will put them back where they belong. the announcement comes after the head of iran's military force met with iraqi officials over the weekend to help the government coordinate a response. s they said they had any interference in iraq and the statement to be directed specifically at iran. the big question tonight, though, concerned how much and what kind of american military involvement, if any at all. the only thing the white house ruled out is sending come basketball for -- combat forces back to iraq. we're joined my our two guests. jim, let me start off with you, this phone call we learned about between joseph biden the president and maliki, what details do we know? >> you spoke with maliki but the