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Presence. we signal to the enemies that they can fill the void and it looks like they have. was this an intelligence failure or a strategy failure? >> i think it is a combination of both. what we have sewn with the islamic state of iraq and syria. they are squeezed out of certain portions of syria and they are moving on the old bathist network. and they are trying to unite sunni arabs in this twisted islamic state. they are largely secularist and they dont want a radical government in charge. ...

Presence. we signal to the enemies that they can fill the void and it looks like they have. was this an intelligence failure or a strategy failure? >> i think it is a combination of both. what we have sewn with the islamic state of iraq and syria. they are squeezed out of certain portions of syria and they are moving on the old bathist network. and they are trying to unite sunni arabs in this twisted islamic state. they are largely secularist and they dont want a radical government in charge. ...

>> you dont want iran to get involved, the south separated by the sunnis in the north many supporting isis. on the other hand, they actually overlap here. neither the u.s. or iran wants iraq to collapse. they want to empower the shias. >> let me get barbaras quick reaction. barbara, do you get the sense over there that the u.s. military was surprised by the collapse of the iraqi in the north around mosul and what is going on around baghdad? >> yeah. i think that the pentagon, like the rest of th...

A handful, drinking and carousing, getting into trouble. but they were a natural choice to lead what figured to be perhaps the toughest part of the whole invasion and that was the invasion of omaha beach and omaha beach they suffered really pretty heavy casualties. they run into a terrible slaughter house in the first three hours on d-day morning. >> mr. mcmanus, was there an int intelligence failure? there was an intelligence failure clearly on both sides. the germans unaware of where the landi...

At the time because it was so brazen. you had many leaders, many of them senior, meeting in daylight hours where u.s. drones are often flying. no u.s. officials are going to make a direct connection to this and the operation tra took place. certainly this was an embarrassment to the yemeni government, arguably a challenge to the cuss and a failure. obviously, this turned into an intelligence opportunity and one of the reasons they were led -- to carry out the attacks that took place in the last ...

1000 pieces of military hardware, culminating live fire drills, that will last a month. head of u.s. military intelligence, dia, said in an interview with npr this morning that the dia warned the administration seven to 10 days before russian invaded ukraine of eminent russian military movements pushing back on the notion there was any sort of intelligence failure. the navy destroyer crossed bottoms porous straits towards the black sea -- bosporus. with exercises with romania and bulgaria. they ...

Pentagon. how serious are they taking new military exercises. >> they are watching it all very carefully. u.s. defense officials tell me as of this morning russia was poised for a large air defense drill in western russia. according to russian news reports, exercises held 280 miles east of the ukrainian border testing the s300 air defense missiles. 3500 russian troops involved, 1,000 pieces of military hardware culminating in live fire drills. they will last a month were told. the head of u.s. m...

Air defense drill in western russia 280 miles east of the ukrainian border. russian news reports say the month-long exercises will culminate in live-firing and involved 1,000 pieces of military hardware. the navy destroyer, the usstuxton crossed the strait towards the black sea on route to previously scheduled exercises. they expect to be in the black sea for several days. the head of u.s. military intelligence said the dia, the defense intelligence agency, warned the administration seven to ten...

Elections in crimea, even the pro russian party did not do very well. even in crimea its not clear frankly if they had a free and fair election how the people would decide. i can assure you this election and what ten days, whatever it is, i can predict you the outcome of that election. >> was this an intelligence failure? my information is that the cia perhaps is one analysis and defense intelligence had another and there was confusion over what the intention were. we saw movements but didnt kno...

Reminiscent of claims made in the 1930s. >> reporter: causing more concern today plans by officials in crimea to schedule a vote a referendum in ten days on whether to separate from the rest of ukraine and be a part of russia. >> a lot of things going on this morning. andrew, thank you. >> former republican congressman joe scarborough is the host of msnbc "morning joe." good morning to you, joe. >> good morning, matt. >> six days into the crisis now. the rhetoric seems to be heating up not betwe...