Descended on city of ramadi and took it over. Ash carter telling cnn exclusively that he is very concerned. That says to me and i think to most of us that we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight isil and defend themselves. Cnns athena jones joins me live from the white house. Athena last hour arwa damon in baghdad said clearly the words from the u. S. Defense secretary greatly upset the people of iraq and they said that is not the case that their armed forces do not have the will to fight. Whats the white house saying . Reporter well the white house is not saying anything today, but secretary carton iser sends this message to the iraqi forces. You can bet the white house is aware of what he said and is not speaking out of turn. Ever since the fall of ramadi this week and palmyra in syria theres been pressure on the white house and criticism on the white houses whole strategy regarding isis in the region. Youre hearing from a lot of people saying the white house needs to come up with a whole new strategy to make sure they can defeat this isis threat. You have secretary of defense carter saying look this is up to the iraqi forces to really step up. Lets play a little bit more of what he had to say in the exclusive interview with Barbara Starr. What apparently happened was that the iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. They failed to fight, they withdrew from the site, and that says to me and i think to most of us that we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight isil and defend themselves. Now, we can give them training we can give them equipment, we obviously cant give them the will to fight. But if we give them training we give them equipment, and give them support and give them some time i hope they will develop the will to fight because only if they fight can isil remain defeated. And so there you secretary carterimately up to iraqi forces in line with what the administration has been arguing all along its going to be up to the iraqis themselves with the help from the u. S. , coalition, people involved in the air strikes but theyre going to have to ultimately fight isis defeat isis and hold on to the territory they retake poppy. Absolutely. Quite an uphill battle when youre dealing with an armed forces on the ground not willing to do what is needed. Lets talk more about this with peter bergen. Also Kimberly Dozier joining us again. Global Affairs Analyst and contributor to the daily beast. I want you to listen to what senator john mccain said earlier foed today. First to have the president recognize he was incorrect when he said were not losing we need to have a robust strategy we need more troops on the ground we need air controllers. Were just referring to air strikes. Do you know that 75 of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon . Its because we dont have somebody on the ground who can identify a static moving target. And we learned in youre going to be talking about the vietnam war later on in this we found in vietnam that if you dont have the right strategy, air power is main mall ininimal in its effect. We need to have air controller, special forces, we need to have those kinds of raids that were so successful into syria. We need to have a strategy. There is no strategy. And anybody that says that there is id like to hear what it is. Because it certainly isnt apparent now. Peter bergen he did not mince any words. There is no strategy. Is he right . I think almost everything that senator mccain said in that statement is correct. I think, you know if we are serious, if the United States is serious about, for instance taking over taking back mosul, obviously that would be largely an iraqi army operation. But theres going to i think, have to be u. S. Air controllers on the ground calling in very precise air strikes. Theres going to have to be u. S. Special forces advising on the ground with those forces in mosul. Its really the question of what you want politically. I mean if youre prepared to deal with the situation where isis is either really winning or losing sometimes it loses territories, other times it gains, you know then the status quo is fine, but if you are serious, i think, about really retaking mosul, which is the second largest city in iraq clearly the iraqi army is not going to do that by itself. At least by, you know, past history suggest. Its interesting to hear even ash carter the u. S. Defense secretary in the interview with Barbara Starr said peter, i hope they will develop the will to fight. I hope . You know the will to fight. If i was an iraqi army soldier knowing what i know about isis likely reprisals on me if im still around when a city is retaken, i mean, theyre making a very rational decision. But, you know i think that calculous can change if the United States and other allied forces we already have Canadian Special forces on the ground advising them. You know i think it it you know its going to require more than the present situation has, you know developed. If were going to change the equation. Kimberly you wrote a really fascinating piece about this in the daily beast this week and talk about the frustrations youve been hearing from u. S. Military officials, one telling you this. I want to read it in full saying every few years theres a place where the u. S. Administration wont let u. S. Forces accompany those theyve trained. It went on to say this younger jengeneration has to get over it. Well that was one of my sources i was at a special operations conference for a week who was talking about, yes, there is frustration that the guys who are already there, they have to stay behind at the base. Normally the people theyre advising the people theyre training, small numbers of americans would go out with them outside the wire and in a sense, give them the courage to stand against the onslaught of isis. But theres also something psychological going on when youve got an american serviceman next to you, you know as an iraqi soldier, that that american has air strikes to call on. That american has medical evaluation to call on. And you think that in will be someone to help you to keep you from getting captured by isis. So so youve got the older generation within the u. S. Military within u. S. Special operations saying weve seen this before, we have to bide our time and wait for an administration thats ready for us to go in in small numbers. And then you have the Younger Generation going, were training these guys were winning their loyalty and then were sending them to die by themselves. They have the will to fight, but they got to trust whos next to them or whos leading them. And they dont trust the iraqi leadership. Peter, one of the things weve heard after the fall of ramadi, capital there of Anbar Province is an increasing drumbeat by some lawmakers, some saying this morning on state of the union that the u. S. Must must really increase its focus on arming and training sunni tribes to be a bigger part of this. Is that a good strategy . Well its a good strategy but im skeptical its going to take you know its going to be effective very quickly. After all, there was the strategy has been in place with ramadi. There was a sunni tribal element that didnt really work out. And right now the most sunnis are in Anbar Province are sitting on the fence, a very good reason they see isis as being victorious. Theyre either acquiescing or biding their time. And until the facts on the ground begin to really shift against isis no one in their right mind would ally with the iraqi army if theyre sunni and theyve done it once before and it worked in 2006 but already isis is ive just been reading their most recent magazine rsh magazine theyre concerned about the sunni revival, awakening, the forces that defeated them in 06, 07 and theyre going around killing those people if they can find them. Its the right idea but it is not going to happen very quickly. All right. Time is not on their side. Kimberly dozier peter bergen thank you guys both. I appreciate it. Thank you. Flooding in texas has left 1,000 people in shelters. Officials are pleading with residents to stay where they are, where it is safe. Youre looking at live pictures now over some of the hardest hit areas, san marcos texas. We are live in the midst of the disaster. Next. If youre taking multiple medications does your mouth often feel dry . 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There is debris stuck just underneath that overpass and were told that water at one point was flowing over the highway which is why when we were driving down here we saw debris scattered all over the roads, bales of hay, pieces of wood, furniture, you name it. It was on the roads. That over there is the river. I want to show you what it looks like right now. Its still fast moving but has gone down considerably. This all started just north of here in Blanco County where they got as much as 12 inches of rain in a very short period of time overnight. All that water rushed downstream flooding areas like san marcos where we are right now. As you know authorities are searching for those three people who are missing. Theres already at least one person who has died. And there is a curfew in effect tonight, and this is why. So theres all this debris. Look at this. All these people are showing up here. Theyve been showing up here consistently throughout the day to look at the damage. And the danger of that is here we do have debris and were told that theres even some water moccasins so people are being careful. But theres power lines. Theres a lot of destruction in other parts of the county. Authorities just dont want people out there. They dont want anybody else to get hurt. The good news in all of this is that it seems that the situation, the worse of this is over. Poppy . That is very good news. Alina machado, thank you so much. Lets go to tom sater in the cnn Severe Weather center joining us with a look at whats ahead. She said it looks like the worst is over. Is that what the forecasts are showing as well . Theyre getting a little bit of a break today, poppy, sure and the next 24 hours. Tomorrow well find the threat of more rainfall. That goes into tuesday. Weve got a flood problem really from southern texas up to northern missouri. Weve got flooding in parts of colorado, up toward and in the dakota dakotas. If we get another 2 to 4 or 4 to 6 were going to have more problems. Not like in the last 24 hours. Look at oklahoma city. 18 inches of rain this month. Wettest may on record. Wettest month ever. And the wettest may for ft. Smith, wichita falls, which by the way the National Weather service there said expect historic flooding. Drought one year ago. Exceptional drought. Parts of texas, oklahoma. Last thursday it looked like this. This does not include numbers in the last 24 hours that were like this. 7 9, 9 1 2. Over 11 1 2 inches in 24 hours. So we saw rivers and still will see what was an eightfoot level, poppy, become possibly 38 later on this evening. Again, thats areas of san marcos. We still have a threat. Weve got tornado watches across the area. So were going to be talking about this for a while. They could use a break, but more rain in the next 24 to 48. They certainly could use a break. Tom, thanks. Appreciate it. 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Reporter poppy, we were live on your show for several hours yesterday, and if you look behind me really, this is whats left of the protests so far. You can see those protesters who are standing off in the distance. We are told there may be a small protest tonight outside the nba eastern conference finals. What a difference a day makes. We drove around town today to see if we could find protesters. Were told there was a rally at 1 00 we didnt see anybody. We were told there was a rally at 4 00. We didnt see anybody as well. We have these officers in front of the Justice Center keeping guard. As we went through the downtown area, cleveland cavalier fans are out getting ready for the game we saw officers everywhere. Theres so much calm and peace so far, you wouldnt realize there was a protest. The chief did talk about some of the afs arrests that were made overnight. We moved in to make arrests when things got violent and protesters refused to disperse. We wanted to make sure that people understand were going to help you in this process, but if things turn violent as we stated in the beginning, we will take action. To preserve safety in the city. Reporter poppy, you heard that from the chief. You can see the messages that were left here on the sidewalk. They go all the way down the front of the Justice Center. Weve been talking to people all day long, a lot of them believe there will be another protest but everything has remained peaceful. So much work has been done over the last two years. They wanted to make sure this wasnt another baltimore or furg on ferguson or anywhere else. They wanted it do it a different style. Ryan appreciate the reporting. The race for the white house is heating up this week with more contenders appearing to officially join the fray and one plans to go head to head with Hillary Clinton, but hes got an issue to overcome. Well talk about that next. 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