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>> james: mark schwartz, who handles legislative affairs, spoke with john roberts sitting in for chris wallace on on "fox news sunday" about whether the tweets are instructing the president's agenda. >> does he make your job more difficult with what he does? >> i don't recall during the campaign members of congress being excited about the tweets and he won. he knows he needs to get around the mainstream media to get a story out and part of that story is what we have accomplished. >> james: traffic lane, how much forethought should we ascribe to the president? is there a strategy? >> i don't th...

Hundreds of civilians. in a sign of desperation, more civilians are being targeted in the tire group has reverted to insurgent tactics, sending women to blow themselves up. i >> most of the people who blew themselves up today were women, seven of them. some exploded themselves near fleeing families. >> the battle is not yet done and plumes of smoke billowing over the riverside districts, amid artillery blasts and bursts of gunfire. there is committed to be only a few hundred isis fighters left but tens of thousands of civilians are being used as human shields. >> translator: the problem is the...

Agreement. and its statement that it had removed them all. there's no longer any doubt the amount of it i don't want to get into right now. we don't reveal some of that detail because we don't want to reveal how we're finding out. >> reporter: fox learned from senior u.s. defense officials that the isis capital raqqa has been surrounded by u.s. backed troops. isis fighters cannot escape raqqa north of the euphrates. there's a small corridor others are using to leave the city. fox has also learned isis has essentially moved its capital. two months ago isis leaders quietly began setting up the b...

Firing mortar shells and rockets. they don't have forces. the battle for mosul any indication, the battle for raqqa may take weeks if not longer. much of the fighting is close quarters, street to street, building to building, house to house. retaking raqqa would be a crushing blow to isis and a major victory for the u.s.-led coalition. as the battle for raqqa rages on, so does violence in other parts of syria. 20 people killed, dozens wounded sunday when a suicide bomber attacked square in damascus. the violence comes as another round of cease-fire talks begin tomorrow. the syrian military ann...