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Theres discussion of training troops in iraq to stabilize iraq. all these things that they had lined up as potential achievements president arrives, boom, its like he knocked over a whole set of blocks. you can only imagine what stoltenberg, what our nato ambassador were thinking as they sat next to the president as he went through this. just one final point, we used this phrase before, but the world we grew up in was well described by one of the creators of nato and these great institutions. he...

Confidence? >> yes. >> reporter: what makes you say that? >> because authorities that i have been given and policies that we received, it is everything that i asked for. >> reporter: ali, the new troops have arrived in afghanistan and another 3,000 up to 14,000. it is a little misleading though because the kind of troops that they need to really affect the policies that president trump has now signed off on are training trotrai training troops at the local level. that group wont arrive until tim...

Sort of do some more training at the highest levels with generals and command staff is not going to do much. the people who are pushing for more troops who tend to be from the pentagon say they need to be in there training troops at the lowest levels, at the company level, at the battalion level to be with of a daafghan troops on the frot line. if theyre just there to be with generals it wont make a difference. >> bill: more on that devastating attack when we get more details. thank you, sir. >>...

Iraq. and that lesson is, its not good enough just to be tough. we have got to be smart. and what that means is, we cannot do it alone. we cannot and should not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. what we need to do is bring together a grand coalition led as king abdullah of jordan reminds us by muslim troops on the ground. what we should do along with the u.k., france and russia and other major powers is give the muslim nations on the ground the support they need from the air, ...

The people in our country, that i have the stomach, i have the head. i think we have the approach. not only to beat isis, but to crush isis and to destroy isis. and what my view is, is that we have got to learn a lesson from iraq. and that lesson is its not good enough just to be tough. we have got to be smart. and what that means is, we cannot do it alone. we cannot and should not be involved in potential war fare in the middle east. what we need to do is bring together a grand coalition, led a...

The day-to-day challenges of being a care giver. rick has the story. there are millions of disabled veterans. but little attention to the families who are full- time care take are ares. they are the hidden heroes. he was a reservist and while training troops. he suffered injuries and wound up unable to care for himself. >> he had a military career that was active and then sitting in home in pain and physically and emotionally psychologically he was hurting. >> she was a catholic high school for ...

Youre talking about something a heck of a lot longer than just through 2016 and lots more than 9,800 troops. and thats why i think the president is talking about readjusting as time goes forward. i dont think anybody should be under the illusion that a year from now were going to be down to 5500 or 1,000. training troops on the ground takes a lot of people. its labor intensive, and its time intensive. and just a year just isnt going to do it, brian. >> jack, as jim miklaszewski correctly points ...

S the iraqis say theyve captured parts of ramadi where isis had taken overven a childrens hospital. showing soldiers firing from that hospital. u.s. marines are training troops not far from there. details of the story. what else are u.s. officials saying about the report of are this isis leader badly wounded? >> reporter: the pentagon isnt denying air strikes the day al baghdadi was reportedly injured, according to a spokesman, he wasnt specifically targeted in the strikes. if that it true essen...

Cnn the city may fall to the terror group. local residents are fleeing, fearing for their life. the isis gain comes as the prime minister is on capitol hill asking u.s. lawmakers and the president for more military help. >> this is a long process and in our discussions, the prime minister made clear that success will not -- >> reporter: u.s. warplanes are carrying out air strikes in support of forces in ramadi. as cnns arwa damon saw this week they are training troops in the area. former command...

Normal. those people need to be held accountable when they radicalize to the point of turning to violence and the people around them do nothing. >> thank you very much. its a good point. of course as tim points out you hear from the people how nice and gentle and wonderful. you hear it in everything. the jihad case when you hear about murders. you never hear anyone say i saw it coming. one of putins most vocal critics shot and killed when youre looking at the domes of the cremlin behind him. ...