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Leadersh leadership, we will dismantle their networks and supply lines and we will ultimately destroy them, even as we are in the process of doing that, we want to make sure that we dont lose our own values and our own principles. >> president obama will meet with french president francois hollande in washington on tuesday. meanwhile, france is stepping up pressure on isis sending its aircraft carrier "the charles dugaulle." brussels is on high alert as a paris style attack may be imminent there...

Barrels, this market fuels the world. so long as -- at that time oil prices were extremely high, close to $100 a barrel. and there is a market for it. there are middlemen who are willing to buy oil from anywhere. >> and saddam hussein used that same market all those years ago. i remember being in iraq and seeing the convoys of trucks that were going from the country on a most magnificent highway in the country into black market areas where they could sell this stuff. >> thats right. highway 8. y...

The challenges we facing now is a global challenge, a holistic one. so its nation must feel concerned, deeply concerned, what happened to mali. >> reporter: one of the frightening aspects of this, harry, is that the attack here has been claimed by a local affiliate of al qaeda. we talked about yesterday that just raising the specter of isis and al qaeda competing to carry out the worst possible massacre. one other point, harry. the american who was killed in there, there are tributes pouring in ...

Them are terrorists or that the vetting process isnt appropriate, but because theyre muslims. thats part of it, too. >> i think correcting donald trump cant even be seen as reasonable as this point. he has used the most inflammatory rhetoric in the past week. thats dangerous. thats not the environment in which to handle. i think where we need to hear from republicans in terms of policy, just as we have to hear from the administration, is how do you handle this kind of three-way battle in syria w...

About the refugee hysteria sweeping the u.s. as domestic politics turns ugly. we begin with two reports tonight. to the cairo for the russian announcement that it was isis that is brought down their airliner and the news from germany today. claudio, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, chris. the manhunt for the most wanted man. europe continues, of course, salah abdeslam was born and raised here in belgium. belgium and brussels which was more known as the home base of international organiza...

If you talk to the ysatiss they say in no way a victory. they have no money to rebuild the city from the ground up and say whats going to stop isis from attacking in a few weeks and a few months and committing another massacre like happened last august in which hundreds of ysatis men, women and children were killed when they were taken into custody. children were taken as child soldiers and i spoke to some of the survivors this week who say they are terrified it will happen again. >> sophia jone...

Contingent that was successful in essentially destroying the group? >> i think the ground troops, the president is right, the ground troops have to be the local ground troops. we can have a limited number, maybe as we have 3500 in iraq and we just put 50 into syria. basically to advise and assist. if you look at the operation last week where the peshmerga cut off route 47 which is the main route from the raqqaing to mosul which is the capital for the isil in iraq and they took back sinjar and th...

Assuming we wanted to, not saying we do. france cant do that. >> thats not on the table or part of the political discussion when people argue about the range of options. its not a discussed option. >> given the size of our military, noing. > okay. cyril vannyer, thank you very much. coming up, more from paris plus an analysis of the rhetoric versus the reality of combating isis and latyer on the american presidential politics on a litmus test for syrians. >> which is why i said that look, at a...

>> thats absolutely right, chris, because the competition for the most bellicose rhetoric is the only competition. as pointed out, this is a terrific issue if youre running for president. its a terrible issue if you are president. because if youre running for president and you know there werent good solutions and you know the current president is pretty much doing the only things that can be done, you can yell about doing anything. full in the knowledge that youre not going to do it once you get...

And i thought wrote an interesting piece about some of the fear expressed about the possibility of infiltration of isis by refugees. here in paris you can feel the moment in politics. you can really feel it, this sense they might strike anywhere and we have to take measures. we saw that play out in the u.s. are you surprised by the tenor of american politics in the last 48 hours? >> absolutely not. i spent all weekend lighting candles and saying that it was the democratic debate on saturday nigh...