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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 raqqa to mosul which is the capital for the isil in iraq and they took back sinjar and they ...

Play. it was controversial in certain quarters. how do you think what weve seen in paris and beirut and now it appears against russia fits with what your understanding has been of what "isis wants"? >> the first thing to say is isis back in march, 2015 when that article came out was doing quite well. now it is not. sinjar would be just one example. there are several others. and before its main focus was keeping territory, building a state. now what it seems to he have done is decided that its ti...

A bomb that took down the metrojet over egypt a couple of weeks ago. isis claimed responsibility. isis apparently behind the paris bombings. these are capabilities that no one apparently knew they had. how could the u.s. and the west expectations of isis be so wrong? >> i disagree that people didnt know the they had this capacity. we certainly have known. >> that they could blow up a plane? >> sure. i mean, they have gained great expertise over a period of time and have some people in isis who h...

Shoe that drops. i was here ten months ago and you didnt know it was going to happen again so soon. but suddenly, belgium now is seen in kind of a different light as a potential hot bed of terrorist activity. europe has this unsettled sense of a threat right now. i think it potentially could become a big part of the final part of this presidency to the extent hes gone all-in with this current isis strategy and drawing a line in the sand that there be no troops. >> lester holt, thanks so much. >>...

Meanwhile, donald trump has a new line about isis hes been working on stump speeches. its getting pretty rapturous applause. >> im going to bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. its true. i dont care. i dont care. theyve got to be stopped. >> according to a new poll, 20% of americans believe trump is the best candidate to suited to deal with terrorism. tied with hillary clinton and far more than any other republican. trumps rhetoric on foreign policy as with everything else tends to be extremely simpl...

>> nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the middle east." meanwhile, donald trump has a new line about isis hes been working on stump speeches. its getting pretty rapturous applause. >> im going to bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. its true. i dont care. i dont care. theyve got to be stopped. >> according to a new poll, 20% of americans believe trump is the best candidate to suited to deal with terrorism. tied with hillary clinton and...

Groups ideology. graham, your article got a lot of play. it was controversial in certain quart quarters. how do you think what weve seen in paris and beirut and now it appears against russia fits with what your understanding has been of what "isis wants"? >> the first thing to say is isis back in march, 2015 when that article came out was doing quite well. now it is not. sinjar would be just one example. there are several others. and before its main focus was keeping territory, building a state....

On the religious sect of the people in the house and would write ysatis or shia or sunni. people were uncovering booby-traps and tunnels dug through peoples living rooms. the city was totally destroyed and there are no civilians there right now. >> was there a sense of the people you talked to of a victory here. >> obviously its horrifying what has happened and the citys been brutalized. did they feel like this had struck a blow, that this meant that they were on the march and isis was in retrea...

This is the second poorest neighborhood in belgium. there have been terrorists that have come from here that have gone from madrid to paris to as far away as afghanistan. >> tell us about abdelhamid abaaoud, called the key organizer here. we dont know why he is, possibly syria? >> we think he is probably in syria at the moment. that is where he is alleged to have plotted this attack. he is a highly publicized crazy and cruel jihadist. there was a profile of him in the propaganda magazine of isis...

Their country. we keep talking about the free syrian army. its in europe heading here. id get out of there, too. who wouldnt? id get out of that hell hole. its their country. the primary people that should be fighting for that countrys liberation are the people from that country. im not being a hard guy about this. we ought to be thinking about sending them to recruiting stations to win that war. right now there is no free shared army. we are losing because we dont have an army. this is an oppor...