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Victory for isis so far this year. but in syria a key leader of isis is dead and his wife is in custody after a daring raid by special operations forces. u.s. officials say the troops traveled from northern iraq in osprey helicopters. officials tell nbc news that gunfire was exchanged as well as hand to hand fighting. not much is known about abu sayyaf who is considered a top isis money man who hanged isis oil and gas income and he personally was close to the isis leader al baghdadi. u.s. lawmakers are praising the operation, but also warning the u.s. must weigh the risks against the intelligence that was gathered. so joining us from seattle retired four star general barry mccaffrey. first, sir what do you think we ....
Discipline kunlgcourage of connective ability to fight in the case of modest isis forces. so unlike congressman hurd, i lpszed listened to his comments, i think this is a big deal. hard to imagine that the shiite militias will do anything but further intensify the fractured nature of iraq with kurdish shia sunni bitter civil war going on for the last 15 years. general barry mccaffrey, thank you very much. also this abc news anchor george stephanopoulos has issued his third apology in less than a week for failing to disclose $75,000 in did he nations to the clinton foundation. he once again said it was a mistake to make the donations or disclose them while covering the foundation. but several journalists including former colleagues at abc news are questioning stephanopoulos explanation saying he should have known better. i like george. ....
Everybody who has talked to you this morning have all said that we need more boots on the ground. not the 82nd airborne, but we ll have to have more people on the ground. and this is really serious the fall of ramadi. joe next question. senator general mccaffrey was talking about what we ve scratched our heads about on this show over the past couple of years just how bad the iraqi armed forces is. why it is that they can never stand up and fight for themselves. that limits us severely. what do we do? well, the options are much more limited than they were some time ago. the problem is that when we left there was a vacuum. maliki decided to control the armed services. he fired all of his good people and hollowed out the army and then we have this consequence of a collapse. ....