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I'm not making that up. we saw it coming and we knew there was instability there unless we left a residual force. and this administration refused to tell maliki how many we wanted to leave behind. in the word of general dempsey the number cascaded down to 3,500. we predicted without the residual force things would go to hell in a hand basket in iraq and it certainly has. bill: 75 hellfire missiles were dispatched in december at the end of last year and you wonder whether that's enough to even start to turn back the extremists. senator kerry said this is a fight for the iraqis. what do you thin...

>> this is a fight that belongs to the iraqis. that is exactly what the president and the world decided some time ago when we left iraq. so oh we are not, obviously, contemplating returning. we are not contemplating putting boots on the ground. we're going to help them in their fight. >> joining me, pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, nick robertson, who has covered iraq and middle east for many years, and jerusalem. i want to start off with you, brash rah. secretary kerry says the u.s. is not going to put boots on the ground. tell us in very practical terms, what can the u.s. do at this po...

Especially hell-fire missiles and drones so they can conduct their own surveillance and re n reconnaissance in this area of iraq and also intelligence-sharing. the u.s. will share, as it has for the last many months, satellite intelligence, intercept information, that sort of thing, with the iraqi government. but no troops and very limited help at this point, suzanne. >> nick, i want to bring you into the conversation here. we know that american forces very successful in going up against al qaeda, 2006, 2007, essentially because we were aligned. the united states, rather, aligned with the sunn...

Al qaeda fighters and quicker delivery from small drones and hellfire missiles so iraqi forces can attack those targets. fallujah and ramadi are now a patchwork of control between al qaeda, sunni tribes and a weak government force. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki ordered his troops not to strike residential neighborhoods in fallujah and appealed to residents and tribes to expel terrorists from the city. the hope is the sunnis and shia-led government forces will band together and push out al qaeda, but there is still a rising threat just across the border. >> there's no question that this p...

Appreciate it. in just a couple hours, it's going to be the senate that will take up the issue of whether or not to extend unemployment benefits for more than 1 million americans who need this. our christine romans tells us, there is likely going to be a really tough showdown. >> reporter: suzanne, president obama back from vacation, and the big push this week, extending emergency unemployment benefits for 1.3 million americans. those benefits expired last week. they are on average about $300 a check for these folks. the federal jobless aid program, this program in particular, was a recessio...