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Isis controls, that territory, i believe must be retaken by mostly sunni arabs. and we have. >> it's not easy to get those people -- >> -- no it is not. >> equip them and train them -- >> -- yeah, but bill, okay. >> it's doable but not easy. on that note. >> it's not easy but by the way it's worse when we are helping iran, their arch enemy and because we have helped iran, they don't trust us right now. >> now tonight in south carolina, donald trump said this about all muslims. roll it. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until o...

Isis controls, that territory, i believe, must be retaken by mostly sunni arabs. and we have. >> it's not easy to get those people -- >> -- no it is not. >> equip them and train them -- >> -- yeah, but bill, okay. >> it's doable but not easy. on that note. >> it's not easy but by the way it's worse when we are helping iran, their arch enemy and because we have helped iran, they don't trust us right now. >> now, tonight in south carolina, donald trump said this about all muslims. roll it. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states unt...

Belgium. why is that short span so difficult to control? we're told that the turks have closed down two border sort of crossing locations and they see that as a positive sign but there's more work to do. the president put pressure on erdogan being the president of turkey to try to deal with that. that area is still very important. in terms of some of the other issues that are coming out, the diplomatic track, of course, remains important, but i think what officials wanted us to know is they believe if you reduce the physical territory that isis controls, that begins to further degrade it. part...

Of consensus? >> reporter: well, we talked to ben rhodes about that comment, and it is true according to the united states that isis has been pushed back territorially, but they also admit they have not been able to decapitate, to use their words, the command and control center which is somewhere in syria or in northern iraq, the areas isis controls, and the question is still whether these attacks that happened in paris and the attacks that happened in beirut and the downing of the russian airliner last week, if those attacks were coordinated and planned from a central location. if, in fact, t...

Line. >> they're certainly not going to attack anybody. >> this area in northern syria is now the focus of u.s. militariage. >> u.s. air strikes expected to increasely found isis targets. if the u.s. and turks can shut down this area, they hope to stop the flow of isis fighters into syria, and keep them off this route, straight into raqqa, the center of isis controls. >> i don't think it's possible to shut that border down by air strikes. you are not going to do permanent damage to groups like isis until you've got someone that can hold the territory that's an ally. donnell have that right now...