all these bad leaders from isis are leaving mosul. why can t they do it quietly. general george paton and mcarthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we re doing in the middle east. that was last sunday, a week ago in the debate. what is your response to why can t you do it quietly? what i will say is that we have been echoing the prime minister of iraq himself who has been signaling to the people of mosul that help is on the way. that the liberation of mosul is coming and no surprise to isol and everyone in iraq and iraq s second largest city. there have been efforts to envelop mosul for months now. not a surprise to anyone. but there is an element of surprise as to how this is going be carried out over the next few days and weeks and this will be a long fight. to be sure, isol still has a lot of questionmark question marks
be carried out and supported by the united states and international coalition. we heard from our reporters on the front lines there talking about just vast number of civilians who are in the way. who are in and around mosul. of course, part of talking about it is to try to get them out of the way. but our supporters said there could be more than a million people, civilians, trying to get out of the way and it will lead to this humanitarian crisis of epic proportion. what is the plan for that? of course, there are real concerns about the humanitarian situation. but, alisyn, i have to point out we had concerned in mosul since isol first moved in there. they have brutalized the population of mosul and trying to get isol out of there. supported by the international community, led by the united
there is still all these different roaring factions from shiite militias to the kurds to iraqi insurgents who want that territory. what is the plan? well, of course, the government of iraq, this is going to be led by prime minister abadi and the one thing i would say, alisyn, on that front, this is an active area of discussion from this front. the one unifying thing throughout is that everyone wants isol to go and that has been very unifying. the prime minister has talked about, again, trying to do this the right way and to make sure at the end of this fight with isol a better, more unified iraq and that sectarian strife can be reduced, if not eliminated. that s something for the iraqis to sort out for themselves with support from the coalition and the united states has provided more than $1 billion in humanitarian assistance and other international contributors have done the same. this is all part of the effort
a great sense of urgency on four fronts, hunting down and taking out the terrorists, training iraqi security forces to stop isol on the ground. stopping the financing and propaganda and finally, persistent diplomacy to end the syrian civil wars so everybody can focus on destroying isol. they cannot hide, and our message to them, you are next. it goes without saying that most republicans do not believe that the president s strategy is not succeeding. as to who they think will do better, we begin with our poll breaking it all down by the numbers. so john, who among the republican candidates gets the highest marks when it comes to handling terrorism? let s start with this one, anderson, it looks at the reuters poll which starts with all of them. donald trump and hillary clinton were tied at 23%, bernie sanders next at nine, americans were
masri, ma good evening, 6:00 p.m. here in a very chilly las vegas, odds are by this time tomorrow night millions of viewers will watch the top republican presidential candidates on stage at the casino. which is what makes them uniquely suited to becoming the next commander-in-chief. that of course is the next focus on the debate. national security. we have new pollings on how the gop ranks the candidates. and more on the message against isis. today, the united states and our armed forces continue to lead the global coalition in our mission to destroy the terrorist group, isol. as i outlined last weekend, our strategy is moving forward with