important these recruitment videos will become because historically places like iraq have been magnets for kids in new york and london. so over time, i would be worried about those recruitment videos. at a minimum, shows they are organized. secretary john kerry set to arrive in this region. administration is crystal clear nuri al-maliki not welcome. any sign he is getting this message? not so far. in fact, he s doing exactly what he s been doing all along. i mean, look, we pushed him really hard on power sharing, on constructing a broader government when we left. what we know now that we didn t know then how he is to the iranians. a lot of our leverage, if we have any on maliki, actually
some american special forces, we believe, if the president will be announcing. are they going to be in the same room? are they going to say just do me a favor. don t bomb there because that s us. we re going to be going to the left. you go to the right. they may the u.s. and iran right now have a converged interest. we both the u.s. and iran, both want to get rid of this terrible force. this militant group isis, which in some cases is more extreme than al qaeda if you can believe that. but long term, the u.s. and iran have very different outcomes they want to see in this country. and i think that s why iran and israel and other countries are excuse me, saudi arabia and israel are so concerned. well, as we know, the u.s. can manage to sort of talk their way around a lot of things. but if they do pull the plug on maliki or support those who want to, you re going to be basically taking an elected official who was elected with a big
now the election results from the last couple months should have been ratified, and therefore, that should begin a process towards the end of this month that would determine the new prime minister speaker of the parliament being announced. there is a constitutional scope for that change to happen, but a lot of that depends on maliki himself. is he prepared to make the ultimate concession for himself and give up power? arwa, in the north, you ve been talking to christians outside mosul and in northern areas, a, do they have any confidence that maliki is the man to continue leading this country, and also, how concerned are they about life under isis? they very much feel, anderson, as if they are the victim of politics and believe that the country s leaders lack the political maturity that is necessary at this stage to actually move the nation out of this current crisis and horrific
the other question the president has not had answered well for him from his advisers, after he does something, then what? and ronan, if i can just say one of the reasons why petray urks going back to the surge, that the lever amg he had, petraeus, during the surge in iraq had complete backing by the president to do that. but though united states owned and occupied iraq at that point. the united states no longer does that. it doesn t have the troops on the ground to really put the pressure on maliki. and that gets to chuck s point which is why this is so difficult. what is the ultimate end game? if you get to the turks who have a big stake in this. if iran has a big stake in this, how does the united states very effectively say we re about counterterrorism. we don t want isis to succeed without really coming to the defense of maliki. who is so disenfranchised sunni toss the point you have not just former baathists and saddam
on that, because she says maliki has got to reach out to other forces to sunni forces within the country. well, look, i am coming to the dreadful realization that possibly this administration might just not do anything very much. they have really it appears given up on maliki. obama saying that stuff and tonight i thought hillary clinton went very forward leaning in just dismissing maliki and putting the blame on him and they have not come up with any military plan to stop the march of isis. i m wondering whether they are going to give up and see the chips fall where they may, perhaps the partition of iraq. there was a question from the audience about gun control, gun violence, secretary clinton jumped on that. she did. in fact, she was the most forward leaning i ve heard. i haven t heard her on many domestic issues. she did talk about a small