Bill Neely: On Same Day ISIS Was Taking Ramadi, Top U.S. Official Boasted of Progress

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RUSSERT: "We see this video showing ISIS fighters walking uncontested. Is this to suggest it's still in fact fluid there on the ground? 
NEELY: "I don't think Luke. One of the interesting things was on Friday as ISIS was launching the attack, a top U.S. Commander was briefing the media claiming the strategy to defeat ISIS is working. He even spoke about 420 air strikes against ISIS positions near Ramadi. That claimed by him underscored air strikes are not beating ISIS. They did not stop ISIS from retaking Ramadi. U.s. Has to decide if they'll use air power to attempt to retake Ramadi. The U.S. Is highly optimistic. Secretary of state John Kerry has just spoken to U.S. Troops and repeated his message that he is absolutely confident the situation in Ramadi will be reversed, that this is some kind of temporary setback. In Iraq, the spokesman of the governor told NBC news, nobody believes ISIS is going to survive in Iraq. He's claiming we're in the final chapter of the fight against ISIS. All those are hugely optimistic statements. The fact is, at the moment, a city we had hoped would not fall to ISIS is, which as you said, hundreds of Americans gave their lives to uphold. That has now fallen into ISIS hands. They are keeping the pressure up on the capital city Baghdad. There are a lot of worried people there Luke."