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The caliphate is gone. by the way, we are holding thousands of isis fighters right now. and youre a pass to take them. if europe doesnt take them, i will have no choice but to release them into the countries from which they came. which is germany and france and other places. because we beat them. we captured them, weve got thousands of them, and as usual, our allies say, "oh, no, we dont want them." even though they came from france and germany and other places. so we are going to tell them -- a...

Waves on several front today. mike pompeo says the u.s. relationship with china will get even more difficult if beijing uses force to crack down with drem administrators in hong kong. and its complicated with secretary pompeos answer when asked about a recent inspector generals report suggesting isis is making a comeback. that report says the terror group has some 125,000 fighters at its disposal in iraq and syria. >> earlier this year, i said isis is done and done. >> what weve always said is t...

Panel. its interesting to listen to secretary pompeo in the sent that its a candid answer and it is complicated. it is complicated. but his tone on isis, on north korea, very different from the president. everything with north korea is great. isis is gone. >> right. and the important thing to node about this inspector general report coming out from the pentagon is that it harps on and makes obvious what generals from the u.s. have been saying for months here, that isis is actually continuing to ...

Their capacity to conduct external attacks has been made much more difficult. we have taken down significant risk, not all of it, but a significant amount. >> isis lock on vast areas of iraq and syria is largely gone. often celebrated by president trump. >> and we have won against isis. we have beaten them, and we have beaten them badly. we have taken back the land. >> but the pentagon has always warned that a victory on land is not the defeat of isis ideology, which has spread to afghanistan, n...

Anti-semitic statement by the president. to suggest that the jewish americans in their preference in voting are disloyal is an old anti-semitic trope. it is disgusting. it ought to be condemned by republicans as well as democrats. and i condemn it here. >> lets talk about isis. because according to a new report from the pentagon, the terror group is staging a comeback in iraq and syria here in recent months. you sit on the house foreign affairs committee. how should the trump administration and ...

Ago. but the caliphate is gone. and their capacity conduct external attacks has been made much more difficult. weve taken down significant risk. not all of it but a significant amount. >> more powerful than they were three or four years ago. that certainly is a stark contrast from what you heard from president trump. >> we have won against isis. we have beaten them and we have beaten them badly. when i was elected president two years ago isis was all over syria and all over iraq. we have wiped o...

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. weve taken down significant risk. not all of it. but a significant amount. >> so we know that one of the areas where isis has started to resurge is in the internally displaced people camps, the syrians without a home and there is about 70,000 in this camp in northeastern syria. this inspect...

Powerful in some places than it was a few years ago. lets go to the pentagon and our correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, just months ago, president trump declared that isis was defeated. >> thats right, brianna. tonight, president trump is confronting the very cold, hard reality that under his administration, isis is far from gone. the bloody aftermath of an isis suicide bomber attack at a wedding in kabul that killed 62 and injured nearly 200. it is the latest devastating show of isis resurg...

Much more difficult. >> the news of isis making gains comes less than five months after president trump declared the terror group self-declared caliphate in syria had been 100% defeated. retire rear admiral john kirby is with us now. the aftermath as this was something the u.s. confronted, how alarmed are you by this resurgence? >> its an alarming report. its not surprising, though. because we have putt back some of our forces from the region and because we also knew that isis was never just a c...

Just fade away. they went across the river to iraq. some of them went into the countryside in syria. but theyre still there. what is surprising in this report and to people on the ground is how quickly theyve come back in tearus places, particularly in parts of eastern syria and northern and western iraq and how organized and systemic they are. theyre not just doing random attacks, going after leaders in local towns and provinces. the iraqs come in, they try to clear them out and theyre back aga...