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Ground to assess the iraqi forces which have so far been essentially ineffective against the aggressive and fast moving insurgency. right now sunni extremists are fighting north of baghdad. fears growing now that the capital will be the next city to fall. let s go straight to barbara starr who has more for us from the pentagon. good morning, barbara. reporter: good morning, michaela. a total now of 130 u.s. advisers on the ground in iraq and about 50 more headed in in the coming days. their main job, to assess, we are told, assess the state of iraqi forces, assess the state of the militant fighters, but here s the assessment. according to the u.s. intelligence community now, there are about 10,000 isis fighters spread out between syria and iraq, about 7,000 in syria, about 3,000 in iraq and about 5,000 or so foreign fighters mixed in to all of that. that border having essentially now been erased. isis moving towards baghdad, and that s the major u.s. concern at this point. ....
This is the center that wants the government to make investments in the future. this is a center that wants to see investments in clean energy, and in early childhood education. but when they look at the politics, they see a system that doesn t seem to share their values and practicing ma temple or sense of urgency. robert, that is what s interesting here. they have lost trust in the policy tection, but they want government to work. robert, working for republicans, half of whom they don t necessarily make the case that they want government to work, and that, i think, has got to be the challenge for conservatives and republicans in general. i think what you ve got here, you look at the central specifically. extraordinarily negative about anybody. you look at the poll we did a couple weeks ago, with just 14% of the country that thinks the country is moves, it s negative across the board. when you have other issues in the republican party, and you have this kind of, you know, civil ....