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>> nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the middle east." 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 el...

Group's ideology. graham, your article got a lot of play. it was controversial in certain quart 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 a...

On the religious sect of the people in the house and would write ysatis or shia or sunni. people were uncovering booby-traps and tunnels dug through people's living rooms. the city was totally destroyed and there are no civilians there right now. >> was there a sense of the people you talked to of a victory here. >> obviously it's horrifying what has happened and the city's been brutalized. did they feel like this had struck a blow, that this meant that they were on the march and isis was in retreat? >> reporter: if you talk to kurdish forces called the peshmerga they will say it's a huge vict...

This is the second poorest neighborhood in belgium. there have been terrorists that have come from here that have gone from madrid to paris to as far away as afghanistan. >> tell us about abdelhamid abaaoud, called the key organizer here. we don't know why he is, possibly syria? >> we think he is probably in syria at the moment. that is where he is alleged to have plotted this attack. he is a highly publicized crazy and cruel jihadist. there was a profile of him in the propaganda magazine of isis. there was a video of him dragging bodies out of a truck laughing, making jokes saying we used to ...

Their country. we keep talking about the free syrian army. it's in europe heading here. i'd get out of there, too. who wouldn't? i'd get out of that hell hole. it's their country. the primary people that should be fighting for that country's liberation are the people from that country. i'm not being a hard guy about this. we ought to be thinking about sending them to recruiting stations to win that war. right now there is no free shared army. we are losing because we don't have an army. this is an opportunity to build the army. thank you, howard fineman. i don't mean to talk like this. there i...