both the syrian government and the russians so that perhaps we can have the kind of serious negotiation necessary to bring the conflict to an end and go forward on a political track. >> mr. trump, same question. if we are able to push isis out of mosul and out of iraq, would you be willing to put u.s. troops in there to prevent their return or something else? >> let me tell you, mosul is so sad. we had mosul. but when she left, she took everybody out, we lost mosul. now we're fight again to get mosul. the problem with mosul and what they wanted to do is they wanted to get the leaders of isis who they felt were in mosul. about three months ago, i started reading that they want to get the leaders. and they're going to attack mosul. whatever happened to the element of surprise? okay? we announce we're going after mosul. i've been reading about going