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That's why we end up today. >> phil, you mentioned before you think one of the things that's happening here is isis is losing ground in certain areas, so they're staging attacks like this in istanbul as a pr offensive. i feel like that's the same thing we heard a year ago in the paris attacks, and the year before that in a different attack, that's what was said then. isis keeps on losing territory and keeps on having the ability to carry out these attacks. do they need the territory to be a viable and lethal terror organization? >> over the long term they do. and by that i mean in my world as ...