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When an isis fighter is spotted, the artillery rains down. throughout the day. they want this fight to be over. news reports cited iraqi officials elsewhere are saying the mosque could be retaken. a bizarre scene, given how lethally, painstakingly they were advancing. huge political stakes here for iraq, yet this fight is spearheaded by a few dozen men, two bulldozers. a drone. thargs has been shot down. fighters are quiet during the day. but it appears a drone put up in the sky working out the offensive position, towards us here. more gunfire exchanges. and as they grind slowly towards the ed...

That it is in an offensive position and has power. so yes, when supporters see this at this time gives them sense in isis tank. >> over the months we have seen a lot of isis territory shrink. you said this is -- they are evolving an this is how they want people to think mentally. it's a mind game for them to do this. do you think it's a sign of their weakness or strength? >> it is a sign they have transformed. there was a period when isis was telling its supporters at all costs come to our territory, go to the utopia we are creating and contribute to it. now isis said to supporters, if you do ...

Like we are still not getting anything done. >> barack obama came in a big way, he had both chambers of congress and he didn't get a lot of things done because he was fighting with his party. frankly what the democrats need to do is find their own vision. they need to find an offensive position and run a play. they need to show the american people that even in the opposition they are worthy of coming back to be the majority party. if they only find a way to be obstructionists they won't come back because donald trump whether we like it or not was a unique transformative figure in american poli...

Criticize comey. he continues to be under fire from both sides. >> hallie jackson in front of trump tower, thank you for that. >> now to casey hunt in miami following the clinton campaign with a good morning to you. this attack on the fbi director comey, what is the calculation? >> well, alex, it is very clear that the clinton team wanted to meet this in an offensive position. and not a defensive one. we have seen hillary clinton struggle sometimes to talk about this e-mail issue she has come across as defensive. i think everything you've seen from them so far in the wake of this letter from t...

Complete chaos in afghanistan, pulling people out, 9800 troops not nearly enough. i say this as a sibling of someone in afghanistan for a very long time. >> when you have a limited number of troops on the ground, worrying about protecting themselves, you are not in an offensive position, what we are doing is it is good, at least the changes his mind and leaving some troops, in the spring of 2002 after we did an extremely successful tactical mission against the taliban and al qaeda in tour of borrow we should have walked out the door, you do this again, allow your place to be used by outsiders ...