good evening, thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news, the fight for iraq. cities continue to fall under the control of radical militant. will militant of the islamic state in iraq and syria. we will have more on who they are exactly and what they want in a moment. as for what they are doing right now, a violent surge through

iraq threatening the capital of baghdad. state-run television says the iraqi military has taken back control of the city of that kreet which had appeared to have fallen day ago. it is called extremely urgent. here is what president obama said today. >> my team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them. i don't rule out anything. because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foot hold in either iraq or syria for that matter. >> the white house spokesman jay carney says the united states is not contemplating ground troop but airstrikes are being considered. iraq's military carried out their own airstrikes overnight. we are joined from iraq with the latest. we heard isis continuing to push through the country. what's the latest you're hearing

right now? >> reporter: well, anderson, they are still maintaining a very firm grip over the city of mosul. when it comes to the oil-rich city of kirkuk, they took that over, but not by iraqi security forces who would by and large abandon their positions but by the kurdish fighting force. we spent the bulk of our day at one of the border crossings into northern iraq. the region of kerg stan on the main road that would lean towards mosul, some had gone into the areas around mosul. recovering from iraqi military vehicles that had been abandoned. we also continued to see a flood of refugees coming to seek safe haven here, anderson. >> like fleeing cities, you say they weren't necessarily fleeing from the isis. >> yeah, that's what was quite interesting in speaking to them.

especially at this stage, a few days after isis took over mosu li. it is bizarre how they described the situation. because they say it was normal, it was fine. yes, there are fighters on the street and there is no real semblance after rule of law but they weren't carrying out mass executions. there was running water. it shows the psyche of the iraqi population after more than a decade of war for what it is they find to be important. interesting too, anderson, was a flow of p em going back to mosul, saying they preferred to live under this relative bizarre stability that has been created byisis, rather than under the thumb of the iraqi security force who they view as being a shia force dispatched by the predominantly shia government, really underscoring the dynamics

of all of this. and that is the growing tensions between the sunni and shia populations. >> so people you saw going back were sunni obviously? >> yeah, they were for the most part. an they were from the mosul area. some of them were saying they even welcomed isis. not viewing them as terrorists but actually viewing them as being revolutionaries. this is very much part of this broader battle that we're seeing between the sunni and shee why populations here in iraq. but also the battle ground in neighboring syria. and a lot of people will tell you that for the country to be able to move out of this, it would require a certain political maturity by the part of key iraqi players that at this stage does not necessarily exist. how has isis been able to gain so much control at this stage? anderson, it is also supported by by other insurgent groups here. >> no doubt about that. stay safe.

end game of isis sipt across the region. something that has been down across the towns it controls. women have it stay inside. cover themselves from head to toe when they go out. boys and girls are separated. music is banned. we want to look at the isis, who they are, and what they say they want. >> brutal, well-organized and well financed. in iraq and syria, also known as isis, is wrapped into the world's most dangerous gee addist organization. its method so extreme al qaeda itself disevowed any relationship with it. led by the u.s. withdraw in iraq, continuing syrian war and hostility between different muss him groups to grow and influence and bolster ranks. its goal is synonymous with its

name. to set up in the middle east. and with advances in iraq, that goal appears to be closer. isis now controls crucial swaths of territory from aleppo to baghdad and threatened to advance on the capital itself. isis was originally known as the islamic state of iraq. it was tasked as creating a sectarian war during the u.s.-led occupation. but its current leader has a larger vision for the group. he assumed control of isis in 2010 at age 39. a religious scholar who claims to be a direct descendant to the prophet mohammed. ruthless tactics inspired thousands and many call him the new osama bin laden. as isis has grown, it has assumed the responsibility of not just a government group but as a power.

isis rules through fear be imposing shee why law and holding public flogging and execution to keep people in check. with each city it conquers its power and influence grows. joining me now is former fbi agent and former cua and senior official. i appreciate both of you being with us. ali, let's start with you. isis, how real is the threat from them? >> i mean, it's pretty real, anderson. as you mentioned in your report, it was started by al qaeda in iraq. they got the -- they split from al qaeda. the reason for the split is not because of the ruthlessness, isis is ruthless but it is basically an ego, clash of personality between him and saturday wary. >> are they able to hold city like mosul? >> i don't think they will be able to hold mosul in the

long-term. in iraq. they have been successful in holding territory in syria. they hold different areas that they control and syria was very significant for isis. because in syria, they actually changed their strategy from hit and run to lit and hold. >> now because of the experience, they are leveraging sectarian and especially in the area of the sunni triangle to move the same modis op ran eye in iraq. >> fingers have been pointed. some say the u.s. is to blame. they blame the obama administration. otheris say mall can i. how do we get here? where do you see the responsibility for this? certainly mall can i plays a huge ral role in this because for years, the u.s. and others were try to encourage him to reach out to sunni groups. something he really resisted. >> i think we have a real

problem assessing this in america because believe it or not we believe that that democracy is inherently good. when we are have divides like the sunni/shia divide, in this case you have a winner that is malachi who says i represent the shia, i don't represent the others. in this case the transition to democracy isn't working because those who win don't represent the minority. we got a problem here in iraq. it is not a problem with what the americans did. it is not a problem with the foreign fighters. it is a problem with government that doesn't represent the people. >> frankly, ali, is a u.s. involved at all part of the answer? there are those that say, they couldn't do it with a thousand american troops on the ground, this will just antagonize different groups.

>> i think it is unfortunate to think of just iraq and mosul in the last 24 hours. it is an overspill of the syrian war. if we want it do anything in iraq to help the situation in iraq then the military option is not enough. we have to pressure malachi to be -- >> the pressure has been since he's been in office. >> the surge was early on. there are few people who were prime ministers, even have you alawi and then before -- anyway. so he wasn't the only person ruling iraq. yes, malachi hasn't been in person, he has been fuelled by iraq and shia is a tool for iran. and we haven't been that involved in the region period.

but i agree with phil, this issue is not only u.s. problem. this has to do with syria. this has to do with iran. this has to do with saudi arabia. this has to do with the escalating tension all over the region. all over the middle east. and this has to do with the choice that middle eastern people have today. especially most of the people. a choice between either live under dictatorship or islamic extremism. >> the whole idea of the iraqi army flooded with money and training from the united states, given a lot of equipment is that it would be nationalizing force. from a lot of reports, it seems like, sunni or basically, you know, giving up, a lot of the shia are taken off the uniforms and running away. >> yeah, i think we got to take a chill pill here. look, when i was at ci, we had catastrophe and attacks in indonesia, smalla, yemen, saudi

arabia, now attacks in madrid, london. every time something happens, we are so short-sided, i can say what's the context. this dog has not hunted yet. this story is not over. they took some territory. not all locals support them. not all tribals support them. there are differences among the insurgen insurgence, especially in syria. before we write this off, we better look at all of the elements and assess it more completely before we go breathless. >> and baghdad is not going to fall? >> i don't think so. i think the threat will be contained. i think there is a lot of different factors that will present isis to be spread its control and power over the region. and i think you're going to see the kuwaitis getting involved, saudis getting involved. not only iranians but sunni and shia. it is not just a threat against

shia, but also against moderate sunni regimes. >> great to have you on the program. set your dvr to watch 360 whenever you like. coming up, bowe bergdahl said to arrive. we will see letters he wrote while held captive by taliban. those are released. and big bucks on capitol hill. the most powerful potion come with huge price talgs. we look at where the money is coming from and where it is going. talgs. we look at where the money is coming from and where it is going. atalgs. we look at where the money is coming from and where it is going. gtalgs. we look at where the money is coming from and where it is going. stalgs. we look at where the money is coming from and where it is going. s. we look at where the money is coming from and where it is going. . we look at where the money is coming from and where it is going.

well, we have more breaking news tonight, news that sergeant bowe bergdahl's family and friends have been waiting to hear for five long years. right now he is on his way back to the united states. he has been in germany since his release. scheduled to appear in san antonio, texas, he will start the next phase of the process of re-integrating back into the life before he was captured by the taliban. we're learning more about that captivity. and letters that bergdahl wrote himself. more from jim sciutto joining me from washington. so what do we know about the condition bowe bergdahl is in now and why the military decided to bring him back? >> reporter: well, i'll tell you, the military considers his position a private matter.

we hear he he's been improving everyday.e he's been improving everyday. he's been improving everyday.he's been improving everyday. but i'll tell you speaking to experts the trip home is a jarring, traumatic experience, if he was not ready for it they wouldn't have him on the plane. so that proves he is ready for this next step. >> there is a plan in place from the people in the air with him to what his routine will be once he's here, right? >> reporter: it is incredible, i just looked into this. but they have been practicing for this since the moment he disappeared five years ago. there is a team involved, literally practicing every six months. everybody down to two pilots flying the plane prepared for this. and when he lands a whole support network, doctors, psychiatrists, chaplain, public affairs specialist, even a financial affairs specialist, all the things he might need in terms of coming back into his old life after five years away. >> i assume that means the military has not interrogated

him, questioning him about his dipearance. do we know if he he has talked to his family? >> as for his family we're told he has not talked to them. what we do know about the process back home, well, in san antonio, where he is going the family would have been sent there before his arrival, staying in a hotel. the accommodation nearby with quick access to him when he is ready. but the first meeting, for people who have been in captivity for so long, might only be 15 to 20 minutes the first day. like everything, everything is parceled out as he can handle it. >> yeah, i talked to others who came back and said 20 or 30 minutes with their family, even that was overwhelming. thanks very much. as i said, we learned about bowe bergdahl's captivity and how he felt when he was in afghanistan. not the full picture by any means. bergdahl hasn't spoken publicly

since his release. we're getting insight from two letters he wrote while in captivity. "the daily beast" said they got in touch with two sources, and that u.s. and western officials confirmed they are authentic. bergdahl asked the united states government to reserve judgment about his case, to wait for evidence to come in about why he left. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: it is dated march 23rd 2013, sent from sergeant bowe bergdahl back to his parents in idaho. in it, bergdahl hints why he walked away from his unit in 2009. in the letter, he writes leadership was lacking if not nonexistent. the conditions were bad and looked to be getting worse through the men that were actually the ones risking their lives from attack. the daily beast contributor got the letters from her contacts from inside the taliban. >> everything is misspelled. so it is hard to know, did he dictate these for somebody else to write for him?

was he even allowed to hold the pen? was he saying what the taliban told him to say? >> reporter: in that same letter, bergdahl also references an investigation perhaps due to his disappearance. he writes, if this letter makes it to the usa, tell them there are more sides to the situation. he signs it on an upbeat note, writing things well, miss id, meaning idaho, then his name. bergdahl's first letter to his parents dated november 27, 2012 includes this drawing of a paw print at the end. that is a sign his letter is authentic. >> apparently that is something he used to do with letters from afghanistan. >> reporter: in that 2012 letter, bergdahl understandably seems confused about where he

is. the letters return address reads taliban's war address. some of the lines are blocked out. it is not clear who did that or why "the daily beast" reports that is how the letters arrive to bergdahl's parents' home. the letter says, i am as well as could be, i am given food and drink. in this letter he talks about faith and the universe, just because we can't understand the master equation does not mean that it is not there adding math is god's code for this universe and beyond. i miss you all. >> it starts logically but then it transitions into something very hard to read and very hard to understand. was he just taking advantage of the chance he had to spend as much time as possible writing without being held in the cage? >> reporter: perhaps, or maybe he was simply holding onto a lifeline, desperate to get home. randi kaye, cnn, new york.

>> joining me now, david rhode, who was in afghanistan reporting for "the new york times" when he was kidnapped by the taliban and held for seven months, i wondered about your reaction to these letters obtained by the daily beast. >> they're very familiar, i exchanged letters with my wife when i was in captivity. some of these have been held in afghanistan and they took messages to the taliban families. the problem with the letters, i think they're authentic, as bowe bergdahl is writing them he has the taliban watching. he is writing and they make copies. he is essentially writing this note under duress. like he wouldn't want to write anything that would anger his captors. these are important letters but i don't think it is the full story of why he left the base.

and they say they are in afghanistan. but they were hiding the fact, when i would write, we were in pakistan. >> "the washington post" also thoughts give a look at some of the issues he has been having. >> right, they were very sad, they were writings that as he was increasingly disenchanted. some of the letters don't make sense. was he struggling with mental health issues, did he have a breakdown as he walked off the base? he may have simply deserted. but it is troubling when you see the letters and his mental state seems to be -- >> and even in these letters, the daily beast, seem to go off on a tangent that don't really make sense. >> and when i wrote my letters in captivity, i thought maybe it was the last letter i would get to my family.

you are trying to offer them solace, i told my family in one of the last videos made, none of this is your fault. i made the decision to go to the interview. >> you were really trying to send the message that if this was it you wanted it to become a positive last message? >> yes, so again, who knows what he is trying to communicate. he may be struggling, hanging onto a thread you know as randi kaye said. so it is a desperate situation . >> the bottom line is until we hear from him and the investigators in the military hear from him there is a lot we simply don't know. for you the trip back to the united states, how significant was that? i mean, there is getting out of captivity and getting medical attention but actually coming back to the united states. >> i mean, it is a big change, a joyous thing, i was not there as long as we was. i flew from bagram to dubai. met my brother and wife. i took a commercial flight back

to jfk to new york. >> must have been surreal. even in the dubai airport with all the gold for sale. >> i'm telling you, bowe bergdahl, my guess is elated as he flies home right now. i got home to the apartment where my wife was, and kissed the sidewalk, my wife said, honey, this is new york. >> on the street, what's going on. people just walk by. he is elated to be home. he has many questions to answer but i just think he is at the beginning of a very long process. >> david, good to have you on, as always you can find more about the story on cnn.com, drew griffin showing just how much money the most powerful people in congress are expected to raise for their parties if they want the job, to keep power. plus, we'll talk to the principal of columbine high school, finally retiring after fulfilling the promise he made 15 years ago.

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doesn't buy victory. his opponent, dave brat, spent more than that on food, $160,000 just on food. spending hundreds of thousands to wine and dine donors. cantor outspent brat by a ratio of 40 to 1. one quote, i think the party is going to be losing one of its top two fundraisers in the house, the speaker, john boehner, the only one who raised more money. and drew griffin tonight drills down on what it takes to land the plum jobs on capitol hill. >> reporter: it is a chilly march evening in washington and a rite of spring for the

republican party is about to take place. a strong wind whips the valets but nothing can stop the parade of money walking into the national building museum. this invitation only gala for the national republican committee has just one goal. every republican member of congress is expected to bring a pile of cash for the party. where do they get it? mostly lobbyists, of course. special interests, people and businesses who want to buy influence in washington. and find oh, so willing members of congress whose party bosses demand they take that money. republicans on this one night raised $15 million. the fundraising goals are clearly posted inside the office of the republican's congressional campaign. this recent photo of the list shows the more power you have the more money you owe. >> the theory is the more powerful the committee the more senior your position, the more ability you have to extract money from people. >> author peter schweitzer says that is why he named his new book "extortion". >> to be a ranking committee, on

a subcommittee, a, b, c, d, like you said, it all has a price. >> it is a pay to play system, which is very troubling. it says if you have this position or want this position here is the amount of money you have to raise. if you don't want to raise quite that much there are other items on the menu. that is very troubling because if anything speaks to our system being for sale, that is the most powerful indictment. >> and as the spokesperson pointed out democrats do this, too. that is an understatement. the morning after the march republican dinner, new york democrat charlie rangel is getting dropped off at yet another routine breakfast fundraiser on washington's northwest side. rangel has won every general election he has been in since 1970 with more than 80% of the vote. for 14 years, not even a democrat challenged him in a primary.

although he is in a tough primary battle this year for the better part of four decades he has had almost no competition, yet he has raised and spent more than $24 million. >> so many years you have had absolutely no opposition. what do you guys do with the money that you raise for these fundraisers and campaigns when you don't have anybody to run against? >> probably help other candidates. >> handing out money to fellow colleagues to congressional campaign economies to party action committees, they contend it is how members of congress gain power and yes, buy votes. and it is why, need it or not, they keep raising it. case in point massachusetts congressman jim mcgovern. >> i hate raising money, it sucks, it is awful. the worst thing you can do. >> mcgovern has run unopposed in five of his last seven elections. when he has had an opponent, he out-spent him 10-1. despite hating to do it, mcgovern has spent nearly $10

million since being elected. his top donors? lawyers, saw firms and lobbyists, he may say he hates it but it has not stopped him. the governor has helped inside the lobby. >> if there was one guy who could say no to the special interest, no to the lobbyists, get out of my office, it would be you. >> well, first of all i think my record is one that reflects i'm not a pawn of special interests? >> but the cycle continues, you keep raising the money, when you don't need it i assume you give it to other people. you could have bank rolled it and kept it. in a war chest for yourself. and been able to tell -- these lobbyists go away. >> yeah, but you know -- i mean, i raised the money.

and you know -- because i don't know what is coming at me. if i don't need it i give it to other candidates. >> this election cycle, mcgovern is expected to pay $250,000 to the democratic party. as a rising party star he will raise and give away much more than that. >> and regardless of what either party says about getting rid of special interests this system is built in by them. this is their system. >> that is right, you know, either party says they're opposed to special interests, they have designed the system to reinforce and in a sense finance themselves based off of special interests. you couldn't design a better system to enhance the interlocking relationships between politics and special interest than this pay-to-play system of so-called party dues that governs what happens in the house of representatives. >> you know, it is so fascinating to see this stuff. nobody is talking about changing it, drew, which is essentially

the pay-to-play system. >> not at all. they mostly don't want to talk about this. when they do they blame it on the system that is in place in washington. this is what they have to do, that is what they all tell us. what they fail to mention is they created the system. you have to bring money to play. >> and washington did side with somebody with almost no money. >> yeah, it is going to be interesting to watch. cantor got beat and his money didn't help him. that is true, anderson. but if dave brat gets elected and makes it to washington he will learn how the game is played. critics contend if he doesn't get in line and raise money, the republican party has the power to effectively make him powerless. same can be said for the democrats. and just ahead, 15 years ago a principal of columbine made a promise to see his student and school through the dark days. he kept that promise. i'll talk to him now.

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reynolds high school in oregon, and seattle pacific university are in a club nobody wants to join. emilio hoffman was gunned down, in his locker room, tuesday. emilio was 15. paul was 19. their deaths came 15 years after the columbine massacre, the first school shooting to unfold live on television, the gunman killed 13 people and then himself. frank deangelis was there, and made a promise to stay until every child who wanted to graduate from columbine high school did. it has taken a while, but his work is finally done. he is retiring, he joins me now. you know, frank, just in the last few weeks there have been three school shootings. i wonder what goes through your mind every time you hear that another one happens. >> unfortunately, it takes me back, anyone in the columbine community back to where we were

over almost 15 years ago. and even though it is a different school, a different state sometimes, a different country, we relive what we experienced 15 years. we're re-traumatized. >> president obama spoke about these school shootings saying that the united states is the only developed country where this happens. and no other country would put up with this. to you is that where the solution lies, stronger gun control? how do you see it? >> what i really believe in my heart. and i get asked this question every time there is a school shooting and i know the politicians will argue this point. but what i see is we need to do is spend money on these kids who are struggling, mental health situations. they don't come out of their mother's womb hating. and we need to identify what is causing this hatred in their hearts. when i look at the pictures with these killers in a very early age whether they are playing in

their soccer uniform, how can they turn into these cold hearted killers, or psychopaths. we company cannot underestimate the amount that needs to be put into these kids so we can identify what is happening so they don't go out and carry out what they are doing, as far back as columbine. >> do you think back to the day of the killings at columbine? >> i think the most difficult thing for me is when on that horrific day i ran out of my office right into the gunfire. and that is something that will remain with me for the rest of my life. and what made it even more difficult is finding out that if dave sanders, my dear friend, did not come up the stair case at the time he did, i probably would have been dead. so i immediately got help. and one thing he has been able

to help me do is re-program my mind that when i walk out of my office i no longer see that day, kids lying in blood. i had to re-program. and now i am envisioning what they kids did when they were alive. >> and do you think of the tragedy when you think of columbine? >> correct, and unfortunately when you hear the name "columbine" it is the same as symbolic with tragedy. and although it has been 15 years, students in our school today, some were not born, they say mr. d, when you go out and talk please tell them columbine is not a bad high school. we cannot deny what happened on that horrific day. we lost 13. our loved ones. we lost so many of our loved ones, so many people were impacted. but it also symbolizes the hope that 85% of our students go on to college. >> i want to bring up some video from your last school assembly. i know you always planned to kind of make it something very memorable. and it certainly is, i just want

them to take a look. i have never seen a school administrator do something like that in an assembly. explain what you were thinking. >> i am scared to death of heights. i went up, and all of a sudden the lift goes back and there was no turning back. and i'm flying. and the kids are loving it. and when i came back down the theme was you have to believe in yourself. and as much as you may fear something in your life sometimes you have to look fear in the face. and if you believe others will believe. so it tied in very well. >> i am a big believer in plunging into things you are scared of the most. and you certainly did that. it is a pleasure to talk to you. thank you so much. >> my pleasure, thanks, anderson. up next, called the humanitarian crisis right on our border. hundreds of unaccompanied kids, crossing our borders every single day.

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tonight we're taking a closer look at what president obama is calling a humanitarian crisis on our american border. he is not the only one calling it a crisis, at least 400 kids are crossing the border every day, overwhelming the facilities. and it is a human issue that divides the country and congress. we're not focusing on the politics but how they got here and what happens to them. gary tuchman has more. >> reporter: anderson, the influx of children and mothers and their children from central america to the united states is not slowing down. but we find that many of them are taking a pit stop in northern mexico just before they cross over into the united states. they are taking the pit stops at the migrant shelters. while they were there, they were planning on how to get into the

united states illegally. as we speak many of them may be on their way right now. there is also medical help. while we were there he was giving treatment for a man, a young man who has a serious cut on his hand from reaching on barbed wire on top of the border fence while he was trying to climb over. he did not successfully get over. most people when they try to get into the united states illegally, they try to avoid the barbed wire. it is easy to come into this country from mexico if you know where you're going or know the right people. this is the border fence, typically you can't climb over it or go through, but what the illegal immigrants do, they come

through areas, we're in the middle of nowhere, and this a little village like this, there is some barbed wire. but all you have to do when you are on the mexican side is take a little walk. no wire here, as you can see. this is one of the many areas where the influx of children has been coming through. right over here there is another water bottle up here. and really all you need to do. doesn't matter if you're old, young, sick or well, one foot here and in mexico. the border patrol gets angry if you go on the other side, even if you're a reporter. but this gives you an idea. but it is easy to do, 25 miles of wilderness, once you get here, most people have arrangements made to get past here through the cities of the united states. the fact is most of these people hire coyotes, human smugglers to get across the area to find these areas.

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priest in phoenix, arizona. one priest killed, the other critically wounded. in brazil, protesters clash with police just before the world cup got under way. demonstrators are outraged the government spent $11 billion for the tournament instead of on low income housing. schools and hospitals. cnn reporter got caught up in the crack down. she was hit in the arm. take a look. >> there is pushing back, as you can see. got to go. hit in my arm. >> a scare, but she is okay. her producer was hit, as well. but they are okay. in white plains, new york, an off-duty police officer is called a hero after doing this, pulling a man from his car at a gas station. the man survived. he blacked out just before the crash. and here is a thrilling way to celebrate, turning 90. former president george herbert

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