we are following the breaking news out of baltimore. a grand jury indictments returned just a short time ago against the six officers accused in the death of freddie gray. but right now i want to take more with senator james langeford of oklahoma about another breaking story we re following. the major new gains for isis in iraq and syria. you heard president obama s assessment today saying that his strategy against isis isn t failing. he said quote, i don t think we re losing. i asked you before if isis was winning. you said they re on the move. do you agree with the president s assessment then that the u.s. is not losing. that s a difficult call. he wants to degrade isis capability. we re flying over hitting a hum
it s not a battle the u.s. can undertake. recently we ve heard from a number of your colleagues in the republican party there in the senator and they say they want u.s. combat troops on the ground in iraq. do you ie agree with that? i do not. there s not a push to have a large push. that becomes divisive again. we doe need to help equip people. the president is right to do a lot of the air strikes to try to do some question upping. but we re going to have to get closer into the fight to help provide coordination for what s happening on the ground. we can t fight it from such a distance. if isis establish as safe haven for terrorism in syria and iraq that becomes a may jr. issue for not just the united states but all of the western world and all of the region. this is a fight that will come to our door that we need to be able to take on there, not pretend it won t happen again
repeated that could be a mistake, repeating their mistakes of the previous administration. jim acosta at the white house. thank you. joining me now, senator jam lankford republican of oklahoma. he is on both the homeland security committee and the intelligence committee. thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us about this. we know congress has been kept apprised of this quickly moving situation. you were just in a briefing. can you share with us anything that you re learning? actually, your oversight there that you gave on some of the media reports are very well done. what s happened in ramadi a small group of fighters moving in and taking a fairly large city. it must have taken thousands of fighters. it didn t. it was a fairly small group of fighters that went in. it s a sunni environment. some individuals gave them very little resistance. that s what made it significant. iraqi army did not hold in that area np when you look at the