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Terms of the isis militants who may still be lingering there? >> well, it's going to be quite a challenge, christi, because mosul is a see that under normal circumstances had a population of about 2 million. now it's somewhere between 700,000 and 1 million. but it is a large city. it's iraq's second largest. and it's one in which isis has, we understand from sources inside the city, prepared some significant defenses. yesterday we learned that isis had released many of the prisoners in its jails. people who were jailed for things like smoking cigarettes, shaving, and wearing the wrong clothing...

Resistance hiding in the town and if this is a complete victory for peshmerga in sinjar. i likely heard one blast behind me there. they have taken the town very quickly. it is symbolic. it reverses the retaliation on the yizidi population. you can never take back the scars, but you could give them back their town. it is also strategic. we know the town runs on a main highway between raqqah and syria and mosul in iraq. it is now in peshmerga hands. peshmerga is digging trenches and layering it with earth berms. we have to see this is the beginning of the momentum for the peshmerga and coalition...

Issue? >> well, we spent a morning in the biggest syrian refugee camp. 80,000 people, more than half of those are children. a handful of them are in school. but most of them aren't because they're out on the streets working for pennies in order to help feed their families. the girls that are there often are sold into marriage by the time they're 12 or 13 in order to make a little bit of money for their family and other kids we saw were digging trenches where feces and sewage run through the middle of the camp. 250 are leaving every single day because they're going back to syria. because they'v...

Anywhere, which is in jordan. chris murphy of connecticut joins us now. senator, thanks very much for being with us. can you tell me about what you saw on your trip abroad and how it affected how you feel on this issue? >> well, we spent a morning in the biggest syrian refugee camp. 80,000 people, more than half of those are children. a handful of them are in school. but most of them aren't because they're out on the streets working for pennies in order to help feed their families. the girls that are there often are sold into marriage by the time they're 12 or 13 in order to make a little bit ...

Him as house majority leader. we'll ask the party chairman how it all shakes out. happy father's day to all of you dads with control of the remote this morning as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures." hi, everybody, the militant group that seized much of northern iraq now drawing closer to baghdad. security forces in the capital city are digging trenches around its perimeter in an attempt to disrupt any further advances. meanwhile, the white house is still weighing its options for how to respond to this insurgency. joining me now is california congressman, chairman of the armed services...