Audience thank you. Harper with National Defense magazine. Mr. Secretary, can you give us a review of the kind of people youll be adding to the Defense Innovation board in the future, people who might surprise us. You tasking them with tackling any particular urgent challenges, or is it more of just a general, how are you doing business, and the kind of looking at . Youre sec. Carter well, i would have told you if i was going to tell today. But you get i mean, i think right, i see tune, reid hoffman, who son, these are people know something about innovation and have actually done it. So are there going to be surprises . There are surprises for you. Im certainly looking for surprises for me. Thats the whole reason to have is i want to learn from them things that we havent thought of that would be good us. Now, im not expecting them, just to show you, im not to know about defense. I know about defense. Defense. E know about thats not my problem. I would like to know whats going on in the outside world thati might not know about has proven successful that might be applicable to us. Thats what im looking for. Nd these are all innovative people. And i, just in conversations with them, i have this time. Ence all the people say, well, heres what i did to build my company, to think my way through this problem. To get people i needed. Hmm, now, to myself, why havent we done that . Nd a bug bounty is a perfect example. Chris lynch, i dont know if chris is still around. Why hadnt anybody in the that . Government done well, theres not really a good answer to that, right . Its a pretty successful thing. Its essentially free. And you get all of this talent, and theyre having a great time. Getting a security audit for free. Its like, wow, pretty good deal. Well, somebody else thought of that. We didnt think of that. If all we ever apply is things thought of, were not going to remain the best. You know, wonderful as we are, think of going to everything. The whole point is to connect to innovation. Rld of kevin and as reporters, i was formerly an investigative used to ask the military the same thing. The big data set, how come you that . Do the answer was always, because congress didnt tell us to. Dont have mandate, the rule. Sec. Carter need more get up and go than that. Kevin ill take the last question. You mentioned earlier congress, you needed approval to do a lot especially you want, with reforming acquisition and john mccain put forth some things. Whats your response to some of suggestions right now . Sec. Carter its mixed. Appreciate the effort that both chairman mccain and chairman thornberry and their have put in, because i think theyre trying to think the same way. Whats in the future . So i do have some differences. And, in general micromanagement from the hill of what our functions eadership is not a good idea. Some time and ke think that there are important ideas having to do role of example, the he chairman in integrating combatant commands transregionally. Ive made some proposals there. Theres definitely a need there, and i would like to that. To people about improving our acquisitions system. Ive been at this a long time, always ready to talk to people about those ideas. But the two things that i hope through and that i agree with are eferring wartime funding in a time of war, and budget instability. That just really hurts us. And all i can do is ask people come together behind us. And all these management again, is and so forth, think micromanagement by the congress of executive departments is not a good way to go. Willing to work with them in terms of provisions. Proposals made some yesterday. This is the first of the future will require being enacted. But theyre the ones that our enior leadership, our service secretaries, our joint chiefs of and the senior leadership, you know, we really fought hard about these things. Years working and through them and theyre considered proposals by the charged with ve running the department of defense, and i think that we respect the judgment, the collective judgment, of the eadership of the department of defense and so i hope we can work through some of these with them. Kevin war funding and instability are the two things ive heard youre the third to worry aboutry those things, since ive come to the pentagon. So never too early to ask. Around to ng to be keep these all these changes nd initiatives going january 20 . Sec. Carter president obama, every day hes president , as me to. He wants m confident, though, that the ideas that weve been talking about today makes so much sense hat theyll continue in the future. I mean, look at these, people roper. Ll this is necessary. I think everybody gets it. Gets the logic of it. And so im confident that long any individualor leader is gone, these things are they to continue, because make so much sense. Kevin well, thank you. Wrap up, i think its very important to have this conversation now, and i thank here, ry much for coming because its been about a year plus since your initiative has started. I said on the top, there has been a lot of reporting at ifferent levels for the Security Press corps, things like technology. Ive been with you on the road, him talk to ar scientists and computer labs. Its a whole other ash carter, talking about that and white house policy and budget lines. But its an exciting field and i then t does take hold and well have a lot more to talk about. So we want to thank all of our participants today and thank audience, for showing up, those of you watching on the live stream. Underwriters like d. A. And dale and the rest. Privilege take the to announce, this is our tech is it but the biggest event the big one on november 17 at the marquis. I hope ash carter will help me get a lot of great speakers for welcome ell and youre to come back anytime as well. And i have to thank my mother who are here, Front Row Center the entire time. [applause] mother a ve given my great birthday present for the weekend. Thank you, everybody. Secretary. You, mr. [applause] captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org]. Announcer cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Saturday morning, bloomberg legal editor lance rogers talks about the supreme to hear two Death Penalty cases during the next term. Hen the latest on the college rape incident at stanford university. 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Nice to see a little jovial friday afternoon spirit here in breaking room. Im joined ou know, today by brett mcgurk. President ial ial envoy to our coalition to destroy nd ultimately isil. As you know, brett has periodically come to the stand at the to podium and give you an update on our efforts to counter isil not ust in iraq and syria but around the world. So hes here with an update. The update hell be providing of you will be similar to the update the president will receive when he convenes his on onal Security Team tuesday of next week. As you know, the president periodically every two or three meeting with his national Security Team to review rogress and to consider any updates to our strategy. So that meeting will be convened at the treasury department. Usual assortment of National Security officials will be joining him for that meeting and, as usual, the president will have a statement at the conclusion of the meeting to sense of what was discussed. Ill turn it over to brett. Hes got opening remarks and a here and hell stick around 10 or 15 minutes to take questions. It t, do you want to take away . Brett mcgurk its great to be here. I was here a few months ago. I want to give an update on this and challenging campaign. When the president addressed the American People in september talked about our global to grade and ultimately destroy isil. Weve made a lot of progress where we were back then until now and even where we were when i addressed you some months ago. Do is just kind of briefly how we analyze this most difficult challenge. Mind, ant to keep in before i talk about the progress, i want to put the caveat in, this is one of the terrorist nging situations weve seen in some time. 40,000 foreign fighters from all the world have poured into syria the last four years. Unprecedented challenge in terms of numbers but thats why to build a global effort to address it. It in three dimensions. Theres the core in iraq and syria. Selfproclaimed caliphate. Ony ive traveled around the world and the common denominator when i ask leaders what is it thats young people to this movement . The common denominator is this of a common on caliphate so we have to shrink the core and ill talk about that in some detail. Thats the core and then there are the Global Networks, the fighter networks that feed the iraq and syria, the Financial Networks and the propaganda networks, and we are ly through a Global Coalition every single day thoseing and constricting networks. I just came from a state department where i addressed 66 ambassadors and representatives coalition to talk about how were doing, particularly in that Global Network piece. Seven n they have affiliates around the world, selfproclaimed affiliates. Get too rtant we dont distracted about these. Many are preexisting terrorist as bocaho ran and nigeria. Focused on them even after theyre flying the black flag of isil. Like libya where we see isil sending some of its libya to set up an affiliate, we do get concerned and focus on it. Leaders quite effectively with precision which weve done and work with the backnment to begin to take the territory isil holds, and that is very much under way. Let me go through very briefly look f the indicators we at in terms of how were doing against isil, and ill just kind eightill allude to about of them, because it shows where we are and where weve been. Morale , we look at the of the overall fighters and the overall force, and the morale it was pared to where even four or five months ago is plummeting. Were seeing them execute their fighters on the battlefield. Were seeing them unable to move fighters around the battlefield seeing recruits fall off precipitously. Dont take it from me. And at their own statements what they say to their own potential recruits. Terrorist sman is a named mohammed adnani. E has talked for years about this movement as a global historic expanding movement. Say in their y propaganda is that we are going to retain and expand our territory. Expand. Stantly going to a year ago, their propaganda was hese black flags taking over the middle east and moving into southern europe. His last statement several weeks ago was very different. Said, we might lose raca, we might lose mozul, which they but were still going to be around so come join us anyway. Ts kind of a very different message that were hearing and i think its one thats not quite as appealing to the potential recruits. Morale is plummeting and theyre executing their own fighters. Umber 2, their ability to hold territory. They have not had a successful operation, particularly in iraq, in over a year. 50 of their about territory in iraq, about 20 of the territory in syria and its continuing to shrink. Most importantly, the strategic territory that they held is shrinking quite dramatically. Border with turkey is no longer accessible to them, and in iraq, ficant towns made, tecrete, ra arukba, going out in the western accessible longer to them and all the connections between raka and mozul have been cut off. Number 3, their access to readycombat fighters. Summer of in the 2014 they had as many as 31,000 fighters in their ranks. Down, at the lowest historic point weve seen, we an mate, its hard to get exact number but between 19 and 25,000 and its continuing to shrink quite rapidly. To recruit and to move foreign fighters around the world, which is very important of our homelands, is also much more difficult. President went to the u. N. Security council and the u. N. General assembly in 2014 passed a Historic Security Council resolution 2178, that really shined the global spotlight on this problem. With then, and in working our coalition, 45 countries have enacted laws to restrict the terrorists toeign travel through their territory. 35 countries have made arrests in broken up cells and through sharing information between different capitals, we learn more and more and create a virtuous cycle. We now have informationsharing agreements with 50 countries all this,d the world to combat and were working very closely with interpol. Interpol is a critical partner ours. We have about 4,000 isil foreign fighter profiles in the interpol database. A 400 increase from when we started this in the fall of 2014. Guys much harder for these to travel and move around. Fourth indicator, their access revenue. Their revenue, we think weve cut off entirely their revenue outside. Oming from the they rely entirely on self generation. Il, oil trade, sale of antiquities and we have systematically gone about with work ood intelligence throughout our whole government effort to target that. Theyve cut their salaries in half. You know, weve talked about it before and targeted their oil production. Targeted their trucks that move the oil around and they are no longer able to do what they used to do. Again creates a virtuous cycle. They cut the pay to the fighters. Dont want to remain in the organization. Hey desert, their morale plummets, they cant fight and we can beat them on the battlefield. Our fifth indicator is the borders. When we started it, they controlled the entire syrian and now that is shrinking rapidly, particularly monvich,going effort in which ill talk about briefly. Six, they have capable and leaders. This is an organization in which in 2014 went in mozul at the grand mosque in mozul and said were caliphate. G a we havent heard from baghdady since late last year, and this a confident organization. You can just see it in their own tatements so their leaders are not nearly as confident, not nearly as capable, and we are killing one of their senior or leaders once every three days now. Weve taken out about 100 just months alone, ew and this is because of the intelligence that were able to gather from everything that were doing. Fact that we have local actors on the ground, local ground working closely together with us on intelligence, everything the doing over iraq and syria and everything the heroic forces are doing on the ground and syria is creating this virtuous cycle. The propaganda is not what it before. They had an open season in 2014. Weve worked very closely hroughout the Global Coalition to make sure we get this stuff off twitter, off facebook, off youtube. Very closely with facebook and twitter. Taken about 125 proisil handles. Every proisil, theres about six counterisils day, 24 7. Every we have several partners in this, the u. K. Asia. Localized structure but were going at it every day. Global cohesion. They see themselves as a global organization. Cohesion is shrinking at the heart of their socalled aliphate in syria and iraq to their socalled affiliates is drying up and shrivelling up. Its harder to get into syria now. They tell the recruits, dont think about coming to syria, coming to libya but libya is increasingly not a hospitable environment for them. If you think about libya which isnt in the news as much as iraq and syria. Few months ago there was no government in lib yachlt theres now a government backed by the united nations. In tripoli. Ground its working with local forces working on the ground with that that is pushing into the heart of what isil thought was a strong hold and cert and theyre making real progress. We have a lot of work to do in libya. Theres a lot of actors on the ground and its a core principle ours that actors need to recognize that civilianled there, if and from the government of libya requests help from the international ammunity i think theyll find very willing partner. Let me briefly highlight a few points on this map. This map the last time i was here, and just to ituate everyone, every color that is in this map are areas that isil at one point or another controlled. Of 2014, all er those colors, pause they were baghdad, you n might remember those days. Everything in green are areas that theyve lost since then. In orange are areas the very control and small splotches of dark red are areas theyve actually gained. End ofp only goes to the april which is unfortunate because since the end of april of majornched a number offensive operations with our partners on the ground. So theres a lot more green on there was at han the end of april and we hope to have an updated map coming out in the next week or so. Highlight a couple of points on the map. I wont go through the whole hing but, number 1, thoot the kilometer the 98 strip of border with turkey which is very important. Its the last strip of border it controls. Done a great job of sealing off the area on the turkish side of the border but take the territory away in syria we remain vulnerable. Town there called monvidge, which is where we attackers and is brussels attackers pooled in they would here organize their attack. So we have to work with forces this ground to close out area. Weve pushed this is the mara line, the extent of isils western advance and weve worked to push sition groups to the east. Thats proven to be very difficult because they have met from ierce resistance isil, suicide bombs, truck bombs. So we opened a new front about a week ago and this is going extremely well. A force called the syrian emocratic forces and the force that is doing this operation, theres about 3500 of them, and it is based upon a core we set when we developed this strategy, and this is fundamental to the fundamental to our dod campaign plan, and also the strategy. C