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Years and they now want to fulfill that fight and try to pitch this fight as a fight between shias in iraq and iran, as well as the sunni arabs across the region. its been their m.o. for the past several months. >> and it seems the maliki government, in being as harsh and brutal as they have been towards sunni populations and sunni dissidents, and even peaceful sunni protests, have played into isis hands. can the maliki government do anything militarily here without further alienating precisely ...

Fallujah, why are they doing this, fareed? >> because they are corrupt, inefficient, and they do not have the same determination that the opposition does. you know, we saw this in vietnam with the south vietnamese government. when a government lacks legitimacy, when a government is not inclusive, the opposition is much more determined, much more ruthless than the government. and what nouri maliki has done is undo almost all the good that general petraeus did in iraq with the surge in 2008. the s...

People and we have to deal with the facts and whats reality. you just saw two very very troubling reports. okay? now, maybe its unfair. but, the sitting president for five and a half years is barack obama. his foreign policy seems to be just failing on every level. am i wrong, professor? >> you are not wrong about the fact that there is no question that terrorism has increased under his president. the rand corporation recently did a study for the state department between 2007 and 2013. it has in...

People and we have to deal with the facts and whats reality. you just saw two very very troubling reports. okay? now, maybe its unfair. but, the sitting president for five and a half years is barack obama. his foreign policy seems to be just failing on every level. am i wrong, professor? >> you are not wrong about the fact that there is no question that terrorism has increased under his president. the rand corporation recently did a study for the state department between 2007 and 2013. it has in...

Listen to this. >> six months before osama bin laden was taken down, i was briefed on this. i was briefed multiple times over the course of the six months. i was given a heads up several days before this happened. so this idea that they couldnt trust us to not leak things is just not true. it wasnt just me. there were other members of the leadership who were well aware of the planning and the activities that were going in to this effort. >> now, it was really different, my understanding, based o...

Say thats the obama people who did the class warfare. meanwhile, lets talk about bowe bergdahl because we know right now that hes getting better each day, but psychologically he paid a price. who wouldnt think that after five years? were also finding out his parents were very much in the know and in the fold when it came to finding out how their son was doing and the circumstances and what it would take to get him released. they were giving what many people say is unprecedented access to the inn...

Notified about the bergdahl prisoner swap out of fear it would leak. boehner is pushing back with a stark example, the osama bin laden raid. >> i was given a heads up several days before this happened. and so this idea that they couldnt trust us to not leak things is just not true. >> reporter: the white house argues boehner and other top lawmakers knew the basics of the bin laden plans but not the specifics. >> the speaker was not informed of precise operational details of the secret military m...

This chart, from 2007 to 2013, the number of terrorist incidents went up by nine fold. now obviously most of these havent been against us. many have been generated out of syria. some of them have occurred in europe. but whether you look at these figures or look at the number -- >> so theyve increased nine times. >> nine times. >> since. >> the number of terrorist groups has gone -- al qaeda affiliated groups has gone from 20 to 49. the number of al qaeda or jihadist fighters has gone up to 100,0...

Had a chance to meet briefly in the context of the luncheon with president putin and i had an opportunity to meet with foreign minister lavrov and with angela merkel. i think drawing from all of those conversations, theres a sense of some steps that could be taken in order to try to de-escalate. >> sounds like youre bringing him back in the fold. >> no, the key here is wed like to, but they have to take certain steps to make that possible. and even as we are discussing these possibilities, there...

They are the wrong folks to mess with. people whod rather fight than fold. even when outnumbered, outmatched, or under fire. heres "caught on cameras" top five people who wont back down. a would be robber picks the wrong store to hold up. >> [ bleep ] son! >> december 2011. hendersonville, north carolina. a gunman walks into this we buy gold store demanding money. the clerk appears to comply, but as he goes to hand over a satchel of cash -- >> who are you, son? >> out a all of a sudden out of no...