First foreign trip. I would want to bring general mcmaster to preview what we are doing for the president s trip. We will next week brings the general back and give you a more detailed update as to what the president is going to be doing in each of the areas with highlights from the trip. I will obviously additionally have background briefings for you as well, to give the team from the press corps some additional updates. Without further ado, general mcmaster. Yes, i will be glad to take your questions. In fact, if you would like, you get to go first today. Happy mothers day weekend. As you know, in one week, the president will embark on his first trip abroad since taking office. Today i would like to spend the president s objectives for his visit to the middle east and europe and also preview a bit of the schedule. The trip has three core purposes. First, to reaffirm americas global leadership. Second, to continue building key relationships with leaders. And third, to broadcast a mess
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Its not a shia problem but a specific problem of iranian they are no longer proxies but extensions of the iranian irregular military forces and those are the militants that are leading the charge into ramadi, which is unacceptable. And they help get us off track by launching the attack on tikrit on their own which then failed and we had to bail them out, which was an enormous positive turning point for us because it demon stated the limitations of the ability of the iraqieycontrolled fight to the enemy. The benefit we gain from that, we move many steps back. If these groups are successful in taking part of ramadi when the troops we backed, failed, it will demonstrate the viability in a catastrophic way that will undermine the independence that the i. S. S. Might have and be a significant extension of Iranian Military power not just military influence in the region. Senator ernst my time is way over. Senator mccain i hope you will have them over to your house for dinner. Before i turn t
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And definition that there is today. So theres a long road between what the president actually applied those comments to and what we are today. At we now have tens of thousands of peep who are, by the way, the principle bull work against isil theyre the ones who drove them of the province, in the suburbs, fighting in aleppo. Ofwhat happened is a lot people came to this fight over time, gained experience, some in thef and joined up most radical groups, and you know, were not working with them. But a lot of them chose to be and of the Free Syrian Army to stay away from the more violent strain. So its complicated, there are divisions. Thehave to understand principle reason all these people are coming to syria is because of assad. Assad is the magnet thats drawn these foreign fighters there. And he is their top priority, that. Rstand i just have one other question and im going to finish early and let somebody else have a chance. But there have been allegations that the socalled moderates th