general marks 100%. iraq will break up. nothing we can do to hold it together. giving weapons to the shia militias which we re not, but the iraqi army is primarily show yashgs the ones fighting and frankly they have no will to go into the sunni areas to keep the peace to get rid of isis. they re saying if you want isis you live with it but we re not going to die for you. a lot of army people have died today around hab ba nia and other places so i just don t see the iraqi army ever going into the sunni heartland, al anbar province or retaking mosul. it s not going to happen and the fact is ash carter is right, there isn t the will to do it and i don t think we can create that will. general marks you look at the map we had up and you can see baghdad is so close to these sunni areas where isis is supported, where isis has taken control. are you confident that baghdad
will remain under iraqi control? i am brianna. the best units that exist, i m not being facetious, the iraqi military has superb fighting units. they are concentrated in and around baghdad. i mean that has to be held at all costs. i would say that baghdad is in good shape. its surroundings are fine. they understand what the defense of baghdad needs to look like. it is a defense that s in layers. baghdad is okay. the challenge is as bob has described, it s the sunni heartland and the only one showing up in combat right now are the shia qods force, badder corps, the militia being supplied by tehran. that s the most troubling aspect we see is a broader intergenerational sectarian fight we re watching unfold. what of this idea bob, of forward air support. what is that and is that
city there, what happens? what happens there especially when you look at the situation in palmyra and that could affect the iraqi forces to gain ramadi. both of these cities isis now has a convenient launch pad or staging platform in syria and iraq through which they can attack the capitals of both those countries. you had in the previous seg isn t spider marks saying baghdad is pretty well fortified. i don t think baghdad will fall. baghdad doesn t have to fall. isis is within 70 miles striking distance now that they have ramadi. they ve begun to do, in fact, you ve seen an uptick in the opportunistic vehicle born suicide bombing attacks inside the capital, so what isis does very well is if they can t conquer terrain, they try to wage a campaign of terror and discomboblation to keep the enemy on the backfoot. in syria as paul pointed out, palmyra will lead them to homs
government with iran. i hope not. some iranian leaders were significant leaders in the revolutionary guard were there last week. no, we have got to do it on our own. in my opinion i don t think baghdad is going to fall? nope. you heard it here. i hope you are right, general. anyway, nice to see you, sir. and as jihad forces close in on baghdad. what is our military doing and what about the embassy. jennifer griffin joins us live from the pentagon. jennifer? greta. the president has notified congress tonight that he is sending 275 american troops to baghdad. we have just learned tonight the pentagon will present the president with at least one option that would require putting some special operations forces in baghdad to work with the iraqi government. already, there is a fast team of marines and 50 special operators who have been sent to the u.s. embassy in baghdad to provide security. another 100 u.s. military personnel are being deployed it to help with air field
a residual force there. what about churning the hague and taking the sunnis out of leadership positions. what about the fact that there are some parts that are on the previous administration that could be relitigated as well? well, what about the fact that we had it won? what about the fact that people like me said we ve got to fire did we? going. we ve got to get the surge going. yes, we did, finally, and what about the fact that general petraeus had the conflict won thanks to the surge. i don t know what victory means anymore in that situation. there are snapshot victories and the next day some new group takes over. we came to a draw, but there has been a slow train wreck going on politically that has set the stage for where we are right now. we have fought to a draw as senator mccain said militarily, but we had not solved the political problem that has endured and has created the mess we re in right now. by the way, i don t think