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What the rules were. >> bret: in the agencies, and the field, telling me they had no clue. sometimes, they would drive around in a jeep and ask questions. >> the stories you would hear are scary. president trump can reverse that. he can reverse it quickly. whether he decides that he needs to reinstitute some form of enhanced interrogation, and the very least, we can start asking hard questions and gain the intelligence. that is the most important thing we can do with respect to prosecuting this ...

Risk of further restrictions and by essentially looking like an actor that is unreasonable. >> as the world is put on high alert, snyder says the one thing president trump should not do is issue empty threats or bluffs at north korea. he cautions words will have to be backed up with actions. >> bret: thank you. israeli military court has sentenced a soldier to 18 months for a fatal shooting of a palestinian attacker as he lay on the ground. palestinians are calling it a mockery of justice. suppo...

>> bret: in the agencies, and the field, telling me they had no clue. sometimes, they would drive around in a jeep and ask questions. >> the stories you would hear are scary. president trump can reverse that. he can reverse it quickly. whether he decides that he needs to reinstitute some form of enhanced interrogation, and the very least, we can start asking hard questions and gain the intelligence. that is the most important thing we can do with respect to prosecuting this war on terror. >> i r...

Middle east newsroom. >> iraqi forces continue their push to liberate the isis held city of mosul. capturing the strategic village near the airport. isis fighters are striking and engaging our forces. thousands of iraqi troops backed by coalition air strikes and american special forces on the ground are now within eyesight of the heavily populated western part of the city. the only area still under control by isis. the assault on muzzle began four months ago and has progressed much slower than m...

Allied commander now the dean of the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts agency, james stavrides chief diplomacy analyst for nbc news and msnbc. admiral, good morning to you. what is your take on the latest isis attack in iraq, hundreds of miles away from the ongoing battle in hoe sul but in keeping with isis attacks on shiite pilgrims, shiite areas of warship and basically destabilizing iraq. >> indeed. as the news throws closes in on mosul and we go after rack qqah the islamic state ...

Around them and do as little harm as they possibly can. were hearing stories from people in the city about the atrocities being committed, dozens of people said to have been executed in the last week or so, accused of being spies for the iraqi operation to retake the city and condemned for being spies simply because they owned cellphones. some of their bodies have been strung up on electrical poles across the town with words like "traitor" across them. it is a brutal, bloody warning to the peopl...

Others who we spoke to said they had actually managed to get ahold of their relatives inside mosul who tried to flee the city but they say isis stopped them by shooting at them and forcing them back into their homes. and the real outpour of civilians has not even yet begun. the battle for the city itself, still very much in its initial stages with eight organizations warning of a humanitarian tsunami. carol? >> arwa damon reporting live near mosul, iraq. with five days to go until election day...

Guest. joining us is the former dean of the army war college, retired colonel, jeffrey mccauseland. good to see you, sir. thank you for being with us. i was watching your face when we were going through the competing points from these two candidates about what to do and the summation of donald trump, that whats going on in mosul is a total disaster. you winced. why? >> well, first of all, because i watched arwa damon, that sand storm, and having sat through sand storms in iraq, it is just virtua...

News this morning that iraqi forces have just gotten into what you could consider to be the outer limits of mosul itself, mosul being iraqs second-largest city thats been occupied by isis the past two years. this is a symbolic but still-important move. theyve managed to kind of permeate just the outer defenses of that city. but what we have to look forward to, what the iraqi security forces are going to be seeing now in the next couple of weeks, is street by street fighting. very, very difficult...

Minister in another country or with the president or prime minister of another country and you say, we really want you to move more authoritatively towards democracy, they look at you. theyre polite but you can see the question in their head and in their eyes and in their expression. its hard. pope francis is wrapping his trip up to sweden where he marked the 500th anniversary of the protestant reformation. francis and leaders of the luth rap church presided over a prayer service in the cathed...