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Americans here at home. fighters from the most dangerous al qaeda affiliate, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, overrunning an airport in southeastern yemen. chaos engulfing the lawless country with deep implications for safety on the u.s. homeland. the new american defense secretary conceded that the fall of the u.s. allied government the withdrawal of u.s. special forces and the closing of the u.s. embassy in yemen have all reduced americas ability to fight the terror threat. >> its hard to im...

In iraq are threatening to overrun the city of ramadi. these are new images just into us this morning. what you see is families in droves trying to flee that city hoping to find some sort of safe haven in baghdad. and in yemen al qaeda forces have just seized control of the key airport there. americas new defense secretary conceding the options that the u.s. has to stop these terrorists may be limited. lets bring in cnn chief national security correspondent jim schutto. its troubling to hear tha...

Worried about the houthis. we are going to have to regain control or youre going to have all of it in flames for some period of time. and that does impact the united states. and with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula having safe haven and access now to if reports are true access to oil sales, even black market oil sales in the south, that means they have cash to do operations in al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is the one affiliate of al qaeda that wants to strike the united states. so its very...

Americas new defense secretary concedes frankly there may not be much the u.s. can do at this point there. lets bring in cnn chief national security correspondent jim schutto. theres been so much talk about ramadi. its strategically important. you have a u.s. official telling you they havent seen anything to indicate it will fall. where do we stand? >> ill tell you, this was a pretty sobering stark assessment to hear from the any defense secretary ashton carter and chairman general dempsey on ra...

Of there. what is going on? this looks like a total, total disaster. >> everything we had there is gone. its a total collapse of any kind of control in the country. its devolving into a civil war. its going to get worse. but for the united states interest we no longer have a capability to interface what was left of the yemeni army or the intelligent services. our capability to conduct strikes against aqap is severely degraded. hopefully we can replicate that in another country, djibouti saudi ar...