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At the white house. the president sets the priorities and he's the number one customer. so if he's not getting the intelligence that he needs, and if he's not paying attention to what else is going on, then something else is wrong there. nobody can sit here today, no one, and particularly the amount of intelligence that the white house got and say we didn't know this was a problem. i mean, give me a break. >> so the -- >> -- isis -- >> so the inspector general at the pentagon is taking a look at this. now, there are congressional inquiries, as well. what kind of data was massaged? well, there ...

For coalition land forces. great to see you this morning. it's been a bad -- >> alisyn good morning. >> it's been a bad week in the fight against isis. first ramadi in iraq now palmyra in syria. does this mean that the u.s. strategy of air strikes is not working? >> alisyn what it means is the united states is employing air strikes as a tactic to try to hold what they have right now. clearly what the united states is looking at is what i would call trading space for time. kind of a slow burn. they are acknowledging, this administration is acknowledging that if baghdad can hold things are okay....

What i heard had him say is i would prefer not to see ramadi fall, but if it does it's not the end of the campaign. when he says campaign from military speak that means a series of the battles. he realizes that they've got to protect that oil refinery. he didn't say it doesn't matter if it falls. >> he said what's really important is the oil refinery and contrast that had to what's going on in ramadi. let me get robin's analysis. it sounds like a disaster is unfolding if you lose lindsey graham, if lindsey graham says i'm not going to vote for anymore aid, military aid economic aid to iraq if ...

Inspired group isis. the secretary making clear political unity is important in battling the growing insurgency. the president moved 300 forces to advise the iraqi sealedders. jails rosen got a chance to speak with secretary kerry. >> you saw fallujah fall and saw ramadi fall and what did you do about it to prevent most saul from falling? doesn't seem like very much. >> in the end the iraqis are responsible for their defense and nobody expected wholesale desertion and wholesale betrayal in some sense by some leaders who literally either signed up with the guys who came in and walked away from ...