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>> weve increased our intelligence. were prepositioning for the potential of airstrikes. but the president and others are really reluctant to use air power to support maliki. they dont want to take sides in this sectarian debate. >> sure. >> so far maliki has been sectarian. hes not been the government governing all of iraq. >> im afraid the two issues that are most connected with this are the way that this group was able to overrun a part of syria, take control, build up and rearm and refinance...

Were prepositioning for the potential of airstrikes. but the president and others are really reluctant to use air power to support maliki. they dont want to take sides in this sectarian debate. >> sure. >> so far maliki has been sectarian. hes not been the government governing all of iraq. >> im afraid the two issues that are most connected with this are the way that this group was able to overrun a part of syria, take control, build up and rearm and refinance themselves there in syria and then ...

Border into iraq. weve got in the short term to push them back as hard as possible. i think the president is right to send help to the iraqis to be helping the syrian opposition, the moderate syrian opposition, but in the longer term were going to have to get a strategy for the middle east that identifies correctly the problem, which is this extremism, and bears down on it wherever we can, however we can, with the allies we have in the region. >> weve increased our intelligence. were preposition...

It could have done more. in view of repeated broken promises not just to the u.s., but more significantly to the iraqi people, the u.s. has continued to not just support maliki, but to arm him. >> so what does the u.s. do now? the u.s. still a big supporter in a military sense of iraq certainly in terms of equipment and the like. should they be putting more muscle on him? or is there -- what can they do? >> well, they definitely should be putting more muscle on him because they continue to arm h...

That they got here to baghdad and i was up the day after the statue was pulled down just behind me. and there was a sense that the u.s. didnt know what to do next. fast forward to now. what he is saying about the u.s. is they have backed al maliki, which he says is fine. they have not put enough pressure on him to rein in the sectarianism. to be more inclusive. heres part of what he said about the u.s. >> they should support maliki. its up to them. but they should also clarify to maliki that the...

Maliki, called him authoritarian, said he is leading a one-man band and completely isolating sunnis. he wasnt all that complimentary of the united states. they say their support for him has been without enough. i dont know. sort of suspicion about his motives. they say that the u.s. needs to apply more pressure. have a listen. >> they should support maliki. it is up to them. they should also clarify that their support is conditional. or inclusive with the process, respecting human rights. unfort...

And msnbc analyst. lets talk about this group. they are in syria, they are in iraq. how have we let them become so dominant and the maliki government so weak? the isis is an offchute of al qaeda and iraq. it has broken with al qaeda leadership because they are so extreme. the fight in syria, they became a very powerful force there, very armed and one of the most effective military groups fighting assad regime. second, with the maliki government being anti-sunni, they have opportunity for adheren...