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When it comes to the re-election. and the ukraine situation right now and the phone calls is really confusing to a lot of people. it appears to be both sides are in their partisan corners. i dont know if thats going to flex anything much but like decisions being made in syria and watching the abandoning of the kurds, it takes people that are supporters of the president and theyre like, what is it then because i used to think it was good at foreign policy and this is a rash decision. and i think ...

The isis fight. you talk to people. go back to 2014 when isis was on a tear. these were the first team to hand isis a battlefield defeat. and so, so many of the young women i talked to who were really at the front lines of that fight, and thats the work ive been doing the past two years, poppy. you and i have talked about for this next book is about the young women who were on the front lines of that fight really pushing for so much change in their own society while fighting isis. a force which ...

Have spoken with the commander of the u.s.-backed syrian democratic forces. what did they tell you? >> they dont want war. they would have done anything the americans had asked to stave this off. but if they are forced to protect their families, that means they can no longer like watch and care for all the families of the 60,000 women and children from isis families they had been caring for since the end of the isis fight. plus, they now have custody of more than 10,000 isis prisoners that no on...

I only care about what happens here in the united states. and we dont have enough time in the show to go into why the post world war ii order is not just us doing a favor to the world but why its been so beneficial to the united states of america, including us absorbing the industrial capacity of germany and japan, shipping lanes, everything. and to throw that out and say, i dont care if isis gets into europe, i hope its not what he meant but it totally sounded like what he said. >> well, its wh...

Mean for them. >> you know, its an excellent question, poppy. right now question marks are really all anybody has because the truth is that this was really a by, with and through, a partner force, a policy that has been a real success story. a fragile, endangered, but very real success story for the trump administration. i met one shopkeeper in raqqah who talked to me about how this was a new time for women in raqqah, that they were coming out. local security forces were the ones providing secur...

This? >> i have not. and honestly, there are folks there really trying to figure out what to do that makes the most sense for people on the ground. and really, i think they have an opportunity. there is an opportunity for the united states to push for a cessation of hostilities, to get all of these folks to the table because, really, theres the makings of a deal and u.s. officials would talk to you about that. that they really did understand. turkey security considerations could be taken into ac...

Making america safer? >> its hard to tell. you know, look, i think there are certainly decisions like whats being done with isis that isnt. i dont think the ukraine situation will necessarily make us safer or not safer. i think theres a lot of information thats going to come out there. and the democrats -- i dont want to go all into this, but they started by calling it an impeachment inquiry and did that before they even saw any evidence so its really tantsed what i want to have answers to, inqu...

Friends with. but i tell you what they were involved in. weve lost 17 american lives in this fight against isis from direct combat related action. the kurds have lost 10,000. thats more than we lost, by the way, in iraq and afghanistan over the entire fight of those wars. and this is a much smaller population. so they took those casualties for us. we lost 17. so, you know, whether or not they were involved in normandy, okay, they were involved in fighting isis on behalf of the united states of a...