Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140106:17:36:00
Some time, alex, it's essentially the growth of two radical strains of islam. what we have going on there is sort of a proxy war, a proxy war between the shiite led government of prime minister al maliki in baghdad backed by the iranian regime and then sunni residents out in fallujah in that part of the country, who essentially get aid and support from saudi arabia. this is to some degree a proxy war between the saudis and r iranians playing out in iraq. it's a problem that's been made much worse by al maliki's m miscalculations. so al qaeda has seen that as an opening. these al qaeda fighters...