that may have been hampered because of what we've seen over the past nine months. what we haven't seen yet is the ideology being in any way, shape or form being derailed, being drained, if you will. in fact, most of the times when we see attacks happen around the world as we've seen in spain and in france, the first thing that comes to mind is isis somehow inspires people to carry out these type of attacks and that remains undeterred. >> what has changed materially about the u.s. strategy towards isis since president trump took office? does he deserve the question that he's taking? >> there have been air strikes against isis inside syria as well as inside iraq for several months during the obama administration. what would have to be a key component is have the rates -- has the acceleration of these attacks, has that increased, the targeting package increased? that's a military decision.