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From the arc detriompe. there are reports of a second police officer. we are not able to confirm. the french authorities pull back saying that in fact two police officers have died. because of the subjects that came up at the white house today, we have wanted to talk to michael ohanlon. his concentrations, u.s. defense strategy, military force, national security and among the books hes written, crisis on the korean peninsula. how to deal with a nuclear north korea. thats where i would like to be...

Squeeze north korea economically. thats far and away our best hope. but it wont be easy there either. >> in 13 on 15 seconds, what is your greatest concern for europe as weve been concentrating on the streets of paris? >> the end of isis in syria and iraq will make some of the jihadist whos went there from europe try to go hole. and i think the french doing a good job dealing with that on balance. i am impress that had theyve limited the terrorist strikes in nice last summer. but that will only ...

Press secretary, nobody likes quibbling. and when the press secretary quibbles, it makes almost everything else he says, whether it has something to do with the use of the military issuing of power, or indeed, everything else, it makes it extremely difficult then for the real information to get delivered to the press. so quibbling is no good, and you got to know where your assets are, and yes, its troubling. >> michael, presumably we did know where our assets were. given that, do you think this ...

You dont have to displace assad, but try to limit his reach to the areas of the country where the sunnis who have been killed by him, mostly by conventional weapons, the last six years, where they lived, where they deserve a better life. so even if we cant unseat assad, we can try to work on protecting them. its actually giving some seriousness to this whole idea of safe zones and thinking them through. >> all right. michael ohanlon, michael crowley, ayman mohyeldin, thank you for joining us. ...

East jerusalem or the west bank that take away the possibility of a future palestinian state because they take away the ability for one land area to be held together contiguously. so the u.n. resolution could have been more specific to say we understand some settlements will continue within certain areas where its relatively harmless. you could imagine trades where the palestinians could be compensated for certain settlement zones, what were really worried about is where you rear breaking new gr...

Oren lieberman, thank you very much for joining us. i wanted to bring in david andellman and michael ohanlon, a senior fellow at the brookings institution and the author of "bending history, barack obamas foreign policy." let me start with you, michael. netanyahu and obama famously have been at odds. weve all seen this for the past eight years and now the israeli prime minister has been saying how much he is looking forward to working with donald trump. so how exactly do we expect that things ...

I want to understand why this gang of terrorists seems to be operating like a real military. terrific guests. retired u.s. lieutenant general mark hertling once commanded all of northern iraq. he worked extensively with the kurds during the surge. he served three years in iraq in all and is a cnn military analyst. and michael ohanlon is one of the best military analysts in the business. hes the co-director of the center for 21st century security at brookings. mark, let me begin by asking you, wh...

Differently. theyre hiding better among the people. theyre using the so-called human shields. theyre using different tactics. the use of massive amounts of suicide bombs in cars, the ability to conduct intelligence against their enemies. in this case, the various factors of the iraqi security forces. their ability to conduct reconnaissance in force to get a lot of information on an army theyre countering, which frankly is doing things the same in many manners. theyre fighting hard, but theyre do...

Theyre fighting hard, but theyre doing things the same way. >> michael, what struck you about this recent phase of isis military strategy? >> hi, fareed. well, i was struck also. the sort of extrapolation of previous tactics of using simultaneity. it was the ten car bombs that were huge that also went off more or less at the same time. of course part of what youre trying to achieve with that is a military effect. but part of it is a psychological effect. and it reinforces i think some of your ea...

Then intimidating. the combination of that in some of the big cities, and even some of the smaller towns, will allow them to get a support structure where they will continue to flow their logistics which supports their operations and, frankly, thats something thats sty mying the current iraqi forces. >> michael, when you look at these ten car bombs that you talked about, which were really in some cases truck bombs, each one the size of the oklahoma city bombing, and of course these were suicide ...