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>> we started the show with, are there good answers. and this is a tough question. we'll all stay pretty close over the next few days as we prepare for what is anticipated to be a strike against syria. joining me now, retired army colonel jack jacobs. he's an msnbc military analyst and a medal of honor recipient. colonel, good to see you. not under these terms but let's discuss this for a little while. these are the areas we are talking about in syria. we don't look at syria a whole lot, but this is important to understand. this is an area of kurdish control. this red is where the assad regi...

The white house is clarifying statements regarding chief of staff john kelly. pretty secretary sarah sanders tells cnn anyone can be questioned after saying it was inappropriate to debate with kelly given that he's a four-star general. this comes after kelly made false claims about a democratic congresswoman on thursday. the pentagon is now investigating why one of the four soldiers killed had in niger was separated from his unit. sergeant la david johnson was found about 1.5 clom the ters, that's nearly a mile away, from where militants attacked them. the british regional government says ...

President trump decided to not recertify the deal with iran. >> this could be iran flexing its muscles, too. >> dana: bret baier, thank you very much for wrapping up that press conference for us. >> see you, dana. >> dana: iraqi forces take back the city from kurdish control. kurds voted for independence from iraq just last month have also retreated from a number of northern cities. john hutty has new developments and joins me live. john? >> reporter: welsh dana, as you were just talking about with bret, president trump said the u.s. is not going to take sides in the fight, in the dispute betw...

You can see it in this child's face in a refugee camp under kurdish control. see it in a play put on by refugee christian actors who share a community's grief on stage. i talked with sister over the internet. >> can you still hear me? a dominican nun caring for christian children at this refugee camp. the connection was tenuous but we managed. >> sister, how do you explain isis to the children? >> they understand that isis is very, very dangerous. so they say we would like to be as a soldier to fight isis and we can't go back to our home. >> so even the smallest children want to fight isis as ...

Anb anbar provinces. >> the "washington post" describeding him as neither the failed state, nor the model democracy some had wanted. what is the state of the government right now from your perspective there? >> reporter: well, there is a few different tests. on one hand, it is a country that hasn't completely grappled with democracy. it hasn't struggled in materials of creating more political freedom but there is no doubt democracy has not taken route across the country. the central government still struggles in the northern part of the country under kurdish control. it is a loose amalf. the g...