let's bring in wesley clark. good to see you. turkey has been striking a more conciliatory tone with russia suggesting that the leaders of the two countries meet this week at the climate summit. so far, russia is giving up the cold shoulder. what will happen to relations or how might this impact relations between russia and turkey. >> i think it is going to continue to be a burr under the saddle, so to speak. i don't think it is going to result in a large escalation of the conflict at this stage. i think it indicates that russia and turkey have opposing objectives, opposing policies, opposing outcomes they are seeking in this conflict and russia has weighed in by striking these villages and these civilians in a north part of syria or southern part of turkey. depending on how you draw that border and threatening the turkish grip on the northern part of syria and turkey has responded by shooting down a russian aircraft. russia has stronger anti-aircraft in northern syria. it is a standoff militarily, politically and at this point,

. >>> i spoke with retired general wesley clark, former supreme allied leader of nato. i asked him about the significance of this incident. >> when a nato nation shoots down a russian aircraft, it's still an act by turkey, not nato. aircraft are not under nato control, under turkish operational control. they're flying un-turkish air missions and nato is not running an air defense umbrella, it's integrated, to best of my knowledge. >> bigger picture, this has to do with complexity of the conflict in syria. president obama said, this illustrates ongoing problem with the russian operations. the president suggested, if russia was targeting isis, in areas that isis controlled, this might not have happened. >> that's exactly right. but this is the larger context. what you have here is no political agreement. so we have these people -- these countries trying to work together and obfuscate the fundamental under lying disagreement. let's be very clear. isis is not just a terrorist organization. its a sunni terrorist organization. that means it blocks and targets shia, and that m

retired four star u-s army general wesley clark made stops on her behalf all around central and eastern iowa today. "hillary is the only candidate that understands veterans needs. and has put the effor into proposing the reform program that we need." need."all three democratic presidential candidates will hit the debate stage this saturday in des moines.you can watch that debate live right here on cbs 2 at 8 o-clock. we'll also have coverage of that debate and everything else in the world of politics on iowa in focus.watch it sunday morning at 10-30 right here on cbs 2. now ten at ten continues with a look at tonight's other in iowa city -the city council approved the first reading for an extension of the iowa city downtown self-supported municipal improvement district levy.if approved, it will continue the levy - which is two dollars per one thousand dollars of taxable value on property - through 20-20 with the option to increase 50- cents per one thousand dollars in 2021. in marion marionresidents got to give their input on the design of the new library.the city decided it would be be

general wesley clark, thank you so much for your insights. let's go back to richard lui who is in paris. richard? >> reporter: alex, thank you. just to give you a sense of what's been happening a 100 feet to my right there's been a very large crowd of maybe 200 or 300 gathering. you can hear them clapping here and there. we were wondering why. what's happening is that they are playing john lennon's "imagine." something they played last night and this morning. this morning with a piano and then somebody played "imagine" again with a guitar. that is the sense of what parisians in this area, which some might equate with the williamsburg of new york or the mission district in san francisco, these sorts of areas where young and nontourists normally do hang out. that's the mood right now in this afternoon hour in this borough of paris. we now get to talk about what has been the very latest and i want to thank you for coming back again, virginia. vivian from "time." tell me what you've learned within the last couple of hours? >> well, basically two

as syria spiraled into civil war general wesley clark a former nato allied commander said that i.s.i.l. was in syria. >> i'm not saying they created i.s.i.s. but they were one of the countries that fed weapons into the region and sought to mobilize extremist fires to go against iranian influence. and it was emergence of a frankenstein. >> and that frankenstein now is. about 100 people were killed in two boadges in bombings in ankara. and i.s.i.l. was suspected. turkey let u.s. use incirlik to strike against syria. >> the more access that turkey grants the united states and other coalition partners through its base he in turkey, like incirlik, then it can try to extract other concessions in other arenas. >> among the list of demands it says turkey wants to keep a check on kurdish rebels it opposes. some of the faction he have become partners with the u.s. in fighting i.s.i.l. but in the wake of the paris attack pressure is building on turkey to do more and it was evident at the most recent presidential debate among democratic candidates. >> in particular turkey and the gulf nations have

we are going to talk to former general wesley clark, former supreme allied commander of u.s.al clark, you are often talking about united states armed forces, the classic criticism fighting the last war, both in terms of training and materiel. at the same time, it is not uncommon these days to hear talk that we are in our next world war, we are in the middle of an asymmetrical slow motion world war. the question is, what would you like to see, what do you think you need to hear from the american president at least at today's event? >> we know what to do militarily about this in the near term, brian. what we need to do is we need to go after the isis forces, we need the forward air controllers in there to be able to call in the air strikes and so forth. but the real issue here is political. what can we do politically to bring the opposing sides together. that is what's the future of syria. is it a unified state or is it a broken up state, and will religious minorities be respected. will there be a place for christians, or will there only be sunni. what kind of sunni. until we c

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army general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander.n the past two days, general, two key members of the senate intelligence committee including the chairman, they both told me that they expect russia to retaliate against isis for the downing of that metrojet plane with 224 people onboard. and to do it within the next day or two. what do you think the russian response will be? >> well, i think if they direct some of their air power against isis targets, that would be helpful. and i think that's the easiest response for them to make. the question is do they have the intelligence to get the right targets? >> james one of the members of the senate intelligence committee, he didn't rule out the possibility, and i want your assessme assessment, that the russians could even attack, launch air strikes against isis targets in sinai, which of course is egypt. you think that's realistic the russians might consider doing that? >> well, if they -- there has been some communication between the russians and the egyptians. there have been some militar

general wesley clark says he's supporting hillary clinton for the 20-16 democratic nomination. he says she's the only candidate who understands what veterans need and is willing to push for reform. clintotowill be in iowa this saturday at the second democratic debate in des moines. you can catch that live right here on cbs 2 -- coverage begins at 8. new this morning, the head of the daily fantasy football giant, fan duel, is tellingng his new york customers to keep on playing. playing.that comes despite warnings from the state's attorney general, eric schneiderman, to stop taking bets.fan-duel said its lawyers will try to persuade him over the next 5 days to chchge his mind.schneiderman says the websites are breaking state gambling laws, and compared fantasy football to the lottery. it's after the break... break...the record-setting price tag for a diamond sold in switzerland. here's a look at some of eastern iowa's top stories -- on this morning... today the red kettle campaign kicks off in cedar rapids with a fun christmas party.cbs 2 news anchor scott sanborn will be emceein

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administration, the obama administration, and earlier, i asked the retired nato commander general wesley clark to weigh in on clinton's plan and asked him what he thinks it would take to defeat an enemy like isis. general clark, welcome to the program. can i ask you first, in the wake of these terrible attacks, and what we're hearing from so many leader, including the french president, that this is a war that has to be faced down. your comments on what hillary clinton just said, because she talked about ground troops. >> well, i think hillary has it about right. i think you've got to protect the syrian opposition from the air attacks by the assad regime. you've got to use u.s. special forces in there. but you've got to think beyond the military. and here you've got to ask yourself what is the goal we're working for? what is syria going to look like after all of this is over? we don't want to make the mistake we made in iraq where we destroyed the state structures of iraq. there was no one to give driver's licenses, no one to teach school, no one to run the museums, no one to do anything that p

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retired general wesley clark joins us now.ave you, general. >> thank you. >> secretary kerry just laid out the best solution which is also perhaps the greatest challenge, getting the world to unite on all the different fronts necessary to take on daesh. what do you think of that? how close are we to that solution that capability of being united globally against isis? >> well we're probably at least weeks away and maybe months away. but unfortunately, for isis the more they do the sooner the world will unite against them to crush them. isis has no idea the power that it's provoking bringing down on itself. whereas it may have gotten away with what it considered a few nuisance strikes by the united states perhaps, where we were striking at well-defined targets and doing our best to avoid collateral casualties. the action such as taking down the russian airliner and especially the horrific tragedy in spain, when the world comes against isis we can cut off the flow of fresh fighters going into that region. we can prevent isis from

that people in law enforcement, wesley clark, mr. petraeus, that is up for debate as well.n carson sound bite here on this topic. >> i would say to the people of america, do you think i'm a pathological liar like cnn does? charles: all right. tammy? >> look. this is again, it is 20, maybe 25 years old, but if this is one thing, if that's what you're inclined to put into writing while you're obviously a gifted and important neurosurgeon and felt compelled to create that kind of fabrication, what else has occurred in the next 20 years. charles: you're saying there's going to be question marks and dark clouds for a lot of people with regard to his resume and anything else he says. >> unless he is able, because she trusted, unless he's able to explain it, i don't think this will likely not be the only example. charles: all right, and i just got to tell you, i don't know why his campaign didn't come out beforehand. i think they could have nipped this in the bud. a big issue, another bombshell. keystone pipeline, the president officially killing it right now. he's going to speak