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Donald trump took time away from the campaign trail today to attend a businessrelated event right here in washington. Our correspondent is covering the Trump Campaign. Phil mattingly following the Clinton Campaign for us. Sunlen, we heard trump strike a different tone this morning. How would you characterize his bottom line message . Reporter right. A much different tone, wolf. Used much more soaring rhetoric than we typically hear from donald trump. Seemed he tried to go out of his way to bring a more optimistic message talking about hope. He talked about dreaming big. At one point he asked americans to dream bold with him. Something we typically dont hear from donald trump out on the campaign trail, and one thing that struck a lot of us, at one point he said point blank, america is great. Its people are great. That, of course, notable, because that is Hillary Clintons retort to her criticism of Donald Trumps Campaign Slogan when he says he wants to make America Great again. Heres more of that optimistic tone he brought here today. Lets close the history books on the failures in washington, and lets open a new chapter of success and prosperity for all of our people. We have a divided nation. A seriously divided nation. All of our people. That is how we will truly make America Great again. Reporter now, at times his speech did delve into some familiar campaign trail rhetoric. Of course, although this was billed as not a Campaign Event but a business event opening his hotel here in washington, d. C. Trump talked about how washingtons broken and notably went after his opponent Hillary Clinton by name here at this nonCampaign Event. Mentioning her involvement in obama care and, of course, the news this week that those premiums will jump up. Wolf . Sunlen, a new bloomberg poll looks at the president ial race in florida, critically important battleground state. 29 electoral votes showing trump with a twopoint lead over Hillary Clinton. Do trump folks see that as a sign, blitz across the state is starting to pay off . Reporter they do. Talking to trump advisers today, they say this is a sign of strength, and they believe it will get better. Notably, they also believe that this poll not only is good for them, but they say its concerted signs for Hillary Clinton the way independents broke the poll, won by a sevenpoint marge and believe especially the news on obama care and premiums going up next year, they believe that gives them a little chance to gain more voters, wooey well see donald trump as he did here today, as he likely will later today in all of his stops in florida bring this up from the stump. Wolf . All right. Stand by a moment, sunlen. Phil, Hillary Clinton is zeroing in on swing states herself. Whats her strategy and her message with 13 days to go . Yeah. None more so than the state of florida, wolf. You mentioned, 29 electoral votes. The Clinton Campaign wins florida, donald trump has no pathway to 270. No opportunity to win. Two events here today coming back this weekend as well. The message is this, wolf, vote and vote now. That sounds simplistic, banking early votes, this weekend being the first early Voting Period in person in this state. Its huge for democrats as they try and position themselves to win on november 8th, but Hillary Clinton in that first event today, not pulling punches from donald trump as well. Listen to this jab. And listening to Donald Trumps campaign, i truly doubt that he has ever read the constitution. Or if he did, back in school, he certainly doesnt remember it, and he doesnt understand it is the most important founding document for the longest lasting, greatest democracy in the history of the world reporter wolf, talk battlegrounds. County by county through the state and think where things are important . Possibly none more so than hillsborough. Where we are, will Hillary Clinton will be in a short period of time. A place that went twice for george w. Bush and twice for barack obama. Leans democratic, they go for the winner. A lot of people from the Clinton Campaign here now and throughout the state of florida. Wolf . Phil, thanks. Sunlen, thank to you as well. Bringing in a representative of the Trump Campaign right now. Sarah huckabee sanders, Senior Adviser to donald trump. Thanks very much for joining us. You bet. Good to be here. Start with a snapshot where the race stands nationally right now. Hillary clinton has a sevenpoint lead in the latest cnn poll of polls. An average of the five most recent national surveys. Can donald trump close that gap with less than two weeks left in the campaign . Absolutely. And at the same time, there are several other polls just in the last couple of days that show donald trump either ahead or tied. Look, i think this is an extremely close race and what it comes down to is that 70 of americans want change in this race, and in this election cycle, and there is nobody that represents change greater than donald trump. And nobody that represents the status quo stronger than Hillary Clinton. If people want to go in, shake up washington, and make things different than the way they are right now, one choice in the race. Thats to vote for donald trump. Why was he spending these last few hours here in washington, d. C. Today, because clearly the district of columbia is not a battleground state with only 13 days to go. Does it make it look like hes putting his business interests ahead of running for president . Not at all pop i think what hes doing, pointing to a record of success. He actually has won in contrast Hillary Clinton doesnt. He was able to go and show what hes done as a businessman. Hes created jobs. Hes taken an old building dilapidated and turned it into something incredible. Exactly what he wants to come in and do, and i dont think theres any greater place than to do that than washington. You have somebody coming in, showing how they can completely transform something that has been a total mess and disaster. Youve got to bring somebody in from the outside to change the system that we have. Hillary clinton has been part of the problem for the last 30 years. She has no record of success. Donald trump is actually kraepted jkraept created jobs and a great opportunity to contrast what Hillary Clinton who created no job maybe outside of the fbi. A great move and a great way to show his success story, and contrast that to hillarys record of failure. During his remarks, sarah, at the hotel here in washington today, he said this about the United States government. Listen to this this is what i want to do for our country, and this is what were working so hard to do. Right now just about everything our government touches is broken or they break it. Its always over budget, behind schedule, and simply nothing works. So hes saying basically, he said, simply put, everything our government touches is broken or they break it. Heres the question. Thats not true. The United States military works. The Social Security administration works. The National Institutes of health, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. There are major parts of the federal government that do incredibly important and successful work for the American People. I assume you agree . Absolutely. I think the bigger point hes trying to make is that everything Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration have done and i think obama care is a perfect example. A complete and utter failure, and eastern this week were seeing now that premiums are going to increase by 25 . Its going to bankrupt our country. Its hurting small businesses. Its hurting families. And for them to ignore that thats a real problem and that some of the biggest policies that theyve implemented have been total and utter failures is just they just cant do that. They cant just ignore the fact that this is a total failure and thats the point hes making. Washington is full of failures, particularly when it comes to hillary and obamas policies. Let me interrupt. Sarah, he said specifically, just about everything our government touches is broken or they break it. Thats not true. Is it . Look wolf, i think youre kind of diving in and making a bigger statement out of that than what hes trying to point to, and a lot of what our government does touch we break. Frankly, what makes America Great is not our government. Its our people, and when we get government out of the way and we let people do what they do best, thats create jobs, thats build businesses, thats run their families, thats making education more local, less federalized, we do much better. The point hes making is that, and a really good and strong point, particularly on the hills of one. Greatest failures that weve seen from the obama and Clinton Administration and that is obama care. Im just sensitive to the point that a lot of federal employees, whether military or civilian, theyre always very sensitive when they hear politicians and donald trump is now a politician, blast them as being corrupt or inefficient or broken or whatever. They work really hard for the American People, doing their best as you well know and when they get slammed like that, its a very sensitive issue. I want to be clear, wolf, hes not slamming the military. No greater advocate in this Campaign Cycle than donald trump for our military, for our veterans and frankly one. Reasons hes running, because those people havent been treated right. Our government completely failed to take care of our veterans. To say they havent is wrong. Thats the point hes making. These are people that work hard, that deserve our best and havent gotten it, because obama and clinton have completely failed and weve got to have somebody come in and fix that. Sarah, you make fair points. No doubt about that, but i want them to be precise, and not say just about everything our government touches is broken, because that is simply not true. A lot of what the u. S. Government does on the military level, the civilian level, is critically important. One final question before i let you go. Today for the first time i heard him say america is great. He also said were going to make America Great again but he did say america is great. Is this a new line that hes putting forward right now, because it comes in contrast to what hes been saying over the past several 3months . I think donald trump always believes our country is great, he believes in our people, traveled all over, from coast to coast, and had the opportunity to meet with millions of americans and seen the greatness in our country. But, again, its not in our government. Its no our people. Hes already recognized that. But we need to make some major changes, some major shifts, and we have to break up that washington to wall street access of power. We havent been focused on protecting america but focusing on protecting special interests. That has to change, and thats one of the things he wants to do in making America Great again. But never lost hope and faith in our country and certainly not in its people. So america is great right now. Right . Look, i think certainly there are great parts of america but things we have to do better. Again, we have to go back to where our focus is putting america first. We havent done that. Weve had an administration thats frankly apologized for americas successes instead of celebrating them. We have to go back to a place where that is our mindset, putting our National Security first, putting our economy first and havent done that over the last eight years and certainly wouldnt do it with Hillary Clinton. Why we need somebody like donald trump who will come in and make that change, shake up washington, and put our focus on building america up. Sarah huckabee, thanks for joining us. You bet. Coming up inside the mind of donald trump. New revelations about the billionaire in just released audiotapes. What he said about his love for any type of fight. Plus, swing states showdown in the path to 270 electoral votes has both campaigns look at every scenario. We break it down with our Political Panel. Thats next. Weve got breaking news prp donald trump speaking to cnns dana bash a few moment ago at a business event opening his Hotel Officially here in washington, d. C. Dana joining us now. What did he say . Reporter well, it was a brief oneonone discussion with him about why he is here, and not on the campaign trail and how he could potentially take advantage of some of the polls looking better for him especially in the key state of florida. Take a listen. Reporter first i want to ask you about your event here. Theres new audiotape of you talking about the fact that you really have relied on your popularity and the fact that people come to your events and that helps you with free advertising. Is that what this was about . No. Not at all. This was just under budget, ahead of schedule. What this is. Under budget, ahead of schedule. We built a hotel that is going to be one of the great hotels of the world. Just opened today. It officially opens today, and we built it for less money than was anticipated and we built it ahead of schedule by over a year and if the country would do that, we would have a country that would be in much better shape than they build highways for double and triple the costs, build hospitals. Reporter for people who say youre taking time out of swing states to go do this, say i say the following. You have been covering me for the last, a long time. I did yesterday eight stops and three major speeches, and ive been doing this for weeks straight. I left there for an hour and a half. Im going to North Carolina right now and then to florida then up to new hampshire. For you to ask me that question is actually very insulting, because Hillary Clinton does one stop and then goes home and sleeps yet youll ask me that question. I think its a very rude question, to be hon e6r79 with you, what i do, i want to back my children. My children work very hard, ivanka in particular and at the opens of a hotel i want to back my children. Very important to me. We had a ribbon cutting, very quick, and i stopped in d. C. The real key to this is i want the American People to understand that this is irnd budget, ahead of schedule and we need that for the United States. Reporter just so you know, ive been reporting on the fact youre going to North Carolina for a couple of stops straight from here. My next question, a new poll in florida has you up a couple of points. Other swing states have you really in the hunt. Given that, are you prepared to write a check to help yourself get over the finish line and if so, how big . And im talking about advertising. Let me just tell you that we have, ill have over 100 million in the campaign. Hillary clinton has no in the campaign. All special interests, donors, they give her the money then shell do whatever they tell her to do, but i will have over 00 million in the campaign and am prepared to go much more than that 100 million. Heres 9 questi heres the questions, doing great in North Carolina, great in pennsylvania. Great all over. Doing really well in new hampshire. Ohio, you know, and iowa doing fantastically well. Im telling you, cnn doesnt say it, but i think were going to win. Reporter so but to do that, you have a pretty big bank account. You can and time is running out. The clocks ticking. Where you write a check . Already done that. Already wrote a number of them. Reporter particularly to get up on the air and sure. In florida, 501 against me. You were the one that reported that. Reporter you have the means to kboot that . Sure, meantime, 501 im leading. Old days you get credit, spending less money and have victory. A good thing. Today they want you to spend money. Ill have over 100 million and willing to spend much more if i have to. Seeing great signs. One of the other things were seeing in florida and other places, the lines going into voting booths, going into voting areas are unbelievable. I mean in florida yesterday we passed four of them. The lines were three and four blocks long. Those are not her voters, because her voters have no enthusiasm reporter be specific . How much are you willing to put down in order no. I will have over 100 million in and willing to invest more. Reporter like, how much . Dont just, lets go for your next question, dana. Reporter last question, getting the hook over here, is, in this speech here, you talked about the fact that this is the second best piece of real estate on pennsylvania avenue. In 14 days, are you hoping that youre going to be spending after that more time here or down the street . Look, i just hope that i built a Great Company. Truly a Great Company with some of the great assets of the world not only in our country but in other countries, and i predicted brexit. You were one of the people that asked me about brexit. I said its gogsz to happen. Im not saying this is brexit but i think the result will be the same if not more so. We are going to have, i think, a tremendous victory. People dont want four more years of obama. They dont want hillary with all of the corruption and all of the problems and you see all of these wikileaks coming out and theyre a disaster, and when you see john podesta who is terrible the way he speaks about her, has bad instincts. The person he works for has bad instincts . Terrible. So many other things about their honesty and dishonesty. I think were going to have a tremendous victory, if i didnt think it i wouldnt say it, well be fighting hard, id say. We are fighting hard and i actually think were winning. Not a question were going to try and win. Start looking at polls, whats happening. More importantly, start looking at all the people going to vote. And sending in their ballots. Were way ahead on virtually every state, every area, and i think were going to have a great vick trit. Reporter thank you, mr. Trump. Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you. Now, wolf, one of the reasons i was press him on the question of money is because what im hearing from some republicans, particularly those who are working with the party, is that they had hoped that mr. Trump who obviously has had a very unconventional fundraising apparatus, because a selffunder in the primaries and then in the general election was raising money in conjunction with the party, whether he would at least now at the very end especially as i said in states where he does seem to be doing better, take out his checkbook and fund his Campaign Advertising in order to combat the ads we have seen on the air, and he talks about and complains about from Hillary Clinton, and so that was that line of questioning. Im sure he was happy with that new bloomberg poll in florida, which shows him now up by two points in that key battleground state. Desperately needs to win florida if he has any chance of becoming president of the United States, but keeps talking polls were brong in britain with brexit and in the end we know what happened with brexit. He thinks the polls are wrong here as well. And hes going to stun the world by winning the presidency on november 8th. Is that what eyre heim hearings interview you did with him . Thats what he was suggesting, feels confident hell win despite the polls. When polls are great for him he talks about them extensively, like the poll just discussed this morning in florida. When polls are bad he says, theyre going to beat the polls because the polls arent worth looking at. So it is the absolute glass half full, glass half empty scenario when talking about donald trump in the polls. The takeaway you mentioned is key, which is, he sounds and seems more upbeat. Hes trying to convey that and trying to convey that hes going to surprise people. And at this point, he understands that given the narrative of how this campaign is going it would be a very big surprise, if he pulls it out in the end. Dana, great work grabbing hill. First time i think hes spoke ton cnn in quite a while. Well have full analysis of what we just heard, all of the other breaking political news today. Dana, stay with us. 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With us gloria borger, and mark preston, executive eder of krp krn politics and ryan lizza and political commentator for the new yorker gloria, just there at this event, this luncheon event where he spoke. What emerged, bottom line, from what he had to say . Not much. Honestly, wolf. He was trying not to make news. They did an elaborate decoy, couldnt even grab him afterwards. Interesting to me was that youve got these two ultimate universes here about a mile apart in washington. You have mitt romney talking to the chamber of commerce, which is not protrump. Mitt romney being the original never trumper, extolling the virtue of American Business and down the road at his own business at his new hotel at the post office you have donald trump talking about his business and himself and couldnt be two more different guys. Before romney went onstage, about 15 or 20 minutes before he went onstage, he tweeted, be sure to head to the polls for Republican Senate and house and state houses. To advantage constitution conservati conservatism. He didnt say that on the stage to the house of commerce, what he is talking about today to republicans. Okay, you dont have to vote for donald trump but make sure you keep republican state and houses. Donald trump formally opened up his new hotel and the spoke a little bit more somber dialogue today, and he did make the point, america is great. Yes. Interesting, because he gave that address at gettysburg and in many ways that speech, i mean, like a pitisberg speech, sounded like settles scores. Today sounded optimistic. Talking about america being great right now and stealing some of Hillary Clintons lines, she said is that, too, america is great because its good, and he seemed more subdued than he has in previous speeches. Well see if that homicide. Doubtful, based on what we know about donald trump. He has a few different approaches. Mainly erratic and angry approach. Well see what he comes out with. Interesting that he said hes given his campaign 100 million. None. Reports suggest hes given that. I think republicans certainly want limb to write checks to his campaign. Apparently 10 billion but doesnt want to get off of that much in the campaign. Only given about 60 million, looks like. When dana asked why hes here opening up this hotel instead of being in North Carolina or another important state. Defensive and at one point said the question was insulting. Look, been all over the place. Hillary clinton does one of these and goes and takes a napa fa he has been very active on the campaign trail. Hes held a lot of events. He needs. He needs to win florida. The problem for trump he often mud manies his message by for instance coming here opening up a hotel two weeks out before the president ial election to be the leader of the free world. To be the leader of democracy. Globally. So he actually steps on his message oftentimes. Weve seen this time and time again. You talk about the petisberg address. Clever. In many ways his Closing Argument yet he stepped on it talking how to settle scores an the election. Not very smart. Bloomberg, ahead in florida, potentially significant. Absolutely. Has holds harks to win florida, pennsylvania, ohio and probably has to win North Carolina. This, to be able to pull this off. Most other polling out of florida shows a two to threepoint advantage for Hillary Clinton. The bloomberg pom a little outlier. See if it keeps out when other polls come out. I take his point, hes doing other events today and not just this hotel event, but where are the two candidates today . Pence is in utah. Right . A state that hasnt voted for a democrat, i think, since the goldwater in 64, and for the gold rush. Noticeably, mitt romney from utah no in utah here talking to the chamber. The Vice President ial candidate in utah trying to hold that state and trump talking about his hotel. I mean, talking the presentation they were talking about the railings and wallpaper. Unusual. Imagine if Hillary Clinton was up at the clinton foundation. People would be scratching their head. I do take his point he has other issues, other events today, but he has to know its going to drive the news, this kind of event. But gloria, makes the point, whats wrong with me spending a couple hours supporting my kids . Ivanka and her brothers, very, very involvaled in this hotel. I want to show my love to are my children. Thats one of the reasons im here. Good. And of course get maximum publicity because its two weeks before the election, and he gets to showcase his hotel, and he gets to tell the story about how i took something that was old and broken down, and i fixed it, and to the point you were discussing before, which is why hes so subdued today, its because this was a business event, and he didnt want, im sure he was told, do not make this overly partisan, because that could hurt us. Yeah. And our business. It has hurt them in their business. You see this subdued trump. See what we see later in the day. I think its odd, but for donald trump who was advertising his stakes and his water after primaries, i dont think its i dont think its out of character in the least. I dont think so. A little out of character for him to, though, say after all the times he said were going to make America Great again, for him to say america is great. America is great, because his building and his hotel is great. All right. Stay with us. Dont go too far. Coming up, colorado governor and Hillary Clinton supporter will join us live. Talk about the campaign, talk about Hillary Clintons efforts to pick up red states. There you see him. The governor of colorado and me, when we come back. Cno artificial flavors. Philadelphia® garden vegetable. Rich, creamy. And delicious nothing else tastes like philadelphia®. This is judy. Judy is 65 years old. Her mortgage payment is 728 a month. 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By any traditional measure, like we didnt used to be a red state when we had a few more republicans. Now more a blue state. Were still solidly purple. Look at the election across other states. Youre a democrat of course supporting Hillary Clinton. Wipe do you think thits a tigh rate in other states, for example, like florida right now . And so, a. , the polling is hard to predict. In other words, im not sure how accurate any of the polling is, and certainly florida seems to have tightened up, but you know, im not convinced that hillarys not going to come around and do quite well there. A lot of this will depend on turnout and who really feels motivated to get out and vote. My guess is, in many parts of the country, democrats are going to feel a greater necessity, that they have to vote this time and i think a lot of republicans are frustrated by their, you know, just the divisions within the party at the president ial candidate level. In the last Quinnipiac University poll in colorado, your state, the Libertarian Party candidate gary johnson got 10 of the vote. Do you think his stance on marijuana, legalizing marijuana which is legal in colorado, is helping him and that his support could actually increase and take away votes from Hillary Clinton . Well, its hard to say. We have a lot of millennials here. Right . Weve been one of the Top Destinations for ma len yammiil the last decade. Certainly taking some votes from Hillary Clinton but also a lot of republican votes as well. My guess, the polls ive looked at, put him in or take him out, it only affects the difference by one or two points, and hillary still has a Comfortable Lead here in colorado. So you think its a done deal for her in your state . No. No, no. Not a done deal. I think that secretary clinton has a good lead, but i think, you know, getting the vote out, making sure that everybody who is registered does vote and people can register up to the last day. A big effort by both sides to register voters. How big of an issue is marijuana in colorado right now . Neither of the, neither trump nor Hillary Clinton wants to legalize it. Right . Right. Neither of them came out in favor of recreational legalization. My guess is not that big an issue in the president ial election. Its still, you know, anytime you go anywhere around colorado, its hotly debated. Are you looking ahead . Theres been one of the names mentioned often as a possibleVice President ial running mate. Are youing whoing forward, if shes elected president to maybe moving here to washington, d. C. . Well, first, lets get her elected, and i think there are a lot of list with a lot of peoples names. I have about the best job in the world. Right . I have to go around one of the most beautiful states in america and help you know, people solve their challenges. It would be it would be a hard sacrifice to go to washington. Not saying if she came and said heres why you need to be here, i would certainly listen, but im not going out and lobby for it, making phone calls, hey, put in a good word for me. I have the greatest job in the world, or one of the greatest jobs in the world. Well, i can second that, because ive spent a lot of quality time in colorado. Its a beautiful state indeed, and youre lucky and blessed to be the governor of that wonderful state. Governor, thanks very much for joining us. You bet, wolf. Anytime. Thank you. Coming up, the last stand for mosul. Isis fighters streaming in armed with suicide belts and boobytraps, and the battle for the city reaches a critical point. So whats the future of iraq . The state Department Spokesman john keshi kirby is standing by. Oh no, that looks gross what is that . 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As Iraqi Kurdish and other Coalition Forces close in, isis reign of terror in mosul could be coming to an end. They captured the city more than two years ago and will not leave without putting up a bloody fight. Witnesses tell cnn suicide squads are poring into mosul from raqqah and neighboring syria. Lets get a better understanding of whats at stake in mosul, the war going on right now. Im joined by state Department Spokesman john kirby. John, thanks for joining us. Great to be with you, wolf, thank you. Mosul is the secondlargest city in iraq. A Million People are still there. Its been an isis stronghold for more than two years, its a hard battle under way right now. Everything youre hearing at the state department youre getting diplomatic reports, how is the military offensive going. They are making Good Progress on the ground in and around mosul, no question about that and were seeing terrific coordination between the Peshmerga Forces and Iraqi Security forces so that is moving in the right direction, trend lines are going well, that said and i think you eluded to it a few seconds ago, this is going to be a tough fight. Nobody is saying its over by any stretch of the imagination. This has been a stronghold for isil now for two years, there is the whole battle began and i dont think anybody expects them to give it up without a struggle. So whats going on right now is theyre working on the outskirts of the city, theyre applying pressure to isil inside the city and i think youre going to continue to see that squeeze play continue and then eventually obviously theyll mount more aggressive operations inside the city itself. I think mosul will be a hard battle as well and presumably a dangerous one for the civilians caught in the middle. What about raqqah . The syrian stronghold. Ash carter said a military offensive for raqqah might begin in a matter of weeks. Is it realistic for the u. S. To do to be involved in both of these military operations at the same time . Well, we have the capacity to do that from a military perspective, no question about it. I would point out that we have already been active in terms of assisting and helping from the air in numerous operations inside iraq how many hmosul has everybodys attention but dont forget all the great work the isf has done. So we can support more than one operation at a time but youre right when you say this is these are fights for local indigenous forces to take on. The Iraqi Security forces are mounting the campaign against mosul. This is their strategy, their plan, were assisting it but its their thing to execute. The same will happen in rack car, i dont want to get into operations that havent happened yet. The secretary of defense spoke to the urgency in raqqah but we will do our part to support those efforts on the ground as they go after raqqah. As you say, its encouraging, the iraqi force, the kurdish forces, the peshmerga, theyre working so far together. Thats very encouraging. It is. We always associate isis with whats going on in iraq and syria but now theres some growing concern about the isis presence in afghanistan as well following the kidnapping and killing of about 30 people. How concerned is the u. S. How concerned is the state department that isis is now trying to establish some sort of caliphate in afghanistan . This is a long standing concern. Weve been talking to leaders about this for more than a year. If you listen to president ghani, he has talked about his growing concerns over the last year to 18 months about isil advancing inside his country. Weve seen these reports, theyre difficult to determine the veracity of them all but the idea that isil is trying to grow a presence in afghanistan is not a new idea and the idea that afghan National Security forces would be mounting increasing operations against them is not new. Our commanders in afghanistan have spoken to this. This is a group that has tried to and will continue to try to metastasize outside iraq and syria as they get pressured inside iraq and syria and afghanistan is one of those locations that weve been watching closely. Does isis have a significant presence in libya as well . Well, they have a present in libya, im loathe to give out intelligence estimates of the number but they have had a presence there in libya, it has grown in some scope over the last year or so. That said, i will also tell you that theyre feeling the pinch in libya, too, and youve been covering the operations and some of the strikes that have happened there. 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