vice president said colonel, and the timing of all this? yeah well the prime minister of iraq has to support his forces. and even if they did retreat from combat in ramadi he s going to support them, and he s not going to say, yeah you re right, they do lack the will to fight. and i think the vice president s comments are diplomatic cover-up for what was a small rift in the relationship perhaps between the united states and iraq. but this will be papered over and we ll move forward. the real key now is how to stiffen the resolve of the iraqi army and get it to be better led and better trained so that it can retake ramadi and other cities in anbar province. but it will have the will with the leadership, you say, that is so so lacking. colonel peter mansoor, thank you so much. thanks brooke. coming up next calm in the streets of cleveland. we ll take a look at this case. the controversial verdict. obviously not calm here over the