will put them back where they belong. the announcement comes after the head of iran s military force met with iraqi officials over the weekend to help the government coordinate a response. s they said they had any interference in iraq and the statement to be directed specifically at iran. the big question tonight, though, concerned how much and what kind of american military involvement, if any at all. the only thing the white house ruled out is sending come basketball for combat forces back to iraq. we re joined my our two guests. jim, let me start off with you, this phone call we learned about between joseph biden the president and maliki, what details do we know? you spoke with maliki but the
providing a top level command and control element into the very highest levels at the iraqi joint chiefs of staff. general marks, appreciate you being on. jim chuas well. what are you hearing? you ve been talking to sourlsesn the ground. what have you been hearing about the confidence they have in nuri al-maliki. confidence is low. they don t believe even in his party with people in conversation with him, they don t think nuri al-maliki, the decisions some people consider further alienated sunni politicians here. there are politicians that just don t feel that they can work with him, therefore, how can he be the man to make concessions and take the country forward?
minority there. which exactly was the political component supposed to happen in the wake of the surge, which maliki has not followed through on. jim, the pentagon put together this draft list of isis targets. it has not finalized that, is that correct? it is not. what i m told they have a drift list but this list is always being updated with intelligence they have so it has the latest options for the president but this list has been prevesented the president to consider it. for several days now, speaking to military officials, myself and barbara starr a pentagon correspondent, we heard a consistent message about what those options are. yes, air strikes, though, limited air strikes, in addition to that, the u.s. sending additional military advisors into iraq to help coordinate iraq s military response. now to be clear, these advisors would not be on the front lines where they could be at risk breaking the president s promise