i m john berman filling in for jake tapper today, we do begin with the world lead. president obama asked him to do it. secretary of state john kerry flew to baghdad to ask him in person, but iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki appeared to shut the door today on requests for him to form a sort of unity government, one that would include sunnis that maliki has shut out of the process for years. this would be all in the hopes of will quelling the uprising by sunni militants tearing iraq apart. so if the prime minister won t play ball the way the u.s. wants it could mean those air strikes that maliki has been begging for might never come. president obama is sending a number of military advisers into iraq. as many as 300 total. the first wave of them getting down to business right now assessing the iraqi military strength and movements by the terrorism group isis which stands for the islamic state in iraq and syria. isis is taking over huge chunks of iraq in air strikes are being carried