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To do many of them, but rather appealing to bloody-minded people that would like to kill in spectacular ways. >> we were talking about before this segment started about this battle. and i was shocked to hear how you guys were describing it the what does it is a that the warfare became so terrible in this particular battle, this particular moment and it took so long to break isis hold on the city and what does it mean going forward to how the war on terror is going to evolve? >> so the bat of mos...

9/11. suddenly thin sur gent group who had taken smaller cities, fallujah, ra maddie, took the second largest city in iraq in a middle-income city. everyone knew that mosul would have to fall eventually and they knew if it fell it would spell the end of the caliphate at least in iraq, and if not isis, at least their territory. >> there is this desire, i think, among the american people historically and now to somehow declare victory. >> yeah. >> what does victory look like. >> donald trump has d...

Isis, rise and fall, including how they recruit and if the terror group has really been defeat. also with us is the contributing writer at the "new york times" magazine and national geographic, james verini. they will have to die now, m mosul. he writes this. in mow stull was obvious they would make thane their grand last stand smaller, fights would follow, but this would be the showstopper if the would be not just the biggest and most devastating battle of this war but the biggest battle in a s...

Their hostility toward the west. whenever they saw our cameras, the women and some of the children would raise a single finger in the air just like they were taught to do. it represents the one true god who could never be defeated. is it over? isis finished. >> translator: no, next time it will be in your lands. >> thats just incredible reporting, richard. james, i want to bring you in on the conversation to talk specifically about mosul and the fighting there and why that may have helped to tur...

New order in that area. was the best recruiting tool. has that proven to be true or has recruiting slowed down since the caliphates been blown to pieces? >> a different kind of recruiting. there were people who were attracted to isis because of its success, because it had a physical state, because it was able to show that it had territory, it had the city of mosul, and people wanted to join in and join what seems like a successful project. the state was take ineway, so that narrative for isis ha...

To investigate his chief rival whos up 14 points now in most polls in the united states. >> we have nbc news chief person to counter-richard engel with us here on set. it was almost three years ago when he had this report about the coalition assault on the iraqi city of mosul. >> in one sense i think it was politically timed. i think the mosul campaign, there was an objective to get in done while president obama is still in office. the rise of isis in rack and syria, the birth of the so-called c...

Bombed. we were there walking around and the city was exploding around us. there were bodies on the street. there was very, very intense street to street fighting as people were trying to leave the city, as isis members were holding out with suicide vests. but eventually isis did lose mosul, but as i was saying earlier, a lot of isis members were just herded up and put into these refugee camps that are kind of loosely guarded and theyre just waiting for an opportunity for something else. >> the ...