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Seventh fleet? is this about training? is it about budgets? is this normal and were just maybe focusing on it more now? whats happening? >> the training issue continually comes up. that is a continual need of the military and our navy training capacity continually needs to be refined. thats been cited already in investigations. at a broader level, the american military is stretched, overstretched frankly and has been operating at a pace for years now -- just as we saw in afghanistan, weve been i...

U.s. forces in a combat role, absolutely, that means that you are accepting the risk of not just additional resources to apply, but casualties to american troops. >> why is that not off of the record now? wouldnt the president want that out, because he is not doing enough to capture isil, and why wou wouldnt the president shout that from the are rooftop, this could cost us 500 people every six months, you know. >> well, the details in off of the record setting, but the president has been clear a...

We trained. our president sat on the sidelines and watched people get killed that we enticed to the fight. there is nobody left to train. i would get the arabs threatened by isil as much as we are along with turkey. we would use their armies, 90% them. some of us have to go, folks. you are not going to keep the war from here if some of us dont go over there. 90% them, 10% us. we go in and destroy the caliphate. there must be american boots on the ground in syria to win. if you dont understand th...

In the media. one is the training capacity that the military, the 3,500, needs to be ramped up. and then the next part is the embedding down to the company level of mobile advisers. they have to be blood brothers. they have to be sharing and spilling the same blood so that way we are vested in our arab partners. couple that with the reinforcement of our gulf countries, our support for our gulf countries and saudi arabia. >> assume that will be waged and it became a winnable battle. what happened...

Ground in iraq in an advising and training capacity against isis. then of course, it was u.s. special operations raids in syria and in iraq. and now it is apparently u.s. ground combat direct action on the ground by u.s. forces and not just in iraq but in iraq and in syria, as well. this seems like a biggest calation, like a big policy change to be announced in a pretty soft spoken way in unheralded testimony before a senate committee that basically had no spectators there. is it actually as big...

Ground combat against isis rather than just helping out the iraqis or syrian rebel groups to do that fighting on their own. so first it was u.s. air strikes against isis in iraq and syria. then it was u.s. troops on ground in iraq in an advising and training capacity against isis. then of course, it was u.s. special operations raids in syria and in iraq. and now it is apparently u.s. ground combat direct action on the ground by u.s. forces and not just in iraq but in iraq and in syria, as well. ...

>> my sympathies to the family of the fallen soldier. the fact that were working with the kurds directly thats an encouraging sign to see that. it would be nice to give them weapons. >> today it sounds like were conducting more of these missions and ash carter said he expects to do more of these missions. >> well have 3500 troops there. they are in advisory and training capacity. when missions are under way, advising can be behind the lines but things dont always go as

They say absolutely. the u.s. has been loathe to talk about any kind of training missions they have there or if they have any boots on the ground there. clearly the u.s. wants to maintain their only presence will be with drones. we know from yemeni officials the last few years there is a small presence of u.s. and british troops there in a training capacity for the yemeni counterterrorism forces. >> appreciate that. >> a bomb went off in pakistan today, at least 30 people killed. police are conv...

Noontime, just two hours from now, here in atlanta, another republican is jumping into the race for president. who is it, but exactly who is herman cane, anyway? a suicide bomber and possibly even two striking an afghan military hospital. six people dead. taliban, though, claiming responsibility for attack and also saying that the death toll is a whole lot higher. in kabul for us. listen to what he told me last hour. >> at this point, were told that they dont believe any americans were in that...

Getting from officials. still some confusion as to exactly what went on, how many people were in there. some intelligence officials here are suggesting there might be another suicide bomber still in that hospital on the loose trying to get away from security officials. were trying to sort out all those details. this comes at a time when fear what the taliban might do is at a high. they said theyre going to go after very high-profile security targets. theyve been doing so, and the fact theyve don...