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But theyve got to change that policy. weve got to get more folks down range. we have to offer them better logistics package, command and control packages intelligence packages and we have to be clear on the command and control structure here so they can get those targets. >> i want to bring in bob baer to talk about whats going on in raqqa with air strikes. weve heard reports isis leader al baghdadi was in raqqa. do you think these air strikes were ordered in part to take out baghdadi? >> well i...

everything they have talked about in foreign policy they have been wrong about for 20 years and yet they have the gall to keep pointing fingers. >> comments that seemed to rock the political world. "wall street journal" wrote a piece entitled rand paul created isis. >> well, okay our headline goes too far, but the claim is about as plausible that rand pauls outburst that republican international lists were the rise of the islamic state. a lot to talk about today. willie, i notice the h...

Concerned about, though, is when youve got ramadi, it also breaks up your lines of communication and your supply lines back out to the west where you have other iraqi forces and haditha and the u.s. forces that are training sunnis out there at al anbar. its a give and take right now. >> you know washington phil. heres a press release that office of the press secretary of the white house put out. read out of president obamas meeting with the national security council on isil or isis and the situa...

Reaction that occurs is because of slights and insults to the religion, not to the same reactions we had to abu ghraib or haditha or what i would expect with this report. >> so if one of the principles is protection of life of cia agents, cia assets so we dont ever name the agents in order to protect their lives, what congressman rogers is saying, there are other lives at stake in this information and do we have an obligation to protect those lives in the same way we have the obligation to prote...

Chairman rogers is talking about. the burning of the koran, the danish cartoons. those were slights to islam itself. what were talking about are slights to our own values as americans where we fell below a standard that we have set in international treaties and that the president and lindsey graham and john mccain have all agreed is wrong. its difficult to see isis grabbing the moral high ground on this and complaining about water boarding and sleep deprivation when theyve been beheading people....

Tikrit and haditha in central iraq claiming to carried out 121 raids in the past 24 hours. as iraqi forces tried to reclaim cities overrun by isis fighters during the past two weeks. a big push is being made by iraqi military to push isis out of tikrit 100 miles north of a baghdad, eric. eric: jennifer, russia sending military and iran also. what is next for the u.s. military? >> reporter: theyre still waiting to see what the iraqi parliament does to resolve the political crisis. iraq awaits for...

john seary is live but first we go to janis dean live in the weather center. >> 80 miles per hour sustained wind and that is up from what we had at 5 a.m. this is a strengthening storm and we are starting to see an eye right there. can you see it? as it moves more toward the north and eastward we will see a strengthening storm for the next 12-18 hours. south carolina, north carolina, virginia -- you need to keep an eye on this because it could be moving more to the west and that could ...

Iraqi military to get its act together in time. in baghdad, nearly 500 u.s. troops are now on the ground. including 180 military advisors, of the 300 president obama authorizeded, plus security teams and intelligence analysts already there. priority one, determine if iraqi troops can hold onto the capital or if its in danger of falling to the isis oos militants. the current assessment? the shia-dominated iraqi military will keep control. the sunni backed isis wont risk an all-out urban war but t...

good morning. im matt gutman. >> im reena ninan. matt gutman making his "world news now" debut. >> thank you, reena. >> welcome. >> its so good to be here. very early in the morning. >> you have been everywhere. i have a question for you. what the heck were you thinking when you did this? >> sharks. that is a sharknado. that is a sharknado. >> are you not aware they have sometimes bitten the heads off human beings? >> sharks are our friends. they can be very friendly pets. >> where wer...

then, fireworks on capitol hill as lawmakers grill the head of the irs over those lost lois lerner e-mails. >> what i didnt hear in that was an apology to this committee. >> i dont think an apology is owed. >> i dont believe you. this isnt credible. >> i have a long career. thats the first time anybody has said that they do not believe me. >> well talk with an attorney who represents conservative groups and a lawsuit against the irs. and a former top democratic house staffer. plus, p...