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Ash is really considered -- yeah, very interesting guy. really considered by everyone who knows him to be brilliant intellectually. but also a good -- a good sort of practical hands-on knows how things run. never served in the military. not that unusual. perhaps more unusual was, in fact, chuck hagels experience as a soldier on the ground walking the patrol during the worst times of the vietnam war. that is something that was very much revered by so many enlisted people currently serving in the ...

Barbara starr at the pentagon. also joining us is peter brooks, senior fellow of national security affairs at the heritage foundation. barbara, i think its safe to say ash carter is not necessarily the presidents first choice to be defense secretary, but he is a pentagon insider. how will this nomination will received? >> i think very well by military and by the pentagon leadership. well known around here until late last year he served as hagels deputy. he has been the top weapons buyer here at ...

Said it was time to transition to new leadership. is ash carter really new leadership? probably not. and a big question about whether the white house really wants that. you hear an awful lot about micromanagement from the national security council from the president, will a new secretary of defense offer new ideas? will he will listened to? will the white house even want to hear new ideas or is it basically full steam ahead with what the status quo is for the next 18 months or so. >> interesting...

Switching sides to join isis and isis seized control of the syrian border in an effort to erase any separation from iraq and syria. peter brooks is here and he has a lot to say about this. >> good morning. >> lets start here. syrian rebels joining forces are isis, what does this signal? is this a recipe for disaster? >> isis is a huge problem in the region and i think it will become an international problem if they are able to consolidate the territory they have taken. taking territory is differ...

Long time, too, in western iraq and now they moved into northern iraq. but syria and iraq have to be looked at together in some ways and separate in some ways. but this caliphate they announced and are establishing covers most areas and is a concern to turkey, iran, and eventually europe and the united states. >> peter, i havet on a scale of 1-10 are we safe here in america? >> i think we are safer than we were but still not safe. there are many threats out there we have to be worried about unfo...

Of the defense and a former ciaa operative. peter after all of the american blood spilled and wounded warriors and islamic terrorist are capturing city after city, do you think that iraq will be lost? >> it is a possibility, eric. they are already holding ground it appears to me. they hold ground in syria and dont have to take baghdad to do the bad things they plan on doing in that part of iraq and the world? the situation is a crisis and we are way behind the power curve. i am not sure ion fls ...

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The city. peter brooks is the senior fellow for national security at the heritage foundation it also a former deputy secretary of defense, former officer of the cia. peter, were you an officer or analyst? >> officer. >> all right. so lets talk a little bit about iraq. this is heartbreaking. the united states spent ten years there, we assumed that iraq would emerge a peaceful stable democracy after the hundreds of billions of dollars the u.s. invested. the 4,500 u.s. troops killed, tens of thousa...

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Lets bring in peter brooks, a senior fellow for national security affairs at the heritage foundation. ukraines acting president is calling this the second wave of russias special operation against ukraine aimed at destabilization, toppling the current government and tearing the country apart, closed quote. how significant do you think this development is? >> i think he summed it up pretty well. this was predictable and we see this movie in crimea and it may have the same ending in eastern ukrain...