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Willy-nilly where we shouldn't be. syria is the consequence of not intervening. >> of retreat, exactly. >> of abdication. >> it is. the scale of humanitarian disaster is extraordinary, gruesome. it's a country with 23 million people, almost half a million killed, more than 12 million displaced. even with assad retaking the city of aleppo with russia and iran's help, that doesn't mean the civil war is over. you still have kurds fighting, still have sunnis fighting, and you also have the united states pushed out of the way. russia, for instance, doing this evacuation, quote, unquote, deal with t...

Shia close to the political parties that are loyal to iran. you, in effect, had shiites fighting for the provincial capital anbar province a sunni strong hold. it's wonder that they didn't fight. this is not something that happened yesterday. this is something that's happened over the years. the new question will these new shiite militias the pmus be able to overtake are a made. the military analysts are split on that. some of them say that they will because they are better fighters just increase the numbers. but others say that they won't and point to the difficulties that the united states h...

Dealing with the collection of your phone records. >> i strongly urge the senate to work through this recess and make sure that they identify a way to get this done. >> fighting against terrorists to proteliberty, to protect our bill of rights. it would give up our bill of rights in the process, then what were we really fighting for? >> senator majority leader mitch mcconnell wants them back in town sunday to try to prevent them from expiring monday. first hearing in the washington post reporter in iran a dual citizen of the u.s. and iran and has been detained for more than ten months. he face...

That the fighting had begun than the pentagon pushed back and said all they've seen are shaping operations, artillery and rocketing, but not a full-scale ground assault. >> days after the fall of ramadi popular mobilization committees to retake the capital of anbar province from isis. ash carter's unexpected and blunt assessment of the iraqi military and why ramadi fell. >> vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight. they withdrew from the site. and that says to me and i think to most of us that we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight isil and defend thems...

Water, aggressive scary. you want to stay off the roadways. like you said governor abbott did issue a warning. live in houston. i'm hilary whittier. >> thank you, hilary. hopefully, drier weather your way frnchts a natural disaster to a man made one. chaos in iraq. a counter offensive against isis in anbar province. this new operation, the pentagon says has barely begun. this comes amid ongoing complaints of the role of the u.s. in the fighting. president obama met today with the secretary general of nato. we begin with national correspondent jenna griffin at the pentagon with what's happening...