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Engagement since the invasion in 2014 get the kind of support that they need. the weapons and the people on the ground to help them man those weapons. the ammunition and the like. dont send it through baghdad. deliver it directly to irbil. have you been there. >> yes, i have been there. >> encourage alcee is i in egypt and jordan. work to build a true sunni opposition force in anbar province. the kurds are going to fight for kurdistan. they are not going to fight for ramadiy and mostly. those ar...

Sense but when you look at it from a strategist point of view. this changes are an increase of levels of activity, none of those are going to be decisive end to be decisive you really have to up the gain in iraq as well as on the lines we suggested, senator john mccain suggested also, all led visors on the ground, air controllers putting the force to get it that had meaning to it. that needs to be done. these incremental changes will not get us there and year from now as we begin to transition t...

You. colonel, my first question to you. when we hear turkey saying they warned these pilots ten times within a a span of five minutes, tell me about those warnings. how would that have been communicated? >> brooke, normally they do it over a common radio frequency. so the russian pilots should have been able to hear the turkish air controller telling them they violated turkish air space and need to turn back. thats normally what happens. the other would communicate visually. it sounds like they ...

American president at least at todays event? >> we know what to do militarily about this in the near term, brian. what we need to do is we need to go after the isis forces, we need the forward air controllers in there to be able to call in the air strikes and so forth. but the real issue here is political. what can we do politically to bring the opposing sides together. that is whats the future of syria. is it a unified state or is it a broken up state, and will religious minorities be respected...

Warner is basically saying hes open to u.s. ground troops and believes that the french president may be the guy who ties moscow and washington together to build this international coalition. >> ive been told that what francois hollande is likely to ask of president obama is ground forces in the face of the need for more better and more targeted air strikes. hell asked for forward based air controllers, who have trained with the french. it would be a combined force, putting more troops at risk. s...

And others that they are an abomination as far as true islamic. >> well explained. thanks. well get into more acronyms. lets go over to the pentagon and jim miklaszewski. so, jim, andrea reports that on the list of things to try to get from the united states when president hollande of frons c e france comes to the white house next week is forward air controllers, explain the job, the position and how that would make the campaign against isis better. >> reporter: brian, u.s. special operations fo...

For u.s. air controllers training with the french in nato to be on the ground in syria against isis. and that would be -- it would better help them targeting the isis targets inside syria. they really want to ramp that up. russia today again hitting raqqah but also told that russia is running out of precision-guided weapons so this could be carpet bombing rather than target bombing and could be civilian targets and the u.s. really stepping up its air strikes, taking out 116 oil tankers today. th...

Scenario? >> well, you know, we currently have a special operations forces, not only a small group in syria, but in iraq. again, this is going to take a comprehensive approach. now people have talked about putting air controllers on the ground, thats not a magic pill but it can certainly help if selectively done. thereto is a price tag that comes with those folks. they need security and medical support and the like. >> and it puts them at risk. >> and it puts them at risk. the special operators ...

Exists in this region. and if we want to help the refugees, the thing to do to help them, is to stabilize the region, to win this war. to make it so they want to stay home instead of millions of them trying to come to europe or to come to the united states. if we want to help these people, lets create a stable environment for them. thats the most important thing we could do and its not talked about any longer. >> because of your past with the b-1 bomber, let me close on a question to you about t...

Expected to be there within the month. they are not going to be a game changer in this war against isis. every military official ive spoken to agrees to that point. their job, advise, assist, coordinate. they will obviously have a key role in gathering intelligence on the ground. for the first time they will be there. but already, even as we see this, there are moves being made to expand all of this yet again. what is coming next? well, the pentagon already saying that they are looking at puttin...