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We were able to sit down with secretary Kerry, here in Erbil. 12 days ago, June 12th, President said he was appearing with the Aus, Australian Prime Minister, that my team is working around the clock on options to respond. During that 12 days since, we calculated, ISIS has captured an additional 11 cities and towns. Mm- hm. A key refinery, crucial roadways and border crossings, hasn't the delay in the administration's response here on the ground, military action, strengthened ISIS during that time? I, I think I think the real question Jim, is not sort of what happened in those days, the question is what can happen going forward. To have a strategy that's really gonna work. The reason the President sent me out here is that, if he were to make the decision I mean, he may have to ultimately. But if he made the decision without trying to see whether or not you can have a government that can work, or reconstitute the military, then you have a whole different set of options. But you said yesterday, that the President was prepared to act before there's political compromise. He might be, well, he, he, he's always prepared to act. Mm- hm. Under any circumstance, he reserves the right to force if he has to, if it's going to accomplish a goal. I just wonder how you feel, personally, because more than two years ago you were advocating for more robust support for moderate rebel groups inside Syria when the President was considering military action in Syria, some said you gave the speech of your life. Advocating for that action, explaining for it. Of course it didn't happen. Since then, the war, and, and again, we have to speak of it across borders. Syria, and Iraq, has deteriorated, and I have to wonder if you're personally frustrated- No. To have watched that. Let's be crystal clear Jim, the reason that the decision to strike Syria didn't happen, was because we ultimately came up with a better solution, after the President made his decision to strike. On chemical weapons, but that doesn't hasn't [ CROSSTALK ]. The President, well, the, well the, the, the purpose of the strike. Mm- hm. Was to send a message to Assad, don't use chemical weapons. Not a strike that was calculated to end the regime, or to get involved in the war directly. It was to end the use of chemical weapons. We found a better solution. We got all of the chemical weapons out. Yesterday we announced 100 % of the chemical weapons that are declared, had been removed. Now that's a very significant accomplishment, and I wanna emphasize, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, made his decision to use that force. But ISIS has only grown as a threat during that time period it, it, it, it is [ CROSSTALK ] Correct, ISIS has grown as a threat, because countless numbers of Jihadists are flocking to Syria to oppose Assad. Assad is a magnet for terrorists. Here in Kurdistan, the political divisions that are pulling Iraq apart are clear. Kurdistan operates essentially independently. The Kurds made a land grab of their own in the last week, seizing Kirkuk. And as secretary Kerry meant the Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, Barzani told him there is a new reality in Iraq. As with military action, political action here will require U. S. help and pressure, that is also sustained and intense. Jim Scuitto, CNN, Erbil, Northern Iraq. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"John Kerry On The ISIS Situation","description":"John Kerry On The ISIS Situation","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XpmTStGC/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-06-24T18:06:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XpmTStGC.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/XpmTStGC/","duration":"PT3M42S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/XpmTStGC/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```