pusher for going into libya. she thinks we should have intervened more in syria. does this more hawkish view your renew, or do you welcome it? sen. king: i wouldn't say it either way. the real issue is, what is your temperament? that may be the most decisive -- the most important decision about how you make this decision, because we do not know what the issue is going to be. it is hard to say that she is predisposed to use force in every situation. but i think it is probably true. the irony is, obama came in wanting to end wars, and he has now been at war longer than any president in u.s. history and opening up new fronts as we speak. in part because of the nature of the world that we live in. al: you sit on the intelligence committee. i know you are not familiar with the specifics, but what is your general feeling about the secretary using a private e-mail server while she was in office, which circulated some sensitive material that was subsequently classified? sen. king: i have not read the e-mails, but i understand that colin powell did the same thing. it is not unheard of. here is t

under it and it is a terrifying feeling. >> rose: accompanying and leading general to syria and iraq, bob costa on donald trump, and "a streetcar named desire" when we continue. funding for charlie rose is provided by the following. >> rose: we begin this evening with the fight against i.s.i.s., an operation to recapture the city of fallujah led by iraqi forces beginning monday. 15 iraqi soldiers reportedly killed in the assault in anbar province. a kurdish-led force led an offensive in syria in territories around raqqa, backed by u.s. airstrikes and putting pressure on i.s.i.s. forces in their strong hold. david ignatius is a foreign affairs columnist for "the washington post." he recently traveled to northern syria and iraq with the commander of the u.s. central command. i am pleased to have him back on this program. david, welcome. >> thank you. thank you, charlie. >> rose: tell me about the trip and what you saw and -- because this, as you suggested right before we started, was the first time a cent come commander has done this in six years. >> this was a very unusual opportunity

offensive in syria on territories around raqqa. the operation is backed by u.s. airstrikes, and is aimed to put pressure on isis forces in their stronghold. joining me from washington is david ignatius. he is a foreign affairs columnist for "the washington post." he recently traveled to northern syria and iraq with the command of the u.s. central command, i am pleased to have him on the program. welcome. david: thank you. charlie: tell me about the trip and what you saw. this, as you suggested, the first time a centcom commander has done this in six years. david: this is a very unusual opportunity for me and three other reporters to travel with the general, the commander of centcom, in that role as overall supervision of the war in syria and iraq against isis. this is the first time since i think 2010, roughly, that a centcom commander has taken press with him. under general austin, a predecessor, that was out. they did not want the press tagging along. he decided the american public needs to know more about the wars, if people are going to understand and support them, so he decided to take

the prime minister. back in in syria, because of the events there, and the inability to figure out by anybody an alternative to assad. >> yeah. well, i say a couple things about that. the united states is a global power with global interests and we vp stabilities around the world. and absent u.s. leadership and actions, these situations would not be addressed. second is that he has been, i think, and demon straiblly determined to not just, again we have to deal with these problems where we are trying to manage security threat like in afghanistan. but also to keep his eye on where the opportunities are as in asia. and keep his eye on the most important relationship in the world and that's clearly the chinese u.s. relationship going forward. that relationship is really going to tell a lot about how the 20th century goes. now having said that, there say big difference between us having, we have been 10,000 troops right now in afghanistan, supporting the afghan government and taking action principlably against isis and al-qaeda and having 150,000 troop there. >> in afghanistan that's not

. in terms of iraq and supporting the prime minister. back in syria because of the events there and the inability to figure out by anybody in alternative to. >> i'd say a couple things about that. the night states is a global power with global interest and we have responsibilities around the world. absent u.s. leadership and action these situations would not be addressed. second is that he has been demonstrable he determined to not just -- we have to deal with these problems where we try to manage the security threat like afghanistan but to keep his eye on where the opportunities are as in asia. to keep his eye on the most important relationships which is clearly the chinese-u.s. relationship going forward. having said that, there is a big difference between us -- we have about 10,000 troops now in afghanistan supporting the afghan government and taking action principally against isis and al qaeda. and having 150,000 troops there. >> in afghanistan is that the threat. >> in afghanistan a threat is the taliban. they are the ones occupy the territory and are moving to places+++ >> the tal

capture him. >> rose: and you did the latter. >> and he was deep inside syria in a town we have since taken back from isil. back then it was kind of a heartland of isil our special forces went into the heart of the town, abu sarks if reswriftd. he was killed. but the amount of information they took off that site was more, i've been told from our guys, was more than almost any operation in the history of the special forces. >> rose: it was one of the greatest upsets in sports history. leicester city won the premiere league in so, or as they call it, football. here to tell bus it tommy smyth, john mcelweith, and roger bennett how big an upset is the season that football team, as they say, is having? how big is it to go from here to here? >> charlie, if this was the medieval ages we would be writing ballots about this achievement and singing it for generations. this is a 132-year history of leicester football club. they've never come close to winning this trophy. english football is run by money, the common wisdom off the field, bank accounts determine success on it. >> rose: so how did

sense of something like this. we analyze it in three dimensions. there's the core in iraq and syria which we're talking about. you have to shrink the core. you have to shrink the amount of territory they control, and we are shrinking it about 45% in iraq less in syria but strategic plans in syria. so there's a core in iraq and syria. there is then the global networks, the foreign fighter network, the propaganda, recruiting and financing networks, and then they have eight self declared affiliates around the world. >> rose: we conclude with maggie haberman who covers politics for the "new york times" and cnn. >> paul ryan is a very conservative figure. yet at this moment in the conservative party which has lurched so far right, he is not treated that way anymore. he's seen as a moderate. >> rose: instead of establishment. >> absolutely. and the party base is deeply suspicious. many americans are deeply suspicious of government and of an establishment. so i think that we're not going to know whether the republican party looks anything like what we resemble. you certainly see people lik

the campaign to retake mosul? you were to imagine partitioning iraq or syria formally into a separate country or two separate countries, you have essentially created a big sunni-arab ghetto with no substantial resources in either country. that's not where iraq's oil is, in these western and northwestern parts of iraq. it's not where syria's historical strengths of its great cities are. now you have a sunni-arab state that is economically destitute and dysfunctional. that can only be a recipe for more violence down the road. that's my practical reason against partition. i can still imagine confederation working through that gets to the mosul -- confederation working. that gets to the mosul question. it has been held by the bad guys for a long time, so a lot of damage has been done. apew more months prison -- few more months resumable he won't change that much. after isis -- a few more months presumably won't change that much. i don't think we have a really good answer to this. we have been foundering between, should we help the iraqis create a national guard that could be loca

to imagine partitioning iraq and/or syria formally into a separate or two separate countries, you have essentially created a big sunni arab ghetto with no substantial resources in either country. that's not where iraq's oil is in the western and northwestern parts of iraq. it's not where syria's historical strengths of its great cities are out in the center and east, and, so, you have now a sunni arab state that is economically destitute and dysfunctional, and that can only be a recipe for more violence down the road. so that's my practical reason against partition. i could still imagine confederation working and that gets to the mosul question. so my second point would be the real risk here at this point is not so much whether or not mosul will be liberated. it's already been held by the bad guys a long time so a lot of damage has been done and a few more months presumably won't change that a lot, but the question is who will stabilize mosul after i.s.i.s. is driven out and as just mentioned which sectarian group, which foreign power may have the greatest influence? i don't think

airstrikes in northwestern syria. the air raids came hours after a cease-fire was extended for another 48 hours. vice president biden has not endorsed either of the democratic candidates but he tells abc news who he thinks will win in november.

american serviceman to die in the country since 2014. meanwhile, in syria is there is a mush to maintain a fragile cease-fire in the wake of recent violence. i am pleased to have brett back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, good to be here. >> give me your sense. this is a huge concern for you, and we are going to talk about many things. where is iraq today? >> charlie, i have been in and out of iraq now the last month, kind of going back and forth to baghdad and beil. not yet in mosul. iraq faces tremendous challenges. let me try it break it down. the president came into office in september of 2014 after eight years of rule by prime minister maliki, his predecessor. it was a democratic transition arcs peaceful transition in the heart of the middle east. at the time the price of oil per barrel was about $100. every single drop of the price per barrel of oil, iraq loses about $1 billion a year. last month it went down to about $30. you got a sense that the tools with which he had to work were not what he expected. he is trying to implement some strong reforms, electricity tariff, purg