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"the story" starts now. >> john and gillian, happy new year. im trace gallagher in for martha maccallum. a bomb shell update to a story weve been following closely ever since this testimony last month. >> you understand that this call for intyfada is to commit gen se against israel. >> that type of hateful speech is abhorrent. >> do you believe that type of speech is contrary to harvards code of conduct or is it allowed at harvard. >> its at odds -- >> can you not say its against the -...

Give up until they find them. we have the same history. theyre very good at it. >> trace: you talk about in gaza israel idf forces going in looking for more hamas leaders. at the very same time,er with hearing records that the israeli war cabinet is looking for ways to lower the fighting level. maybe trying to get the gaza fighting down to a low level in the coming weeks. do you think theyre looking for a way to end this conflict? >> well, if they end this conflict soon, theyre going to hand a s...

Weve seen over the course of the last nine months, the russian military has not been able to address its fundamental challenges. look, in order for russia to present a new type of russian military into the fight, its going to be a generational change. i mean, theyre going to have to create noncommissioned officers, theyre going to have to get new kits, get more creativity down to the fighting level. this is a hierarchical military that only exists in a very structured environment, very high boun...

Against president trump. the u.s. house of representatives has voted to recognize the mass killings off on the unions by autumn onto a century ago as genocide the house also passed a bill calling for sanctions on tekkie force an invasion of northern syria turkey condemned to both votes which passed on turkeys international day. a u.n. sponsored committee charged with drawing up a new constitution for syria has started its work in geneva but the most daunting task facing them is the reconstructio...

I think there are some elements here to make progress. the additional troops to be sure, the relaxed rules of engagement, bringing over helicopters and strike aircraft to be more effective against the taliban. also permitting our advisors to be right down at the fighting level will clearly make a difference. all that said, all of that by itself will not be decisive in having a favorable outcome unless we do one other thing and the one other thing is we have to shut down the afghan-taliban sanctu...

Several thousand more troops to afghanistan. the first forces could arrive in the next few weeks, lets discuss these new plans with . as you well know, to read some of the headlines the day after the speech, there were a lot of observers who say that with the president announced it isnt any big difference from what the obama administration was doing except perhaps involving more troops. your response? >> i think its a bold, thoughtful strategy and revises the current policies that were executing...

Im not happy about it. i will tell you. but i would leave the troops there begrudgingly. >> you have to stay in afghanistan for a while for the fact you are right next to pakistan which has nuke already weapons. we have to protect that. >> martha: when you look at that and heres the tweet that he said back in 2013. we should leave afghanistan immediately no. more wasted lives. if we have to go back in, we go in hard and quick. rebuild the u.s. first. there is a lot in there, obviously. and you c...

Here. >> about 8400 troops in afghanistan. how many which you send and what would you do? >> thats what the on scene commander is asked. but the fighting level that will be helpful. but is it decisive? i think not myself and looking at it. one of the things that is not obvious to make it down to these numbers and 8400, we pulled out all the enablers the afghan army had. anti-ied intelligence, apache tears, communications, all the things that create the balance forest. they were left with just th...