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Wednesday, the largest raid in syria since the 2019 operation that took out baghdadi. abu bakr al-baghdadi. intel gathering on the raid ramped up last fall. biden being briefed and detailed five days before christmas. in the wake of the raid, pentagon spokesperson john kirby warning isis still has the ability to attack the u.s. mainland. joining me now. cnn counter terrorism analyst. good to see you. this would have been the biggest news, right, that we have been covering at one point but we hav...

White house officials said they didnt know what he was talking about, when other reporting suggests this has been on his mind recently. i think his gut instinct when it comes to americas footprint in the world, he doesnt want us out there meddling, he doesnt want our troops all over the place. at the meeting at the pentagon, they explained to him why we have troops in asia, japan and these other places, i think trump has this isolationist instinct. so im not surprised what hes thinking about wit...

Areas, keep them from being useful to isis, and "the wall street journal" reported yesterday that in fact the presidents frozen that as well. >> exactly. real quick, ryan, because you brought up scaramucci, we saw hope hicks, another communications director of this white house, leave this week. is there anybody who could be an effective communications director? >> well, i mean, the issue is that trump is his own communications director. his whole life has been handling his own press. famously in...

Flynn-stones. now the question will be are they getting rid of the mcmaster employees. theyll need their own name. >> yes, i was waiting to here. >> theres so much turnover that you have these funny names in this white house. a unit of time in this white house of ten days is known as a scaramucci because thats how long the communications director lastinge lasted. so the flynn-stones lasted several scaramuccis. >> lets bring it back to the impact of some of these turnovers and the issue being tha...

Of syria, warning isis could reemerge if the u.s. leaves. there seems to be a disconnect between what president trump is saying and his own teams assessment. >> yeah, hes really gone back and forth about this idea of what the u.s. presence should be in that region, sometimes arguing that obama pulled out of iraq too soon and led to the creation of isis, other times arguing that we shouldnt have anything to do with syria or iraq. you know, when he gives these speeches, these big public speeches, ...

Its awesome. safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate. sometimes i leave the seat up on purpose. switching to allstate is worth it. >> eboni: welcome back to "the fox news specialists." our specialists are steve cortes and tim clemente. we will continue the conversation. admiral harry harris, commander of u.s. forces in the pacific, sounding the alarm about isiss campaign to seize new territory. the admiral warning isis is aggressively trying to establish fresh beachheads across asia.

Region and syria in particular is that we do not want a vacuum created, another vacuum like happened in iraq and allowed isis to grow. >> eric: what is wrong with a syria run by bashar al-assad and a russia that stops bashar al-assad from killing his own people? if you have peace in syria run by assad with russia as an ally. >> it is great for america to want influence in the region and in the country but its not wrong for other countries to be more influential there, and i agree with you. if it...

Isis linked militants in the philippines should be a wake-up call for the entire region. we have been seeing this. we see isis being pushed out in some places only to pop up here in south asia. >> eric: let me take a little different tack. that sounded horrible. its actually good news for the united states that isis is saying we are looking to asia, looking to expand into areas we havent been before. instead of saying we are focusing -- remember a year ago they were saying we are going to infilt...

>> eric: except the socialists. >> socialism only works academically. >> he likes your money. >> eric: commander of the u.s. forces in the pacific delivering an ominous warning over isis and its campaign to establish beachheads in east asia. dont go away. beyond is a natural pet food

>> it was proposed and never enacted. i think its important that the philippines is in the story. the president took a lot of heat for supposedly having a a friey phone call with their leader. you know who was more reprehensible? isis. they are beheading people. worse things you can imagine. we can occasionally partner with a bad guy to beat a worse guy. >> eric: it wasnt that he was cohort taking with duterte. >> there is always competing interests. at times, we can ally ourselves with someone ...