demonstrations on the streets of moscow against his government. the research over the international center for defense and security and former cnn moscow bureau chief. next, the suspicious divide that forced an air france flight to make an emergency landing. it was to paris. it was diverted to mombassa, kenya where it landed early sunday local time. a passenger noticed a device in a bathroom and notified the crew. all 459 passengers and 14 crew were evacuated safely. u.n. security council unanimously agreed to aim for peace in syria. one major power is flexing its military mind. that story coming up. a man s truck ends up with terrorists. we find out how it got in their hands. that story just ahead.
know. he says he doesn t need to know the answers to these questions. he can hire people when the time come that know the answer to these questions. douglas macarthur types he says who are out there. is that enough for a president? it scud could be. he is making an argument. he will go find the new petraeus, new mcchrystal, john allen, bring make, jim maddus, there are brilliant military mind. he could indeed do that. it is important i think to couple that in any time that that argument is made with, with names of people who are close in time to a younger generation who might not really relate to the fact that douglas macarthur, was a genius. i think maybe the messaging there need to get it is legitimate. i have done 60 interviews, plus with gop candidates. they re all over the map on how they will respond to this incredibly difficult problem of the two sides of islamist
alisyn that s very true. again, if you establish the desired instate, which is to have isis crushed, moved back maybe have a smaller pocket u.s. ground forces can make that happen. there s no doubt in my military mind or in yours that that s an achievable goal. the issue is the united states is not established that as the goal. so we re in a situation where we re going to have this slow burn and everybody s going to kind of watch it. it s the new normal. again, it may be okay the united states may be acknowledging that it s okay to have iraq kind of break apart and we hold onto baghdad and everybody ends up with some relative pieces. that s a big challenge. but if that s what the u.s. wants to do that s what happens. sure. but when you say this is an achievable goal what do you mean? we could stamp out isis with ground troops? ground troops could take care of the problem absolutely. the united states could put ground forces on the ground absolutely and that would occur. i mean th
be asked what did you learn from that, now what you would have done, but what would you do in the future? and joy reid now we have the republicans arguing over who gets credit for the islamic state and they re saying that s completely the creation of president obama and now hillary clinton. yeah. it s funny that there was no al qaeda in iraq when vice president dick cheney was claiming that there was a link between saddam how sane and 9/11. but once we went in and destabilized the country, there was a guy that we had under guard in iraq and iraq and al qaeda sprang up because we invaded in iraq. i don t think there s really much arguing about that. i think every military mind who isn t somehow in league with the bush administration admits that was a tremendous foreign policy mistake, probably the biggest foreign policy mistake in a generation created al qaeda in iraq which is now isis. there is really no argument about that. i think for the republicans, though look, if you are
shadow commander. a powerful military mind, rarely seen but certainly heard. but as isis continues its slaughter in iraq attempting to edge closer to baghdad, this man is emerging from behind the scenes the head of iran s elite qods force. a man the u.s. links to attacks on its own troops in the past may prove critical in the battle for tikrit. he s a legend. he was a player in the iran-iraq war. he has a whole lot of experience in combat not only in that war, but also in conflicts in the interim, but also against the united states. reporter: he is credited with the fall of isis in a key iraqi town and he s battled islamic state militants in syria and now is set on retaking tikrit the hometown of former dictator saddam hussein. iranian reports suggest he was