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Russian efforts of russia. how quickly can they out-match what is an underperforming russian military, suffering severe consequences? it will be cutting off the bridges and the roads, so that russians have a difficult time resupplying ground effort. with all of that they still dont have effective systems for anti-aircraft defense. that will be a gap for them throughout this. >> ambar dortook a jab at nato. weapons removed for peace.

From further away still? would you characterize that -- >> i think the troops we are seeing moving away, thats their focus, moving away. we assess as we did yesterday that kyiv is still being attacked by bombardment, artillery fire as well as air strikes. as i said yesterday, theres still a majority of the forces that mr. putin put around kyiv are still there. as i said a couple days ago, they are largely in defensive positions. several days ago we stopped seeing advancement on their part. they ...

>> and are continuing, as they are moving away, are they continuing to launch attacks on the city? launching artillery from further away still, would you characterize -- >> i think the troops, they are moving away but we assess as we did yesterday that kyiv is still being attacked by bombardment artillery fire as well as airstrikes. still, as i said yesterday, still a majority of the forces that mr. putin put around kyiv are still there. now, as ive said a couple days ago, they are largely in de...

From further away still? >> i think the troops were seeing mustve away, thats their focus is moving away, but we still assess as we did yesterday that kyiv is still being attacked by bombardment. artillery fire as well as air strikes. theyre still, as i said yesterday, theres still a majority of the forces that mr. putin put around kyiv are still there. now as ive said couple of days ago, theyre largely in defensive positions. several days ago we stopped seeing any advancement on their part. the...

Talk about the apocalypse to say that this is the final jihad. they captured an important area. the fact is, unless somebody joins the ground effort, unless there is in addition to the kurds, local armies with our advisers that take the fight on the ground to isis, isis will continue to grow. air forces, air strikes cannot recapture ground territory. thats the missing part of the puzzle, pete. >> absolutely. al baghdadi put out a message calling for more attacks against the west. you believe -- ...

That is all anyone wants; to be successful and take out the people that aim going after us. i am curious about the special operators versus ground forces. retired general ray during an interview this morning said in any war in our history we are going to have to put ground forces on the ground to win. we will have to do it. does that mean, seth, that it can only be special operators? >> i think the issue is how effective are forces on the ground. we have seen only special operation forces effect...

You quickly about the train and equip efforts we all know and see has been in tatters. any kind of buffer zone would require working with some groups that might not even be vetted to u.s. standards. so should the u.s. turn in that direction and work with, say, groups like -- who have made overtures to working with the u.s. could groups like that be part of a ground effort? >> i think in the end turkey is going to make its own. turkey and arar e sham. they are conservative islamists, but they are...

Which ended voter registration in the final crucial week before the election. there was no plan b. thanks, reince. the republicans just had to give up registering voters in those states. maybe that came up in todays meeting. also potentially on the menu today, the rnc field program, part of the ground effort that was just swamped this year. the republicans get out to vote technology crashed early on election day. one campaign telling the daily beast, everything about the system that was supposed...

Republican party in all of those states had to fire the firm which ended voter registration in the final crucial week before the election. there was no plan b. thanks, reince. the republicans just had to give up registering voters in those states. maybe that came up in todays meeting. also potentially on the meeting today, the rnc field program, part of the ground effort that was just swamped this year. the republicans get out to vote technology crashed early on election day. one campaign tellin...

College education. so yes, this is the worst economy since the recession. we have created more jobs. we had 29 straight months consecutive months by the way of private sector job growth. 4.5 million jobs. we still got to do a lot more. according to moodys analytics if we keep down this path we will create another 12 million jobs in the next four years. >> chris: that is what romney says he will do, too. >> moody anna littics said it about us and that is where he got the number. >> chris: what do...