iraq is a good example. it is not a good shape and was not a good shape for much of the bush of ministration. of the differences you have a strategy that says, the united states will unilaterally solve the problem with tens of thousands of armed troops and national partners, or work patiently but with great results, taking search of ourselves. what we have seen is there has to have fighting, there has to iraqis, by an army of muslim iraqis trying to liberate a predominantly muslim city of mosul. it is being done with the backing and support from the united states, providing what only we can provide in terms of intelligence and training, and with national partners. i think we both agree that there is an obama doctrine, but we disagree on what it was. i think we both agree there's an obama legacy and disagree on what it is. i think we both agree that there is an obamai think 't important thing, that legacy is about context. we have views on the obama legacy, but we have to understand it doesn't matter because

once a vibrant city of 1.5 million people in northwest iraq. an estimated 5,000 iraqi military and police are engaged in bloody house-to-house fighting against suicidal isis jihadis. this as urban warfare and close quarter combat among hundreds of thousands of hostage civilians used as human shields. >> isis upped its game, ieds and other technologies brought brutal casualties to them. they are fighting hard now as we speak. >> reporter: congresswoman martha mcsally served 26 years in the u.s. air force retiring as colonel. with six deployments in the middle east including iraq and afghanistan holds the extinction of being the first attack pilot to fly in combat. mcsally serves on the armed services and homeland security committees. i sat down with her in our nation's capitol. >> we got to cut them off to put them on their heels and shift the momentum. >> reporter: isis uses drones to direct jihadi suicide truck drivers to their targets, with devastating effect. that's not something that's easily done, it requires a certain degree of sophistica

once a vibrant city of 1.5 million people in northwest iraq. an estimated 5,000 iraqi military and police are engaged in bloody house-to-house fighting against suicidal isis jihadis. this as urban warfare and close quarter combat among hundreds of thousands of hostage civilians used as human shields. >> isis upped its game, ieds and other technologies brought brutal casualties to them. they are fighting hard now as we speak. >> reporter: congresswoman martha mcsally served 26 years in the u.s. air force retiring as colonel. with six deployments in the middle east including iraq and afghanistan holds the extinction of being the first attack pilot to fly in combat. mcsally serves on the armed services and homeland security committees. i sat down with her in our nation's capitol. >> we got to cut them off to put them on their heels and shift the momentum. >> reporter: isis uses drones to direct jihadi suicide truck drivers to their targets, with devastating effect. that's not something that's easily done, it requires a certain degree of sophistica

troops who are in iraq right now are there to take iraq's oil. and the prime minister responded that he doesn't think so. he said he doesn't know what the new president means by that he said at this press conference yesterday, quote, iraqi oil is for iraqis. no official anywhere in the world claims that is not his. but this is a dangerous thing to not have clarity on. and i don't mean it's dangerous in some academic geopolitical sense. i mean it's literally physically dangerous for the american troops who are in iraq right now. if the iraqis they're serving alongside think that the united states has these members of our military in that country right now because it is now u.s. policy to take iraq's oil, that is very dangerous for american troops in that environment. like fighting isis wasn't dangerous enough. so we reported some of this on monday night's show. now we have something new. a long time middle east correspondent, really good reporter, now with buzzfeed, he obtained a two-minute video that is reportedly circulating very widely in iraqi

what will happen with iraq? we are talking about nearly 450,000 yazidis living in refugee camps, and about 800,000 living normally in sinjar. what will happen then after this situation? what we are facing is, you know, the yazidis face now the 71st time a genocide. through the last 800 years, about 1,000,800 yazidis were converted to islam by force. about 1,000,200 yazidis were killed in the last 800 years. so there is a kind of mistrust to the islamic society, because every time they are massacred and face genocide by muslims. so they need and they believe like britain, like america, like european countries can help them to have a safe zone, and they will maybe have a kind of security, a feeling of security, at least, that they are not alone. that is the reason why i can understand nadia murad saying that we need a safe zone. just picking up on that point of genocide. this is a point of fact. you say that genocide has been committed against the yazidis, but not all members of the international community accept

if the united states stayedge engaged in iraq. the point is we know who we are and when all is said and done when those always taken down because of the legacy. if the united states doesn't want iraq to go back to theis rl message was. they will find as president obama did that if the united states has to be engaged, let's not kid ourselves. iraq wouldn't be recovering and the question is can we then walk away like we did last time when this comes out and my guess -- >> host: first guest, good morning. >> caller: i've got to ask the guest concerning president obama early on outreach to venezuela and nicaragua in the case of cuba. we have seen cases in venezuela distancing itself from democratic practices its opposition leaders with 100,000 cubans fleeing the united states and now they closed the door on them. nicaragua purchasing -- >> guest: that is more than relatable. >> guest: these are all depends and the question is ontr cuba there is decade after decade of u.s. policy isolating the island pretty and effectively in a lot of

ayatollahou know, the lived in iraq before the revolution. did you ask saddam hussein about what he thought about him? guest: i asked him, he said he was a holy man of great dignity and i was more than happy to allow him to be in my country. he would often start out with -- if i coulders preface my answer with this, talking to saddam is like reading a really bad washington tooir in which he would try give answers that made him look like a very high and noble person and somebody who is above being petty. but then you would have to say, that is an interesting answer but you have said this in this about him. saddam would give these radio broadcasts where he would just excoriate ayatollah ali khamenei -- khomeini. i think saddam allowed him to come into the country and it was also around the time -- khomeini predates saddam because he came in the mid-1960's. khomeini was not really well-liked, he was disliked by the clerical leadership there. they disagreed especially on khomeini's view on islamic government. by the time saddam came into saddamon

returning to the level of engagement iraq or pre-iraq days. so i think we're going to see an increase in regional players of either becoming more coordinated, although i'm never very optimistic on that front, but certainly taking decisions into their own hands and we've seen that already i think over the last few years. >> uh-huh. >> and i think you will see russia more engaged and i think they, the regional players are now looking at russia, they're looking at china, they're strengthening relations with india. i think they've seen the writing on the wall that the u.s., even this new administration is going to be more of a taking bit of an isolationist view and not getting involved. i don't know, dan. >> i would just add one point which in a way the executive order this weekend identified this administration's axis of evil. you have seven countries that have now been identified as the countries that we're not going to want to deal with. saudi arabia was not on that list. egypt was not on that list, so at best i think you're going to find an ad

most of iraq. even the northern part of saudi arabia. zarqawi, he named it. so the modern day islamic state that we still will be dealing with years from now, he created. >> the terrorist group known as sisal must be degraded and ultimately destroyed. >> i think zarqawi absolutely laid the foundation for the islamic state and he convinced people it was achievable. >> it's an ideology, it's a belief system until we change the behavior of this radical form of islam, we're never going to defeat this crowd. >>> as a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee, i had oversight of all 16 of our nation's intelligence agencies. my name is mike rogers. i had access to classified information gathered by our operatives. people who risked everything for the united states and our families. we don't know their faces or their names. you don't know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure until now. >> every military force on the ground was looking for saddam hussein. >> i get orders that i'm going

wasn't going to be about syria or iraq. it was confined only to the nuclear issue and that was very smart on their part. now, the rouhani people would say privately -- is would some private meetings with, wink, wink, the next conclusion is about syria but i knew that would never happened. i they tried to convince some americans if there was going be a nuclear deal and all parties could agree on the conditions and the terms of the grandma, grandma there -- agreement, and there were be concessions on syria but that didn't happen. >> to the gentleman's question, any opportunity for compromise between saudi and iran him in soon? >> i don't. there would have to be interest by both sides and i don't see what those interests could be. they're both pen -- benefiting from the rivalry so what benefit in concessions? >> and to rasha's question, consecutiving the syrian war from here, we did hear fromun u.s. official, there's a silver lining, that al qaeda and hezbollah fighting in syria. that was in 2013. i'd like to find the same off

in iraq, this man and his family we re in iraq, this man and his family were stopped from boarding a plane to the us despite having valid immigration visas. someone signs effective immediately, what does that mean? without going back to the congress, i don't understand. in the us was a protest outside a court room in new york where a judge ruled there should be a halt to the deportations. president trump enacts laws or executive orders that are unconstitutional and illegal, the courts are there to defend everyone's rights. but even after that ruling, the detentions continued, despite the intervention of elected representatives. there is a situation where you have somebody who has been granted citizenship, she is here with her baby, and she is being detained and you can't even have members of congress get to her. it is an attack on the very foundation of democracy. in boston, a democratic senator rallied protesters. i cannot believe this is happening. i knew donald trump would be bad, but boy, not this bad, not this fast. this is terrible. officials from homeland security think the co

iraq. that is being done by iraqis and by an army of predominantly muslim iraq is trying to liberate a muslim city. it's been done with the backing and support of the united states providing only what we can provide in terms of training support and we have more national partners now that we did then. >> i think we both agree there's an obama doctrine i think we disagree and what it was. i think we agree there's an obama legacy and disagreement on what it was. it doesn't really matter. matter. i think that's most important thing. the legacy is about context. so we'll have views on the obama legacy but what we have to understand is it doesn't matter because people's view of that will change over time. when they look at a legacy they put it in the context of the present state and look backwards and say how do we get there. a good example of that is harry truman. harry truman could've ran for president again. he didn't because he knew he would get elected. he was wildly on popular, peoplb are v

finally, lumping iraq with iran, right now we have several thousand americans who are fighting in iraq against isis, alongside iraqi military men and women. the battle of mosul has taken military. is iraq the same as iran is? of course not. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ok, let's try this.

military in iraq. iraq is one of the seven nations. yemen, sudan, somalia, iraq, libya and sudan are part of this order. your concern for any of those people working for the u.s. in any of those nations? >> britain as well have not been as lenient for putting their life on the line. and in syria where there are u.s. special forces on the ground in syria, there will be people there, whether they're in their local tribal militias, they also will be considering their lives on the line. they'll do it for fl own national interests, their own tribal interests, their own family interests been p but also they know they're partnering with the force they believe supports them. if the ground shifts and isis takes over and comes after and threatens their families as we've seen isis do time and time again, for instance, rounding up large numbers of police and their family inside mosul as a reaction to the way their partnership with u.s. and iraqi forces, if that comes into play, they want to be able to turn to the united states to look for help and

he did not have any sort of iraq background. or specialty knowledge in iraq. then there was an interpreter provided by the military. and then there was saddam. host: what was your charge? my charge was basically to vet what he was saying, take notes, develop questions, lines of questioning, and kind of establish -- in a sense challenge him if you think he is lying or being evasive and also write that down. it was kind of a hard thing to do to be writing the notes, asking the questions, trying to think of questions to follow up with and all that sort of thing. i felt like a one-man band. host: why did it take you all these years to get this book out? guest: the minute i started on this endeavor in terms of debriefing him, i knew i always wanted to write a book. i am a book person, i love reading. i love reading history, and i knew it would one day result in a book, but because of the terms of my security agreement with the cia, i was forbidden from writing a book about classified matters, especially serving as a -- but i knew that when i left, that would be the

i wasn't a fan of iraq, i don't want to go into iraq. but i will tell you, when we were in, we got out wrong. i always said in addition to that, keep the oil. now, i said it for economic reasons. but if you think about it, mike, if we kept the oil you probably wouldn't have isis because that's where they made their money in the first place, so we should have kept the oil. but okay. maybe you'll have another chance. but the fact is we should have kept the oil. >> maybe you will have another chance. it is worth being really specific about this. because it is one thing to campaign for president by saying you wish the u.s. military wrote have rooted, would have, you know, pillaged, would have stolen resources from a country that we were occupying. it is one thing to run for office saying you wish that u.s. forces had committed, incidentally, that war crime and pillaged the countries we became responsible for as an occupying force once we toppled their government. it is one thing to say it as a candidate. but once you are saying that as the c

when we withdrew those troops, iraq descended into chaos. eventually isis came in and took over parts of syria and iraq and established what was essentially a caliphate state that did not have to happen. i feel like it was ideology that drove president obama to do what he did. i do think he was driven largely by ideology. he fancied himself as trains olitical who transp came through with reasonable judgment. i don't think the record aligns with that. he did inherit a terrible recession. much of the reason it was mitigated was because of the tarp funding that president bush started before him and he continued. the recession ran its course and ended after a year or less in office. it has been the recovery since that the record does not hold up. he has not had a stronger down.y with wages flat or the increase in wages went to the top 20%. the stock market did well, but most americans were not happy. that explains in large part why donald trump is present. obamacare, which is his signature domestic achievement, i think that was , fromd from the

frank had remained in iraq since then. zachary wrote, and i quote zachary's words, "he was still living in baghdad with daily fears for his and his family's safety. after six years of vetting, including what seemed like countless interviews and background checks by various government agencies, he had finally been cleared to come to the united states with his pregnant wife and 18-month-old son." "my wife and i began to prepare our guest room for their arrival, but now because of a new executive order by president trump, frank is no longer welcome." this is an american military man preparing to have these folks who put their lives on the line for him stay in his home. this special visa program is why people like mohammed and saif, elnasiri, one of my constituents, were able to dhom this country -- were able to come in this country. and i'd like to share a little bit about this family. mohammed el nasiri was finishing school when the americans arrived. as an english speaker, mohammed gang helping the americans stationed near

, a place that the president said he was going to withdraw from iraq and he did, correct? >> yes, he did, in keeping with the agreement that president bush made with the irqi government. >> rose: what kind of state is iraq today? do you have confidence in the the prime minister? do you have confidence that they will be able to live with the shia -- that the shia and sunni will be able to live together in iraq? >> iraq is a very complex state with its own built-in fragility, partly due to sectarianism, partly due to an undiversified economy and democratic institutions. i think president abadi has demonstrated admirable leadership, particularly when compared to the sectarian orientation of his predecessor. he has tried to govern iraq in a fashion that we believe, if continued, would be more sustainable than what we've seen in the past, but the iraqi institutions are nascent and fragile and there is a great deal of sectarian divide that remains. >> rose: john kerry made a strong effort to do something and to bring israelis and palestinians together and, in the end, he could n

refugees from iraq. one released, one remains behind. 11 still detained across the country as we understand at this hour. and on the right hand side, we have the white house where president trump whose executive order resulted in those being detained on the left, we expect him sometime this afternoon at the white house to be signing new more executive orders that we have not yet got any indication of what they may be about. however, there are possibly several options on that which we'll get to in a little bit. but first, let's go straight to jfk. nbc's correspondent there, anne thompson. and the energy has not gone away at all. have the numbers grown? >> reporter: in fact the energy keeps growing and so do the numbers. if you look behind me, you can see now there are several hundred people who are out in front of terminal four where the international arrivals some of them come into jfk. any are protesting, there is a drum in the center. they are now saying this is what america looks like. and they are or

david, there has been reaction from iran and iraq. iraq are saying they may present american citizens from entering the country and therefore won't be able to join in entering the country and therefore won't be able tojoin in in entering the country and therefore won't be able to join in in the fight against isis. this is counter—productive, isn't it? fight against isis. this is counter-productive, isn't it? you would have thought so but meanwhile, resident bush seems to be making effo rts resident bush seems to be making efforts to find replacement allies, if you like. —— president bush. there has been an executive order that he has signed earlier today about defeating so—called islamic state. also issuing a read out at president trump's telephone conversation with vladimir putin in which it seems the two discussed defeat of islamic state and bringing peace to the syrian conflict. this, a sign perhaps, that donald trump really does want to get closer to vladimir putin and repair a relationship that soured of course under bara

and iraq is a good example. iraq is is not in good shape now and was not in good shape during most of the bush presidency also. have you a strategy that says the united states will unilaterally try to solve that problem with very few international partners or are we going to work patiently but with great resolve, taking risks ourselves. what we see now is there is house to house fighting in iraq but that house to house fighting is being done by iraqis. done by an army of predominantly muslim iraqis trying to dominate an iraqi city, mosul. we have partners mourning out more now than we did then. >> i think we disagree on what the obama doctrine was. i think we agree there is an obama legacy but we probably disagree on what it was. but that doesn't matter. the most important thing is that legacy is about context. when they look at context they look at it in the present state and look back and say how did we get here? the example is harry truman. he could have run again but didn't because he knew won't be elected.

as a result of everything that is happened in iraq. i think the kurds, if you look at the iranian kurds the kurds have been victims everywhere. iran is a perfect place where the have been victims. it's been very difficult for the kurds in iran to fight for equal rights with the rest of the population. when mohammed was president the kurds had more power and they were empowered by his administration. they were were allowed to have their languages and schools. he appointed kurdish officials that headed kurdish majority areas of iran which had been quite taboo. i cannot really speak to what their deficiencies are if that is your question. i'm not qualified to do that. >> d.c. the kurds, they are sunnis themselves, then avoiding getting sucked into the sunni shia war? >> i think we have already seen that. the kurds, when i ran ran sort of came to the rescue of the kurds, when isis was at the doorstep, you already started this strange alliance, not alliance but that's putting too much of a point on it, but you already saw some sort of coope

saddam did something very smart n the eve of leaving iraq. is immediate circle of guards, he replaced them with all new people, because he probably knew that intelligence services had a whole list of these people who were always with them. these people were now virtually unknown to the intelligence services, and he was right about hat. it served him well for a time, but eventually those figures became known to us, and through a series of good researching and dedicated work by special forces, and also a bit of luck, we were able to track him own. host: how long between the time he was captured and the time you at down and talked to him? guest: in a way, not long at all because i was there when he was aught. he was brought down to baghdad by airplane, near the airport. i was brought out to identify him to make sure. someone took me aside and said, "we have to know that it is him. he cannot be one of these body oubles." they said, "we cannot have one f these body doubles." one of the most persistent myths about saddam hussein was the issue of th

iraq opened up the door. at the beginning of the war, i watched as us loads of men from other countries came in, came pouring in to fight. what they did is they gained training and they learned how to protect and perfect the ied. and how to do the terrorist attacks of attacking each other and they took it back to their countries and it spread. so that was opening up pandora's box. and it is hard to put things back in. and going to israel, lest we forget, it was the united states and the united nations that formed israel. i live in an area where there are many muslims and many people from the middle east. gentlemanioned to a saying that they were cousins with the jewish and, why don't they get along? and he got angry and he said, how would you like it if you came home to your house and someone else was living there and just said it was your house. you would fight for it. and that is what the middle east conflict is all about to me. that were people living in land. and we gave it to israel. israel has had to fi

they shut down their lives in iraq. today the outback in iraq having to rely on the generosity of family, having had to move in and live with relatives. and they say that donald trump has ruined their lives. we're also hearing some reports that iraqis are saying that americans should leave iraq, a form of retaliation. this is not an official statement from the iraqi government, but we are hearing various reports saying that an influential shia cleric has made a statement. his comments are little unclear. he is reported to have said something like, "before you expel patriots, take your own citizens out of these countries first." the us is not currently expelling anyone, but this seems to be a suggestion that us citizens should have to leave the countries involved. he is quoted as describing trump's decision as arrogant and condescending. so far those reported comments are coming only from him. we have not yet had a statement from the iraqi authorities, although we are expecting a statement from the iraqi foreign ministry

i once wrote after the iraq invasion that the iraq oil belonged to the people of iraq, just like oil in alaska generates benefits in alaska permanent fund for citizens in iraq. one way to get rid of it is to get iraqi people a chance. donald trump is talking openly to the victor goes the spoils. it is a valueless, really gross comment. >> steve, the fascinating thing about listening to trump in the 2011 discussion with the "wall street journal" he said i heard we went in to iraq for the oil. he said it as if that's what president bush was saying. here's the president saying i'm thinking of going back in there for the oil. >> there's a lot of criticisms people can have about why we went in to iraq, the wmd issue and others. but those -- as someone you and i read every speech george w. bush gave on iraq and also cheney, who was an oil man. much more so george bush. he wrapped it around democracy and the fact that these were victims of saddam hussein inside iraq and we were going to try to tip over a domino effect and create democracy in the region. that failed but had nothing to do wit

, especially in iraq, in keeping the stability between the shi'a and sunnis in iraq for the years after the defeat of saddam hussein -- the kurds, yes .. will >> victims everywhere. and fighting for equal rights. with the rest of the population. when the about the was president, there was a lot more power for the current, and empowered by their administration it to have their own languages in the school. he appointed kurdish officials that had kurdish majority areas that was quite taboo. but i can't speak to what their deficiencies are, not qualified to do that. >> do you see the good they are for themselves? them avoiding getting sucked into the war? >> we have already seen that, when iran came to the rescue of the kurds when isis was at the doorstep, not alliance but putting a point on it. and opportunity, the iranians offer opportunities, >> thank you so much. enjoy the

: iraq and iran, what do you want to see him say on iraq? we have dealt with iran. what you want to see come through on iraq? khalaf: the current administration gifted iraq to iran. and they handed -- slaves and by the iranian proxy. therefore we want iran and iraq to come back to the arabs. mass: i don't know if that is necessarily 100% representation. some people would say that obama changed policy and pulled back. there were no more boots on the ground, he brought troops home. there is both sides. let's talk more about you, your business, and markets. i am interested. warren buffett moved a lot of money into cash before this election. did you take any preparation for the risks that the market was assuming on a trump victory? are you surprised by how the markets have reacted? khalaf: markets are positive acting positively now. it was a shock. myself, i am thinking, i positively thinking, i have am hold for a few months. to think even to make this feasibility study or look into a new project. i will wait and see if he implements what he pro

they shut down their lives in iraq. today they are back in iraq having to rely on the generosity of family, having had to move in and live with relatives. and they say that donald trump has ruined their lives. in yemen, us commandos have carried out an attack, killing around fourteen suspected al-qaeda fighters. 0ne us serviceman was also killed and three others injured. sources in central al—baida province say the attack began with an air strike on one particular house. the raid appears to mark an intensification of america's efforts to target the militants in yemen. earlier, our middle east analyst alanjohnston said the americans still hadn't confirmed they carried out the raid. sources in this mountainous area in the heart of yemen say this raid began with an air strike on one particular house, but then a wave of helicopters swept in and deposited american commanders on the ground who then engaged in a gunfight with the militants. mosques and another facility used by the militants were targeted. local people said t

tot like we did when we went iraq. the world was telling us that is wrong, don't go america, but america went. ok questio? the world is telling us no. what you are doing is wrong, america. trump, listen to the voice of the world. the republicans convinced the american people and went to iraq when the world was opposing us? why question like that is what happened, right? now they are trying to convince the majority of americans, they don't understand what is going on in the world. people thatbout the say donald trump should listen to the voices of the voters that elected him. he talked about extreme vetting during his campaign. caller: from what i see and hear, those people, most of them, don't understand. you can't stop everyone who has a green card. you have american family saying stop, you cannot come in, ok? they do not understand what is going on. they say he is stopping iteris, most doing right, but people are brainwashed. they do not understand what is what. host: pittsburgh, california. good morning. caller: tha

worst in the entire iraq war. and during that time, in july of 2007, very tragically, we lost three staff from the reuters team, two killed by a u.s. apache helicopter, and another a translator who was killed by gunmen in the streets of baghdad, which was a very traumatic time for myself and for all our staff. and, of course, the families of those men. >> stewart: when did you know that this went past having an emotional reaction to something, even though we're all reporters and we're there to do analysis and report the facts, when did you know that those kind of more normal feelings were morphing into something else? >> alison, to be honest, i didn't-- i was in denial for years they had a problem. i was in denial that i was exhibit, sympt osms p.t.s.d., and my sensitivity to noise, my agitation, my anxiety. these symptoms meant that i had a medical issue. it really wasn't until with my relationship with my wife at breaking point earlier this year that i agreed to see a psychiatrist who diagnosed me with p.t.s.d.

leaving iraq with just a handful of troops. his generals had wanted thousands more. >> i don't know whether 10,000 troops would have given us the leverage. i actually suspect it might not have. but i would have liked to have tested the proposition. >> but there was a problem. his predecessor, president bush, had signed an agreement with the iraqis promising that all troops would be gone by the end of 2011. >> the only way in which we were going to keep troops there was at the invitation of that government, and we couldn't get that done. >> we spent a considerable amount of time talking about syria. >> that government was run by this man, prime minister nuri al maliki. he didn't get a new agreement approved by his parliament. worried he would lose his political support, perhaps most crucial, maliki, a hard-line shiite, had mounted a crackdown against sunni muslims throughout the country. as a result, many of them had turned in desperation and defiance to isis, which is hard-line sunni and deeply anti-shiite. >> allahu akbar. all

general petraeus, iraq, how do you size up the legacy of this president, president obama in iraq? >> i think it's mixed. certainly the developments of the last couple of years when we have responded to the actions by the islamic state has gathered a considerable amount of momentum and actually taken back from the islamic state all but one of the major cities which is likely to fall in the weeks or months ahead. but prior to that, of course, there was a pulling out of our forces, various explanations for that and, if we would have been able to keep them, whether that would have prevented the ruinous course maliki pursued and planted the seeds of extremism that the islamic state exploid before drifting into syria and gaining lots of power in that civil war. >> woodruff: ambassador edelman, how do you see the president's legacy in iraq? >> largely as a lost opportunity, when general petraeus and our mutual league ryan crocker negotiated the agreement in 2008, i think all of us anticipated there would be a residual u.s. force staying after december 31, 2011, and i think we would have

military in iraq. i'm going to show you what it takes for a syrian refugee to get in this country, because it takes anywhere from 18 to 24 months. they are screened by the state department, dhs, the defense department, the national counterterrorism center, the fbi. not only are their backgrounds checked, but they go through iris scans, fingerprints. their documents are collected. they go through biographic security checks again and again. it's a process that doesn't just take one or two months, it takes two years or more. >> right. and it's a process that allowed, over the past 15 years since 9/11, has brought close to three quarters of a million refugees into this country, none of whom have been charged with any domestic terror incidents. this is not some fly-by-night operation. and i know, for a fact, from my reporting in the past day, that the officials at the state department who run these programs were not consulted by the trump administration. i was on the -- >> so, what -- go ahead. >> i was on

frank remained in iraq since then. zachary wrote, quote, he was still living in baghdad with daily fears for his and his family's safety after six years of vetting including what seemed like countless interviews and background checks by various government agencies, finally been cleared to come to the united states with his pregnant wife and 18-month-old son. zachary went on to write my wife and i began to prepare our guest room for their arrival but now thanks to the new executive order of president trump, frank is no longer welcome. this is an american military man preparing to have these folks put their lives on the line for him, stay in his home. this special visa program is why people like mohammed -- who i am proud to call a new jersey resident, one of my constituents, were able to come to this country and i would like to share a little bit about this family. mohammed was finishing high school in iraq in 2003 when the americans arrived. as an english speaker, mohammed began helping the american station near his ne