live that moment. they told did you go to the hotel. they didn t know what was going to be happening, right? it wasn t an option. my boss go over this sheridan. heard you on the head set. saw my daughter on the tiny little monitor, could barely make her out. and there she is. she is 13 now. brian: that was the first time i saw her. that was the first time i actually saw her. when i actually saw her she was 5 months old. she is talking now. she is 13. of course she is talking now. brian: i have a 14-year-old. i know exactly that time. now that you are out. you have been out since 2013. wow, she is 13 years old now. look at that beautiful girl. brian: wow, she is beautiful. 8th grade. 8th grade. you got it. you have been out since 2013. you want to write this book. you say this book isn t about politics or war. this is about people. it is. i think it s about the marines that are in it. it s obviously my story. but i wrote echo in ramadi as a tribute to my marines. they were the
up and saying, listen, isis does not represent. isis is not welcome here any more. so, our partnership with the iraqi army, they have taken up isis in ramadi and focus in mosul. the capital of iraq is mosul and we re going to take them out. after that, we re taking out their capital raqqa and syria. we can t let isis do harm to our partners. final question, sir. we re separated by thousands of miles, but what do you want the rest of us to know about what you all are doing back here at home? well, you know, everyone has families back at home. i know it s my daughter is 10 years old today, maggie murphy. and, you know, but we all are sacrificing. i m only here for a week for the thanksgiving to make sure that i m saying thanks on behalf of
the battlefield is quick tactical wins but the question i keep asking is the u.s. has been conducting air strikes in iraq and syria over 450 days spending $11 million a day. since that started in the summer of 2014 we have had the paris attacks, the tunisia massacre, a plethora of islamic state bombings in beirut, likewise with baghdad. what i would ask is that while there are tactical wins we are seeing not just in ramadi but in sinjar and we have seen elements within syria where they are degrading the islamic state, the question i would ask is how is that affecting the ability of the islamic state to degrade or degrading their ability to prosecute domestic attacks? i think this is the thing we need to work on at the moment, is yes, there are tactical wins going on in ramadi, sinjar and across syria but what does that mean in terms of long term effect? in the last year, foreign fighters coming into syria have doubled. are you speaking mostly of
custody. what do we know about that? reporter: that s right. according to federal prosecutors in belgium, two arrests, one for allegedly leading and recruiting for a terror group, the other for allegedly participating in a terror group s activity with the aim of committing terror offenses, this came after a series of raids over the last couple of days in regions across belgium. searches did find military style training uniforms and isis propaganda but no weapons or bomb material were discovered. authorities saying this investigation, though, is not tied to the november terror attacks in paris that killed 130 people. we certainly saw the terror threat level raised immediately after those attacks in belgium as that manhunt was ongoing. now we see the terror threat level raised again. thank you for that update. the successful air strikes against isis have thwarted a plot in belgium and are yet another blow to the islamic state. earlier today, iraq s prime minister toured ramadi a da
what is the effect maybe symbolically, psychologically, to the islamic state, to isis? because we know short after we saw this video coming out, it was essentially to kind of beef up the morale of isis fighters as well. is that what we are needing to see as far as more than just air strikes and more than just terrorist ten terrorists killed? great question. there s no doubt that the fusion between what s called the air/land interface, the ability of u.s. advisors who are some of them that went in last summer into iraq, the ability to prosecute air strikes and work with ground forces in ramadi, the sunni militia, in sinjar working with the pkk, working with the ypg and peshmerga, that is working very well. but we have to take a step back and look at governance. when we look at ramadi, where does ramadi go from here? how do you govern ramadi in a way that gives fair representation. and where will the militants