anyway, not in iraq. there has to be -- the american public will tolerate a policy -- or will support a policy that is explained to them in terms of american interests. that i think has been absent. what are the american interests? the withdrawal of the u.s. -- again, it's a complicated matter. aside from the military, the sort of political and intellectual withdrawal from iraq in 2011 leads to the rise of isil, which turns out to have all kinds of implications for vital american interests. not least of which is the effect that the refugee crisis it is in part causing is having on the european unity project, which has been a cornerstone of american foreign policy since the days of dwight d. eisenhower. so these things are in the interest of the united states, aside from the fight against terrorism, which is a common fight to all -- to the civilized order. i think the american people could be on board that program. iraq has not been in the election at all other than who did and didn't support and when. tha

i was here during the iraq, the previous iraq war. and in those days, we led the fight, and we brought the iraqi armed forces along with us on operation. that's not the case here at all. we're not leading the fight. in fact, there aren't coalition soldiers at the front leading the way, engaging the enemy directly. who's doing that? the iraqi security forces, the counter terrorism service, the iraqi army, iraqi police are the ones leading the way, doing the fight, taking the fight to the enemy. our forces are behind them, given their commander's advice and giving some help with enabling capabilities. but the iraqis have their own artillery. they have their own air force. they're using it. we're just helping them. they have their own intelligence capabilities. we're just helping that effort. so it's a completely different situation today than it was from operation iraqi freedom, which i participated in. host: that line for iraq war veterans, joe joins us from sun city center, florida. joe, good morning. you're on with the general. guest

policy in iraq. the event just getting started. >> very honored to have with us a very distinguished panel. to my immediate left is dr. nuseva unis, a senior fellow at the atlantic council and director of the council's future of iraq program. task force on the future of iraq. to her left is dr. faisal i istraba istrabadi. he's a former iraqi ambassador to the united nations. he is the founding director of the indiana university center for the study of the middle east. a and he's a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences. and to his left is michael pregent, he's a senior fellow here at hudson and he's recently returned from iraq from the front lines. he was -- mike was a -- mike was an intelligence officer in iraq and he's recently come back from the front lines and without further ado i think i'll just turn it over to mike to give us a sense of what he found from his trip in iraq. mike? >> thanks for being on the panel with us today. i recently returned from the front lines where i asked

iran's role in iraq will always be destructive. iran will always want a weak iraq. it doesn't matter who governs in iraq. if hamanahi's son became the prime minister of iraq it will be in iran's interest for iraq to be weak. i'm not saying we want the chaos they had in 2014. the last point i'll make -- and i have gone over my time, i apologize -- is that the pmus and militias have to be disbanded after the military operation is over and that is much, much easier said than done. i am told -- we'll see if this happens, that after mosul is liberated from isil to expect a fatwa from the grand ayatollah al sistani thanking the rank and file of the pmus and telling them they need to go home. as mr. prejean said, the leadership of the pmus have entirely different ideas but i have to say, to the extent that we maintain sectarian and nonconstitutionally based militias and allow them to roam freely, i couldn't agree more with mr. prejean than what he says about we're setting up the conditions for isil 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0, we have to look to rebuilding a state of iraq and that is

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what the form of a unified iraq is, strongly federal iraq versus some type of decentralized iraq and that's up for grabs. number one, they view themselves as iraqi. second, in 2010 or so when we were preparing for u.s. withdrawal the big concern or a dickens was the kurdish arab flashpoint. it was a point but it never flashed. there was small disagreements but nothing terrible ever happened between the kurds and the arabs. in any of the disputed territories. the third historical grounds our accommodation can be reached is if you think back to win when kurdistan region was on its rampage with independent all contracts and add the coup of getting six different exploration blocks exxon, through which were in disputed territories including -- initially than in a law political class was just outraged. and then within six months made a year, less than a year some of the reached accommodation. what happened, discussed behind closed doors i don't know that i want to know. at the was an accommodation reached. setup and for all sides one of the grants rope and this sounds a little counterintui

in the next five years, what is iraq going to look like? is the chaos of the last five years a sign of things to come? >> i am pessimistic. there are some in a variables at play. there is so much the can go wrong in so many regional players who have a greater strength on the ground who can impact the situation against u.s. interests and iraq's interests. the question is what happens caliphate is brought down. do they remain there on a semipermanent basis unlike in 2011? that will be an important factor, whether america has the leverage to continue leading a rack -- leading iraq in a different configuration, the decentralized but whole. it will be a very heavy left. -- lift. where the culture of political organizations lie. the kurds have always had political organization in iraq, particularly during saddam hussein's reign. on the shiite side, a lot of those were in exile and they came in and set up political organizations. you don't have that on the sunni side. when isis leaders of the syrian awakening, that took away any kind of structure

do you agree a fragmented weak iraq or assume they ultimately want to see a unified iraq. at least on that narrow area we have a shared interest. >> going back to 2013, i argued iran needs the threat of isis to stay in iraq. it needs the threat of isis to stay in syria back to your point, the force is able to mobilize iraqi shia militias to go to syria. they didn't go to raqqah, they want to aleppo, other places, places that is would shore up assad regime, go after u.s.backed rebels. they were comfortable working with the air force already and some leader have actually asked russia be involved in the iraqi situations. iran wants to maintain leverage. one thing that kept al maliki was threat. nice to say, keep me in power or they will come back. i don't believe that iran wants isis defeated in iraq, but i also believe it is balancing the political parties as they seek positions. if you just look at the motives, it's been to take over places, sunni triangle, birth place of saddam hussein, take over these places, punish fallujah to protect shia fault line and allow everything

>> iraq and syria? >> iraq and syria. >> easy. i'll start from the segue, the previous one, because i think your phrase stabilizing force makes sense. i don't think syria is ready for the demise of isis yet. i don't think we should talk about the day after yet because there are two things happening here. isis is a threat to the west and the way it operates in syria. there's no question about that. so that's a consideration. do you keep isis as a governing body in syria or not? and i think that has to be weighed against something else, and i think it's a very important one. if you expel isis today from raqqah and elsewhere, it's going to open a new conflict in syria. many low intensity, but very dangerous conflict in these areas. that's not to say keep isis, but to say that the necessary forces -- forces unfortunately washington was not able to engage yet are the right forces. these forces are the only forces are if they expel isis and if they're trained well to fill the void -- this is a phrase i will keep repeating. fill the void

presence in iraq. so you can see here in this picture congressman murtha after he's awarded the profile in courage award, embracing caroline kennedy in a very emotional ceremony. congressman murtha was also very good at bringing back dollars to western pennsylvania, supporting people in the work of the federal government here in the region. one the ways that he did that was he was involved in the appropriations committee for the interior department, which of course is the parent of the national park service. congressman murtha: in many ways our national parks represent what our greatest strengths are as a nation. the natural beauty of our great land, seemingly limitless potential, unspoiled by the ravages of man. for pennsylvania, our park lands also represent another source of economic diversification as tourists spend nearly $20 million a day throughout the commonwealth. >> in particular, he was very supportive in the 1980's of the creation of the industrial national park heritage areas. this is impo

he said he opposed the iraq war but buys into the people who sold us on the iraq war. why do we think he won't take us into another war if he made support of the iraq war itself. how could he even think of naming bolton if he disagrees with the war that bolton sported so passionately. is he really opposed to the iraq war if he supports the people and thinking that it lead our way into the disaster. the reckoning is at hand. to save the popular parts of obamacare he will need to save a good bit of obamacare. for donald trump is reckoning is at hand. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for joining us. join us tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. eastern. see you then. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> we got these hats at conference today. >> hats on the hill and a trump transition in turmoil. >> we're filled with questions in the trump transition, and that's just very logical. >> tonight, new questions about rudy's business ties, the, quote, stalinesque purge of chris christie allies, why ben carson suddenly bailed and the mounting conflicts for trump's children. plus rachel maddow on the g

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decisions on iraq. that is not to say this there was no influence and in the case particularly of persuading president bush to turn to the united nations in september 2002, that influence was exercised, and for a period, albeit you may say brief period , it worked. though by the end of the year 2002 president bush had clearly concluded that the u.n.-based inspection system was not going to be the answer in the military timetable took control, if indeed it had not been always in control of the diplomatic process. as to what mr. blair's purpose was, he clearly sought to try to reconcile u.s. decisions and objects, regime change ever since the clinton administration of course with the uk which was the disarmament of sd sdaddam hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction and that culminated in resolution 1441. the other strand i think in mr. blair's objective in influencing the united states was to avoid unilateral united states military action for a variety of reasons, which he would explain and has. wa

invaded iraq in 2003. >> fantastic. >> reporter: a new generation of young americans serving in iraq, five years after the u.s. government said it was leaving the country for good. >> they didn't sign up because they wanted to come fight in iraq. they signed up because they wanted to serve their country. >> reporter: american service members could be here in iraq for many months to come. the u.s. military says over 1, 500 isis militants have been killed in the battle for mosul. but elaine, the extremists are determined, and their tactics have slowed the offensive. >> holly williams with american troops in iraq. holly, thanks. >>> next, a small gesture makes a huge difference for the homeless this thanksgiving. >>> and later, this man made a difference in the lives of hundreds of women. they call him their guardian angel. i was wondering if an electric toothbrush really cleans... ...better than a manual, and my hygienist says it does. but... ...they're not all the same. turns out, they're really... ...different. who knew? i had no idea. so, she said look for... ...one that's shaped lik

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presence in iraq. so you can see here in this picture congressman murtha after he's awarded the profile in courage award, embracing caroline kennedy in a very emotional ceremony. congressman murtha was also very good at bringing back dollars to western pennsylvania, supporting people in the work of the federal government here in the region. one the ways that he did that was he was involved in the appropriations committee for the interior department, which of course is the parent of the national park service. congressman murtha: in many ways our national parks represent what our greatest strengths are as a nation. the natural beauty of our great land, seemingly limitless potential, unspoiled by the ravages of man. for pennsylvania, our park lands also represent another source of economic diversification as tourists spend nearly $20 million a day throughout the commonwealth. >> in particular, he was very supportive in the 1980's of the creation of the industrial national park heritage areas. this is impo

military in iraq a. paul rieckhoff, author of chasing ghost a soldier's right, founder and executive director of the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, he served in the u.s. army in iraq from april 2003 to february 2004. also here daniel anfang, he served in the marines in fallujah in 2004, currently holds the rank of sergeant. david myers also served in the marine corps as a first lieutenant. i am pleased to have all of them here to talk about iraq as they see it, the war as they see it, the issues that they see and what those of us at home ought to know about the soldiers in iraq and the war that they are engaged in and what their own feelings and their own understanding of mission is, so i welcome all of you. >> thank you. let me, paul, begin with you. tell me, what ought we know from your perspective about the men and women who are fighting the war? >> well, they're fantastic. i think they're really doing our country so proud in so many different ways. they are without a doubt the final force

decisions on iraq. that is not to say this there was no influence and in the case particularly of persuading president bush to turn to the united nations in september 2002, that influence was exercised, and for a period, albeit you may say brief period , it worked. though by the end of the year 2002 president bush had clearly concluded that the u.n.-based inspection system was not going to be the answer in the military timetable took control, if indeed it had not been always in control of the diplomatic process. as to what mr. blair's purpose was, he clearly sought to try to reconcile u.s. decisions and objects, regime change ever since the clinton administration of course with the uk which was the disarmament of sd sdaddam hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction and that culminated in resolution 1441. the other strand i think in mr. blair's objective in influencing the united states was to avoid unilateral united states military action for a variety of reasons, which he would explain and has. wa

so fixing iraq isn't just about fighting. it's about strong ideas and ideals. and many here in the united states are questioning america's roam in providing them. >> you don't find thinking we can turn to the u.s. as being leader of the free world that will support human rights and the people against oppressive governments. that has shifted. >> reporter: so for an american president who talks so much about putting america first, many iraqis are have to keep watching and waiting to see what a trump presidency means for them. becky anderanderson, cnn. >> let's bring in our panel. michael weiss and kimberly dozier. good to see both of you. so trump has said that he is going to give his generals 30 days to come up with a plan to fight isis for starters. so kim, will a challenge like that involve potentially troops on the ground inside iraq or syria? >> well, remember, we already do have troops on the ground in iraq and syria, a small special operations force of roughly 300 people plus their support inside syria right now. one of

invitation of the the government of iraq. you say if we were not pushing they would not be fighting. that is not the case. wars here for the previous and during those days, we led the fight and we brought the security forces with us. that is not the case here at all. we are not leading the fight. fighters not coalition leading the way. who is doing a? iraqiaqi army, the police. they are not leading in any way in the fight. given their commanders advice. enabling capabilities. the iraqis have their own artillery. their own air force. they are using it. we are just helping. they have their own capability, we're just helping. a completely different situation today the it was from operation iraqi freedom. rack warthe line for a veterans, joining us from sun city, florida. good morning. caller: general, i was in for lucia. fallujah. we took five cities. george h the doctor when he further. he did not want to destabilize the area so he pulled out. so the people in iraq wanted drillingwith the oil rights. which was kind of cool, you

troops in iraq, they would have stayed in iraq. this whole issue about the -- it was a red herring as witness the fact that today we have over 5,000 troops in iraq. none of the troops are being prosecuted in iraqi courts because there's no iraqi court that's going to prosecute u.s. troop troops. it was -- that was the excuse that basically allowed president obama by christmas of 2011 to pull u.s. troops out of iraq, peace has dawned, democracy has dawned. we no longer have to stay in iraq. we saw what happened at almost the same time is that the civil war was breaking out in syria. all of a sudden the united states pulls out of iraq and president obama refuses to get more involved in doing anything to end the syrian civil war. he disregards the advise he is getting from petraeus and others to have a large assistance program for the syrian rebels. he stands back. he doesn't want to get caught in this quagmire because he thinks that's the mistake his predecessor made. he is not going to make this mistake. he makes a fresh mistake. wh

occupation of iraq. it is hard to understand how anybody couldn't admit that was a colossal mistake. >> do you think that democrats in the senate will be able to work donald trump, the president-elect and his new administration? >> well, it remains to be seen whether he will put forth nominees who actually have experience in the department, in the field that they are going to occupy, or whether he is going to appoint loyalists. political cronies to these positions. i do believe the president deserves some deference but i would like to know the people he is putting in these positions know what their job is about. someone like rudolph giuliani who has no experience in foreign policy, has never represented the united states abroad, is not going to inspire the kind of confidence in democrats that some of the other name that have been floated might. >> senator, donald trump spoke with vladimir putin by phone yesterday. they agreed to try to improve the relationship between united states and russia. do you thi

i was here during the iraq, the previous iraq war. and in those days, we led the ight, and we brought the iraqi armed forces along with us on operation. that's not the case here at all. we're not leading the fight. in fact, there aren't coalition soldiers at the front leading the way, engaging the enemy directly. who's doing that? the iraqi security forces, the counter terrorism service, the iraqi army, iraqi police are the ones leading the way, doing the fight, taking the fight to the enemy. our forces are behind them, given their commander's advice and giving some help with enabling capabilities. but the iraqis have their own artillery. they have their own air force. they're using it. we're just helping them. they have their own intelligence capabilities. we're just helping that effort. so it's a completely different situation today than it was from operation iraqi freedom, which i participated in. host: that line for iraq war veterans, joe joins us from sun city center, florida. joe, good morning. you're on with the general. guest:

they judged that iraq had a usable strategy. so i think it's probably true to say that this clearly shows that the intelligence services believed that mr. tony blair had reason to believe that such a capability existed. is there any possibility that the joint intelligence committee's assessments were right and is still alleged from time to time his chemical and biological arsenal was moved to somewhere such as syria and if that's not believed to be the case, when and how do you believe that saddam destroyed his stocks? >> well, on the committee, we discussed quite long and quite hard whether we could say firmly that no weapons of mass destruction were tactical or strategic would be found. we were not able to do it in 2004. i think now with passage of time and events in the region, it would be quite extraordinary and we do the iraq survey and reports. it is extraordinary of something discovered and undiscovered at all and how i do show up at one's house is one thing but a systematic battlefield weapons. >> so do you think he dest

. >> host: what about a case like iraq where the us spurred the change in society hands has gone into reconstruction? >> guest: the traditional military part of the operation ended the very quickly. americans were unprepared. there was a case to be made we could have done a good job in iraq and maybe we started to do the job by 2007-2008 but we going without proper planning and prepared for what we were doing. the job in nish÷÷÷÷ afghanistan. the only place in iraq, two major nationbuilding operations, and move on to another. >> what about afghanistan accused >> i argue in the book and i believe this firmly that in late 2001-2000 to the people of afghanistan had a history in the 60s and 70s. nation any of us want to live in but a functioning nationstate, wanted to go back to the negotiation process and we took our eyes off the ball, diver resources to iraq and we will rue that decision. >> host: any place else in the world the us is nationbuilding? >> we are in libya, we served a long serving dictator, qaddafi, for decades, we have been working closely along with our allies, a tra

, and iraq was of course a seriously large country for this purpose. does that answer your question? >> your reference to scale and magnitude was essentially about the resources available to those funds rather than necessarily the profile of that work within government or was it both? >> i think it is both former. the thing that would frankly defeat me and i'm glad not to have any 130b89 fresponsibility anymore is how you bring together the different arms and branches of government in a really constructive and willing way. >> yes. >> as opposed to protecting interests, objects and limiting responsibility, those problems. they are very great and very real, as we all know. i would like to bring in northern ireland just for a brief second because it took us a long time and ultimately 30 years to get the whole thing right, and to a good conclusion, but in the course of that, we did learn on the admittedly much smaller scale of northern island how to bring together military, intelligence, police, security, economic, social reconstruction, all those things,

rumsfeld underestimated what we needed in iraq. he did not take care of the troops like he should have, like you were just mentioning about that. specialists were ignored. he ignored them. that is accessible. >> you have an obligation as a combat leader to go down to the lowest level and talk to the sergeants and privates and find out about the ground troops. charlie: what would they have not heard? >> what the sergeants were staying. we did not have enough people. we did not have the two also be successful. that is the frustration we here in the military. rumsfeld did not listen to the military. he was not listening. in many ways, you set the military of for failure here. i do not want to see the rhetoric change where you start to blame the generals. rumsfeld said, if the generals asked, we'll give it to them. well, they've been asking. >> the last thing we want is for this to become a war of escalation, which, i have been a little reading, obviously, but that is what the perceived problem in vietnam was, it was a war of escalatio

despite being on the defensive in northern iraq and syria, the i.s. group have shown yet again that they can strike at any given time. prime minister has promised severe punishment for those responsible for fires threatening haifa. israel's third largest city has caused tens of thousands of people to evacuate. palestinian firefighters are also on the scene. france, which is supplying airplanes, is among several countries sending help. we spoke with our regional correspondent earlier. that about 50% of the fires have been deliberately lit. that is the allegation. that is true of fires all around the world. the question is, who has been lighting them? are they pyromaniacs, or are they palestinians looking for a nationalist agenda. yesterday the israeli prime minister indicated that was the case, calling it terrorism by fire. israeli arab politicians are horrified, saying now is not the time for finger-pointing but a time for unity. they say that now we have to look to the people of haifa, we are children of haifa, we love this area, and it is most up to

that includes 6,000 amer troops in iraq. holly williams introduces us to the 101st airborne division stationed at camp swift near mosul. >> reporter: they're fresh-faced. many of them not long out of high school. >> radio check, over. >> reporter: and they're america's soldiers in the fight against isis, serving with the camp swift in northern iraq. >> this is my first time out of the u.s. i didn't leave california until i went to basic to georgia. so. >> reporter: it's a long way from home for private first class onay beam, a 19-year-old from fontana, southern california on his first tour of duty. >> this is my first one. you know, i came out of basic, couple months aerosol school stuff like, that then straight here. >> reporter: private beam and many others at camp swift were children when the u.s. invaded don't know very much about america's recent history here. but five years after the u.s. said it had left iraq for good there are now around 6,000 american service members back in the country again. private first class pa

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he says that he opposed the iraq war but totally buys into the people who sold us on the iraq war. why do we believe he won't take us into another war if he makes the support of the iraq war itself secretary of state. how can he even think of naming john bolton as secretary of state or national security director if he disagrees so passionately with the war that bolton supported so passionately? what is it? is trump opposed to obamacare but supports its popular features that are known to be inseparable from the rest of it? is he really opposed to the iraq war if he supports the people who led our way into that disaster? the reckoning is at hand. to save the popular parts of obamacare, he'll have to save a good bit of obamacare, period. if he names john bolton he's creating an administration in search of the next war. for donald trump, the reckoning is at hand. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> we got these hats at conference today. >> hats on the hill and a trump transition in turmoil. >> we're filled with questions in the trump transition, an

the situation is particularly difficult in iraq. reporter: iraqi troops advancing on mosul. the battle for the city has been raging for a month now with no end in sight. the fighting has cost many lives and plenty of money. retreating i.s. fighters leave burning oil fields behind. iraq's budget is in tatters. the countries dependent on credit for the international monetary fund. in order to keep oil prices high and boost revenue, iraq has announced its willingness along with other countries to scale down oil production ahead of the opec meeting. >> i think iraq would stick to this because the current level of oil prices is inadequate. it is not sustainable, for us, for other countries. we are prepared to take her own share, our own oil production. they should commit themselves as well. reporter: at the end of september, opec members agreed to cut daily oil production by 800,000 barrels to 33 million barrels. if the agreement is approved on wednesday, the impact is likely to be moderate. 800,000 barrels equals just 2.5% of total output. back in 1983 and in 2008, opec had to s

decision to go to war in iraq in 2003. mr. chill cot testified before the british house of commons about the findings of his inquiry. >> order. order. thank you for coming this afternoon this is a very important, perhaps the most important inquiry that's been undertaken for a very long time in this country. it has caused great distress to the families of those who were killed and wounded. the iraq invasion has been a great cost to the country. many feel the cost is still being borne now. it has taken a long time for you to get to, as you see it, the bottom of what happened and why. that's why we are here today. but in the first instance you have here some of the main committees for whom this is a particular interest in the form of their gem. i'd like to start by looking in some detail at your public statement of 6 july at the time of the launch. the inquiry was was it right and necessary to invade iraq in 2003. it might be helpful if we just concentrate on the necessary rather than the right. in your view, did do we need to pr

invaded iraq in 2003. >> fantastic. >> reporter: a new generation of young americans serving in iraq five years after the u.s. government said it was leaving the country for good. >> they didn't sign up because they wanted to come fight in iraq. they signed up because they >> reporter: american service members could be here in iraq for many months to come. the u.s. military says over 1,500 isis militants have been killed in the battle for mosul. but, elaine, the extremists are determined, and their tactics have slowed the offensive. >> quijano: holly williams with american troops in iraq. holly, thanks. next on the cbs evening news, a small gesture makes a huge difference for the homeless this thanksgiving. and later, this man made a difference in the lives of hundreds of women. they call him their guardian when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ? tum -tum -tum -tum ? smoothies! only from tums ? when you have $7.95 online u.s. equity trades a isn't just what you inv

donald trump was that i liked the fact that he saw the iraq war as a mistake. he thought regime change was a mistake and the unintended consequences of regime change were basically that the world was less safe and that our national security was more endangered by regime change, so i like that about donald trump's campaign. him. that actually understands and has learned from the lessons of the middle east and i guess i worry that people like john bolton and, frankly, mayor giuliani, they have -- i would call them unrepenitent advocates for the iraq war. they don't seem to have learned anything the iraq war, they still defend it and both have advocated a bomb first ask questions later for iran and i don't think you want your chief diplomat to be an advocate for war. they might be good for that position but i want someone realist, that sees the world as it is. that person may not agree with me but i want someone who is an even keel who thinks about things like that and i think bob corker would be a better choice. >> are you ready to filibuster these nominees? >> i

it is like iraq. it is interesting how all of this connects, syria and iraq. you have the big battle that is happening now in mosul where the united states is supporting the iraqi government fighting mosul to expel isis from mosul. i think what is likely to falls, let's say mosul which isis is basically driven out. what happens then? i think a lot of the isis guys will retreat into syria. i think a lot of the iranian-backed shi'a coalitions fighting in iraq against isis are going into syria. that battlelly, will move into syria. assad actually talked about that. charlie: what did he say? it was going to happen? dexter: again, he was kind of -- it was conspiracy, but he said the whole americans fighting isis is all theater. what they will do is push isis into syria. charlie: the iraqis are leading the fight in mosul? dexter: yeah, they are. the americans are in the sky dropping bombs. what is really problematic about what is happening in mosul is you have this really large number of shi'ite militias fighting on the side of the iraqi government, the united state

we know that iraq has also been reporting figures well above third-party estimates of what iraq is producing. onhink it ultimately depends really whether there's a chance of significant further output since iran's and production came back from sanctions, the past few months, it's been pretty much leveling out. only increasing slightly month from month. iran's feels that production is not going to increase much from 3.65 or 3.7, give them any target they like, if the iranians want 3.9, ithey're producing don't think it really matters too much, if they're not actually going to get there. that iranian production point in particular, they have increased. countries liker libya increasing significantly. planis sticking with its to reduce production. is that going to be enough to 60ng prices up to 50 or dollars a barrel, like iran mentioned? just this week, given the increase in production? >> well, this is the challenge, i think. a target for opec somewhere between 32.5 to 33. million barrels, i think, is quite achievable over the winter. production goes down as they don't need so much oil. so if

>> we have to be careful with clearly success in iraq. the iraqi army takes back the country with the support of the us but a series of different games, the problem with syria if you don't have this unifying army. the russians don't care if they are bombing aleppo, getting rid of isis will be difficult, different simply because people have to push them out will be people who occupy the land once they leave. who do you want to replace isis? very open-ended question? do we want bashar al-assad or the turks? it is a very open-ended question. has a lot less to do with isis and more the geopolitical thing of who do we want to control this land? a different question going forward with the trump administration, there's an opportunity to shift in terms of the focus, tattered terrorism will be a huge thing, the military has to shift, going back to focusing on periodicals, high end russia. very excited about potential pics the president-elect has put forward and one of my favorites is townsend, and when we talk about counterterrorism, iraq, very mu