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White house calls turkey and says, we need more drones, turkey says, well, canada is -- you know, we are on a sanctions list and they make the cameras, so then we have to make that call and then they have to call. a lot of different things are going on. when you talk about back filling, im just curious, how long does that process take where a nato country that was in the warsaw pact gives some of their old russian equipment, weapons to ukraine, and then we need to back fill. how long does that p...

Bridgeal fighters. i think the admiral in the last segment may hit the nail on the head by saying what can help ukrainians other than those planes are more aircraft and more missiles so that ukrainians have more options than just fighter planes to keep the skies above them. >> ben, i would love to get your view on what president putin, the threats that hes making but also to what kevin was bringing up a moment ago, the back filling of war planes in poland if they give soviet arab names to the uk...

Dont suggest somehow because the new york times and "washington post" and others have now conceded that the laptop is hunter bidens, it has been verified. it was verified 18 months ago. now, there is something happening, i think that the idea that the -- there might be indictments coming is a good one. it is some of the media which ignored this story, are now not going to be ignoring it any more could they are doing back filling, yes. shannon: well another story they will not be able to ignore, ...

Setbacks in the east of syria. that was russian-backed regime forces retaking territory. so isis is losing all the territorial gains, but that does not mean isis is defeated. >> and that is a critical point. bill neely in london. and now to hans nichols, pick up where bill left off, isis is not defeated but this is a significant moment. a significant step forward in the fight against isis. >> it is significant and symbolic. now, what officials are telling us, it is not entirely clear, the city o...

Was actually commanding the armed forces. and general mattis the defense secretary h.r. mcmaster the national security adviser impressed upon him over the course of many months their view which is that it would be very dangerous for the u.s. to withdraw completely from afghanistan and tried to present the case to him gradually that adding more troops would be helpful in stabilizing the country. trump im told from reporting was angry about his options in afghanistan. he fumed about it. he was fru...

Kind of back filling that needed to be done that was inserted, .2 -- i dont know if there is a question in here or not -- this is a speech, a message almost designed to last only 24 hours because the president is going before a political rally crowd by this time tomorrow night. >> and thats exactly right. and i think -- yeah it was some clean upgoing on you could see throughout the speech the influence of his generals, general mattis, general kelly, general mcmaster. its also in that beginning p...

Afghanistan and sending american troops into harms way is not subject enough for the speech. that because of the damage done over charlottesville and the kind of back filling that needed to be done that was inserted, .2 -- i dont know if there is a question in here or not -- this is a speech, a message almost designed to last only 24 hours because the president is going before a political rally crowd by this time tomorrow night. >> and thats exactly right. and i think -- yeah it was some clean u...

Displaced. joining us now for more is nbc news pentagon correspondent hans. hans, the iraqi prime minister claims victory. is the embattle for mosul over, and if it is, what comes next for iraqi forces. >> well, it appears to be over, but the balts in mosul does not appear to be over yet and because of that there are pockets of isis that they still need to go back and do whats called back filling. so earlier this mortgage it was down to a few city blocks in western mosul. then a couple of hours ...

Days later you get the back filling and all of the caveats and, well, it wasnt 1,000, well, it was 800, well, it was 500, well, it was pence, not him and all of this backpedaling is too late and dont we need a paradigm shift in the way we talk about the trump presidency? >> thats exabilitily right. there needs to be a paradigm shift. you cannot cover trump the way you would a normal person because hes not in a normal person. ive been thinking about this, like donald trump and what -- what it is ...

these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? >> no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. >> reporter: what is a rip current? >> its a channel of...