minister spokesman says the body wanted billions of dollars worth of drones and other weapons patty coal haines is live with us, and patty, certainly he is not getting what he most wanted is he. >> well, tony, i have to tell you the story has taken a strange twist. josh earnest the press secretary is proofing reporters as we speak and he just said that all of those reports are wrong, it isn't that he had any sort of list, didn't really ask for anything so that's the position the white house is taking but as you know, we have been speaking with our reporter in baghdad who spoke directly to the prime minister spokes mapp, and he said that the army has been delayed because they don't have the quit that they were going to ask the u.s. president for drones apache helicopters saying they these those if they are doing to launch the offensive, if they are going to take that territory back from the islamic state of iraq and levant. so the white house press secretary is denying the reports the president was specifically asked about it. what about the f 16s the drones and here is how he dodged the questio