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Iraqi army will have no choice but to recapture tal afar as it did mosul after nine months of bitter and costly battles. >> lets talk about that, retaking mosul. we all know, you know, what it took to do that. we covered it. we saw the images. as the battle under under way there, what lessons do security forces take from the battle. >> we covered the battle for nine months. few people realize the severe costs that that the iraqi security forces incurred in mosul. they have lost between 8,000 and...

Electricity and just white flags of protection. with is fighters hiding amongst the homes, theyre traumatized by the advancing troops. >> at the moment, theyre stuck here with is fighters in the next building, just monitoring any slight movement at all so they can attack and move forward into the old city proper. retaking mosul would be a whatsive blow against the islamic state. but if it comes at the expense of civilian lives, it could be an apparent victory. >> rescue crews set off the bomb si...

20 isis militants armed with kalashnikovs or small grenades into several security areas in the city and took over some of the buildings and also holed up in a hotel just ithe middle of town. most of those have been killed or routed out and only a few of them still remain according to security officials there. this, tamron, is a classic isis diversion narr diversionary and diverted the elite countersecurity forces from mosul, the main fight and brought them at least, some of the units down an hou...

Hours ago. security officials tell nbc that isis was with bombers and stormed security buildings and a power plant under construction killing a dozen engineers and construction. foreign correspondent, matt bradley and just within a few miles of mosul, as i understand it from experts, getting close to the city, surprisingly fast but its what happens once they get inside. >> reporter: well, thats a very big question, tamron. nobody knows exactly because the situation in mosul is going to be so dif...

You know who the big winner in mosul is going to be after we eventually get it and the only reason they did it is because shes running for the office of president, they want to look tough, they want to look good. but she wanted to look good for the election so they are going in. but whos going to get mosul? well take mosul eventually. by the way, if you look at whats happening, much tougher than they thought. much more tougher and more dangerous and more deaths than they thought. >> donald trump...

Side or we have the potential to come out of it on the other side with some renewal in this country and people have to recognize that its up to us. its not about the candidates. this election is not about them as we often hear. its really about us. >> i like that glass half full stuff errol. thanks so much. and thanks to you, too, zeke miller. still to come, retaking mosul. iraqi forces try to force isis out of their last major stronghold in iraq. theres no one road out there. no one surface... ...

That isis has occupied the second largest city in iraq for about 18 months now. and nothing has seemed to budge them in any way. do you think what youre seeing so far, and were about 12 hours into this now, indicates that there is progress toward that ultimate goal of liberating that city? >> for sinjar, i believe thats going to take weeks. for mosul, i believe the iraqi security forces and peshmerga forces are going to need months before theyre able to go into mosul and retake that from isis. i...

Here in terms of the man power, some 7500 peshmerga soldiers on this fight against several hundred -- maybe 700, if you will, thats a slippery number, of isis fighters, but there are real challenges the peshmerga are up against in trying to take this town. what are the difficulties they have? >> when you go from fighting out in the open where american aircraft can provide so much support to fighting inside the city, those numerical differences are, in many ways, immaterial. fighting in urban ter...

A deportation force to move out 11 million undocumented immigrants. but is that possible? well ask the head of u.s. customs and border protection. hes joining us. >> hello, im kate bolduan. >> im john berman. a key moment in the battle against isis. a major assault in northern iraq. u.s. coalition warplanes, providing cover in this new intense fight to reclaim a strategic city? >> this centers on the town of sinjar. kurdish soldiers are attacking isis there from three sides. nick paton walsh i...

Yesterday. general, thank you for being with us. obviously, returning those peoples homes to them is of serious importance. lets talk about the strategic value of sinjar. hopefully we can put up a map to show where it is. tell us why sinjar is important in the battle against isis, both in iraq and syria. >> as nick brought out, it really is a choke point between raqqa in syria and mosul to the east. the real objective for the iraqi security forces is mosul. retaking mosul in the near term has be...