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The eggland air force base in california. the taliban taking responsibility for the attacks that killed them. colonel john samohs says it was an honor to have them in the ranks of 7 special forces, part of the family will not be forgotten. the best possible care for the families of fallen warriors. the deadliest year since 2014, donald trump reiterating the need to pull us troops out of the country. >> at a certain point, russia, afghanistan, iran, iraq, turkey fighting the battle soon. we wiped...

Democratic forces which is the u.s. backed militia that actually fought the islamic state to end the caliphate and the camp is really just kind of in some places too dangerous to go into. at the end of the story we go into the camp to try to find the kids and the situation we find in there is just -- i mean, its a very complicated place to operate and its very hard for anyone to really locate people inside. so these kids are still somewhere in the camp. >> all right. the vice news special tonigh...

Together and the fate of those children. >> yeah. i mean, this story is the product of about six months of reporting and its essentially following one american fathers journey to try to find his kids who have been taken by the islamic state. his wife took the kids without his knowledge from their home in miami, florida, to the middle east before being smuggled into syria in 2015 and this story looks at his search to find them and to try to get them back and i think it really highlights a couple ...

>> does that sound like a threat? >> well, it certainly does, and its kind of typical bully approach, i guess. and somehow thats going to incentivize these countries to cooperate on what to do with these foreign fighters. actually, i think the numbers from the countries that he wants to bully the most which is, you know, france, germany, the u.k., et cetera, is fairly small. much larger number come from mid east countries. and this is a case where some quiet diplomacy to work out arrangements fo...

Destroying the caliphate? he said hes the one who ended it. im not sure troops in the field see it that way. do you think the president realizes or i mean, well, i know he doesnt think before he is saying it but do you think he cares the implications of what he is saying? like when he talked about wiping afghanistan off the map, thats -- he can easily do that. does anyone care about that? >> later park land survivor on the president and the plan he has for reducing violence and saving lives. ♪

Of these foreign fighters. >> yeah. the president today boasting that he wiped out the caliphate in record time. but secretary of state mike pompeo said yesterday there are places isis is more powerful today than they were three or four years ago. in a pentagon report released yesterday, backed that up. is this president in denial? >> well, i thought the statement when he first made it, that, you know, isis has been defeated, which is -- at the time was patently absurd. it failed to acknowledge ...

Were talking about the presidents words and behavior with tom freedman. our conversation continued what the president said about isis and american allies. there was something else that the president said today basically a threat and adding on as much attention but basically threaten or did threaten to release thousands of isis fighters into europe, into france, into germany, which is where he says they came from basically as punishment to them for not doing what he thinks they should be doing in...

Basically a threat and adding much attention but basically threatened or did threaten to release thousands of isis fighters into europe into france, into germany, which is where he says they came from basically as punishment to them for not doing what he thinks they should be doing in terms of doing more for nato and paying attention in afghanistan. do you think he also basically claimed credit for personally destroying the caliphate? he said hes the one who ended it. im not sure troops in the f...

Its a psychotic-like state. the more you press him, the more you see how disorganized and empty he is. the more he flies into a disorganized rage. so yeah, and by the way, in terms of being god, he also made several what you might call freudian slips during the interview today. he kept mixing up who he was and who the country was. he said "i have the best economy." i, not the country. "i defeated the caliphate." its not just a slip of the tongue. he really doesnt get it. he thinks of himself as ...

Themselves in the rural areas around major population centers and the fear is if americans pull out, those population centers are going to be overrun. if the afghani taliban has always been a haven for al qaeda, never backed away for this and not just al qaeda but a number of other groups, like the one behind the mumbai attack and pakistani taliban, which claimed an attempted attack in times square a couple of years ago. >> at the same time you spent time recently in syria. >> yes. >> and theres...