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The war-torn city for a look at the battle and the destruction street by street, block by block. our nick paton walsh is there on the front lines. we want to warn you some of what you may see, you may find disturbing. >> reporter: the end is near for isis. you can feel it. turn one corner in mosul told its old city, and the very final chapter of this war e mermergem. bodies still where they fell in the scorching heat. senior commanders take us in, in the calm before their final storm, to wipe is...

Five weeks ago, president trump promised to hold a press conference to detail his strategy against isis in the next two weeks. that deadline came and meant. meanwhile, iraqi forces are close in on the terror group in the city of mosul. tonight we take you deep inside the war-torn city. street by street, block by block. nick paton walsh is there on the front lines. we want to warn you, some of what you see you may find disturbing. >> reporter: the end is near for isis, you feel it. springing back...

Mccains. that is how we funded the company. today, we say we are cereal entrepreneurs, with a twist. im brian chesky. >> reporter: their scrappiness caught the attention of one of the first investors around the time the economy was crashing. >> we havent made money. paul graham said its like an investment nuclear winter. im looking for people that wont die. you are like cockroaches, you wont die. the idea spread city by city, block by block and grew auz a network. >> reporter: with the rapid exp...

Covered >> you can see the whole place is covered in smoke. this is the islamic states own drone pictures released on social media. >> shannon: joining us to talk more about this fox news military analyst jack keane. always great to have you with us. your reaction to the video you have seen war up close and personal but it seems mosul is reduces to rubble in many cases. extensive damage there. >> its classic urban warfare its the most difficult warfare you can see and if theres a hel on earth th...

Demonstrated in the state of texas is there are multiple strategies to secure the border. sometimes its wall, fencing, sometimes high technology, sometimes it is adding more border patrol agents. theres a region in the state of texas that has a beautiful national park or state park that would be a great visual where it can still be secured in that particular region, maybe where a wall may not be necessary but other strategies will be necessariment the bottom line is what we have to do is secure ...

Going to annihilate aleppo similar to what i did in chechnya in 2000. block by block, building by building, i am going to bomb it and target civilians and destroy it. that is what he and assads air force has been doing. targeting civilians to the extent that theyre doing it is a war crime. assad has been committing war crimes for a long time. they followed this, martha, on ground with iranian quds force be, hezbollah and also regime forces to systematically go into the buildings and kill whateve...

But who will that be? will it be the people who stuck it out here? who fought, block by block, to keep their city from burning, who struggle to defend their homes, keep up appearances, as all around them, their neighborhoods emptied. what will detroit look like in 20 years? or 50? thats not just a detroit question, thats an america question. question. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

Never beat us. we turn out 480,000 majority. always, and will again on tuesday. >> you have a ground game. >> old school. resources on the street. committee people in every voting division. you cover the city. 67 plus wards. they dont have anything like that, do they? >> 69 wards, cover every polling place and division. we have committee people in the 683 divisions within the city. probably without question the last democratic party organization in the country. >> last big machine. this is the p...

This is the political organizing you dont see on television. grinding out the votes ward by ward, division by division, block by block. the ground game that ing hong kong -- hillary clinton has got and donald trump doesnt. it is backed by street money that turns out the vote and wins elections look, i want to try to cover the part of the campaign you dont see in the ward hall. robert brady building. northern liberty in philadelphia. all of those ward leaders, african-american, white guys, men an...

Im sticking with it. protecting that firewall, block by block, street by street, is the last great political machine in this country. the democratic city committee of philadelphia today i sat inside the room, as u.s. congressman bob britton, the chairman or boss of the philadelphia democratic machine, held their final meeting before election. its the meet they share in accepting their mission and get the street money to get out and meet it. when they get back to their wars, they distribute their...