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From the united states at this point? >> well, i think they want intelligence sharing and logistical support, and they may not get nato cooperation, but i think they'd like more aggressive american action on the ground. >> sure, the americans have been leading the way, with bombing for now almost a year and a half. but it hasn't had the kind of intense effect that i think the french would like to see and the russians and everybody else at this point. >> is there an ability to put together a make shift coalition, sort of similar to libya? >> yes, i think that's probably what hollande is working...

Now, i think the major sticking points that you have here are one that when it comes to any sort of political dialogue, and sort of bridging that gap, if you like, and bringing russia closer into moving towards some kind of political transition in syria, is that the putin government still maintains that they want to see assad as part of that transition, and that's something that we've heard from the u.s. president obama, many other countries involved, very clearly maintaining their line that assad has to go. and the second concerning thing now with the air strikes is this issue over, what exac...

Grim on the ground reporting about al qaeda as well as isis and the rosy assessments circulating in washington is far more extensive than previously reported. >> we thought this was foolish to pull all of our troops out of iraq. because we thought just from our own work that this would be bad. but the administration was able to say, no, this is what the intelligence says. >> reporter: while mr. obama early last year referred to isis as the j.v. team and al qaeda as quote decimated nunes's suspicions were confirmed by an incident at the command where bin laden bin laden documents were ant lialy...

What started out as a natural disaster became a manmade disaster. a failure of government to look out for its own citizens. >> welcome back to "hardball" of that was president obama in the lower ninth ward of new orleans today. he is there marking the ten-year anniversary since hurricane katrina devastated new orleans and much of the gulf coast. back in 2005, i was on the ground reporting on the immediate efforts to try to save lives and restore some semblance of order down. there it requires the use of special forces. >> i visited a command post not far from here and i talk to the soldiers ab...

Georgia. there was some back and forth over some violations at the bar. city officials shut the bar down. in retribution he went and according to the local police chief there, he went and he hanged a swastika banner that was so large you could see it from the main roadway. so that is the picture that is beginning to emerge but at this point we still do not have an answer to the major question why? why here at lafayette? why last night in a theater did he decide to open fire? >> nbc's craig melvin on the ground reporting from lafayette, louisiana. craig, thanks so much. still to come on the "...