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Nobody seems to want to put american combat troops. if isis and iraq and syria is something more like a state, are we kidding ourselves? can this be done without a large infusion of american combat troops? >> michael liter? >> i think the answer is no. we may not need the same number when we needed when we first went into iraq, but we need more troops to push the iraqis faster, more than 50 special operations forces in syria to take the fight there, and we have to make clear that they don't stand a chance against us. and right now we are basically playing even, and that helps the movement beyo...

Containing isis will not work. taking them out we have the capability of doing it and the focus should be on the future not the past. >> do you believe -- what do you say to voters that right now want outsiders, and they don't care that they don't have a lot of experience. do you think what happened in paris should change the mind-set of the republican voter? >> i think as we get closer to the primaries, people want to know who can sit behind the big desk. if you listen to some of the candidates speaking about syria, for example, they're all over the map. i laid out a strategy two months ago a...

That is not a contained organization. >> well, check, the president was referring very specifically to the question of isil's geographic expansion in syria. they had been on the march in iraq and syria for some time. we have been able to push back in iraq and syria. includes most recently in an operation with our allies in iraq. cutting off a key supply line from the capital to isil, iraq, and syria. so we have been able to apply pressure and take back territories, but we are seeing isil aiming to project power beyond the borders of syria. what is this that you have gotten wrong in under estim...

When paris first happened, u.s. officials told me they thought it would be al-qaeda. because they thought that al-qaeda was the kind of organization that looked abroad, looked to carry out complexiple attacks. if isis was the jv team, it no longer is. >> when you under estimate, that probably means that you're getting bad intelligence. what is our situation? we're not getting better intelligence because if we were we could better assess their capabilities. >> it is not a question of not getting good investigation, it is that there is too much. there are 3,000 to 5,000 people in france they're ...

Revealed that the french authorities know who they are and are working with the authorities in belgium, spain, and germany. i asked if they will escalate their fight against isis. >> it is an active war. it is a war against innocent people and our shared values. it is a war against what we are. and this war will give people, and to -- >> earlier this week president obama said isis had been contained. a phrase he is probably regretting right now. even that was a retreat from an earlier declaration and position when he said the u.s. aim was to degrade and destroy isis. joining me now is ben rhod...