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Constant effort at vigilance and requires extraordinary coordination. now, part of the reason that it is important what we do in iraq and syria is that the narrative isil developed of creating this caliphate makes it more attractive to potential recruits. so when i said we are containing their spread in iraq and syria, in fact, they control less territory than they did last year. and the more we shrink that territory, the less they can pretend that they are somehow a functioning state. and the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers who are brutalizing local populati...

Constant effort at vigilance and requires extra toeordinary coordination. part of the reason it is important what we do in iraq and syria is that the narrative that isil developed of creating this caliphate makes it more attractive to potential recruits. so when i said that we are containing their spread in iraq and syria, in fact they control less territory than they did last year. and the more we shrink that territory, the less they can pretend that they are somehow a functioning state and the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers who are brutalizing local popula...

>> helpless and the other side of the door who had been doing research on how to keep him out. let's turn back to the big news of the morning, that historic nuclear deal with iran. joining the table we have former foreign policy adviser for the bush administration and former adviser to paul ryan and the rvm romney/ryan campaign. are you still speaking to me? >> no comment. >> indirectly. >> joe klein, for "time" magazine. you talk about how iran is a functioning state. it's a real place, a real history, and you say well educated people there. well they also have not so well educated people w...

Yemen. the government pushed aside by this group known as the houthis who are predominantly shiias. they've swept away the current government. they put in their own not recognized by the west government of sorts, but we've seen violence escalate here, and what the fear is potentially today, that these mosques targeted are from that shia houthi grouping. potentially this may mark if it turns out al qaeda, predominantly sunni group claim responsibility for the attacks. this may mark a worrying escalation inside yemen at a time too, when the country is so close to collapse. it's barely got off th...

Of the state and that then, carries over into their military capacity. so, i think it is fair to say that in our consultations with the iraqis, there will be some short-term, immediate things that need to be done militarily, and our national security team is looking at all the options but this should be also a wake-up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shia who care about building a functioning state that can bring about security and prosperity to all people inside of iraq come together and work diligently against these extremists. th...