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But when you look at it what do you see as a timeframe of how long this will take and how we should see swings like what we're seeing right now? >> yeah. this is new. this is a little different, but remember al qaeda, we fought them for six or eight years to actually beat them down. i think isis is going to take quite a long time. when they control terrain like they do ramadi two things happen. one, they get control and they've got the opportunity to wipe out the people in opposition to them. we talk about the awakening that happened in 2007. there was an earlier awakening that al qaeda slappe...

For coalition land forces. great to see you this morning. it's been a bad -- >> alisyn good morning. >> it's been a bad week in the fight against isis. first ramadi in iraq now palmyra in syria. does this mean that the u.s. strategy of air strikes is not working? >> alisyn what it means is the united states is employing air strikes as a tactic to try to hold what they have right now. clearly what the united states is looking at is what i would call trading space for time. kind of a slow burn. they are acknowledging, this administration is acknowledging that if baghdad can hold things are okay....

Welcome back to your "new day." we do have breaking news overnight for you. isis terrorists gaining new strategic ground in syria taking full control of the historic desert town of palmyra. >> perspective here matters. first it was, well it's just one city ramadi this isn't a reflection of the strategy. now it's two big wins in one week in two different countries. so isis is now in a position to murder large numbers of innocence and destroy irreplaceable parts of the history it so hates. we have complete coverage starting with cnn international correspondent nick paton walsh live in beirut. ni...

Big headline this morning, isis taking over the ancient city of palmyra. and syria putting more priceless artifacts and a lot of human life at risk. back in iraq the terror group is continuing its push toward baghdad, firming up its grip on ramadi. the u.s. is responding by rushing 1,000 anti-tank rockets to iraq security forces. this according to the "new york times." kentucky senator rand paul with a 10 and a half hour plea to his colleagues not to extend the nsa's bulk data collection program would require an extension the key provision of the patriot act which paul calls unpatriotic. rem...

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