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Personality until he actually made that public appearance at the very beginning of the so-called caliphate in july of 2014 at that mosque in mosul. he was an unknown entity for most people. not just in the broader muslim world, but in iraq itself. unlike osama bin laden who he led the regime against the soviet occupation against afghanistan. i covered the final battle against the so-called physical caliphate. we spoke with dozens of captured isis fighters and their wives and their children. and i can tell you just a handful actually even mentioned baghd baghdadi when we spoke to them. their lo...

Reradicalized. when he was released then america pulled back. after the surge was successful, he took advantage of that then you saw the rise of isis and he moved into syria. you heard kevin refer to him as accidental. not particularly smart, not particularly a good public speaker. when we saw that video in the mosque with the fan behind him that's where the caliphate emerged and he said we are making a country based on an islamic state and the brutality we saw in the weeks and months and years after that only to be eradicated after president trump got elected and said we're not going to treat...

That's one of the problems, but obviously where the cultural problem in congress, over half of those people, at least in the senate, think they can be president, and that is the priority of being on tv, not taking difficult stances. >> tucker: i mean, we ask -- the services do an awful lot, including in syria. this must be dispiriting, i would think, for them. >> i think it is. but i think people get the mission, when the mission is a very narrow, focused, and achievable mission, like destroying isis's physical caliphate. when we are stuck and somebody else -- waiting to be sucked into somebod...

Military resources and suddenly set up a nato -- of it's own without skeers america involvement. it's going to be very important for europeans also that the national security adviser not -- that he does not belong to the gruch people who think that trump should make a deal with putin over european heads and to the detriment of the interests of european nations, especially in central and earn part of europe. >> and that's why natdly you're right in the guardian america must lead the free world the alternative is chaos. thank you all so much. next isis, is there life after the caliphate? account...

Retreat into the desert to fight another day. it could also shift its efforts to focus on the middle east and other parts of the globe. but a recent post offers us another glimpse of the future. he says the denied physical caliphate isis the brand will live on in cyber space and social media. it will become a virtual caliphate, stasis but global. even without a physical strong hold, isis could raise money so chaos and rekrut a generation of angry young people. isis would be competing for their attention with other terrorists brand like alqaeda. they would need to inspire more acts of violence ...