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If you take their propaganda, religious fundamental at face goal, they would be remised to provoke that response. one reason isis managed to hang on to so much terrain is you look where they have been booted out in iraq and syria and lets take northern syria. most areas are kurdish villages. sunni and kurds not losing terrain is the sunni triable heartland of eastern syria. the same thing applies, by the way, in iraq. they were kicked out of the province. this is what i call the briar patch for ...

The public domain as well. >> is there any chance -- i always feel like sometimes you think critique things that happen in the media. that is just not how it works right? so whenever im talking about congress, there is part mef that thinks i might be getting this wrong because i havent served time. >> right. >> but i guess one of the questions i have is whether or not this is all genuinely happening or if some of this is stagecraft in order to produce, for example, a ryan speakership which is do...

Quagmire and focus on attacking isis in the east. specifically, hopefully being able to reinforce the kurds. but as far as the western fight is over, its game over. >> in the presidents interview with steve kroft, he said, its putin loose, that hell get caught in a quagmire like afghanistan. >> well, there may be some truth to that. remember, if we look at history, eric, the russian people support wars in the near abroad, as they call it. they fully support the taking of the crimea, the fight in...

The moment that will be a problem for donald trump is when he says something like this that alienates the republican base. but so far, whatever you think of his comments attacking illegal immigrants, undocumented workers, attacking an establishment figure like john mccain attacking republicans in washington d.c. these things are not alienating the base. these things are attracting the base and the angrier that republican establishment figures and the media get at donald trump, the more you are t...

Were working with the ypg militias a kurdish militia. we provided close air support for them. in the first six months of 2015 over 1,000 air strikes were conducted in northern syria. more than half in or around the city of kobani the one that isis laid siege to. it was a months long campaign. eventually they were flushed out. 900-plus of those air strikes were essentially close air support for the ypg. we can boot them out of northern syria where the kurds have a predominant population presence....

>> you always know when a politician is in deep trouble when they turn to a passive voice. jonathan cape hart who never speaks in that voice and opinion writer for "washington post" april ryan and american networks and speech writer for joe biden. i think hes in the briar patch. hes walked into a situation either way he goes his brother has said no matter what the information was i would have gone into that war, still glad i did it. he said i dont know what we would have done if we havent didnt ...

Climate change wasnt real. that blew my mind. first prize, jim. you brought science to life, man. [ laughter ] so cool. senator tom cotton got 47 other senators to sign an open letter he wrote to iran. and i guess the most surprising thing is that a guy named tom cotton is a u.s. senator and not a rabbit from an old racist disney cartoon. oh, please, rabbit, dont show old tom cotton in the briar patch. now, in tom cottons defense, he was just trying to repair americas strained relationship in is...

Climate change wasnt real. that blew my mind. first prize, jim. you brought science to life, man. [ laughter ] so cool. senator tom cotton got 47 other senators to sign an open letter he wrote to iran. and i guess the most surprising thing is that a guy named tom cotton is a u.s. senator and not a rabbit from an old racist disney cartoon. oh, please, rabbit, dont show old tom cotton in the briar patch. now, in tom cottons defense, he was just trying to repair americas strained relationship in is...

That. >> by the way, if boehner was interested in hearing his members we would have a benghazi special committee. yes the democrats want a shutdown. please dont throw him in the briar patch. who -- what you are saying is the optics that harry reid is doing will contribute to the ideas that both parties blew this up. >> what about the op -- optics? they could be ugly and risky for harry reid. he is not convening until a few hours before the government shutdown at 2:00 p.m. the president is playin...

Mej string for the exchanges. now you have this prohibiting members of congress from being exempt from obama care with their staffs. thats firing people up. >> you have insurance companies complaining about the exchanges and in states like -- in blue states like connecticut and so forth, so, yeah, theres a lot going on, but what i read in these remarks today was that the president seems to be welcoming a fight over de-funding, linking the de-funding of obama care to the debt ceiling, and if your...