Iraqi forces. And today, eight isis suicide bombers attacked that base breaching the outer security limits. In the ukraine, the defense minister says eight soldiers died and almost three dozen injured in the past 24 hours and no letup in the fighting so far today. Reports even of tank battles under way. A cease fire is scheduled to take effect at midnight saturday local time. We begin with isis on the move in iraq. Militants taking control of the town of al baghdadi after attacking it from three sides and activating sleeper cells inside the town. They then deployed eight suicide bombers to attack the Al Asad Air Base with the u. S. Military personnel and u. S. Officials saying theres no plans to evacuate u. S. Troops from the base at this time. Western iraq is not the only place where isis is advancing. Phil black is on the ground in Northern Iraq by telephone now. Phil tell us we have been talking about isis on the defensive but we see them on the offensive both down by al baghdadi and kurdish areas in the north. Reporter yeah. Thats right, jim. The latest first of all, on the area around the Al Asad Air Base we understand theres still fighting fairly close to the location from Iraqi Security officials in the area and baghdad, as well. You mentioned eight suicide bombers tried to get to the air base itself. Indeed they say they were all stopped, all killed. According to the u. S. Military. That location was attacked by eight isis members that they had not called them suicide bombers, though. We do not have an accurate sense just yet as to whether or not those bombers able to detonate their vests or cause damage or casualties there. At the nearby town of al baghdadi said to control about 90 of the town and done this fairly rapid time overnight with sleeper cells in the area able to move in and take control of security checkpoints they had previously not taken control of. Here in the north of the country, it is quieter today and over the last 24 hours there have been attacks across a wide range of areas. This is on top of the significant towns and cities they still control in the region. Even though here in the north they have been wound back in terms of control, they still control mosul, big towns and cities even here in the north where the battle against isis going relatively well. Still tremendous work to do jim. Yeah. Still clearly the able to carry out Major Military operations. Thanks to phil black. We want more on the attack of isis troops and the danger to american troops at the base. I had the chance to get more details from the pentagon spokesman rear admiral john kirby. Admiral kirby, did the attackers at any time breach the base security . Well it looks like they at least got to the outer base limits. Were still looking at this. And its hard to say, you know whether they breached the perimeter or not but they got, you know to the perimeter level. At the very least and they were immediately engaged and important to note by Iraqi Security forces right away. Now, keeping in mind that they control this town just a few miles down the road al baghdadi from the base i imagine the threat to the base is still ongoing. Well we have been saying that for a long time jim, as you know. We put trainers in al assad, we did that knowing that al Anbar Province is contested and took a while to get advisers set and established on the base because there were some force Protection Measures to make sure were in place so we readily admit that its a contested region sill continues to want to pose a threat here. This is a huge sprawling base. Roughly the size of boulder, colorado. I mean, it is not just a small outpost somewhere. Theres mini bases inside the big base and very very big area. And i would say that this incident though not that were not taking it seriously, happened nowhere near where u. S. Forces or Coalition Forces are operating. Assuming theres an attack are there contingency plans for evacuating the personnel . We have plans for all manner of things and one thing to say without detail is that theres nothing more important than the safety and security of our people. Let me ask you this because a lot has been made a lot of statements made that there are no combat forces on the ground there. But isnt it fair to say that these military personnel, particularly in anbar, are in combat if not combat troops considering the threat around them . Theyre very close to combat and therefore close to danger. Yeah. Theres no question that theyre close to danger. I mean theres no question about that. I dont think anybody here said that. The question is really good one and requires context here. The policy in place is that there will not be a return to u. S. Troops in a combat role or a combat mission on the ground. These u. S. Troops that are at anbar are trainers advisers and thats what theyre doing. Theyre training now hundreds of Iraqi Security force personnel. They have the right to defend themselves. And so when we have been honest that of course u. S. Forces in a combat role in iraq. We have conducted more than 2,000 air strikes. Thats combat. But theres not a return to a combat mission on the ground and these individuals are not in a combat mission on the ground. Now, again, they have the right to defend themselves and should they ever feel under threat they certainly have the right, the responsibility the obligation to shoot back. Now, there have been plans to put u. S. Military advisers at other forward bases in northern and western iraq. Are those under way in places other than for instance Anbar Province . Were right now four building partner capacity sights, three training sites and thats going to be the limit in terms of geographic locations. At least right now. Again, the purpose of those sites, those training sites are for training and advisers. I want to clear something up. There seems to be a notion here it was a u. S. Base and you know jim, al asad is an iraqi base and theres american personnel working there but not a u. S. Base. The u. S. Doesnt have bases inside of iraq. A final yes if i can on yemen. You have acknowledged in light of the removal of the u. S. Beast embassy theres an impact. U. S. Officials quoted in the New York Times today saying that the cia had to significantly scale back operations. Can you quantify how much ct ops curtailed in yemen as a result of the removal of the embassy . Well i cant speak for other agencies but for the pentagon yes, theres an impact. Id be loathe right now to give you a percentage but clearly there has been some adjustments to make. What i want to make very very clear is that Counter Terrorism training with some yemeni Security Force personnel continues. We are actually conducting some training with the yemeni Security Forces outside of sanaa. No question about that. We dont have personnel there right now and maintain the capability inside yemen for Counter Terrorism operations. That capability still exists. I would be less than honest if i said its not been adjusted and curtailed in some regards because of the political instability but this is a capability wed like to maintain in yemen and of course that requires a good partner and its the partnership side things are getting a little difficult. Admiral kirby, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. And just ahead, more on the isis advance in iraq and what it means for the war against this terrorist group. Our panel puts it in perspective. 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Mill personnel are housed. House Services Committee hearing today a former adviser says that violent islam is on the rise no matter how you measure it. The numbers of casualties they inflict, their broad expansion and use of the internet which is very serious, or just their sheer barbarism, the threat of extremism reached an unacceptable level and that it is growing. We are at war with violent and extreme usislamists and we just face this reality. Lets get perspective on what it means from the panel. Lieutenant colonel james reece, former delta force commander, bobby gosh and bob baer. Colonel, i wonder if i could start with you. You have the attack on the al asad base and personnel training not in a combat role and combat came close to their doorstep today and isis controlling a town a few miles down the road. Isnt the line blurring between what a combat ground troop is and what u. S. Forces are doing on the ground now in iraq . Jim, youre right. You and i have had this conversation over the last five six months of this kind of blur on the line and really the semantics of this where comes. The bottom line is we are always going to give our soldiers the right for self protection and take care of these things. These forces out in al asad by name are combat arms type soldiers. They know how to fight in combat even though right now theyre doing training and if something happens, theyre allowed to defend themselves for force protection. They have the rules of engage engagements and the air cap up to make sure theyre safe out there helping the iraqis. Bobby, has the administration in its constant protestations of no Ground Combat troops no combat role been misleading in some to some degree as u. S. Forces are in more forward positions and particularly in a base like anbar and good percentage of the province controlled by isis in saying definitely no combat when in reality theyre very close to combat . We had the pentagon spokesman admiral kirby acknowledge in his words theres no question theyre close to danger. I think you could say that the administration has been economical with the facts shall we say. I think any time you send soldiers into a war zone they are soldiers. It is a war zone. Even if you give them specific instructions to concentrate on training they are armed and as admiral kirby just said if they face fire then they are authorized to shoot back. Explaining all of that to the American Public when the president first made the decision to send the trainers out might have seemed complicated but the reality on the ground as we have seen so often in the middle east and iraq so often the realities on the ground quickly change any political calculation to be made in washington. Bob, the narrative to this point from the administration isis on the defensive. The momentum stopped in iraq and even pushed back in some areas. Now you have them going on the offensive both in the north against Kurdish Forces and now iraqi forces and very close to u. S. Forces. Is it safe to say that theyre showing their strength here and back on the offensive despite the u. S. Led coalition, iraqi efforts . Well jim, of course we dont know what their strategy is exactly. But they did fail in kobani and strictly a kurdish area in syria and withdrawn from there. They have withdrawn some forces from aleppo and moved them into iraq and what we see them doing is focusing on the sunni arab areas with more ground root support around the base one place and i have heard that isis is attacking around south of tikrit and took over baghdadi. That village. So i mean they seem to be changing strategy where they know they can hold ground which would be mosul, al Anbar Province and the rest of those places and see how it unfolds in the coming days and i think the administration is disingenuous of forces. I hear you have delta in action in the kurdish areas, blackhawk helicopters, little birds. Hit an isis position. These cannons are quite fantastic and people get out and run and then the little birds, shoot at whats called the squirters, the runners. So im not worried about that base. Delta force, defer to colonel reece, is not at threat there. But we do have to get engaged in combat to protect our troops. Jim, let me ask you, former delta force commander, have you heard, do you believe reports that delta force is in action in iraq . Well jim, heres what i do know. We have special Operation Forces in there and even the president said the other night, we will take our special Operation Forces if need to and to conduct a manhunting for Senior Leadership and the isis command and control aspect. Just like we did with the saddam regime just like we did with zarqawi. We have to try to knock off and capture or kill the Senior Leadership in these aspects. Only certain units do that do it very well and it would not doubt theyre positioned but again these are intentbased operations and they have triggers to when they are. Were not just going to rush those type of units out there to do those things on a whim. The intelligence has got to be there and be a strong indication of when to go especially if we can get a guy like baghdadi whos a leader of isis. Theres a word for what you just described. Isnt it combat . Youre right. That is a combat operation. And i believe the president did say that the other night and the authorization speech that if needed he could take special you know the tier 1 special Operations Forces to go after that leadership of isis. All right. Well thanks very much jim reyes, bobby ghosh, bob baer. Breaking news a federal prosecutor in argentina asking for an investigation of the countrys president. The president is accused of covering up irans role in the bombing of a Jewish Community center in 1994. 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Other people the friends, everyone really noticed this guy and i mean its sad because when we heard about this he was the first he was the only person to come to our mind just because you just dont come to you dont come to your neighbors house with a gun. You dont do that. If youre mad, you send a notice to the apartment complex and they send out something. Cnns jean casarez joins us with the latest. Police have not wrapped up the investigation but is if fbi getting involved specifically to investigate the possibility this was a hate crime . Reporter they are. I just spoke with the North Carolina division of the fbi an