covering isis. and i just don t understand how the president can make an attack like that. there s no question about that. first of all, i want to tell you, i don t intend it as spin. i m crediting the coverage of cnn and your colleagues gave to these high profile and high casualty, very sad, very vicious attacks. they re on the list of under-covered attacks. as were dozens of others. but i know what the president s point was, because i ve discussed it with him directly. her point was the president wanted to highlight that many attacks go under-reported. but also during the interview, conway offered this defense of the president. listen to this. are they more important than the many things that he says that are true that are making a difference in people s lives? so, in other words, are his falsehoods more important than the stuff that he says that is true, or the stuff that he s actually doing for the american people? ethan, is it more that conway
downplaying it right now. this despite metrojet doesn t believe a mechanical issue could cause the plane to go down. we are looking at the heat signature that was detected over the sinai peninsula. that could have been a number of things. a number of theories are brought up now. potential missile which is the most unlikely as isis is not known to possess the abilities to have that missile to hit a plane traveling over 30,000 feet. you have a potential for a bomb exploding. officials on the ground investigating have not detected any residue that leads to that. there is still a lot more wreckage to go through. there is an engine that could have exploded due to a mechanical issue or it could have been the plane hitting the ground which when you look at the video of the wreckage, you do see the scarred parts of the plane. this does open a lot more theories, which investigators are going to go through.
information from those? reporter: the egyptian government urged patience when it comes to the cause of the crash. they going over the black boxes right now. they say it could be a while before they determine what happened. that heat flash in the sinai is the latest to come out. egyptians have not commented on it. the russians cannot confirm or denounce the claim. what we are seeing is it occurred in a military intelligence analysts are going over it to determine if it happened in the air or on the ground. also, they are looking into the theories of what could have caused. it could it have been a missile? it is unlikely. isis doesn t have the ability. could it have been a bomb? we have not seen any bomb residue on the aircraft yet. could it have been the engine blowing up or the plane hitting the ground? we don t know. covering isis in egypt over the
fallujah. they have been receiving in reinforcements. but the battle for ramadi is not going to be anything like the battle for tikrit. the lay of the land is very different. the dynamics in al anbar province are more complex. moving reinforcements out to those various different front lines is much more difficult as well because of the territory that isis controls in al anbar province. how long the units that are fighting along the front lines around ramadi are going to be able to hold out without additional reinforcements, that also remains to be seen. we re seeing the iraqi government calling for more volunteer units to move towards al anbar. the u.s. saying it s speeding up its shipment of weapons but it may at the end of the day be too little too late. isis is proving to be a much more formidable foe than many had anticipated. ar washes thank you very much. she spent a lot of time on the ground in recent weeks. covering isis. as she said, a more formidable foe than many gave it c
hayden, former director of the cia, told me the u.s. has no strategy in syria, there s only an outline of coherent strategy in iraq. do you agree? i think there is a strategy in iraq. it is to train iraqi security forces so that they along with u.s. air power, can take back this territory. do you have any confidence in that? you end up with 1,000 of them being beaten by 100 isis guys. yes, i do have confidence. you have to look at the bigger context here we ve taken back 25% of the territory that isis originally took. is ramadi a setback? you bet it is, significant. but you ve got to look at the bigger context. i m confident in iraq that this strategy will ultimately succeed. i share mike hayden s view we don t have strategy in syria. i worry about syria more than iraq. all right. thank you very much we appreciate it. the author of the great war of our time available now. so great to see you. thanks.