Best thing we can do is kill those who enact terror and keep an eye on these places and understand in 2019 it is not the result of the american people remedying this problem for other countries, we have to make sure it doesn t find its way here. rob: the president make the point about other countries getting involved and working on these problems. look at how much progress has been made in the last four years, the territory isis controls, a nice little swath, they had a lot of territory and lost it all by october 2019. is it strange to you the right after the us announced the pulled out from syria we get these major victories of killing abu bakr al-baghdadi and his successor? the timing of that is very interesting to me and i don t know what to make of it. i don t think we have information to know what to make of it. there is a strong case the two things donald trump denied the fact he is our president, believe him or don t as far as the amount of area they controlled, the othe
U.s.-backed fighters and their american advisors in syria. no, i m not worried, we deal with the russians in a collaborative way and we ll sort it out. the u.s. and russia are barred by law from cooperating together. congress passed a law after russia s invasion of ukraine in 2014. that didn t stop american and russian generals from meeting face-to-face in recent days, on the ground, to defuse the escalating situation. shepard: what about the fight against isis? all eyes are on the kurdish areas of northern iraq where a controversial referendum on independent evens is taking place on monday. u.s.-backed forces fighting to clear isis from its self-proclaimed capital in syria have cleared we re told 70% of ra a. up to 900 isis fighters in rackia. in iraq the operation to plib rate one of the last pockets that isis controls in iraq. as if the pentagon doesn t have
He joins us now, first the report of the possibility that he could be dead, what we think of reports so far? i take anything the russians say with a huge grain of salt, it still has to be confirmed. if he s dead, i do think this will have an effect on the battlefield. it could precipitate the end of isis as a state as it s been calling itself, its capital is surrounded and u.s. backed forces are moving into the neighborhoods as we speak. most hole in iraq, the second city that isis controls has virtually fallen. let s see what comes after. i m worried about the day after the political solution there. isis will be done as a state but it will not be done as a movement and i expect to see it move into insurgency mode. i just wanted to say these attacks are necessary, to decapitate isis s leadership to
He joins us now, first the report of the possibility that he could be dead, what we think of reports so far? i take anything the russians say with a huge grain of salt, it still has to be confirmed. if he s dead, i do think this will have an effect on the battlefield. it could precipitate the end of isis as a state as it s been calling itself, its capital is surrounded and u.s. backed forces are moving into the neighborhoods as we speak. most hole in iraq, the second city that isis controls has virtually fallen. let s see what comes after. i m worried about the day after the political solution there. isis will be done as a state but it will not be done as a movement and i expect to see it move into insurgency mode. i just wanted to say these attacks are necessary, to decapitate isis s leadership to
Report of the possibility that he could be dead, what we think of reports so far? i take anything the russians say with a huge grain of salt, it still has to be confirmed. if he s dead, i do think this will have an effect on the battlefield. it could precipitate the end of isis as a state as it s been calling itself, its capital is surrounded and u.s. backed forces are moving into the neighborhoods as we speak. most hole in iraq, the second city that isis controls has virtually fallen. let s see what comes after. i m worried about the day after the political solution there. isis will be done as a state but it will not be done as a movement and i expect to see it move into insurgency mode. i just wanted to say these attacks are necessary, to decapitate isis s leadership to keep them on the back foot. if they re worried about how