douglas macarthur had some ideas didn't like fdr that much and had some problems with authority. they decided they needed to send somebody down to talk to macarthur and tell them to cool it. he was in new guinea. the only person they could think of who could stand up to macarthur was a fellow medal of honor winner, eddie rickenbacker. instructions.al nothing was written down. he flew on a b-17 from pearl harbor down to new guinea. inwas with seven other guys in uniform who were going to take him down. they missed their refueling stop which was canton island, at very small point of land. they put down in the middle of the central pacific, not too far from where amelia ehrhardt was lost. the only food they had was the pilot was savvy enough to put four oranges in his flight suit. they landed and these eight guys ended up on three rafts. no food, no water. they had not been able to figure out the radio to tell anybody where they are. they were 2000 miles in any direction from land. no food, no water. off of the guys had taken their pants and shoes and socks because they thought they

this, if we get the value from the $50 billion we spend on our intelligence service but general douglas macarthur said every military disaster can be explained by two words, too late. it certainly is too late to think we're going to condition aid on vast political reforms in iraq, which are going to mollify these factions that have been been at each other's throats for centuries. when they got the mosul, the isis people, they didn't just empty the jails and the banks, they emptied the arsenals p humvees, thousands of tons of ammunition that will now be fired at the government of iraq. just to get a sense of the humanitarian disaster that's engulfing the region, there are more syrian children of school age in lebanon than there are lebanese children of school age, as the syrian population scatters to neighboring countries. >> congresswoman harman as we discussed with mike rogers, this is our worst nightmare. we're not talking about a terrorist group, organization. we're talking about a terrorist army and possible state. how big a threat is isis? how much does it go to the middle east and potential