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against the political leadership, will be actually addressed with a positive policy agenda. and that's sort of the solution the party needs. but you know -- >> ross, jenny beth, thank you, appreciate. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> thanks very much. happening now, the breaking news following, gop shockwaves, the house majority leader eric cantor speaking out, saying he'll step down after toppled by a political rookie with tea party leanings. abuse on the border. we've learned of stunning, new allegations that undocumented children caught at the border have been strip searched physically mistreated by government agents. and sterling versus sterling, it's getting nasty. court filings reveal details of the medical exams that judge the clippers' billionaire owner to be mentally incompetent. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news.
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>> let's begin with the breaking news. political earthquake shakes the foundations of the gop establishment. the house majority leader, eric cantor, thought to be aligned one day for the speakership, has just said he will instead give up his post after a stunning primary upset by a political upstart, tea party influenced college professor david brat. the aftershocks of the vote are raising huge questions about the midterm elections, the makeup of congress and any last vestiges of compromise here in washington. analysts and experts are standing by. let's begin with our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash. he just wrapped up a statement at a news conference, give us the headline. >> reporter: the headline is he's no longer going to be the majority leader as of july 31st, perhaps sooner, but certainly as of july 31st. and the house majority leader came out of a meeting with his entire republican caucus, it was about 30 minutes long, and it was clear that he didn't have
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much to say about, you know, any hard feelings, hand wringing, at least not in public, all intended to be upbeat, kind of we did our best message. the question i wanted to know, many people wanted to know is, why did he think this happened? why was he and everybody else so blindsided? listen to what happened. >> i'm sure you've done some reflecting in the past 24 hours. do you think that maybe you spent too much time here with your job as leader tending to your rank and file and not tending enough to your constituents back home? >> you know i was in my district every week, so i -- you know, there's a balance between holding a leadership position and serving constituents at home, but never was there a day did i not put the constituents of the 7th district of virginia first, and i will continue to do so. >> reporter: so he insists it's not that he failed politics 101, that he didn't go home, certainly not that far, not like other members of congress, he
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just has to drive a few hours south of washington. but i think beyond the physical nature of being in his district, what many people are looking at is that he wasn't there with regard to his head in the republican and conservative game, didn't understand the fervor of the grassroots, wasn't very much, but enough when you look at low turnout of the election, the fervor to get rid of him as their lawmaker, as their leader across the board. the other thing, you know, that is questioned here is how much he thinks that there's going to be, or anybody this, there's going to be real gridlock because there are, i've talked to ranger and file members who say if he's going to get toppled from the right by compromising, i'm going to do it, too. he tried to calm everybody saying, you know, there's still room for compromise. it's kind of ironic when you talk to democrats and they think he was the person who held the speaker, the leadership back in many cases from compromising.
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>> dana bash up on the hill watching this. stand by. i want to bring in cnn political analyst, gloria borger, michael smerconish, robert costa, bill kristol, editor of "the weekly standard." bill, why did he lose. >> majority of the republicans in his district who voted wanted taught him out. lower primary two years ago he got 37,000 votes. he got 29,000 this year time. people wanted to send a message to washington, anti-k street, anti-big government and anti-wall street message. the key task for republicans to channel populist anger and turn it into a positive governing agenda. if that happens that could be a good moment. >> if. >> i think it will happen. i bet it will be more of republican way this november because of this victory than without. republican establishment was dog paddling, dead in the water. now the voters kicking them in the behind. >> i don't think the republican
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was dead in the water. they'd had been winning right and left. >> dead in the water to do something to address the problems of the country. >> an issue about immigration reform. he expressed some modicum of support for immigration reform that became an issue in this campaign. it became kind of a perfect storm for him because also he's a leader. people don't like congressional leaders and they believed he wasn't home enough. >> robert, how much of a factor, if any factor at all, do you think it was, an open primary outside of richmond, virginia, democrats could vote in this contest. was there some hanky parngy going on, democratic voters going in there to try to embarrass the republicans and defeat eric cantor, was that a significant factor based on what you're hearing? >> i'm skeptical of that, wolf. yes, some democrats did vote in this primary, but when i talked to my sources on the ground, in virginia, they say there's a sea change happening right now
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within the virginia republican party that elected -- that nominated ken cuccinelli as a nominee last cycle and pushing for david brat this time around. that's the tea party conservative edge that's growing in that virginia gop. and it's not so much i think the democrats who are pestering around richmond that really ousted cantor. >> what does this say, michael, about the tea party and its strength moving forward? >> well, i'm not one who believes that the tea party has had a string of defeats in this primary season. i have believed that the tea party has been winning even when it's been losing because it has driven all candidates further to the right than otherwise would have been. so, i don't think you can evaluate tea party success only by whether their named candidate wins a particular primary. as far as i'm concerned, they're winning all of these primaries. >> can i say the i ronnie to me, eric cantor, was the most conservative member of the house republican leadership and that
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he started out as a republican leader as sort of the tea party person in the leadership, and now it's the tea party progeny, if you will, that have thrown him out. >> but it's not right and left. it's populist and elitist. it's the voters or the establishment. i mean, eric cantor, underhis leadership, republicans would not advance legislation to take on insurance companies under obamacare, wouldn't go after big banks, insensitive to the needs of working class americans. >> sounds like elizabeth warren. a dose of elizabeth warren wouldn't be band look at hill, dead broke, $8 million book advance. >> robert, we're now told that there will be an election in the house of representatives for the next majority leader on june 19th. that's coming up not too far away. who's going to be elected. >> i've been spending all day here determining who's going to
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run for majority leader who will serve alongside john boehner. jebhensarling, pete sessions, it's unlikely they'll both run grens each other but conservatives think in the wake of cantor's defeat they can rise. majority whip, kevin mccarthy, he thinks he's the successor to cantor, the pick of the establish ment in the house, he thinks he will be able to easily rise. >> what kind of message does this defeat by eric cantor send to the speaker of the house, john boehner? >> i think it sends a message to him that compromise is frankly a dirty word for his candidates facing primaries. i found it interesting that eric cantor presented himself in a very consolatory fashion a couple of moments ago on cnn, which is at odds with my recollection of wait in which he handled himself in the administration with budget negotiations. interesting to me, that he looks at his own record of one of
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conciliation. people will say, compromise remains the new "c" word in washington. >> you write on cnn.com the reasons the gop succeeds as a congressional party are very much the reasons it fails on the presidential level. base politics works in gop primaries to be sure. also works in congressional races that have been gerrymandered and tailored to partisan voter but was it's a lousy strategy if you want to win the presidency. >> if you want to win the presidency you have to find independent voters, voters in the middle. you know, as michael was just saying, you know if compromise is a dirty word, then you may win some congressional seats but it's difficult to figure out a way to get to the presidency. if you can't figure out anything to do on immigration reform, for example, then that's going to hurt you with a big bloc of voters that's growing larger. >> i want to read to you what the president said back in 2012, just before he was re-elected thought it was an off the record meeting, it was later put on the
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record. should i win a second term, this is the president, a big reason i will win a second term because the republican nominee and the republican party have so alienated the fastest growing demographic group in the country, the latino community. >> well, that was mitt romney, not a favorite of the tea party. george allen, the republican senate nominee lost badly in virginia. >> is that going alienate latino community from the republican party? >> no. i think republicans can do a better job with latinos but signing on to a big government schumer/mccain immigration reform new york evidence. >> what about doing what eric cantor recommended, let the so-called dreamers -- >> how that is working out in arizona right now? 90,000 young people between -- across the border because, in fact, there's not border security, despite proclamations, border security first. everyone says hate to be hard hearted but when people say, you can't kick the young people out you, get 100,000 young people.
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>> michael spler conike smercon report coming up on the sensitive subject, is eric cantor, who supports giving those so-called dreamers the children, who came here as young kids who parents brought them, grown up in the united states, only known the united states, eric cantor and so many others say they should have a path way to citizenship, if you will, should be allowed to get legal status. this this an issue that's going to aba setback issue for those who support it among republicans? >> it is in the short term, but in the long term, gloria's absolutely correct that attrition is going to knock off the republican party. if the gop doesn't expand the tent, we know what these demographic numbers say in terms of the move afoot in the country and how we look as a nation by 2050. if the republican party can't grow the tent in that direction, it will only be a party that wins primaries and never national general elections. >> look, the spirit of dave brat
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is growing the tent mothan the spirit of mitt romney. more of a chance to grow the tent from the tea party pop u lift spirit than the republican establishment patronizing latino voters. >> why can't you combine a reforming republican, with a bigger -- with a bigger tent. >> i'm for that. >> wheres that candidate? >> all learning more about that candidate -- >> 2016, don't worry about it. >> learning more about the winner in this congressional race, david brat, shortly. robert costa, you've gone excellent reporting for "the washington post." i remember read you not long ago, you were suggesting that eric cantor was in trouble. i remember a lot of people saying, what is he talking about? but tell us about your reporting. what gave you an inclination that the majority leader potentially could lose this race? >> though eric cantor has never brought immigration bills to the floor, the prospect of him doing
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so has really alienated conservative voters in his district i spoke to david brat in may, we put it on the front page of "the washington post," think was real, brat was in many ways amateur candidate, he was not ready to run against cantor, he had grassroots sport and that was serious. >> remind viewers how much eric cantor spent and how much dave brat spent to win this race. >> well, that's the big problem what we saw here in virginia 7th congressional district. dave brat going nowhere in may. then in the final month eric cantor spent over $1 million on negative advertising. what did this do? it didn't hurt david brat, it elevated him, gave him name recognition, small dollar donations, that propelled him through the finish line. >> see how the house fight plays out for eric cantor's successor. let's see if it it's somebody who carries the banner of the tea party, and i believe probably will be, and how that
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works within the framework of the leadership of the republican party and how that then means that they don't work with president obama to get -- >> jeb hensarling, the chairman of financial services. one of his priorities in the next few months, defunding export/import bank a bank beloved by big business and big k street republicans and democrat as like. you can say he's more conservative but also more populist. >> all right. we'll leave it on that note. the export/import bank. a lot of viewers focussing in on that huge issue right now. i know the "wall street journal" doesn't like that bank either. bill kristol, thanks very much, gloria, thank you, michael costa, michael smerconish. stunning revelations from bowe bergdahl's journal painting a picture of a troubled young man as the defense secretary defends the deal to get him back. and new allegations that government agents have abused children caught border -- caught
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>> a defiant defense secretary up on capitol hill answering tough questions from the house armed services committee for more than five hours about the controversial bowe bergdahl swap. this, as "the washington post" is now reporting some startling, new details about bowe bergdahl's past. let's go to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, she's got the very latest. >> reporter: wolf, it was as angry a defense secretary i've ever seen on capitol hill. and as you say, tonight, late breaking details, more about who is bowe bergdahl. cnn has confirmed, bowe bergdahl served for less than a month in the coast guard before later joining the army. military sources would only call it an administrative discharge. tonight, his friends tell "the washington post," bergdahl left the coast guard because he was psychologically troubled. cnn has not independently confirmed those accounts. but journals and e-mails,
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friends gave to the "post," the "post" say as peers to paint a picture of a fragile, young man trying to main stain stability. writing i've spent a lot of ply life thinking blackness was all i had in front of me. >> the doctors. >> i tell you what -- >> reporter: on capitol hill today, defense secretary chuck hagel angrily defended why bergdahl is still in the hospital 12 days after being released from five years of taliban captivity. >> you're trying to tell me that he's being held in landstuhl germany because of his medical condition? >> congressman, i hope you're not implying anything other than that. the fact -- >> i'm just asking the question, mr. secretary, that you won't answer. >> i'm going to give you an answer. i don't like the implication. >> answer it. >> reporter: hagel offering one mea culpa to congress. >> we could have done a better job, a better job of keeping you informed. >> reporter: defending against accusations about why congress wasn't informed of the trade.
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>> by the way i never said that i don't trust congress, that's your words. >> yes, you did. >> i never said i don't trust congress. >> all right. >> you want to check your transcript. >> mr. secretary. >> congressman. >> reporter: hagel revealing the administration's intelligence concluded the five taliban, some tied to al qaeda, don't pose a direct threat to the u.s. >> their focus would almost certainly be on taliban efforts inside afghanistan. not homeland of the united states. >> reporter: but there was a moment suggesting everyone take a deep breath. >> i would just ask us to think for a moment how we would be responding if bowe bergdahl was our son. i -- i really fear for his return to this country with the kind of rhetoric that is being spewed in this very room.
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>> tonight, d.o.d. official tell me all of the travel arrangements have been finalized for bowe bergdahl's return to a u.s. military hospital in texas. the final decision about when he will make that journey has not been made. but everything indeed has put into place. >> we'll wait and see what happens on that front, barbara. thank you. let's continue the conversation now with the chairman of the house armed services committee, republican mark mckeon. five hours plus. were you convinced, did he do a good job in you accept his arguments, mr. chairman? >> i -- i think that he did a good job. i think he has a very tough job. you know, he's kind of the pointman for the administration now to take the brunt of some of the things that we're finding. i think what i -- what i got out of all of this is they talked about all around it, but the end of the day they dealt with terrorists. because of that, we're less safe than we were a couple of weeks
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ago. >> you agree with the house speaker that americans will die now as a result of these five detainees set free? >> i certainly hope not, but i think we're more at risk that somebody might take a hostage and demand, you know, other things from us, that's -- that's where i think the risk is. and it could also, these five guys were pretty bad guys, and they've already got blood on their hands and they could have more. the thing is they kept us in the dark about this for several months and i'm afraid that they're going to try to do it again. >> but you're afraid they're going to try to do what again, release other detainees without informing the congress? >> that's my concern. >> didn't he give you an assurance they would notify congress? >> you know, they have in the
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past. they obviously didn't this time. you followed. you were right there. you heard them say, and you heard brought out in testimony, now i can talk about it, but they did brief us, the leadership, house leadership, and the appropriate committees in november of 2011 that they were starting to reach out to negotiate with the taliban to move for a peace process. and a little small part of that was that they were trying to work out an exchange with these five detainees for sergeant bergdahl. and then they came backer, updated us in january, and by then the taliban opened an office in qatar and it was discovered and everything blew apart -- >> but did you not accept, mr. chairman, the argument they made that if they would have notified members of the congress, it could have leaked and then bergdahl might have been killed? >> you know, no, i really doesn't buy that, not when they told 80 to 90 people in 4 of the
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departments in the administration they had time to tell the justice department, homeland security, d.o.d., and the white house, people knew. no, i do not buy that. by law, they're directed to report to congress. we didn't divulge the fact we had other briefings two, three years ago. you know, it just as likely that a leak could come out of the 80 or 90 people. >> i'm going to just wrap it up with unrelated question. who do you want to be majority leader in the house of representatives? >> kevin mccarthy. >> that's your man. that you're going to vote for, the whip, kevin mccarthy, see how he does. mr. chairman, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> coming up, abuse on the border, at least stunning, new allegations that undocumented kids caught the at the border strip searched, mistreated by government agents. sterling versus sterling.
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packed into a u.s. border patrol holding cell only tell half the story. new complaint filed against the department of homeland security, the aclu and other groups accuse customs and border patrol agents of keeping illegal immigrant children in squalid conditions, denying medical care, strip searching and shackling them, verbally abusing them. aclu says charges are based on accounts of undocumented children being held. the agency tells cnn, customs and border protection isn't ensuring hi gene is being met. given proper medical care, mistreatment, or misconduct is not tolerated. the obama administration says 60,000 unaccompanied children could cross america's southwest border this year. tonight, the crisis is growing, children coming from countries other than mexico, immigrants from guatemala, honduras, el salvador. >> undeniably, there's a problem
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of humanitarian proportions. >> reporter: today on capitol hill, homeland security secretary jay johnson told congress he visited the border. >> i approached a 10-year-old girl and asked her where's your mother, and she told me, i don't have a mother. i'm looking for my father in the united states. >> reporter: johnson told congress the u.s. is opening three new facilities to house the children. and pulling scores offing as from their duties watching the border to watching the kids. >> we know we must do something to stem this tide. >> reporter: republicans told johnson the situation at the border is already out of control. >> talking about excessive force and violence, i wish you'd push back harder, mr. johnson, but this is the kind of thing that's happening to your border patrol agents every day. they're being attacked with vehicles, they're being shot and being pummeled with large rocks. >> reporter: and the hearing today, senators blaming the influx of the undocumented children on president obama, due
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to his promise of immigration reform this year. but the administration is saying the kids reporting to them they came over to escape violence in their homeland. no matter what is driving this, the administration has a huge problem on their hands with all of the kids from central america, many of them that don't have families here. >> 60,000 kids. >> 60,000. >> without parents, cross over this year. that's a huge problem. stand by for a moment. i want to go to the border area right now. national correspondent gary tuchman is in nogales, arizona. gary, many undocumented kids, where you are in nogales, tell us why they have been brought there. >> reporter: well, we do come to you from nogales, arizona, like you said. this is the border, the other side, nogales, mexico, the other side, nogales border station, that's where the border patrol station is, the place where people and children, picked up in texas and new mexico and came and here in arizona are being brought there, it's a large
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border station with a lot of employees and resources. it's not fancy at all, it's very crowded inside. but there's space for the hundreds of children there now. but the idea is, when they find out children have relatives in the united states, they'll send them to relatives if the relatives are in good standing, otherwise sent to three military facilities in the united states, texas, in oklahoma, and in california while they continue the investigative work. certainly a problem in a big deal if more and more children keep coming into this country. what's so different about the situation right now, every day people come through, over, around these fences in the four states that border mexico. what's happen now is an extraordinary number of children, just ov the last couple of weeks. what's going on? pamela talked about it, there's a lot of violence, extreme amount of violence over the past couple of months, more than normal. violent countries, guatemala, honduras, el salvador because of gang violence. families want children out, willing to have children take risks to be near family members
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here. in addition, they are aware that under u.s. immigration law, if you live in mexico or if you live in canada to the nor, you can be sent back right away. if you live in a country not contiguous to the united states you can't be sent back right away. the situation has to be investigated. children and mothers coming over with children know that typically authorities here in the united states are lenient towards them if they have family members, they'll usually let them go to be with family members. it's important to point out most of the children coming from mexico are not mexican. they're coming from three central american countries where there's so much violence lately. that's why we're reasonably sure, based on that fact, based on talking to mothers who come to this country, the violences a major reason, not the only reason, but a major reason, so many children are coming here over the last couple of weeks. >> a very important story. certainly going to stay on top of it in the coming days and weeks. gary tuchman on the border, pamela brown in washington. results of donald sterling's medical exams in which he was
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estranged hundred is suddenly objecting to. brian has more on what's going on. this is getting more complex. >> court documents, the doctors' opinions in the documents, they paint a stark picture of donald sterling's mental condition, saying he's had memory problems for at least three years, trouble controlling his moods, and that he's at risk of serious errors in judgment. it's the backbone of shelly sterling's effort to sell the l.a. clippers on her own. his attorneys say this is nonsense and they'll fight it in court. >> reporter: donald sterling suffering from cognitive impairment what doctors who examined him say. arguing he's unfit to own the l.a. clippers. one doctor reported sterling was, quote, unaware of the season, was able to spell word world backwards, difficulty drawing a clock. another says symptoms are consistent with early alzheimer's disease but could reflect other forms of brain disease. the doctors' opinions were filed in court today by lawyers for
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sterling's estranged wife, shelly. >> a complex business $2 billion basketball team, 150 real estate holdings and it requires a person to run the business who is competent and the doctor has three doctors have said that he lacks the mental capacity. >> reporter: the court filing is part of shelly sterling's effort to get a judge to back her takeover the family trust, a move she used to reach a deal for the dids 2 billion sale of the clippers. shelly sterling's asking for a judge's backing because sterling refuses to sell the clippers and suing the nba to keep them. his attorneys are emphatic, he's not mentally incompetent tent. on the assessment of the doctors -- >> best opinions money can buy, reports were directed to mrs. sterling's attorney, so guess who they thought they were working for. >> reporter: no comment from shelly sterling's attorneys. >> this is a classic battle of the experts. there's no doubt in my mind that he will retain neurologists who
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will opine that he does have mental capacity. >> reporter: it's now up to a court to decide. if shelly sterling wins -- >> then that would mean that the transaction would go through. if he successfully contests this, then possibly the sale cannot go through because she would not be the successor trustee of the trust and would not have the authority to sell. >> reporter: and the attorney for steve ballmer, the man who's got $2 billion on the line for the clippers has a warning. >> mr. ballmer's not going to stick around for years for this to wind through the courts. >> reporter: in fact, steve ballmer who insisted on these court proceedings to determine shelly sterling's authority to sell. the judge just said he'll start to hear this july 7th. it's like a trial format, four days, both sides present experts and it's going to get ugly again. >> you have other detail what was discovered during mental tests that he took with these
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neurologists. >> right. opinions from the doctors in court today. they say for the most part, donald sterling was cooperative, but one doctor says toward the end of one exam, when unable to perform a task, he became angry and said he couldn't do it. they tried to convince him to do it. he took one more look at exam of the task and said, i can't do it, threw down his pen, walked out of the room, expressing frustration. >> suggestions going back to the beginning heard saying racist things in that audiotape that was released, some people saying you know if you're suffering from early stages of dementia or alzheimer's you wind up saying stupid, ridiculous things from time to time you can't control what you're saying. evidence in the medical reports that could have been one of his problems, why he was saying these awful things? >> this does not explain why he was saying those things to v. stiviano on the tape. shelly sterling said early on she thinks he's got dementia. we asked doctors, do you say racist things, maybe things that
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just released by the las vegas police from inside a walmart around the time the two suspects in the deadly shooting spree were killed. this as authorities are revealing critical new details in the investigation. cnn national correspondent is working the story for us. she's in las vegas. tell us what's going on. this video specifically. >> reporter: well, the video is very disturbing. want to be very clear with our audience you do not see shots fired but it does give you a look at those final moments inside that walmart store. >> looks like they're shooting at each other. >> reporter: in the chaotic final moments in the shootout between the millers and police, officers thought amanda miller seen here raising and pointing her handgun at her husband fired the shot that killed jared miller seen here at the top. but forensic and autopsy results show police had by now already fired what would be the fatal
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bullet. both are wounded and bleeding. >> she's not now. >> reporter: we're stopping the video as amanda miller turns the gun on herself. >> female just shot herself in the head. >> the reason that you're not seeing if the video prior to this or subsequent to this is because it is very graphic. >> reporter: investigators release this video saying it gives a window into the brutality of the killers. minutes earlier they had murdered joseph wilcox who tried to stop the millers with his concealed handgun inside a walmart. nearby pizza shop, i fwrks or soldo and alyn beck, on their bodies placing a swastika and draping them with a flag used by anti-government groups. >> you and me versus the world. >> reporter: how jared miller viewed his position in the world, posting a number of videos on social media expre expressing hay threat for the government and law enforcement. we learned today las vegas officers never saw them. what's more, specially trained
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counterterrorism detectives in the las vegas police department did go to the miller's apartment four months ago. why? jared miller threatened indiana's dmv office saying he would shoot anyone who took his suspended indiana driver's license. >> the male subject claimed that he used different terminology than what the indiana dmv had told us, but ultimately at the end of the conversation, those three seasoned detectives did not determine that there was a potential for an ongoing threat at that time. >> reporter: so why did the police decide to release this video right now? well, in the first news conference they had said that the wife appeared to shoot her husband. they wanted to correct the record. but they also, wolf, wanted people to understand. >> they spoke about the weapons. what do we know? >> what we know, there were two handguns the suspects used
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including a shotgun. three weapons in all they carried on their rampage. we learned none of those guns were registered. one of them was legally purchased. as far as the whereabouts of the other, wolf, they're trying to track that down with the help of the atf, wolf. >> the two police officers were shot and killed but other officers involved in the shootout, what about them? how are they doing? >> reporter: yeah, we don't want to forget about the number of officers involved here. in the initial response, especially in that walmart. we did learn there were three officers who did exchange gunfire with the suspects and this is an extraordinary story that we learned in the news conference. one of the officers actually went home because he thought he was done and found shrapnel in his leg when he took his clothing off. he drove himself to the hospital. he's doing fine. as far as the rest of the police department, wolf, i can tell you from having spoken to the officers here, they are all shaken to the core because they
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feel that this was an assassination-style takedown. wolf? >> what about the community? how are folks doing where you are? >> reporter: you know, it's extraordinary. we cover these, unfortunately, on a regular basis. this one in particular has hit this community very hard. if you've been to las vegas, you know this is a community of service as well as tourism, employees. they don't have a lot to do with each other. you're seeing neighbors come out of the woodwork, going to memorials, meeting each other, talking about these officers, two particular officers at length, wolf. >> kyung lah, thank you. coming up, islamist terrorists too ruthless even for al qaeda capture another iraqi city. half a million civilians and security forces are fleeing for their lives. eric cantor speaking out getting ready to bow out after a stunning primary upset. what that unprecedented defeat means for the gop.
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happening now, this ruthless terrorist group with ties to al qaeda seized control of more crucial territory in iraq. the survival of a country where thousands of americans fought and died may now be in danger. plus, the house majority leader eric cantor speaking out about his jaw dropping primary defeat and what it means for his party. now we'll hear from the professor and political newcomer who ousted him. and a security crackdown in brazil. just hours before the opening match of the world cup. we're following the fears as well as the fans who can't wait for the start of the games. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." right now, hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing for their lives, some of the most feared terrorists in the world capture yet another major
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city in iraq. even government troops they're on the run, withdrawing from territory seized by an islamist group that even al qaeda views as too ruthless. iraq's future is now at risk along with the legacy of america's long and costly war there. let's get the latest from our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto. >> you know, wolf, during the u.s. invasion of iraq, i was in mosul, takrit. to see them falling to the hands of militants is alarming. it's considered too brutal even for al qaeda, and now this group controls large parts both of syria and iraq. this is iraq, 11 years after the u.s. invasions. three years after the u.s. withdrawal. and now in a state of crisis. after capturing mosul, iraq's
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second largest city, islamic militants are boldly pushing on. taking over saddam hussein's hometown, the oil refining town of biji, and nearing the capital, baghdad. iraqi security forces following years of training and billions of dollars in weaponry from the u.s. have melted away. leaving checkpoints unmanned and stripping themselves of their uniforms. their american-supplied humvees, claim american websites, now in the hands of al qaeda tied terrorists. today, iraq's foreign minister said his country's very survival is at stake. >> i hope this incident really will lead all iraqi leaders to come together to face this serious threat to the country. >> reporter: u.s. officials say there are early signs of iraqi crews coming together with government forces to respond to the attacks and today national
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security adviser susan rice said the u.s. will provide support under its strategic framework agreement with iraq. >> we must do more to strengthen our partners' capacity to defeat the terrorist threat on their home turf by providing them the necessary training, equipment, and support. >> reporter: former u.s. ambassador to baghdad, jim jeffries, says washington must urgently do more including providing air support to attack the militants. >> this is no longer a messy situation, it's a catastrophe for the people of iraq, american policy and for the entire reg n region. this is an extremely dangerous situation. it appears that no force can stop these people. >> u.s. help for now has been limited to training and arm sales including f-16 and apache helicopters both recently approved but not yet delivered. things that would certainly be very useful in pushing back advances. i asked the white house and pentagon of how the u.s. will
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respond with the situation deteriorating rapidly. here's what nse spokesman told me. she said we have expedited shipments of military equipment since the beginning of the year and expanded our training programs inside iraq and jordan. officials are considering other options. they won't say what those options are but you get a sense they're watching the situation extremely closely. they're very concerned. >> these cities are falling. fallujah, takrit, mosul, a city of 2 million people have now fled. nuri al maliki, shiite leader, prime minister of iraq is suggesting iraqi/sunni soldiers, taking off their uniforms. he says there's a conspiracy and they are fleeing. >> it's a damning charge. u.s. officials say there's no evidence of a conspiracy specifically, but here's the thing. the iraqi military was meant to be a unifying force for iraq to bring together the kurds in the north, shiites in the south, sunnis in the west.
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to be something of an identity for the country. there are, though, some positive signs now. you hear shiites in the south promising forces to respond. the kurds working with the iraqi military. question is, are they up to the task? so far, doesn't look like it. >> jim, hold on for a minute. i want to bring in bobby gosh, "time" international, former baghdad bureau chief. he knows the subject well. here's the key question right now, a question i never thought we'd be asking at least at this point. is baghdad next? how vulnerable is the capital of iraq? given these other cities that have now been taken over by these al qaeda affiliated islamist terrorists? >> wolf, logic suggests that baghdad should be the safist space in iraq, that is where the elite iraqi troops, if there is such a thing exists anymore, that's where the elite iraq canky troops are positioned. however, if you told me a week ago that mosul might have fallen, i would have told you the same thing, a city that big cannot possibly fall to a fairly
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small group of terrorists. so the big question is will those soldiers surrounding baghdad, will they stand and fight? if they do, then with only 8,000 or 9,000 men, they are stretched quite thin across the length of iraq. and they should quite easily be -- but if the iraqi soldiers don't stand and fight, any city can be taken. >> the iraqi soldiers, bobby, in mosul, they didn't stand and fight. they took off their uniforms. they left. these forces, these insurgents, whatever you want to call them, they came in. they took over the city. they took over the banks. there are reports that they've already ransacked those banks to a tune of about a half a billion dollars and all of that u.s. military equipment that american troops left behind now in the hands of these guys. what's going on? >> well, the -- mosul is the most shocking of all, because among other things, mosul has an
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illustrious history as a city that has provided many of iraq's military commanders over the decades. and mosul, people of mosul take pride in that military leadership history. so, it is especially damning when a city like that falls. in baghdad, what maliki and some other shiite leaders seem to be trying to do in addition to having the military, they're trying to raise shiite militias. that was not the case in the north which tends to be mostly kurdish and sunni. if the shiite militias can stand alongside the iraqi military and hold back the advance, then baghdad has a chance, but it is a pretty damning thing when the prime minister of the country feels it necessary to call on private militias is stand up and protect the capital. >> it sounds to me, jim, you've been studying this, it looks like they're going back to the battle days in iraq of a civil war. maybe like in syria where you got the sunnis on one side, the
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shiites on another side. we had hoped, of course, that that was over with, but it looks like they're getting back into that. >> yeah. that's the worry. you have muqtada al shara trying to reconvene the army, if you remember from the mid 2000s. if that's the secret so solving this problem. that's a real problem that you're reverting to these, as bobby said, these ethnic militias. also bigger picture as well. this shows the limit of the train and equip strategy of the obama administration that you've seen in iraq, you've seen it in libya, in mali, other places where you've trained up those troops and those troops often haven't been up to the task of pushing back islam irkic forces that's a cautionary trial as the u.s. plans to remove forces from afghanistan. >> back in 2003, bobby, the president, president george w. bush, he was upbeat looking to
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iraq's future. listen to what he said. >> liberated iraq. can show the power of freedom. to transform that vital region by bringing hope and progress into the lives of millions. america's interests in security and america's belief in liberty both lead in the same direction to a free and peaceful iraq. >> that was the hope, bobby. i remember when i was in palusia in mosul back in 2005 even then i was there with the central commander. there were a lot of concerns at the time that this was not necessarily going to work out as so many had hoped. >> yes, i was in baghdad and watching that speech on television with a number of iraqi friends. and colleagues. and there was a brief moment for
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maybe the summer of 2003 when that hope existed, but it was then put out very quickly by some very poor decisions by the bush administration and then beyond that after the american withdrawal by a series of incredibly poor decisions by nuri al maliki, the prime minister then. so there are no iraqis left i'm pretty sure who are holding on to that hope anymore. >> those hopes have clearly faded. bob bobby, jim sciutto. still ahead, eric cantor on his shocking primary defeat and next move. plus, we'll meet the man who toppled the most powerful republican in the house of representatives. we're going live to brazil for the latest on the preparations for the world cup. fans there are eagerly awaiting the opening match that begins just hours from now.
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now, while i intend to serve out my term as a member of congress in the seventh district of virginia, effective july 31st, i will be stepping down as majority leader. it is with great humility that i do so, knowing the tremendous honor it has been to hold this position. >> the number two republican in the house of representatives, eric cantor, revealing his next move just hours after his jaw-dropping primary defeat that's likely to be a game changer here in washington. one of cantor's colleagues says this huge new loss for the gop establishment is sending shivers down the spines of republicans out there. the man who toppled cantor said he's shocked he actually won. joe johns is in richmond, virginia, where the election stunned almost everyone, shall we say.
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what is going on? what is the latest, joe? >> reporter: well, wolf, we're outside his headquarters here in a strip mall in the richmond area. he had a lot of help from an incumbent who was seen as disconnected from his district, but dave brat for his part did push big tea party issues including amnesty, including immigration. it all worked out for him in something like a perfect storm. dave brat was such a long shot even he did not think he could beat the house majority leader. >> this is the happiest moment obviously of my life. >> reporter: brat raised just over $200,000 for his campaign. nearly the same amount eric cantor's campaign spent at steakhouses. according to "the new york times." he was as unprepared for victory as he was for the tough questions. here is how he responded when asked about arming the syrian rebels. >> i thought we were just going to chat today about the celebratory aspects. >> reporter: it was an inauspicious welcome to national politics for a college economics
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professor who has never held office. he teaches at randolph macon college. the same skchool where his democratic opponent is on the faculty who will face him in the november election. though brat claimed allegiance to tea party ideals, he did not attract financial support from any of the major tea party groups. political writer jeff shapiro of the richmond "times dispatch." >> sometimes ideas are bigger than dollars. fewer votes make for bigger surprises. >> reporter: what may have helped brat most was cantor, himself, whose disconnect from the district led to his downfall. >> i honestly wasn't very impressed. too closed minded. >> it's kind of a lose/lose situation. i'm happy cantor lost. i'm not sure how happy i am about the guy that won. >> reporter: it's on to the general election now. this is a strong republican district. it's pretty clear they have traded in one of the most powerful republicans in congress for a member who is likely to be
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on the back bench of the house of representatives. wolf? >> joe johns in richmond, virginia, for us. thanks. let's bring in our chief national correspondent, john king. he's the anchor of cnn's "inside politics." and our political commentator, ryan lizza of the "new yorker" magazine. so does this mean nothing is going to get done in washington for the rest of this year? what do you think? >> sure looks that way. the republicans will now have this leadership election and fairly or unfairly eric cantor was viewed and dave brat campaigned against him as somebody who wanted to be a governing conservative, open to a modest deal with the president on immigration, someone defending the banks and, you know, wall street here. and so if you're a politician, you're cautious anyway. if you're a republican, now you're nervous. you're going to have a new leadership that will be more conservative than the current republican leadership. and they believe the message from this election is, you know, don't do business with president obama. could that change in a month or two? maybe. but as of tonight, no. >> so is the republican establishment the big loser here in this race in virginia? >> yes. no doubt about it. i mean, you know, i spent a lot
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today just listening to this guy's stump speech. >> dave brat? >> dave brat. what did he really campaign on? a lot of the conversation has been about immigration. at the end of the campaign, there's no doubt that sort of was the issue that crystalized in the race. he spent the spring talking about government collusion with big business. he tied eric cantor to wall street. he tied eric cantor to corporate interests and lobbyists in washington. some ways he sounded almost like elizabeth warren on the left. so he ran this very populist, you know, conservative campaign against big business. and this more than i think immigration even is becoming the big fault line in the republican party. there's a rise in this anti-wall street sentiment. and even when he talked about immigration, he talked about it not as an anti-immigrant proposition, but as something that was a boone to big business. big business was just going into washington and lobbying for cheap supply of labor. >> he is an economics professor
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so he sees it from the economic standpoint. here's what eric cantor said about what maybe should be his successor. listen to this. >> i don't know who it is that will actually be running. i can tell you that if my dear friend and colleague, kevin mccarthy does decide to run, i think he'd make an outstanding majority leader. and i will be backing him with my full support. >> so what do you make -- some people say that's a kiss of death right now. >> mccarthy probably wishes he'd say that publicly and not privately though they're good friends. the national tea party groups had nothing to do with happened on the ground in virginia's seventh congressional district. this was totally indigenous to the district back home and dave brat's campaign. however, they now see an opportunity. remember, mitch mcconnell and boehner hope to get through this campaign, by crushing in mitch mcconnell's word, the tea party challengers and tell the tea party sit down, shut up, you're loud but can't win elections. they just won a big election. they just won a big election.
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they don't like kevin mccarthy. don't want anyone from the existing republican leadership to get this job. they schedule the house floor, set the calendar agenda. they don't trust jane boehner and don't want the number to be a boehner confidant. >> kevin mccarthy is from california and there's a movement among conservatives in house saying we need someone in the house leadership who's from a red state. kevin mccarthy gets elected, he's from a conservative district. >> you think there could be a nice little fight going on? >> no doubt about it. mccarthy is trapped now. this will turn into establishment versus tea party no matter what mccarthy does. >> buck mckeon the last hour told me he wants mccarthy all the way. >> he's most likely a boehner ally. those associated with the leadership, that's why they're scheduling the election a week from friday. they want to get this over
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quickly. those with leadership positions are already recognized. kevin mccarthy counts the votes, made a few mistakes counting votes. you have pete sessions, some other conservatives. the question is, do the conservatives sort of box each other out, not get enough votes in the process or quickly realize, you know, you have a better chance than him and you unite around one? that's what we'll see the next several days. >> did he make dave brat a big issue of eric cantor saying the so-called dreamers, kids who were brought here by their parents illegally, they should have some sort of legal status? was that a big issue for dave brat? >> seemed like a huge issue. big issue on talk radio. remember, he didn't have superpacs. he had talk radio. brat tdid not have money but conservative talk radio hosts that championed him at the end and powered the voters to the polls over the weekend. so absolutely, this issue with what's going on on the border seems to have really broken through over the weekend. >> the other notion he was supposedly too arrogant for his
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district. >> look, you can sell unpopular positions if you're connected and have a bond with voters in your district. lindsey graham won last night in a race where people thought early on he would be a tea party target. he says he's for comprehensive immigration reform that has legal status or citizenship. >> upsponsored the bill in the senate. >> eric cantor was sitting in a starbucks with lobbyists. listen, al gore would be president if you went home to tennessee. eric cantor says he went home a lot. he clearly wasn't listening and clearly wasn't getting in the local newspapers and local talk radio at the ribbon cuttings. good politician not only goes home but gets in the play. >> something very tragic about it because cantor has tried to sort of ride this tiger of the tea party, embracing it, separating it and it finally overthrew him. >> ryan, john, guys, thanks very much. just ahead, the world cup kickoff. with just hours to go, fans are in a frenzy. is brazil ready? i'm their mom at the playground and i'm his mom at the dog park. the kids get trail mix, and here's what you get
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certainly one of the biggest sporting events on the planet. the world cup. it's about to begin. officials in brazil are scrambling to get everything ready for tomorrow's opening match amid concerns about delays, protests, maybe possible violence. cnn's fred pleitgen is joining us from rio right now. how does it look, fred? >> reporter: looks very good. the the atmosphere is absolutely amazing, wolf. the past couple of days we'