>> you know, we are in a political season, and we've seen stuff like this before. if we look back at the last presidential election and the antics and things were done. i'm going to defer to the military generals and the people that are in charge of that stuff. it sure smells that way, and i would hate to think that people in charge of politics would use military campaigns for political tools. >> are you suggesting that the prime minister of iraq or the leaders of kurdistan, the peshmerga, who have launched this offensive, that they are doing this to try to influence american voters and get hillary clinton elected president? >> no, absolutely not. >> that's the assumption that trump is making, that the timing of this is done by the iraqis and kurds, that it was being done to help hillary clinton.