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Ground. >> they did the fighting. fighting it's a myth that the united states was doing the fighting. we were advising them for artillery and air support. for a modest investment, we got a huge payoff, destroyed the calcaliphate, pushed back the organization to a terrorist network, protected america, protected europe. huge, significant payoff for that investment. the se second thing that's happening is the iranians are massing on the western side of the you' river. we own everything on the eastern side. they're doing that as we speak. that is happening because they see an opportunity. the kurd...

Ideology. we have millions of kurds living in turkey, syria, iraq. we have good relations with all of them. we have no intention to harm them in any way. our fight is against a terrorist network, just as we fought about daesh and isis, we have to fight against other terrorist networks in syria. let me also underline that this safe zone will in no way affect negatively or diminish the fight against isis. we fought against isis and eliminated more than 3,000 of their tear rivets, and we have captured more than 5,000 daesh terrorists in turkey, expedited them or expelled them. we will not let the...

Perhaps others. i don't want to get into that. it's more internal american politics. what really i think will be of benefit to everyone is to make sure that we have this safe zone for everyone, including the kurds themselves. the idea that somehow this safe zone will turn into an incursion or oppression of the kurds is simply not in tune with the facts on the ground because there are thousands of kurds in syria who do not describe to pkk's marxist lennonist ideology. the fact is the united states has picked up a marxist lennonist terrorist organization in syria as an ally. when some people ref...

Terrorist network to follow. there is no link chart to follow. so it's hard to target these guys. all right. they are radicalized via the internet. and, again, it is one reason why we can't take our eye off the ball. isis is not yet defeated. they still have a presence around the world. and we need to be rooting them out because they are very capable of spreading their propaganda and radicalizing people here in the united states. steve: all right. you know, when i heard the first news reporting about this congressman crenshaw, it sounded like the guy actually had a reason for it. he said, look...

Many believed his son was a rising figure inside the organization and that he had already at the age of 30 started to reach out to some al qaeda franchises and branch network groups to sort of start correlating operations, maybe help plan some. there was a legitimate concern that this was a future star leader of the organization. >> when osama bin laden was killed in 2011, items seized in the navy s.e.a.l. raid indicated he was grooming him to replace him as al qaeda leader. what is the status of the group now? is it considered a major player in global terrorism? >> it is still a viable terror...