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Situation is very quiet, but overnight we saw intense u.s. aircraft conducting air strikes on the last bit of territory held by isis which was basically on a hillside overlooking the town of bahuz. we heard aircraft overhead but stopped bombing. within a few hours, there was announcement for spokesman for the syrian forces, he said the battle had come to an end, that isis had been 100% defeated. then we were actually able to get inside the isis encampment itself. what we saw was a scene of utter wreckage where the area had been under bombardment for weeks and weeks. what we saw were dead bodie...

Not knowing what is going on for him and mattis was really a huge mistake. >> we see that the gunmen in the christmas market in france pledged allegiance to isis and two people were beheaded to isis. isis has a way of spreading mistrust for the united states. they constantly in propaganda say these are guys you can't trust and they will abandon you. does that impromptu, as you said, julian, leaving of troops in syria sort of play into that narrative and should we expect isis to use that tro try to recruit people in the future? >> well, they will. it looks like isis will use whatever they can t...

Create a regionwide war. >> and for those who don't follow the intricacies of the middle east politics, if you could just explain kind of this divergence because you have hezbollah which is shiite, the assad government which is either sunni, they are another sort of offchute and that's one fax and you've got isis which are sunni, purport to be, and how do the gulf states which are sunni somehow create safe zones or pay for safe zones that would be polited by shiite hezbollah, how does that make any sense? >> that really depends on whether or not you think the notion of safe zones that donald t...

We know a couple of things. we know that the u.s. helped with giving france some intelligence information when they launched a new round of air strikes in the wake of the paris attacks. we know that president obama has said that he is going to intensify the strategy to fight isis which, of course, is focused on air strikes. what president obama will decide, what he will announce, that remains to be seen, but this is a critical meeting, chris. it is a chance for these two leaders to reaffirm their commitment to each other and the fight against isis and it's also a chance for the u.s. to redoubl...

Involvement and the absence of america directing how we want to see this fight against isis go. into the vacuum that we are creating. france and russia are moving for their own reasons. france obviously motivated by the terrorist attacks in paris, and russia motivated earlier by its desire to support the assad regime. but now at vladimir putin acknowledged what i think we have believed for some time that that russian airliner with 224 civilians on board was brought down by a bomb planted by isis which had taken credit for it. so they are acting while we are watching in effect. and i think this...