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Maliki said on that, salvation, even john kerry seemed a little confused by what -- the point maliki was trying to make there. maliki has an election on his side and if you follow the constitution he'll set up the government the way he wants because he was the winning party. mr. kerry wants him to make sure that he's got equal representation of sunni, kurd and shiia and maliki says i don't need to do that because that contravenes the constitution. >> with all of that in mind and the moves coming no play you've got this big question and i want to get your take. the enemy of our enemy is our fri...

That border. that boarder is very important to them because isis has been able to close it. that's a key artery between the two countries so they want to keep that open, and they are using air strikes to do it. unfortunately, the syrians don't care about collateral damage so they are indiscriminately bombing these targets. they don't own precision weors. they just drop bombs. >> so you have these two moves going on within the country, from outside forces. you also have secretary kerry saying that from the u.s. standpoint any air strikes coming from the u.s. would be an act of complete irrespon...

The administration that is him saying that they talk about potential military assistance for iraqi security forces, but always coupled with a political component. he says he was very direct with maliki, saying that this will have to be paired with maliki .+eb other minority, the sunnis and the kurds there so that he is acting on behalf of iraqis as a whole and not just the shiite majority of which maliki is a member as well. and it's interesting, because we also heard today from general david petraeus of course who is commander in iraq, the architect that rescued iraq from its last civil war. ...

President of the kurtish region and the speaker of the iraqi para lament. you see a consistent message, him saying they talk about potential military assistance but coupled with a political component. he says he was very direct with maliki saying that this will have to be paired with maliki reaching out to the other minorities, sunnis and kurds so they are not just acting with the shiite majority of which maliki is a member. it's interesting, we heard from general david petraeus, the surge that rescued iraq from the last march and he had a similar message in comments saying warning against mil...

Minority there. >> which exactly was the political component supposed to happen in the wake of the surge, which maliki has not followed through on. jim, the pentagon put together this draft list of isis targets. it has not finalized that, is that correct? >> it is not. what i'm told they have a drift list but this list is always being updated with intelligence they have so it has the latest options for the president but this list has been prevesented the president to consider it. for several days now, speaking to military officials, myself and barbara starr a pentagon correspondent, we heard a...