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Establishment of the caliphate in mosul that year brought the fight against terrorism and violent extremism in a sharper focus as well so we did have a wake up call in that period and i think it has led to huge change in the alliance not least of which was a huge change in our defense spending and a look at what we really need today to counter both of these kinds of challenges but despite the fact that you provide ukraine with what stoltenberg called strong political and practical support it mak...

Not, i really hope not. >> any conclusions on isis fighters in syria? >> we talked about that a few minutes ago, we captured thousands of isis fighters, they are captured. they are in various locations, predominantly in one, they came from europe in almost all cases and we told europe, i hope you would be able to take them back and do something, something that was discussed with various nations taking them back because the united states is doing great favor, we were able to capture, able to take...

Acknowledged that the islamic state is regaining strength in certain areas. >> there are certainly places where isis is more powerful today than they were three or four years ago, but the caliphate is gone, and their capacity to conduct external attacks has been made much more difficult. paul: seth jones is director of the transnational threats project at the center for strategic and international studies. seth, good to see you again, thanks for coming in. >> its great to be on. paul: seth, so w...

And al-qaeda remains in pretty serious numbers in syria at the moment. so these groups are not dead. they dont control much territory at this point, but they still have reasonable numbers of fighters, 14-18,000 according to the most recent pentagon inspector general report. the u.n. numbers are a little higher at 30,000 isis fighters, but those still are pretty significant. paul: what do you make of secretary pompeos argument that because the caliphate is gone -- that is the territory that they ...

Numbers of isis fighters there probably around 10,000 or so. i have talked to senior european leaders who dont even want them in their prisons even if they have enough information to convict them. i think unless the u.s. can get other third party countries to take them in, i do fear that some of them are going to be released either in syria or potentially in iraq. paul: okay. well, i want to ask specifically about iraq. because thats where the caliphate, you know, created so much mayhem in mosul...

Okay? we wiped out the caliphate 100 percent. i did it in record time. but at some point all of these other countries were isis is around, they have been decimated by the way. badly decimated. but all of these countries are going to have to fight because do we want to stay there for another 19 years? i dont think so. eric: was a legacy, you think of our involvement there and what you expect will happen? >> thats a great question. were essentially destroyed our industrial base by outsourcing manu...

Day after his secretary of state acknowledged that the islamic state is regaining strength in certain areas. >> there are certainly places where isis is more powerful today than they were three or four years ago, but the caliphate is gone, and their capacity to conduct external attacks has been made much more difficult. paul: seth jones is director of the transnational threats project at the center for strategic and international studies. seth, good to see you again, thanks for coming in. >> its...

Internally displaced persons at the camp in syria. numbers of isis fighters there probably around 10,000 or so. i have talked to senior european leaders who dont even want them in their prisons even if they have enough information to convict them. i think unless the u.s. can get other third party countries to take them in, i do fear that some of them are going to be released either in syria or potentially in iraq. paul: okay. well, i want to ask specifically about iraq. because thats where the c...

Regenerated both east and west of the euphrates river valley, and al-qaeda remains in pretty serious numbers in syria at the moment. so these groups are not dead. they dont control much territory at this point, but they still have reasonable numbers of fighters, 14-18,000 according to the most recent pentagon inspector general report. the u.n. numbers are a little higher at 30,000 isis fighters, but those still are pretty significant. paul: what do you make of secretary pompeos argument that bec...

Have to fight their battles. we wiped out the caliphate 100%. i did it in record time. all these countries have to fight them because if we want to stay another 19 years, i dont think so. >> reporter: what does it mean for peace? the us envoy to afghanistan begins the ninth round of peace talks with the taliban and still on the table. a dignified transfer service will be held at the dover air force base. we cant forget that. and two firefighters missing off the coast of florida. >> we have a bro...