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Pressure on isis. we are going after their oil resources, we are increasing the number of sorties, the russians are likely to increase more of their air power on isis and shift away from attacking the more moderate rebels. you have the offensive going on in sinjar by the peshmerga, you have the encirclement of ramadi. isis is feeling a lot of pressure on the one hand, yet on the other it has the resilience as well as the ability to attract followers that still makes it a very lethal threat aroun...

Political pressure from the administration. this is a disaster. >> if you say they cave to political pressure, how do americans get the truth? they want to know what the picture really looks like. >> theyre not going to get it here. the administration has a political endand we know that is to say that we are making progress in syria, that we are preventing terrorist attacks on the united states. the numbers, the ground truth is starkly different and, on top of that, the administration has absolu...

Is the ground truth of what mitch mcconnell told him about this deal? >> look i dont think that decorum is the right way to approach what cruz did. if, as cruz says mcconnell looked him in the eye and 54 other republican senators youd expect a bunch of those 54 to say that thats exactly what happened. i havent really heard any yet, so theres a question about where the truth is here and right now, i think its up in the air. >> as we look at the average of polls on the president, you can see cruz ...

Is the ground truth of what mitch mcconnell told him about this deal? >> look i dont think that decorum is the right way to approach what cruz did. if, as cruz says mcconnell looked him in the eye and 54 other republican senators youd expect a bunch of those 54 to say that thats exactly what happened. i havent really heard any yet, so theres a question about where the truth is here and right now, i think its up in the air. >> as we look at the average of polls on the president, you can see cruz ...

Former cia covert operations officer and president of diligence llc, a global intelligence security firm. hi, mike, lots of complaints about this between the time it was believed that the intelligence came out that it was believed he was at this location in yemen and the time this was officially signed off on took about a week or so. can you explain sort of the chain of command and how long something like that should take to act upon? >> sure. well, first of all, its not like the movies, so you ...

Get him home, and the u.s. army is quite capable of investigating this situation and coming up with ground truth. theres been a lot of speculation. people who have knowledge and people who dont have any knowledge talking about it. i think the first thing we do is give the army time to figure out what happened and give the lad time to rejoin america and then well sort out the circumstances of his disappearance. >> general, there are two edicts ive heard repeated in the last several days. one that...

To get to the ground truth. they are saying we are in it to block republicans from open-ended inquiries. there is a report in politico that hillary clinton was urging democrats to join with five members so they could defend her and block republicans from doing the kind of questioning they want to do. its odd and unprecedented the democrats are making that announcement. but still having said all that, people who want to find out what happened, this will legitimize the process broadly speaking and...

On down the road inside slovyansk, pro-russian families we talked to were going about their business almost in surreal fashion. when you talked to them, they said they were afraid especially for their children. the pro-russian militants talked to us. they said they too were nervous. but they were armed wearing camouflage, masked. they had now beefed up positions in that town. its like night and day now. it feels like really a militarization of that town and tension is clearly at breaking point. ...

Buildings. >> so days not weeks. thank you very much for the bottom line from the white house. im joined by jeffrey goldberg, jeffrey has just returned from eastern ukraine and moldova. lets talk about what putin is up to and youve got ground truth from quha you see. >> one ground truth in moldova that could be the next victim, is that no one i met, whether they are pro-russia or anti--russia no one believes it is finished and putin is going to keep move are forward bringing more and more territ...

Their assessment that are there was an attack. this is a body blow to the officers who put their neck on the line because of chief of station this is considered the top job because their word is gospel and their job is to provide what is called ground truth. and what michael morell said even though the chief of station reported on the 14th and 15th in an e-mail and then a lengthy report on the 16th that the evidence showed no protest, every time the deputy director of the cia downplayed or dismi...