bush to overthrow saddam hussein in iraq. >> i know there are a lot of questions about iraq over the last week. i've made it very clear that i made a mistake, plain and simple. >> reporter: yet it's far from simple. the former secretary of state has elsewhere suggested she was, in effect duped into approving the use of force. >> it was not used as i had expected it to be used and the entire implementation strategy was flawed. >> on my orders coalition forces have begun striking selective targets of military importance. >> reporter: at the time of shock and awe, clinton was new york's democratic senator and now calls it a major test of her own decision-making abilities. >> this is probably the hardest decision i've ever had to make. >> reporter: further clouding the issue is the troop surge president bush ordered in 2007 widely regarded as a successful campaign that left iraq at the dawn of the presidency far more stable than it is today. >> reporter: the question we need to ask hillary clinton now is would you have supported precipitous withdraw from iraq? >> reporter: secretary robe

troops in iraq or change the mission of the u.s. troops in iraq. that raises the question bob, do you see any way we can win this war given the current strategy? >> well it's going to be difficult. i mean first of all, there's kind of a leadership problem on this that in the white house, in many white houses and let's state this is a really hard case there's a tendency to crisis manage and crisis management theory of the case leads you to the things obama said about syria. assad must go or there's a red line. and he said we're going to destroy isis. well that is -- that is the monumental task. i think there also is a difficulty here in how you apply the military -- what's the lesson from world war ii in vietnam, you can't do it just from the air. we have essentially an air only campaign. i think quite likely also obama will have a general dempsey problem who the chairman of the joint chiefs who have said if we need ground forces i'll ask for them. we now have a ground force war going on so what's going to happen -- >> do you see him increasing the

that's the peshmerga in northern iraq sunni tribes in iraq as well. we've killed about 11,000 to 14,000 members of isis over the last few months. >> when you talk about the regional partners talk to me about the complexities of culture, ideological, religious, tribal and political alliances. how does that get in the way? >> it makes it more difficult but we have a kmob enemy in isis. isis is not only a threat to us, to the israelis but turks and egyptians. we can work together. the fight against isis is really about swatting flies but if we're going to change the dynamic, behavewe have to drain the swamp. we can't have isis in control. >> how do you get rid of asaad? >> working with our local partners. there's not a syrian thomas jefferson, and so all the folks that have had some credibility in the regions have been killed by asaad in this fighting. we have to make sure we have good on the ground intelligence that understand these groups and the people trying to lead this country and that we're supporting them. we need to be a lot more aggressive. the

al qaeda in iraq. every time we thought we had landed a debilitating blow to the organization as a whole, removing a iraqi leader who is lost should have derailed them. they bounced back. almost like in your book you could take out the leaders. that didn't get in any way advance the cause. >> think of it, very seductive to think if you take out mr. big they are going to collapse. as i joke with people what if i went as they serve there in the pentagon and took out the top four or five people would it cause the pentagon to collapse? of course i joke with people no it would have gotten better. that's a joke but the reality is, individual leaders are rarely that important. they are an essential step to degrading a unit but they are not degrading it completely. and you have really got to take out the political narrative that they have and the glue that holds them together. >> if i'm correct in reading your book, it almost seems like prior to the surge in 2007 one of the problems that we were having in iraq

of course, be safe there in iraq. thank you nor ranchts thanks to you. >> well, isis delivering a crushing below -- blow to it iraq by taking over are a made. adam kinzinger joins us. nice to see you sir. >> nice to be with you. >> mosul in june of 2014 and now on to ramadi. >> we are in a where's where list everywhere america fought hard to bring freedom to the people. america put a lot of blood and treasure into and ramadi is the same way. billions of dollars. hundreds of lives. it also represents a very important strategic point in the stealing of western iraq. if you look at fly lines from jordan and syria into iraq. ramadi plays a very important role. this is devastating if in fact the whole city falls. >> well, the other need we had we -- night we on the governor of the province where mosul is. he said all they need are weapons from the united states government and he can't get them. they could have pushed isis out. we are doing things from the air. he says they need weapons. now we look at ramadi falling or abo

of mass destruction. >> going into iraq was mismanaged and coming out of iraq was mismanaged. the intelligence was obviously highly faulty and so knowing that now, no i would not have gone in. >> i don't think you can honestly say if we knew then that there was no wmd that the country should have gone to war. >> not only would i have not have been favor in it president bush would not have been in favor of it. >> zwroining me now a fox news contributor and a veteran of the iraq and afghanistan wars. good to see you. so wow. what a firestorm that set off. and just today jeb bush changed his answer. he's been saying all week sort of been evolving on it and tried not to answer it and didn't want to and said it's a disservice to the vets if i do it. he said i would not. i would not have engaged knowing what i know -- knowing what we know now i would not have engage engaged, would not have gone into iraq. >> he should have stuck to his guns and said it was a difficult war. there were mistakes made. no doubt. but why are we bowing to this left wing narrative of inevitable failure? ir

he traveled from iraq. he came here to beg the united states government to arm them because apparently the arms when they go to the iraqi government in baghdad that never made it, never make it out to these areas where these people are fighting for their lives against isis. >> that's exactly right. that's what this sheikh came to my office today and said give us the weapons. we will fight. we don't want to fight under the iranian backed shia militia. we are sunni tribal fighters. we helped you once we can help you again. they said they can get over 5,000 people to go fight. that's where we are right now. i will tell you what, chairman dempsey who presided over the pullout in 2011 he is the highest general that we have is the same general now. so when he says that ramadi is not a big deal, is he either naive or he knows something that we don't know. and i don't think it's the latter. this is the exact same person that pulled us out when we said please don't because this is what is going to happen. and lo and

here's what you had to say. >> what's a mistake to go to war in iraq? >> the war was a better place because saddam hussein doesn't run iraq -- >> will you, if you knew that have been in favor of iraqi invasion? >> not only would i not have been in favor of it but president bush would not have been in favor of it and he said so. >> senator, isn't that a flip? six weeks ago it made sense to invade iraq in 2003 now you say it was a mistake. >> two different questions, it was not a mistake, the president -- this is the way the real world works -- >> she was saying based on information, what we know now. >> based on what we now, i wouldn't have thought manny pacquiao was going to win in the fight -- >> you were asked the same question and said it made sense. >> it was not the same question. the question was whether it was a mistake and i still say it was not a mistake. the president was prentdsented with intelligence that said iraq had weapons of mass destruction and committed bid a man who committed mass atrocities. >> it was not a mistake given what the pr

going into iraq makes no sense, it was not in america's interest. all of this about nation building you go you take care of business and you come home you don't spend your time there, it makes no sense. the iraq thing all the way from releasing the iraqi military it's been bungled from the beginning. good we have so much more we need to discuss. >> we do. we're short tonight, how about i come on for half the show. i'll do hillary and me, how is that? i take these out... ...to put in dr. scholl's active series insoles. they help reduce wear and tear on my legs, becuase they have triple zone protection. ... and reduce shock by 40%. so i feel like i'm ready to take on anything. if you're running a business legalzoom has your back. over the last 10 years we've helped one million business owners get started. visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. legalzoom. legal help is here. making a fist something we do to show resolve. to defend ourselves. to declare victory. so cvs health provides expert support and vital m

when you look at isis, there is iraq and syria. but what you see increasingly is that they are able to co-op senior people. we are seeing this guy. there is a significant presence now in afghanistan. the people here in washington don't like to talk about. very publicly. and then we have reported on your show about libya, which is becoming really kind of a launching pad for isis into europe. >> very disturbing. catherine, thank you. >> you are welcome. >> new reports that the three london school girls who went to syria to join isis just made calls home to london. grn correspondent amy gutman is live in london. amy, who made a call home and a why? >> well, one of the girls made a call home to her parents. she used the phone. two others got in touch with their parents via the internet. the girls got in touch we're told because they simply wanted to tell their families that they were okay, that they were healthy, that they were safe. the bad news delivered is that he are not coming home. they are not planning to return to the u.k. they

in 2003 and then again in iraq. i sustained the major injuries december 3rd, 2003. we were ambushed by 35 enemy insurgents and used my body to protect myself. >> i took a couple of steps and figured what was actually a chinese made land mine that they had hooked up to two five-gallon jugs of homemade explosives. i felt the pain in my leg. >> my story is different from the average marine. ironically i had an eye appointment in august 2001. >> what did the doctor tell you. > you have this condition that's probably going to make you go blind by the time you're 40 or 50. i was deemed nonemployable. >> if you got your eyesight back would you re-enlist? >> there's a lot of stuff i wanted to do in the marine corps but i still love the time i served. a lot of my friends who are veterans they lost their vision in combat in an instant. i'm losing it over the span of ten years. >> i woke up walter reed and asked someone did i lose my leg. yeah, you did. >> took a bullet in the helmet. >> yeah. >> did it have a long-lasting imp

the iraq strategy to keep iraq together in one country is not going to work. the very reason the iraq army keeps collapsing is the country it was designed to defend back in 2009 no longer exists. you have sunni shiite elements which have completely split. they see these people these sunni see the shiite dominating baghdad, the iranians dominating baghdad and they no longer have any reason to fight. they are almost more closely aligned with isis than they are baghdad. all these things plus the refusal to arm the kurds continues to be the very issue why the strategy for whatever it's worth is not working. >> this brings me to our next guest. so happy you could join us here today, because as you know i have been interviewing your leaders over the past several months about the lack of needed equipment and resources that are being sent to the courageous kurdish fighters. i know that you just met with folks at the white house. even though we are hearing that plans are under way to step up supplies it's amazing to me those soldiers still are pleading for basic arms.

this has to be realistic, iraq he said is gone. we may be able to do some things with the kurds, iraq as we knew it is gone. we can't throw good money after bad, but we can stop isis from becoming that massive regional power, without empowering iran to come in with 3,000 iranian militia members in the last couple weeks rushing in to try to beat them in ramadi we can't empower iran that would be a cataclysmic problem and we've already gone a long way to doing that. they have to be stopped. >> iran is in iraq and they ain't getting out. and that's -- >> then what do we do? >> what a mess what a mess. laura ingram everybody. factor tip of the day, a new show that may bring back your childhood. the tip moments away. new york state is reinventing how we do business by leading the way on tax cuts. we cut the rates on personal income taxes. we enacted the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968. we eliminated the income tax on manufacturers altogether. with startup-ny, qualified businesses that start, expand or relocate to new york state pay

they are iraq. they are very very active in not a helpful way, not as a positive international actor. the nuclear part is a piece of it. there is a lot more they should be held accountable for. >> general, great to have you on the program. thank you. general richard myers joining us. >>> from the mideast to asia she is a major player in one of the world's most powerful economies. one of china's most successful real estate moguls, sje jeng as we look ahead. kaboom... well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, "what else can you do for me?" i'll just take a water... get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. female announcer: through memorial day at sleep train, get up to four years interest-free financing or save up to $400 on simmons beautyrest and sealy posturepedic. even get four years interest-free financing on serta icom

into iraq. and certainly if i were president, i wouldn't have authorized it. >> governor jeb bush told me nation building is a good sentiment and so is exporting our values. do you agree with that? >> i don't think nation building is a good sentiment, no i don't. and exporting our values depends on how you do that. i think we need to lead by example. we need to get the house in order here at home so folks want to emulate us again. who would want to emulate this dysfunctional mess in washington, d.c. who would want to say i see the way they're governing, let's do that. >> let's talk about national security and nsa and the patriot act. you spent a lot of time on that and you said today that civil liberties extremists believe if we weaken our capabilities that the rest of the world would love us more. the polling is la little outdated on that. but the latest polls show that the majority of americans disapprove of the government's collection of phone data on us. are you with the majority or not? >>

it's battle tested in iraq and afghanistan. na recents have been phasing in the aircraft for ten years while phasing out the choppers on which they'd long relied to deliver troops and supplies. >> bricks -- brings a tear to my eye. i loved it. it was handa work horse. >> the frog first enter cam bad during the vietnam war and remained in action for half a century until the final operational squadron switched over to the osprey last month. troops said it took awhile to get the hang of things. >> you have to troubleshoots more, a lot more working on the aircraft doing to advanced components. >> we boarded one headed to a school demonstration. marines need to be able to get in and out of tight places quickly. in the past they used the 46 which limited how far and fast you go. the osprey changes everything and can go twice as fast and five times as far. marines say that makes them less vulnerable to enemy attacks heading into battle. >> it's very quick. we're in and out rather than a ch-46, we come in low and slow. >> but for pilot

frankly the rhetoric between iraq and getting them done is significant. they have mosul, getting them out of these cities is going to be tough general jack keen the general for the institute -- the pentagon was out there saying isis was on the defensive, and downplaying fears about losing ramadi. >> the facts are what they are. you know isis is a very determined resourceful and ambitious enemy. we have to look at them for who they are and admit that and not underestimate it number one. they're expanding in syria, in eastern and western syria, they're able to attack any place, at any time they choose inside iraq and they're expanding into libya, yemen, the sinai and afghanistan they're having a regional approach while they're defending somewhat successfully against the united states and the coalition inside of a iraq and syria, that leather is a plus for them and certainly a minus for us. >> when i listen to you say that expanding into egyptian sinai, libya, afghanistan pakistan. i recall president obama's remarks not long ago saying the following about is

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we were the dominant influence in iraq. and we gave up an unchallenged unparalleled intelligence network that we had in anbar. and precisely what we had, and what we threw away. i wrote a column that's actually in the book it's called who lost iraq. which i wrote in december of 2011. and it ends by saying the future generations will ask not just -- they're not going to ask who lost iraq they're going to ask why. >> charles, every republican is being asked the question you know what you would have done and now that -- knowing what we know now, in 2003 how would you have voted, et cetera. isn't it a question for the democrats, knowing what you know now about ramadi and mosul, and fallujah and earlier tikrit would you have pulled out? when is that question going to be asked? >> i wouldn't even ask it as a hypothetical. this is not -- you know this is not obscure knowledge that we couldn't have known. i, and many others are arguing in december of 2011 that it was very clear that if we pulled out, the bad guys from the region wo

this is a major loss for iraq and also for the united states. >> how so? >> >> ramadi is the capital of anbar province. and the retaking of ramadi demonstrated to those sunnis that we could prevail anywhere in iraq in the toughest place. the symbolism is important because the psychological momentum has a lot to do with the ability of the iraqis to take the battle against isis. the loss of ramadi is going to have a psychological blow. >> what about the impact on the islamic state the recruitment they can do abroad? this shows they are gaining ground not being destroyed. that gives them a sense of momentum around the world. probably will help them recruit not only fighters to come to syria and iraq but also lone wolffs here in europe or the united states. >> the islamic state is clearly winning in iraq. and that is what the president doesn't want to say. and recall too iraq was going to be one of the greatest cheesmts of this administration. i think the disorder you see in the mideast today whether iraq or yemen or syria shows what happens when the white hou

i was just over in iraq. the prime minister of iraq asked the white house for more military he distance. he was not given that. he was given humanitarian he distance. now he has to rely on the shiia militia because the iraqi army is so incompetent. he has to rely on a proxy of iran shiia militia to come in and fight isis. this will only inflame and make the sunni-shiia divisions deeper. martha: what's the option? i read through three or four different military advice columns. most say unless we put boots on the ground and we do stepped up training and we are with them every step of the way are you in favor of that and is there support for that in congress? >> we shouldn't have pulled out precipitously in the first place, but having said that. having more special operations on the ground and not taking the options on the table. his authorization -- his council said he's asking for less authority than what he currently has. martha: they are saying if congress doesn't sign that authorization of military force we

the means of rendering the future of iraq to al qaeda. it would mean we would be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. it would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in iraq to replace the one they lost in afghanistan. it would mean increasing the probability that american troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous. >> all of that has now come true your son lost his life there, what do you want to say to the president that made this decision? do they regret pulling out too early? apparently not, based on what josh ernest said. >> that's one of the things i talked about, and was very vocal about, when they pulled everything out, we needed to leave troops there to stabilize that area they weren't ready yet to take that over by themselves and just like president bush that's what we're going to see, that's what's going to be happening, mark wrote an amazing last letter home. he said it will take longer than most think, but we will get iraq to stand on its own feet. i s

and iraq alone not to us. the reason we need to confront isis isn't to stand up to government in baghdad. we need to confront isis because it is attracting 22 25,000 foreign fighters including americans and these people are going to come back to western countries and this terror is going to spread. >> if you're the president of the united states and you do what president obama did in september. you say our goal our strategy is to destroy and degrade isis and then within a year you haven't done and it made any progress there. in fact they have advanced then you have demonstrated american weakness and you enhance the attractiveness of isis. >> that's exactly right and now we're seeing you know we're seeing a number of lengthy magazine stories. one in the new yorker quite recently about what is attracting these young people all over the world to isis. it's success. they are the strong horse as bin laden said many years ago, in this race in the middle east. it makes matters worse that the administration keeps argu

then there is a report in politico today that says iraq and money coming out of iraq is bankrolling isil. the fault lines are so screwy on this one. >> right. then there is that disconnect. you talked about the words coming from the iraqi prime minister. even went further to say they're just plain overwhelmed bitten my's weapons. you look, isis launching 27 of these vehicle improvised explosive devices. i was looking at comments from the fellow at the defense of democracy think tank. he says these device are showing good degree of tactical awareness. the disconnect from washington and what is actually happening on the ground there is to me most concerning. now u.s. officials saying it appears that the iraqi forces are much more organized and determined than we have seen in recent weeks and months. is that the case? there is certainly a disconnect from what we're hearing from washington and what is actually happening on the ground. >> you bring up those weapons. many of those weapons are supplied by the united states you the taxpayer paying for many of these weapons. you have one of leade

. >> my own feeling on it is he was ready to make news on iraq he hasn't said that much on iraq. thus far, he was ready to finally say how he feels about it that mistakes were made and take a position and he heard iraq and this is a candidate's cue to say what you're going to say, and he sort of didn't hear or rejected that question and it got him in some trouble. >> he had a talking point ready, he knew and had to have known for the longest time when he sat down for an interview, a searching interview like the one you did, there were going to be questions about iraq and he had this answer ready. and, you know the answer was obviously carefully thought through, it ended up dove tailing with what he said his brother now thinks. he was able to answer a question on iraq admit there were mistakes say his brother agrees with him, and tie the whole thing up in a nice little bundle. he didn't get the question he needed for that answer. and the result is what you saw. you have to add this i think people have been unfair in their criticism, but once that happened he or someone close to hi

he was an iraq war veteran. even though he was in politics, he joined the national guard and was awarded the bronze star. so this is someone who served his country in numerous ways, and that are's all kinds of political battles going on right now. a lot of talk about the presidential race, and a lot of people have wondered why joe biden hasn't made his intentions clear. this is really part of the reason, he was dealing with this privately, and i think presidential politics was the furthest thing from his mind right now and a lot of heavy hearts all around the country. >> and we had all heard a couple months ago that beau was hospitalized with a quote, undiscrundi undisclosed illness. there was very little said. apparent lay it was kept under wraps. it is so sad, and this happened today. do we know exactly when this happened? >> caller: just, it sounded like it just happened in the last hours. remember, he had had a stroke a few years ago, and as i said, he was very young. and people thought that came out of the

it's the largest province in all iraq. back in 2004 to 2008, our war stories team spent many many months there with u.s. forces and the iraqis which by the way, at the time was a multi-sectarian organization. today it's not. today the iraqi military is almost totally shiite. this city ramadi is the heart of the sunni population. it is the gateway to the euphrates valley from baghdad all the way to the syrian border. if you don't control ramadi you can't control what's going on in the largest province in the country. the population there was once about 550,000. now it's down to 250,000. iraqi army is shiite not up to the task of retaking ramadi from isis. with the iranian led shiite militias. it will produce a bloodbath of biblical proportions. >> this is really very troubling news indeed because we are getting reports that they are actually going out and slaughtering people as we speak. >> yes indeed. obviously isis in accordance with something else we will talk about in a moment al baghdadi's most recent proclamation they

knowing what we know now would you have invaded iraq? it started with megyn kelly's interview of jeb bush. it is a rough week for the former florida governor. elizabeth prann with the details of washington. >> reporter: after a misstep in an interview about the iraq invasion republican presidential candidates both official and not are being pressed on the skigs of taking the country to war in hindsight. that includes florida senator marco rubio. he sat down with chris wallace. >> the question is if it's a mistake. i still say it was not a mistake because the president was presented with intelligence that said iraq had weapons of mass destruction. it was governed by a man who committed atrocities in the past. >> reporter: critics say he said it made sense to invade in 2003. there you him saying that was a respongs to invade without today's knowledge. different question. wi we governor walker also took on the hindsight question. >> i think it's pretty any president have the information they have probably made the same decision george bush

of course, in iraq, they want to blame us. we'll move on. thank you. >>> let's bring in joshy capps now, former cia covert operations officer. good to have you along. >> good to be with you. >> how would you describe what we're doing in the fight against the islamic stays terror army. >> first we need to congratulate secretary carter for his words because the iraqis have shown no will. they've shown no resolve. and as you have mentioned just a little bit previously, they've taken no responsibility for their utter failure here. so this campaign is ending up to be a yard. the fight against isis, both in iraq and syria is not going well and it's not going to go well. >> as a leader and trainer of an elite fighting force yourself, you know strategy. if what we're doing right now the fight from the air some special operations here and there, depending on local troops on the ground, is not working. what happens next? >> well, you know, what i would say, what the administration is doing, are two different things. what i would say to them and inmore

here is what you had to say. >> was it a mistake to go to war in iraq? >> no, the world is a better place because saddam does not run iraq. >> would you if you knew there were no weapons of mass destruction, been in favor of thive iraqi vacation? >> not only i would not but president bush would not be in favor of it and he said so. >> isn't that a flip? six weeks ago it made sense to invade iraq in 23 free and now you say it is a mistake. >> it was not a mistake. two different questions. the president we, based on the information that was provided --. >> she said based on the information, on what we know now. >> based on what we know now, i would not have thought manny pacquiao would win. the president said iraq had weapons of mass destruction and it was governor everyoned by a man who committed atrocities in the past. >> but the question, she asked was it a mistake to go to war with iraq? >> not that the president --. >> she just said, was it the mistake. >> i was asked what you know now. >> everyone agrees. >> was it a mistake to go to war with iraq? i

i would not have gone in iraq. >> it took a week. will critics stay qui et. >> good question, clayton. >> thank you. >>> now, this news we did not want to hear. breaking overnight, the king of blues gone. >>> bb king, dead at 89. this morning, we are remembering the music legend and so much more, because mornings are better with friends. >>> good morning, everybody. as you see, clayton is in for steve doocy and happy to be here according to reports. >> and the people in the hallway that i told them. >> and just on time with your smart watch that i have been envying. >> that's actually what i got for my dirth dbirthday. i didn't get the actual watch. i got an add. >> like an iou. >> you got a cardboard version of it? so sweet. >> i will watch you to learn how to work it. >> we have a lot to discussion. >> we sure do. first, we are going to turn to heather. she has an laeert on the missin marine helicopter. >>> breaking news coming in overnight. the wreckage of that u.s. military cop ter that had vanished in nepal while giving aid to e

to die over in iraq. your thoughts? >> i'm sad to see that sound bite of president obama saying we can report now that the war is over and things are great and four years later, as you point out, we see more americans dying. the war may be over because they declared it over but the conflict isn't and certainly we haven't put isis down yet. they are still killing americans and still want to kill americans. think back to earlier, i guess last week when president obama said the biggest threat to obama is climate change. fixing the problem and finishing them off, people have different opinions about how that should happen. i, for one, think that we should bomb them but others think there are other ways. >> it's a big difference because he thinks that climate change made boko haram sick in the head. but okay. dana? >> well i think what has happened in the last week or so is that the white house has started to now send signals that they realize that the strootategy is not working and they are thinking about things including e

they just took another town in iraq. local fighters used up all their ammunition and ran for their lives. we are learning of more horrors inside syria as terrorists tighten their grip on that country. their biggest advantage has been recruiting killers along the way. the general says contrary to president obama, the u.s. is losing. he says there's only one way to stop foreign fighters from joining isis. our fox news journalists are making their way through the 296 or so e-mails from the former secretary of state hillary clinton's secret server. i'll ask if there are so many problems or issues for clinton in this batch, if that exists why didn't she delete all the e-mails? that at the top of the hour. >> thank you so much. >>> the senate could vote any time now between today and tomorrow holiday weekend, over whether to extend or replace the patriot act. this as an fbi report says the bulk collection of data did not lead to one single case cracked. covert ops? double agents? spy thriller? you don't know "aarp" thanks to t

military detention in iraq. according to the national security council, quote the president authorized this operation upon the unanimous recommendation of his national security team and as soon as we had developed sufficient intelligence and were confident the mission could be carried out successfully and consistent with the requirements for undertaking such operations. this operation was conducted with the full consent of iraqi authorities and like our exiting air strikes against isil in syria, consistent with domestic and international law. one former national security adviser to former vice president dick cheney says there may be additional intel that the u.s. can obtain from this raid. >> the question is when do they get -- are there things on himself computers, on his phones that begin to let you really unravel the leadership network and begin to go after these guys? and let's face it this is a statement as well. the u.s. for the first time going in on the ground killing a high-value leader. >> during the r

she is currently in custody in iraq. >> american forces in iraq. she is not going to guantanamo bay but interrogated by american forces. presumably iraqi forces as well. depends how much she cooperates but she would be able to identify other key leaders. one of the things that isis has been so mysterious to to us. their leader al baghdadi we've only seen a couple of times. we know he's active charismatic but we don't know a lot about where he is or how e operates. he also don't know about the hierarchy. the key leaders, where are they? how are day moving around? she presumably would have information. >> we just need to give huge props to the u.s. special ops that went in there because this was so dangerous and none of them were killed with a battle with isis militants, 12 of whom were actually killed. and what does this say about our pre planned attacks on isis and syria? and does i mean we're making significant gains? >> good point because on the ground we are not making gains. key cities have fallen to isis. they remain in isis hands. ramadi is i

or something else. >> the debate over the iraq war is back. florida's former governor was asked if he would authorize the iraq invasion knowing what we know now. >> i would have and so would hillary clinton and so would have almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got. >> bush later said he misheard the question. after several attempts at clarifying his position finally told the town hall audience on thursday that in hindsight, he would not have gone into iraq. as expected the left piled on after his initial response and so did some of his fellow gop hopefuls with rand paul marco rubio, senator ted cruz, chris christie and carly fiorino all saying they would not have authorized the invasion. >> explain something to me. how is that hillary clinton is the only candidate who actually voted for the war, but republicans are consumed with this debate over what they would have done? >> within reason they're consumed with it is apparently, what this proves to us it looks like jeb bush sin deed the front-runner. because only if

maybe that's the way to win back iraq. >> maybe. i go back to what cause this had prb from the beginning. and we talked about this so many times. why did we telegraph our exit? why did we give the -- why did we give our exit date? it's like telling everybody on facebook you're going on vacation and telling all these high school kids where the key is. it's under the mat. that's exactly what happened with isis. we said we were going. and then they knew that they had been basically abandoned. this is actually -- when you see what's coming out of these countries, it's worth the fight. this is worth the fight. if you thought it was worth fighting the nazis, how is this any less? you want to talk about numbers? but give them time. give them time. >> how do you win this fight? >> you get the guys in there, know what they're doing, who know what they're doing. >> i know you can say -- we don't want to risk our troops. >> i'm saying that iraq from the beginning, was a manufactured country that has a ton of sectarian problem that is predated

won't be responsible for the security situation in iraq. let's bring in retired four-star general wesley clark, the former supreme allied commander of nato. great to have you here on the program. >> thank you. >> the president saying we are not responsible for iraq's security. and believes that a 60-country coalition will be in his words slowly pushed back isil out of iraq. but isn't that the problem when you talk about doing this slowly since we are witnessing the terrorists bring down key cities like ramadi and mosul and slaughtering thousands as we speak, isn't the 60-nation coalition simply a symbol and one that is not really doing much to wipe out isis because in fact if they were all engaged, isis wouldn't nearly be as successful as it is right now. >> well there's no question that time is moving very quickly against the united states in this mission. but americans have to understand that this is a struggle for regional dominance between iran and shia islam on one hand and turkey saudi arabia and sunni islam on the other. isil is a to

chaos in iraq. a counter offensive against isis in anbar province. this new operation, the pentagon says has barely begun. this comes amid ongoing complaints of the role of the u.s. in the fighting. president obama met today with the secretary general of nato. we begin with national correspondent jenna griffin at the pentagon with what's happening on the ground. hi jenna. >> good evening, brett. no sooner had they announced that the fighting had begun than the pentagon pushed back and said all they've seen are shaping operations, artillery and rocketing, but not a full-scale ground assault. >> days after the fall of ramadi popular mobilization committees to retake the capital of anbar province from isis. ash carter's unexpected and blunt assessment of the iraqi military and why ramadi fell. >> vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight. they withdrew from the site. and that says to me and i think to most of us that we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight isil and defend themselves. >> the state department tried t

sunni tribes in iraq. i think this is a prescription for disaster. it will not reconcile the country together both sunni and shia. and it's really playing it out in ramadi as we speak. in no way shape or form can we say we're winning in iraq. >> what did you learn on your trip to the middle east? tell us who you met with and what the feeling is on the ground in the middle east from our allies based on what they see so far in terms of our performance in this fight. >> well i think political division within iraq the prime minister's a shia the speaker of the house is a sunni. the sunnis don't want the shia militias coming in from iran to fight isis. but the problem is the iraqi national army are not equipped to do it. at the same time you have this summit of arab leaders. only two of the six showed up because they too, are not supportive of the administration's negotiations with iran. it was a bit of a protest, a failure of leadership and quite frankly a political embarrassment. finally, we met with prime mi

what is iraq? at this point it's a remnant of a fictitious country. the old axiom is you fight for the person on either side of you. so we're asking are they well trained and is there a sense of unit cohesion at that level that results from very serious and competent training? and i've got my doubts. >> and there are calls again for us to get more directly involved beyond the training and the advisers that we sent into the country. here's what senator john mccain said about it this weekend. >> we need to have a robust strategy we need more troops on the ground we need air controllers. 75% of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon. it's because we don't have somebody on the ground who can identify a static moving target. >> juan what about that? pummeling with air strikes is not going to solve the problem but does solving the problem include more americans on the ground there? >> well what senator mccain is talking about would be in addition to the 3,000-plus americans who are now in iraq but they are not being used as forwa

isis infiltrated into iraq and a full fledged ground war began. once again, president obama did little. finally, the conflict threatened kurdistan, a strong american ally in the northern part of iraq. that situation forced mr. obama to step up bombing the isis savages who were also taunting the u.s.a. and the world by beheading captured westerners on camera the. but despite all the carnage president obama and the pentagon did not develop any cohesive plan to defeat isis. >> why is there no coordinated strategy to defeat the jihad after all this time? teddy roosevelt's basic philosophy was speak softly and carry a big stick. with the obama administration, we basically have speak incessantly and carry nothing. the american people deserve to know the truth about president obama campaign to defeat i didn't harassment the truth is there is no campaign. >> and to this day there is no campaign. today, tens of thousands of refugees in iraq are creating chaos as they march toward baghdad. isis has captured the city of ramadi, just 70 miles away from the ir

iraq's reinforcements are being sent to help. u.s. secretary of defense ash carter said iraqi troops lost the will to fight and simply dropped their weapons and fled instead. so they can regain the upper hand in isis and ramadi are low. inside city insurgents are reportedly executing local tribal leaders killing anyone accused of having links to the government. tens and thousands of civilians are fleeing the city but many are trapped between isis fighters and iraqi troops. iraqi officials today criticize secretary carter's comments that troops do not have the will to fight isis. and, instead, demanded the pentagon provide new equipment to help them in the battle against isis. >> we will go in-depth with the fox political insiders a little later inside "the fox report." for now, peace on the streets in cleveland right now. things got ugly yesterday after a police officer was acquitted in the shooting deaths of two unarmed black suspects. police arrested 71 people last night when demonstrations took a violent turn but nothing like we re

group captured you are in territory in iraq and syria. heather: heavy rains sparking devastating floods in the plains. but i think he's kinda nailing it. (music) hotels.com. they don't need me right now. rainfall >> government forces in iraq gearing up to launch attacks against isis after the group takes key towns including ramadi. isis gaining control of the border crossing between iraq and syria. i am heather childers in for martha maccallum. >> and i am greg jarred in for bill hemmer. defense secretary ash carter raising questions about the obama administration strategy to defeat isis saying the iraqis shows no will to fight. those were his words. and new video showing the aftermath of an attack by syria's military targeting a town recently captured by isis. >> jennifer griffin joins us. why is the defense secretary's admission significant? >> reporter: well it is significant because it means the current strategy to defeat isis that consist of no boots on the ground and partnering with locals will not work. it is a huge admission this

paul bremer, former envoy to iraq will be live to address that today. martha: the tower that rose from the ashes of ground zero is now opening its observation deck to the public for the first time. we will take you to the stunning top of one world trade. ♪ (music) i'm supposed to tell you how it feels when you book the perfect family vacation on hotels.com. but i think he's kinda nailing it. (music) hotels.com. they don't need me right now. martha: new reaction pouring in from lawmakers, members of the military and former obama administration officials as the pentagon says, it is fine-tuning but sticking to the strategy against isis, whatever that may be. the white house saying in very plain terms, that iraq's battle against isis is really their fight first. >> our strategy is to support the iraqi security forces in doing what we will not do for them. the united states is prepared to train them, to equip them, and to back them on the battlefield with coalition military air power as they take the fight to isil in their own country. the united states is

in 2007 when the going get tough, hillary clinton, she wanted out of iraq and moreover nothing to do with the surge. watch this. >> i do not think that the strategy has a very high level of success at all attached to it in this . in fact i think it's a holding pattern. i support a cap on american troops and support the beginning of a fazed deployment out of the baghdad and out of iraq completely eventually. >> finger in the air. which way is the wind blowing? the surge worked. in 2011 while she was secretary of state, clinton fully supported president obama's total withdrawal from iraq leaving no residual force by the way and opened the door for isis. listen to this. >> recent success in iraq without residual force, is there not a legitimate prospect of civil war which many people fear? >> well honestly i think that they should have raised those issues when president bush agreed to the agreement to withdraw troops by the end of this year. now, are the iraqis all going to get along with each other for the foreseeable future? let's find out. >> here now with reaction is contributor joe

involvement against the rampaging isis army in iraq. green lighting the quick delivery of a shipment of shoulder-fired rockets. this comes just days after the terrorists overran the strategic city of ramadi in the country's largest sunni province. we look at the president's policy tonight from the white house. >> on a day when president obama welcomed tunisia's president and designated his country a major nonnato ally the white house made good on a promise following the rout at ramadi. the president authorized sending 2,000 anti-tank rockets to help combat the massive suicide vehicle bomb that isis used in capturing the anbar provincial capital. blasts so powerful some were described as being on par with the oklahoma city bombing. white house officials say the rocket shipment is not a new strategy but consistent with its 36-month goal to degrade the enemy. defeat will take longer. in an interview with the atlantic the president said despite recent headlines things are not dire in iraq. saying "no, i don't think we're losing. and i just