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Fight. i understand the reason we are fighting i know why we are here and i know terrorists seek safe haven. >> a point echoed by britain's defense minister. he warned of the ever-growing threat from isis pays big we've seen terrorist groups operating here in afghanistan, evidence they are linked back not just of the united kingdom but the whole of continental europe. >> fears of a similar attack to last year's in manchester. today 15,000 american troops remain, down from over 100,000 during the obama administration. lastly, the u.s. military's top officers had the reduction marketing strategy...

That we learned today from the german foreign ministry, sources told us, as we asked for more details on this issue. so we're doing our homework and we're getting the facts on this and the american people need to know that. it is not just as if they are willy-nilly throwing money at russia instead of their joint military commitments. added to that, germany has been moving its military commitment up. it happens to be the second-biggest contributor to nato after the united states, and, as lang merkel has told the president and told everybody else, german troops, german military logistics, german...

To a sustained campaign in response to syrian chemical weapons attacks. to be fair it's a different situation. the u.s. ground forces there withdrawing them is different from a sustained what appears to be an air campaign. it is allowing them to sustain military commitment on the ground there in response chemical weapons attacks. we should make clear in the last year that profited the previous u.s. response there have been dozensov dozens of attacks with chlorine gas. it brought no u.s. military response. has the president committed

Campaign he's talking about when he talks about a sustained commitment, not just an open ended military commitment. but if it took that amount of clarification for reporters to understand and other viewsers who listen on the speech to understand exactly what just happened, i'm sure a lot of america's adversaries are going to be asking the very same question. was this some sort of open ended commitment. you're going to respond every time there are allegations of chemical weapons. or was it, as officials explain it to me now, a one-off campaign with implied threat and continueses economic and di...

This clear military commitment attracted the support of allies broadly and equipped our diplomats with a whole new level of certainty around how to prepare for the peace talks and achieve the final objectives. in other areas where progress remains, much work remains. in syria, cease fires and stabilizations which we now know have saved thousands of lives. there's more to be done in syria, particularly with respect to achieving the peace, stabilizing iraq and seeing a healthy government installed and more broadly the global campaign to defeat isis. much work remains to our work with china.