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president trump. it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have 100 percent of the caliphate. but i want to wait for the official word. senior diplomats from nearly 80 countries gathered at the state department for another summit of the global coalition to defeat isis. the president acknowledges this group will work together for years to come. as secretary of state mike pompeo says, isis strategy is evolving. isis remains a mem menace one that is our generation s to stop. withdraw the 2,000 or so u.s. troops in syria. secretary pompeo defended the decision saying as isis loses remaining territory less and more on intelligence. the drawdown of troops essentially tactical 2014 founding. absent from this summit. former presidential envoy to
servant. i m not disputing what he said there and i m not going to domestic dispute what the president said today, but that s why these hearings are so valuable. how are the rules of engagement so different? how are you doing things differently now than you were six months, mine months, two years ago? that s the value of airing this out, so the american people, as they watch these heros be buried and as we have this debate about their service, not about the politics part of it, what to do about it. we have not heard very much from the president on the isis strategy. he s given, you know, about one speech on it. so i think this week was a major missed opportunity for him to, you know, perhaps explain the strategy. do an oval office address or something to actually explain to americans what is happening in africa and other places around the globe. he does not want to get engaged in this fight. you know, this morning, he s not talking about the substance, he s talking about this member
that s a risk to u.s. national security. the continuing ability of the isis. whether they have control of raqqah or not, to be able to inspire attacks, direct attacks, plot and plan. president trump s so-called isis strategy has been the same as president obama s. bomb, conduct combat operations, train local forces to go after them. you know. do more war, if you will. but that s not really going to solve the isis problem. if you get them out of raqqah, they ve already moved southeast into the euphrates river valley. you can pursue them there, of course. this is an ideology. this is a long-term generational prospect for reconstruction of these areas for rebuilding that s going to cost billions of dollars. will the u.s. really be there for this area? but syria is a unique example because it s bashar al assad s
hearing the new regarding general flynn s ties to turkey. this as new details emerge during the transition flynn, whose firm was paid more than $500,000 by a turkish-owned company, rejected an obama administration offer to arm syrian kurds in the fight against isis. turkey opposed such a move, and the trump team said it wanted to review its isis strategy. since flynn s departure the trump administration has change willed course on this decision. reporter: back here in the senate, leaving that briefing with rod rosenstein tonight numerous democratic senators saying rosenstein acknowledged during the briefing today that he knew james comey was going to be fired one day before he sent out that memo that was release willed by the white house. of course, that memo really held up by white house officials as original justification for why james comey was going to be dismissed, and tomorrow, wolf, the full house will hold a similar secure briefing with rod