democratic congresswoman and president of the woodrow wilson international center sfr scholars jayne harmon. the kill iing of jihady john, t victory in sinjar, those are significant developments, but i don t think we have to go overboard and say it s turning the tide. i agree, it s too early to put the banner that says mission accomplished on top of the aircraft carrier. and in sinjar they have to hold it. they with respearen t the domin fighters. it was the peshmerga that won the battle with our air cover. i don t know where this goes. we still have to get raqqa, ramadi and continue the raids. there s a lot of other stuff going on. sinjar is important because it s on that road from raqqa, the so-called capital of the islamic state. which they still control the second largest city in iraq.
had been hit by the sniper, and they believe they potentially got him. and pockets of certainty there, but the speed of the victory is remarkable, and everybody saying that the coalition air power made it happen. the peshmerga there in huge n b number, but the suicide bombers were impossible because the air strikes made it impossible. thank you, nick paton walsh, be careful over there. and the mill gant group isis has claimed responsibility for killing the downed plane over the sinai killing all 224 people aboard. there the was a pair of suicide bo bombs in beirut that killed at least 43 people, and injured more than 200 other, and today,
from the president. listen to this. the fact is they are not growing in strength, and they is not gained any ground in iraq, and in syria, it, they will come in, and they will leave. but, you don t see the systemic march by isil across the terrain. doing you agree with that assessment? no, the president is too detached and isis has gained over the last year, and any intelligence analyst will tell you that isis is stronger today than it was 14 months ago. and to the president to say that, again, that is making me nervous that the president wants to declare a quick victory again and get out, but the fact is that if we have begun to turn the tide at all, we have to sustain it, and keep going, because isis is going to keep going. and ten days ago we believed they were responsible for bringing down the russian airliner. so othis is not a movement that is receding, they are actually
it followed a two-day coalition-backed firing. we go nick paton walsh, and you were there, and the kurds were moving quickly and got the u.s. air strike assistance, and so where does it go from here? the question is, i think, is this a new momentum on behalf of the peshmerga working in coordination with other group, but the remarkable as e set of the coalition air power and so persistent and effective over the last two days, to ush her in the extraordinarily quick victory for the peshmerga. is this new momentum doing to point them into the west of sinjar, raqqah, the capital of the self-declared caliphate or off to the east, and mosul is
here. there is no question that texas will turn blue. the only question is when, and the smart guys looking at the numbers, the realists, say it could be another four, six, eight years. it s been 20 years since a democrat has been able to win statewide in texas, as i m sure you are well aware. what does it look like to get it victory in november? it looks like this room, and this room is replicated in living rooms and campaign offices all over the state. it looks like people, people who are excited and enthusiastic about turning out in an election when they ve been staying home. and joining us from dallas is msnbc s crystal ball. and in us a jim moore, co-author of bush s brain. the democrats in texas meeting this weekend, they have that convention. here is how the new york times is writing about the race. the headline is for wendy davis,