the disposition of troops like these special forces units. so in this particular case, you ve got a drone like you said, john, that was overhead, and very quickly overhead, and that tells me that they could very easily have positioned the drone if they had known that there was a troop in contact, troops in contact type situation. the french forces, they cheerily responded, perhaps there s a way to make that response quicker, although the distances involved are very, very large. and, of course, the most important thing here is to make sure something like this does not happen again to improve don t forget those troops in contact, were very close to the enemy forces. absolutely. so getting close air support, requires a little bit of distance between our forces and theirs. we don t think they had that in this incident. that s something we ll find out. as you said the facts are what s so important here and learning is what s so important here to make sure again things like this
threats at this time, but they also say that obviously they are taking no chances. broin is live in our new york city newsroom. he has been looking into this. how are the law enforcement agencies responding to these attacks in paris this morning? reporter: hi, martha. we were watching the horrific events unfold last night, the thoughts and fears natural the people really move towards what is being done here and are we safe here? the department of homeland security releasing a statement which says in part now that there are, quote, no specific or credible threats of an attack on the u.s. homeland of the type that occurred in paris but out of an abundance of caution, dhs and the fbi are consulting with state and local law enforcement. cities from new york to los angeles are in heightened states of alert. here in new york, extra teams of counterterrorism officers including hercules teams, the city s heavily armed special forces units, have been dispersed throughout the city. extra secur
combatants. some of them from the same plain clothed special forces units who were sent to ukraine, members of an airborne rifle brigade, the equivalent of u.s. army rangers. ukraine s president said russia is using the same playbook they did in crimea. these days our men are landing in the hundreds in syria. reporter: the state department continues to publicly downplay the reports. i don t know that i would call it a buildup. it s unclear exactly what some of these military activities are all about. i don t know that, you know, we re ready at this point to call it a buildup necessarily. reporter: he visited moscow from july 24th through 26th, just ten days after the nuclear deal was announced. despite a travel ban and u.n. security council resolutions barring him from leaving iran. israeli security officials have been quoted saying iran has sent hundreds of fighters into syria in recent days to work with the russians. at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. and now for
we ve got to get on the ground with them not with 100,000 or 150,000 troops. but what we have there now, 2 to 3,000 is not going to get it. we are going to need to add five six, 7,000 troops. with the iraqi troops are lacking is not so much will as it is courage. and kurjs comes with having leadership leadership on the battlefield. that s where yes can bet the most helpful. congressman what do you think of secretary carter s comments. do you think he was trying to proed the iraqis into action? that s a harsh statement to say about an allied s army they don t have the will to fight. i think he was more honest than prodding and you see a little frustration from the secretary who is going to get ever bad briefing that comes across his desk on what happened leading up to ramadi during ramadi and afterward. there s been in command in control, no command leadership on the ground. you had special forces units in
there s no new strategy. there is no strategy. anybody who thinks that we re actually carrying the day in this is whistling past the graveyard. i don t know where they re coming up with this stuff. so you know we need a significant reality check, even the president said well the forces that folded and cut and ran in ramadi were not trained by the u.s. he is woefully misinformed because, yes, they were trained by the u.s. if the brigade was there, two special forces units and we have trained all special forces units in iraq. so we have to stop passing the buck. come to grips with the reality on the ground and the reality on the ground is we have a chaotic, corrupt situation. senior generals and police officials have been shipping their families out of the country starting about two months ago and some senior officers were stopped from leaving the country on friday. they were trying to fly out of