Tapper Presses Kerry: It Doesn’t Look Like ISIS Is Really ‘On the Run’

Secretary of State John Kerry said on CNN this morning, in reacting to the attack in Nice last week, that it’s clear ISIS is under pressure and “shrinking.” But Jake Tapper confronted him on how many people certainly don’t see it that way.

Tapper pointed to attacks in Nice, Orlando, Istanbul, and Baghdad, and said id doesn’t really look like “ISIS is on the run.”

Kerry said it’s unclear the attackers in Nice or Orlando “were fundamentally ISIS,” insisting that even if people are still inspired to act by them, ISIS is “under huge pressure” and the U.S. is doing everything it can.

Tapper challenged that too, asking if that’s really the case when there are plenty of people with “a number of suggestions as to what more can be done.”

Watch Kerry’s answer above, via CNN.

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