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Effort being made to try to get more civilians away from the front lines in mosul? >> well, wolf, thats really the crux of the problem. theres really nothing that can be done given as you saw in that report there the fact that isis does not allow civilians to leave. and this means that the iraqi security forces, despite the fact that they have been trying to tell si vil yacivilians to s from areas that the fighters are gathering in, thats impossible because the fighters are using civilian homes ...

Underlying issues in places like the uk, in europe that have created the environment where you see the kind of actions and the activities weve seen over the weekend in trying to identify what we need to do here in the united states to make sure that we dont fall victim to the same mistakes. that we go through and lessons learned activity. sure, wolf, yeah, this distracts -- it is his way of communicating. we have different -- everyone has their own style. obviously this is a very unique style. >...

Opened up a terrorism investigation, wolf. he cried, "this is for syria" as he came at the plea man police patrolman with a hammer. he struck one of the policeman in the back of the neck. he was not badly injured. one of the partners immediately responded with his firearm and shot two shots according to witnesses. the attacker went down and hes not dead. hes been treated in the hospital now as we speak. theyll be wanting to talk with him. they want to confirm his identity. as you mentioned, he w...

Yok r -- who work for the president, who work for the executive branch who are undercutting him. >> former congressman, thanks as usual for joining us. >> always good to be with you. thanks, wolf. >> president trump fired him and now the congress and the world gets to hear his side. tune in thursday morning beginning our coverage at 9:00 a.m. eastern for special life coverage of james comeys historic testimony on cnn as well as cnn.com. coming up, new developments in a deadly terror attack in lo...

Fbis russia investigation. joining us now is grand rapids michigan is former congressman pete, former chairman of the house intelligence committee. also michigan co chair for the trump campaign and adviser to the trump transition team. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. thank you. >> let me read a little bit. the lead paragraph of todays lead editorial in "the wall street journal," a publication youre familiar with. ill put it up there. quote, some people with a propensity for ...

The area that sis controls, but also other not just targeting the iraqi security forces but deliberately going after gatherings of civilians and, wolf, were only really beginning to right now understand the depth of the trauma that the population of mosul, especially its children, have been going through. >> and even if they do eventually liberate mosul, the eastern part of the city, i take it, pretty much liberated, the western part under contention, this could take some time, right? >> reporte...

Government taking office. they wanted to increase things given the fact that had been the attack in london. now theyve got even more reason to look at different measures that they can take to help prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future. >> jim bitterman on the scene for us in paris. thanks very. well check back with you. lets get back to politics here in the united states. dramatic politics unfolding. president trump trying to get his agenda back on track as the white house br...

Saudi arabia, egypt are some of the key nations. now cutting ties with qatar alleging the country has ties to terror groups, specifically isis and al qaeda. iran state news agent claims president trump is fueling the conflict following his trip to saudi arabia two weeks ago. i want to bring in international correspondent ian lee in turkey watching this. what spark ted this fight right now between these gulf states? >> wolf, its been brewing for quite some time, but you name a number of the reaso...

Keep our country safe. the courts are slow and political. white house by the way also has a press briefing scheduled this hour. well have live coverage of that. sarah huckabee sanders will be giving the briefing instead of sean spicer, the press secretary. shes expected to face lots of questions about the travel ban at fired fbi director james comey upcoming testimony. i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta and justice report laura jarrett. jim, let me start with you....

During the exact time that the supreme court is deciding whether to even take it up and the other side is crafting their briefs right now. so by calling it a watered down version, hes now handed the other side arguably another piece of evidence to suggest the changes between these two executive orders were not made in good faith, wolf. >> were standing by, sarah huckabee sanders is going to have the press briefing coming up shortly. were getting some breaking news. i want to go back to london. n...