the white house referred all questions to the pentagon and the pentagon referred questions back to the white house. the president ordered to withdrawal all troops is being met with universal condemnation. there are a lot of reasons why. we have nima elbagir with more from london. what is reaction now to trump s similar move? reporter: most of the key allies in the anti-isis coalition are disagreeing publicly with president trump. uk first and now france recently saying it is just not true. isis is not defeated. echoing the terminology used by u.s. administration officials up to this point which is this campaign is about an enduring victory. what can t be allowed to happen or agreement on what shouldn t be allowed to happen is isis should not be allowed to reconstitute. it has been already a bit of a propaganda boost to the terror group. on the same stday that the
i think we should be consistent as a whole. and i am. so tim there also were the flattering image of trump and kim. did kim get a propaganda boost from this as well, do you think? absolutely. i think the whole thing ended up being this incredible propaganda gift to the north korean government. that s why i was saying i think it s strange that trump is doing so much propaganda work for other nags right now. you know, he s working for the united states but you d think he was working for them. i think they saw it as a win-win, win, they got nothing to lose here. they got to be on a coequal standi standing for the united states. it s a big reward. you get to stand on an equal stage. the weird thing is, and everybody said this, nothing actually happened. what was that, was that just a prime time special? nothing really happened.
kim. did kim get a propaganda boost from this as well, you think? absolutely. i think the whole thing ended up being this incredible propaganda gift to the north korean government. that s what i was saying. i think it s strange that trump is doing so much propaganda work for other nations right now. you know, if he wasn t working for the united states, you d think he was working for them. you know, i think they saw it as a win, win, win. nothing to lose here. they got to be on a co-equal standing with the united states. we even paid for their hotel rooms as far as i can tell. this is why other administrations and other presidents chose not to do this? exactly. it s a big reward. you get to stand on an equal stage. the weird thing is everyone said this, but, you know, nothing actually happened. there s some possibility we ll look back in six months and be like what was that? was that just like a prime time special? nothing really happened. it was a great photo opp, i guess. stan
muslims, it under mines america in the international system. brooke, you don t have to be a specialist on the relationship between the united states and isis or al qaeda to tell president trump that it s ineffective. it will do more damage than good to american security, it s counterproductive because it provides a massive propaganda boost to al qaeda and isis at the end of the day there s basically no security, it s really lose-lose for america and it s a disservice for the american idea to basically respect for other people and other religions not including just muslims but all religions. the trump administration and sean spicer reiterating the fact
victor you re right, being here in an organization they can hit a home field advantage with a propaganda boost with the ability to do that. but remember from the military side you know two months ago, just a little over two months ago a raised alert level went from alpha to bravo. all u.s. military bases are at a higher level of security right now to include the fourth of july celebration. but from the to propaganda aspect if somebody got here to form an attack against a key critical infrastructure like a military base or government building on this holiday, the propaganda would be big for them and that organization. jonathan actually i want you both to weigh in on this but it s a difficult question to ask from this seat. it is important. we have been talking about this on this network for about a week now. and i wonder how much of the