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So he waited and he has another iraq, plus syria is still festering. when you hear the ambassador to iraq and afghanistan saying he thinks this terror group isis may be worse to deal with than al qaeda at its height with bladen in power -- >> thats what should concern everybody. you got iraq, syria. what youre pointing out here, 300 people, air strikes. what about jordan, lebanon and turkey? >> now there was an ice is video showing ice is trying to get into jordan, recruit people. that could sug...

One of the biggest developments is this outpost that was taken over by isis on the syrian border. you have twin crises on the mideast that are colliding literally for president obama. when you hear james rosen reporting on secretary of state john kerry saying, look, we may not be able to wait for a nuk iraqi government to be formed. u.s. may have to go forward with air strikes of their own, this is something the president said about a year ago, last summer, fall, with syria and in the end stoppe...

President disagreed on syria. >> and competition heats up for the number three leadership spot. and are the tea party conservatives just going to let him walk in to the spot? >> this is "the daily rundown." lets start with my first read of the morning and the nightmare in iraq. tens of thousands of now in control of huge parts in the country and are moving towards baghdad. they seized two more towns near the border of iran. inside towns like mosul, sharia law has been put into place. embassy per...

>> you dont think the prime minister just pushed out too many sunnis? >> we have an immediate threat. its not called an iraqi uprising. its called a terrorist threat, we have jihadists from other countries. this is not just an internal iraqi dispute. we have an international situation in iraq which need to be dealt with internationally but with the support of iraqis. >> this is bleeding into syria. is this now a regional threat? do you think other middle eastern countries will come to -- do you ...

Said, he gets to make the decisions, and he was not convinced that it was right for any kind of an american involvement no matter even a small, you know, support program. so what we did was try to help with the humanitarian disaster, and the hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding into the country. >> well, it seem nos better. >> well w it is worse, because syria is a battleground for jihadists, and it has become a magnet for the extremists, and the poor moderates are badly outgunned, and are...

highly unusual. as soon as they lost contact with this drone, they sent out a manned aircraft and the pilot was able to put some eyes on the wreckage and determine, a, that it crashed and b, looked like there were no injuries on the ground. its been described as a marshy air on the eastern shore of maryland. this drone, the global hawk can fly up to 11 miles high. it can fly for 30 hours at a time. it can fly for so long and can fly above the weather. here in the united states, its bee...

The prime minister of iraq, nuri al maliki, called on the towhit house to consider air strikes. the president said all options are on the table. >> i dont rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure the jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either iraq or syria for that matter. >> iraq is facing a brutal enemy that also poses a threat to americas interests and to the interests of our allies in europe and in the region. given the gravity of the situation, i would antic...

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