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Now, we do have boots on the ground with the kurds. the peshmerga the fighting forces of the kurds are effective able fighters, theyre allies of the united states. we should be arming them. sending to baghdad who wont pass on to the kurds. so in my view the kurds should be our principle boots on the ground. we should be using overwhelming air force power. and then beyond that if we need to embed special forces or have some limited ground troops driven by the mission we should. but it shouldnt be...

Control, and this is significant of al baghdadi. that may sound familiar because its about faveive to seven miles outside of the al asad air base where they are training forces and where last month, you may remember, isis militants staged a ground attack, though they fought back because of the u.s. air strikes and the u.s. ground forces fighting back. so, again, retaking al baghdadi is an important and significant victory because anbar province largely remains under isis control. all that said, ...

They called me veto corleone because we did veto 2,500 line items in the budget totaling $2 billion. we left my successor $9 billion plus of cash for a rainy day. and then we had the financial meltdown. and so conservatives need to be focused on not spending everything that they have, of cutting taxes to stimulate economic growth so more revenues come in peoples pockets and the government gets their fair share as well. >> you think you can lower taxes with $18.1 trillion in debt that we have now...

Authorities today charged three men with conspiracy to help isis. western nations might not be engaging in actual ground combat against the terror group. but they are fighting isis at ground level. how? by training forces who have already proven they can win against this terrorist group. the kurdish pesh mer ga in iraq is one of the groups. these fighters have kept isis at bay and a lot of the region here despite suffering serious losses. i am going to turn now to our senior international corres...

Nothing. bill: do you think those numbers are hard and firm or is this an opportunity for the commander-in-chief to see how it goes in afghanistan? >> think of the dreams keeping there? these could become combat forces. in iraq we left completely. isis has arising and there are call to the have the united states go back and put in training forces and we have sent forces back in. in both of those cases we have to understand these are not wars we have won. i see those polls and i dont understand t...

>> for now, the official line, the u.s. will keep training forces. $15 billion in u.s. weapons have already been delivered, including 300 missiles, thousands of machine guns, flares, sniper rifles, m-16s and m-4 rifles and apache helicopters are scheduled next for shipping. but with some u.s. supplied vehicles to iraq already in isis hands, there are serious questions if it the pentagon shifts more weapons, can the iraqis hold on to them? one defense official, wolf, telling me about all of this ...

Vision for an end to war. there he is expected to describe plans for what he calls a new capture in the story of american leadership. nbc tracie potts is live in washington with more. tracey, what can we expect to hear from the president? >> reporter: well, frances were told hell have a middle of the road course, unafraid to team up with the rest of the world against russia, but also careful for a military not to be overly aggressive. this mornings west point speech comes after president obama a...

Planning guide. that said 8 to 9,000 training forces to provide training and assist. >> the white house is now considering less than half that of troops. the pentagon would not confirm any figures. >> there was an ongoing discussion now about what the force posture in afghanistan could or would look like post 2014. >> 5,000 u.s. trops would reflect a judgment that afghan forces are now up to the task of providing their own security. the mission would then focus on counterterrorism. that elicited...

Of a withdrawal even though it is what the american people want? >> well, thats the hard part. and i think in the end there will be some kind of agreement because i think whoever the new leadership is, and theres no way to predict, i think theyve gotten a dozen or so candidates, but i think theres a consensus among the leadership, except for karzai, that some kind of an agreement to at least maintain the training forces and some presence that continues and allows us to assist them with counter t...

These men were training forces to fight and now have the equipment. in the meantime, the same team that has been pulled were the guys that went out and got the information. as of this hour, no one has been arrested in this investigation. although, i was cautioned late last night. but as one diplomate said, it has taken a long time up to this point especially when the information about these suspects was given to the officials back in january. >> adam, thank you very much. very, very interesting ...