there will be more terror attacks in europe and elsewhere as isis tries to divert attention from their inevitable military defeat. she fence secretary mattis had this to say in australia yesterday. we re going to have to take that down or the attacks that you ve seen going on around the world will continue. the enemy has to be taken out by military means where they are powerful enough to cause these attacks on others. we can t sit idly by and let them hold it. hundreds of u.s. special operations, troops are participating on the ground in the raqqa operation. u.s. marine artillery, apache gun shots, rocket-assisted artillery are known as part of the operation. while the u.s. military are advising, they re firing artillery and providing air cover. shepard: jennifer, thank you. could the syria operation be a trigger for isis to launch an attack here? let s bring in tara maller.
i ll be right there. and the butchery begins. what am i gonna wear? this party is super fancy. let s go. i m ready. are you my uber? [ horn honks ] hold on. don t wait for watchathon week to return. [ doorbell rings ] who s that? show me netflix. sign up for netflix on x1 today and keep watching all year long. welcome back, the missile strike has scrambled some alliances. he supports the syria operation but with complications. let me start, why do you support
business techniques. mcmast er s credentials we largely talked about from the military. but do you think kushner is up to all those tasks you ve been writing about? well, not by himself. that s no offense to him. it s the jobs he has are much too big for any one person. what i was trying to say in that article is he needs staff. he needs organization to be able to carry out these policies. but the problem is the white house staff is really pretty small. if he s going to get staff, he s going to take it away from somebody else. that means bureaucratic in-fighting. according to press reports, the person who s most likely to lose out if kushner gains more stature, more influence, more staff, is bannon, who by all accounts was very much opposed to the syria operation and has is on the short end of the stick. so do you think kushner has been set up to fail?
u.s.-led coalition jets. now russian warplanes very active. in fact, more active than those u.s.-led coalition jets. they need to avoid dangerous conflicts in the sky. where they don t have any progress is on the larger issue of a political settlement. it s of the belief that russian priority is propping up the regime of syria s assad. while the u.s. may not want him to fall immediately, they don t see him as part of the solution, they see him as part of the problem. that s an issue where they have yet to find common ground. as you know, the russians are using a lot of newly developed military hardware in syria right now. is the syria operation an opportunity for the u.s. to actually see what russia has in its arsenal? it is. it s been sobering. this is the first major russian operation overseas really since the invasion of afghanistan in 1979. and you re seeing some new tools. the fruits of billions of dollars invested in their military in recent years by vladimir putin.
there, pushing these ideas. and you can tell how he s inf influenced the debate in terms how many of other candidates are willing to say they would send troops to syria and troops back to iraq. melinda, speak to that if that s the rand paul official perspective. does that sound right in reading of the electorate? give us your take on a foreign policy piece, that back and forth about the syria operation, conservative hugh hewitt pushing the senators on the unrest in the middle east and migrant crisis. i thought on the foreign policy front it was the biggest shock not shock, because he said it before, but donald trump continues to behave as though the only real problem with putin is that barack obama can t seem to inspire friendship in him. i find this really a minority