isil? i think that we are building momentum against isil. reporter: senators say that s just not good enough. soon there is a paris-like attack, would you go back to the presidency and keep the same strategy? look, senator, if i had more to recommend to him to accelerate the defeat of isil in syria and iraq, i would be doing it now. reporter: carter did say the u.s. would provide apache helicopters and advisors to help iraqis retake the city of ramadi but it depends on libber rating raqqah, syria, the self-declared capital, a symbol of the power to attract followers around the world. there is no plan, no strategy to retake raqqah and i think it s pretty obvious to all that as long as they have the caliphate base, then they are
wolf, they got lucky. this couple were self-radicalized going way before the establishment of the caliphate and not just the one put out by isis or predecessor al qaeda and iraq but yeah, the geopolitical situation is a gift to isis as i ve been saying for months. the fact that they have a state in the middle east is a form of de decoration of victory against the west. when the guys in raqqah and mosul go to sleep at night, they have a smile on their faces because they know they are people inspired to carry out these attacks without any command and control coming from isis h.q. and this is sort of a saturation effect. i called it an invisible army of jihads and simply take credit for it and it redowns to the international brand of isis. peter, was this a terror marriage some are calling it, organized by isis or some other
able to orchestrate attacks such as they have successfully achieved in the last several weeks. reporter: raqqah now under heavy assault from russian missile strikes and bombings. russian president vladimir putin saying he hopes he won t have to ever use nuclear tipped weapons. moscow is already increasing the number of anti air weapon systems in western syria, making it a no fly zone for u.s. aircraft. they installed sure vase to air missiles around aleppo and worked with syrian partners and the syrian partners have radars active, which they didn t have a few weeks ago. reporter: administration official tonight tells cnn a small number of u.s. special operations forces now are out of northern syria. they went in several days ago and came out and they were there scouting locations for future
involved over 100 encrypted messages to hussain at raqqah syria and last week, this last week, isis now has developed their own encrypted app. this is a serious issue for the fbi for homeland security for law enforcement. if you can t see what the terrorists are communicating, you can t stop that threat. so this is a major development if isis has its own encrypted app right now that allows it s supporters sympathizers to communicate, that s certainly something that would be hard to penetrate by the fbi or the nsa or u.s. law enforcement. in fact, if we have a court order, we still can t see the communications. if someone in raqqah is talking to someone in new york or washington or paris or belgium, if you can t see what they are saying, you can t stop the act of terrorist and if there is no credible information of a plot in the united states, it s hard to know if you can t see what