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America. weve seen an escalation, if you will, from ft. hood to ottawa, to "charlie hebdo" to chattanooga. theyre happening closer to each other and now becoming more grand and larger because of social media and the civil war in syria is becoming more and more bloody and grotesque and barbaric. this is going to cause them to act out even more around the world. >> we know that isis central command is raqqa in syria. if these guys are any indication, what theyre saying is true, this is for syria, ...

They have been moving towards the town of sinjar. we ourselves from the top of mt. sinjar heard the constant coalition air strikes. evidence now still today around us as they claim substantial process. the kurds say to the west of sinjar, they have taken a village called ar carbara which many say is on the route here. vitally important because many want to see it back in the yazi there, pushed out into captivity. it sat, that town, sinjar, on a vital artery, a vital road between the self-declare...

Central command pointed out, sinjar is on a vital road. i can see it from where i am standing. the air strikes hitting just around the vital artery. it is vital because it goes from raqqah all the way through iraq and mosul. the city they took last year and began to form the two nations and now what they call their caliphate. we are hearing from kurdish officials. the peshmerga running the offensive. we have seen it for ourselves. they have taken territory to the west. they believe they are in c...

Secretary, a small group of reporters and i on the record today at breakfast, he made it very clear that not only is there the likelihood of a bomb, he said this is not rocket science, all you need is a couple pounds of explosives, its school boy physics, couple of pounds of explosives and a timer and that the problem, according to their information, is it was definitely the problem of security at the airport and its not he said the equipment, its the vetting of the personnel at the airport and ...

Around in the sinai had done this. a "the new york times" article put it very well yesterday. this was spotty intelligence, they said. this is not really deviating from the normal one tends to hear. what i suspect has happened now is, you know, we are now well beyond a week since this disaster took place. they have gathered even more intercepts. sinai assuming they are indeed the per traitor will have gotten in touch with isis central command, either in rocco or im also telling aleppo and praisi...

Security threat to us right now? >> yes, it is. i believe that you have to be able to articulate to the american people that anywhere that islamic jihadists and these terrorists want to establish a sanctuary, which is exactly what the taliban did, when we allowed them to take power after the russians with drew as part of the afghan civil war, they invited in al qaeda and they established a base. now we know that al qaeda is bleeding people over to isis because there are certain jihadists that do...

Analyst rick francona. thank you for being here to both of you. and colonel, you had ashe carter there coming out saying this program to train and equip the syrian rebels didnt work, were stopping it. a few weeks ago, you had general lloyd austin who leads central command come out in congress and say only four or five. four or five of those u.s. trained moderate syrian, you know, rebels, actually remain in the fight against isis. this is a $500 million program. i guess, a, how does that happen? ...

Officials speaking today via videoconference for about an hour and a half about what is happening in syria. and frankly, how to best avoid getting in one anothers way with airstrikes from both united states and russia. the russian military agressively striking both isis targets and also rebels. some of them rebels that are aligned with the united states against bashar al assad. this week the u.s. announced it was suspending training and equipping those same rebels because there is very little to...

Its interesting to know they are denying any their weapons went off course. i heard from central command a few moments ago and theyre also not publicly acknowledging what they know. they dont want to reveal their intelligence. theres not deconflicting happening. central command says theyre making sure american airlines are staying away. >> whats the end game for the russians here? >> the end game is to keep assad in power. this is their only foot hold into the region. they want to fill the void ...

Department officials on the ground believe that this will continue as well. >> okay. so the other concern is before these airstrikes began, a russian official marched into the american embassy in baghdad and said, look. were going to conduct these airstrikes, so you need to get your, like, warplanes out of the area now. the united states did not do that, but doesnt that sound like it could become dangerous is this? >> yeah, it sounds like it to the untrained, carol, but truthfully, im sure there...