the world. we have made some inroads but the world is galvanized more. we'll do all we can to defeat and destroy this barbaric terrorist organization. a couple weeks before the attack we went on offense in areas of syria, northern iraq we took back main road linkage between mosul and raqqah. they were successful, we cut off that main road linkage. we're putting u.s. special forces to enable a push on raqqah, isolate daesh and isis in raqqah. we're going to do all we can to take the fight to isil. and the conversations with france was about to how help them respond and they're doing air strikes in raqqah as we speak. >> one of the questions i got, after i reported on the friend. air strikes against raqqah, targets there were 15 targets, recruiting center, training center, one of the questions i got was, why wasn't the u.s. already hitting these sites, as it's been reported, and the pentagon has said, it's about