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Contingent that was successful in essentially destroying the group? >> i think the ground troops, the president is right, the ground troops have to be the local ground troops. we can have a limited number, maybe as we have 3500 in iraq and we just put 50 into syria. basically to advise and assist. if you look at the operation last week where the peshmerga cut off route 47 which is the main route from the raqqa to mosul which is the capital for the isil in iraq and they took back sinjar and they had americans advising and assisting, that's the way to go. you put american or western ground troop...

Play. it was controversial in certain quarters. how do you think what we've seen in paris and beirut and now it appears against russia fits with what your understanding has been of what "isis wants"? >> the first thing to say is isis back in march, 2015 when that article came out was doing quite well. now it is not. sinjar would be just one example. there are several others. and before its main focus was keeping territory, building a state. now what it seems to he have done is decided that it's time for a major change in strategy. and actually, adoption of tactics that before it thought were n...

A bomb that took down the metrojet over egypt a couple of weeks ago. isis claimed responsibility. isis apparently behind the paris bombings. these are capabilities that no one apparently knew they had. how could the u.s. and the west expectations of isis be so wrong? >> i disagree that people didn't know the they had this capacity. we certainly have known. >> that they could blow up a plane? >> sure. i mean, they have gained great expertise over a period of time and have some people in isis who have been fighting in the terror network for a period of time. so they have access to c are 4, to ex...

Shoe that drops. i was here ten months ago and you didn't know it was going to happen again so soon. but suddenly, belgium now is seen in kind of a different light as a potential hot bed of terrorist activity. europe has this unsettled sense of a threat right now. i think it potentially could become a big part of the final part of this presidency to the extent he's gone all-in with this current isis strategy and drawing a line in the sand that there be no troops. >> lester holt, thanks so much. >> great talking to you. coming up, governors of over half the states in the union have raised obj...

Meanwhile, donald trump has a new line about isis he's been working on stump speeches. it's getting pretty rapturous applause. >> i'm going to bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. it's true. i don't care. i don't care. they've got to be stopped. >> according to a new poll, 20% of americans believe trump is the best candidate to suited to deal with terrorism. tied with hillary clinton and far more than any other republican. trump's rhetoric on foreign policy as with everything else tends to be extremely simplistic as seen in an instagram video he posted today wrongly suggesting the u.s. does not scr...