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Iraq and lebanon are involved in this with proxy warfare. the egyptians, jordanians the muslims supporting their side. the iranians actively involved on the ground in a major way with direct combat forces. so i don't think the administration is willing to get sucked back in and the notion that 10,000 more u.s. forces change the situation grabs as nonsense. >> general, thank you for being with us. developing news out of the supreme court to tell you about now. justices agree to hear a case out of texas dealing with the one person one court principal. they'll decide the boundary lines for state ...

Begins on march 15th. iraqi and other forces on the out skirts of tikrit advancing in the battle to retake the city. isis planted ieds on roads and bridges leading to the city. among the troops for the battle forty tikrit. senior correspondent frederik pleitgen has the latest. >> reporter: as the iraqi military moves forward and the heart of tikrit but makes advances in other place, it is the iranians who are the ones doing the heavy lifting and the ones making the main differences on the ground. now, they have never acknowledged they have combat forces in iraq however, they say they have so...

Nothing. bill: do you think those numbers are hard and firm or is this an opportunity for the commander-in-chief to see how it goes in afghanistan? >> think of the dreams' keeping there? these could become combat forces. in iraq we left completely. isis has arising and there are call to the have the united states go back and put in training forces and we have sent forces back in. in both of those cases we have to understand these are not wars we have won. i see those polls and i don't understand those polls. bill: maybe they see what happened in iraq. >> they will probably ends up in the same ...

Widespread condemnation of this attack is creating a rare moment of unity among pakistan's political rivals and from pakistan's neighbors. but there are concerns the u.s. could get dragged back into pakistan's new war on terror as we pull combat forces out of afghanistan at the end of this month. this summer pakistan ranked 13th on foreign policy's list of failed states. that is the worst rating it has ever gotten. so, is the situation there worsening? does the u.s. have a real national security interest in helping pakistan destroy terrorists? daniel, at the council on foreign relations and au...

Intelligence and networks that took years to compile. really understand who are the key value people that we need to target here. that's going to take time to build up with isis. >> so that's not going to happen overnight. >> no. we try to get an understanding of who this organization is and what the connections are, what the flows are, what the logistics flows are between there and back into syria. i think that's what they'll be building is this intelligence picture. >> patrick, is there a neat dividing line between combat troops, the president saying we're not sending any more combat forces ...