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Time. i think were going to find a fractured, very partisan shia dominated command structure. >> how can you then start that reconciliation process politically with all of this it looks like iraq falling at every turn. >> you wont do it with 300 advisers. >> colonel, great to see you, thank you so much. lets take a look at your headlines now, ten minutes past the hour. three al jazeera journalists have been sentenced to seven years in an egyptian prison. the trio was convicted on charges inclu...

They have stemmed the flow, the tide going into baghdad. when you see these cities fall, is there any hope of getting them back, why would the sunnis ever want to go back to a shia led iraqi government. >> they are not really taking them. the iraqi army is gone. four divisions just kind of evaporated. they pull back to baghdad. they have ceded the control of western iraq to isis. were not seeing any action at all on the part of the iraqi army. when they -- the adviser get there, they are going t...

Into regular society. more importantly, because that seems like a far-fetched deal. hes still a u.s. soldier and still has the command structure he has to answer to. he integrating him to that part of it seems to be the part thats taking place now. >> okay. ed, thank you for the update. now this developing story out of the pentagon at this hour where theres new information about the legal protections that will be given to those u.s. military advisers who are heading to iraq. cnn pentagon corre...

Are going to do initially, theyre going to see what the command structure looks like, what the leadership looks like and report back. and if they report back, i suspect theyll report that there is not the inclusion there because the general staff has changed in the last three years. what does the president do? no more advisers? no more air strikes at all? >> by sending military advisers right now, is this an attempt to stave off any incursion by isis forces into the capital? is that what were re...

Shooting at you, youre in a combat role. so these are primarily going to be army officers. these are going to be army special forces officers who are trained to do just this. theyre going to go out there and work inside these iraqi brigades. its very important that these brigades get back online. weve seen this total breakdown of the iraqi command structure. and these officers will be fully equipped to put this back in order. but its -- i think were fooling ourselves if we say were not putting b...

Leadership as well as regional commands. look. these groups are a bit secretive about how theyre structured but youve had members who talked to the media and from that, we can glean a bit about the command structure but one of the ways you can tell its secretive is theres a debate even among experts as to whether it should be considered a single group or whether it should be considered two groups with headquarters in benghazi and durna. that shows you the command center is a little opaque but it...

Its a guerrilla force, theyre spread out. even the command structure is opaec to us. i would like to add the iran. theres iranian forces in baghdad and if baghdad truly came under threat you would see an intervention by iran and that would put the conflict on a whole new level. >> we could see cooperation between the u.s. and iran. do you believe we could see that. >> it would be amazing but i can see it now. were on the same side whether we like it or not. >> yeah. and lets talk about the optio...

Houston down in australia. again, china being china, they still have to answer to their government supervisors or bosses so it doesnt surprise me that it did this but the expected out come is what happened. now that you dont report it directly to the command of the investigation, youve got this game of telephone, youve got the we the theys and you have people, one, doubting your data. this could be the best break in the whole case but now people doubt it because they didnt follow through the joi...

Training but this is many bases train active base shooter scenario seeing this play out on fort hood again. i spoke with the fbi special agent who also served in the navy he talked to me how this active shooter scenario is handled. now, law enforcement officers on base, they have base security. sometimes their military police officers. sometimes theyre hired contractors. but they are all law enforcement officers. and they have all been through law enforcement training changed since the columbine...

Have a redundancy, people doing the same thing. if there is another shooter they have to find that person and fast. with something like this you have to have coordination. i would suggest since 2009 these types of terrible exercises have been practices all over military bases in the united states to put together this command structure if they have an active shooter. so that is what is going on. >> let me bring in law enforcement analyst jim kavanagh who is also a former atf agent in charge. >> h...