correspondents covering the angles and hitting effectively the same story. barbara starr is covering the pentagon and looking into that hearing, and pamela brown is covering the the justice department and looking at that hearing as well. so barbara, if i can begin with you, and we will converge on the notion of where isis figures into all of, th this, but if yon talk about the battle of the sec def, and where it is going and what is different. well, what the military is going to tell you is that they are upping the game against isis, and in recent weeks, they have a number of proposals by the white house and the president to apply more military power to this, and one of the fundamentals is the use of u.s. special forces to prepare to go into northern iraq and northern syria to conduct raids against senior isis operatives burk defense secretary carter making the point he wants more help from the arab nations and the european partners on all