in the weakness, this cravenness is catching up with the united states. they re on to him now. what made america what made the 21st century the great american century, our ability to rally the world against des speights and dictators and list the world to a better place. that s all being unwound right now. kurds won t fight for us again, they won t fight against isis for us. the european allies have noticed that the president of the united states has said let isis go to the european capitals. how do we ever put together another coalition. it s not just this president. the world is now viewing us through the actions of donald trump from now on. and it s not just military power, it s soft power, the eu now, the incoming ec commissioners are saying, you know what? we re going to have to look to china because we can t america is so unstable, we re going to start building more economic alliances with china. yeah. and to get back to ukraine, you
after the terror group seizes control of a strategic city in iraq. plus a deadly shootout between rival biker gangs in the u.s. state of texas. several u.s. marines are rushed to the hospital after their helicopter makes a hard landing in hawaii. hello, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. i m errol barnett. good to be with you, rosie. back together. this is cnn newsroom. we want to begin this hour with a huge development in iraq. isis fighters there have taken control of the city of ramadi. the city fell after days of heavy fighting. ramadi is the capital of iraq s anbar province. one of the last remaining cities in the province that was still under government control. now this is footage of iraqi
western anbar province from ramadi, leading to the outskirts of baghdad. also need to note baghdad isn t under threat. a very heavily fortified city. it does have iraqi officials concerned as well as american official. u.s. secretary of state, john kerry talked about the fight in ramadi. take a listen. every single country in the region. bar none is opposed to dash and is engaged in fighting them. so i am confident about the longer road. but, yes, there will be moments like yesterday in ramadi. and there will be some difficult challenges ahead. difficult challenges definitely. this was a huge moral and political victory for isis. they had lost tikrit recently. this is a big gain for them. it is going to be difficult, the
something which has been circulating but isn t verified yet. the fact that they fled is undeniable. that is something which happened before. the fight against isis. and if you do it to low morale among the troops. and what isis does. they capture soldiers. from dehebeheadings and burn th alive if they take captive. the pentagon is saying late sunday. ramadi is a fluid situation. the u.s. is preparred to back up iraqi fors if they decide to retake the town again. at 60 miles from baghdad. iraqi forces will have to retake the town from isis, correct? certainly. it is going to be at the very top of the places that iraqi forces are going to try to retake. isis has control of the, the majority of anbar province. virtually all anbar province at this time. which is a terrible situation for coalition fors to be in.