isis suspects. and in this part of iraq most people are sunnis. >> navai: what are the chances you've got some isis fighters in that room? >> navai: but it's such a hard process to really tell if somebody is an ordinary guy or if he's an isis fighter. how can you be 100% sure? (shouting) >> navai: so the guys just pulled this man away. they're telling me now that families here have said that he tried to blackmail them. that when they were fleeing, he said if you don't pay me, if you don't give me money, i'm going to go and tell isis that you're fleeing and they'll kill you. >> navai: it's suddenly got quite chaotic here. they're accusing him of being an isis fighter. we weren't allowed to follow him. we don't know where they've taken him. one of the militia leaders takes us to a building where they're holding isis suspects. as we approach the building, we keep filming with a phone. the militiamen tell us the prisoners were picked up among refugees fleeing isis territory. we don't see the man who was

first, isis in iraq and syria. there is no question that things on the ground when it comes to license and syria are going well. shrinking the territory that isis controls, that effort is proceeding apace. isis has been driven out of most of its urban strongholds, and is increasingly finding itself isolated and certainly under pressure. for the most part, isis now lac ks the capacity to hold territory and exercise state like functions -- taxation and the exploitation of natural resources. -- savings enjoyed by isis safe ahven enjoyee by isis's been taken away. -- safethat is tremendously good n. but if that is true, why doesn't it feel that way? why do we not feel ourselves besieged by the isis narrative around the globe? those of us in the terrorism expected it to plan out largely this way. we expected as isis was driven out of mosul and raqqa, it would adapt and find new ways to implement their terrorism agenda. made byt to a tax not direct isis leadership, the increasing effort to inspire supporters far from the

why do we still find ourselves being besieged by isis threats and the isis narrative around the globe? the short answer i would offer is those of us in the terrorism world expected it to play out largely this way. we expected that as isis was driven out of places like mosul and raqqa that it would adapt itself and find new ways to implement the terrorism part of their agenda, and they have. the shift to attacks not centrally directed by isis leadership in iraq and syria, the increased emphasis on efforts to inspire or enable attacks by isis supporters far from the conflict zone, the surge in the number of attacks taking place all around the world, lone actors, people acting in very small groupings. these are all signs that isis has adapted to its more difficult circumstances by changing its operational model, and it will continue to adapt. now, forsake of context, let me say this: i'm not trying to take a very good news story that in many ways we're winning on the battlefield against isis and turn it into bad news. not at all, it's not bad news. stripping away the physical manifestati

examples include isis sinai, isis libya, aqim, and ansar al sharia. using these designations enables us to help cut off the financial flows that are the lifeblood of these organizations. fourth, we work to counter radicalization in a way that's tailored to each north african country's unique circumstances. it isn't enough to stop fts from traveling to the war zone or remove them from the battlefield. this is a battle of ideas, and we also need to delegitimize the radical ideology that attracts them in the first place and prevent them from getting into terrorist pipelines. finally, looking beyond foggy bottom, the department of defense continues to advance u.s. counterterrorism priorities in north africa by taking the fight directly to the enemy. on october 29th, our soldiers captured mustafa al imam who was allegedly involved in the 2012 benghazi terrorist attacks. we've transferred him to the united states for prosecution where he will face justice for his alleged crimes. we continue to investigate the perpetrators of this attack, and we look forward

why do we still feel busy by isis threats and the isis narrative around the globe? the short answer is those of us in the terrorism world expected it to play out largely this way. we expected as isis was driven out of places like mosul and raqqa, they would attack. not directed by isis leadership in iraq and syria, increased emphasis on efforts to inspire or an able attacks by isis porters, far from the conflict zone. urge the number of attacks taking place around the world, loan actors, people acting in small groups. these are all signs that isis has adapted to its more difficult circumstances by changing its operational model and it will continue to adapt. or sake of context, let me say this. i'm not trying to get the good news story that in many ways we are waiting on the battlefield. and turned into bad news, not all. dripping away the physical manifestations of the caliphate will have profound implications, positive implications for our threat picture. it just won't happen right away. in time, isis will have fewer resources to support its agenda and the narrati

why we still feel besieged by isis threats and the isis narrative around the globe? the short answer i would offer is that those of us in the terrorism world expected it to play out largely this way. we expected isis was driven out of place like mobile and raqqa, that find new ways to implement their terrorist agenda, and it has. directedks not directly by the leadership. the surge in the number of attacks taking place around the world, loan actors in small groups. isis has adapted to its more difficult circumstances by changing its operational model and it will continue to adapt. let me sake of context, see and not try to take a good news story, in many ways we are winning on the battlefield against isis, and turn it into bad news. it is not bad news. stripping away the physical manifestations of the caliphate will have profound implications, positive indications for the threat picture. it just won't happen right away. over time, isis will have fewer resources to support the terrorist agenda, and the narrative of success they propagate will bring more hollow and app

he is a bulwark against the spread of isis today. we're trying to destroy isis. but if america destroyed assad and helped that agenda to come forward, who's gonna take damascus? it's gonna be isis and nusra. (explosions and gunfire) >> smith: the war in syria is now in its fifth year. more than 220,000 are dead. half the country's people have been forced from their homes. and inspectors suspect that assad still possesses sarin gas. he is also weaponizing chlorine. (coughing) (crying) >> the assad regime is still using chlorine gas bombs against syrian civilians. now, chlorine gas is certainly of less lethality than sarin gas, but it is a chemical weapon nonetheless. so you have a regime that's using chlorine gas continuously against the civilian populace without international repercussions. >> i have family members who have been killed, and i have friends who have been killed. it is heartbreaking. i would say, mr. president, that "you are going to go down in history, if you continue like this, as somebody who has tarnished the reputation of the united states. you

host: explain isis 3.0. guest: the way i thought about it was in early 2014, most people were caught off guard by the rise of isis. we were still talking about al qaeda and taliban. the people that noticed isis where the web operators, people that sought them online. they started seeing virtual beheadings, and it took a long while to mobilize against that. in my head, now we are talking three to four years later, what is next on the horizon? ul and pictures from mos people want to say mission accomplished, but it is not because isis has continued to adapt. what are the next iterations around the corner? when we thought of al qaeda, we were thinking cameras and caves and an ice came along. -- isis came along. we are seeing that new iteration and whether they have the staying power is a new issue. i think of them as kind of a cloud caliphate. they are thinking about the information battlefield in a unique way and they are using crowdsourcing to recruit people, using bitcoin to raise money. this is the new iter

host: you mentioned isis. are they proven to be the best at using the tools on the digital battlefield? guest: they have. if you think of taliban as the elementary school and al qaeda as the middle school, isis is in college. they have built an ecosystem. amboise. carefully about different ways they can communicate their method. it is a content work. is an information battlefield. it is not as well understood. we kind of know about social media. i am talking about a whole spectrum. dark web.eb, they perfected a way of how to reach people in a way that is sophisticated and with the mantra that there are thought audience the bigger the impact. byt: i want to explain that some of the specific platforms you go through. use different platforms in different ways. twitter, facebook, youtube, or dark web spaces. let's start with twitter. how do extremists or islamists used twitter. guest: twitter is interesting because they are able to use bots.-- use they are trying to amplify their message. thatget folks out there t

while there are many problems in syria not just isis let's assume for the moment that isis is finished just to give a little more mopping up but there are still so many problems in the country somebody's wife still things. i think it's wise to keep some presence there. you bring up a good point that there's more to meet the eye in terms of the syrian conflict it's a mess of a grander scale but if we go down the rabbit hole just a little bit further if the u.s. troops stay on the ground in syria what will this mean for the country's stability . syria has been the most horrid humanitarian war situation in the world for some six years almost seven years now. much of it has been ravaged a substantial part of the population has been killed in the flood within the country side of the borders of the country it is you told us. the elimination of isis is a positive step to be sure but it is a small step there there's still so many factions that are fighting there. somebody else who is a monk outside actors turks saudi is the culture of the americans the british the russians the iranians but it'

when the russian operation began isis held more territory in syria than any other faction two years in a few months on the caliph it has been reduced to clubs to villages and i don't have it to desert wasn't the russian air force saloon that did this the u.s. led coalition also played a huge pot we've been covering the syrian civil war in depth before isis even had its name before jihad ists hijacked the rebels cause he had some of the more memorable moments filmed by my colleagues and i. are. this is the ad big enough akio from which russian jets. against this comic state targets here in syria. there it's. the pilots are ready to go at a moment's notice. it's quite incredible to be standing here in the pulse of the engine fifty of palmira on people around the outfeed would be reduced to dust in this amphitheater laid down by the romans or most two thousand years ago that isis staged one of its sickest massacres the russian military considers it the crowding jewel of the operation here in syria. you can see had just some of the impressive military hardware that isis have in the possess

one of the big advantages of this is that it denies isis and the people who call themselves isis a reactoring tool. -- recruiting tool. they could say we are building our own nation in the desert. the physical defeat of it denies them a recruiting point. this is the path online. >> that's why winning is important. trump is all about winning and it's true with isis. the more wins you rack up the better. it's down now. we want to keep snuffing it out and count up the victories. i think the scenario where we have bipartisanship. everybody hates isis. we are together on that. i give president obama credit when he had success in that area. i think it was great when he went back on his word and kept guantanamo bay. i was glad he broke that promise. when he got in there, the foreign policy against isis was not that dramatically changed under president obama. i think presidents do take the advice of the generals. >> with president obama, there were from bob gates to people in the pentagon, when they left the administration they talked about how difficult it was. they would layout plans for defeating

. >> rick: isis strikes again. they claimed responsibility for a coordinated attack on a cultural center in kabul leaving at least 41 people dead and 100 more wounded in the heart of afghanistan's capital. good morning, i'm rick leventhal. >> julie: bill and sandra are off today. isis says they detonated three bombs at the entrance to the center before sending a suicide bomber inside. isis is still a threat to be reckoned with even with its heavy losses in iraq and syria. >> rick: greg palkot is tracking the story. what more do we know about the attack? >> we know it is another nasty incident in afghanistan and once again isis there is claiming responsibility. a shiite muslim cultural center was the target this time of the afghanistan isis spin-off. the suicide bomber walked into the center of a gathering leaving a scene of death and destructions. other explosions outside. 41 killed, at least 84 wounded. shiite targets there. isis in afghanistan started in 2015. it has been growing in strength as it has been fading

isis flags and. button's it semed in private collections the hour outs in a valve over here are a bunch of seward's with a particularly horrible history these are the weapons that isis used to execute people to chop off people's heads and arms for various offenses event in the next exhibits you have isis has been milking components here a bunch of sand for rooms as well as detonators grade use over here is a suicide belts grenades. have a bits and pieces over in the next section is isis is air force rooms t.g.i. phantoms and gliders. thing is the stand up fight is almost done it would be wrong to claim that isis in iraq has been destroyed entirely but the jihad ists have certainly gone underground the pitched battles of finished why people ask do we still need these huge and well armed sectarian militias that are at the can the pm after played a huge partner and their sacrifice a lot but to be onus with you they should hand in their weapons this is the law of the country we should pay them and thank

some of them joined isis. so iraqi government needs to work hard to make sure they're not feeling marginalized, neglected and that comes with making sure that these areas that were devastated, these mostly sunni areas, devastated by the fighting, that you see reconstruction, that they're rebuilt and the millions who are displaced from their homes are allowed to return. all this keeping in mind that while isis as a so-called caliphate is over, the ideology is not defeated, george. so they need to work hard on that and it still, as a terror group, possesses the capability of carrying out devastating attacks, something iraqis know all too well. >> this day, in iraq, the military there saying isis has been removed, the country fully liberated from isis. celebrations in baghdad, of course. thank you so much for the reporting. >> certainly hope that holds true. >>> boris johnson is iran for a meeting with top leaders, part of the reason he's there is to appeal for the release of jailed british iranian citizens inclu

plan to annihilate isis is moving forward. we must also destroy the evil ideology that is behind isis and attackses like today. this ideologist has no borders but -- ideology has no borders but it must be eradicated. we will not stop until it is accomplished. with that, i'll take your questions. reporter: thank you. wanted to ask you about the women who came forward today against the president, saying, first on a television show, then they were at a press conference and they said that he should resign and then also that there should be a congressional investigation. and i know that you said that this has already been litigated in the last election. but i wanted to get your specific reaction to this idea that there should be a congressional investigation into this. sarah: the president has addressed these accusations directly. and denied all of these allegations. and this took place long before he was elected to be president and the people of this country had a decisive election, supported president trump, and we feel like thes

this is the direct isis. and one of the big debates spawned in the counterterrorism community and elsewhere, and also between isis and al qaeda was whether or not isis was really part of al qaeda past 2006 when they first declared the state of iraq. i think the files will end that debate once and for all. it's pretty clear in some of the files we have seen so far that in fact al qaeda was providing leadership for an islamic state of iraq and bin laden considered it to be part of his global empire. but you asked a key question, right? and i think -- earlier, this was a key question about the ebb and flow of this fight. people are now saying that isis is decimated, just like al qaeda was decimated. one of these audio files to bin laden is fascinating. his commander in iraq is saying to him, you know, the field of jihad in iraq is fertile. even if the islamic state of iraq collapses, we'll keep going. we have plenty of resources and opportunities for us to keep waging jihad here indefinitely. and this is years b

isis at one point controlled area the size of ohio. senior director for counterterrorism and the obama white house pushback on any criticism of former president didn't do enough to crush isis. >> this is a top priority from the early days of isis getting the type of territorial safe haven gaining particular mother was a recognition that safe haven for terrorist groups can mean terrorist that extend not just into the region but in europe were conceivably into the united states. >> while isis has been largely defeated, it continues to call people around the world to conduct terrorist attacks during the holidays with a new message sprouting up just today. >> isis became a brand and a lot of pre-existing terrorist groups start to raise the flag of isis mainly to recruit foreign fighters and other things. >> in addition to isis, an old foe has taken root in syria and could take on a bigger priority for the administration next yea year. >> they still think of its center and gravity as being on that afghanistan-pakistan border. but i would th

you can see had just some of the impressive military hardware that isis have in that possession that has made the battle for palmeiro so tough when extremely close to isis positions less than two kilometers away and. were as a syrian artillery position overlooking the industrial quarter of their resort the battle is said to be vs isis fired back as we filmed shells began falling all around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing life even did as ordered is still far from normal but at least they won't be starving to death and the more. ultimately it wasn't russian or american jets that played the decisive role in this these victory belongs to the syrians the thousands and thousands who fought and died to defeat isis those who stood up to jihad even when it seemed nothing could stop them unfortunately it's unlikely that this will end here any isis fighters have escaped or got on the ground there sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have their caliphate to fight for. well the question now is what to do with the remaining eisel fighters

blaming isis stole u.s. supplied rockets weeks after they arrived in syria reports. three years in the making the new report compiled by the conflict armament research group which tracks how weapons supplies find their way into conflicts found that an authorized retransfer is a significant source of as. they weapons and ammunition and that the united states and saudi arabia supplied most of this material without authorization apparently to syrian opposition forces which was then sold to sold to or recovered of by our by isis forces you see the river of blood that is arms dealing flows damned we are definitely all covered up in it so it's time to start getting clean by watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you know that i got. within three. weeks of. the watching the hawks i robot and i'm having a while listen joining us today to discuss the arms business in syria is former pentagon analyst michael maloof thanks for joining us pleasure always a pleasure so michael let walk us throu

you are still seen isis being able to conduct these attacks, but they morph into a isis 2.0 or they go into the al qaeda model, the easiest model to survive in. you simply have sales, conduct attacks, recruit, and you become very strategic in your operations. >> neil: michael, very nice seeing you again. stocks were up today. a lot had to do with the fact that it was related, but a lot of it has to do -- it seems like more more of a sure thing, and the key senate and house meeting right now to bridge the difference. this is as the president has it address on wednesday. what is -- his final stand, his final call after this e. i'm here to fix the elevator. nothing's wrong with the elevator. right. but you want to fix it. right. so who sent you? new guy. what new guy? watson. my analysis of sensor and maintenance data indicates elevator 3 will malfunction in 2 days. there you go. you still need a pass. >> neil: the president is planning to address the nation about the attacks in closing arguments on wednesday. sometime wednesday afternoon. as the same time this conference committee made u

threat of people inspired by isis and isis being radicalized online? >> secretary sanders: at the president is concerned that democrats have failed to take action in some places where we feel we could have prevented this, specifically the president's policy has called for an migration, if that had been in place, that would have repented this person from coming to the united states. the president is aggressively trying to push forward responsible immigration reform. that would be a part of the process. >> reporter: over the weekend to a "washington post"'s tweets about crowd size as quickly deleted. i hope you can talk about instances like this, which he calls fake news and talks quite a bit about. an actual disinformation campaign during the 2016 election that spread false information. the silence on that, and does he reckon it's the difference between these two? >> secretary sanders: the difference for the president calling out a very direct and false accusation lodged against him? there was nothing more than an individual trying to put their bias int

baghdad sold for two and a hot thousand dollars d was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifteen for near enough three years she endured horrible things things that new fifteen year old girl or any woman should ever have to endure two hours ago she was back by her family here in baghdad no one called the police no one wanted to risk her life she spent her first hour of freedom crying in the hotel room where in mind isis tells its hostages that their families will kill them if they ever return but her arrest would be brief asking how she shouldn't show sufficient . and up front about it with so many people who are happy that she's. telling shortly after our meeting took her shopping. she was rescued by a group of men who specialize in tracking down these e.d.'s kidnapped by isis they then either negotiate a sale or steal them back they have begun secrecy i know and she got you know i says say that if we show the girls still in the possession with their relatives apparent t.v. the deal will be off that they'd kill the hostages as such some of the people involved didn't want

dropped the mother of all bombs on an isis stronghold. behind it all, the general president obama selected to oversee the afghan war still in command. do you have confidence that you have the president's confidence. >> the authorities i've been given and the policy we received on august 21st. >> reporter: like president obama, president trump relied heavily on special forces to combat isis, secretary mattis told me he plans to shift to general purpose troops and relying on special forces for special missions. hans nichols, nbc news the pentagon. >>> imagine your kids going to school for only four days a week. we'll tell you why that's the reality for a lot of students in one state. >>> also what words would you leave behind in 2017? some choice examples from an annual list needles. essential for vinyl, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz xr can reduce pain,

isis must be destroyed. we are getting rid of isis. we are getting rid of isis. isis is -- we have no choice. >> david: welcome back to "hannity." president trump on the campaign trail throughout 2016, promising the american people that his administration would crush isis if he was elected and it looksmi like he has kept his promise. according to u.s. military officials, the islamic terror group has lost almost all of its territory, 98%, to be exact, half of that territory since president trump took office less than one year ago. also, the latest american intelligence assessment states that fewer than 1,000 isis fighters remained in iraq and syria. that is down from a peak of nearly 45,002 years ago. president trump praised the u.s. military campaign against isis just a few days ago. let's take a look at this. >> our military has been doing a fantastic job in so many ways with isis. we have made tremendous strides, obviously,av in syria with isis, we've taken back virtually all of the caliphate, all of the land. same thing in a rack and are making tremendous stri

s is still missing hundreds presumed held by isis the international community no longer really cares if these do the track the same ratings now that they aren't being slaughtered so it's up to them to recover their own children and to help them heal from what isis has done to them or our guys the odd scene from the hawk iraq r.t. contacted several human rights organizations about what's being done to help the victims of these crimes so far only a few have responded including the red cross. the battles in mosul and ramadi and fallujah all over iraq have yielded an overwhelming overwhelmingly large or high amount of missing people people who whose fate are unknown the families are still looking for them whether they are in captivity with islam except group or any other party in iraq families do not know the fate of their loved ones and if they have the right to know the fate of the loved ones whether they have been dead or are still alive somewhere in iraq being held by a certain party to a conflict what we do to assist because we know that the process to look and search for missing lo

the threat of isis in iraq that spawned the p.m.f. in 2014. with most u.s. ground forces gone and iraqi forces too weak to take on isis, the iraqi government called on iran for help, and iraq's highest religious authority, shia cleric ayatollah ali sistani, called for volunteer fighters. within weeks, armed militias mobilized, backed by iran. >> ( translated ): while the whole world watched as iraq was collapsing, in fact it was only iran that stood with us by providing us moral and material support. >> reporter: the p.m.f. acknowledge support from iran. many fighters say they've traveled there. we heard several speak the iranian language of farsi. >> ( translated ): we love iranians. >> reporter: but p.m.f. spokesman haji jawdat assaf insists they're not beholden to iran, and never use iranian soldiers. >> i think most people in europe, or america, must not believe these lies. there are no iranians in hashd al shaabi, only advisors. there are iranian advisors like american and british advisors. >> reporter: no iranian advisor is more

what i noticed in these situations, no contact with isis, even though apparently he was isis inspired. similarly, when i think back to the guy who ran his truck down the bike path here in late october, again, no direct contact or coordination, but isis inspired. even as we can defeat isis, what we see is the ideology of remaining something that is like a cancer. out there, and especially on the internet. and this guy is 27. i disagree strongly with president trump. i think that family unification is really great for america. i think that families are so important especially in immigrants, because they add -- >> greg: precisely. chain migration is okay one way, it should be okay both ways. if they arrive in a chain and one person in that chain does something, leave in the chain. the potential for leaving in the chain might cost the family to pay more attention to the oddball in the family. >> juan: it is just the way that unions gave out cards. if you are somebody's cousin or brother or son, you are likely to get a union card. because they know that that other person, the senior person

crying in the hotel room wearing my isis tells its hostages that their families will kill them if they ever were to. let her rest would be brief asking her if she shouldn't show sufficient here. and up front about . this so many people are happy that she's. meeting her relatives took her shopping. she was rescued by a group of men who specialize in tracking down these e.d.'s kidnapped by isis they then either negotiate the sale or steal them back so the big gun secrecy i don't know if i say that if we show the girl still in the possession of them with their relatives parents the deal will be on that they killed the hostages. as such some of the people. involved didn't want to appear on camera but the stories. and what you could just get to this day one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sent. for. a house here where there are several girls sand eleven twelve years old who were all raped gifted or sold as many as fifteen songs. if not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes using children and sends them on suicide missions or sells them for money oh when isis fighters flee to turkey t

it was occupied and defaced by isis. they seem to want to destroy everything christian. >> michaeel: exactly, to delete our history. to say that there are no christians, nothing before islam. and even here, the statue of virgin mary, they destroyed it. >> stahl: the monastery, according to historians, was sacred to both christians and muslims in medieval times. it had amassed a collection of manuscripts dating back to the 12th century. >> michaeel: in this kind of container. >> stahl: as isis was closing in, the resident monks hid the texts in these barrels, which they entombed behind a fake wall. and isis never found it? >> michaeel: no, because-- >> stahl: for two years? >> michaeel: exactly, because the monks more intelligent that isis. >> stahl: when this part of iraq was liberated last year, those intelligent monks returned, drilled through the two walls, found the barrels- and the precious, hand-written books. >> columba: so it's the one thing that they couldn't replace, because you could rebuild a building. you ca

additionally, this attack comes as our coalition continues to make great games against isis. still, there is more work to be done on the ground in the shrinking ice is controlled areas and the president's plan isis is moving forward. this ideology has no borders, but must be eradicated. president has successfully rallied the world behind his cause and we will not stop until it is accomplished. with that, i will take your question. francesca. >> thank you. i wanted to ask you about the this on ang television show. resignid that he should and there should be the russia investigation. he said this has already been litigated. but i wanted to get your specific reaction. addressedsident has these accusations directly. and denied all of these allegations. befores took place long he was elected to be president. and the people of this country had a decisive election, supported president trump and we feel like these allegations aggravate that process. on ad want to follow-up little bit of breaking as we just learned about. transgender people will be allowed to enlist in the military. i

if not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes u.c.d. children and sends them on suicide missions or sells them for money oh when isis fighters flee to turkey they sell their slaves because they need money to go back to their home countries. you may not know but when the u.s. led coalition and their allies in syria reportedly led hundreds of isis fighters need that then besieged graca whose jihad just took not only the guns and families but also the hostages and slaves the same people that are now being on board back of the prices vary depending on where there are but if they're in dangerous places you can be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifteen thousand. others is also tracking down missing people one iraqi and he has made a name for himself rescuing children. she spent her own money buying out several of these kids on their behalf after that one of the girls told me the story of her escape she and her aunts were in isis captivity two of the terrorists watched them day and night to prevent them from running away then the gir

of isis and just three weeks tag last isis stronghold in syria has fallen as well so not quite a generation maybe 8 months. how is this possible? how have we gone from this massive rebuilding organization caliphate to it being in death throws currently. very simply because of two things. number one, a correct determination of what the let the is and after the correct determination the application of a strategic response. why was the obama administrations diagnosis so inaccurate. what was the problem? well, we could have you know several days to impose on that but let me give you just the bare bones. the obama administration came into office with a strategic intent to put america back in it's box. you remember this phrase from the president. we believe in american exceptional ism the same way the greeks believe in greek exceptional ism. if that's the case you don't believe in it. the national security administration of obama administration talked about strategic patience. leading from behind. what happens when you are patient and by the way, what is leading from behind? logically what is it?

inspired by isis. any connection that we know of to isis members? >> no evidence so far that he was radicalized before coming to the united states. all the indications so far that he was radicalized online at some point in the past few years. in fact, there was a recent dhs study of a foreign-born violent extremists and they found the majority of those were actually radicalized several years after coming to the united states. but they're going to be looking at all the potential travel patterns. was he going overseas in recent years? bangladesh has become a significant hotbed of jihadi activity. there are groups aligned with isis, aligned with al qaeda that have built up a significant presence there. they've been launching attacks on secular bloggers. there was the attack in the summer of 2016 that killed many italians and japanese in the capital. that was masterminded by a canadian of bangladesh descent. >> paul cruickshank, thanks very much. let's go to the white house right now on the defensive after some of president trump's many female accusers