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Best thing we can do is kill those who enact terror and keep an eye on these places and understand in 2019 it is not the result of the american people remedying this problem for other countries, we have to make sure it doesnt find its way here. rob: the president make the point about other countries getting involved and working on these problems. look at how much progress has been made in the last four years, the territory isis controls, a nice little swath, they had a lot of territory and lost ...

U.s.-backed fighters and their american advisors in syria. >> no, im not worried, we deal with the russians in a collaborative way and well sort it out. >> the u.s. and russia are barred by law from cooperating together. congress passed a law after russias invasion of ukraine in 2014. that didnt stop american and russian generals from meeting face-to-face in recent days, on the ground, to defuse the escalating situation. >> shepard: what about the fight against isis? >> all eyes are on the kurdi...

He joins us now, first the report of the possibility that he could be dead, what we think of reports so far? >> i take anything the russians say with a huge grain of salt, it still has to be confirmed. if hes dead, i do think this will have an effect on the battlefield. it could precipitate the end of isis as a state as its been calling itself, its capital is surrounded and u.s. backed forces are moving into the neighborhoods as we speak. most hole in iraq, the second city that isis controls has...

He joins us now, first the report of the possibility that he could be dead, what we think of reports so far? >> i take anything the russians say with a huge grain of salt, it still has to be confirmed. if hes dead, i do think this will have an effect on the battlefield. it could precipitate the end of isis as a state as its been calling itself, its capital is surrounded and u.s. backed forces are moving into the neighborhoods as we speak. most hole in iraq, the second city that isis controls has...

Report of the possibility that he could be dead, what we think of reports so far? >> i take anything the russians say with a huge grain of salt, it still has to be confirmed. if hes dead, i do think this will have an effect on the battlefield. it could precipitate the end of isis as a state as its been calling itself, its capital is surrounded and u.s. backed forces are moving into the neighborhoods as we speak. most hole in iraq, the second city that isis controls has virtually fallen. lets see...

Effort being made to try to get more civilians away from the front lines in mosul? >> well, wolf, thats really the crux of the problem. theres really nothing that can be done given as you saw in that report there the fact that isis does not allow civilians to leave. and this means that the iraqi security forces, despite the fact that they have been trying to tell si vil yacivilians to s from areas that the fighters are gathering in, thats impossible because the fighters are using civilian homes ...

The area that sis controls, but also other not just targeting the iraqi security forces but deliberately going after gatherings of civilians and, wolf, were only really beginning to right now understand the depth of the trauma that the population of mosul, especially its children, have been going through. >> and even if they do eventually liberate mosul, the eastern part of the city, i take it, pretty much liberated, the western part under contention, this could take some time, right? >> reporte...

Came from. >> all of you are very familiar with the territory and controls. if you were to say, hey, from where do you think a threat might come from territory that isis controls, you would probably be able to name a few cities, i would think. and so it was nothing that you would not know from open source reporting in terms of the source of concern. and it had all to do with operations that are already ongoing, had been made public for months. >> that classified information is kebl is connected ...

Referring things to the defense department. sean spicer isnt the president of the united states. these are obviously two unique missions, but it is a little odd. someo i would agree. i thought it was strange. >> me, too. the bomb was dropped, elise labott, very close to the pakistani border. we havent received any information from the government of afghanistan or pakistan. everyone is waiting for bomb damage assessment reports to see if there was collateral damage in the tunnels that isis contro...

>> even though the territory that isis controls and westernmost will continues to shrink it, militants are putting up fierce resistance. desperate to hold onto their stronghold in iraq. this weekend, isis and apply multiple vehicles packed with multiple explosives targeting the iraqi army. but they sell the car bombs were destroyed before they reached any government troops. this wave of resistance comes as iraqi forces backed by u.s. airstrikes and troops on the ground were closing in on a key g...