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♪ this is al jazeera america, good afternoon live from new york city. these are live pictures where former presidential candidate rick perry announced he is running again. he put out a video earlier this morning on his website promoting his new campaign. >> you see a lot of candidates will say the right things whether it's about the border whether it's about taxes or spending, but we need a president who has done the right thing. we need a president who bridges the partisan divide rather than

widens it who brings people together. we must do right and risk the consequences. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> david shuster is here with us now. david another republican -- oh this is rick perry stepping up to the mic. oh this is still video. thank you. we weren't sure if that was live or not. so david shuster our expert on all things political. it is possible for perry to put aside all of those bleners four years ago? >> it is certainly possible. and strategists will note that rick perry is the best at yucking it up better than anybody. the challenge is does he have the organization and the kind of money he will need to take this deep into the primaries, and that is an open question. in the last part of the video,

you would see what looked like a f-15 fighter yet. that's not the kind of jet he flew. he has a complain plain already, the bad news is it's a transport plane that wasn't move very fast. but he is trying to highlight his military service, his service in the air force, and do it in a way that distinguishes him from the rest of the field, because the only other republican in the field who has that military background is lindsey graham and he was an attorney for the air force, not a pilot. >> as we know now from several presidents being elected without military service, president obama, president clinton. how important is this going to be that military background? >> i think it will help. but he has been down this road before. this is not his first rodeo, he

has learned from his previous campaign. he knows what it takes to bring your a game to the debate and what it takes if you don't do so well in the debate and he has a lot of elective experience. he won three elections in texas. he served in the governor's office for two terms. and he has been talking through the issues a lot over the last several months. >> so there's already a big field of candidates out there, and perry, in the early preference polls doesn't show up too well does he? >> no he doesn't. he has registered in the bottom tier and he has to be one of the top ten. but that's one of the reasons why the republicans, particularly are focusing so heavily now on the rollout. because every time a candidate rolls out, maybe gets mentioned on the evening news their poll

numbers start to pop up. so look for him to make the most of this announcement today. check all of the marks for social and fiscal conservatives. do all of that but to bring something that we believes other candidates don't have and that is a happy warrior engaging personality to this race. >> tell us about jeb bush. he has not yet announced. >> he is going to announce june 15th which is a week from monday. he says the big announcement is coming. and that will be the point where he says okay. enough of running the super pac, he will say to the super pac, you take care of all of the television television ads, and he'll run his campaign. we'll talk more about that in the weeks to come. >> supporters in addison, texas

are still introducing rick perry, but when he steps up to the podium we'll share that with you. on the democratic side the former rhode island governor made his announcement. he has been a member of both parties and an independent. he faces former secretary of state hillary clinton, senator bernie sanders, and former maryland governor martin o'malley. there are new details about a man plotting to kill police officers in boston. they are now revealing an alleged plot to kill a well-known conservative activist. >> the fbi says it has wiretaps of conversations. and officials say he has agreed to speak with them about the plot. the criminal complaint against

wright details conversations with this man about a potential attack. he spoke about killing conservative activist pamela gellar and we also talked about ordering a knife online. later he said: the fbi believes that is a reference to beheading. howevers before the police approached him. the complaint hayes he called wright and told him he couldn't wait that long. when officers approached him soon afterwards they see they lunged at them with a knife. >> the video is inconclusive. i don't think he was shot in the back, however, we couldn't see clearly at all. however, he was approaching them. they did back up.

evidently -- by evidence of his death, he was fired upon. >> reporter: the fbi says it is investigating hundreds of sympathizers in all 50 states. >> we are monitoring them closely for any type of action any mobilization factors. and when we see those we're not taking the chance. prosecutors and the police department are evaluating if the use of force was justified and a third person was involved in the plot. they searched the house on wednesday but made no arrests. several tribal leaders in iraq are pledging allegiance with isil. they say they are working in solidarity with isil's leader. this is a long time coming for frustrated sunny leaders. >> reporter: anybody who has been watching the iraqi

political scene closely will tell you the anger the sunnis have felt has risen and risen. they say they were promised jobs in the army there was supposed to be development for the province, and none of that happened. a year ago, fallujah was occupied by isil fighters. and the cheikhs say you need to arm us. and we're the only people that can do this. we have done this before with al-qaeda in iraq which is a predecessor to isil. those pleas fell on deaf ears. the new prime minister has reached out to some of the sunni tribes but clearly he hasn't been able to get through to all of them. we don't know whether the announcement comes under duress because fallujah is under

occupation by isil or whether it's done willingly. isil now have a number of new fighters at their disposal and they already seem to be using that. we're hearing of attacks in fallujah taking place already. it looks like the tribal cheikhs are really going to take the fight to the government. there are questions about the claim that u.s.-lead air strikes have killed thousands of isil fighters. >> reporter: tony he is a harvard educated veteran of the clinton and obama administrations. he has been in france this week standing in for an injured john kerry. but it was in an radio interview that he made his controversial claim. as a high-level conference on

combatting isil wrapped up in paris this week the u.s. sought to change the narrative. >> i am confident we will defeat them from our unity, determination, and commitment. >> reporter: tony blinken, said despite recent setbacks the focus should be on the bigger picture, using the group's arabic name. he said, quote,: since last august the anti-isil coalition has carried out more than 4,000 bombing raids, but the defense department says it can't confirm the figure of 10,000 dead. the military has avoided so-called body counts for decades. they were widely used during the

vietnam war, but were later discredited. they are often wrong, and even when they are accurate they are a poor guide as to who is winning the conflict. blinken said he made the claim to hurt isil's ability to recruit. >> they are trying to tell young impressionable people around the world that they are succeeding and moving forward, and it is just the opposite. one element is the fact that a serious number of people have been taken off of the battlefield. >> reporter: the cia estimates isil's strength to be anywhere from 22 to 30,000 fighters. body counts could be compiled from a number of sources, but, again, critics will point out that none of those methods are very accurate. back to you. thanks john henry. middle east analyst says that

10,000 figure does not come from areas in iraq. the battle front both in iraq and syria, is a very loose term. we have to be very careful about this. obviously when we hear that the war is going on and there are high casualty figures, this is quite selective, because the casualties that have been recorded and the secretary has spoken about this have not occurred in the areas where current fighting is going on. where the coalition forces has not really scored that much. the coalition has succeeded in places like kobani or on the border with turkey and a few months ago, several months ago when it prevented the takeover by isil of the city of erbil, there the coalition used power effectively and prevented isil from scoring. elsewhere, there is a dearth of

coalition existence, really nobody knows where these people are. so therefore, we don't know what is going on on the ground precisely, but we have to make the assumption that in fact isil's casualties pail in comparison with the public support that exists among the large swathes in syria and iraq. egypt's former president will be retried over the killings of protesters. the highest appeals court in egypt set a new trial date of november 5th. he is charged with failing to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters during the arab spring uprising. an earlier conviction was overturned. the former leader is 86 years old and is in failing health. also the retrial of three of

our al jazeera colleagues has been adjourned, again. mohammed fahmy and baher mohamed were in a cairo court today. peter greste could not return for the trial, because he was deported. they were arrested for alleged involvement with the banned muslim brotherhood. al jazeera denies all of the allegations. south african government has opened up a an investigation into corruption bribes to fifa. and now we'll take you back to addison texas, where we see the latest candidate to toss his hat into the ring for the republican party presidential nomination. rick perry taking the stage. what do you think we're going to hear from mr. perry?

>> reporter: i think he'll talk about his military background talk about family and check all of the conservative republican boxes that you need to. >> and i'm sure he will say this time will be different than last time when he ran. >> yeah that will be something to watch for in this speech. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. thank you very much. i love you honey. you know, i was born -- i was born five years after the end of a global war that killed more than 60 million people. i'm the son of a veteran of that war who flew 35 missions over

war torn europe as a tail gunner on a b-17. [ cheers and applause ] >> when dad returned home married mom, they started a life together. they were farmers. they were raised during a time of great hardship and had little expectation beyond living in peace, putting a roof over our heads, and putting food on our table. home was a place called pain creek. it was the center of my universe. for years we had an outhouse. mom bathed us on the back porch in a number 2 wash tub. [ laughter ] >> she also hand sewed my clothes until i went to college. i attended rural school grades one through 12 placed six-man

football. was a member of the boy scout troop 48 i went to texas a&m, and got my degree in animal science. i was proud to wear the uniform of our country as an air force officer and air force commander. [ applause ] >> after serving i returned home. i returned home to those rolling plains in that big sky of west texas, and i returned to farming. there is no person on earth more optimistic than a dry land cotton farmer. [ laughter ] >> we always know a good rain is just around the corner no matter how long you have been waiting.

the values learned on my family's cotton farm are timeless. the dignity of work. the integrity of your word responsibility to community, the unbreakable bonds of family and duty to country. these are enduring values not the product of some idyllic past but a touch stone of american life in our small towns, in our largest cities in our booming suburbs. i have seen american life. i have seen it from the red dirt of a west texas cotton field, from a campus in college station, texas, from the elevated view of a c-130 cockpit, and from the governor's office of the texas capitol. [ cheers and applause ]

>> see i -- i had the great privilege to serve a rural community in the texas legislature, and i lead the world's 12th largest economy. [ cheers and applause ] >> i -- i know -- i know that america has experienced great change but what it means to be an american has never changed. we are the only nation in the world founded on the power of an idea that all, that all are created equal, that they are endowed by the creator with certain unaleanable rights that among these are life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [ cheers and applause ] >> our rights come from god, not

from government. [ cheers and applause ] >> our people are not the subjects of government but instead, government is subject to the people. [ cheers and applause ] >> it has always been the case that there has been this social compact between one generation of americans and the next. to pass along an inheritance of a stronger country, full of greater promise and possibility, and that social compact, it has been protected at great sacrifice. it was never more clear to me than when i took my father to the american cemetery that overlooks the bluffs at omaha beach, on that peaceful wind-swept setting, there lies

9,000 graves, including 45 pairs of brothers 33 of whom are buried side by side a father and a son, two sons of a president. they all traded their future for ours in a final act of loving sacrifice. [ cheers and applause ] >> and that american cemetery it is no accident that each head stone faces west. west over the atlantic towards the nation they defended the nation they loved, the nation they would never come home to. it struck me as i stood in the midst of those heros that they look upon us in silent judgment and that we must ask ourselves, are we worthy of their

sacrifice? [ cheers and applause ] >> the truth is we're at the end of an era of failed leadership. we have been lead by a divider who has sliced and diced the electorate pitting american against american for political purposes. six years into this so-called recovery and i might add our economy is barely growing. this winter it actually got smaller. our economic slowdown is not inevitable it just happens to be the direct result of bad economic policy. [ cheers and applause ] the president's tax and regulatory policies have slammed the door shut for opportunity of

the average american resigning the middle class to stagnant wages, personal debt deferred dreams. weakness at home has lead to weakness abroad. the world has desended into a chaos of this president's own making. while his white house loyalists, they construct an alternative universe where isis is continued, that ramadi is merely a setback, where the nature of the enemy can't be acknowledged for fear of causing offense, where the world's large estate sponsor of terrorism, the islamic republic of iran can be trusted to live up to a nuclear agreement. [ cheers and applause ] >> no decision no decision has done more harm than the president's withdrawal of american troops from iraq. [ cheers and applause ]

>> let no one be mistaken leaders of both porties have made grave mistakes in iraq but in january of 2009, when barack obama become commander in chief, iraq has been largely pacified. america had won the war, but our president failed to secure the peace. [ cheers and applause ] >> how callus it seems now. as cities once secured with american blood are now being taken by america's enemies all because of a campaign slogan. i saw during vietnam a war where politicians didn't keep faith with the sacrifices and courage of america's fighting men and women. where men were ordered into combat without the full support of their civilian commanders.

>> we are listening to rick parry make his remarks as we expect him to announce momentarily that he is definitely running for president. >> -- is a national disgrace. [ cheers and applause ] >> but my friends, we are a resilient country. you think about who we are. we have been through a civil war. we have been through two world wars. we have been through a great depression. we even made it through jimmy carter we will make it through the obama years. [ cheers and applause ] >> we will do this. [ cheers and applause ] . >> you know the fundamental nature of this country is our people never stay down. we get back up dust ourselves

off. we move forward, and you know what? we will do it again. [ cheers and applause ] >> i want to share some important truths with my fellow americans today. starting with this truth. we don't have to settle for a world in chaos and an america that shrinks from its responsibilities. we don't have to apologize for american exceptionalism or western values. [ cheers and applause ] >> we don't have to accept slow growth that leaves behind the middle class, that leaves millions of americans out of work. we don't have to settle for crumbling bureaucracies. we don't have to resign ourselves to debt decay, and slow growth. we have the power to make things new again. to project america's strength again, and to get our economy going again. [ cheers and applause ]

>> and that is exactly why today i am running for the presidency of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] >> rick perry throwing his hat into an already crowded ring a a -- announcing his candidacy for the president. any surprises? >> no surprises, but he underscored two themes, sacrifice, his military sacrifice, and the sacrifice that so many americans have made. and the other thing is optimism. he likes to look on the bright side and look at what america can become. that is going to be an essential theme for him. to the extend people seem him as

a man who says our best days are ahead. >> and it seems that president obama will be a topic for all of the republican candidates. >> yeah interesting to hear him make the comparison jimmy carter and barack obama. >> it will be interesting to see whether he'll make any more of those gaffes. >> yeah he has the tell prompters there to help him. a flop sweat is the worst he is facing today, i think he will take it. >> and obviously a well-drafted speech. >> yeah it hit on his themes and laid out his reason for running for president. and he says america's best days are ahead. he is a good speaker, but can he build the organization and raise the money it is going to take to

compete against the others. >> a lot to see in the days and months ahead. thank you david shuster. and thank you for joining us. i'm randall pinkston. stay with us for more news on al jazeera america. >> this massive debt is passed on from our generation to yours. several uniny strikes pledge support. ♪ ♪. >> i am lauren taylor, and this is al jazeera life. also coming up, more than 90 people killed at a petro station in ghana. ukraine's president warned the military to prepare for the possibility of a full scale russian invasion. and a giant leap for robotics the technology that allow add hand shake between earth and space.