of some american ground troops, heland. wear already at six months going on ramadi so it doesn t bode well. general, appreciate your insight, sir. coming up, in his own words. sergeant bo bergdahl faces charges of desertion and misbehavior. we re learning new details from the popular podcast serial. is all the attention helping or hurting his case? plus, did an arsonist target bill clinton s former childhood home? there s just evidence and signs that we do believe that it was intentionally set. coming up, they re running neck and neck in iowa and fighting for the same conservative voters. so why are trump and cruz saying such nice things about each other? we re going to ask our political panel coming up. i really like ted cruz. a lot of people don t like ted
decision about sending in heavy u.s. forces to help them take that city. in terms of the fight, not only against isis and iraq, but the fight against isis overall, is it time to begin talking about committing u.s. troops into syria and into these kinds of places? i know you ve written about this heavily. at some level, the pentagon brass seems scared to even offer that proposal. you know, there s an old soldier saying called ground truth. you can strip out the politics. you can strip out the hope and the well wishing. at the end of the day, conditions on the ground are going to dictate what the coalition does. my sense is that ramadi is a good sign. let me tell you, leland, mosul and raqqah and syria are huge, huge isis-fortified cities, with 20,000 to 30,000 fighters. completely different situation. i think in about 13 months in a new administration they re going to rethink this campaign and we re going to see the infusion
watched what happens in ramadi, and everyone seems to admit mosul is going to be a tougher battle, is it kind of at some level to forget this idea of an iraqi army and have the realization it s either going to be a united states-led force or perhaps some kind of saudi-led force that s going to actually begin to try and take the fight to isis? short answer, heland, is too soon to tell. there s some promising signs from what we ve seen around ramadi but there s also been some negative signs. remember, ramadi had at most 200,000 people. mosul has over 1 million. mosul is an ancient medieval city that isis has been digging into for over a year and a half now. some would say that mosul and raqqah and syria are just two nuts that are just too big to crack by the iraqi army. i think what the administration is saying now is the campaign season starts in april. let the iraqis get their act together. figure out how to do this campaign against mosul, see how they do, and then make the
mexico, texas, okay lahoma, colorado and kansas. it will be next to impossible it not impossible to travel in these areas. so keep a close eye on your latest weather forecast and you can see the clash of the two air masses. very cold behind this. ahead of it, warm unstable air mass, almost like a springtime storm because of the temperatures. and that will continue monday into tuesday. so multifaceted storm. the risk for tornadoes this afternoon in towards the evening and then the blizzard behind it. certainly a lot to track and we ll keep you posted. back to you. all right. thank you so much, janice. leland. iraqi ground troops are pushing in to the final stronghold in ramadi as they try capture that city. ground troop advancement slowed as isis deployed bombs and booby trap, but pushes are pushing ahead despite all the says backs oig recapturing the city which
engagement. and the rules simply state that you re not to put in any civilians in danger. and the problem with ramadi is that the circle is so tight around the isis fighters that are left, is is that you can t get the minimum safe distance for heavier bombs inside the city. and also the hundred or so remaining isis fighters are using innocent civilians as human shields to prevent the air force, particularly, from dropping its heavier bombs, like 1,000 pounders and 2,000 pounders. and the result is that only a very few number of air strikes are authorized in close support of the iraqi forces inside of ramadi. you think about this fight for ramadi and just so we have a time line here. ramadi fell back in may 2015. iraqis allegedly started their assault to retake it in july of 2015. this is now teadecember. that doesn t seem to bode well for whoever is left of the iraqi army. remember, ramadi is two