and countries around the world to address that. post counter isis campaign, you know, the active operations and when isis was defeated in syria, what we ve seen is isis metastasize like afghanistan. this is not only an iraq and syria challenge but a global challenge. you can t wish it away. you have to keep pressure on isto keep from a resurgence. as they demonstrated in 2014, if that is allowed to happen, disastrous consequences. i d like to focus on isis threat in iraq as you said. it s been largely suppressed. the u.s. has been advising and training iraqi security forces in iraq for years now. does the pentagon think that iraqi security forces are able on their own to deal with current situation that is or the threat of isis that has been largely suppressed? that s a question for the iraqi security forces to answer. we re there at the invitation of the iraqi government to help train and advise. we ve been watching this for a long time. the iraqi security forces parti
and countries around the world to address that. post counter isis campaign, you know, the active operations and when isis was defeated in syria, what we ve seen is isis metastasize like afghanistan. this is not only an iraq and syria challenge but a global challenge. you can t wish it away. you have to keep pressure on isto keep from a resurgence. as they demonstrated in 2014, if that is allowed to happen, disastrous consequences. i d like to focus on isis threat in iraq as you said. it s been largely suppressed. the u.s. has been advising and training iraqi security forces
in iraq for years now. does the pentagon think that iraqi security forces are able on their own to deal with current situation that is or the threat of isis that has been largely suppressed? that s a question for the iraqi security forces to answer. we re there at the invitation of the iraqi government to help train and advise. we ve been watching this for a long time. the iraqi security forces particularly in the counter terrorism front have been incredibly effective. they re fantastic forces. so really like elsewhere in the world, any time we have forces present in the country, it s there at the invitation of those countries. so i think we all both iraq and the united states and the international community have a vested interest in presenting the resurgence of isis. but we continue to be last question. i have a couple folks here. you stated the secretary and
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
his exact words were i don t think we are losing. congressman, it s great to see you. thank you so much for taking the time. you, yourself, you have president obama saying you don t think we re losing. you, yourself, have stronger words as recent as march. listen to this. this strategy is making a real difference. isis is losing ground. much of its top leadership is being taken out. thanks to training iraqi security forces are improving so they can better deal with the isis threat. a lot has happened since march. do you still believe that, that the strategy is working? well, it s not working 100% and it s not not working 100%. this is a long, tough battle. isis is resilient. they are on the move. and i m not happy with what i see. i think we re doing the best we