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Role in afghanistan. do you think this is a mistake the presidents announcement to bring troops home from afghanistan? >> the devil is in the details. depends how quickly the president does it. lets keep in mind trump is trumping himself here. just last year he said that hasty withdrawal would create a security vacuum and he transitioned to what he said was a conditions-based approach, arguably no conditions have really been met that signaturify that peace is erupting in afghanistan, yet were br...

Lindsey graham has said this is like president obamas decision to pull out of iraq. we saw what happened there. we thought al-quaida and iraq was defeated by the surge. turned out, they were down but not out and once there was the security vacuum there, they could reform and become isis and the problems ensued. to president obamas credit, he learned from his mistake. he sent a modest amount of forces back. president trump has built on that, completed probably a 75% defeat of isis in those two co...

Operations command and certain the national command authority within the jcs and dod, theyve said, president trump, lets not be too hasty. weve been down this road before and have seen the consequences. >> its very cos confusing on a policy matter when a president says we do everything we can to fight radical islam, everybody should use that term, well fight isis to the death and never stop. yet he becomes this isolationist, we have to retreat from the world. isnt it fair to say we cannot allow ...

He says this prevents isis from gaining strength in syria and limits irans influence. secretary tillerson says this avoids a repeat of the security vacuum over the u.s. withdraw from iraq in 2011. the secretary called for patience on the diplomatic exclusi solution in syria involving bashar al assads departure. round two in washington. cnn money stream is next. cleaning floors with a mop and bucket... ...is a hassle. swiffer wetjet makes cleaning easy. its safe to use on all finished surfaces,...

Members, they need to break the cycle of violence. the children that you see here, they have known nothing but the isis way of life for the last four or five years. they have known nothing but brutality. nothing but fear. nothing but that kind of violence. and they need to be shown something else. they need to be shown a different way of life. and that is why it is so crucial that the reconstruction effort, when it can begin in raqqah, has the kind of international support that it needs to be su...

Has been able to flourish, taking advantage of the security vacuum that has been created during the war. right now its uncertain exactly what affect these air strikes will have on al qaeda. to give you a bit of comparison in 2016, according to monitoring groups, the united states carried out 38 such strikes. well, were only a few months into 2017 and it looks like theyre about at that number, martin. >> ian lee, im sorry for the pause there. joining us now from cairo. thank you very much. a do...

The streets, theyre playing a game of defense. you cant defend across germany, france and other countries over the course of a year, two years, three years enough to prevent an attack. this goes back to the core question. how do the americans and others eventually work with the syrians and the russians to end the civil war because as long as theres a security vacuum in syria that isis can take advantage of, youll see a ripple effect in europe. you cant stop this stuff, don. >> i want to know, me...

Did this region really fall and succumb to all of the sectarianism. its proceeded the arab uprising and the american invasion of iraq. but you know i think we would be lying to ourselves if we cant admit that iran and saudi arabia are just as they are in syria and lebanon and many countries in the middle east now, and yemen, are vying for power because theres a security vacuum. and i think its important to remember that it was the iraqi war, the invasion of iraq that really allowed for a lot of ...

Is going to be from previous experience within the saddam regime. >> how much nuclear material and chemical material is out there? we do know is is the syrian dictatorship has used chemicals weapons against its own people in the past and some say still doing so. isnt this regulated? isnt it controlled? how much of this stuff is out there? >> well, in terms of the chemical component, whats really troubling sort of the west and what will be troubling russia now is that security vacuum in syria. so...

There is a security vacuum. >> and you undercored that there is no way to get any kind of humanitarian hearing aid to them, thank you, very much. and now the condemning of a barbaric act. a suicide bomber on a bike detonated explosives in front of a bank on saturday. they say the attack was on workers picking up checks. >> there was debate to the extent of which isis established a foothold in information and pakistan. we had seen elements of it in