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Advisers, to do intelligence. hes not going to do air strikes now. and it seems like a holding action as they try to figure out what to do with nuri al maliki. >> thats what this is all about. i think thats what youll hear from the president. this is about maliki, maliki, maliki. last night -- the person with the best personal relationship with maliki in the u.s. government is the vice president. vice president is right now traveling in central and south america, which, by the way is his own pro...

Can make progress there. that should just tell us alone we can have an idea where the president -- saying basically im not making a major military commitment until they know a political commitment can happen. if maliki can be that guy. politically, andrea, there may not be a more important voice that was uttered today, if you are the white house, than what dai david petraeus said, backing up the presidents position which is im not doing anything here until that political process, until maliki so...

Radicals and baath party members and tribal elders taking over large parts of the country and crippling it. so a lot of people watching very closely what could happen in the next, was it 30 minutes or so? >> indeed. and they are meeting right now apparently. they are going to discuss and perhaps announce 100 special forces, troops going in as, quote, advisers. its intelligence gathering. its perhaps preparation for targeting down the road. but what about what im being told is that the u.s. has p...

He was trying to deliver through you. >> we also had an exchange about why would it ever be in irans interest to have this pluralistic inclusive society that the united states government says is a predicate step before we get involved. thats another point of contention. >> maliki has been tehrans client all along, which is one of the arguments against maliki. and then importantly, you talked to john kerry, vietnam veteran and also someone who led a good part of the vietnam veterans against the w...

South of here. and many different political parties have gathered there. and they are holding closed door discussions right now on this very subject. will they keep maliki? there are increasing calls in this country to get rid of maliki saying that hes become too personally associated with the problem. that he failed. that effectively over the last eight years, hes led this country to the situation where it is right now. when you have an army that refuses to fight for you, many iraqis think your...

There. but how you replace him? >> and we went around and around about this in the interview because i thought maybe he would go a little further in saying that, you know it would be better if maliki werent the leader of iraq. he wouldnt quite go there but its palpable the frustration they have with maliki. i dont think theres any doubt maliki is a key factor in the dynamic that led to this group isis being able to come into northern iraq and find a friendly audience in some sunnis there. and it...