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Program. send in the drones and youre the guy. >> my folks are the folks that make this happen. its a great opportunity. >> youre the air force drone department located? our base is in nevada outside of las vegas in the air force base. >> you control drones that fly over where? >> we fly our planes over multiple areas of operation around the world. predominately in the africa command, central command and european command theaters. half the globe. we fly our airplanes. drone thats not a great wor...

That extent the saudis are right to be concerned. >> the second question? >> i forget what it was. >> do the saudis have anybody on the ground to fight as their proxy? >> i wont speak to who is on the ground doing what from any of the coalition partners, but i will tell you that general lloyd austin, our central command director was in riyadh today for consultation with the saudi leader. >> with respect to sheety mill lit ya -- militia in iraq, this is something we discussed with the defense min...

Strikes because as you mentioned of where isis is positioned within the city. they want to try to minimize gage and casualties by doing this. but of course the issue here is the reaction from the main fighting force. these shia groups on the ground. some of them are saying that now that the coalition is involved they do not want to fight anymore and they are not going to push forward into tikrit. and what we heard from the united states, general lloyd austin, the head of central command, yesterd...

Commander of the central command, say he wasnt informed about your moves into yemen until just before you started. >> we have been discussing this matter with the united states in principle for many months. we have been discussing this matter in more detail as the time approached and the final decision to take action didnt really happen until the last minute, because of circumstances in yemen. so the u.s. had visibility in terms of our thinking and we coordinated and consulted closely with the w...

Coming hours and days. but its going to be painstaking work, to go house by house, alley by alley. the units taking part in that offensive will be primarily iraqi army federal police and iraqi special forces operating under their chain of command. >> weve seen a very high profile, the iranian irg leader who had in the past been much moer discreet about his involvement and shiite militias outnumber the ground forces were perhaps not coordinating with iran backed militias but they are fundamental ...

Both sides. so its not a random thing that they just want to claim that they are associated with this. it helps them a lot. the question is are they really behind it? >> right. again, claims in a different part of the world, not too far away in northern africa in tunisia, we saw these gunmen in this museum massacre from a couple days ago. some gunmen were trained in libya. we know that again just claims audio statement of isis claiming responsibility for what happened in tunisia. my question to ...

Against mosul in the coming weeks. >> its interesting. i wonder how isis will react to this. they clearly monitor whats going on here in the united states. barbara, thank you very much. lets get back to senator lindsey graham, a key member of the senate armed services committee. whats going on over here? they brief reporters, u.s. military central command last week get ready for an offensive starting in ing ining in april or may. not so fast. what happen snz. >> i welcome the reconsideration bec...

Battle for mosul. >> because the briefing you had there at the pentagon someone from the u.s. military central command said april or may, 25,000 or 30,000 iraqi troops would be ready to go in and liberate mosul. there seems to be a disconnect here. >> reporter: you know i think even before that briefing there were a lot of people in the u.s. military that thought that was a little optimistic and the new defense secretary ash carter has distanced the pentagon from that estimate saying that when t...

Inside. our own deborah feyerick is inside as well. once this session ends we will go there live. stay with us for that. in the meantime the u.s. military is helping iraqi forces gear up for whats being described as a major offensive against isis aimed at retaking a big city mosul, from the terrorists. i sat down today with u.s. armys chief of staff, general ray odierno. he says that upcoming battle will be extremely tough. >> heard a briefing from u.s. military central command the other day s...

Swearing allegiance to isis and the surprising erasing of the fire power he somehow accumulated. the two other paris attackers the kouachi brothers had their own deadly arsenal as seen in these surveillance photos made public showing them holding up a gas station with a disposable rocket launcher over the shoulder of one of them. powerful enough to stop an armored vehicle, a serious military weapon. it was another isis weapon that got the attention of the u.s. military. the terror group follow e...