history but in doing so we must use our head and our heart by pursuing a comprehensive approach that tackles the causes of the problem as well as consequences. reporter: there have been continuous scuffles with police along certain boarders in eastern europe. many of the refugees complained about the treatment they received along the way, those countries defending themselves saying they are just trying to keep their borders secure, and at the moment, leland, nobody is even talking about the potential security risk that some 6 these migrants might pose, and and countries are talking about getting to the problem at its source. britain and france talking about stepping up activity against isis, specifically in syria, and finally, leland, prime minister cameron here saying that he is not prepared to accept refugees coming all from within europe, but he wants them to stay in camps along the borders of syria and be processed there because he doesn t want people making those short voyages
54 recruits into syria in july they were immediately surrounded by the al qaeda-linked nusra front and the u.s. sent a drone to help and it took two hours to get there and by that point some of the recruits had been kidnapped, some fled and others were killed by u.s. stealth fired missiles. it was a disaster. can you tell us anything about the f-16 fighter jets the iraqis are flying now. yes. remember, the u.s. delivered four u.s. fighters jets to iraq in july after facing a setback when its top air force pilot saddiq training in arizona crashed its plane and was killed in june. the iraqi minister of defense released this video of the defense forces joining the fight against isis and it s done a lot for morale in the iraqi military. the participation of f-16 fighter planes will have a big impact on the course of battles in the future, mainly in
right now, u.s. officials are heading back to the drawing board on a program to train rebels to fight isis in syria. in july a syrian affiliate of al qaeda attacked the 54 fighters when they returned home. some of those fighters were captured and are still being held. classified assessments by the pentagon show the rebels were poorly prepared despite their training. jennifer griffin joins us from the pentagon. where did this training go wrong? reporter: well, patty ann, the entire program has been fraught since the start and is now being reviewed at pentagon, as you mentioned. defense secretary ash carter was the first to draw attention to the fact that only 54 syrian opposition fighters had been trained, even though the goal had been to train 5,400 in the first year and even though congress had provided funding from a $500 million training program. the biggest problem has been requiring that the fighters agree not to fight president assad. that s been hard to do. we then learned tha
camps in jordan, in turkey and elsewhere to hold these populations leaving syria and iraq. that i don t think they are doing enough of. couldn t you argue that they are doing a lot of funding inside syria, funding isis or at least some of the royal families have been funding isis for a long time? several of the gulf countries you just listed there have in fact been supporting isis and part of their struggle with iran. a lot of guilty parties here, no doubt about it. there s a lot of guilty parties and let s get to the issue of the innocent folks like the children that you see there. what can be done for them. they are doing as they take rafts across dangerous, dangerous parts of water. hungary doesn t want them. i mean, this is truly crisis like we saw right at end of world war ii. here s where the principal failure occurs. those people shouldn t be anywhere near the agean sea or black sea. under the international refugee conventions turkey is the country for first asylum. for
larger than a small european country. there is no iraqi government that can solve this. there is no iraqi army that we can train. it doesn t sound very reassuring to most people in the country that in fact this is under control. i have said that we have experienced important progress and experienced some important setbacks as well. i don t know whether that s reassuring. i think it s an accurate description of what s happening on the ground. a spokesperson last week who made a report that we in fact were succeeding against isis, that hasn t been true since we started and certainly isn t true now. welcome to morning joe, great to have you with us. happy friday. mika had a wonderful event last night, friends, we wish you could have been there, union square barnes & noble. a great event talking about know your value. this was actually the long march, willie geist, where mika had to actually get up on stage and talk before a lot of fans and friends in a cindy brady style lisp.