that is how the troops feel about it, because they are taking the fight to isil everyday, applying the might of the finest fighting force that the world has ever known. however, the chairman of the comm committee, senator john mccain pressed carter for more specifics on the success of the administration s strategy. i urgently and fervently ask you for a strategy that you can tell us when we are going to be taking mosul and raqqah and wipe out this caliphate, and frankly, i have not seen it. and pentagon correspondent barbara starr joining me. barba barbara, senator mccain and others are frustrated on both sides of the aisle frustrated by what they say is a lack of ur jen si by the obama administration, and how does secretary carter respond to the criticism? well, he is going back to the point that he felt that they were gaining momentum, building momentum, and that is not what the committee wanted to hear. they wanted to hear a plan, a
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can. and if they capture somebody in syria, and even abu backer baghdadi and what will they odo with him? whether will they hold him and interrogate and question him? they have the job, but they don t have the decision about the details on how to carry it out. in fact, the pentagon officials are telling us that the day after the big announcement from carter, it could be weeks before these troops are actually on the ground, wolf. all right. barba barbara, thank you very much. barbara starr at the pentagon, and let s get some perspective with what is going on with the nato supreme admiral retired, wesley clark, joining us from new york, and give us the reaction of the latest eight-minute isis video beheading somebody they say is a russian spy, and how is putin likely to respond to this? well, first of all, i m sure that russia has spies many there and this is going to the confirm that there are at least one and probably more, because the russians have been working very hard to get
after the deadly u.s. air strike on one of its hospitals in afghanistan, the charity group doctors without borders now says investigators have made things even worse by driving an armored vehicle into the hospital complex. meantime, we are getting new information an what the u.s. knew about this building before it was even targeted during a battle with the taliban. cnn senior pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more on that. barba barbara. officials tell cnn that at least some part of the u.s. military knew in advance that this indeed was a hospital. they re saying that doctors without borders, and i quote, did everything right. they informed the military of where they were located, and there was that information available to the u.s. military. it was in databases. the key question now for investigators is at what point
fire a couple of questions off, what would they be? i don t think that i have a comment on that, and i think that ms. gloria allred will do a fine job and find the right and appropriate questions for him. and so there is so much back and forth that is already litigated with respect to the cosby camp thing, and this case should not fall within the statute of limitations, and si technical, a nd i will try to make it simple here, because there is a lot to follow on the viewers for the number of cases that have emerged, but the statute of limitations for this woman would require her to have a memory repression issue, and they allege that she had shopped the story around years ago and therefore the memory was not suppressed a on the tlf the case should not be brought. if they can get through those issues, do you see this, barb a barbara, as any victory for you just to getting bill cosby in a