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Much tougher task, and although the kurdish fighters are capable, and demonstrated the ability to make success and achieve success in that part of the country, a i would hope that we could reinforce that. >> and i want your opinion, bob on the new cnn/orc poll that is showing that americans are split on the use of troops on the ground the fight terror groups. keeping in mind that it is a poll that was done before this headline coming out of ramadi, but when you are looking at that, and find this inclination towards even in limited numbers more troops and certainly special forces, what are you ...

Top story, and the iraqi military is saying that it has retaken ramadi 70 miles from the city of baghdad and recapturing a key compound there in the center of the city. and you may recall that ramadi fell to isis earlier in the year in what is a major setback and embarrassment as well to the maintain the terror group. i want to talk it over with military analyst and retired general james spider marks and also bob baer. and so, this is ramadi is a major route moving supplies and how important in terms of strategic value towards, i guess a victory or the pushing isis back farther, bob? >> well, ...

Weapons in the last couple of months, and we have dropped about 390 weapons in the last week alone. this is everything from taking the enemy fighters off of the battlefield to can destroying the precision weapons of the enemy. and it has opened up travel lane lanes, and that is is the kinetic piece. and the other pat of it is training and assisting. the training takes place close the baghdad, at several sites, and we have trained about 5,000 sunni tribal fighters who are participate ing participating in the fight in ramadi, and the final is the advising and assisting. months ago when we opened...

Helped the iraqi forces integrate their ground operations with our air component. >> all right. colonel steve warren, thank you for the update, and we a certainly appreciate that. here in the u.s., there is a new cnn/orc poll that is interesting saying that the american public is largely dissatisfied with the war on terror, and only 18% believes that the u.s. has the upper hand, and 40% believe that the terrorists are winning, and this is what is significant about it, it is the highest number since 9/11. as for president obama, 64% disapprove of how he is handling the fight against isis, and o...

Clearing those areas, and inside of the is the city center, they have cleared the neighborhoods that have not been cleared and squad-sized elements, and seven or eight-men teams of enemy fig fighters still moving around, and additionally a threat for unexploded ordinannanceordnance and booby trapped houses, and so there is still a number of security issues. >> are you going to be confident that the forces can hold ramadi? >> based on where the battlefield sits, it does not appear that isil has the strength to knock the iraqi security forces oout of their positions. >> okay. so pretty confident...