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Other areas. they are very adept at using the internet and online communication and also using that as a resource to recruit new members? >> yes in our defeat isis coalition also has some really good cyber tools, they dont like to talk about a but they do a lot of work online watching what they are trying to do and keeping isis away from the essential money and thats why it is important we have some control over those little oilfields. isis used to get revenue from there, now we see that revenue...

Welcome back. in syria some clashes continue between turkish and syrian kurd forces despite two-day-old cease-fire negotiated by the u.s. the clock is ticking down to a tuesday deadline for the kurds to leave their settlements in a buffer zone along turkeys border. earlier this month president trump said u.s. forces would leave the northern syria and that made way for turkish military forces to make their way in, clashing with kurds. the president has faced harsh criticism over that withdrawal, ...

Where the u.s. military, delta force commandoes, accompanied kurd forces in northern iraq just this past weekend when one u.s. soldier or this past week, when one u.s. soldier, delta force commando, was killed in that operation, and thats what theyre talking about. and to this day, there are some within the pentagon and administration that deny that that was in a combat operation, yet today in testimony before the senate armed services committee, secretary carter said that was combat. >> and i t...

Story leading the paper in the "washington post" today. is this the pentagon pushing for more boots on the ground and the white house reconsidering and about to shift policy? or is the white house there, do you think? >> well, quite frankly, everybody agrees that the current strategy is not working as well as it should, that u.s. forces and iraqi forces in particular are at a standoff, stalemate, with isis in iraq. now, for the first time, secretary carter today acknowledged that u.s. forces cou...