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Introducing intuitive, one touch video calling from vonage. call now and get amazon chime at no additional cost. reporter: the battle to reclaim mosul from isis raging on. iraqi troops fighting off a fierce counter attack from the terror group in western mosul. there are reports of isis fighters also using civilians as human shields and casualties there on the rise. hundreds of opposition fighters and their families are on their way to northwestern syria. they were evacuated from the central cit...

From maggie haber man in new york. one adviser dismisses the mess and says, the only fight that matters is the one inside trumps head. that is between trumps instinct to never back down which is bumping into his fear of failure. what do you think of that? >> yeah, i think thats right, if you look at donald trumps m.o., its attack, counter attack, and never apologize, look, i do think that theres a danger that we may be misinterpreting whats happening here. its possible that there is some their t...

He is the appointed fall guy for this. the counter notion of this. its one of the few guys in uniform, high profile that came out for trump. he was not looking for a job. he had been building his own business on the outside and he was chased for a job. he wasnt asking for one. this was someone they have been solicitous of in the past. >> someone loyal to trump throughout the campaign but the other thing we have to mention is leaks are all fun and games until theyre against you. this is the same ...

Concern from both parties over the appointment of president trumps top political adviser, steve bannon, to the national security council. the former head of the far right media group will have a full seat but attendance is optional for the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the joint chiefs. i am wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." the white house today is playing defense as president trumps order banning travel to the united states from seven mostly muslim nation...

That is consistent with what you said on other matters. i want to get back to the purpose of the meeting, the foreign cyber threats. i think what admiral rogers and director clapper, you all have this very difficult thing to communicate to policy people who may not have subject matter expertise in the space. for example, director clapper, you are saying that one of the problems for the counterattacks, i think it was you, is that you may have to use an asset that is actually a presence on some ot...

>> thats a dangerous argument for tom to make, because thats inviting the russians to come in and try to influence an election which we have never had and we should not tolerate. i think that there is wide bipartisan support on that kind of statement. >> so you say we should not tolerate. the president last week announced a new round of sanctions, really targeted at some russian intelligence officials who were in this country, kicking them out of the country. is that sufficient in terms of a res...

Back in the nuclear era, we had mutually assured destruction, so one of the superpowers never struck to begin with because they knew that the pain was going to be so much in a counter attack with a nuclear explosion. so weve got to face the same kind of thing today. we cant keep going on with russia, china, iran, north korea continuing to attack and attack, invade our privacy, not only our personal privacy but the governments privacy as well. otherwise, to do so, were going to lose the ability a...

Sides of borders. >> up early is the election of speaker paul ryan. he is excited to win with the support of the president-elect, mr. trump. itll be interesting to see how many democrats look for someone other than nancy pelosi. >> harris: im kind of a nerd, i love days like this when things kick off and its all the circumstance and pomp and all that kind kind of stuff. thank you. republicans get set to take aim at obamacare, democrats planning a counter attack to save it. they are encouraging m...

Make no mistake. what youre talking about, i used the phrase cyber skirmishing. thats been going on for decades. when it takes the kinds of threat that russia has imposed lately. taking the data and using it to create mistrust and mayhem within our government, thats when it gets to the point where president obama has to say, hey, lets look at what the u.s. vulnerabilities are before i announce what im going to do and then say here is what im going to do. there will certainly be reaction between ...

Rolls out this transparent response. >> so now there is a counter attack to the counter attack, according to news sources that are saying russia is now saying theyre going to do the same thing, theyre going to deport or expel 35 u.s. diplomats that are in russia. that had to be expected. and if not, what does that tell you about the next potential step in how this back and forth will seemingly go on forever. >> i guarantee you it was expected and a topic of a great deal of discussion within the ...