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Sebastian Gorka: “We crushed ISIS.”

Featuring: Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Counterterrorism | National

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Trump's New Counterterrorism Strategy Landscape feat. Dr. Sebastian Gorka

Published | Video Starts at 40:45

But again, there's also a silver lining. Why is ISIS running around parts of ungoverned Africa? Because we're bloody good at counterterrorism in the Middle East. Right? We crushed ISIS. We've made it very hard for you to have training camps, even in Central Asia. So we squeezed them so hard they had to find a new playground. (40:45–40:48)

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