. >> lieutenant general john hesterman says it is too feeble. >> make no mistake our coalition team is having a profound effect on the be enemy in the history of theism peerl warfare. >> former naval aviator senator is johnjohn mccain. >> we don't have somebody on the ground to identify a static moving target. >> the air force says it is right, for a dynamic target, waiting for a target to appear. limiting the number of air strikes that can be taken against i.s.i.l the difficulty of telling enemy fighters apart from civilians in urban areas. >> 02, 057. >> both could be addressed with u.s. eyes on the ground as former commander general david petraeus told an interviewer recently. >> should there be teams of joint tactical controllers on the grounders -- >> should there be? >> i think there probably should be. there is risk of not winning this fight. >> that risk of more american casualties has stopped martin dempsey from assisting in a ground combat role. >> jamie mcintire, many jamie the president said, the u.s. didn't have a strategy for fighting i.s.i.l, kind uf a remark annal state

. >> john hesterman says this is too feeble. >> make no mistake our coalition air strikes are having a profound impact on the enemy. >> among its sharpest critics former naval aviator john mccain. >> 75% of the force he return to base without having fired a weapon. >> that is right for dynamic targeting and putting planes up and waiting for targets of opportunity to appear. air force commanders cite two situations, the need to avoid killing incidents and the difficulty telling enemy fighters from nents. >> as david petraeus told news this week. >> division letter perhaps even to battalion levels. should the there be teams of joint tactical controllers on the ground. >> should there be? >> i think there should be. there is risk of not winning this fight. somewhere. >> reporter: that risk of more american casualties is what has stopped joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey of recommending fighters, from advising and assisting into a ground combat role. pentagon says it's not against more deaths that argues against putting spotters on the ground it's also the aversion to doing mor

. >> lieutenant general john hesterman told reporters there have been more than 100 proposed strikesre the target was found to be a friendly force. highlighting the need, he said, for restrictive rules of engagement. he was pushing back on the recent criticism from former air force commanders who say that the rules of engagement are just too strict right now. >> three out of four air strikes that are launched apparently never happened. what about the effectiveness of the strikes that do go on? >> well, the air strikes have had little overall effect, as you mentioned in terms of pushing isis back despite pentagon claims otherwise. as of midnight june 3rd the u.s. and coalition have conducted a total of 4,347 air strikes. of those the u.s. carried out 3,393 air strikes. today the air campaign hit another glitch because the iraqi f-16 pilots and technicians the u.s. has been training in jordan went on strike after their salaries were cut by iraq's defense minister by 80%. general hesterman pushed back on the idea that his pilots' hands are tied. >> the thought we're observing large numb

briefing reporters by pentagon by telephone from his base in doha lieutenant general john hesterman insisted that the coalition campaign has in his words, has had a profound affect on the enemy. >> it's not only been effective it's enabled virtually every victory on the battlefield. it has helped ground forces regain territory remove fighters from the battlefield and eliminate the majority of daesh. >> with an increasing number of military experts believe that those airstrikes could be much more effective if they were directed on the ground on the front lines by u.s. forward air controllers. the most recent person to offer that criticism a former u.s. central commander david petraeus who said that he thinks those spotters should be on the ground. but the pentagon is worried about it, and they're worried about it for one reason: casualties. when asked about the need for these jtacs. the general said that he did not need them for now. they're worried if they put the troops on the ground they have to be on the front lines to call in the airstrikes. they'll have to be protected by other u.s. tro

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. -- john hesterman.the lives of jane pierce and harriet lane. jane pierce loses her son in a tragic train accident. grieving she does not attend her , husband's inauguration. and spends much of her time in the white house writing heartbreaking notes to her son. orphaned at a young age, harriet lane lived with her uncle, james buchanan. and later becomes hostess to the white house when he becomes president and the first first lady in print. examining the public and private lives of the women who for the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama, sunday at 8:00 eastern. as a complement to this series c-span's new book. first ladies, presidential historians of the lives of 45 iconic american women, it is available as a hardcover and an e-book in your favorite bookstore and online. next, c-span's interview with likely presidential candidate, jim webb. about his military service, time in congress, and family history. this is 35 minutes. mr. scully: f