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State department and pentagon about capabilities to weaponize what may be there or take it somewhere else and how dangerous that would be? >> as nick hinted, the state department not expressing great alarm. they are aware of this completion, they have for sometime but they say as nick said they don't consider the materials in there to be of military use while of course, they are concerned of any site or any military site taken over by isis. here is the statement they had in particular. i'll read it, we're aware isil has occupied the complex. we're concerned about the site by the isil, or isis ...

Take time to wrest back control of those areas in the north and west that have been taken over by isis and their sunni allies. >> very difficult, if not impossible at this point, to say the least. arwa damon, what are you hearing from the fighters you've been spending time with. do they feel that i wouldn't say stalled would be a word for the isis forces right now. but do they feel the momentum has at least kind of stabilized or slowed? >> well, if you look at a lot of the front lines that are around the peshmurga controlled areas, they're not as active as they are moving further south toward ...

Senior administration officials made it clear they don't mind if nuri al-maliki leaves, as long as it's part of process. >> jim, it seems clear the white house believes there is some time that the huge forward momentum that isis and sunni supporters had slowed as the easiest targets in the most sunni controlled areas are already under isis control or being contested by isis. do we have a sense or do you have a sense of the timeline the white house sees for getting advisors into a position in iraq? >> well, these advisors from what we know are going to be coming from forces already staged in th...

Sending advisors and planning air strikes can do for the situation here but here is key moments from president obama earlier today. >> first, we are working to secure our embassy and personnel operating inside of iraq. second, at my direction, we have significantly increased our intelligence, surveillance and recognizance so we have a better picture of what is taking place inside of iraq, third, the united states will continue to increase support to iraqi security forces. american forces will not be returning to combat in iraq. but we will help iraqis as they take the fight to terrorest who th...

There's obviously the most dangerous areas. a lot of those bases have already been overrun. they're not going to be sent there. and exactly what is their role going to be? obviously intelligence gathering on isis forces to help iraqi forces, but also just trying to lift the morale and stiffen the spine of some of these iraqi forces. that may be an important role that they can play and possibly reaching out to some of these sunni groups who they've had relationships with in the past to see if they can be peeled off from supporting isis forces which they seem to be at this point. >> anderson coo...