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Has come up. people say at the end of this, assad has got to go. now you have the french foreign minister. you have the french speaking in language thats getting a little bit confusing. they say there needs to be a ground force here. wherever russia talks about that, they mean a syrian ground force. now france seems to have opened the door at least a little bit to that. >> right, the question of what to be done with assad is one of the questions that has bedeviled the coalition. thats also one o...

Five of the nato treaty. an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. he didnt do that the french decided against it. >> why? do you know why? >> i think so. they have had a highly ambivalent attitude toward nato since degals time. they through nato out of paris in the 1960s. the french have said and i dont agree with them but a militaryhave said it mission there have been a law and order and i think it would have been to their advantage to invoke article 5. i think what president obama is ...

Fanning out all over the world to kill innocent people. so you might say 65 nations are losing the fight against isis or am i wrong? anyone hoping for robust anti-isis announcement today was surely disappointed. of the two presidents talked and talked and more. nothing concrete announced. no nato declaration of war, no strategy on the ground, no new proposals. if isis was watching that press conference they may have nodded off. talking points believes the solution to the syrian isis situation li...

Interest in being in such a coalition. but it will require american presidential leadership. that many the power of america, the power to convene and bring it nations together. the jordanians and isis views their leadership and i think they are willing to be part of a ground force. but only if america provide assistance. i believe they will participate. they are not unwilling participants, they just dont trust the president. he hasnt shown any leadership and they view him as unreliable. jenna: a...

Kateing for a while, a true coalition. and each nation and each part of the coalition has different part to play. isis need to be defeated on the ground by a ground force in it need to be made up of sunni muslim arabs to defeat them on the ground. but it will require air support, low jis tall support and special operation support from france and our allies. ultimately how to bring together the air support and the logistical intelligence support the ground force will need. jenna: jolie wants to k...

Where we -- a collective body has conducted these air strikes and have made them absolutely smothering and air bleeding. you know, in our most recent past, we did this against meloovich in the air campaign. so theres a comparison to be drawn, that we can increase the air campaign and the strength of that, but we need to be prepared for ground forces. thats not an intellectual leap from the insertion of the 82nd airborne right into the middle of raqqah. there are plenty of options. >> such as, sp...

>> one of the graphs hissing in that plan is we need a force made up of arab sunnis. they have to be defeated by arab sunnis themselves. they will have to be the bulk of the ground force. there will have to be american operators embedded alongside them. special operators are combat troops. this is not return to iraq. were not talking about 100,000 people or 50,000 armed soldiers. were talking about significant force of special operators and others with significant missions embedded alongside sun...

A new call on the sunday talk shows to get more nations involved in the fight against isis. republican presidential candidate marco rubio said a joint u.s. air force is needed. >> we need to have a ground force that defeated isis made up of primarily arab sunnis. there well have to be american operators embedded alongside them. this is not a return to iraq. were not talking about 100,000 people or 50,000 armed soldiers. were talking about a significant force of special operators. >> lets bring i...

>> well, i think it would be a mistake to send a large u.s. ground force in there but that doesnt mean we dont send any. i agree to continue beefing up the special operations presence and dont leave them at these headquarters. get them out to the fighters and let them control those air strike strikes. if were going to drop the ordinance, lets drop it effectively and as far as ground forces, lets do that down the line. lets see if we ecan do more with the air power, more effectively and putting g...

Thank you senator for talking to us. >> thank you. >> this past week has spoke volumes as to the challenges that the presidential candidates are going to face as they take office and the challenges that president obama continues to be scrutinized on on his dealings of this. france, i want to mention sent troops to mali in early 2013 to stop it from becoming major terrorist safe haven. he did not have the backing of europe. he did not have the backing of the united states and now look what has ha...