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Side or we have the potential to come out of it on the other side with some renewal in this country and people have to recognize that it's up to us. it's not about the candidates. this election is not about them as we often hear. it's really about us. >> i like that glass half full stuff errol. thanks so much. and thanks to you, too, zeke miller. still to come, retaking mosul. iraqi forces try to force isis out of their last major stronghold in iraq. there's no one road out there. no one surface... no one speed... no one way of driving on each and every road. but there is one car that can conq...

That isis has occupied the second largest city in iraq for about 18 months now. and nothing has seemed to budge them in any way. do you think what you're seeing so far, and we're about 12 hours into this now, indicates that there is progress toward that ultimate goal of liberating that city? >> for sinjar, i believe that's going to take weeks. for mosul, i believe the iraqi security forces and peshmerga forces are going to need months before they're able to go into mosul and retake that from isis. it will not be a quick fight. >> not at all, not with them in that city and dug in for more than ...

Here in terms of the man power, some 7500 peshmerga soldiers on this fight against several hundred -- maybe 700, if you will, that's a slippery number, of isis fighters, but there are real challenges the peshmerga are up against in trying to take this town. what are the difficulties they have? >> when you go from fighting out in the open where american aircraft can provide so much support to fighting inside the city, those numerical differences are, in many ways, immaterial. fighting in urban terrain, going from house to house, where you can't use the american air support, where you can't use ...

A deportation force to move out 11 million undocumented immigrants. but is that possible? we'll ask the head of u.s. customs and border protection. he's joining us. >> hello, i'm kate bolduan. >> i'm john berman. a key moment in the battle against isis. a major assault in northern iraq. u.s. coalition warplanes, providing cover in this new intense fight to reclaim a strategic city? >> this centers on the town of sinjar. kurdish soldiers are attacking isis there from three sides. nick paton walsh is near the front lines of this battle with more. >> reporter: the key fight for sinjar seems to ...

Yesterday. general, thank you for being with us. obviously, returning those people's homes to them is of serious importance. let's talk about the strategic value of sinjar. hopefully we can put up a map to show where it is. tell us why sinjar is important in the battle against isis, both in iraq and syria. >> as nick brought out, it really is a choke point between raqqa in syria and mosul to the east. the real objective for the iraqi security forces is mosul. retaking mosul in the near term has been an objective for them for quite some time. by taking sinjar you cut route 47, which makes it ea...