and who belong to isis. we are yet to see a coherent strategy to deal with them and deradicalize them. we have a ticking time bomb on our hands as these women still very much embrace the isis ideology and there's a risk they will raise their children, also the isis ideology. the problem is much larger than something that can be sorted out to military action. >> it took many, many troops coming together from many nations, many groups to try to remove this footprint that isis had throughout that region. that has happened. as we see troops being drawn down, the united states drawing down, the number remaining, still unclear, is there a threat, a concern that if you let up a little, that the group could re-emerge? >> absolutely. the risk of re-emergence is very real. we always need to think back of what happened in iraq with al qaeda around a decade ago when it was defeated. there were only a few members left after the u.s. led a search campaign to target the group. however, you know, a few years later, before i

isis killed him. he was 24-years-old. >> reporter: the six-month offensive eventually wiped out an estimat combatants. but bin rabaa tells us sleeper cells still lurk, especi ialn sirte's desert. though it no longer controls any territory, the spike in violence has been sharp. in 2017, isis managed to pull off only four attacks. so far this year, it's more than a dozen. the most audacious was in may when isis gunmen stormed libya's election commission headquarters in tripoli, detonated suicide vests, and killed at least 16 vilians. so isis is in this direction, they're regrouping in the dehere in the south? >> ( translated ey at anytime an come in one or two erople and blow themselves up. we rely on she to tell us if there are any isis fighters passing through their pastures. orter: so far this year libya there have already been more than twice the number of isis attack is isis trying to regroup in order to launch attacks abroad outside of libya as well? >> ( translated ): right now they lack the abil

so isis, not just isis, but isis and al qaeda, the al qaeda that attacked the united states on 9/11 were most likely survive and fight another day and another -- and unless middle eastern states and arab and muslim states and the international communities of the united states tackle the real drivers that gave rise to isis, my fear and i hope i am wrong, george, my fear is that isis will mostly rebound in the next one or two or three years. >> you are talking about, fawaz, those areas, those ungovernable spaces like in afghanistan, yemen, syria, iraq, libya and so on, parts of saudi arabia where c radicalized ideology, different ways of looking at islam certainly are places where you point out the terror attacks of 9/11, people came from that part. >> you know, george, you just put your finger really on the pulse of three major points. the first point is that one of the lessons we have learned about isis and al qaeda, they are nourished in conflict zones. wherever there's a conflict, wherever there is a void, al qaeda and isis and other sectarian militias exist. afghanistan, pakistan, syr

, and one questioner says that some experts believe that iraq is back to a pre-isis situation in isis of the resurgence of ideology. the question is, what are the practical steps that are being taken to ensure that the concerns are taken into account, that there is more inclusion? another related question is, what would iraq like other countries, both western and middle eastern countries, do in terms of taking back their citizens who are involved with isis? i would ask for your assessment of what is the magnitude of the problem? of the isis fighters and their families who are detained in raq. speaker al-halbousi: in one of the largest provinces in iraq, the people back then, yes, everybody had civic duties and responsibilities, but we believe have to people contribute to build this iraq and then the iraqi institutions would give everybody an equal right. this has been somehow found an r to have everybody -- every component to have participants in all the state institutions, administrative, security, without being concerned or having disappointed second class citizens. there has been i

isis we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly the isis caliphate. has been decimated in another short period of time like hours you'll be hearing hours and days you'll be hearing about the caliphate it will one hundred percent defeated so is this it or are we going to see another epic final battle between the forces of good and isis no one seems to know my gut feeling having been in iraq in syria for so long seen what i've seen of isis is no not even close out in the desert there and holds hiding underground there in baghdad in damascus leaking their wounds but that's just my opinion and a whole lot of other reporters and experts for now though if we believe that the forces of good have finally won what is next in question that america's allies such as france really want a non-citizen. mrs polly france's defense minister went to the us to get answers to various questions if by chance the american military presence would be maintained what would be the consequence of its presence what would the mission be we do not have these answers yet it is on the

some peoplejust laughed i said isis was gone. i agree completely, it is the end of a phase at the start of a new one. ok, islamic caliphate is finished but it will start the next phase which is under the will start the next phase which is underthe ground. will start the next phase which is under the ground. this phase is more dangerous because to run state of 9 million people you need to take care of electricity, water, education, health and you need money. but when you get rid of this and go back to plan b which al-qaeda adopted which is terrorism, this is extremely dangerous. the last message from isis leadership to the support of followers saying that now you have to turn to terrorism. this was three days ago. it is extreme were dangerous here. the other things which i would like to say, isis ideology would not disappear because there were 9 million people under their rule, those people were educated and brainwashed so they would not go away easily. the other point is the reason isis emerged which as i believe many reasons her

isis has been defeated there. welcome to the united states and around the world, i'm george howell in atlanta. a story out of eastern syria, u.s.-backed forces declaring victory over isis. the so-called caliphate is no more after grueling combat there. they say they have fully bib rated the town of baghouz. they marked their flag over the village. cnn is covering this story from multiple locations. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is in baghouz and eastern syria. arwa damon is in istanbul, turkey. ben, starting with you, where you have seen so many of these battles play out for now, several week an on this day, you were there to report and see first hand isis losing its final grip in the region. >> reporter: that's right, george. what we've actually got inside that encampment, which we have been watching being shelled and hit for weeks now. it was an expanse of wrecked cars, at that time terred tetat dead bodies, males in this case. but this came after a night of heavy airstrikes on the edge of t

this is actually extremely beneficial for isis to come back again. and if they come back and if they start to recruit people, i think it will be extremely dangerous and what happened actually in new zealand, the storm of the mosque, this is the best gift for isis and for the radical people who are adopting their ideology. so, to be honest, i am not optimistic here. we have to work very hard in order to, on both sides, as media or as a government, in order to prepare ourself for this coming danger and to try to neutralise it by all means. so, i mean, you've both painted a very grim picture. stephanie, what are, in your views, the risks for societies in europe and north america and the rest of the world from the spread of an ideology, which is potentially going to come back even stronger in a terrorist movement? for me, the real question is what is the us policy towards is right now? trump said he was withdrawing troops and declared isis 100% defeated, which he had to walk back because it was clear that he had not consulted any of his advisers. there i

so what happens is this is all isis now on the bottom that's as of today this is isis there's none the caliphate is gone as of tonight. well what can you say mission accomplished again the strangest thing they keep beating isis destroying its last stronghold again and again and again the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory we've done a great job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly the isis caliphate has been decimated in another short period of time like hours you'll be hearing hours and days you'll be hearing about the caliphate it was one hundred percent defeated so is this it or are we going to see another epic final battle between the forces of good and isis no one seems to know my gut feeling having been in iraq in syria for so long seen what i've seen of isis is no not even close out in the desert there and holds hiding underground there in baghdad in damascus leaking their wounds but that's just my opinion and a whole lot of other reporters

it predated isis, and will continue to exist after isis. the conditions that existed because of the fight against isis ve now worsened compared to what they used to be before isis. >> reporter: isis fighters are still believed to be in the area surrounding baghouz, hiding. even the syrian fighters who on the battlefield don't like to siive through here these areas. ro bombings began months ago. the group's evolution from army to insurgency continues. for the pbs newshour, i'm jane ferguson in baghouz, eastern syria. >> woodruff: no details tove obert mueller's report have been made public. multiple news encies are reporting it does not recommend any new indictments. in a let tore the congress, the attorney general said he could provide lakers details as early as this weekend. online, we continue our coverage uabout what we know at the mueller report and what happens next. on instagram, find the latest takeaways,ollow us at "newshour", and on our web site follow key players and developments in the mueller probe through the russian timeline a

so the president can say isis is done. isis is not done. we seen that before. and bob and his ideology morphed from when he was in afghanistan and he was kicked out of jalalabad and he went to sedate and is kicked at a sedan and nobody thought al-qaeda was done. he went to afghanistan. he did an alliance with the taliban. they reinvented the network. they did 9/11. after 9/11 we swiftly responded, we kicked him out. they actually morphed again into a different organization, created alliances with entities they never had relationship before and they were able to survive because of the iraq war and other things that happen. so they are always changing according to the security environment. isis today is what al-qaeda was in 2001 when we kicked them out of afghanistan. so i know the president being the smartest person in the room and great historian understands these kind of things better than gina haspel, but the director of the cia, but i have the tendency to believe gina haspel over what our president is saying. so it's good a difficult time. this battle is har

it predated isis, and will continue to exist after isis. the conditions that existed because of the fht against isis have now worsened compared to what they used to be before isis. >> reporter: isis fighters are still believed to be in the area surrounding baghouz, hiding. even the syrian fighters who on the battlefield don't like to drive through here these areas. hsadside bombings began mo ago. the group's evolution from army to insurgency continues. for the pbs newshour, i'm jane feuson in baghouz, eastern syria. >> woodruff: we return now to our lead story. the mueller report. the long-awaited report has been delivered to the department of justice, but there are many questions that remain unanswered. to help us understand what's next, i'm joined by npr's justice correspondent carrie johnson. carrie, so we know we've just learned within the lars couple of hhat this report, this investigation has finished, and the report's been turned over to the justice department. what happens right now? aen do we find out wht's in the report? >> well,

was defeated and now, look at what isis is doing back in iraq. 0n defeated and now, look at what isis is doing back in iraq. on average there are four isis attacks every day in iraq now. it is not an easy business. unfortunately, the environment which enables isis to thrive is still there. instability, corruption, lots of societal divisions, poverty. all of this deprivation and lawlessness is precisely the environment that isis is perfect for. it is like a jan put into the perfect environment. the fear of the group we mingling is pertinent. you know the country very well. looking at the pictures in that package, the area is devastated. how does it rebuild? how does it rebuild? there is no plan. the west has never had a coherent... and i think we are. carry on. we had a few gremlins with your line. there is no plan. it is very difficult to see how things are going to rebuild. the west is not committing much money and anyway it is notjust a question of building some new buildings and putting in new infrastructure. we have a broken society to recreate and this is another thing where peop

isis fighters and boarding a philippine naval ship. to america to. date i've been doing that but i'm going. to. get. much done i said did you know what i mean. so we're. into. a new. if they didn't ask for nothing but. their love of the. us i believe be it madison that they bid. now that they will examine the. midwest states of faith that. on our side they know that they're now up to date the date is on. or unless they move. the business. so knows that spent time with isis but his friends and acquaintances don't he keeps his post hidden from them but in the. new place and we have been. doing a. lot of off. the filipino subdivision of isis calls itself the abu sayyaf group and is based around mindanao us alone and the sulu islands. its goal is to establish an independent muslim caliphate in the philippines. it's learned that they use large numbers of children in combat as human shields suicide bombers and as donors to treat wounded adult fighters. after almost twenty four hours at sea on route to visit the marines. still don't know what's waiting for

it is part of isis's doctrine to recruit within prisons. they would send their fighters into prison for small crimes for the sole purpose to recruiting, this is one propaganda tool for isis to use and potentially to bring others to the cause because we know that this is part of their doctrine and what i've understood from years after going after these individuals an seeing how sedistic they are, they think of nothing else than to further the cause, how do we know that this isn't part of larger operation and radicalize other members. heather: she didn't mary one but 3 isis fighters and recruit american using social media to use violence against americans. we have to wrap up, what is your personal opinion on hodo? >> well, my personal opinion is she should rot in syrian desert where she belongs, she should not be allowed to come back and she -- she dug her grave and she needs to be buried in it, we cannot have other people radicalized for this cause and kill further americans and so she's a terrorist. i don't even like calling her an isis bri

phenomena there's a phenomenon of isis that is a territorial entity that is no more but then the issue of the ideology and the spread of its popularity especially on social media something that we can't ignore you can't bomb an ideology out of existence the way you can the territorial strongholds that isis no longer in control do you follow me or the propaganda you've studied it you focus on it what sense do you have is the eiffel franchise despite this setback to them is the franchise still growing. the franchise is definitely still in existence there was a period of time after the loss of muscle that we saw a real decline in the a number of media offices that i saw when isis was issuing its propaganda on the daily collection that we do a georgia state university we saw a real downturn and then about a month and a half ago a bunch of new channels began to emerge a you had in the segment beforehand mr cooper was saying the telegram is being used extensively and so not only is it telegram but we're seeing other platforms other encrypted platforms that are being tested for isis distribut

this was an old isis field clinic. now the kurdish-led forces have taken it over and it's their most advanced position. the commander showed me how isis is completely surrounded. they say the final push will be over soon. the assault had been delayed while the kurdish-led forces allowed the wives and children of isis fighters to leave. 15,000 did. these tonight were the last to leave, escaping the islamic state before it's wiped out completely. kurdish commanders here tell us the remaining isis fighters are dug in in tunnels but that they should be able to root them out within two days. richard engel, nbc news, eastern syria. >>> now to an nbc news investigation. in south carolina, two people died and more than 400 were evacuated from a public housing complex in january after a carbon monoxide leak. we've learned that federal inspectors are not required to check for carbon monoxide detectors, and critics say that is costing lives. here's nbc's gabe gutierrez with more. >> reporter: when single mother kentara johnson an

we'll get an update on the weather coming up in just a moment and then how chechnya is helping former isis fighters reintegrate into society and demanding a second bret's that referendum hundreds of thousands join the people's vote march in london. again it's good to have you back well here across china we're seeing plenty of rain across much of the country right now things are going to be improving to be up here towards the north over the next few days take a look the forecast map here on sunday you can see widespread rain all the way from the coast up here across much of the central and north central areas we're on a very rainy day for you out here towards the east not looking too bad only into the teens in terms of the temperature but for show we do expect to see more rain coming as that system makes its way a little bit more towards east temptress maybe coming up to about seventeen but the rain is coming into play there hong kong a nice day if you with a temperature of about twenty three degrees or here across much of the philippines we are looking at better conditions there where we a

while we have completed the territorial defeat of isis in syria and iraq. we still have much work to do we've been clear that the campaign is not over. we will continue to support the coalition's operations in syria to ensure this enduring defeat. which of course flies in the face of what trump was saying that this is ninety eight percent ninety nine one hundred percent i says defeat also american allies france for example we had just a few days ago sending citizen diplomats to washington to ask their nato allies what next they want to know what america plans next because there's a lot of british french other troops stationed in syria as well and from what i gather they aren't all that enthusiastic about staying in syria permanently at the same time we have heard haven't we before a final victory been declared over iceland mean i suppose you would be surprised then if that changes to what some point well this goes back to what i was saying isis goes on the ground they hide the mosul they're now going back to what they began with extortion assassination thug

these boys had been kidnapped by isis and held as slaves. they're yazidis, a religious minority isis considered subhuman. u.s.-backed kurdish forces gavet them their fireal in days. 7-year-old farhat told us what d happhen isis men came to his village.e "they tookd my brother from our house in a car. our parents went in truck," he says. that was five years ago, the ndst time he saw his mom a dad. isis propaganda videos showed what happened to most yazidi women. fighters laughing about buying them as sex slaves. uein 2014, a u.s. airlift d many yazidis facing an isis slaughter. but it was too late for farhat. i asked if he was beaten. "every day, with a stick and a cable," he says. now the tides are turned. yazidi slaves freed, and isis prisoners under interrogation by u.s. special forces. isis fighters and families are now burning their documents and cell phones. we saw them melted in fire pits. they're claiming they're just civilian lester? >> an uncertain future there, richard, thank you. >>> an nbc news exclusive, we unnt to take you to w

the final isis has fallen. at the height of their power, sigh kiss controlled an area of syria and iraq roughly the size of portugal. the final battled a been centered near the banks of the euphrates river. >>> a man who survived the cyclone in mozambique says it protect everything. nothing is left there. we know 417 people died after the cyclone devastated a huge chunk of that country. an eyewitness says as many as 400 bodies are lining the banks of the road. flood waters are invisible from space. the red cross says the destruction left by that cyclone is worse than imagined and humanitarian needs will only deepen in the coming weeks. the government estimates merely a million people have been affected by that storm. >>> early this morning, that police officer was shot and killed in chicago. police say two men walked up to two off duty officers as they were walking back to their vehicle. they say there was no confrontation. there were no words exchanged. no carjacking, no robbery, just two officers and to the t

but the isis is still there in the countryside there in the desert that i've been there i've spent a lot of time and it is or province it's mountainous it's heavy there's gullies there's all sorts of areas to hide in isis a very proficient at. hiding among civilian populations and hiding in tunnels that they dig out they can stay there for months and then zealots as that it's their absolutely fanatical about their cause the say that isis has been defeated i would say an outright lie and many experts agree they're out there and you know they're like accounts it will take a long time to get rid of them but it is a defeat for them in syria they are defeat did but this battle has been won the war continues nevertheless washington is selling this as a political win the political message that big isis on klav has been destroyed and not as what trump is saying. one against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten them badly now we've won it's time to come back we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred perc

the breeding ground and ideology of isis still thrives. cnn's ben wedeman has been on the ground in syria now for the past 50 days. ben, what does this mean that the isis caliphate has been defeated in that portion of syria? >> reporter: it certainly means that it's a major setback for the ideology upon which isis was based. for a few years going back to 2014 in june, when isis took over mosul, the second largest city in iraq, there was a feeling that they were unstoppable, that they were fighting armies that were corrupt and basically incompete incompetent. i was in iraq as they were taking one major iraqi city after another while they were expanding in syria as well. so the removal of that certainly has led many to breathe a sigh of relief. however, the problem is that the fertile soil upon which isis grew and thrived is still there, and that is the autocratic regimes that spread across the middle east that their prisons are basically a breeding ground for people who are disillusioned, have been tortured, have experienced corruption whic

isis in syria and iraq have been severely diminished but there still are isis factions there's still the ideology and support of the ideology and isis remains active in the sinai peninsula and also parts of africa including west africa so the concern is that while isis has been severely diminished in syria and iraq we could see a repeat like we did with al qaida when the u.s. invaded iraq al qaeda went underground and then the reserve search resurgence years later that is a concern and isis operatives not only throughout the middle east region but in europe as well why sources in a place that is reducing its presence in syria continues to provide military support to the kurds why well the kurds have been the u.s. is number one ally in the fight against isis and have made significant strides but i mean a lot of the fight against isis has been carried out by sworn enemies of the united states actually by the. syrian army itself by the lebanese militant group hezbollah by the iranians and by the russians so you know it's a very kind of complex web in syria but i mean we could definitely

she's a journalist and author of the book the war on isis on the road to the caliphate and in that land we have meir blum she's a professor at georgia state university and author of the forthcoming book small arms children and terrorism welcome to you all and i'd like to start with you here in the studio so we have this last piece of ice or territory reclaimed but what happens now is actually finished as i feel diminished is it rebuilding what threat does i still present now i think we have to be cautious now i think it's been it's a bit and if the early to celebrate the end off. as an ideology it may have actually finished as a territorial entity but i think as an ideology is still very much alive in my opinion because i believe that if we don't tackle that all that what causes which had in the first this led to the emergence of ice and i think we are going to see it see a comeback because so far we have seen like three generations of jihadists start. from afghanistan one nine hundred seventy nine until the end of the soviet invasion there in the early one nine hundred ninety s. and th

is there anything funny about is, isis? oh, my god, oof... first of all, comedy is such a powerful weapon in the biggest war going on in the world today, which is the war of narrative. i believe that the biggest war in the world today is narrative. it isn't weapons. even if you look at is, the so—called islamic state, they're winning by pushing an ideology — or losing — but they're basically, their battle is to push an ideology of hatred. it isn't their tactical brilliance, it's their ability to recruit people. narrative is very powerful. the most powerful weapon of narrative is comedy. if you make a joke out of isis, and in my comedy, what i do is i show the power of humour, how when three isis suicide bombers blew themselves up in lebanon, killed 56 lebanese people, the next day, the lebanese were making jokes. and that's how lebanon has handled violence. we make jokes, ‘cause we don't allow the enemy to realise... but that's jokes amongst lebanese people. but when you tell these kind ofjokes... oh, no, no... ..to a western audience

they department give me the isis chart. this is all isis. now on the bottom, that's as of today, this is isis. there's none. the caliphate is gone as of tonight. isis on election day, here's isis right now. if you look. so there's isis and that's what we have right now as of last night. that's what we have right now. you guys can have the map. congratulations. [applause] greg: you can have the map. congratulations. that last isis strong mool holds gone as promise. i'm old enough to know that nothing is ever over. there was al qaeda and then isis. something worse could follow that too. that's why we need an adult in charge. now trump is far from perfect but unlike the competition acting human comes naturally and unlike the competition he's unleashed the economy, destroyed isis, put more people to work in modern history. [cheers and applause] greg: you don't have to like him. but the dems, they're like baby giraffes trying to walk. sure trump says things that piss everyone off. but he said he was going to destroy isis and he did. when you get

the territorial defeat of isis, remember, isis remains a very considerable threat in asia and africa and many parts of the globe. they have lost their territorial stro strongholds but remain significant as an insurgency. that didn't deplete the reports that trump is receiving from his base and not likely to increase it. it's steady throughout. the democrats are negative on trump an the game changing is if something changes in the economy. the economy is strong right now and don't know where that will go or if something comes out of this report by mueller or the investigations. again, those are things we simply don't know but can't anticipate going forward. again, the prospects for trump in 2020, the base is there but as we saw in the midterm elections he has lost considerable support in suburbs and lost a lot of support. the number of registered republicans have come down and we can't be certain of his success going forward. >> leslie, thank you for your time. >> thanks. >>> hundreds of people could be living what could be their worst nightmare right now. water on board a cruise ship

you can see this is syrian territory under isis a couple days ago and under isis today, there you have it. i'm curious what you think. when donald trump announced this, isis was defeated, a lot of people did not agree with that decision. he came back and said we are going to leave a small group. do you think that was the right move? >> the reason why is donald trump pulling out of troops out of syria didn't mean he was going to completely pool out of syria. the small number of troops he is leaving was a special operations contingent of advisors and mentors building up the military defense forces that were working against isis. those highly trained pockets of green berets and navy seals and delta force operators know how to operate and get much more done, and promise unconventional warfare and those unconventional warfare operations bolster the forces on the ground being led by syrians with us quietly keeping an eye on them with little to no fighting but making sure the tools and training to do what we are not seeing on those maps which is the slice of isis, good on donald trump and spe

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is a relatively unprecedented phenomenon because isis was the largest or territorial control of any terrorist organization has ever been so they are now under the situation where there be a western countries are effectively making up laws on the fly but basically as an ad hoc manner they're saying that these people have loss or a to legitimacy and loss or right this isn't just because they participated in treasonous i have a day they support a group that is blatantly advocated violence against individuals and some of them are the wiser spouses of people who are involved for example in the two thousand and fifteen paris bombing or in the two thousand and seventeen men just serving the bombing so they're viewed as criminals as a choice between whether it is more safe to leave them there and let the disperse to turkey to iraq where they can say radicalized and they get status shamus or bring them back have been face trial be released in short order and then restart their activities and western style now if specialized in russian foreign policy a long enough to know that the russians ne

making it back home so they are i mean on countries because don't forget that after all the bulk of isis fighters actually are foreigners and we have some from europe some from the former soviet republic some from arab countries almost everywhere we have at least eighty nationalities within i salute and far less so i believe that some of them will make it back home and they are going to create problems for their own countries and now in my opinion where as i said has been in fact the third italian entity of ice that has been destroyed in syria now the hunt is going to be for those actually who have survived and they are going to strike back in my opinion because as i said earlier and this you deal with the root causes of this phenomenon we're not going to see that he end of it ok bloom what we know it was just referring there to the experience in iraq and what we learned from that experience because i was defeated or back in two thousand and seventeen in iraq but the group then evolved in kind of reinvented itself. well there's two things the fact that every time one of these jihadi grou

organization so there's likely to be a lot more americans there there's going to still be a lot of isis trouble and we're seeing bomb attacks being carried out in iraq on a weekly basis and there have been isis attacks in northern syria as well so i says far the president is making are misleading. many of those who escaped the fighting in buggers have been put into a refugee camp they they they were facing new threats made shortages of food and medicine. looks. like talk i didn't listen to john i since i left seeking jihad for god because we are all muslims and we have verses about jihad because of the what about the killing slaughtering in torture. didn't and have left islamic state but disturbed of the regime it had the right approach. the conditions are definitely dire in the count the problem is nobody was expecting these kinds of numbers so it has been overwhelming and it hasn't stopped. the. sanctions threats accusations on protests the political crisis in venezuela deepens the covers all caracas has been gripped by both pro and anti-government demonstrations opposition leader and

isis control today. that is remarkable. >> a lot of it is thanks to our kurdish allies, who were treated better than we have been treating them for a long time. there is an alliance of kurds, christians actually and sunni arabs that came together as allies with the united states to fight isis and that is the result. heather: originally there was discussion of pulling our troops out but we will leave them behind to assist kurdish fighters. >> hopefully is enough. the problem is you have al qaeda type jihadist groups building an army in syria. a lot of terrorist groups including those linked to turkey that want to fill the gap and are prepared for that day and we are mostly focused on ice. when we are hyper focused on one group, the group of the day and there's another group already preparing for the day the we defeat the first one and i worry that cycle will continue. heather: leaving a vacuum an area allowing the other group to take control which we saw happened under the obama administration. let's talk

the end of isis as a territorial force. jeff. '> glor: charlie d'agata still foeastern syria for us tonight. ararlie, thank you. back here in the u.s., anti- discrimination groups say the number of white supremacists has grown in recent years, as well as their online influence. okff pegues spoke with two law enforcement veterans who say federal authorities have struggled to keep up. >> we just got nothing so we had to go find it on our own. >> reporter: two months after the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia, slice lieutenant dan stout was preparing for another rally in gainesville, florida. he asked federal law enforcement for help. o> thinking that we would get some intelligence bulletins, ytme data-- anything that could help us prepare and know who would be coming to town, what we xould expect, and there was just a void. i've referred to it before in the past as a bermuda triangle of intelligence. >> reporter: the florida event sts mostly peaceful, but it highlighted a growing concern that t

this is as close as we've ever got to isis. actually, it's as close as i've ever gotten in this conflict. it doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. a day spent avoiding snipe on the front line with soldiers stretched into night. we had no choice but to sleep outside, driving further back at that time of night was deemed even riskier than staying put. >> morning. >> reporter: camera man abdi khada ni freshened up. >> awful. >> reporter: did you sleep at all? >> no. i kept thinking someone was going to walk up and shoot us. >> reporter: really? i wasn't worried about that. it's the air strikes. rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat. there were a lot of air strikes. soon we were on the move again. we returned to that cliff overlooking baghouz just as the fighting was coming to an end. it seemed somehow fitting that a terror group that had wreaked such brutality should face a final humiliating deeat the here in a scrap heap in a no-name town. and we had seen it all to the bitter end. >> brennan: we're thankful to report that charlie and his team