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Like can you give us some sense of how long it would take if those actually ended up in the country for their air force, their version of the air force, to train and to be competent on them? >> well, just don't fly an f-16. you fight an f-16 in concert with ground activity, ground maneuver intelligence, air engagements, et cetera. it's not just flying an aircast. it's fighting that aircraft effectively. this a minimal year-long type of training environment. what you want -- look, the ukrainian air force has some comp tenty is in a pock pit like that. you could get them up to the ability to fly...

>> reporter: it's huge. i think that there are announcements here this week that they would be increasing staff, in marlparticularly the y states. they're going to have 65 staffers in the state of iowa by the end of this month. that's a signal through the first four months of campaigning a lot of fund-raising was taking place. you honestly didn't see kamala harris out on the campaign trail as much as other candidates. she's only visited five counties of iowa's 99. the campaign says, though, she'll continue to deliberate l introduce herself over the course of the summer. come labor day, five mo...

Result of russia's failure to keep that promise. >> the president is exactly right on that. how do you account for the fact gnat obama administration seemingly trusted russia to supervise the syrians getting rid of the chemical weapons? were they naive. >> perhaps somewhat naive. but also going back to that period. and i remember living through it. the russians did in fact -- there was a great deal of physical on the ground activity of getting rid of chemical weapons. they were shipping them to a destruction site. i mean it was monitored. it wasn't like pure promises. there was in fact activit...

>> i think perhaps somewhat naive but going back to that period and i remember living through it, the russians did -- there was a great deal of physical on the ground activity of getting rid of chemical weapons. they were shipping them to a destruction site. it wasn't like pure promises. there was activity involved in destroying and cutting back on the capacity. whether assad rebuilt that capacity on his own it is hard to believe he would do anything without russians knowing about it. i think the president was right that the russians essentially guaranteed this wasn't going to happen again and...

Events events. they say these people are kind of gawking at the donald trump show. that there is not a lot of grassroots commitment there. there is not the kind of infrastructure that you would have to appoint him in iowa's 99 counties or new hampshire. he doesn't have that presence on the ground. that kind of enthusiasm organic enthusiasm in many ways that a lot of the other candidates have at early stage. that's why there is still some doubt. >> all this talk whether vice president biden will jump into the primary. the clinton campaign saying they're not concerned. do you think that is reall...