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Exercise has to continue. otherwise there literally is no other way out. >> here's one of the concerns a lot of u.s. military planners have suggested to me colonel reese, as i said you were just there for a month, you know the situation, if the u.s. does go ahead and provide more apache helicopters, battle tanks, humvees, other equipment, sophisticated equipment, to the iraq -- they don't know if it's going to wind up in the hands of the iraqi military because so much of that u.s. military equipment has already been abandoned. are you confident that the u.s. if it does sell or provide such har...

It's iran. >> as you know president obama said the u.s. should give $200 million in what do you call it? humanitarian aid to iraq. $200 million. it's a lot of money. he also wants more presumably the iraqis are asking for more weapons, apache helicopters, armored personnel carriers. is this a dpood idea? >> they can make enormous gains. all they need is to be able to counter the weapons. they need anti-tank, artillery. the most effective force in the field is not operation. as long as the men and women in the kurdish units strung out over the 600-mile front can't get access to the weapons, whi...

>> thank you. >> you're a member of the intelligence committee and you came here to our cnn studios directly from a meeting you and other members have had with the iraqi prime minister. did he make a compelling case to provide another $200 million in u.s. economic assistance to iraq and to provide military hardware including apache helicopters, tanks, other sophisticated weapons to that military? >> well, wolf the piece you just did makes a compelling case for the fact that there are no good answers here. there are no good choices here. it's the least bad choice that you have to make. i think ...

Abadi, the iraqi prime minister is not leaving empty-handed. the president announced during his oval office visit with the prime minister that the u.s. is offering $200 million in humanitarian support to the iraqis and that there have been some reports, we should mention, wolf that abadi came to washington with specific requests for those drone, for those apache helicopters. the white house denied that abadi made that specific request of the president though the senior iraqi official told me wolf that they do have a long-standing request for the u.s. to purchase that type of military hardware....

Fox news alert. the iraqi prime minister meeting with the iraqi prime minister. chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox us in military analyst. good morning to you. we saw bret's interview. what are we doing and are we doing enough to help the leader in iraq? >> this meeting is important. when leaders of countries get together those are critical meetings. particularly in my mind because president obama has a tendency to talk more to the leaders in middle east than his predecessors. here we have a new leader in iraq. i think what the body wants from him is to accelerate the sal...