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One for bone spurs in his heel. >> i was not a big fan of the vietnam war. it was a disaster for our country. >> reporter: critics note that so far all these candidates themselves they are retired. they are not still in uniform. when the next announcement is expected donald trump himself has said maybe as soon as next week. >> and retired general james marks. basil smikle, jeffrey lord. basil. trump already has three generals. he's interviewing more. too much? >> it looks like it initially. as a friend of my said to me today he said he feels like we're in ancient rome or something. because he ...

Coalition -- that's the focal point of a new and massive military effort to push isis out and retake the city. and eventually allow thousands who fled their homes this year to come back. the air strikes are a coalition force, u.s. bombers among them. but the ground fighting street to street is all iraqi military. we want to talk about this more with barbara starr at the pentagon and lieutenant james marks. >> tell me what you're hearing from the pentagon about progress they are making and what kind of challenges they are facing? >> the pentagon is watching this fight hour by hour, for now is p...

Military still capable, particularly in the western and northwestern regions of the country. but what we've also said in a joint operations center that we might set up and any advising that we may do, if we don't see sunni, shia and kurd political support for what we're doing then we don't do it. >> reporter: much more of that conversation, the full conversation on "new day" on monday. >> thank you very much. you just heard president obama urging iraqi leaders to come up with a politically inclusive solution to the nation's crisis. >> want to bring in major general james marks and ambassador c...

Minority" he says. no sign of lets up. wolf, the vast majority of people we're talking to say they simply want stability. osk of course the big question at this stage is how that's going to come about. >> a good question. arwa damon as always on the front lines for us. let's bring in some experts to discuss what's going on. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine steven pifer is with us and retired u.s. general james marks and jim schiutto is with us as well. doe you think the ratcheted up u.s.-led sanctions, ambassador, are really going to impact putin? >> i think the sanctions will have some eff...

Sympathetic to the russians obviously. >> sure. i don't have a sense of the numbers. i would hazard to guess that our intelligence community does and has a pretty good sense of it. let's not call them stealth. this is a form of and the fact that we have so many russian forces just across the border is really the provocation. i don't think we should, and i would hope that there's agreement here, i don't think we should wait for on invasion before we really get tough. >> general, thanks very much for joining us. ambassador, thanks to you. jim, we're going to continue to monitor, obviously, this ...