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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161107:10:54:00

everybody okay? everybody okay? dramatic and terrifying images from the battle to retake the iraqi city of mosul from isis. iraqi and peshmerga forces continue to advance on the city, while forces in the eastern part of the city clear neighborhoods. in syria, the massive military operation to eliminate isis from the so-called capital of raqqah is in its infancy. the mission was announced yesterday. and similar to the ongoing battle to liberate mosul, the u.s. is providing support with air strikes. nbc s foreign correspondent matt bradley is joining us live from erbil, iraq. defense secretary ash carter says this operation will not be easy, but it is vital. reporter: thanks, alex, that s right. this operation, which is known as wrath of the yu fray tees, has been in the works for several weeks, even months, and as you pensioned ash carter mentioned it late last month just as this battle for mosul ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161101:17:15:00

To support the iraqis and peshmerga as they move forward. highway close are iraqi forces now from actually entering mosul, and what s your assessment? how much longer is it going to take to liberate that city? well, they re in the outlying villages. again, we re ahead of schedule on most of the axis of advance. a good frort arwa. a revamped iraqi security force. some units we trained now fighting two years with some of the most forgetive forces in the region. they re battle hardened and have our support. they re in the outlying area, made good advances today, particularly from the access from the east. but again i don t want to get ahead of events. this is a very big city. this is an enemy that is barbaric. they are quite literally suicidal, spent two years building tunnels and boobytraps. so this will be a methodic s very careful and precise campaign. most importantly, this comes from iraq s prime minister, and from the coalition, first and foremost, protection of ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161101:14:39:00

State department policy. is donald trump against arming the kurds then, do you know? no, no, my heavens, he knows they should be our surrogate boots on the ground. i ve been trying to champion for three years. when i went to camp tiger, the peshmerga camp on isis front lines, they told me the simplest things. they don t have night goggles and the bad guys throw glen nameds in the buchkers at night and they can t see it coming. they can t debug the booby traps that isis sets up. i heard yesterday from my contacts there that the coalition is doing much better and they re providing much better arms. but they still have so many things we could provide them. i asked ed royce who s in a position to provide a field hospital. they don t have a field hospital. they have to take their people way into erbil or whatever. i think our treatment of the kurds has not been but the most important thing, carol, is the point that hillary clinton says she s for arming the kurds. i talked to van jones ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161029:08:17:00

Isis supply lines to the west of mosul. cnn s michael holmes is on the ground in erbil, iraq, following developments and joining us live this hour. it s a pleasure to have you with us. first of all, what more can you tell us about these advances on the battlefield and disagreements between the united states and the iraqis? reporter: yeah. there are those advances on multiple fronts. and different units are at different distances from the outskirts. we know of one, for example, iraqi counterterrorism unit that has eyes on mosul at the moment. there s peshmerga units four kilometers out, but there are still towns yet to be taken and secured 15 to 20 kilometers away. they ve got to get everybody on the same page as far as the encircling of mosul. a little bit of confusion, as you said, about the pace of the offensive or what s next. we had american officials saying last night, friday, that the iraqis would be pausing on some fronts to allow other units to catch up and consolidate which ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161028:08:50:00

Bloodier. almost 900 isis fighters have been killed. now the remaining are using civilians as human shields and retreated to the center of the city ready for advance of the coalition forces. we have michael holmes with the latest from erbil, iraq. michael. reporter: the push continue , john. i think there is a lot of activity in a couple of towns and villages outside of mosul. you have the peshmerga forces four kilometers outside of the mosul. there is an iraqi counterterrorism unit with eyes on mosul at the moment. you still have fighting going on in various places. we were in a town about 20 kilometers from mosul yesterday and it was pounded by coalition war planes. a couple of big 500-pound bombs ....

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