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Straight to it. >> reporter: bush secretary of defense seems to have a take. >> a lot of american blood sthed in ramadi. to have it in the hands of isis is hard to characterize other than a major setback. >> reporter: president obama is trying to do just that calling the victory a mere tactical setback. in an interview with jeffrey goldberg today. here are the facts. in just over a year isis planted its infamous black flag acrossever-expanding territory. in iraq fallujah mosul, second largest city and this week ramadi, a key staging ground to take baghdad, which is fewer than 70 miles away. â™...

Representative government that was elected by its people. we're building partnership between our nations. and we are ending a war, not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. >> here with reaction is colonel oliver north. colonel, you just heard from debbie leeth and lathe and his comments. they secured ramadi just like others secured mosul, and others secured fallujah. one by one they keep falling into the hands of isis. your reaction? >> the fall of ramadi is a particularly bad, unmitigated disaster that will result in a horrific blood bath that's happening right now. in this...

Whose son mark made the ultimate sacrifice in ramadi. and a former navy s.e.a.l. is also with us who fought alongside of mark thank you both for being with us. first of all, i'm sorry about the loss of your son. you see that you know first it was tikrit that later got back in the right hands, fallujah mosul, ramadi where your son died. you watch these cities go and then we hear a press secretary, we can't light our hair on fire every time we have a set back. what is your reaction to that? >> you know it -- first they were saying there was no symbolic if it did fall then they watched as the com...

And mortar it's about defeating isil. as i said you know i would much rather that ramadi not fall but it won't be the end of a campaign should it fall. >> general dempsey later took back those comments. that's only after the mother of the first navy s.e.a.l. to die in iraq demanded an apology. joining me now are the mother of that fallen s.e.a.l. founder of the president of america's mighty warriors debbie lee is with us her son made the ultimate sacrifice and mike babin is with us also. first of all, i'm sorry about the loss of your son. first it was tikrit that got back in the right hands. f...