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it's debate week so we have james here, too. 30 second spin room then we'll let you go. since i have you both here what's key for debate night, nicolle? >> i just think people need to understand this has never happened before. it's a huge television event. it's a huge political event. the conversations we have every day with our viewers and brilliant people like james are not things a lot of americans going to watch in the debate are going to be tracking day to day. it's hugely important. huge opportunities for both men and huge liabilities and risks for both men. it's why people wat...

Backed individuals who are associated with the former regime. basically the russian backed regime. >> the manafort's -- >> exactly. and it shows that political activity by russian backed entities was so intertwined with the trump campaign in 2016. that was the main play and putin is going right back there and sparing nobody. >> the new york times and others are a bit weary to go ahead and confirm that gates is now cooperating with the mueller investigation. they just can't nail it down. the post can't nail it down. nobody seems to be able to nail it down and yet, don't all the signs point to t...

On one man. >> if you ask me, what's the most important factor in iraq, driver behind the resurgence of isis, i would say nouri al maliki. >> the iraqi prime minister whom the bush administration had helped put into power in 2006. >> i appreciate your commitment to representing the people of iraq. >> back then, maliki's appointment was tauted by the administration as a triumphant moment for the newly democratic iraq. i appreciate i recognize the fact that the future of your country is in your hands. >> to ensure the success of democracy, al maliki needed to heal the powerful schism between the...

Well, much of it can be pinned on one man. >> if you ask me, what's the most important factor in iraq, driver behind the resurgence of isis, i would say nouri al maliki. >> the iraqi prime minister whom the bush administration had helped put into power in 2006. >> i appreciate your commitment to representing the people of iraq. >> back then, maliki's appointment was tauted by the administration as a triumphant moment for the newly democratic iraq. i appreciate i recognize the fact that the future of your country is in your hands. >> to ensure the success of democracy, al maliki needed to heal ...

Isis, the sunni soldiers in the iraqi army simply said no. >> for many sunnis, they looked at the iranian backed regime, baghdad, they looked at isis, and some of them made the disastrous calculation that isis was the lesser of two evils. >> the last american soldier left the country in 2011, after the u.s. could not reach agreement with maliki to maintain a military presence. >> the question that we ask today, when people look back at that decision, what would we have done with 10,000 u.s. troops? would they have enforced security? and frankly would we have wanted them to be fighting in place...