weapons directly to them because they can t get it. these are people who fought before. it is their land. they want to take back ramadi. he is from ramadi. they re on the hill asking members of the congress please get your people to send them to us. we re not getting we have people that want to it too. the thing is, there is a basket of options. we just can t go with the shia. we can give to the kurds. they want to fight. tribal leaders want to fight. why are we doing this, only iranian-backed there is fairly well-worn path of iraqi militia leaders and others back and forth to washington asking for arms, first of all. so this is a constant on their part. we actually worked with the current iraqi government to convince them not to bring in the shiite militias. that was our call. we told them not to do that which contributed to the fall of ramadi in a sense because we delayed that now we re backing off. we talked to them. prime minister has good enough control over the fighting uni
died at the time of john kennedy s death. and he was not going to put, you know, fighting units in there. and i believe that robert kennedy was adamant about that, and also with regard to the white house staff, walt rostow was a hawk and he told marie ritter he was getting much better reception of his views from lyndon johnson than he ever did from john kennedy. and i really, really think that with roger hillsman telling me he was calling him in the evening saying we got to get out of there, we got close to those that knew him well. and lyndon johnson is said to have told generals i m not going to be the first president to lose a war. you can depend on me to escalate and win this thing. so there is that. with regard to the transition,
congresswoman from the state of illinois. she can tell you that combat is already a reality. i did lose my legs in a bar fight. i was sure i was in combat. joining me now retired army general. what is your reaction to this latest development? i think it is a great initiative and long overdue. and i m kind of curious, i m very curious about the timing of it. and the implementation. they need to make it retro active back to at least 2002 when women were already serving. there was no question about physical capabilities then as they were attaching women to these fighting units. but waiting for three years what
i was sure i was in combat. joining me now retired army general. what is your reaction to this latest development? i think it is a great initiative and long overdue. and i m kind of curious, i m very curious about the timing of it. and the implementation. they need to make it retro active back to at least 2002 when women were already serving. there was no question about physical capabilities then as they were attaching women to these fighting units. but waiting for three years what
it s a probably that s never been wassed by a quake in this country until now. first responders may be getting reasons. stand by for dr. sanjay gupta and details of a new medical study. i m westbound westboun i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. how did their political leaders do big things like reduce the debt if they butt heads over a scheduling speech. we re learning more about the duty-up over the president s make-or-break jobs speech this week, and how the date was finally set. athena jones is covering the story for us. now, actually scheduling that speech has turned out to be the hard part. what the american people expect the president to do, what they expect their senators, congress men and women to do is listen to them and take action. they do not give a lick about what day next week the president speaks before congress. reporter: the great date debate came to the first public view through a tweet. at around noon on wednesday, the told hi twitter fo