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Commander. from toerntto mubean sheikh former terror operative. give your quick analysis ramadi a city of half a million people 120,000 of them have already fled. it looks like a disaster that's unfolding right now. what's going on? >> yeah wolf. i mean it is a setback, no question. the coalition have been doing pretty good bombing out there, but you have to be able to follow it up with ground forces to seize that terrain. i think one thing you will watch here over the next couple days is what the pictures you're seeing are all out of the north and northwest of ramadi and because the fighting ...

Confident the tide will turn back. he says very soon in ramadi. he says the air strikes the u.s. led air strikes will continue. are you getting that same sort of upbeat assessment what some are calling spin coming in from pentagon officials? >> absolutely wolf yes. this is the line that you're hearing this morning across washington from the administration. secretary of state john kerry already saying he thinks ramadi could be retaken very soon by the iraqi forces the pentagon saying it's a setback, but it's only a setback for today. that iraqi forces will move with u.s. assistance to retake th...

Don't miss "blindsided" how isis shook the world, that airs tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. up next more on the fall of ramadi is raising serious concerns about the fight against isis the future of iraq as a country. the role of iran shia versus sunni tensions. analysis on that. later, other news we're following here in the united states amtrak restoring full service out of philadelphia following last week's derailment. a closer look at new safety measures that they're scrambleing to put in place over the next several days.

She said that her vote authorizing the use of force in iraq was a mistake. but she also said if we knew then what we knew now, there wouldn't have been that vote. >> why is it so hard for republicans, at least some of the republicans, jeff to answer the basic question was the war in 2003 against saddam hussein's iraq a mistake? >> because it is a complicated issue, and they're not exactly sure where their base is on this. their base is sort of all over. but it also speaks to the threats going forward. it has been very surprising to watch jeb bush first and then marco rubio second sort of make ...

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