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The word. thank you very much for joining us. well let you get back to the very important tasks ahead. >> god bless. >> alisyn. okay. more breaking news this morning. a major operation now under way in iraq as forces look to take back territory under the control of isis. iraqi forces surrounding key areas in anbar province including ramadi. cnn has complete coverage starting with senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. hes live for us in baghdad. whats happening there, nick? >> re...

Based on one 30-second sound bite. all they need is a moment. >> never seen anything like this and youve got some serious people. governors down there, interesting people sometimes they take off. as we close and get back to you, alisyn, show you pictures yesterday of vice president biden. we showed president clinton and secretary clinton in the parade. vice president biden also doing some memorial day work yesterday. this is the ride to recover from from d.c. to virginia they start at the naval ...

Uncoordinated action which weve seen them have difficulty with in the past but theyre going to have a whole lot of mass. they will defeat isis. i will predict that today. given good odds for the iraqis to win back the city. >> general, you think they will get ramadi back? you take this seriously enough whats happening on the ground there that you believe that they will in short order get ramadi? >> i said that last week alisyn. they cant let ramadi say in the hands of isis. they have to get it b...

Exclusively told cnn that he had doubts about the iraqis will to fight. lets bring in lieu tenant former commanding general of u.s. army europe and michael weiss our cnn contributor and co-author of "isis inside the army of terror." gentlemen, great to have you here this morning to explain what were seeing happen in iraq. gentlemen, we had you just on yesterday to talk about ash carters comments about iraqis lacking the will to fight. how do you explain whats happening this morning? >> they had ...

The obama administration now claims carter was only talking about that one battle and was not issuing a sweeping indictment of their will to fight. heres how one senior administration official is putting it and put it up on screen for you. it says iraqis have suffered setbacks before and were able to retake territory from isil. the united states will continue to support these efforts and do all we can to help the brave iraqi forces including the tribes of anbar to secure this province from isil ...

Unfortunately because international flights are wide body and have a lot of passengers, if you picked a domestic flight you might get a 50-seater plane and 50% of u.s. flights are small flights. so it almost looked like someone was watching flight aware and called in ten flights headed inbound international and thats a lot of chaos. >> tom, the u.s. air force scrambled fighter jets to accompany one of the flights, an airfrance flight bound for jfk here in new york. what can fighter jets do exact...

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Iraq officials. lets get to jim acosta. what is the white house saying about ash carters white house? >> alisyn the white house is doing some fence mending after ash carter questioned their will to fight in the battle against office. saying he was flat wrong. vice president joe biden called the iraqi leader to praise the bravery of his countrys forces. heres a comment from defense secretary carter that kicked off this controversy. >> what apparently happened was that the iraqi forces just showed...

Jet into jfk airport in new york. and thats where we find cnns jean casarez this morning. jean, what have investigators learned? >> reporter: alisyn it was multiple flights multiple destinations multiple airlines. its believed one person may have called in four of those threats. but the common denominator is this all of the threats are called in on memorial day, a very busy travel day. the flights were international flights in the air bound for the united states and none of those threats were de...

Clemency. and i think it behooves anybody who cares about jason to try to push at the time as soon as the judicial proceedings are finished for clemency and for him to be able to return to his family. >> obviously the frightening possibilities that a trial expected to last two to three days could wind up resulting in years of this young mans life. thank you very much hillary, always good to have you on the show. >> thank you very much. were going to talk more with jason raizains brother live. ...