in baghdad meeting with malaki to say, we are here to protect you. this is the whole thing seems like a powder keg. yes. it s not surprising. kasim saul manny is a major adviser to assad in syria, and they look at syria as a client state. they provided thousands of quds force to assist assad to stay in power. he sees the opportunity. he s looking at the united states. malaki has been asking for some support for a couple of months. it we haven t been giving him much of anything. he sees that opportunity, and if malaki doesn t get the help he needs to hold on, he ll look to the iranians, to sole manny. you should know and the viewing audience should know that he s the one that organized hezbollah against the israelis in 2006, the guys who trained the shia militia in iran to conduct operations against u.s. forces exclusively with advanced ieds. this is a bad actor on the world
we have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon looking at the options of for the u.s. in iraq. we begin with chief white house correspondent ed hen ary on the extremely sensitive subject of new involvement on an old battlefield. good evening, ed. reporter: good evening. as iraq is heading closer to implodement, the vice president called the iraqty prime minister, pledges the u.s. is going to step up security support for iraq but exactly what form that will take is unclear. iraq was on the verge of a full-scale meltdown with thousands of iraqis fleeing mos mosul. the group s goal may be building az an islamic state to launch another 9/11. i don t know twha the president is being told, but what i heard today scared the hell out of me. the worst is yet to come. and this place is completely falling apart. reporter: meanwhile, kurdish soldiers took control of kur cook in the north as the price of oil soared to over $106 a barrel. amid the reports the u.s. rej