and thanks for having me on. - those other countries? good evening and thanks for having me on. what l and thanks for having me on. what we ve seen in the uk on this very high plasil of cases, since midsummer, when the research listened, and the shape of the academic dummett epidemic reflect the strategy put in place at the time and that s not what other countries you have listed, apart from the us, i cannot speakfor the usa, but those other european countries on the graph, they took a different strategy over the summer thatis different strategy over the summer that is left he countries in quite a different situation right now. does the number different situation right now. does the number of different situation right now. does the number of cases different situation right now. does the number of cases matter or should we only be looking at the number of hospitalisations? we only be looking at the number of hospitalisations? yes, the number of cases matters. hospitalisations?
decision to strike syria, ahead of the u.n. inspection of chemical weapons? there are a lot of people in america, i m not one of them, but there are a lot of people who think we haven t fully answered the question as to whether the syrians were actually responsible for last week s chemical attacks. no one has actually offered except the russians offered a fairly ridiculous view that it was the british government responsible for it. right. this has been problematic in a lot of ways. trump floated his military plans for days before doing this. the strategy has been unclear. he s publicly disagreed with mattis with what s going on, is this a one-day strike? there s been no strategy put forward. and with this, it hasn t been prove that it was actually assad ewing chemical weapons on his people. i think there are more questions than answers.
that the senate intelligence committee is to piece together. and is a snapshot better than no picture at all? well, we need the details as we can get of russia s multi faceted effort to influence the election, but looking at the facebook ads, it is going to tell you the the interesting story, because it is more of the influence strategy and more than electoral strategy. some 3,000 facebook ads and 750 of the ads and 25% were geo targeted at specific states. only 44% of those ran before d election, and only in many of those 330 ads didn t run in competitive states, so this doesn t seem like a strategy targeted to get donald trump elected, but it was a strategy put forward to undermine america s place in the order as assessed from the january report that was the goal of the russian
network, al qaeda, isis that are there, and tallas president is going to make available additional air combat resources. so from a military strategic standpoint, what does this mean in very real terms? and looking at what this strategy is, what s the best-case scenario? by the way, chris, i think it s incumbent upon us in the policy debate in the coming couple of years to separate your view of president trump from the policies that may or may not be emerging. so setting aside one s viewpoint on racism and white supremacists, et cetera, i thought last night was as good as we can do. that wasn t much of a strategy put forward. it was just a notion that we re not going the withdraw, we re going to have conditions-based analysis of how long we stay. we re going to get more muscular rules of engagement and we re going to have a modest increase in force and maybe, maybe a
jon: how would you assess the fight against isis is going right now? at ss it s a very important time, especially with regards to the execution, isis has been primarily territorial control. a new strategy put in place by the trump administration to basically defeat isis, seems to be making good progress. not to be premature with regard to the president s declaration to hold a news conference, i think the operational commanders on the ground, the progress continues to be made, everything coming up through the secretary of defense, all those things are playing out with regard to reducing risks, denying isis i haven inside mosul in particula