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If you take their propaganda, religious fundamental at face goal, they would be remised to provoke that response. one reason isis managed to hang on to so much terrain is you look where they have been booted out in iraq and syria and let's take northern syria. most areas are kurdish villages. sunni and kurds not losing terrain is the sunni triable heartland of eastern syria. the same thing applies, by the way, in iraq. they were kicked out of the province. this is what i call the briar patch for isis. this is where any kind of ground force that is not sunni arab in composition is going to meet...

The public domain as well. >> is there any chance -- i always feel like sometimes you think critique things that happen in the media. that is just not how it works right? so whenever i'm talking about congress, there is part mef that thinks i might be getting this wrong because i haven't served time. >> right. >> but i guess one of the questions i have is whether or not this is all genuinely happening or if some of this is stagecraft in order to produce, for example, a ryan speakership which is don't throw me in the briar patch which that is precisely where you want to go. >> it's true. i thin...

Quagmire and focus on attacking isis in the east. specifically, hopefully being able to reinforce the kurds. but as far as the western fight is over, it's game over. >> in the president's interview with steve kroft, he said, it's putin loose, that he'll get caught in a quagmire like afghanistan. >> well, there may be some truth to that. remember, if we look at history, eric, the russian people support wars in the near abroad, as they call it. they fully support the taking of the crimea, the fight in georgia and ukraine. but if you look back, you'll see they haven't done well. finland in 1940. ...

The moment that will be a problem for donald trump is when he says something like this that alienates the republican base. but so far, whatever you think of his comments attacking illegal immigrants, undocumented workers, attacking an establishment figure like john mccain attacking republicans in washington d.c. these things are not alienating the base. these things are attracting the base and the angrier that republican establishment figures and the media get at donald trump, the more you are throwing him into the briar patch, as it were. >> yep. jake tapper we'll see you at the top of the ho...

We're working with the ypg militias a kurdish militia. we provided close air support for them. in the first six months of 2015 over 1,000 air strikes were conducted in northern syria. more than half in or around the city of kobani the one that isis laid siege to. it was a months long campaign. eventually they were flushed out. 900-plus of those air strikes were essentially close air support for the ypg. we can boot them out of northern syria where the kurds have a predominant population presence. >> and because they have a strong fighting force. >> where we cannot be effective is in the sunni ...