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A couple of missions. one of them is the noncombatant evacuation possibility, and also the advisory role, which has everything to do with targeting. and so the united states in concert with the iraqis in the sanctuary of either the iraqi joint chiefs staff command center or there in the embassy where we have a very large down link capability, where all the intelligence capabilities can come into an intelligence center, where all of that can be fused so that we can hand off targeting data to the iraqis so that they can use both on the ground. and that's being updated and refreshed by these flig...

Joint chiefs of staff. >> hmm. general marks, appreciate you being on. jim shooto as well. i want to bring in our nic robertson now and arwa damon. nic, i want to start with you, that vice president biden had a phone call information with nuri al maliki. you've been talking to a lot of sources here on the ground. what are you hearing about the confidence people within the government and elsewhere have in nuri al maliki? >> confidence is low. there are politicians here really don't believe in his own party we're told by people or in conversation with them, they don't think that nuri al maliki i...

Advisers who act in a similar capacity, bolstering that existing capacity there. and the other component to military options, reconnaissance flights. and in fact we're told those reconnaissance flights have already begun. so flying over the isis positions, getting intelligence that the u.s. can share with the iraqi side. but also possibly use if the president decides to launch missiles or bombing missions over those sites as well. >> general marks, the knack this target list is being put together and refined as events change on the ground, the fact that there are over reconnaissance flights, t...

This is the debate going on inside the administration, has isis been slowed down enough that it could give -- on its way to baghdad that it could give the iraqi regime time to regroup, protect baghdad, strike back at isis and slow their advance. if isis makes it to baghdad, if they start to lay siege to baghdad or even shell parts of the city, that really becomes a quite different problem, preserving the iraqi current government, preserving the regime and doing whatever the u.s. military has to do to get americans out of harm's way. baghdad right now may well be the turning point one way or th...

Is going out of their way to say that there would not be any military cooperation between iran and the united states, correct? >> that's right. the incoming press secretary made that very clear on air force one with reporters earlier today. there will be no military coordination between the united states and iran. they're having enough trouble just dealing with this nuclear issue. yes, as jim said, they're talking on the sidelines but this is no sort of new military cooperative chapter between the united states and iran. that's just not going to happen, anderson. >> all right. i want to bring ...