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Notably, no reference to governor jeb bush. marco rubio's former mentor. on the other hand, the bush team has doubled down on its attacks against marco rubio. you heard jeb bush talking about this last night in new hampshire, that he believes people need to show up for votes. he's redelivering a line he used against rubio in the debate earlier in the week, essentially calling him out for not attending senate votes. we did see marco rubio cancel a campaign event here in iowa to fly back to washington to cast a vote on that budget deal last night, but it remains to be seen whether this attack li...

Forces, basically being at the forward edge of the battle area. this is not going to be very much different if the people who are involved in training the indigenous forces are doing their jobs properly, you can't possibly lead from the rear and you can't even train from the rear. you've got to be with it and with them when they encounter the enemy. so anybody who says they're not in combat doesn't know what he's talking about. >> now to retired four-star army general barry mccaffrey, recipient of two distinguished service crosses and a chest full of other medals in combat himself. general mcc...

This is not a change, that this is some sort of evolution of policy. i have just been -- i can hear a lot of internal washington dynamics going on here. it seems like this administration is going to incredible lengths to prove that it is not contradicting itself, even more so than explaining how this change in policy is going to make a difference on the battlefield. >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, you deal with the coverage of both the hardware of the military and the blood and treasure of this country, our number one asset, and that is our people in uniform worldwide. same question. what...

Those forces are with kurdish units, ypg in syria. they are with kurdish units in northern iraq. there is no northern iraq. these aren't iraqi security forces. by the way, he said abadi had control of the forces. he doesn't. primarily they are shia militias as well as effective kurdish forces up north. the iraqi army unfortunately after a huge effort on our part, came apart every time it gets hit. i thought this was a bad press conference. they shouldn't have had it in the white house. they should have the department of defense explain in objective terms what we are actually doing. >> i'm allo...

Bush's campaign, there's a lot of talk about it falters. he's talked about how he has plenty of money, the donors are happy and yet some of the criticism stems from the way that he is communicating and getting that message out comparisons made to his brother former president george w. bush and how he was able to really connect with voters. is that something that jeb bush needs to work on as he moves forward with his campaign? >> well, i think we have to put a context to it. there's 100 days until the new hampshire primary. so he has time to make whatever adjustments he needs to make. i think t...