Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190209:09:36:00
Which is it? what do you make of the messages? >> it's very confusing. it's very confusing not only for all of us who know a bit about isis, but even for the american public. remember, if there's one particular audience that president trump cares about, it is really the domestic audience, his base. he will say whatever it takes to satisfy the political base. this is what matters to him. the physical, territoryial state is almost dismand led, almost. they are still fighting in syria. i argue that isis already shifted into the second phase, which is insurgency. few americans know that isis, now,...