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Whole hasnt learned from baghdadis mistakes. baghdadi actually wasnt all that clever of a leader as far as militant leaders go. he always wanted to attack as much as possible. he was completely indiscriminate about which targets were permissible to strike. he didnt vet out, he didnt screen out socio paths from the group. and so, this group was very sort of aimless in its violence. and what it ended up doing is eliciting the largest counterterrorism coalition ever assembled. so, one of the very f...

Where most of us members are in prison. and so, if theyre selecting somebody to maintain essentially the same legacy as baghdadi, then i dont see the islamic state ever realizing its goals of achieving a caliphate. >> well, that is certainly good news. and since you talked about that, i want to bring up the fact that you write about the fact that many of these militant groups, the behavior depends on the strategic intelligence of the leaders. so what i think im hearing you saying is that strateg...

Social scientific methods, what is it that the leaders of militant groups do to increase the odds of political success? and what i found essentially -- and this was well before baghdadi was killed or before the caliphate imploded -- is that islamic state wasnt being led correctly, particularly in its use of violence. what smart timilitant leaders d is the restraining effect on low-level member. they tell low-level members not to commit too much violence -- not to operate in certain country, not ...

Carried the burden of the isis fight in syria when we as americans were already engaged in other wars and didnt have the will to send more troops in, the kurds have lost over 11,000 people. so this is not simply oh, we paid them money and a mercenary army. these are people who have given their lives to aid us in the fight against isis and then we abandon them. >> my issue here with what the president did is not that it didnt allow for a kurdistan to arise and we knew that was not going to happen...

Prepared. arthel: killing baghdadi was no doubt a big deal, a major accomplishment, however, it was my understanding that he was already less effective and contained. so was killing him like striking the hornets nest? >> i dont think i would quite use that analogy. in fact, killing him was good as far as being symbolic that the geographical territorial owning caliphate had already been defeated. killing al baghdadi was really symbolic of that. for the last couple of years the isis leaders have b...

Isis is still a dangerous and lethal terrorist network. isis still has global ambitions. now, they lack some of the capabilities they had before. in fact, many of the capabilities they had before, but theyre still a dangerous terrorist network. so we should take that threat seriously. arthel: if you were to surmise and based on your expertise, what or who is the likely target? >> what they would like is to target im sure the west and america. but their capabilities are more likely going to be re...

I mean, even when we got al-baghdadi, "the washington post" had a story that he was like a great religious cleric. where did that come from? the other thing. if obama would have done it -- because this guy built isis. the caliphate. it was the size physically the state of ohio. a lot of land. seven million people. they were the ones with the orange jumpsuits. i called a lot of the parents after we did this and i talked to them and how can you be happy? they were so thrilled that we got this anim...

The ukrainian government and i think he will be very forceful in terms of laying out what he saw as being an illegitimate parallel process. one outside of his control. outside of his liking and didnt make him feel comfortable. whether or not that fuels you know further evidence toward impeachment. im not sure. but john will be clear about what his role was, what he didnt like and what he was seeing. >> before i let you go, quickly i want to get your take on another headline in the "washington po...

During the president and trump administrations until december of last year. hes now an msnbc senior foreign affairs analyst. im curious your reaction to that. do you think hes doubled down to what he used that abu bakr al baghdadi is dying like a whimpering dog. >> i think its come out that nobody knows such information so the presidents making that up. if you want to say hes trying to delegitimize baghdadi and the fact that his claim to lead this caliphate is totally false, but obviously, presi...

During my administration, i/we all together destroyed the caliphate 100%. remember? i got it down to 97%. and i said, all right, lets go home. and then those people start saying 100%. you know, before me, they didnt care. but now they say, what about 100%? >> just because you take out one leader, even one as significant as al baghdadi, the mission of isis persists. less than a week after donald trump announced that u.s. forces killed the terrorist leader in a raid in syria, the terror group call...