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United states says the fight to kick isis out of iraq is only the beginning barbara starr is working the story. i take it this next offensive is looming? >> reporter: it is looming indeed. tonight a new urgency to open up the fight, to get raqqah back and maybe, just maybe get to isis' top leader. sounding an alarm act raqqah. a city of nearly a quarter million where the top isis commanders have long been thought to be hiding. >> there is an imperative to get isolation in place around raqqah. because our intelligence feeds tell us that there is a significant external operations attacks plannin...

Have thank you been thought to be hiding. >> there is an imper tiff ativet isolation in place around raqqa. our intelligence feeds tell us there is a significant external operations attacks planning going on, emanating centralized in raqqa. >> reporter: how urgent is it? >> we think it's very important to get isolation in place around raqqa to start controlling that environment. on a pretty short time line. >> reporter: this, as the fight for mosul in iraq goes on. emotional scenes of families being reunited. defense secretary ash carter says this second front in raqqa will begin very soon. >>...

Human beings make a mistake. if i could go back to the targeting in raqqa, having been a guy that planned operations what you have to understands is there's more kinetic strikes going on primarily not because we wanted to start pulling more trigger, but we have more intelligence. we're getting greater intelligence feeds and able to bomb more targets. good point there. thank you so much for coming on to discuss. coming up here in "the situation room", as demonstrators wait outside south carolina lawmakers take a showdown vote on the confederate flag. were there enough votes? and later don...

Commander in europe, every event we held we would conduct threat assessments on the event and we had continuous, ongoing threat assessments. you have a small group of people that come together, that actually do that. but i think the notion that this weekend, because of the fourth of july holiday, and because of the admonitions of one of the isis leaders saying, attack during ramadan, this will give you additional credit in heaven during this holy month, that assessment has been ordered just to make sure everyone's doing it and turning it in. it's a written document that you conduct intelligenc...

Whole range of threat, don. looking closely and particularly looking closely at this constant effort to find ways to flights into europe and the u.s. >> very disturbing. thank you have very much. now out front to discuss the latest threats seeing military analyst, and major general marks and counterterrorism analyst mudd, former cia and fbi official. thank you gentlemen for joining me tonight. very serious subject. general marks, how serious is this new threat? >> well, it is serious and i don't know that it is specifically new. i think what we're getting is good intelligence feeds telling us ...