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To do many of them, but rather appealing to bloody-minded people that would like to kill in spectacular ways. >> we were talking about before this segment started about this battle. and i was shocked to hear how you guys were describing it the what does it is a that the warfare became so terrible in this particular battle, this particular moment and it took so long to break isis' hold on the city and what does it mean going forward to how the war on terror is going to evolve? >> so the bat of mosul was intense, particularly as it got more and more concentrated in the old city. mosul is a big h...

9/11. suddenly thin sur gent group who had taken smaller cities, fallujah, ra maddie, took the second largest city in iraq in a middle-income city. everyone knew that mosul would have to fall eventually and they knew if it fell it would spell the end of the caliphate at least in iraq, and if not isis, at least their territory. >> there is this desire, i think, among the american people historically and now to somehow declare victory. >> yeah. >> what does victory look like. >> donald trump has declared victory said isis is defeated but we have al qaeda morphant to isis. how do you declare vict...

Isis, rise and fall, including how they recruit and if the terror group has really been defeat. also with us is the contributing writer at the "new york times" magazine and national geographic, james verini. they will have to die now, m mosul. he writes this. in mow stull was obvious they would make thane their grand last stand smaller, fights would follow, but this would be the showstopper if the would be not just the biggest and most devastating battle of this war but the biggest battle in a sense the culminating bait will of wh battle of what the war as terror. when it was done they could c...

Their hostility toward the west. whenever they saw our cameras, the women and some of the children would raise a single finger in the air just like they were taught to do. it represents the one true god who could never be defeated. is it over? isis finished. >> translator: no, next time it will be in your lands. >> that's just incredible reporting, richard. james, i want to bring you in on the conversation to talk specifically about mosul and the fighting there and why that may have helped to turn the tide in those ten months or so. >> the defeat in mosul helped to turn the tide? >> yeah. >> m...

New order in that area. was the best recruiting tool. has that proven to be true or has recruiting slowed down since the caliphate's been blown to pieces? >> a different kind of recruiting. there were people who were attracted to isis because of its success, because it had a physical state, because it was able to show that it had territory, it had the city of mosul, and people wanted to join in and join what seems like a successful project. the state was take ineway, so that narrative for isis has become more and more difficult to sell. but there are still many people who were part of isis, wh...