the g20 group of advanced economies. they said that the united states seemed very receptive to the idea of expelling russia from the g20. of course jake sullivan, national security adviser, did address this yesterday to reporters during a press conference and said it cannot be business as usual in terms of its place in the international community but up to the allies as a whole to decide whether russia should be expelled. putin does intend to to go to a summit, g20 summit in bali later this year, john yeah. well, that would be fascinating to see. it is staggering to think how russia s position in the world has changed over the last month. and it could change even more in the next few days depending what comes out of these meetings. natasha bertrand, thank you very much for that. the top spokesman refusing to
john yeah. overall, yes. that doesn t mean that there haven t been areas of setback, as we saw in ramadi. are we going to light our hair on fire every time that there s a setback in the campaign against isil, or are we going to take seriously our responsibility to evaluate those areas where we succeed and evaluate where steps are necessary for us to change our strategy where we ve sustained setbacks? white house press secretary josh earnest calling the u.s. overall strategy in iraq successful despite the fall of ramadi to isis. the images and report out of iraq tell a very different story. isis continues its assault and the iraqi military continues to falter. they say they re pushing back. i m joined by senator tim coin of virginia who serves senator tim kaine of virginia who serves on armed services and foreign relations. this is a critical setback. according to the report from the pentagon u.s. official at the pentagon acknowledge that baghdad really brew that. that the iraqi f