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Willy-nilly where we shouldnt be. syria is the consequence of not intervening. >> of retreat, exactly. >> of abdication. >> it is. the scale of humanitarian disaster is extraordinary, gruesome. its a country with 23 million people, almost half a million killed, more than 12 million displaced. even with assad retaking the city of aleppo with russia and irans help, that doesnt mean the civil war is over. you still have kurds fighting, still have sunnis fighting, and you also have the united states...

Shia close to the political parties that are loyal to iran. you, in effect, had shiites fighting for the provincial capital anbar province a sunni strong hold. its wonder that they didnt fight. this is not something that happened yesterday. this is something thats happened over the years. the new question will these new shiite militias the pmus be able to overtake are a made. the military analysts are split on that. some of them say that they will because they are better fighters just increase t...

Dealing with the collection of your phone records. >> i strongly urge the senate to work through this recess and make sure that they identify a way to get this done. >> fighting against terrorists to proteliberty, to protect our bill of rights. it would give up our bill of rights in the process, then what were we really fighting for? >> senator majority leader mitch mcconnell wants them back in town sunday to try to prevent them from expiring monday. first hearing in the washington post reporter...

That the fighting had begun than the pentagon pushed back and said all theyve seen are shaping operations, artillery and rocketing, but not a full-scale ground assault. >> days after the fall of ramadi popular mobilization committees to retake the capital of anbar province from isis. ash carters unexpected and blunt assessment of the iraqi military and why ramadi fell. >> vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight. they withdrew from the site. and that says to me and i th...

Water, aggressive scary. you want to stay off the roadways. like you said governor abbott did issue a warning. live in houston. im hilary whittier. >> thank you, hilary. hopefully, drier weather your way frnchts a natural disaster to a man made one. chaos in iraq. a counter offensive against isis in anbar province. this new operation, the pentagon says has barely begun. this comes amid ongoing complaints of the role of the u.s. in the fighting. president obama met today with the secretary genera...

Militias come in thats a motivator for the sunnis fighting against them. it actually has the prospect of increasing the fighting inside iraq deepening the divisions of the civil war, rather than solving it and creating stability. >> what advice would you give the administration? >> id say were already on our back feet so recognize that recognize the seriousness. then youve got to start working very seriously to set the right goal eliminating isis and creating stability and rallying everyone with...

So its very difficult at this stage to really accurately define what is happening here. >> so youre mentioning sunnis fighting alongside isis, they arent necessarily aligned with isis, but there they are. it seems like, its not just isis, that iraqi security forces are taking on, right? >> right. and theyre not. you have the islamic state in iraq and syria fighters that are very well armed. that are incredibly well funded. its described as being one of the richest terrorist organizations in the ...