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You might want to ask nic in bagdad. >> yes, nic, what's your information about the ability of the iraqi air force to engage the enemy? >> reporter: we don't have any accurate information them. all i can say is i'm in bagdad and i'm not hearing or seeing anything flying in the air here. what we do know is isis have captured helicopters. pilots from sad sdam hussein army flying them. they've co-opted the old army that we disbanded essentially. >> thank you so much, nic. i want ask dana, last question for senator graham? >> i just want to clarify one thing, senator. do you think we absolutely sh...

Servicemen and blood loss. there is on the roof of this building a few feet from me a head stone for an american soldier, 23 years old, michael james stoeckly. his father came here to iraq, wanted to place that head stone at the place where he son died in bagdad just a few miles from here in 2005. the stone has been sat here on the roof for the past year or so because it is still, still too dangerous to go and lay the stone where his son gave up his life for this country and for peace and stability, still too dangerous. i'm sure there are many other cases like this. it is very telling and a ve...

House. is it your prediction that eventually this white house will go for air strikes? >> i think they have to. it's stunning that nobody in congress is saying you've got to come to us first. everybody in congress is scared to death for what's going to happen in iraq. they won't come out and say it. the air force in iraq i think has been grounded. nic will know that better -- >> let me turn to nic right now. first of all, nic, can you tell us how close isis is to bagdad where you are right now? >> reporter: they're about three-quarters of an hour drive to the northeast of the city. overnight t...

He wants to come back so quickly. new hampshire state republicans think it's about 2016. it's not about 2014. that's it for "inside politics." thanks for sharing your father's day. we'll see you soon. "state of the union" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this morning on "state of the union," for the first time eric cantor tells us the inside story of an epic election fail. what brought down one of the most powerful men in washington and what does it mean for the republican party? >> obviously we came up short. in iraq, desperate days. a state of emergency and an urge...

Be very gariful about how and where we use that military force so it achieves the objective of what is in the best u.s. interest. it is not in our u.s. interest to go and involve ourselves in the middle of what is a religious civil war. are there specific security threats to the united states coming from terrorist actions? yes, in iraq, afghanistan, pakistan and many other countries in the world. we have to focus our resources that we have, focus our great military on those direct and imminent threats rather than getting distracted by involving ourselves in another civil war that's occurring i...