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To be pivoting towards his legislative agenda tweeting about health care and massive tax cuts reform package he says is moving along very well, promising big benefits to all. he's expected to hold rallies in the coming weeks to push his agenda. >> the ballots to retake mosul could soon be over. the iraqi military said it launched an operation that captured part of thety still held by isis. the terror group took over mosul in 2014 and the u.s.-backed defense to claim it has taken eight months. it's taken longer than planned because isis militants are dug in among civilians. more than 100 u.s. o...

Into coalition air strikes that may have played a role in the reported deaths of more than 10 civilian. the general added the fight in mosul is, quote, very, very difficult and will continue to be a challenge. joining us from london, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. difficult situation in mosul, getting worse by the day for the civilians and for the fight there among the americans and isis fighters backed by the iraqis. >> that's right. good morning, ayman. iraqi troops are slowly surrounding an important mosque in western mosul. the unuri mosque is where baghdadi announced the est...

Showed some of the members with sledgehammers and jackhammers destroying statues in the mosul museum. in early of 2014, before isis took over mosul, a mosul museum was slated for renovation. they moved several honey temperatu hundred items out of the museum and made cheap replicas. that is what we see in the video of the isis members toppling over. although isis has gone on a rampage throughout northern iraq, an area with 3,100 archaeological sites. some destroyed. this is the one story where it seems that the archaeological

Bob, let's start with you here. richard cohen, he lays this argument out pretty clearly. do you think american leadership is dwindling? >> well, certainly it is in the middle east, suzanne. look, obama came into the white house saying, look, the place is broken and there's not much i can do with it. iraq is broken. we can ameliorate. when isis took over mosul in 2014, he reacted at that point, but generally he has kept a hands-off policy on the middle east and it shows. and the fact we were not invited to this meeting in moscow between iran, turkey and russia, it tells us we are fairly irrelev...

The door unless you have a bunch of analysts saying that we are managed poorly, and that is what you will find. >> and president obama says he wants a full review. and he does not want any sugar coat canned reports of intelligen intelligence, and so when isis took over mosul, the second largest city in mosul, the iraqi forces ran away. then there was later documents that said they re-deployed. >> so it is unfortunate to have something like that to reach the highest level. so you take raw intelligence and indecertainable report and turn it into what has been made. and having been one of the guy...