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>> i share the reservations and concerns of senator graham and my very good friend general jack keane. its very important we regroup as quickly as we can to keep the pressure on the islamic state which already had some 20 to 30,000 forces in the greater iraq and the syria area that had not been accounted for. a big achievement to defeat the islamic state and take away their caliphate but now our partners who did that hard fighting on the ground who lost nearly 11,000 lives as we advise and assis...

To us and our allies. instead they are about to fall into iranian hands and the proceeds funneled straight to tehran could be used to fund further operations against united states and israel." their number one concern isnt the oil, its terrorists. they say president trump is correct in saying the isis caliphate has been destroyed, the remaining thousands of isis fighters still in syria. its only a matter of time until they regenerate and seek to again establish a caliphate. president trump did c...

Theyre coming here to iraq to fight islamic state, which, again, that jihadi former empire that donald trump so proudly boasted not so long ago that he had entirely defeated. well, that mission isnt over. theyre here fighting islamic state. there are something like 60,000, 70,000 islamic state fighters and their families in prisons in syria. if theyre released through all this chaos, they could reformulate that so-called caliphate, and then that mission would spill back over the line from iraq i...

Thats a big worry. >> how immediate do you see the threat posed by these isis fighters and supporters? >> northeastern syria is a place with a crime syndicate. its a pretty big problem. if cops go away, then they start to come back. it may not be the next day, but they start to take liberties, return to their old stomping grounds, taking over villages, doing things to put them back in control. we see bits of this already. attacks are up. attacks against prisons particularly but also against vill...

Mald malcolm, what is it you fear were looking at as a result of this policy and pullout? >> what i fear is that we are looking at the salvation of the islamic state. you have to understand that the islamic state was sort of like a ball of mercury. even though the caliphate had been quashed by the kurds, many of these forces had moved to other places -- yemen, somalia. they are very, very well entrenched in north africa and in afghanistan. but as the caliphate itself was crushed and those forces...

Fight islamic state, which, again, that jihadi former empire that donald trump so proudly boasted not so long ago that he had entirely defeated. well, that mission isnt over. theyre here fighting islamic state. there are something like 60,000, 70,000 islamic state fighters and their families in prisons in syria. if theyre released through all this chaos, they could reformulate that so-called caliphate, and then that mission would spill back over the line from iraq into syria, and we could once a...

Pulitzer prize winning author of "black flag, the rise of isis." jobi, what do you expect well see when the deadline passes hours from now? >> its hard to say. what were seeing so far is alarming. the images yesterday of vehicles pelted by kurdish residents as the u.s. troops are leaving, pretty horrific sight for us visually. the biggest concern is what happens with the islamic state which is not going away. the caliphate may be gone but the organization is still quite powerful. the pentagon es...

Women to destroy the isis caliphate who we have in the blink of an eye abandoned to be slaughtered by turkey. thats whats going on here. our credibility is shot. our standing in the world with our partners is shot. isis is going to reform and be reemboldened. were not going to have troops on the ground to deal with it. oh, by the way, we said we were going to move our troops from northern syria to iraq and iraq comes out and says theyre not welcome here either. we cant move our soldiers to iraq....

They defeated the caliphate. they locked up tens of thousands of isis supporters and made this bond with the kurdish people. it was the best ally they had in the entire middle east. russia hated this. russia did not like that the united states had such a powerful presence here, was never a large presence. these were special, elite u.s. troops in very small numbers who were working with the curds against isis. russia hated it. turkey hated it. the syrian government hated it. with the u.s. presenc...

Policy and this pullout? >> well, what i fear is that we are looking at the salvation of the islamic state. you have to understand that the islamic state was like a ball of mercury. even though the caliphate had been quashed by the kurds, many of these forces had moved to other places, yemen, somalia. they are very, very well entrenched in northern africa and afghanistan. but as the caliphate itself was crushed and those forces were pushed to the south, the united states and its allies managed t...