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Expressed hopes of bringing the troops home sooner but now says the plan is to finish defeating isis first. >> one of the things we haven't been given is a time line. that's very effective. in afghanistan we operated against a time line that was known by the enemy. the president has been good in not giving a specific time line. that's a tool we can use to our effect as we move forward, as we reach finale against isis in syria, we'll adjust the level of our presence there. in that sense, nothing has changed. >> arthel: joining me now is john garamendi from california, a member of the house tran...

The united states. >> arthel: why is that? >> well, this is the -- that's precisely my concern, is that our interest in the area is not at all clear. the president says we're going to be out of there, we're going to turn it over to somebody else. is somebody else iran? iran is no friend of the united states. and certainly russia's been an adversary. we know that russia's trying to reassert itself in the middle east to the detriment of the united states and our allies. the point i'm trying to make here is we need a coherent, strong strategy about what we're going to do now that isis is either o...

Economically as well as politically, unless we want to turn over that entire region to iran and that would be a serious mistake. we do have allies that are opposed to iran, certainly saudi arabia being the principal one but there are others. so what we need to do is have a coherent strategy. we're certainly going to have to deal with russia because they are seriously in place, in syria. turkey has a very, very critical interest, not only because they're the neighbor, but also because of the kurds who happen to have been our ally in the effort to eliminate isis. and so in that complexity, the u...

Welcome back. you're watching msnbc. i'm stephanie ruhle. time for your "morning primer." everything you need to know to get your day started. tropical storm cindy made landfall in the southwest last night in louisiana near the texas border early this morning where residents could face up to 12 inches of rain and winds over 40 miles an hour. the storm has taken one life so far, a 10-year-old boy in alabama on wednesday. and the fbi opened a terror investigation after a police officer was stabbed at a flint, michigan, airport on wednesday. the 52-year-old suspect allegedly shouted ay eed al...

What she calls the safe space for islamist extremism, and doing that through cyberspace. we've heard authorities talk about cracking down or getting twitter and facebook to crack down. what's -- how realistic is that, from your counter-terror expertise, and what would be the value? >> you know, i was online back in 2012, even 2013, when isis first came into syria. we were tracking isis foreign fighters for three years straight almost every day online engaging with them. it's a two-sided coin. if you block accounts, then you lose the ability to track them. you don't know who they're connecting ...