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Theyre saying that they hope that they can announce the full liberation of the city from isis in about two to three days, but meanwhile, some exclusive drone footage that cnn has obtained from inside raqqa shows the scale of the devastation, the destruction, but also shows some of those sdf fighters celebrating their victory and just being able to get this far. you see them in some of these images driving their vehicles around a round-about. you see a number of them piled on top of armored perso...

Like and views as terrorists. >> theres obviously a lot. its a very complex picture. but i think we have a very clear and well-defined policy. number one, we are in the stages of defeating isis and really annihilating isis. thats the direction from president trump which we are now executing on the ground. when it comes to raqqa the syrian democratic force wiz were working with and the force inside raqqa is about 70% local arabs, sunni arabs from the area. about 40% of raqqa now has already been ...

Inside raqqa. they are the foot soldiers in a global fight against isis. fueled by hope of u.s. support for a kurdish homeland nearby afterwards. donald trump? >> trump. >> reporter: he didnt vote trump here, but the white house hazlet them gather pace, whisking through three miles of raqqas outskirts in as many weeks to here. it is merely empty. the one we see further out unable to speak, although the story is in her bloodshot eyes. at least 50,000 other stories of loss and horror are now encir...

Fighters and marking potentially the last time isis can say they hold a city in syria. nick paton walsh, cnn inside the old city of raqqa, syria. >> remarkable exclusive cnn report, nick paton walsh inside raqqa. de facto capital of isis. i want to bring you an update. as we speak, senior administration official its are briefing the media about the putin/trump meeting. update, discussed the general u.s./russia reses. headline news, that the jordan r a cease-fire between regime forces and u.s.-...

Into a disadvantageous position with respect to north korea. >> ambassador max baucus. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, jim. all the best. were going to be back very soon and i want to give you an update that right now senior administration officials are briefing reporters on that very long meeting between american president trump and russian president putin went nearly two hours. an update what exactly was discussed and will bring it to you as soon as it happens. as we speak, u.s.-backed r...

The city necessarily are. how safe theyll be when they enter the city. that is a secondary thought. the u.s. policy focused entirely on kicking isis out of what is their self-declared capital of their caliphate. and they now appear, those u.s.-backed forces, to be more or less able to have encircled the entirety, having moved from the south, the battle picking up now. >> extraordinary footage. nick paton walsh live in iraq. thank you. >> amazing to see inside raqqa. an area that we talk about al...

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Lets talk health care. where are republicans today on their plan to repeal and replace obamacare? the man with the answer is joining us now, republican michael burgess of texas. hes chairman of the energy committee and he serves on the subcommittee helping to craft new gop proposal. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. technically im chairman of the subcommittee on health on energy and commerce committee. >> thank you for that correction. ill fire someone later for writing that. >> thats ...

Also a club thats making money off of his station in life, its just totally inappropriate. like a.b. said, this is -- its not just about the republicans but the public, those who support the president. how do they feel about the presidency. this is about the presidency and that has to be factored in all along. at some point president trump has to figure out the presidency is bigger than him, will outlast him. has he to be faithful to it. things like this undermine it. >> the senate investigation...

Weve only been able to see what life is like through the lens of their propaganda footage. these satellite images obtained by us show stunning detail what life is like in there as that noose from coalition forces around the city begins to tighten. here is what we saw. the final target in the war on isis, their capital, raqqa. so wretchedly isolated, held hostage in terror, the closest we get to a different space and exclusive satellite pictures taken for cnn. here, two checkpoints in the street....