testimony today. he wants to see more progress and see it a lot faster, and not at all clear that carter could give him those the assurances, ashleigh. thank you, barbara. i listen to for what john mccain does and asks the questions being the veteran that he is, because it is a dynamic that is intriguing when he challenges the secretary of defense. hold that thought for a moment, barbara, if you will, because there are two fronts in the war on terror when it comes to isis number one, and what barbara is talking about the military and the evident against them, and then pamela brown, the domestic part of it. and we had 14 people murdered by a terrorist couple and a lot of talk about when they were radicalized and when effective ly this american citizen got his wife and became a so-called soldier for this theory of isis. and so walk me through what the senate judiciary senate committee hear has been able to pull out of james comey, the fbi director. well, he has gone on the record to
time ago, and then the fbi dr director answering the committee s questions, and the chairman, senator john mccain has long pushed the fight them there instead of fight iing the here plos fi, and he pressed the pentagon boss ash carter for a strategy and for action. have a listen. mr. secretary, on the 1st of december before the house armed services committee congressman forbes asked mr. dunford, have we currently contained isil, and general, no, we have not contained isil. and mr. secretary, do you agree with general dunford? i agree with what general dunford said, yes. so if we have not contained isille, how are we to now believe that we are succeeding against isil? ah, i think that we are building momentum gaiagainst is
correspondents covering the angles and hitting effectively the same story. barbara starr is covering the pentagon and looking into that hearing, and pamela brown is covering the the justice department and looking at that hearing as well. so barbara, if i can begin with you, and we will converge on the notion of where isis figures into all of, th this, but if yon talk about the battle of the sec def, and where it is going and what is different. well, what the military is going to tell you is that they are upping the game against isis, and in recent weeks, they have a number of proposals by the white house and the president to apply more military power to this, and one of the fundamentals is the use of u.s. special forces to prepare to go into northern iraq and northern syria to conduct raids against senior isis operatives burk defense secretary carter making the point he wants more help from the arab nations and the european partners on all
welcome back. i am joined live now by cnn military analyst retired general spider marks, our analyst. and spider, i want to ask you something about the what the secretary of defense brought up in the senate armed services committee, because it is the thing that stood out, and made me wonder if it made the hair on your arms stand up. when you hear defense secretary ash carter, and let me just read for you what barbara starr is reporting he raised the prospect that u.s. military advisers could go on the ground with iraqi forces to assist in the operation of taking back the iraqi town of ramadi from isis control, and that is no longer an adviser in a safe zone causing in the position, but that is hurt locker stuff and close quarter combat, and i hope that i am wrong, because it makes a lot of people nervous