Overlooking Raqqah News Today

It may have happened a lot faster because he may have loosened exactly when air strikes or artillery can be used against isis. and i have to say looking at the latter stages of mosul and certainly in the fight for raqqah, theres a hell of a lot of fire power used. we dont know if thats because they loosened up when they are allowed to fire, how close civilians can be, et cetera. theres the hint that may be the case, often denied, but we cant say a new policy has been introduced by the newed a m....

In the self-proclaimed capital of raqqah. and president trump himself is claiming victory, adding that hes responsible for totally changing the military. republican senator john mccain just reacted to that. >> im glad to hear that. no, thats oosh thats illuminating to me. i was involved in it throughout. do i believe the last eight years were failed? absolutely. absolutely. there was no rules of engagement, there was no success, there was no strategy, so i certainly agree that the last eight yea...

Doing cart wheels and spinning armored vehicles around the squares where isis once held public executions. it is over for them in raqqah, no doubt, but a different threat emerges. they will scatter as a rank target insurgency. some of the fallen fighters try to get home to launch terror attacks in the west. some of them staying in the deserts in iraq and syria looking to see if they can get sympathy in the local population and continue warfare there. and isis will continue as an idea, a virus on...

There are no buildings in raqqah that dont show signs of the struggle. so as the units got more bottled up into raqqah, we stopped conducting air strikes until the kurds said, no, we still need additional air power. so we developed a coordination protocol where any air strike within a certain distance of a kurdish unit had to be authorized by the kurds. so we did take that into consideration. for civilian casualties, we try and try to not have as many as -- to limit them as much as possible, but...

Follow procedures, but they were able to react faster to emerge targets, they were able to drop more orders closer. but lets also remember that the syrian democratic forces, the units we were supporting on the ground in syria, got much better. we had been training them for a long time. so as they became more proficient, of course, it appeared that they were having more success. and we were able to conduct our missions on a much better manner with them. so im giving credit to both presidents. >> ...

Raqqah. next, president trump takes a dive on the forbes list of the wealthiest americans. an editor from the magazine is joining me live how trump lost an estimated $600 million in just one year. you do all this research

It has the presidents endorsement, but there are many steps left to go. >> especially as it preserves a key part of obamacare despite the president saying obamacare as he sees it is dead. hang tight for us, phil. well be back with you. i want to talk more about the health care deal including reaction from republicans. where are they on this? next. and the recent victory over isis in raqqah the president says is thanks to his change in the military. hear what senator mccain says and the reactio...