frequently from other countries, it may have come through the intelligence community or it may have come through from other places that i could use to test the validity of the information that i was getting from the u.s. intelligence community. there s nothing wrong with that. that information, some of it comes in classified, some of it does not. but there s no reason why you have to accept at face value everything that you get from our intelligence community. it is why we have relationships with a lot of different agencies across the globe. thank you for your perspective, congressman. we appreciate you taking the time today. all right, great, thank you. coming up, we re learning more about the president-elect s next moves. we ll be joined by historian douglas brinkley who met with trump today. a and the war against isis.
intelligence community s bias and it s capability. he s expressed doubts about russia being behind the hacking. he s expressed doubts and i think legitimately so. the assessment of the cia in terms of what was going to happen in libya and egypt. the assessment of isis as being a jv team. so i think intelligence has made mistakes in the past, it s never perfect. but you know as well as me, you know far more than me having been chair han of the intelligence community, that the intelligence community does not often go public with their assessments unless they have evidence to back it up. yeah, i ve been very, very concerned about exactly what
or might he turn the isis fight over to somebody else? u.s.-backed fighters near raqqah preparing to attack, hoping to drive isis out. cnn could not independently verify this new video. now donald trump is inheriting an isis war that just got even more dangerous for u.s. troops since his tough campaign talk. we got to get rid of isis. quickly. quickly. the first of two hundred additional u.s. troops authorized by president obama to go into northern syria will be moving in and out of the air in the coming days a u.s. official tells cnn. but the region is so perilous american troop wills only stay days at a time.
and that is why we need to get down there and isolate that city as fast we can go. reporter: there are specific buildings where they believe top isis operatives may be hiding. u.s. drones and communications intercepts are gathering intelligence on those targets, waiting to strike them when civilians are not there. the big unknown, will trump hand over the raqqah fight to russia and the syrian regime? if you pull completely out you watch focus drift away from defeating isis and recapturing raqqah and eliminating the terrorist threat that emanates from that city. reporter: so if you turn the raqqah fight, the isis fight in syria over to the russians there is a lot of concern at the pentagon they will not have the same focus about the danger there is and the threat that the u.s. believes isis inside raqqah poses to the united states. jim. barbara starr, thank you. just ahead a day after the death of carrie fisher. disturbing news about her mother
pattern that we ve seen from the president-elect. he kind of gets in these side squabbles, much over twitter many times. and that s what really dominated the coverage today, the fact that he was having a public battle with president obama. so very clear he wanted to reclaim the narrative of the day, come out and say no, i m not just working behind closed doors, just tweeting people. i m actually talking to companies about jobs that have been created, but he provided no more details about those deals. jim? thank you very much. just ahead, u.s. troops facing new dangers in the war against isis. what will that mean for president-elect trump s battle plan and his promise to defeat the terrorists?