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Together in a big way to move to a city. theyve had to build defensive positions, which become tarts. we have been able to go after their leadership their financial infrastructure. their ability to expand their recruiting base. we are doing everything we can to degrade them to delay them until we get a ground force to go if and control and in state. >> to put a counterargument, there are serious limitation you will be bombing for nine months now. they havent been that degraded much in syria. the...

Leaders of the islamic religion and in families and schools. and thats very difficult to get your arms around. >> is isis more capable of one strategic pop against us domestically than was al qaeda in september of 2001? >> no. isis isnt there yet. what isis can do is radicalize young men and women here as weve seen in texas and possibly did a small directed attack today. they cant do a 9/11 attack. but given enough time enough safe haven in iraq and syria they will have that capability. >> so wh...

Jeb bush was familiar governor and george w. bush was president. wolf dont expect that change now that jeb bush wants the job in the oval office. >> good point. joining us our cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and ron bronstein. what is the strategy? >> i think that 3/4 of republicans, when you look at the polling, approve of using some sort of ground force to support -- to comebat highs sis. keep the general election aside, supporting w. is not at all unpopular in certain places is not ...

Offer support to the houthis in yemen. >> reporter: the united nations believe airstrikes against houthi rebels killed at least 760 civilians. "the los angeles times" this morning says it resulted in a humanitarian crisis in what is already the arab worlds poorest country. martha? martha: this is very tangled web because were supporting these saudi airstrikes. >> reporter: yeah we are with aerial refueling and other support activities yet there appears to be no clear objective at this point with...

Step up isis airstrikes. give us a sense of how that air effort helps things on the ground? >> well mikaela, i will tell you right now, when you have to fight in a built-up area, a city to go in there alone as ground force to ground force to defending element and right now that would be isis they defend those cities out in anbar, they have the advantage and its a difficult slog. its a difficult fight to get if there and its deadly. when you have the air support that comes in that can literally w...

The ground thats the way we ought to destroy isis. for the first time, we are now seeing our arab allies come together and build a coalition to create a ground force. when i was secretary of state after the first gulf war, i went to the jcc countries and i said you know you ought to put together a joint ground force so if iran or someone else should begin to do what iraq has done here you would have time to hold them off until america can get there. they never did it. now it looks like because w...

Now seeing our arab allies come together and build a coalition to create a ground force. when i was secretary of state after the first gulf war, i went to the jcc countries and i said you know you ought to put together a joint ground force so that if iran or someone else should begin to do what iraq has done here youd have time to hold them off until america could get there. they never did it. now it looks like because we are not picking up their -- >> because they like to freeride off of our --...

Yeah. yeah. so theyre very close. no sign here of an impending saudi ground force invasion. to the east in the mountains, one border guard has already been killed. and several injured in a recent houthi attack. the yemeni rebels have also threatened to invade. attack islams two holiest sites. over here, thats dismissed as just talk. >> we will defend. we are sure that we are defending our border and were defending mecca. they are talking. >> reporter: a few miles away at the main border crossing...

They are happy to defend themselves for their life. >> reporter: just over there, thats the yemeni border post, riding along here with the border guards we didnt have to wear the flak jackets and the helmets. now, they say the situation has changed. its a lot more dangerous. army tanks have been brought in to back them up. >> this is one of the units that belong to the army. its supporting us in case of any -- >> reporter: its very close to the line? >> yes. >> reporter: about half an hour to th...

With our lives. they are happy to defend themselves with their life. >> reporter: after there, thats the yemeni border post. here with the border guards a few months ago, we doesnt quit to wear the flack jackets and helmets. now they say the situation has changed. its a lot more dangerous. army tanks have been brought in to back them up. >> one of the units belongs to the army. one tank. its in case of any mortars from the other side. >> reporter: this is a half mile to the border. >> yeah. >> r...