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Victory in ramadi is rtdly translatable into mosul. remember it was in mosul that the iraqi army fled in fear. they discarded their weapons. they were routed in effect. i think isis is going to count on intimidating the iraqis, going after the sunnis that have helped the baghdad government retake ramadi. i think it's a long way over. >> john bolton, we thank you as always during this holiday weekend for your insight. >> thank you, eric. we are monitoring the deadly tornadoes in stex texas over the weekend. at least 11 people so far have been killed, the damage as you can see very extensive. ...

Think reuters call it had a geographical coffin. now, look. if baghdad does retake ramadi, i think it is a tremendous psychological boon to iraq and to the coalition, which has been making some progress, but according to ihs defense, an intelligence company, really the coalition has only managed to recapture 14% of isis-held territory in the last year and a half, i guess, since whenever the war got under way. also, it's important to remember, ramadi only fell to isis in the summer. you know, in june of 2014 when this whole thing got started during that blitzkrieg into mosul, that wasn't one of...

If they get ramadi as well, and they've said that after this they're moving on to mosul, how confident are you that iraqi forces can control and keep control of the territory that they're regaining and continue to move forward? >> well, this is the difficulty. you know, ramadi is, in a sense, the strategic heartland or the strategic city of sunni arab tribes in iraq, which is essentially the bellwether constituency of isis. as goes the tribe, so goes isis. the difficulty that i see and what worries me, and this goes back to the u.s. occupation in the mid-2000s, you're seeing a lot of reports c...

That moment there. they brought their newly adopted baby girl. and as you see, grandma is overjoyed. and as she said, she was wishing for a baby girl. >> and you know what? she makes us all smile. i mean, that is infectious. that congratulations to that family. that is just awesome. >> she can't speak, she's so happy. >> oh. you know, still to come, we have to talk about this fierce battle that's under way in iraq to retake the city of ramadi from isis terrorists. door-to-door combat is under way. but there are boobc tr bchlboob are set by isis soldiers that are slowing down iraqi soldiers.

Thinking about is how to intensify, how to thicken, how to strengthen the effort of those air strikes into raqqa and as the defense secretary ash carter laid out in testimony before the u.s. senate about a week ago, the three pillars to this strategy, one is to go right at raqqa, the second is to really help the iraqis retake ramadi and the third is to conduct unilateral raids or raids with the kurdish peshmurga as was done in sinjar province. those raids, u.s. military actions are designed to retake military and decapitate the leadership of isis. that was the playbook we used along the afghan...