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Lieutenant, he is a former special forces officer who served in iraq and afghanistan. sir, thank you for joining us. what do you make of this development? >> it is a relaxing of a previous rule of engagement that we have seen. actually the commanders on the ground receiving the support that they know they need to continue to take the fight to isis. it's actually a good sign. >> melissa: they say their intent is to provide all weather fire support, artillery fires to support as they continue to isolate raqqa. do you think that is the most effective way for the u.s. to support those forces on th...

>> ron dermer wasn't there when i was there in september of 2010 when that so-called moratorium ended. the moratorium because done in the west banks, but did not include settlements. i remember when secretary clinton i asked to the moratorium to be extended, and the israeli prime minister refused. so i was in those meetings. i don't believe ron dermer was in those meetings. >> let me ask you this. there's been a lot made that there's been a campaign promise of donald trump to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. i don't think a lot of folks in the audience know exactly why that's important from...

Monopoly over such an important city is going to escalate tension in the region. i strongly believe the next administration will be wise enough to understand that jerusalem is going to be a sensitive issue, must be negotiated between the two parties, and no u.n. later-- unilateral action should be taken. >> you need to share jet stream among the sides because of its ties to multiple religions, but the knesset is there, it's effectively based there, what practical difference would it make if trump follows through? >> the partition plan of 1947, provided that jerusalem should be a corpus separat...

Being laid over parts of the street to prevent planes from seeing what's happening in the open ground there, a city which isis long prepared for a ground assault. i think we should park to some degree of distance to retake raqqa from isis until they were to flee voluntarily from it. we saw them do in sinjar, a town very symbolic and important for them in northern iraq, near where i'm standing, i think the key question is, when you have a nation like france with this understandable visceral need to exact some sense of reprisal against isis, how can they do that in a military effective way and c...

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