would undermine their credibility and professionalism by cutting and pasting from splc s web site. dropping that into a headline about us. martha: we will see. obviously you want a response in retraction. kerri, thank you very much for being here. thank you. martha: still had tonight, after years of destruction at the hands of isis, the city of most muscle, iraq, is now under
prussia issue that s drowning it out. it not to say that that s not important but these are very important for the future of the world. are they not? absolutely. three years ago, isis came on the world stage. 30,000 strong. largest terror organization ever created. they raced across the border into iraq and caused the iraqi army to flee on television, as we saw. they took control of the major city in iraq. years ago, three. it produced the toughest infantry fighting the seen since world war ii. block by block, building by building. room by room. thousands of civilians killed by isis if they resisted. they made them human shields. that caused them to get killed again. it was absolutely horrific what was taking part there, in terms of the human dimension of this.
martha: developing tonight, the west is making a notable milestone in the global fight against isis after iraqi forces recaptured the city of mosul from islamic state control. it s more than just a battle won. peggy noonan writing this. we should pause to recognize what just occurred and say good, bravo, this is a victory for what? civilization. the triumph and mosul comes just days after trump wanted to defend civilization from the threat of radical islam. we are fighting hard against radical islamic terrorism and we will prevail. the west will never, ever be broken.
it s a key hub for weapons transport between iraq and syria. they might make it to raqqa and say that u.s. forces or alliance forces can find a way to get isis out of raqqa. what s the larger picture there? does that mean it s all over? does isis need territory in order to had operate. no. i mean, raqqa is going to be a difficult fight. that is going to take a lot longer. think in terms of months it approximate not into 2018. there you have a different coalition. you have the sdf, which is a combination of syrian, arab and curds fighting together. they re making progress, but remember, isis has been dug in in raqqa for some time. and even after you clear isis all up and down the euphrates river valley, there s still going to be pockets. the numbers change ho this, but the most recent numbers that we have is within the city much raqqa there s a couple thousand isis fighters. sometimes you hear less than a thousand, but they re almost double that along the euphrates
text blades to gillette on demand text to reorder blades with gillette on demand. .and get $3 off your first order now to iraq where the prime minister has declared victory in the fight to put isis out of mosul. the near nine month campaign is coming to a close in a small area of the city today. however, the humanitarian situation in iraq s second largest city appears to be far from over. the united nations says thousands of people have been