kirkuk. they re not giving back the city. they re not going to relinquish it to control of either a new constituted baghdadi government or to isis. this is the capitol of what will emerge eventually as an independent state. this country is breaking apart. thank you for offering your perspective. we appreciate it. sure. just ahead on newsroom, does this brutal terror group pose a direct threat to u.s.? we ll ask someone that knows these terrorists better than anyone. plus he is being called the new bin laden. no one knows where he is but the head of this militant group managed to build a terrifying network, 12,000 fighters deep in four years. hear about his rise, up next. awesome, amazing, als and that s epic, bro, we ve forgotten just how good good is. good is setting a personal best before going for a world record. good is swinging to get on base
obvious targets on roads but they quickly disperse and they could carry on the fightme. the military does take time to gear up for a conflict like this. our intelligence is not current. the embassy is in lock down now. can t get outside the green zone for obvious reasons. difficult to collect intelligence, especially where isis is. it s fairly been cutoff from the west for the last six months. what we know doesn t work is the training and the amount of money we have spent on the iraqi troops there. $15 billion and we re hearing word that they are just dropping their arms and fleeing. so we ll keep an eye on this situation. so much to talk about. so bob, stick around. and just ahead on newsroom, baghdad is home to the largest u.s. embassy in the world with thousands of employees. are they safe as militants march toward baghdad? can the embassy be protected? we ll answer that up next.
northern and western iraq. so if you look at what s happened over the last three years, the moderate syrian opposition receiving little to no support from the united states. these guys are the ones that have now the most experience fighting isis in it s most modern incarnation. we were sort of out to lunch. we were not doing anything to address a humanitarian and geo political crisis in syria and this is regional spill over. boy has it happened. isis is in control of most of northern and central iraq with the exception of one. a former general in the iraqi army that very bravely fought along side u.s. troops in a town near the syria and iraqi border, he is now living in the united states and he said to me, this is a man that risked his life and family s lives trying to bring cohesion back to this country, he said i see iraq
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haven and we ll continue that effort through our support of the moderate opposition in syria and iraq security forces and partnership with other countries across the region. he mentioned support a lot. that may include air support but we just learned that the u.s. is sending in a heavily armed aircraft carrier keeping the door open for possible air strikes and for the people in northern iraq and baghdad, a city now in the cross hairs of these radical extremists, time is running out quickly. the un now saying in just a few short days as isis fighters stormed onward and cities fell, hundreds of iraqi civilians may have been killed. joining me now to update us on all that s going on is our senior national correspondent live from inside iraq. so the president is keeping options open including the do nothing option. can iraq really stabilize the situation militarily or politically on its own?