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Marines and more than 5,000 of them cleared this exact city. these exact buildings. they trained iraqi forces. and in talking to some of those individuals who did the training, some of those special ops forces, they would tell us as reporters on the ground in iraq that you can train anyone to shoot a rifle straight but you can't teach someone to fight for their country, to fight for iraq. and this is a little bit of the first video, visual evidence we're seeing of the iraqi army standing up to isis in a key, a vital city of ramadi, lawrence. >> and the key point get that flag up in the end. we...

This is obama's plan. this is the first sort of video of obama's plan in action if you like. and in the next video you will see them as they sort of take a schoolhouse. you will see something that we have never seen before, which is the iraqi army making the public statement and you see it here. we should mention we have edited this video. the fighting is fierce and video is almost 30 minutes long in its total length. but they make it through this schoolhouse, lawrence. in the end they unfurl the iraqi flag. you heard general mcfarland there talking about having trained some of these iraqi for...

Right language to use for this underwater search and rescue recovery teams. we'll keep our eye on it. >> thanks, kate. the pentagon is proposing a plan to build up a string of military bases in africa, southwest asia and the middle east in the effort to ramp up the fight against isis. the plan has already been proposed to the white house. the bases could be used for carrying out air strikes, collecting intelligence and serve as hubs for special ops forces. the proposal comes as the united states figures out how to deal with militants pledging support to isis outside the borders of iraq and s...

Other attacks it seems to be right as a global threat and not a regional threat. how does that effect the way we fight them? >> we have to fight them everywhere and take them out in their homeland, that's crucial. the homeland of the caliphate in syria and iraq. and they also have to be fought here and in paris and wherever they show up. we can't just kind of rock back and leave them alone. i think the caliphate in mohammed's time expanded very, very rapidly, within 100 years of his death it reached from france to today's pakistan. and that's what they want. they think they should rule everyth...

Obama's orders, and the chairman's and my advice, special operation personnel to syria to support the fight against isil. american special operators bring a unique suite of capabilities that make them force multipliers. they will help us garner valuable ground intelligence, further enhance our air campaign, and above all, enable local forces that can regain and then hold territory occupied by isil. where we find further opportunity to leverage such capability, we're prepared to expand it. next, in the south of syria, we're also taking advantage of opportunities to open a southern front on isil...