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Relationship between russia and assad becomes problematic. concerned about the suspension of the hotline. this was done back in april when president trump launched missiles to punish them for the chemical warfare. it's very concerning when there is this conflict around our coalition around fighting isis. >> eric: one of the issues around this, even if you push isis back, yes, there is a global coalition but what happens to these territories they used to have. syria, russians, the iranians, who gets it? >> kat: syria is a mess and candidate trump understood it and wanted to avoid getting involv...

Clearly used to show they will use what's necessary. outside of our notice, key towns are falling again to the taliban. over half the country contested by that insurgeoncy or fully controlled by it. it's staggering given the -- over 16 years has been in war now. and of course hearing from the president of afghanistan saying it was aimed at pushing isis back, isis has gained ground, people are tired by the fact they haven't won power back again, so yes isis on the front foot there they call themselves isis k, they want to control and are potentially a key threat in a war frankly that the u.s. l...

This falls on the spectrum. the general said giving us debrief, the enemy of our enemy is still not our friend. it is indeed still our enemy. i think that is important. we sometimes get this false choice space, well we had to choose around alliance. let's be clear. i don't think that is our choice. harris: we'll not align ourselves with isis. i spent time with special on very to syria on friday. he was looking forward to meeting with trump's team. one of the things he wanted to communicate to the president-elect is very simple the if you choose to push isis back, it doesn't get the movement fo...

>> reporter: yeah, you know, george, it is the nature of the fighting out there in the desert region. it's very flat. what you see there is forces like isis and the syrian army making quick gains but being pushed back very quickly as well. it seems like what happened is there was a lot of fog and bad weather over that territory in palmyra which somewhat sidelined the russian and syrian air force toss conduct air strikes to hold isis up. isis used it for an almost blitz-like attack. right now, they're binding most of their troops in that battle for aleppo. isis made quick advances and apparentl...

Islamic extremists. the second they're done dealing with assad they'll think about other people they want to wage jihad in the region. >> would that be isis in a fight for predominance or turn to us and israel and sort of unite with isis? >> i think they'd first try to kick ices to the side because they want the glory to be about them which brings us really to the next question of who replaces isis? say everything goes our way, we push isis back. >> you say number one threat of 2016 potentially, if ices were to get pushed back, who replaces them? >> exactly. those apocalyptic end times prophec...