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That has not turned out the way the u.s. hoped it would. >> this is a matter in evolution. there is no question that there is still serious issues, but this government is better than the prior government, and we are establishing better ties with the kurdish population than with the sunni tribes. we are doing a better job but we still don't have and you're absolutely right the confidence we need to take back territory, we can take the territory and stop the recruitment by isis in the region. so we still have work to do. >> that government has to do a better job with the military when isis goes ...

President to do? >> more aggressively executing our air campaign and working more aggressively on the ground with our allies. not putting tens of thousands of troops in but the ford air controllers, the logistics experts or the intelligence experts to help the iraqis win this fight. >> i think the u.s. does have pabt 4,000 troops on the ground there as advisers trainers what else do you want? >> ford air controllers to make our air campaign much more effective. it would make our munitions much for precise. we've had great leaps forward in just 2001. ford air controllers provide an even greater...

Weeks. no success, really, in pushing it back. kurdish forces have taken back territory around aleppo. they have taken a lot of ground from the government of bashiral sal assad. to not have that progress it's a sign of how long it is going to take to gain to win iraq back from isis. >> the iraqi military not only gaining support from the u.s. but iranian forces as well and shiite backed militias. isis seemed to be rather formidable right? >> no question. think of the array of international forces not just iraqi forces they are standing up to here. look at mosul. this is the key headquarters fo...

Baiji and preventing isis from capturing it? >> the general is correct. holding on to that oil refinery is critical. this fighting has been going on and on for weeks because it is a critical decisive point in our action. if it were to fall it would be a boon to the islamic state and the way they fund their operations. but we just haven't rolled back the islamic state as all over the last six or seven months. they've continued to hold the ground they've always had. it's not enough to defeat them. >> where is the iraqi military in all of this? the u.s. trained them over a decade hundreds of thou...

Minister of iraq return to his sectarian ways which helped recreate divisions inside the iraqi army and security forces between sunnis and shiites. if we still had that american presence there in 2011 we could mentor the security forces and also the government and avoid the islamic state from rising in the first place. >> a lot of us have lost a lot of confidence in that iraqi military. some pentagon officials are trying to downplay this whole baiji development today but it sounds potentially serious, that they could get that oil. that's a financial bonanza for these isis forces. they already ...