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Fight against isis. is there anything you heard today or anything that you have seen that could make a somewhat immediate and significant difference in this fight? >> you mean, in relations to the russians or general? >> in general. >> in general. well, i think they are starting to act faster, because before it was very long space between implementing a certain policy, for example, training rebels against jihadis, which actually didnt work out. but it took a long time for it to not work out and ...

And president obama in roseburg, oregon today meeting with families of those killed in last weeks deadly shooting on a college campus there. some people not happy that the president made the visit. the pentagon announcing it will stop training rebels to fight isis. was the $500 million program a complete failure? what will it change about the future fight against isis? >> we have devised a number of different approaches to that going forward and taking under president obama y. thipg you will b...

Rebels fighting the assad regime and the much larger one is the pentagon one that was aimed at training rebels only to fight isis. that was the one trying to get to reach between 5,000 to 15,000 over the course of 3 years and cost $500 million and literally produced 4 or 5 fighters. as a result, that program now is being scrapped. it is scrapped because they dont have the fighters, the money is wasted. the guns ending up in the hands of al qaeda-affiliated groups and not making progress on the g...

Factions, even the more moderate rebel factions, are sitting back and asking themselves, what kind of an ally do we have in the united states? especially when it seems at this stage that the syrian regime has a much more powerful and decisive ally in russia, which is a very precarious situation in terms of how these broader dynamics do play out both in the syrian and iraqi battleground. >> arwa, stand by. i want to bring in my panel on set. weve been watching this together. major general james s...

Trying to take in more people ourselves that the money were spending to try to support the refugee proz process would be well spent? should we be spending more of it? >> well, i think we should be spending more money on bringing refugees here. i propose today that we should be taking all of this money were throwing down the drain and training rebels who are refusing to fight once they go into syria and use that money on bringing more refugees. but we also have a world food program that has run o...

It? >> well, i think we should be spending more money on bringing refugees here. i propose today that we should be taking all of this money were throwing down the drain and training rebels who are refusing to fight once they go into syria and use that money on bringing more refugees. but we also have a world food program that has run out of money inside places like jordan. we arent feeding millions of refugees. millions of refugees that live outside of these camps because were not putting in mon...

It? >> well, i think we should be spending more money on bringing refugees here. i propose today that we should be taking all of this money were throwing down the drain and training rebels who are refusing to fight once they go into syria and use that money on bringing more refugees. but we also have a world food program that has run out of money inside places like jordan. we arent feeding millions of refugees. millions of refugees that live outside of these camps because were not putting in mon...

Broader strategic look at the middle east and decided that trying to negotiate iran from having a nuclear weapon is the best way forward and then perhaps the consequence or sacrifice of that is not moving full speed to remove president bashar al assad. on the ground the regime has in many ways the upper hand and the concern is if you say ramp up the aid too fast to syrian rebels, perhaps it goes to the wrong people. there have been small programs, training rebels here and there and in jordan and...

Administration a very clear military plan and how to go forward with this in the future. in particular their focus is arming and training rebels in syria. the people who are trying to fight against bashar al assad. those are the things they will ask the president, try to get from the president. used as leverage. he said everybody understands that the hope at the white house is that the two men can come out and say, okay, well be for voting to authorize this because if they do that, it will give ...

Just coming up from ground above. >> biggest building in the city. well keep an eye on it. [ gunfire ] other news now, rebel fighters in syria getting more military help from jordan and the united states. u.s. officials say they are training rebels to possibly man a border battle zone that hasnt even been established yet. >> about half a million syrian people have fled to jordan since the civil war began just two years ago. in western afghanistan insurgents stormed a courthouse killing 44 peop...