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Way. so let's start with the first part of that colonel. do you believe having just been on the ground over there that the iraqis have the will? >> chris, good morning. i do. i watched in tikrit. i've watched the forces heading out to anbar and speaking to the people i know throughout the chain of command in the iraqi army they do. our problem is sometimes is we like to look down through a straw. we look through a straw and then make sweeping generalizations about what we think. my frustration with the secretary of defense the word he used is apparently. department of defense doesn't use appar...

[ indiscernible ] >> man. bringing the audience to the feet at a university in louisiana this weekend. she was asked to be the commencement speaker and joked with the audience as she wrote her speech in the hotel room that morning. that's the culture pop on this monday, may 18th. >> did people think she did a good job or was she disrespectful? >> a couple of tweets saying best commencement speech ever. >> i don't know how to feel about that singing for the commencement. coming up next, despite u.s. air strikes, fox news alert, a key iraqi city, ramadi falling to isis. is this more proof the ...

Badly decimated, certainly by isis and by their tactics, within ramadi. we have to remember isis has got a considerable history now of fighting in, what we call, built up areas. they are very, very good. now in their taking of ra madma they use tactics. they launch a number against the military command there in ramadi. so i think there is a number of different issues here. whether the iraqi soldiers have the stomach. and there is this discussion obviously about bringing tribal troops in to support. >> that is the big question. isn't it? we heard that iraqi -- the iraqi authorities were saying ...

There was a gun fight and hand to hand fighting. sayyef was killed with 12 other isis fighters. the operation is hailed as a vektry but comes against the backdrop of ramadi falling to isis this week which under score it is fact that the campaign against isis will be protracted as it as been predicted. >> thank you. we are going to turn now to a critical time for the city of philadelphia. in the immediate aftermath of the amtrak train derailment philadelphia mayor michael nutter was front and center practically from the moment the accident happened late tuesday fight. he was seeking and providi...

Made. adam kinzinger joins us. nice to see you sir. >> nice to be with you. >> mosul in june of 2014 and now on to ramadi. >> we are in a where's where list everywhere america fought hard to bring freedom to the people. america put a lot of blood and treasure into and ramadi is the same way. billions of dollars. hundreds of lives. it also represents a very important strategic point in the stealing of western iraq. if you look at fly lines from jordan and syria into iraq. ramadi plays a very important role. this is devastating if in fact the whole city falls. >> well, the other need we had we -...