while that is also a big problem it is not going to fix the refugee problem. do you think our focus is wrong? our focus should be on regime change with assad first, then focus on isis? i absolutely do, because the assad regime s brutality is driving recruitment into the islamic state. we just had a report out of the u.s. intelligence community reported by associated press two months ago that said that the islamic state is replacing all of the fighters that we kill in our bombing runs. why is that? because they are able to recruit from angry young syrian men who are furious at the bombing that the assad regime is inflicting on civilian neighborhoods in syrian cities. how should president obama respond to russia essentially doing a military build-up on behalf of assad? first, what the russians are doing is not particularly new. they have been giving military aid to the syrian government
and while they have never seen flying saucers, they have dealt with nuclear tests, bombing runs and gunfire. now they say the military is trying to force them off their own land. cnn s dan simon reports. reporter: area 51 along with its alleged aliens and ufos may be fictionalized in hollywood, but the top secret u.s. military site two hours north of las vegas is now part of a real life drama. this place means everything to us. reporter: joe sheman and his family owned land near the site for 130 years. decades before the federal government made it a testing site for weapons. nobody is allowing on their military property without an escort and now the military wants the family gone saying they can t guarantee their safety. they are looking to seize their 400 acres through imminent
of the most sensitive and mysterious military sites in the country. a nevada family has been neighbors to the military testing ground best known as area 51 for decades. while they have never seen any aliens, they say they have weathered nuclear tests, bombing runs and gunfire. now the u.s. military wants them gone. but the family is actually fighting to stay. dan simon is out front. reporter: area 51 along with its alleged aliens and ufos may be fictionalized in hollywood but the top secret military site two hours north of las vegas is now part of a real life drama. joe sheehan and his family have owned land near the site for 130 years, decades before the federal government made it a testing spot for nuclear weapons and training area for fighter pilots that surround the property. the sheehans and relatives are not allowed on the property
so he s going to china. the kurds asked us to arm them for three years, we haven t done ifrment the egyptians asked us to share intelligence. saudis, egyptians, kurds, jordanians are all fighting isis on the ground as we speak. the kuwaitis, the emirates know this is their fight. do we need more special forces? yes. do we need bombing runs that are more effective? yes. but what we need first and foremost is to stand behind our allies, give them what they have asked us for and let them fight this fi. it s important to remember they have lost more citizens at the hand of isis than anyone else. harold ford. staying on willie s line of thinking. you would vote for or against the iranian deal? if you voted against it, what you would offer quickly in place of it? two, when isis front, would you commit to putting troops on the ground? first of all, i would never discount the possibility of troops.
now in a very rare and candid piece today syrian president assad said syrian troops are losing territory to rebel fighters including isis. assad also acknowledged that the syrian army is under a lot of strain due to power and equipment but he said his government is not collapsing and vowed to defeat syria s enemies. he also said he expects greater support from iran one of syria s key allies now that economic sanctions have been lifted as a result of the international nuclear agreement between the international community and iran. what we re seeing here is a shifting in the battlefield. but so far we haven t much seen a change in isis strength which is still very, very strong in both iraq and syria. most analysts say that until turkey shuts off the flow of foreign fighters coming through istanbul and in to syria, isis is likely not going to suffer much because of these air strikes no matter who is flying these bombing runs. leland? good questions for sure in terms of which side of th