foreign relations committee, republican cory gardner, is standing by along with correspondents and analysts all covering the news breaking right now. first let s get the latest from our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara? reporter: wolf after years, billions of dallas of u.s. military investment in iraq in ramadi and so many u.s. troops having fallen in that city. finally iraqi forces could not stand in the face of the isis onslaught. out gunned by isis faced with waves of fighters and suicide car bombs, iraqi forces in ramadi and thousands of residents with no choice but to flee. the pentagon called it a setback. the obama administration trying to downplay the loss. i am absolutely confident in the days ahead that will be reversed. reporter: but isis did what the u.s. said it could not do,
watched with the iraqis, the soldiers want to fight. both sunni and shia. they have a common enemy, but one of the things the iraqi government and the senior military has to do is work on their logistics and their supply trains what we called it to make sure that the equipment is getting out to the right folks. if that gets cut off or is delayed, that stops the fighting forces from doing those things. so what i believe is going to happen here a lot of these pictures seen today from northwest and west ramadi. everything s cleaved out. the iraqis pull back. a tactical play. you pull back. you re going to see a lot of air power going in over the next couple days. once we ve been able to suppress the isis aspects, the iraqis go back in in this tactical fight and retake that terrain t. hasn t happened in mosul yet. has it? no it hasn t. you are not going to see it in mosul. right now mosul s isolated. pretty much have it cleared off in the north. pressed from the south. it s isolated. no