fairly quickly and it is going to be difficult for them to move in on baghdad, and that is where to a air strikes become really the hands up for us, because they don't have that kind of backup for the isis group. >> and i want to talk about of course those options are all on the table as the president said, but you well know that the politics of this heating up with senator john mccain and other republicans and former presidential candidate mitt romney criticizing the president's policies on iraq, and this is what john mccain said this morning on "morning j joe." let me play that. >> the fact is that we had the conflict won and a stable government, but the president wanted out, and now we are paying a heavy price, and i predicted nit 2011, and you can go back to look at the quotes. >> congresswoman, your reaction to that? >> well, john mccain seems to forget a very vital piece of this. al maliki who has been the, who is the president, if you will, the prime minister there of iraq, and by the way, named himself also the secretary of