three months later, not much of a difference. some gains up here for some of the rebels against isis. but when you look at cities like ramadi. when you look at baiji, a back and forth, 50/50. when i spoke to the u.s. military today they said you have to expect and we are expecting, the u.s. military is expecting periods of progress and periods of setback. when you look at the overall picture, wolf it looks like a stalemate across large parts of iraq and syria. it s a real challenge moving forward. and isis still in control of mosul. the second largest city in iraq. a city of nearly two million people. and the iraqi army doesn t even think about going after that target at least for now. thanks very much jim sciutto reporting. lets get more from retired u.s. army general stanley mcchrystal. he commanded u.s. and international forces in afghanistan and previously headed the joint special operations command. he has a new book out entitled team of teams: new rules of engagement for a com
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kind of conspiracy. let s go to texas in 2015. we don t see with isis those kinds of conspiracies we ve seen kids as young as 15. in this case we have an individual in his 30s, they re looking at propaganda online maybe with minimal interaction with other people and saying hey, i m just going to travel. you don t have to sit on that case for a long time before saying we re taking it to federal court. the final thing you see is there are so many of these cases after the garland situation, if you re in an fbi field office you re looking at this saying we got to triage this. we got to move through this and move to the next one and furthermore, we not going to sit on this too long because we can t afford to have a second garland. it looks like the arrest could be a result of in part what happened in garland, texas. what sor analysis? well i think the fbi is stepping up its game. they ve been waiting around for an attack for a long time. and it finally came in garland. they re starting
going on. joining us democratic congresswoman from hawaii member of the armed services and foreign affairs account and a veteran of military service in iraq. what s going on? isis was supposed to be kicked out of ramadi but now they re on the verge, it looks like of taking over this key city in the anbar province? what s going on? i think wolf what we re seeing is the issue i ve brought up many times before. that right now the united states policy and what s happening in vaek not iraq is not addressing the core problem allowing isis to continue to come back in particular into these sunni stronghold areas. the fact this central government in baghdad is still not arms and equipping thekurds and sunnis trying to fight for their homeland and territories and their people. we saw in tikrit for example, isis was pushed out, but because there was no plan in place for the sunni people to secure themselves to provide this governance for their own area we saw the shia militia, guys