how endangered is bagdad right now? >> i don't think bagdad is militarily threatened.too complex. it is the capital. i agree with general marks. the iraqi will sustain it. mosul, i served a year in mosul. i know how large it is. that's a bridge too far right now for the iraqi security forces. i agree with admiral fallon. anbar is the place right now to demonstrate to the iraqi security forces, to the regional partners that this is not an invincible foe and they can and must be stopped. >> general clark, you served in vietnam. >> i did. >> do you remember when saigon was too big to fall. >> i do. >> what happened. >> it fell. the french said, if they'd make a stand that the vietnam men would go away in 1954. it's a good thing to get a win. we had some wins. we had a win in tikrit and urible. we have to fight against the idea. we have to bring the sunni tribes in and get the iraqi back on the battlefield. i hope we can do it without u.s. ground troops there. >> do you have confidence in the iraqi troops? >> yes. they're two-thirds shia. bagdad has a huge shia population.

has to go through bagdad everything we're doing has to go through bagdad and ignore the concerns of the sunni who were alienated by bagdad it's a wholly owned subsidiary of tehran. we need to set it aside and figure out how to move forward with the pieces we have rather than the pieces we want to quote, make a -- we have to figure out a way to go forward. we have pieces which are winning, the kurds. we were in with senator john mccain ten days ago meeting with he and the kurds on this. the kurds are winning. what better to throw one of people who have the ability and will to win and figure out a way to set aside what we want to do with bagdad. bagdad will not be helpful here. >> right now, colonel, we did the math on it. there has been 4700 air strikes since we started ten months ago. that comes to 15 per day. i don't know about you, but i remember when desert storm started. we were talking thousands per day. >> that's right. and i think that's the key here to follow on to what i think ralph peters said earlier. you have to be completely committed to winning. that means upwards of 1

these images come from the video called the route to bagdad is by conquest not displacement claiming isis will quote, liberate the capital. a counter terrorism source tells fox news the video is significant, showing isis remains stead fast in the face of efforts to beef up the u.s. led coalition against it. another post claims the tribal leaders in mosul taken by isis a year ago pledged their allegiance to the terror group. a short time ago before the briefing room was evacuated, the white house spokesman addressed the president's statement he is waiting for a long-term strategy from the pentagon. >> this is an example of the president saying well let's make sure that we're taking the lessons learned. we know that troops in the iraqi security forces that have the support of the coalition perform well on the battlefield. let's try to ramp up the numbers and capacity of those individuals in anbar province. >> separately we are also told there is evidence dozens of christians from the tiny african nation of eritrea, mostly migrant workers were kidnapped last week. also today u.n. envoy

. ♪ >>> hello, the world's chemical weapons watch bagdads says it has destroyed almost all of syriasmical weapons arsenal. but a syrian doctor has testified that president bashar al-assad forces are increasing chemical attacks. >> translator: in the past three months we have experienced a new type of terror in the form of barrel bombs that continue chemical weapons. since march 16th of this year we have documented 31 attacks using poisonous attacks. i remember on march 16th i heard helicopters over my house. as soon as i left the house, i could smell chlorine bleach in the air. as soon as i arrived there were many victims that had beat me there. dozens of people experienced difficulty breathing, and their eyes and throats were burning, they were also secreting saliva and foam from their mouth. >> kimberly what are the doctors calling for from the members of congress? >> reporter: the doctors are calling for some direct military intervention by the united states that would lead to political negotiations to ensure a no-fly zone to allow for civilians to know there is a pocket of air wh

now they're marching to bagdad. today he said he has not ruled out additional steps against the islamic state. that he's open to considering refinements to the strategy. what strategy? january 2014 the president said if a team puts on lakers uniforms it doesn't make them kobe bryant. august 2014 the president said i'm confident that as commander in chief i have the authorities to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently as our strategy develops we will continue to consult with congress. monday he said this. we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqi as well. so what's the real story here? whether it's blaming the pentagon or the iraqi people the leader of the free world needs to tell the american people what his strategy really is and soon. why bother saying you intend to degrade and destroy isis if you're not really ever going to do it? you can get my takes on my facebook page every day and at fox news.com. >>> we're still awaiting the news conference f

i'm safer in bagdad. she later tweeted she was drif venn to safety on the back of a motorcycle. we will kwont to monitor that. back at home the controversy over bottled water companies bottling up our water. the international bottled water association is defending itself this morning. it says bottled water companies use less than .002% of california's water. it points out it's used for drinkings. california don't drink most of our water. we use it on our lawns and industry. >>> to the drink we really care about, beer. a federal judge approved a settlement earlier in week in a class action lawsuit that could result in you getting money back if you kept your beer receipt, i suppose. it turns out the beer you thought was imported really wasn't wasn't. beck's which originates in germany is actually brewed in st. louis. foster's australia's most famous beer is actually made in texas. they also said made in the u.s. somewhere on the can, but this marketing, especially right there, leads you to believe otherwise. >> it tastes good and if that's what you like that's what you like. >> un

the alternative is switch strategies and instead of doing things through bagdad you would essentially say that iraq is essentially behind us. it did not work. woo now we have to work larger and more directly with the kurds and sunnis of western iraq and syria. either you do different things with your existing strategy or choose a different strategy. i think the time has come for the latter. >> what about that. richard's predecessor wrote a piece in 2004 saying iraq is not a country we should be treating these three communities as three separate groups and be dealing with them independently. >> i think that's what's happening right now. i think the kurds have proven to be dependable allies for us and proven to be effective fighters against isis. they've scored some gains recently in turkey. and i think the emergence of kurdistan as an entity is likely to continue. i think that would ultimately be a good thing. i hope we'd support it. we've been too much on the fence on it. the iranians have seized a big chunk of iraq. i don't think we'll get it back from them. the question is what happ

that sits in bagdad. >> phillip mudd. thanks very much. that's it. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer. "cnn tonight" with don lemon starts right now. >>> breaking their silence. can the parents of "19 kids and counting" save their family's tarnished reputation. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. jim bob and michelle duggar are red state heroes. in the wake of their son's molestation scandal is the right losing faith in the family? >>> they're not the only one necessary hot water from the real house wives to honey boo boo to duck dynasty. reality tv is getting a little too real. could today's stars learn a lesson or two from the fallen idols of the 1970s? >>> newly minted superstar caitlyn jenner. no surprise she has a reality show in the works too. will it answer all the questions? we'll begin the broadcast with jim bob and michelle duggar speaking out about their son josh and his molestation scandal. joining me now. brian seltzer, cnn's senior media correspondent and perez hilton founder of perez hilton.com. great to see both of you. megyn kelly has a sit-down int

. >> purged by the shia government in bagdad. >> by the shia government.e that are loyal to fighting this fight and not loyal to a very specific individual in the government. i think that you know it does come down to do they want to do this? >> what do you think? >> i think it depends. do shia fighters want to fight in the sunni part of iraq? i don't know. >> so what we need is we need a totally integrated army of sunni and kurdish fighters that are there for iraq and willing to fight for iraq. that's what we need to do. once that's done we can train them and we can help them. but until they're able to put together an army that represents everybody, i think it's going to be a struggle. the reason we're opening this new site is because we're trying to reach out to sunni fighters and have them come in and join. >> how do we get them to join? >> i think they have to believe that the government is going to be there for them. so then they understand what they're fighting for. that's why i go back to help -- we meade the government to really start to reform its