they ve never done that over the last 17 years. this is something they want to reassure, something that is going to be music to their ears. one of the things we heard president trump say in the past when he was speaking about president obama s middle east politics, he was saying president obama tended to telegraph what he was going to do to america s adversaries. right now president trump is reassuring at least moscow this is something that will really happen. let s go to london now. nima, you have covered the conflict in the middle east, you know about the reality in syria. president trump has said that the war was won there, that isis was defeated. today he told troops in iraq that they were very nearly defeated. he seems to be changing his description of the situation there with each passing day. how will this impact the stability of that region and
nonconsensual sex. investigations are under way in the u.s. and abroad. reporter: number five, kimye. kim and kanye dive into politics. kim s plea for president trump to commute the sentence for drug offender, alice johnson. thank you! reporter: after a trip to the white house and some words of advocacy on twitter, trump commuted johnson s sentence. she was freed from prison after serving 21 years. meanwhile, kanye s bromance with the president flourished. i love this guy right here. reporter: they have admired each other since 2014, but sealed the deal during a bizarre visit to discuss prison reform. the wild antics went on and on, leaving trump speechless. that was quite something. reporter: number four, aretha franklin dies. r-e-s-p-e-c-t reporter: saying goodbye to a legend. aretha franklin died from pancreatic cancer in august. in the wake of her death,