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Be working. diplomatic pressure didnt work. getting our allies involved didnt work. its great having the jordanians and uae contribute one bombing out of every 50 in syria but thats, a, not going to make any difference and, b, they are not committing ground troops. in the absence of sunnis contributing to ground troops, who can we actually count on to do this and unfortunately it keeps coming back that we dont seem to be able to count on anyone except ourselves. >> thank you, evan kholmann and j...

Right now. were not one day away from taking tikrit. >> are you seeing a role for u.s. ground forces? >> this is my problem. if we dont commit u.s. ground forces what is the alternative? if someone can come up with an alternative to that that works and makes sense, again, im all for that. i think the problem is we seem to be going through every option and exhausting all of the options and they dont seem to be working. diplomatic pressure didnt work. getting our allies involved didnt work. its gr...

Jessica stern ashton carter said the group is met taft sizing beyond syria and iraq. >> we not only need to defeat isil, we need to defeat them in a lasting manner. and thats always the difficult part. we can defeat isil but defeating them in a lasting manner means somebody on the ground who keeps them defeated after we assist them in the defeat. congressman is joining us from the capitol. thank you for taking a few minutes. you heard that discussion before you came on here. im curious, to get...

Search that theyll be able maybe within the first couple days to get some information but to drill down, it depends on how much data is on the hard drive and how sophisticated the users were to try to bury that information in deleted files and so forth. so i wouldnt want to give a timeline on this but they might be able to get some indication early but it will take a while to really get the definitive word. >> so breaking news just in case. one of the questions that we have talked about is why a...

Recover those deleted files but e-mails and phone records, financial records. >> shouldnt we have that information by now? >> we should maybe and maybe not. even in the u.s. sometimes you start off with an abundance of information quickly but then it will take you to the next level. so, for example, if you find an intriguing telephone record but then you want to chain it out and find out who that number was calling then you have to request those records from a company. so sometimes these investi...

Them defeated after we assist them in the defeat. congressman beto orourke is joining us from the capitol. thank you for taking a few minutes. you heard that discussion before you came on here. im curious, to get your take on that, as evan kholmann was just saying, his assessment is it would be great if somebody else could lead this fight on the ground against isis. hes not seeing any indication that anyone is capable or willing to do it. what do you think of that take on this? >> well, i feel...

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