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Trump vote. we are going to win. what is his strategy with a tweet like that? >> part of it is self-preservation, right? trump thinks high hi of himself and his brand and part of his candidacy is based on him looking like a winner. when the polls dont reflect that, weve seen him over the course of this election cycle cite the polls at his rallies to give himself the sense of being a winner. when the polls dont reflect that, it becomes more challenging for him to sell that message. but its also a...

Intelligence. congressman, thanks for being with us. we just saw the tweet from donald trump, the attack on mosul is turning out to be a total disaster. again, you are the top democrat on the intelligence committee. does donald trump know something that we dont here? >> no. i think thats very unlikely. but im sure donald trumps secret plan would have been much better and we can believe it because donald trump tells us so. look, the mosul fight is going to be very tough. i think everybody knew th...

Decide foreign hot spots will be one of the six topics. this comes as iraqi forces continue to battle to retake that city of mosul from the islamic state. more than 100 u.s. military advisers are embedded with thousands of troops involved in the operation which include sunni tribal fighters, shiite militias and kurdish forces as well. nbcs matt bradley with those kurdish fighters. joins me live from erbil which is southeast of mosul. matt, good day to you. >> thanks, craig. the big headline toda...

And final debate between hillary clinton and donald trump. much more on that, our political panel is standing by. switching gears and heading overseas. breaking news, iraqi-led forces now in the fourth day of military operations to retake mosul. the second largest city in iraq from isis control. the last remaining stronghold of the terror group in iraq. the commander of the iraqi armys armored division says troops are closing in on mosuls fringes after liberating communities village by village o...

Challenge. >> we heard from the coalition spokesman that i asked, is mosul next, and he said, there are other part of anbar that need to be addressed. obviously mosul is an eventual goal but he seemed to sort of, i guess, put aside this idea that this was the next punch of the one-two punch. talking to the iraqi ambassador to the u.s. today, he really had his eye trained on mosul. so, which one do we sort of -- which one would you lean into, which assessment? >> i think the coalitions more accur...

Talking about fallujah. you saw the prime minister in ramadi saying mosuls next, they want to get isis out of iraq entirely by 2016. so some ambitious goals. talked to iraqi experts, they say its ambitious but doable. come spring we could see a pesh towards mosul. but the iraqi forces are not completely ready yet. you heard the coalition spokesman say theyre still training iraqi forces, forces have been depleted after this fighting, they need replenished a lot of work to do but they feel they ha...

Of the city. the city, as weve seen pictures, in ruins now. theyve been evacuating citizens. iraqi forces are trying clear the area of explosives that isis left behind but the coalition does believe the iraqi forces will be able to hold the city. theyre having a lot of help from iraq/sunni tribal leaders helping to hold the city. they think it will hold. >> it would be more significant if iraqi forces were able to go in and clear isis out of mosul. that would be huge. but yesterday, talking to a...

Ability. i would greatly expand the air attacks on those safe havens on those centers, using whatever intelligence we could get, which is obviously critical. but if all else fails, then to prevent them from having these centers where theyre organizing to attack us here in america, i would use american forces. it wouldnt be a trillion dollars. hundreds of thousands of troops. a ten-year war to nation build. it would be a quick strike destroy their operations and then move out and continue to supp...

In, kutz forces, it is contributing to the good. >> lets see if this works out. i think youre right that thats the plan and the iraqi government has made some good steps. they are going to retake mosul as we understand it. there are about 2,000 isil fighters there. the iraqis are going to put somewhere in the range of 20,000 troops up against them. kurdish peshmerga, and a small number of american advisers, but they will have american drones, american air support, and the idea is to launch a gen...

Some time to compare what isis was claiming about its performance over the last few years to what we have observed. there is enough of a correlation that i would suggest this is actually much more likely to be what they think they have actually done than a purely propaganda campaign. particularly in light of what weve been seeing happening in the ground in iraq lately, it is very clear this organization has presence throughout northern iraq and, as the report claims, that isis has been targeting...