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Commander. from toerntto mubean sheikh former terror operative. give your quick analysis ramadi a city of half a million people 120,000 of them have already fled. it looks like a disaster thats unfolding right now. whats going on? >> yeah wolf. i mean it is a setback, no question. the coalition have been doing pretty good bombing out there, but you have to be able to follow it up with ground forces to seize that terrain. i think one thing you will watch here over the next couple days is what the...

Confident the tide will turn back. he says very soon in ramadi. he says the air strikes the u.s. led air strikes will continue. are you getting that same sort of upbeat assessment what some are calling spin coming in from pentagon officials? >> absolutely wolf yes. this is the line that youre hearing this morning across washington from the administration. secretary of state john kerry already saying he thinks ramadi could be retaken very soon by the iraqi forces the pentagon saying its a setback...

Dont miss "blindsided" how isis shook the world, that airs tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. up next more on the fall of ramadi is raising serious concerns about the fight against isis the future of iraq as a country. the role of iran shia versus sunni tensions. analysis on that. later, other news were following here in the united states amtrak restoring full service out of philadelphia following last weeks derailment. a closer look at new safety measures that theyre scrambleing to put...

She said that her vote authorizing the use of force in iraq was a mistake. but she also said if we knew then what we knew now, there wouldnt have been that vote. >> why is it so hard for republicans, at least some of the republicans, jeff to answer the basic question was the war in 2003 against saddam husseins iraq a mistake? >> because it is a complicated issue, and theyre not exactly sure where their base is on this. their base is sort of all over. but it also speaks to the threats going forwa...

Manage service appointments and find answers to your questions. you can even check your connection status on your phone. now its easier than ever to manage your account. get started at xfinity.com/myaccount syrian troops are reportedly battling to keep isis from taking over the ancient syrian city of palmyra. >> reporter: for 2,000 years, its columns and temples have loomed over the horizon.

Now in a renewed eded territorial push, isis militants stand at the gates of this so-called venice of the south. this is whats happened in other towns and territories taken by isis. pillaged hacked and sawed. artifacts standing for thousands of years as testament to mans flights of imagination deemed idolatrous and unislamic by isis. the mosul museum. across iraq and syria in the place of priceless artifacts, isis has left rubble. palmyra recognized as one of the most significant monuments in th...

Iraq the message is that were just repeating what the mall lackey administration did wrong, a body is not an improvement ands they goes downhill fast. >> theres a lot of concern, jamie, the secretary of state john kerry insisting hes, quote, absolutely confident the tide will turn against isis in ramadi. is that confidence at least the public bluster, justified? >> its not justified based on the current alignment of forces that we have facing isis right now. it would be justified if we took a ra...

>> i dont know what will happen in the palmyra. im very worried. im alarmed by what is happening. lets hope that this wonderful monument will not be destroyed like we have seen unfortunately in some of the others, some of the bulldozing and bombing of the sites. >> reporter: across iraq and syria, palmyra and seven other ancient sites and cities are on the u.n.s cultural agency unescos danger list. damascus old town aleppo the list goes on. this in a year where in nepal alone 200 heritage sites ...

Something air strikes is going to be able to do. it doesnt work that way. air strikes dont work unless that way until youre willing to take civilian casualties and the u.s. and iraqis are to the. what we have here is exactly what the information says said it didnt think isis was capable of doing, massing a large number of its fighters and going in once again as an offensive military force. thats what happened in ramadi and the big unanswered question is why could the iraqi security if forces not...

Now iraq poses a threat. it didnt ten years ago and its a shame that the politics the pendulum of our political system has swung so far to the other direction that our president and others arent prepared to take some modest steps to defeat a genuine threat not the fake threat that was exaggerated ten years ago. >> jamie rubin, thanks very much. jane harman, thanks to you as well. we will continue our special coverage whats going on with isis and ramadi but other news were following here in the u...