the secrets about the benghazi terror attacks, oneful most wanted men in the world now on a navy ship bound for the u.s. cnn spoke with him before he was caught. arm sergeant bowe bergdahl is getting the first glimpses of the firestorm following his release from captivity. honduras has a request for the united states, don't deport our kids. why they say the migrant children are better off on this side of the border. you are in the "newsroom." good morning, everyone. thank you so much for joining us today. i'm don lemon. we're going to begin with a lot of news following two big stories happening right now on capitol hill. general motors, mary barra in the hot seat.

she's testifying at this hour. the big guns are out anyminute now, chuck hagel and joint chiefs of staff chair will testify about the defense budget, the benghazi arrest and fighting in iraq looming large of course. we're going to start with gm chief mary barra testifying about why gm waited more than ten years with a recall link to 13 deaths. victims of loved ones spoke out last hour. >> november 15th, 2014 -- 2004 i was at the wheel of a saturn ion that veered off the road and struck a tree. killing my best friend. for the better part of ten years i've carried the unnecessary guilt, that i was the cause of michael's death that i was the

cause of a mother to lose her only song so tragically. that i was the cause of two girls crying for their dad. >> poppy harlow joins us now from washington. you've been following this story. >>. >> reporter: we know part of what we're going to hear, we've gotten her prepared remarks. she writes, this is a tragic problem that never should have happened, and it must never happen again. i will not rest until these problems are solved. she goes on to say i am not afraid of the truth. that part of her prepared remarks this morning. also testifying next to her will be former u.s. attorney anton valukas he was brought on gm to do that internal investigation. we're told he had complete access to every document, every employee, no restrictions to find out how this company could not have told the public about a deadly defect for more than a decade. here's what he's expected to tell lawmaker today about gm, we

found failures throughout the company, including individual errors, poor management, busineyzantine committee struct lack of training and inadequate policies. it was a scathing 300 page report. lawmaker didn't get a lot of answers last time when she asked whether or not it was a cover-up. >> she kept saying we're investigating. now she's not going to be able to say that. she's going to have to look at lawmakers and say here what's we know from our internal report. how gm engineers not have connected that this was not a customer inconvenience problem that their car was shutting off but this was a safety issue directly tied to the airbags not deploying. we know lawmakers will ask that. we'll ask the end of your investigation, one key thing she will play up is the safety changes that they have brought in a new head of safety.

they have doubled the amount of safety investigators. and as you know, the number of recalls that gm has made since this major ignition switch recall if february has been massive. what they are doing now is recalling pretty much everything but the kitchen sink that may have a tiny problem so they can never be pointed at again and saying you didn't recall soon enough and it caused -- it costs lives. we're going to head over the hill after this and be life for you later in the air there for what mary barra has to say. thank you, poppy. breaking news now out of iraq, oil giant exxon mobil scaryg out a major evacuation of his -- its staff. it has branch offices in baghdad and basra. bp also vee backity -- evacuating workers.

at one point, terrorists controlled most of the site. oil prices are at a nine-month high. president obama is going to discuss the crisis in iraq. there seems to be little agreement about what role we should be playing. >> anderson cooper, terrorist fighters seem to be approaching day by day. have government soldiers and civilian volunteers managed to thwart any of that advance. >> reporter: we've seen fighting up in the north, that oil refinally. the latest word i have on that, there are reports that some have fled but a core group are still there, are still holding that base and are still fighting off insurgents which basically

control entire area around that base. that would be a huge loss for the government if they lost the largest oil refinally in the origin. and a town about 37 or so miles from baghdad, security is tight here in the capital. there are a lot of checkpoints but as i've seen out on the streets over the last 24 hours here, tensions are high and everybody seems to be focused on what's happening in baquba. >> ooises forces and sunni militants continued their advance to baghdad, attacking the city of baquba. the push to baquba is another troubling sign for prime minister maliki who has seen his military unable to stop the militants advances. hundreds of thousands of iraqis are fleeing the fighting. on this road, entire families

took whatever possessions they could, even livestock. maliki and shia clerics have called for people to take up arms and fight. cnn cannot independently verify the video. on a baghdad treat, we met one young man selling shoes, he says he has already signed up to fight. on god's will, iraq will be stabilized. we will be victorious, we don't need any u.s. occupation or iran. we don't need any arab country. but with the fighting concerns sectarian divide is deepening. new signs of possible sectarian killings. days after videos up loaded by isis claimed to show mass killings of shia, nearly four dozen prisoners were killed as

militants seiged the city. they were shot to death at close range. allegations they were killed by iraqi police were denied by authorities which blamed the deaths on shelling by isis. also in baghdad, another troubling sign. four bodies were found in a largely shia neighborhood that had been shot at very close range. it's not clear if this is an isolated incident or this is a sign of rising sectarian violence. at the height of the killings here in baghdad in 2006 and 2007, sometimes there would be dozens of bodies every day that would be discovered, often with signs of torture, hands bound, sometimes holes drilled into their heads. >> certainly again, as i said, if that refinery held into isis hands that would be a huge blow for the government of maliki. >> we saw sort of what it was

like on day-to-day life in iraq. can you talk to us more for the average citizen? what is it like living lately in iraq? >> reporter: look, this is a country that as you well know has had decades now of war, decades of oppression. this is a place that is used to high levels of tension, high levels of uncertainty. so in many sideways -- ways, life is going on as normal in this capital. as you saw, there are stalls open in the street, shops are open, particularly early in the day. people are going about their business. people are going to work. this is a shia dominated city, so there's great confidence here among the shia in the city that the city itself is not going to fall. though militants may be, you know, less than 40 miles from here, in baquba, between here and there, there are more hardened troops, there are these

large numbers of shia volunteers who have signed up, thousands who have come from fighting over the last two years in syria. so they have now come back here to defend the capital. so there is a sense of optimism. i talk to a lot people in the street yesterday are they concerned, are they fearful of baghdad falling to a man they all know they can resist the forces that are nearby. it is kind of surreal in just how used to conflict people here are. you know, i think if there were enemy fighters outside new york city, people in the city would be understandably concerned. here, it's, you know, it's just one -- the latest thing to have happened in a long line of things that have been going on here for many years. >> thank you very much, anderson. stay safe. let's take a closer look now on this morning's news on oil

companies evacuating staff from iraq. iraq is the second largest opec oil producer if production drops off, prices are going to rise? >> if oil production is disrupted for a sustained period, don't be surprised to see oil prices rise. we're seeing about a third of a percent higher for oil prices rising not a big deal. no doubt about it, iraq is a huge player in oil production and exports. iraq produces about 3.3 million barrels a day. now there were hopes that iraqi oil production would actually increase this year. that doesn't look likely now. that could be putting more pressure on those oil prices as well. now the thinking is maybe saudi arabia would go ahead and raise production to make up the shortfall. there's no guarantee for that. also the problem analysts say we're in the peak demand period worldwide.

you see libya already off line. so this all adds to oil prices going higher which of course lead to higher gas prices as well. some analysts are saying 20 to 25 cents more per gallon for gas if this continues in iraq. >> thank you very much. we'll check back with you as well. the extraordinary circumstances in iraq can make even a mundane hearing in washington potentially interesting. and the pentagon's top men appear this hour. before the senate appropriations committee is where they are appearing. they are going to be talking there in just a moment. defense secretary chuck hagel joins martin dempsey making their appearances as part of this budget process. barbara, do you expect much focus on the crisis that's unfolding in iraq even though they are talking budget? >> reporter: well, they are talking budget. but expect to see at least some of these senators ask about the situation in iraq and hagel, we are told, will mention it as

part of, you know, ths burr juning unrest in the world. he will make the case as to who the budget needs to stay in the range of $495 billion a year. coming into the hearing room perhaps awkwardly because of iraq, unrest in libya, yemen, the fights with al qaeda affiliates around the world. the pentagon is facing about $50 billion in mandatory spending cuts from congress if they can't get that turned around and that's really what hagel is going to talk about. look at everything going on, look at what we're asking the u.s. military to do. we can't have more spending cuts right now. so while he might not have had a really strong case politically a couple of weeks ago, he certainly does today, don. >> barbara starr, we'll be watching. still to come, out of office and on the the attack.

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the ever changing situation over iraq has congressional leaders coming to the white house this afternoon for a meeting with the president. senate president harry reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell along with speaker of the house john boehner, minority leader nancy pelosi will be there. >> i can just imagine what our friends in the reeng, our allies will be thinking by reaching out to iran at a time when they

continue to pay for terrorism and foster terrorism, not only in syria, in lebanon but in israel as well. >> are there certain parameters of what you think is acceptable for u.s. involvement, whether it be 375 security people -- >> what i'm looking for is a strategy that will guarantee some success in keeping iraq free and propping up the democracy that we thought for everybody. i don't need to get into the specifics. the president needs to outline an overall strategy for success and i'm hopeful today in our meeting i'll hear from him. >> president obama getting ripped in the pages of the wall street journal this morning.

former vice president dick cheney pinning a scathing criticism of president obama. rarely has a u.s. president has been so wrong about the expense of so many too many times to count. mr. obama has told us he is ending the wars in iraq and afghanistan as though wishing made it so. his rhetoric has now come crashing into reality. watching the black clad isis jihadists take territory once secured by american blood is final broof, that america enemy ris are not decimated. do you first, just moments ago, senator harry reid slammed that cheney op ed. listen. >> this morning, there was an op ed piece in the wall street journal. now who would write that?

oubt dick cheney, just remind everyone, former vice president of united states who clearly was the chief architect of the war. mr. president, if there is one thing this country does not need, it's that we should be taking advice from dick cheney on wars. being on the wrong side of dick cheney is to be on the right side of history. >> what do you think? >> think i so too. in a certainly way that op ed tells us a lot more about the fact that liz cheney wants to run for office in the united states again. the reality is that if you read that op ed closely, you'll notice that cheney outlines a very broad critique of the president's foreign policy that makes a lot of fair and reasonable points but don't in the end offer a significant strategy for dealing with the

situation in iraq right now, and i think this is the problem facing the president is that there is a strong case that he and the white house should have worked harder to keep u.s. troops on the ground in some form there three years ago, but at this point, you can't unwine the clock to that situation. you are in a different situation, and iraq is basically two and a half countries at the moment. it's this broad swath of chaotic of territory controlled by militants. i haven't seen any strategy for propping up democracy that doesn't seem to exist any more. >> doesn't this ring untrue that it was cheney who signed the u.s. agreement withdrawing troops from iraq? when you read this, you have to suspend belief a little bit, wait a minute, dick cheney was

the reason we got into iraq and we got advice from iraq and intelligence was flawed. there's some legitimate concerns there but it's tough to get advice from dick cheney on this. >> the moint point is that the iranian government put pressure on shia politicians not to sign that sfa in the first place. they were the ones to yield more influence on iraqi politicians than we were. we were trying to facilitate their movement toward progress. the iranians had a more ideological agenda. >> should president obama have tried harder to have american forces remain on the ground instead of letting the previous agreement stand? was there any possibility that that would happen or was pally can i never going to let troops stay there. >> the one thing had that

happened, it would have allowed u.s. advisers to actually see the plitization of forces taking place. in order to put pressure of the maliki government, to continue the successes. we have to remember there were 54 attacks daily in baghdad 2006. in 2010, we saw 10 attacks. ensure that the people that we've trained still remain in the same positions they have been in, and at least it would have given us an eye on what was going on in iraq. but again, at that point, the sfa wasn't going to be signed because iranians were yielding way too much political pressure on the maliki government. that's why we should not give them more leverage now by asking

them to come into the foal. the more leverage we give them, the less leverage we have. >> where do we go from here? is putting troops back on the ground? is that a realistic option? >> here's what we know about -- i'm sorry, was that to the ambassador. >> go ahead. >> we have the same name. michael. with your permission as a person who is an historian by training, this is a very interesting debate what went wrong in 2003, different decisions that could have been made in 2011, whether america could have stayed in iraq in any way, but we're missing the big picture. the big picture is where does america go from here and the middle east is in the throes of all of these huge historic changes whether it be the sunnis versus the shiites, the breakdown of the arab state. modern nationalists versus islamic traditionalists, where does america go from here? and it seems to me there are a number of bad options on the table, whether making an alliance with iran which is a

terrible option, iran is the world's largest state sponsor of terror. iran is complicity in the urd of 160,000 syrians. and iran killed american troops to get out of iraq and now iran somehow wants to get america back into iraq. it's a terrible option. putting boots on the ground is not a good option. to me, the best way to go forward right now is by using the leverage of the moment to engage with the maliki government. getting them to open up, to bring in sunni and kurdish elements of the government. stop the purges. if the qid pro quo is some type of american air support, that should be on the table. >> how much of this sort of revisionist history, rather than as you say looking forward and not fighting a war that was years ago? >> again, this is something

that's going to be debated over the course of next ten years, 50 years, maybe the next 100 years, there always be revisions. back in 2003, i'm not an american, i'm an israeli, but i was invited into testimony on the even of the invasions, i said it was bad idea. the british had tried it, the french tried it and lost their stomach for it and left. i hated being right on that. we could still debate it whether it was a good idea. the big question how does america in the west preserve its interests in the face of such chaos in the middle east. >> appreciate that. still to come here on cnn, months before his arrest by u.s. special forces, the man believed to be a mastermind of the attack in benghazi talks to cnn. he said he would talk to investigators. now he's getting his chance. hear some of his interview with

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good morning, everyone. don lemon in for carol today. u.s. navy ship in the mediterranean heading back to america, carrying on board the man believed to be a mastermind of the 2012 deadly attack on the american consulate in benghazi, libya. they are being given maximum time to question an bu

khatallah. he will likely face trial for attack which ended in the death of chris stevens and three others. he denied responsibility saying he was just trying to examine the situation, and the ambassador suffocated and died because he was trying to burn important documents. this is part of arwa's report. >>. >> reporter: did anyone from the american or libyan government get in touch with you. >> never. >> no american official or libyan official ever tried to contact you? >> even the investigative team did not try to contact me. >> reporter: you are talking about the fbi? >>translator: yes. >> reporter: and if they tried, are you ready to meet with them? >>translator: yes, no problem but not as an interrogation. as a conversation like the one we were having with you now. >> reporter: but in a long

rambling interview he also accuses the americans of using the al qaeda as a booingey man whenever it suits them. >>translator: al qaeda is nothing to be ashamed of. al qaeda is people who are dwee vout, protecting their region and people. america is the terrorist. >> our senior international correspondent arwa damon joins me life. ing it that you were able to talk to him before u.s. forces were or u.s. officials. what were your impressions when you met abu khatallah? >> reporter: well, he seemed to be very confident. we met in a public place at a well-known hotel in the coffee shop there. for security he had a handful of members of another small extremist militant group that had been operating in benghazi. it's also important to look at the security situation that existed at the time, though. benghazi had increasingly been

turning into a city that was growing more extremist, more conservative. we've noticed a lot more pro al qaeda gra feet at this on the wall. there was a lot of anti american sentiment at the time. the libyan government had very little authority over the city and following the attack on the u.s. consulate and the cia an next, america lost a lot of intelligence abilities on the ground. which may have contributed to them taking a year to bring him into custody. if we look at the situation on the ground right now in benghazi, we're seeing the libyan security forces going after these extremist militias. the u.s. was trying to calculate any potential fal -- fall out. the libyan government, justice minister says he does that abu

khatallah should be tried in libya. the security situation prevented libyan authorities from capturing him themself. >> we'll see you throughout the network very much. joining me now is kimberly dozier. i've read your piece that you wrote to the daily beast. very interesting, you broke down exactly how this happened. what went on. you just heard what arwa had to say about her interview with khatallah. what are your thoughts about what he had to say? >> reporter: well, what u.s. investigators say is that they have managed to gather enough evidence, putting him at the scene and they have charged him with three crimes. being at a federal building where a person was killed and taking part in that attack. the second one is possessing a firearm during a violent act and the third one was helping terrorists in an act that led to a death. now, none of those are connected

to directly to the ambassador steven's death but it does show in those intervening months between now and the attack, they were able to gather enough, putting him at the scene and taking part in perhaps it was the death of one of the libyan guards who was trying to defend the building. they think they have got their man or they wouldn't have moved in. >> one of big he have questions, probably the biggest question is why did this arrest take so long where you see where journalists were able to speak to khatallah but not u.s. officials? what have you learned about that? >> they were building this case. the justice department, not the pentagon, had the lead on this, so they wouldn't move forward until they were satisfied that they had enough to stand newspaper a u.s. court but then the second thing that was going on is that the libyan government was very unstable. it got dissolved at one point. the u.s. feared that moving in and conducting this unilateral

raid without libyan security forces support might destabilize the government further. the last time they conducted a unilateral raid there to capture al-liby that was a memo of destabilization for the government that led to the kidnap of senior libyan officials. they didn't want to trigger that again. >> no shots fired. khatallah didn't put up a fight. is it fair to say that this went off without a hitch, except for taking the time that it took to find them? >> officials told us they had several different plans in mind but in the end they were able to trick their way through the front door, and capture him without a single shot being fired. they don't always have to kick the door down. >> it's a great piece in the "the daily beast." thank you, kimberly. >> thanks and my colleague

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phone with more on this development. what happens now, paul? >> well, it's a major development. the redskins now are being deprived of the ability really to use that name in a commercial context, and if that's the case, they will clearly have to change the name of the team. now, this thing can be appeal and we don't know that ultimately the decision will hold, but it's fascinating decision. the redskins got a trademark on this and they put it on shirts and hats and all the other commercial items that they have sold in connection to the team so it's very important to them that they have the trademark. the trademark, the court ruling on this trademark issue essentially said this was improperly granted. it disparages native americans, 30% of native americans find it to be deeply offensive, and we don't grant trademarks to

racially disparaging teams, it the new york knicks call themself the new york coloreds or new york negroes. it's pretty much unheard of decision though to have such an important name that's been out there for so many years taken away from a franchise. >> paul callan with cnn with breaking news. washington redskins has just been told it cannot trademark that name. no federal trademark for that team, possibly going to lead to the changing of the name. still to come, general motors ceo mary barra on capitol hill. lawmakers are going to be pressing her on gm's ten year delay with recalling vehicles

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live pictures now, capitol hill, congressional committee hearing now. gm ceo mary barra getting grilled by lawmakers. pressing her why there was a ten-year delay in a recall. what's to come out of these

hearings so far, anything? >> reporter: good morning. actually, mary barra, the ceo gave her prepared remarks, followed by the u.s. attorney who did the internal investigation. the questioning has been going on by lawmakers kicked off about five minutes or so. jumping in, diving in, grilling her. i want you to take a listen to some of the remark we got this morning from gm's ceo. >> the report as you know is extremely thorough, brutally tough and deeply troubling. it paints a picture of an organization that failed to handle a complex safety issue in a responsible way. i was deeply saddened and disturbed as i read the report. for those of us who have dedicated our lives to this company, it is enormously painful to have our shortcomings laid out so vividly. >> reporter: and now barra has been insisting for months since

this recall happened and again on the hill today that this is a new general motors that she is leading. the company will never again not tell the public about a safety defect that turns out to be deadly. insisting on that. one of key questions coming from a lawmaker saying you have been at the company for 33 years, you may be the new ceo but you've been within gm for 33 years how can the culture of this company can change when so many people have been there for so long. we've heard the u.s. attorney ask about this gm nod. this is really important. there was a culture within gm there was a gm nod. executives would have a meeting about implementing change, give a gm nothing -- nod and nothing happened. there were only 15 people at gm

nod because 15 people were fired. anton valuka said no. that's the key question. >> poppy par low on the hill watching that for us. thank you very much. there has been a extreme of often negative commentary sergeant bowe bergdahl by the taliban nearly three weeks ago. >> i think what bothers people is having our commander in chief on television putting a glow of euphoria around the return of this guy. >> a feel good story quickly turns bad. president obama under fire for

>> the komple, including that criticism from former comrades who accuse bergdahl of being a desert are has been kept from him, i should say until now. as part of his reintegration, bergdahl is being exposed to media coverage of his story, but slowly, joining us now from dals. they wanted to keep this from us as long as they possibly could. is this a little early? what's going on here? >> well, this is what military official call phase three of the reintegration process and that is why bowe bergdahl was flown from germany to this medical center at fort sam houston inspect san antonio, texas has a team of psychologists working with him as long as medical

experts and this is part of that reintegration process. this is something he needs to be fully aware of and be prepared for as he enters back into society. part of that process would include all of the media coverage dating back to five years which we have to presume he hasn't been exposed to. especially all of the media coverage since his release and the controversy surrounding that. as you know it's been a stunning turn of events for many of his family and friends who have been watching this closely, who thought there would be some controversy surrounding the unknown facts and question surrounding his disappearance and capture in afghanistan, but i think the intensity that has really been shot his way has stunned his family and friends. >> it's stunned a lot of americans as well, you should

wait to pass judgment until we get to the bottom of it. there is a hearing on capitol hill look at the exchange of those high profile taliban prisoners. what do we expect to hear in that hearing? >> this is a hearing looking at two republicans. they are looking at the exchange and the implications for national security questions but two of the people that will be testifying include one of sg bowe bergdahl's unit mates there that served with him in afghanistan. many of these soldiers as you've mentioned have been extremely critical, calling bowe bergdahl a deserter and some of the accusations have also been that several other soldiers, as many as six other soldiers have died in the hunt and searching for bergdahl after he had been captured. we will hear from one of the family members of a deceased soldier. >> still to come on cnn, concerns are raised about the health of pope francis. we're going to look at the signs being talked about.

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announced they will sue. >> as you can see, all of us, we are terribly injured. some of us require many surgery and still may need more surgeries. we are trying to come to terms with knowing we will never be the same, but we know that we are lucky to be alive. >> that incident happened at the beginning of may. questions are being raised today about the state of pope france's health, concerns following the vatican's announcement that they are cutting his schedule significantly next month. he's been canceling meetings lately. any time you talk about him canceling events and his health, people get really concerned. what's the truth here barbie? >> you have to keep all of this in perspective. this is a man who is 77 years old, who has only one lung capacity, and he's dealing with a very hectic schedule.

he's kept up since he was elected in march of 2013. he has canceled some audiences in july, he usually has a wednesday audience. tickets were distributed to some of those audiences and they were canceled which of course sends a red flag. last summer, he didn't hold audiences in the summer months, rome is very hot to be outside. he had monday and tuesday off that are they were quite spontaneous cancellations. the vatican press office does little to help in terms of transparency. nothing to be concerned about, he's had a minor indisposition last week. people are very concerned. he's a man doing a good work for the vatican. there is a joke around rome this is a man who definitely needs a food taster for all the feathers

>> there's concern about his weight gain, some say 20 pounds up since he was elected. lack of more physical activity because he has so many activities that he is doing, so many appearances. >> that's right, and that coupled with the fact that he only has one functioning lung in an extremely hot and humid weather is going to cause a problem for him, you look at the pictures of him when he was elected, you look at the pictures of him now, it's very undeniable that he has gained some weight. but when he was in b -- his schedule is a lot tougher, he's dealing with a lot of diplomatic issues here. it's more of a desk job in rome. his life has changed. it's a lot more stressful, more

difficult. people are really watching because i think there has always been concerned, everyone healthy when he took the job. as he gets older, he's less healthy. >> everybody needs a break from time to time. there are concerns barbie, thank you. we will follow you. thank for joining us. "at this hour" with berman and michaela starts right now. >> so is it radical candor or more like calculating candidate. hillary clinton with new comments on benghazi, immigration and even grandparenthood. the redskins icon getting the axe. the trademarks have been cancel by the u.s. patent office. right ocean, wrong spoxt a group of experts saying the search for malaysian