senator jam risch of idaho. the susan rice president s national security adviser, she says it s a long slog. that s what the kus can expect. the white house press secretary says it s a setback what happened in ramadi, the defeat of the iraqi military. isis takes over. would you call it a long slog a setback? how would you describe it? u think setback is an understatement. the fall of ramadi is a big deal. what you have here is really a key city in a key vie johnregion and occupied by sunni people. they have been in other parts of both syria and iraq. the sunnis have been sympathetic towards isis because they re also sunni. it s going to be interesting to see how this plays out. there s going to be a huge battle. open sources today are reporting that the shiite malitia are converging on ramadi iranian
in the west and the way out is over a bridge across a small river. they cannot just let everybody flood across. they have to search for weapons. i was reporting on ramadi and the local government there warning that it could fall a month ago in april. sounding the alarm. saying we desperately need help and reinforcements. iraqi government was able to hold on since then but some of the civilians fleeing had to take that same route over the bridge to get out. united nations telling us there are thousands of civilians sleep in the open since the exodus began. think about the people on the ground going through this absolute terror and tragedy. ivan thanks. i appreciate the reporting. president obama ordering the
we re back with republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina member of the armed services committee, also officially expected to announce his campaign for president of the united states on june 1st. senator, the secretary of state john kerry says he s absolutely confident that the takeover of ramadi a major iraqi city in the anbar province by these isis terrorists he says it will be reversed in the days ahead. do you agree with the secretary? i think it can be. at the end of the day, shia militia, if they re called in to save ramadi that says all you need to know about the state of the iraqi security forces. the reason ramadi is important is because it s the capital of the sunni-arab part of iraq. and what really matters, the sunnis and anbar province cannot trust the baghdad government to take care of them. this is a big blow to political reconciliation. if isil is able to defeat the iraqi army and anbar province
foreign relations committee, republican cory gardner, is standing by along with correspondents and analysts all covering the news breaking right now. first let s get the latest from our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara? reporter: wolf after years, billions of dallas of u.s. military investment in iraq in ramadi and so many u.s. troops having fallen in that city. finally iraqi forces could not stand in the face of the isis onslaught. out gunned by isis faced with waves of fighters and suicide car bombs, iraqi forces in ramadi and thousands of residents with no choice but to flee. the pentagon called it a setback. the obama administration trying to downplay the loss. i am absolutely confident in the days ahead that will be reversed. reporter: but isis did what the u.s. said it could not do,
light. liberty mutual insurance. top story, isis captures the major city of ramadi even losing a key commander in a daring u.s. special ops raid. digging deeper with phil mudd former cia official cnn military analyst, and cnn global affair s affairs correspondent. take us inside the delta force operation. how important is it that this guy, abu sayyaf is now dead? what information might the u.s. learn from his wife umm sayyaf and how long would u.s. delta forces have trained for a daring operation like this one? well wolf let me start from back to first there. so delta force has been doing this over 35 years now.