There. Jim . Good morning, carol. Yes, that is right. President obama is going to meet with the man he has tapped to lead the Global Coalition against isis, retired general john allen, and as for the operation southwest of baghdad that the Obama Administration announced last night, senior Officials Say to expect more of it to come, but u. S. And coalition forces, those officials caution will not be signaling who or what will be targeted next or when. As for the administrations effort to build the coalition, one official said last night that several countries could issue press releases today announcing what they are prepared to do, but the white house is indicating that the public will be seeing a roll out of the cocan ligs in the various coalition in the various roles in the coming weeks. As for the air strikes in isis on syria that everybody is expecting, it is said that president bashar a l assad woul be making a critical mistake if he went against this mission. And the chairman of the joints chief is expected to testify over at the white house. And keep in mind that two key critics senator john mccain and senator Lindsey Graham sit on that committee, so you can expect it to be testy up there on capitol hill. Yes, it should be fiery. That hearing is set to get under way at 9 30 eastern time. Stick around, jim acostacosta, will have a panel upcoming. And now for the past weeks, there have been pounded air strikes in baghdad to secure the t territory, and in the Northern Area kurdish troops are battling it out against isis. And anna is near to tell the us more. We are about 30 kilometers east of mosul in eastern iraq, and you can can tell from the black plumes of smoke behind me, it is a intense battle between the peshmerga and the isis military. And now before dawn, there was a ground offensive to clear out five townships to clear out the control of the islamic extremists. The peshmerga are continuing to go near kurdistan and mosul which is iraqs second largest city which has been in isis stronghold since june. The peshmerga needs to take back this area to prepare for the next battle, the battle for mosul. The air strikes have been critical. For hours, they circled the skies before hitting the enemy targets and vehicles. The u. S. Is refusing to make direct hits on towns fearing civilian casualties bs, but the peshmerga tells us that the local population has fled, and only isis is here. And earlier we saw a group going to reach the peshmerga, but before he could reach them, he was hit causing a huge plume of smoke. Snipers are laying explosives and ieds and using suicide bombers in an attempt to slow down the peshmerga advance. Anna coren, Northern Iraq. Thank you. We want the take you live to the capital toll hill where the Senate Arms Committee is about to get under way. This is all about the war on isis, and chuck hagel and chairman Martin Dempsey are set to testify. And joining us are jim sciutto and ryan cooper, and National Correspondent of the week, and Maria Cardona and raj salan and contribu contributor to Tthe National review, and james spider marks who is a cnn military analyst, and thank you all for being with me this morning. Jim sciutto, i want to start with you. What do the senators hope the accomplish today . I think that dempsey and hague rl going to get it from both sides in effect, from the grahams and the mccains push in for more aggressive military action to the point that they have been pushing that you need boots on the ground. And then from the other side, you will get questions from senators who are skeptical of what is the end game here . What is the actual urgency and the immediacy of the isis threat to the u. S. Homeland which is presumably what what has driven the administration to act more forcibly here follow iing the beheadings of james foley and steven sat loloff and that is critical, but what is the s support of the partners in the europe and the area . Well, particularly, carol, arab nations dont want to advertise how involved they are going to get, because they have populations to oppose this, but the senators expect to press hagel and dempsey to say, really all just on our shoulders, or are the allies coming to our way in a substantial way. General marks, americans want to hear a Clear Mission from general dempsey this morning and will he deliver . I think he will. Absolutely. The president laid out the strategy, and the end state of the strategy is to defeat isis. What you will hear today is going to be a desire on the part of our department of defense, our military and the coalition to minimally degrade isis. You wont have a statement of defeating isis until you can agree that there have to be soldiers and there have to be forces that are on the ground to go after targets within syria where isis gets all of the support and the motivation and all of the recruiting and, et cetera. So degrading, yes, defeat, i dont think that you will hear that. If you hear it today, then you have to ask the next question, how is that going to be happening exclusively with air power. And ryan, the house will vote tomorrow to possibly arm the Syrian Rebels, 5,000 over the next year, and that is really not so many. What gives with with that . Well, im not i cant be certain. I think that the big issue is that syria looks like every sign of being an unutterable quagmire and looks everyday that it is more of a disaster area that the United States should steer clear of. Any weapons that we give to people there would likely end up in the hands of assad or the local al qaeda affiliate or isis, itself. So, you know, it is just it seems like you could question the strategy supporting the kurds or supporting the Iraqi Government, and that is one thing, but syria, i have not seen any sort of rationalization that makes sense as far as getting the significant u. S. Involvement there. And this is a real concern, maria, because we heard earlier on new day from senator joe manchin who said he is not going to give any money to arm the Syrian Rebels, because frankly, he does not trust them. What must we hear in the hearing today to make americans feel more confident about that . Well, what we need to hear from both general dempsey as well as the secretary of defense chuck hagel is what have we learned in the past two years about the Syrian Rebels that gives us confidence that we now know who they are, and we now know who and how much we can trust them to go in there with training, with arms to make sure that they take the fight to isis. This is very critical, and i agree, it is very difficult, and it has been a quagmire, and we havent known who is with us and who is against us. These are rebels who change sides frankly everyday, but we will see if isis is such an existential threat to them that they have now committed and in what sort of way to focus on defeating isis. I also believe it is critical for the administration to underscore that there is currently right now no intelligence that is telling us that there is an imminent threat to the homeland and you have been critical, carol, in pointing it out, because there are some republican senators who are very irresponsible in the rhetoric in terms of inflaming the anxiety and fear at home with when the intelligence does not match that right now. I have to agree with you, maria, on that point, and i also know that most americans dont want america to go it alone. And the u. S. Government has a regional coalition, but rihan, i want to read this to you, from beirut, secretary of state the john kerry looks less like a maestro of an orchestra, but more like the sheriff assembl g assemblingabling a halfhearted posse of scared locals to chase dangerous bad guys. Well, that is true, and what we need to do is to build up a serious opposition, and we have to do it now or some years from now, and already 170,000 people have died in syria. There is enormous numbers of rerr refugees streaming out of the country. And so it is something that we should have done years ago and we are doing it belatedly and we can hem and haw about it, but we have to do it sooner than later. And we should do it when we dont have the assets when a bigger threat emerges in that region. Simple as that. Okay. Jim, say we do it now, and go full speed ahead, and now in the president s mind, what does a win look like . What does a win look like . Well, at this point, carol, they are saying that their mission is to degrade and destroy isis, and i ask the question specifically yesterday in the white house briefing, whether or not the president has authorized the pentagon to conduct strikes against the isis leaders. Because you cant defeat isis unless you take out the leadership, and the press secretary josh earnest did not give an answer and saying he did not want to get ahead of president ial decisions, but yes, you cannot defeat isis until you take out the leadership. So it is a work in progress and the notion of the halfhearted group of nations and the head of of a posse, is harsh when you match it with the reality. The white house and the secretary of state have been putting together the coalition. Last night the state department put out a long list of what the various countries are going to be doing, and lot of the countries are not going to be conducting air strikes, but some of them will according to the white house and the state department. They are just not at the point to announce this coalition, and exactly what they are going to be doing. They are pointing to the president s appearance at the United NationsGeneral Assembly next week as a critical moment to put together the coalition. Essentially, they will start to get more details of what the coalition is doing then, but carol, no question about it, this is the largest Foreign Policy challenge facing this administration for the remaining two years of president obama in office. They are pace cli sare basicall they may not end this war before his time is up, and left to the next president to ultimately defeat isis. All right. Jim acosta the, and jim sciutto, and rian salam and Maria Kor Doe na, and ryan, thank you so much for joining many this morning. And we will talk about what it will take in the fight of ebola next. How much money do you have in your pocket right now . I have 40, 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . I dont think so. Well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. This morning, president obama is outlining an expanded and military effort to contain the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Up to 3,000 u. S. Troops will be sent to the area to coordinate a command center based in liberia which is ground zero for the outbreak. In the next six months, the United States could spend as much as 750 million in the operation to include the building of 17 new Treatment Centers and each with a 100bed x capacity, and the president is going to tour the centers for Disease Control in atlanta later and give further e details of the plan and remarks later this afternoon. Joining me to tell me more is senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Good morning, elizabeth. Good morning. Carol, there are projection ss d the reason why you are seeing this big effort is that there are projections that if with we continue the way that we aare going that we could have upwards to 200,000 new ebola cases in west africa by the end of the year, because, people have been so brave and working so hard in africa, but what we have been doing is just not working to slow the chain of transmission. Could this military effort be a gamechanger . You know, the folks who i have been talking to the say, look, it is a sea change in terms of the effort that the u. S. Government has been putting in. But they have concerns. With one of them is how quickly can we get it done, because this epidemic is growing exponentially and not linear, but exponential and how quickly can we get it done . Also, they have noticed that the u. S. Government is not sending in doctors and nurses to directly take care of the general population of ebola patients, and that is what the World Health Organization says they need and that is what do Doctors Without Borders says they need, doctor and nurse, and boots on the ground the take care of the general population of ebola patients, and there is a concern that is not what the u. S. Government is doing. And why wouldnt the u. S. Government want to do that . Well, what they are doing is to send people in to train the health care workers, and i dont know why they have chosen not to do this, but an obvious sort of guess would be that they dont want people to get ebola. More than 250 health care wo workers have contracted ebola working in west africa and they dont want it to happen to the u. S. Troops, but the administration has not been clear about why they chose not to go that route. All right. Elizabeth cohen reporting live for us this morning. Thank you. And still to come in the newsroom, note to cbs, dont mess with rihanna, because she is telling the network to foff for dropping her song in the wake of the ray rice controversy. I love her more, andy shoals. She is not holding back, and we will tell you what she said and why after the break. Im type e. I know what my money is doing. I rebalanced my portfolio on my phone. You know what else i can do on my phone . Place trades, get free real time quotes and teleport myself to aruba. 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And andy shoals joins me with more, and with we know that she is a victim of Domestic Violence and she is no victim anymore. That is right. She followed up the tweet with two words, the audacity. And now if you have not been foll following this situation, last week, the bay debut of the thursday night game was supposed to feature her new song, but then they pulled the song because she is the most infamous victim of Domestic Violence. And she should not be a victim because she was involved in a doe m domestic case in the past. Maybe the nfl did not mean it that way, but it came off that way. Well, certainly did. I guess they were in a tough situation either way. And weer were talking about it last thursday that it is going to be run this town and rihanna singing with jay z, and the telecast that night coming in was ray rice, and now rihanna has a point, now they are going to Start Playing it this thursday and in the future, well, im on her side, and she should be outraged. All right. 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