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Rebels and government. And assad will control the four major cities. Alep aleppo and others. But he doesnt control the whole country. He says he wants it back. Certainly in the days ahead, we can expect many more. Hours of fighting. And an increasing death toll, sadly. Im joined now by bob corker of tennessee. Senator corker, if you had to give advice on an intimate basis with the colonel president , or the incoming president , what would you tell him to do to try to stop this horror . Well, loo...

Presidents thinking about. youve been implying that isis is a part of the afghanistan equation. what i want to ask you about, as the president looks in afghanistan, as the team presents him option, are those actions primarily about whatever isis component is in afghanistan or the larger more pha lignan issue in afghanistan which has always been the taliban stphp >> as you know, multiple missions going on to confront those multiple things. the u.s. currently has about 8,400 forces in afghanistan ...

You have been implying that isis is a part of the afghanistan equation and what i want to ask you about is as the president looks in afghanistan, as the team presents him options, are those options primarily about whatever isis component is in afghanistan or the larger, more malignant issue in afghanistan which has always been the taliban? >> right. as you know, there are multiple missions going on to confront those multiple things. the u.s. currently has about 8400 forces in afghanistan doing a...

It is important what the president is thinking about. youve been implying that isis is a part of the afghanistan equation. what i want to ask you about is, as the president looks in afghanistan, as the team presents him options, are those actions primarily about whatever isis component is in afghanistan, or the larger more malignant issue in afghanistan which has always been the taliban? >> right. there is, as you though, multiple missions going on to confront those multiple things. the u.s. cur...

So here is a man -- you can understand why president trump picked him because they are on the same page when it comes to these issues. is that the way you hear it? >> absolutely, bill. i cant emphasize that enough. in my own district weve seen a rash of ms-13 brutal killings. again, its all tied together. it is border security. >> bill: ms-13 comes from central america, right? >> right. it comes across the border. a separate issue. secretary kelly is heavily involved in that, also. his departmen...

Transition away from assad after years and years and years, but at this point, as i mentioned, chris, i mean, russia controls what is going to happen in that area. >> i agree. >> they took control about nine months ago. so thats -- the next president -- >> lets take a look at the next president. >> the next president is not -- hes not sullied by the lack of decisions that have been made, and now hes in a place where he can really focus, unfortunately, on the isis component only and not really, o...

Kurds? or do we do something in coordination with russia? the real whats left is the isis component. we unfortunately led these rebels on. we told them what we were going to do. we cheered them on. we held their coats. and this is what is left. >> what would you have done in? >> it was what was done with secretary clinton. that was to attempt to really give the moderate rebels, when there was a moderate rebel group, what they needed to push back. when the kept weapons were used, the free syrian ...

Governor, im going to begin with you, sir. do you think the fact the debate topic changed from mostly economy to an isis component. did that hurt or help hillary clinton? >> hillary looked pretty good last night. i saw the whole debate. i thought she was in command for the entire course of the debate, although i think the debate looks so much better on our side than it does on the republicans where they say anything that comes in their head. with the exception of lindsay graham none of them know...

Exhibit of caesar who was documenting this, cutting peoples genitals off. this has been going on for a long time. its almost as if, not you, but people are beginning to wake up to whats occurred, and as far as advice goes, i mean, again, russia is going to determine the outcome in the western part. so the real decision is on the eastern part where isis is, and are we, in fact, going to try to team up with the turks? are we going to team up with the arabs who are in conjunction with the kurds, or...

>> they took control about nine months ago. so thats -- the next president -- >> lets take a look at the next president. >> the next president is not -- hes not sullied by the lack of decisions that have been made, and now hes in a place where he can really focus, unfortunately, on the isis component only and not really, other than negotiations, whats happening in the west. >> hes advocated a stronger role from vladimir putin in isis and syria. >> if putin wants to go after isis, i am all for it...