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Battle that could last, wolf, for months and months and months. >> ben wedeman in erbil in northern iraq. and fred pleitgen joining us from beirut, lebanon, not far from the syrian border. let's bring back the former defense secretary chuck hagel. you look at these two situations, aleppo and mosul, let's talk about syria first. when you left the obama administration, you were upset the president had delivered an ultimatum, a red line, if syria used chemical weapons, they would pay a price. the u.s. did not cross that red line, if you will. i want you to listen to what the president recently to...

Syrian government takes full control of aleppo once again, wolf. >> standby for a moment. i want to bring ben wedeman into this. we're now two months into the fight to lib rat mosul, the second largest city in iraq. how much progress has been made? where do things stand now? >> wolf, this was a battle that started with fairly dramatic advances by the iraqi army. and the peshmerga taking villages and towns around mosul. but now it's become a street by street, house by house slog. now, according to some accounts, the iraqi military have been able to retake one-third of the eastern half of mosul....

Seriously. and i guess what president-elect trump is saying. he questioned some of this information that the cia and intelligence is always imperfect. they were wrong on a lot of things over the years. not just the cia but our intelligence. it's imperfect. you'll never get 100%. but this is pretty serious charge. to have the head of the dni who oversees all of our 17 intelligence offices make a charge like that based on accumulation of intelligence from all those different agencies. >> when clapper says even yor most officials, you believe he's referring to putin himself? >> i don't know that ...

Those convoys, there's some drone footage, some regular camera footage as well. you'll see there's a lot of ambulances and ambulance convoys coming out of eastern aleppo it that's because the first people who are being evacuated are the ones who need it most. wounded people, people who have illnesses, people who need immediate medical attention, of course can't get those in those enclosed rebel areas. afters that done, wolf, that's when the civilians and the fighters are going to come out of there as well. for most of them, it's really a leap of faith that they're taking. a lot of them very co...

Fred pleitgen is following the situation in syria from across the border in beirut, lebanon. ben wedeman join us from erbil in iraq, not far away from mosul. update us on this operation, the dire situation in aleppo right now. >> wolf, it certainly is dire for folks in the last rebel enclave there in aleppo. you're absolutely right, this operation began early this morning to evacuate all the fighters and all the civilians from that area and it really started very badly. when the first convoy that was supposed to leave came under fire at a checkpoint right on the border between rebel and govern...