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Moving forward to defeat isis. a week after iraq declared total victory over the islamic state in the city of mosul, its last stronghold in iraq iraq. mosul was iraq's second strongest city, but air strikes and heavy fighting destroyed a lot of that city. we have pictures of what mosul looks like now. this first one, i mean, it's just rubble. this is an aerial shot of the destruction on the western side of the old city. here, u.s. packed iraqi forces round up suspected fighters. as you can see, a lot of them here. refugees in these pictures fighting, forced thousands of them from their homes n...

>> shepard: there is a moratorium on ear marks, right? >> 2011, con grems got shamed into putting a morer toerium on earmarks. don't think they're not still doing it in a sneakier way. instead of having a list of earmarks, here are the earmarks, they don't that, that is too public. they call up the agency and say, hey, i got an extra million for this and i want it to go to this project in my district. very different. much on the qt. but what do you expect out of congress? >> shepard: i don't know. i don't know what to expect. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: after iraqi forces ...

Training, equipping and otherwise enabling capable, motivated local forces to take the fight to isil. >> for more about the fight across syria, let's bring in cnn correspondent mohammed lila. it's good to have you. let's talk about what we just heard there. ash carter talking about sendinging in more u.s. troops, the focus on raqqa, syria. >> that's right, george. it's interesting to see that just as the battle of aleppo is winding down, they're now shifting focus to talk about raqqa and defeating isis in raqqa. for perspective here, raqqa is to syria what mosul is to iraq. raqqa is basically ...