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Foothold. he also at one point kind of threw a bone to the next administration. when he was asked, some of these foreign policy stances that weve seen from the trump team, could that be a good thing or does that put america on some collision courses here, he said he sees it as somewhere in between, acknowledging, though, that fresh perspectives on foreign policy could be a good thing for democracy, including on china. christi and victor? >> michelle kosinski there at the white house, thank you s...

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Process. i dont think any american wants that. and that shouldnt be a source of an argument. i think that part of the challenge is that it gets caught up in the carryover from election season. >> reporter: heard the president say that he feels the real vulnerability is fears partisanship. when everything comes it is suspicion is is everything is seen at corrupt it opens the door for a foreign country to grab a foothold. and he was asked some stances put out there by the trump team, is it a good ...

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The territory. it looks like theyll loose their last foothold once the agreement is put into place and once the rebel factions and the civilians are evacuated. there will be buses that will take them either to the north of aleppo or to the west of aleppo to areas held by rebel factions there. this is not a full-on surrender. they are not surrendering themselves to the syrian governments. theyll still be free in the rebel-held areas, but certainly this is a major point, a major pivotal point in s...

What we have been seeing is a lot more fire power. youre not talking about an ebb and flow on the battlefield. a sustained 24-hour campaign using very heavy weapons. at the same time, alisyn, you have tens of thousands of people trying to flee those besieged areas and the only way they can go out is to go right through the front line. we were there just two days ago and we saw people who were in a devastating state. who said that it was very dangerous for them to come up, but they had to make th...

Neighborhoods? >> reporter: its an awful situation for the civilians there in aleppo. youre absolutely right, this could be the final hours of the rebels having a foothold in aleppo. you know, even by the standards, the horrible standards, of the syrian civil war, the amount of firepower that was unleashed on aleppo the past couple of days was probably more intense than anything that weve seen in the past five years. of course, you have these civilians that were trapped there in the middle. and ...

Seen the syrian government sources say there are still pockets where the rebels hold control but it really isnt very much anymore. so it looks like it could be on the brink of the rebels losing their final foothold there in the face of devastating fire power. covering the syrian civil war for a very long time now, the amount of the fire power we saw the past couple of days in aleppo is something i havent seen in that civil war before, the amount of mortars and air strikes is something that seems...

Preoccupation to recapture palmyra. what can you tell us about whats going on there now? >> the syrian government and allies in the fight are fighting on two fronts. the u.s. backed rebels are in places like aleppo and elsewhere. youre talking about an eastern part of the country in palmyra. thats an area that isis had over the last several months gotten a foothold but ultimately lost to attorney sthe syrian go. they touted success in palmyra going back in showing the world it had recaptured thi...

>> theresa has been a confusing character since she came into office in july. she seemed less conservative and more social liberal but shes had to bend very far for the re conservative wing of the conservative party because of brexit. what her policies are going to be will be affected by britains relationship with the european union whether we have access to those free markets or the financial center of europe. none of that is really known yet. we cant really determine what theresa mays policies...