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Retreat to idlib. so a lot was the rejects, the criminal elements, the jihadis. it would not have been a safe place for abu bakr al baghdadi, islamic states fought against these groups. this town barrisha may have been a play for people moving in and out of the area, it might have been possible he was trying to smuggle out of the country to turk why i to escape. the president said he was trying to reform his caliphate. its impossible to know. there is a lot of confusion how abu bakr al baghdadi ...

Terror. >> to you agree it is a game-changer in the war on terror? >> i think it is premature to put the mission accomplished sign up, and we learned it with bin laden and when we shrank the caliphate and we will learn it again here. it is easy as the saying goes to kill a terrorist, but it is harder to kill terrorism which is a deeply rooted ideology which is complex problems and to say it is a cult thing is not a winning strategy, but senator graham finally said something that i agree with and...

Saying very bad things about people, about our country, about the world. he was the heir apparent to al qaeda. terrorists who oppress and murder innocent people should never sleep soundly knowing that we will completely destroy them. these savage monsters will not escape their fate and they will not escape the final judgment of god. baghdadi has been on the run for many years, long before i took office. by my direction as commander in chief of the united states, we obliterated his caliphate 100%...

Significant part of these compartmented command and control elements of isis. so theyre going to take some time now to try and sort out whos in charge, rediscover you know their contacts with one another. it was a remarkable operation. and he should take pride in his part of it. >> absolutely. what does it do to isis going forward? was al baghdadi still controlling many of the fighters out there? >> well, most of the sources i read and listen to suggest he wasnt a day-to-day operational commande...

Whats the next chapter? because it is much easier to kill a terrorist than it is to kill an ideology. the islamic state has a hold on both peoples huge fears in the region and some people who continue to believe the caliphate will rise again who are there. that is why so many folks have said, listen, we need to continue the stability and the very fragile but real progress thats being made on the ground in northern syria because those folks are living every single day the fight against extremism....

About syria. that doesnt change simply because their leader has been taken off the battlefield. >> so much of your research has centered on what isis have brought in this region. yes, the caliphate is gone. isis lives on. i know you talked to isis fighters. you looked into what happened next as an institution. help us understand that. there is this fear, as i understand it, legitimate fear there have been prison breaks. they are back on the battlefield. how worried should national security exper...

Our allies where are the rest of the allies? why is america the one in the forefront? i know we have american leadership around the world but this is a situation that isis is not just an american problem. its a world problem. all these countries should be in there protecting these oil fields and making sure the isis fighter does not reconstitute the caliphate and move like they did before. i never want to see people beheaded on tv again and that is something all nations should come together and ...

That devil being assad of syria. and they thought he would provide protection, but that protection hasnt come. russia controls assad. will russia step in and potentially protect them? but the big question hovering over all of this is then what? what about the three and a half million syrians sitting in southern turkey? will they be pushed into those cleared areas, creating a violation of the geneva conventions of a mass population transfer in the process? none of these are addressed. but we need...

So many questions to be asked. thats part of the politics. the urgent question now, is whether or not turkey has denied the accusations of war crimes and opened up the accusations against the syrian rebels. the broader question, the u.s. troops, how they are supported in that part of syria. >> to keep the surging isis fields. that was the oxygen for the growth of that group. this could reconstitute if allowed into the oil field again. they dont have a physical caliphate they like to call it more...

Forces including kurdish cities. help turkey push all services south of the border and take control of five oil fields." how concerned should we be? >> i think we have great respect for senator rubio, but by putting sanctions on turkey got them to come to the table where it admits those discussions last week, our team was only from call with the general and the syria defense forces and they were great to the terms because it has allowed them a safe evacuation in which they were under assault. th...