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Deterred. the implication is that he would want to strike before north korea really consolidated this icbm capability. those statements are not helpful. they have not kept north korea from testing and i see no rejoon for doing so in the future. all they do is manufacture a dries sis, to try to ramp up the pressure and north korea just feeling it. >> adam, talk to us about the propaganda value, if you will, of such a test. within north korea itself, the value to kim jong-un. >> as you heard from the reporting, north korean citizens are enthralled by these nuclear tests and missile tests. each o...

Can you speak to the broader issue of the propaganda value, that they hope to achieve by saying we have an american, and this video basically talking trash on behalf of isis, and it is a young boy. >> we can confirm anything about this video, it is not surprising, isis has used children, they target children, they targeted an ice cream parlor about a year ago, before that, they targeted a children soccer game, so they used children not only to carry out attacks but also just in these brutal acts of violence, this is it allegedly from iraq, isis is fighting for their lives, about six or seven m...

It out to the end and the syrian regime is close by with an eye on getting back as much territory as it can. >> nick paton walsh reporting for us in syria. a lot to discuss with barbara starr. cnn investigative reporter, michael weiss, co-author of "isis, inside the army of terror." barbara, if or when isis does lose control of raqqah and mosul, what kind of an effect will that have on its overall strength? >> well, look, it takes away one of its biggest propaganda values to radical people around the world, people who radicalize. it can no longer really claim it's an islamic state. it takes aw...

>> nick paton walsh reporting for us from outside raqqah in syria. is a lot to discuss with pentagon correspondent barbara starr. and michael weiss, co-author of "isis, inside the army of terror." barbara, if or when isis does lose control of raqqah and mosul, what kind of an effect will that have on its overall strength? >> well, look, it takes away one of its biggest propaganda values to radical people around the world, people who radicalize. it can no longer really claim it's an islamic state. it takes away their state. but they still have considerable propaganda value. people get inspired ...

It's not just al franken and adam schiff, there are lots of democrats going way back saying he should have gone on tv, he should have made a presidential statement to talk about the effects, according to "the washington post" and intelligence agencies told him in august that vladimir putin was not only trying to interfere in the election but interfere to cause chaos, distrust in the election and to help donald trump. why the president didn't go on tv and make this, i don't know. a former communications director said something very interesting, we didn't take into account the propaganda value. ...