Terrorist Groups Isis News Today

Ayatollah, iran seeks peace and empowerment of nations and u.s. seeks regional instability and dismantlement of islamic awakening by arming terrorist groups isis. when you see that it makes you want to chuckle but this is real life. i asked jen psaki, how can you do business with people that say stuff like this. how do you deal on something this significant when you do not trust the person that is signing the dotted line? >> look at some level, shes right. the reality is what did reagan say abou...

I think that is a nuance too far. for some of the great minds in the worlds greatest deliberative body. >> irans goal is to become the regional -- >> probably true yes. >> theyre never excited to see additional american troops anywhere in the middle east. thats a fair statement? >> i cant tell what excites them. i cant imagine that our bombing isil is unwelcome to them. >> okay. so this is ash carter the new defense secretary, saying i dont know what excites them senator, but whatever else you t...

An active war going on against isis in iraq and syria. and it involves thousands of u.s. troops. and a very complicated set of you know not alliances, and very fragile coalitions where everybodys very testy. that is happening right now already. that is under way. that is a military campaign of considerable scale, and it has been under way for months. and our congress is technically trying to start, maybe, to debate that for the first time right now. the first day of formal debate on this today w...

Senator rubio has made this mistake before. >> i understand why the president has not put in place a military strategy to defeat isis. if we wanted to defeat them militarily, we can do it. he doesnt want to upset iran. thats why we havent done it. >> it would not upset iran for the united states to militarily defeat isis. iran is fighting isis, too. we may disagree with iran on lots of stuff. but when it comes to isis this one thing, us and iran, we feel the same. but it is -- marco rubio is a p...

Not like he does. because of his time in the senate, misunderstanding what iran is. if this is what passes for republican expertise on foreign policy, were about to have another stupid presidential election cycle when it comes to foreign policy. you thought it was bad with mitt romney, right? right now, among the 2016 republican presidential contenders, the who guys trying to position themselves as the smart ones on foreign policy, are marco rubio, and also rick perry. whew! so one level of this...

Them. again, theres not that many pieces on this chessboard. iran is fighting isis. we are fighting isis. us bombing isis, iran likes that. that is welcome. marco rubio thinks its the opposite. his office told us today that he misheard what the defense secretary said today at that hearing. he must have really misheard it, because marco rubio kept repeating it today. >> because as we heard from secretary carter, they are not fans of us bombing isis because it involves our presence in the region. ...

Complex to grasp in washington right now. again, senator rubios office told us he misheard the defense secretary ash carter on this today. thats why he kept talking about it backwards. it was not just today. senator rubio has made this mistake before. >> i understand why the president has not put in place a military strategy to defeat isis. if we wanted to defeat them militarily, we can do it. he doesnt want to upset iran. thats why we havent done it. >> it would not upset iran, for the united s...

Defeated isis there, and kicked isis out of this town. at one point in this footage, you see a guy, he comes up to the troops and hes holding a pot of coffee. this guy here. hes holding a pot of coffee. and you can hear what hes saying here, if we up the sound a little bit. he says, and we translated the arabic, he said, we welcome you. you are welcome, welcome. may god protect and bless you. he gives the coffee to these iraqi soldiers. the little girl you just saw, she gets asked, again, in ara...

And it involves thousands of u.s. troops. and a very complicated set of, you know, not alliances, and very fragile coalitions where everybodys very testy. that is happening right now already. that is under way. that is a military campaign of considerable scale, and it has been under way for months. and our congress is technically trying to start, maybe, to debate that for the first time right now. the first day of formal debate on this today was humiliating for its ignorance. but the consensus i...

Very sunni terrorist group. these troops and these militias that have come in to fight isis in western iraq for the most part they are not sunni. most of them at least are shiites from the iraqi military. and these mostly shiite militias that the iraqi military is fighting with. so these shiite groups are coming into this sunni area and they are having some success fighting against the sunni terrorist groups isis. if that is making the people on the ground this these towns sing shiites and sunni...