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On isis so they dont recover. we may want a war over, declare it over, pull your troops out as president obama learned the hard way out of iraq. but the enemy gets a vote we say in the military. >> little fact checking here. who is right, president trump says we defeated them. general mattis says we didnt. >> general mattis is correct. we had them on the run. they were a large percentage of them were eliminated. we had 12,000 to 15,000 under guard. many of them already escaped. all the rest of t...

And theres an internally displaced camp at al hol with 70,000 families, women, children, of isis fighters, without supervision. theres no protocol in place to transfer. you could have a real resurgence of isis. this is a terrible set of decisions. and made without apparent consideration of the consequences. >> jack jacobs, colonel jack, when i was looking at some video recently from al hol, thousands and thousands, the isis women there who are as fervent as the men if not more so, raising the fl...

A supreme court decision to allow trump to access $2.5 billion in pentagon funds to build the border wall. good morning, colonel jack. >> good morning, jo. >> what part of the pentagons budget will lose money and how will it affect the safety of troops? >> well, these come from military line items dealing with drug enforcement. about $2.5 billion. the governments argument is that these line items are for border security anyway when youre talking about drug enforcement and drug prevention, spreen...

But as a utility mission, theres no utility for it whatsoever. the last time we did this as i recall was about 100 years ago when we sent general pershing with the army to chase poncho vio in mexico. this is a waste of time and troop time. >> colonel jack jacobs, thanks for your time. >> youre welcome. what to make of the biggest takeaways from robert muellers testimony, and why washington is in no rush to do anything about it. ton is in no rush to do anything about it this is the couple who w...

Line and trump declaring the meeting a success. back now to discuss this is former cia analyst and commentator see me terry as well as msnbc military analyst colonel jack jacobs. thanks, guys, for coming back. su, the president said earlier that he thinks he understands that kim, who appeared to soften his position on sanctions -- i mean, trump appeared to soften his position on sanctions -- are they getting closer to being on the same page? >> i dont think theyre going to be on the same page in...

Its not historically significant. we can look at it as a photo opportunity in a campaign year. and just about everything that the president does is focused on this one particular objective, and that is to get re-elected. i dont think that were going to see any -- not even minor positive results from this engagement, so you can look at this as a campaign ploy and you can actually see that in how the president comports himself. >> sue, one last question on that front, what colonel jack was talking...

Step on to north korean soil. so, this is a tremendous victory for kim jong-un to take back to his domestic audience in pyongyang. >> janis, hans, stay with me for a second. i want to bring in colonel jack jacobs, med yal of honor recipit and msnbc analyst. i want to know, did trump give up too much to kim? >> yeah, look at it this way -- we didnt get anything in return. trump personally got something. dont forget, this is a campaign year. looks like a statesman. but otherwise, the united states...

President george w. bush did not. and president obama did not. and theres a reason for that, because you are giving legitimacy to the north korean leader without getting what we needed, which is denuclearization. so, thats flat out untrue. ill just say one more thing about this timeline, the sanctions relief, and president trump saying hes not in a rush? that just plays into north koreas hand. north korea has all the incentive in the world to play this out and drag this out. and eventually, get ...

Got this photo op that he clearly seems to be quite pleased with? >> well, thats a very interesting question. i hadnt thought about it that way, but i think youre absolutely right. i think he got 90% of everything that he wanted. and in exchange, we got very little. do you remember not all that long ago, the president canceled our joint and combined military exercises that we have annually in the korean peninsula, which, by the way, are not just war games, theyre vitally important for us to test...

To only deal with trump, he wants to separate president trump from his advisers, because he thinks only president trump, with him, there is a deal to be had, right? his advisers are too tough on north korea, are demanding pesky things like roadmap, a timeline, a declaration. so, kim jong-un just wants to deal with president trump, and i think he might be right. hes about to have a deal, potentially, with president trump. >> all right, well see what happens. sue mi terry and colonel jack jacobs. ...