represent in oslo. >> you seem very, very ill prepared and also seem to kind of melt down a little bit. and i think what you want from a diplomat is someone who is good under pressure. >> franken and fellow minnesotan democrat amy klobuchar say norwegians take up barrage and voted to vote against the nomination. brianna keilar is filling in for wolf blitzer in "the situation room" today. >> thanks, jake. happening now, breaking news. anthrax scare, dozens of people may have been exposed to live potentially deadly bacteria. and back to iraq. president obama is ready to send hundreds of military advisors to help iraq's military but he insists u.s. troops will not be returning to combat. sound familiar? and terrorists heating up as isis militants leave a trail of death in iraq. there are new concerns that they will team up with another al qaeda offshoot.

and abinsult for just about everyone. a potential challenger to hillary clinton is not even in the gate yet but he's already stumbled pretty badly. why women, gay people and southerners are taking offense. wolf blitzer is on assignment. i'm brianna keilar and you're in "the situation room." >> we begin with breaking news. up to 75 government scientists and staffers possibly exposed to the deadly anthrax bacteria. the alert is taking place at the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta. officials say it began when live samples were moved from a highly secure lab to another lab. workers believe the samples were inactive. they did not wear protective equipment. so let's get more on then like

serious breach. how could this happen? this was a safety lab taking this anthrax and moving it to a lower biosafety lab, one that takes less precautions. they were supposed to inactivate the bacteria first, wait 4 hours to make sure the deactivation process worked and then move the bacteria. those two things didn't happen. the process didn't work and they didn't wait to see that it didn't work and that caused some of the problems. it was at least a week, could have been longer when they realized what was now sitting in the lower safety lab was in fact live anthrax. and it could have been

aerosolized in the air. that's prompted a lot of the concern. >> how deadly is exposure to anthrax? >> it can be deadly. there's three types, the inhalational type is the most concerning type. if someone got exposed to this, got a known infection, did not get treated, not vaccinated, 80, 90% of those people will die. this is potentially very concerning. it's sort of counter balanced by the idea that it is hard to get so the to speak, even if that situation, even if that laboratory to the actually become infected as a result of the spores in the air, it's not a particularly effective thing at infecting people. if it does take hold, as the a real problem. >> could it be more than 75 people we're talking about? how certain are we it's just the 75? >> i just talked to officials at the cdc, asked that same question. it's a good question. first of all, people outside the building i think they say pretty clear there's no risk outside

the cdc. the way they arrived at that 75 number was not just the people working in this lower biosafety lab but also people who walked through the hallways around that biosafety lab. admittedly, having covered stories like this before, it's not an exact science. could somebody have walked through at some point, it's a possibility. but 75 is sort of the number they're saying right now. they're offering those people antibiotics, most of them i assume will take those for 60 days. some of the officials a they maybe offered the anthrax vaccine, as well if they didn't already have one. >> jim shut toe, let's talk about some people might wonder why is anthrax sitting around? why did they have it 1234. >> the reason they have it is to develop defenses against it. anthrax is considered the number one or number twos bioterror threat from the rogue states, rogue organizations, terrorist organizations or other states. for instance, russia has been accused of continuing to have a

bioweapons program. it's a real threat, so much so that the military has vaccinated 2myon troops against it. when i was embedded during the iraq invasion, i was given an anthrax vaccine. they're concerned it's a real threat. and you have it now to develop defenses. develop treatments. develop diagnostics for figuring out how long the infection is. i know in particular, they're interested in following there you strains. they're worried about potential enemies whether they're state or nonstate actors developing strains that the preventions and prophylactics and treatments we have today can no longer treat. it's keeping up the defenses which constantly have to be updated because the threat is the constantly updating itself in effect. >> so when you look at this and you know the precautions the u.s. military takes, aren't you surprised that this was -- that this happened at the cdc? >> i think so. i spoke to an expert who was

involved in the response to the 2001 anthrax attack. and you remember this just after 9/11. a very scary moment for the country. one, he said you know, it's important to have this because we have to have it around so we can develop defenses in the future. the other thing he said is that the risk to the general population from something like this is not great, that this in his view is confined to those workers, still a serious neb you 75 people, deadly disease, but the folks back home shouldn't be concerned that they're at risk from this. >> sanjay, it was several days, as you said, that this was sitting in the sort of lower security area. if these scientists were exposed to anthrax between the dates of june 6th and june 1th, how long until we're going to know if they've been sickened? >> some people if they're going to get sick can get sick very quickly. usually two months is the outer border of that. you don't quite wave the all clear flag at that point. that's typically how long the

antibiotics are given, for example, cipro in this particular case. if someone's going to get sick, it usually happens in the first two months. >> the worst case snos is obviously death in some cases. >> as jim said, this is a very deadly pathogen. if it gets into one's lungs and can create infection in one's lungs, it it can be very deadly. 22 people got enfected in 2001. five died. you get an idea of how problematic this is. it's a little bit offset by these people sounds like they're identified quickly, given these antibiotics, possibly the vaccine and some of them may have been vaccinated. that's going to dramatically tip the odds in favor of these workers. this is something they take very seriously. >> it re emphasiemphasizes how anthrax is. sanjay gupta, thank you so much. jim shut toe thanks, as well to you. next, president obama says he is prepared to send up to 300

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iraq and the country slides towards all out sectarian war, president obama says he's prepared to send up to 300 military advisors to work with iraqi forces. with the robust u.s. military presence in the region, he's also prepared to strike if necessary. our correspondents and analysts are standing by with the kind i have coverage that only cnn can bring you. we're going to begin with be senior white house correspondent jim acosta. >> brianna, after getting the u.s. out of iraq, president obama announced today that the u.s. is cautiously getting back in, as you heard him say earlier this afternoon, he is sending about 300 military advisors into iraq to assist those forces there to deal with the isis threat. in the mean type, the president is emphasizing is u.s. forces are not returning to a combat role in iraq. here's a little bit of what the president's plan looked like based on what senior administration officials told reporters earlier today, that several small teams of advisors will be going in to form joint operation centers and that they

are saying discrete and targeted air strikes are still possible with more surveillance flights gathering intelligence but no teams on the ground they're saying to call in air strikes. so at this point, they're not putting in more forces to call in air strikes down the road. all of this begs the question whether or not the president should have left a residual force in iraq back in 2011. a lot of republicans say he should have done that. i asked him that question at the news conference earlier today. here's what he had to say. >> do you wish had you left a residual force in iraq? any regrets about that decision in 2011? >> that wasn't a decision made by me, that was a decision made by the iraqi government. we offered a modest residual force to help continue to train and advise iraqi security forces. >> now, of course, the key sticking point at that time was that the iraqi government would not provide u.s. forces with legal immunity should they get into some sort of legal jeopardy

in iraq. i'm told by a senior administration official that those military advisors being deployed as of today by the president will have legal protection, will have immunity as one official put it to me, they're going in at the request of the iraqi government. they'll have that immunity. >> thank you. let's get details on the military moves from cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> you know, brianna, troops like to say it's combat if somebody is shooting at you even if you don't think you're in combat. still a lot of questions what the u.s. troops will be doing and how they will be kept safe. iraqi forces clashing with isis fighters in the northern city of kirkuk as the militants continue to make their march towards baghdad. president obama finally weighing in. >> we're prepared to send a small number of additional american military advisors up to 300 top assess how we can best train, advise and support iraqi

security forces going forward. american forces will not be returning to combat in iraq. >> with isis now less than 40 miles from baghdad, the president also said the troops will keep an eye on the perimeter around the capital to see where isis is going next. the u.s. troops, army berets, rangers and navy seals have fought in combat for the region for years. this time the job is different. they will work to get iraqi troops and commanders back in the fight. and collect intelligence about the militants' next moves in case air strikes become necessary. already, fighter jets from the carrier "george h.w. bush" are flying over backed conducting surveillance. the ground troops will operate at several iraqi military headquarters around the country. not on the frontlines but they may we'll be in danger. violence has even spread to iraq's largest oil installation

here in badgi. how can u.s. troops be kept safe? dozens of helicopters and aircraft now based on ships in the persian gulf and ashore will be ready to move in quickly if u.s. forces do come under attack, a senior defense officials tells cn. but the president outright warning all of this can only work if the iraqi government and prime minister malaki move to a more inclusive government. president obama stopped short of calling for malaki to step down. >> it's not our job to choose iraq's leaders. part of what our patriots fought for during many years in iraq was the right and the opportunity for iraqis to determine their own destiny and choose their own leaders. >> now, this all start off with something around 100 u.s. troops going into iraq in the coming days. but you'll recall, the president said up top 300. officials are telling us one of the things going on behind the

scenes is that gives the president a little cushion sort of automatic plusup, if you will, so he doesn't have to come back out in public in a few days and say he's sending even more. brianna. >> giving himself wiggle room but maybe raising some eyebrows doing that, as well. barbara, thank you. the president himself warned today against mission creep in iraq. this is a phrase, of course, that hasek cos of past wars. let's take a closer look at why many are concerned. let's bringing in cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto here once again with this. >> as you and i and others know this is an administration extremely careful to avoid or at least place strict limits on the use of military force in syria in response to the crisis in ukraine and now iraq. yet today, by sending up to 300 troops noose harm's way and air strikes not just in the iraq but possibly inside syria, the administration is opening the door to a broader, bloodier

commitment. gulf war, 1990 to 1991. iraq war, 2003 to 2011, and now in 2014, u.s. forces back on the ground. is this iraq war three? >> the united states will continue to increase our support to iraqi security forces. >> in the president's words today. >> ultimately this is something that is going to have to be sofd -- solved by the iraqis. >> some heard echoes of president kennedy announcing the u.s. deployment to the vietnam. >> it's their war. we can help them. we can give them equipment. we can send our men out there as advisors but they have to win it. >> even then relatively small deployment of up to 300 troops compared to the 165 thousand at the peak of "operation iraqi freedom," is generating warnings

from surprising corners. general david of petraeus commanded the troop surge credited with saving iraq from civil war in 2007. >> this cannot be the united states being the air force for shia militias or a shia on sunni arab fight. >> calls are growing now that any hope for cop pro mize with iraq's disaffected sunnis and kurds would require shiite prime minister malaki to step down. >> i think most of us that have followed this are convinced that the malaki government has got to go if you want any reconciliation. >> but more broadly, there is reluctance even within the president's own party about any involvement in a war mr. obama called dumb. >> after i an decade of war, american people have had enough. american families have had enough. >> for some, iraq observers, u.s. troops return is drawing uncomfortable comparisons to

america's second longest war in vietnam. >> we have to make sure when we use kinetic power, military force, it's a tool. it's an instrument to achieve a set of specific objectives. if we don't know what those objectives are or they're unattainable, then military force becomes not only an end in itself, it becomes a dead end. >> there is one point that i'm hearing consistently from u.s. officials. and that is this is not all about isis. isis is in fact, part of a much broader political force comprises of increasingly frustrated and hostile sunnis including former sunni tribes, former baathists and nationalists. and as a result, the singular focus on their role represents a more complicated picture which makes it much harder for military action to resolve the crisis. that is one piece in what necessarily must be a much broader strategy into it is a complicated problem amidst a bunch of other complicated

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the rest of the world. yemeni officials call it a might mayor scenario, the possibility that al qaeda's most fearsome branch, yemen's al qaeda in the arabian peninsula or acap could join isis in iraq. they point to the this audio message posted on youtube earlier this week. in it, a man purported to be a top aqap commander from yemen repeatedly greats isis and its leadership on its victories in iraq. yemeni government sources tell us members of aqap are fighting alongside isiss in iraq. a u.s. defense official says there is no indication they have joined with isis in iraq but did say there are foreign tight fighters and sunmy militants wpts isis there. hat tam posts others messages of support for isis like this video from jihadists in indonesia singing the praises of isis.

analysts warn any alliance between the two the groups could prove extremely dangerous. >> each group's weaknesses could be filled by the other group. say one group is very good at bomb making and another group is very good at propaganda. if you put the right bomb in the right place for the right propaganda effect, that can be far more important than either of these things on their own. >> reporter: yemen is currently on the frontline of a war on terror with al qaeda. the u.s. embassy there has been shut down for almost two months. despite a massive american-backed counter terror offensive that began in april, aqap has proven resilient and resurgent. since 2011, they have even been able to take over areas of yemen. isis is making similar gains in iraq. analysts say the more territory taken by isis and the more the

group, would with aqap, the worse it will get. >> if they carve out an area of safe haven and that's their intent, this could be a launching point for attacks on america, on the west, really attacks globally. >> brianna, my sources in yemen also telling me a small number much isis fighters have made their way to yemen where they are supporting aqap in their fight there. apologies for all noise. there's a street party pa outside here in beirut. >> thanks for explaining. joining us from turkey is former u.s. ambassador to iraq, james jeffrey, now a fellow at the washington institute. with me here in studio, doug olivant of the new america foundation, an he retired army officer, he served in iraq and on the national security council in both the bush and the obama administrations. he's also a managing partner with the man theed international

which has clients in security aerospace and defense. ambassador jeffrey, to you first. we're talking about a group isis here that al qaeda said was too extreme. how dangerous is this group? it sounds obviously like it's very dangerous and the idea that they could be teaming up should be extremely alarming. >> well, they are dangerous to us as the president said today because of the threat to the homeland. but they're more specifically dangerous to the region because they're purveying a form of sunni islamic terrorism that's aimed at the shiate minority throughout the whole region. their goal is to spark a total religious war between sunnis and shi az throughout the region and that's really something worrisome. >> it's not just iraq we're talking about. we're talking about the entire region. doug, you look -- you worked in both the obama and the bush administrations. the idea that will aqap and isis

could can be teaming up? maybe they're not joined but we heard in the report you have fighters coming over from aqap to be with isis. what do we make of this? >> a formal alliance probably not. but working loosely together as he said, exchanging techniques and tactics, having some advance trainers swap back and forth, all kinds of jihadist groups do this. we shouldn't be surprised these twos franchises former franchise in one case and aqap the most capable al qaeda franchise are talking to each other and helping each other out. >> muhammad, yemen obviously very concerned about this. is the concern there the regional, the possibility for regional destabilization? >> very much so. we've seen aqap, which is arguably the most dangerous wing of the al qaeda network be able launch attacks not just within yemen but to be able to plot attacks against other targets in

the region many times over the course of the past several years. one of the targets they've consistently tried to attack has been saudi arabia. that's the largest oil producer. they share a border with yemen. they tried aqap to assassinate the interior minister in saudi arabia. they came very close to do so. if aqap is now as some officials fear possibly joining forces with isis, the fear is much more of the region will be at stake and these twos strong groups will be able to plot more attacks against targets in the region and create more regional instability at a time when sectarian divisions are as deep as they've been in this region. >> ambassador, we're looking at the acute problem of dealing with the violence in iraq. there needs to be a political solution moving forward to having more inclusive country. and right now, the u.s. isn't officially saying that nuri al maliki needs to go. you've met with him. it sounds like u.s. officials at this point are very dissatisfied

with him. do you think that he might kind of take that hint and step aside? >> well, he has dictatorial instincts but in addition, he's a terrible commander in chief as we saw in mosul. i don't think he's going to take the hint and step aside. the question is, if his support is in the shia religious community in the shia population generally and to some degree even in iran are willing to go for a unified iraq. there can be no unified iraq with the sort of policies he has followed for the last several years. everybody wants a unified iraq. so i think there's got to be a change of one sort or another either in him or the government. >> doug, we heard president obama today. he said the u.s. will be deploying 300 advisors. that's something when he's talking about advisors that are prepared to take targeted action, but they're not in combat. it sort of begs the question how would they not be in combat if

they're taking targeted action. >> they made it clear these advisors will only be at brig level and higher. they'll be sitting in offices not out on the frontlines and they'll be looking at the maps in these head quarters and using that to push data back to u.s. missiles or aircraft if the time comes when the president decides we have to do that. >> so they're sort of holed up, giving advice. why is it so necessary to be right there on ground? >> well, the closer you can get the better. i think the president has made the right decision here. this strikes me as the right balance between getting people out there so they're able to see and taking too much risk. we don't want them really out on the frontlines where there's a risk of someone being captured by isis. >> so americans shouldn't be, ambassador, do you think they should be concerned about the possibility of mission creep? >> absolutely not. not with this president and

almost never in the last 70 years have we seen mission creep once in vietnam. we're not going to make that mistake again. the president is pursuing a prudent prudent strategy and he is ready to act if these isis people push forward, but he's not going to become malaki's air force till he sees a more inclusive political as well as military solution to taking back these areas isis has controlled. that's a wise way to go forward. >> ambassador jeffrey, thank you so much. mohammed jamjoom, thank to you, as well. and doug oliphant, thank you for being here in "the situation room." caught on tape again. donald sterling allegedly intimidating witnesses. we have the obscenity laced recordings. >> i'm not incompetent. you're [ bleep ] incompetent, you student [ bleep ] doctor. means keeping seven billion ctransactions flowing.g,

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on breaking developments. this has to do with a federal campaign finance investigation into wisconsin governor scott walker. >> scott walker is the republican governor of wisconsin, drew national fame a few years ago, a big fight with labor unions. there was an effort to recall him in the state. he beat that election. they also beat efforts to recall some of the state senators who helped him. there's been an investigation since, prosecutors alleging now a newly released documents released today the governor and his chief of staff were involved in a criminal scheme to coordinate campaign finance operations for the recall elections. governor's team say this is not true. they also note, this it is not a charge and the documents are not filed in the investigation itself but filed in a lawsuit related to the investigation, but this is worth watching again he's up for re-election this year and in a 50/50 race mentioned as a potential 2016 candidate. his team is saying they will get through this. a lot of republicans close to them says this could be a

potential block buster. >> amazing. we'll be keeping an eye on that. peter this piece that you wrote is fascinating. you talk about hillary clinton's single mindedness, that she has this unwillingness to change. you go back to her first big failure which was failing the bar exam in the district of columbia. you even talk about some people close to her who have been close to her, george stephanopoulos referred to her as inflexible. one of her good friends sally smith said she had tunnel vision. explain where this whole sort of theory comes from and why you think this could have ramifications for how she would lead, period? >> i spent a lot of time trying to understand hillary clinton's life and career in order to try to suggest how she might act as president. i think she's very, very good at executing, developing and executing a well designed plan. she's very, very hard working. very disciplined. very good at engaging

politically. very idealistic. where she's not as good is as ip pro advising when things are not going according to plan. there's a certain rigidity i think to the way she tends to operate. sometimes that can be very effective if she's moving in the right direction. but when things are not going right as occurred during the health care reform effort and in her presidential run in 2007, 2008, she has trouble shifting course. >> and i guess to his point, gloria, when you look at this, she's in a way she's been out in the public light so much lately. are you seeing her having learned some of the lessons? >> well, you know, i think she's learned a lot of lessons from the 2007, 20082008 campaign. you remember then she didn't run much on being a woman. now we hear her talk about how different it's been as a leader to be a woman. she's not running on inevitability. she understands now that's not eight campaign platform. i think the big question though that peter raises which is a legitimate one is is she

flexible enough to change course mid stream? it's a different thing to do it now from 2008. but the question is, in the middle of the heat of a campaign, can she freelance and change course. i mean, bill clinton is the most brilliant person at doing in that we've ever seen. and i don't really know the answer to that yet because we haven't seen her in that particular circumstance at this point. >> peter, have you seen her being able to sort of change course, learn some lessons? >> only after the mistake has been made and the -- in a strange way, she's the exact opposite of her husband. her husband was undisciplined, always couldn't follow a linear path at all but would manage to snatch victory from the jaws of equity at the last minute. she's got exactly the opposite i think strengths and weaknesses. extremely disciplined and hard working. stays very closely to a script, which can be terrific but when the script turns out to be the wrong script as it was in 2007

and 2008, as it turned out to be in the health care reform, she has trouble improvising >> and stuck on a bad path there. let's talk about a potential challenger to hillary clinton. that would be montana democrat brian schweitzer. this is like my eyebrows hit my hairline, okay, when i saw what he said. he was making these comments also to the national journal about senator dianne feinstein, and he said about her relationship with the intel community, senator dianne feinstein was the woman standing under the street light with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees and now she says i'm a nun when it comes to this spying. maybe that's the wrong metaphor but she was all in. i mean, it's one thing to be anti-establishment. just take it away here. >> you think that was the wrong metaphor maybe? >> at least he knew that but he kept going to the point of rigidity on hillary clinton. he should have said i'm sorry. let me take that back right this minute.

look, the great thing about brian schweitzer is he's funny. he says what comes to his mind. he's a very interesting guy. the troubling thing if you're a polition is sometimes you go over the line. that's not funny. he's going to get to the left of hillary clinton and be the progressive candidate and he's insulting in a horrible way a leading woman? i don't think so. >> you know, i think he's trying to get noticed to tell you the truth. >> well. >> what, she's only done like 12 national interviews and you know, talk about sucking the oxygen out of the room, there isn't any left for anybody else. >> here's the other controversial remark. he was talking about eric cantor. he said don't hold this against me but i'm going to blurt it out. how do i say this? men in the south, they're a little ef fmtate. if you were just a regular person, you turned on the tv and saw eric cantor talking, i would say and i'm fine within gay people, that's all right but my gaydar is 60 to 70% but he's not

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a shakeup for house republicans, they've elected a new leader in a new whip in a closely watched contest that pitted conservatives against the establishment. cnn's chief congressional correspondent, dana bash has more. what's the latest, dana? >> the house speaker wanted to move very fast in order to limit the tumult and division in the party out of eric cantor's loss. and so now there is a new team with some familiar faces. well maybe just one. little more than a week after eric cantor's stunning defeat in his virginia gop primary, house

republicans elected a new majority leader in a secret ballot. kevin mccarthy. >> i'll make one promise -- i will work every single day to make sure this conference has the courage to lead with the wisdom to listen. and we'll turn this country around. >> much to the dismay of many grassroots conservatives, mccarthy is hardly new blood. he's been in the house gop leadership since republicans took control in 2010 as the number three. house majority whip. and he's from california, not exactly a hub of conservatism. >> there are a lot of grassroots republicans out there, the kind that voted for dave brat against eric cantor saying are you guys kidding me? we got him out because we wanted a more conservative leadership and they elected a guy from one of the bluest states of the union, california. >> they elected a guy who is a grandson of a cattle rancher. a son of a firefighter.

only in america do you get that opportunity. they elected a guy that's only grown up through the grassroots. >> it is true that mccarthy's hometown of bakersfield, california, is among the most conservative areas of the blue state. but gop sources admit to cnn, they understood a clear message from eric cantor's loss to a conservative, is that they needed to bring a red state republican into the house gop leadership. there wasn't one before. >> rebuilding an america that works. >> that's a major reason louisiana's steve scalise won the number three job, is now the new house majority whip. the man in charge of counting and gathering votes to make sure the legislation, the gop agenda, passes the house. >> we've got solid conservative solutions that are going to solve the problems facing our country. >> this is the race where the drama was. there were three men in the race, the rules are you have to get 50% in order to actually win. the thought was, that if it

wasn't going to happen, there would be a run-off of sports. but it didn't happen, scalise won outright. even people who weren't tea party backers, saw the leadership. it's another lesson and that is, it's a secret ballot, so even if people say to you, to your face that they're going to vote for you, they might not, and often they don't. >> dana bash, thank you. coming up, congress versus reporters. two groups that don't always get along. they're playing ball for a good cause and a great first pitch there. and up to 300 american troops headed back to iraq. we'll have that story and don't forget cnn's original series "the '60s" tonight, the war in vietnam. see how it began and what it took to end it, tonight at 9:00.

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president obama just revealed his marching orders, can he prevent americans were getting dragged back into war? the president also is sending a message to iraq's leaders as prime minister nuri al maliki fights any suggestion that it's time for him to go. plus -- donald sterling caught on tape again, making offensive and outrageous remarks in his ugly battle to hold onto the l.a. clippers. >> i'm not incompetent, you're [ bleep ] incompetent, you stupid [ bleep ] doctor. >> wolf blitzer is on assignment. i'm brianna keilar and you're in the situation room. >> the commander in chief who pulled american troops out of iraq is now sending u.s. military advisers back in. president obama has laid out his initial response to the onslaught byis issis terrorists.

promising the action will be limited, no full-scale fighting. but when it comes to iraq, many war-weary americans are skeptical. cnn has a team on the ground in iraq covering all of the angles. and first to our senior international correspondent, nick robertson. >> there will be troops put on the ground here in baghdad and also troops put on the ground in the north of iraq. but the president making very clear they're not going to be going into combat. president obama announces his plan to deal with the country's rapidly escalating crisis. >> we're prepared to send a small number of additional american military advisers, up to 300. and going forward, we will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action, if and

when we determine that the situation on the ground requires it. >> the question now, is it enough to turn back or even halt the stunning advances by the militant group isis. the islamic state in iraq and syria, now in control of vast parts of north and central iraq. this isis video allegedly shows militants overrunning an iraqi army base. burning an american humvee. cnn cannot independently confirm the authenticity. while many iraqi ground forces have fled the isis advance, iraqi aircraft are striking back. officials claim this attack killed 50 militants. thousands are threeing the violence. many residents of mosul, iraq's second largest city, have wound up in urbul. where refugee camps are growing. gas lines are popping up.

as isis fighters and iraqi security forces continue to battle for control of one of the country's largest oil refineries. each side is claiming to have the upper hand. as the crisis grows, faith in iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki plummets, with western leaders blaming him for conditions that made the isis onslaught possible. >> there's no doubt that the government of iraq has not given enough attention to healing sectarian divides, to including sunni and kurds in the government to bringing the country together. >> only leaders that can govern with an inclusive agenda are going to be able to truly bring the iraqi people together and help them through this crisis. >> the prime minister's office tells cnn it has not received an official statement asking for him to step down. but a senior iraqi source tells us, only iraq's religious leaders have the power and influence to force al maliki

out. and so far, they're showing no inclination to do that. and with al maliki continuing to cling to power as he does, and even with heightened security here in baghdad, another three car bombs this day three people killed, 15 wounded. and that kind of figure is relatively low for this city. brianna? >> that is something. all right, nic robertson in baghdad. let's check in with more of our team on the ground in iraq. arwa damon is in urbil. watching this happen, it begs the question and we've heard u.s. officials say they want to avoid. we've heard the president say, we want to avoid sliding into a civil war. but what you're seeing happen, does it meet the definition of a civil war, do you think? >> well it's so multilayered and complex, brianna. you really have this sunni insurgency that is being currently dominated by isis, the

islamic state of iraq and syria it most certainly is pitting the sunni population that has been feeling really disenfranchised, by the prime minister's form of governance, viewing his policies as being geared towards the shia majority, his shia base, his politics incredibly polarizing and really ripping this country apart. along sectarian lines. so it looks like it might be sunni versus shia, at this stage. but like everything that happens in this battlefield, again it's a very multi-layered tapestry of different things intersecting within one another. the sunnis that are currently seeming to be fighting alongside isis do not subscribe to their ideology. and some of the leadership amongst the sunni politicians, they will tell thaw what they're really looking for is a more even balance of power when it comes to baghdad. why are they allying with isis? well perhaps it is because they are hoping that this type of violent action will put enough pressure on the government in baghdad to give them the political concessions that they want to see.

so it's very difficult at this stage to really accurately define what is happening here. >> so you're mentioning sunnis fighting alongside isis, they aren't necessarily aligned with isis, but there they are. it seems like, it's not just isis, that iraqi security forces are taking on, right? >> right. and they're not. you have the islamic state in iraq and syria fighters that are very well armed. that are incredibly well funded. it's described as being one of the richest terrorist organizations in the world and they have a plethora of suicide bombers at their disposal. as one isis fighter on his way to syria was boasting to cnn not long ago, they have more volunteer suicide bombers than they have vehicles for them to drive. when it comes to the other sunni groups that have this loose allegiance with them, they don't have those kinds of means at their disposal. it is an alliance of convenience, according to one

individual very close to some of the sunni insurgent leadership. he said look, we have to make our bed with the devil, because we feel at this stage that we have no choice. but we also realize that there will come a point in time whr whe we have to figure out how to deal with this problem called isis. they're making the calculation that trying to deal with the predominantly shia government is a bigger priority than the fact that this terrorist organization is gaining a stronger foothold into the country. the problem with that logic, though, and the problem that the nation is going to face in the future as this moves forward is that isis does not abide by any sort of rules that are set forward to it. it does have an agenda of setting up an islamic government. on this stage on the ground when it comes to the sunni fighting force, it's the most powerful. so potentially going to create an even more violent situation than what we're seeing right now. >> arwa, i want to bring nic back in, you're in baghdad, nic,

how much concern is there that isis will get into baghdad? it's not very far away. >> sure. i think the feeling here is they're unlikely to come running through the streets. stit's defenses, checkpoints are not going to collapse. but essentially isis is already here, they have suicide bomb making cells in this city. witness the three bombs today and the half dozen in the past couple of days. so they're here, but it's what can they do. the concern is, they may get closer, may try to launch some kind of offensive on the airport. the airport is a massive sight but what they could do is just stand back and shell it from a distance. they've now captured these huge, howitzer long-range artillery pieces. they've got tanks they didn't have before that they've looted on this rampage through the north of iraq. they've got a greater ability. and the fear would be cutting the city off, shelling into it. that's the concern.

not them running through the streets. >> nic robertson in baghdad, arwa damon in urbil. still ahead, donald sterling lets loose again in the legal battle over the sale of the l.a. clippers, he's very angry and once again, his rant has been recorded. stand by to find out who was the target of this verbal attack. >> what a horrible man you are. all did was go to the beverly hills hotel and drink liquor. lyg onto the scene. ♪ the new ram 1500 ecodiesel. with 28 highway miles per gallon, 420 pound-feet of torque. ♪ guts. glory. ram. ♪

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surfaced. our brian todd has been digging on what i will say, this is a very weird story, as are all things sterling. >> it never stops getting weird. donald sterling had a bad afternoon on june 9th. he made several calls that day to his estranged wife's attorneys and to doctors who had diagnosed him as mentally incompetent. the calls were brought before a judge today and effort to prove sterling tried to intimidate witnesses. the judge rejected that. but this could hurt donald sterling in his attempt to block the sale of the l.a. clippers. the calls were abrupt. menacing, crude. donald sterling, seemingly unable to avoid controversial tape recordings, apparently strikes again. >> i'm not incompetent, you're [ bleep ] incompetent, you stupid [ bleep ] doctor. i'm going to get you fired from ucla, because you're nothing but a tramp. >> the voicemail was allegedly left for a doctor who had diagnosed sterling as mentally incapacitated. the audio tape, presented in a california courtroom today by lawyers for sterling's estranged wife, shelley, a judge denied shelly sterling's request to

protect witnesses like that doctor from allegedly being threatened and intimidated by donald sterling in another voicemail message to a neurologist who had diagnosed him with signs of alzheimer's and dementia, donald sterling goes off. >> what a horrible woman you are, all did you was go to the beverly hills hotel and drank liquor, you're nothing but a fraud and a liar and a cheat. and i'm going to see that you lose your license and i'm suing you for conspiracy. >> in court papers, shelly sterling's lawyer claims that donald sterling called him and began by yelling, "you're an a-hole" and mr. sterling shouted louder and said in a menacing tone, i'm going take you out, o'donnell. >> i took that as a death threat that hasn't happened in 40 years of being a trial lawyer. >> donald sterling's lawyer said he was with sterling when he made the call to o'donnell. said he never heard sterling say he would take out o'donnell. >> there was no threat made object his life. that's just ridiculous statement. >> donald sterling's attorneys acknowledged sterling made those calls and left those voicemails.

they say he wasn't threatening the doctors, just frustrated that his medical records were released to the public. could this hurt sterling's case next month? could it prompt the judge to find he's mentally incompetent? >> being rude isn't enough. being a jerk isn't enough. having bad judgment isn't enough. it has to be a true mental problem. >> attorney chris lieg said if donald sterling's lawyers can convince the judge that he was frustrated, and you lot of stress, frustrate because his medical information got out. and if donald sterling apologizes, that maybe he can get past all this that trial to determine sterling's mental competence and whether shelly sterling can sell the clippers on her own starts on july 7th. brianna, there will be some fireworks. >> oh sure. and as we see here, even with aside from these calls there were issues or questions of his mental competence, right? >> the doctors last week had reported that in tests they gave him, sterling was unaware of what season of the year it was, that he was unable to spell the

word "world" backwards, that he had difficulty drawing a clock. donald sterling's attorneys say this is the best opinion money can buy. these people were paid off and they're emphatic, he's not mentally incompetent. that's going to be the crux of the trial. >> all right. brian todd, thank you so much. i want to go now to don lemon, as well as cnn's rachel nichols, i'm going to have you react to this. you heard brian saying that his, you know, there's this question of if he can prove he's frustrated or stressed. i mean you guys have been frustrated or stressed, i'm assuming you don't make these kind of phone calls. >> absolutely not. >> where do you want to start? rachel, you go first. >> look, there's nothing donald sterling does any more that surprises any of us. certainly don and i know that he can walk into that courtroom next month, disappear into a puff of smoke, leave a jack in the box in his place and we would say yeah, that sounds about right. these aren't surprising. but they're certainly not good for him.

it shows once again, how he is a bully. it shows once again, frankly the miss ojny that's been the underlying issue. the racism got all the attention over the last couple of months, but there's been a lot of misogyny. calling a professional doctor who has gone through years of schooling, a tramp just because he doesn't like her opinion. these are not helping him in the court of public opinion. they probably won't help him in the courtroom next month and gee, donald sterling, you just got to give us more, don't you? >> oh, my goodness, don, it's like never-ending what were you thinking when you heard these? >> well everyone's going to be shocked. but it actually saddens me. because this is -- we are watching a man in the sunset of his life, implode and unravel. i he is doing it publicy. he should have the good sense about him, most people do, when you have been caught on audio tape, doing something terrible, he should not do it again. you're leaving a voicemail.

it is being recorded. you are, you've been accused of racism. now you're going to be accused of misogyny. >> obviously there's something wrong with donald sterling this is what happens when someone of privilege is used to getting his way all the time. now suddenly he's not getting his way and he's unraveling. this is what happens when you don't take the time to examine your motives, examine yourself. examine your beliefs, and examine your life. thank you very much, rachel nichols. >> the nba, they're hearing this, seeing this. what, what are folks in the nba saying about this? >> well, look, donald sterling is still an nba owner as of right now. he's still technically owns the l.a. clippers, they got to pay attention to all this. now they're expected to have a board of governors meeting in about a month. they'll be able to officially vote in the new ownership loxt they are looking for some of the issues in probate court to be

adjudicated by then. obviously, though, this in some ways only helps the nba's case. certainly the lawsuit that donald sterling has filed against them, claiming that the lifetime ban and the fine were inappropriate. here they can put out further evidence and say look, he is harmful to the league. he's harmful to the image of the league. >> rachel and brianna, everything he's done after the tape. the tape was bad enough, the original tape was bad enough. but everything he has done publicly since that tape, has done nothing but harm him. he has not helped his own case. even his own attorney here on the situation room with wolf blitzer did not help his case. he's making things worse. and so i think as i said, he's in the sunset of his life. he should have someone there, like a wife or a friend or someone who says hey, donald, listen. >> but he's driven them all away. >> i assume that some people are trying to counsel him, don and rachel and he may just also not be listening. he seems like he's pretty

headstrong, even if he doesn't quite have a grip. >> he needs what britney spears' parents did for her, i forget what you call it. >> a conservativeship. >> he needs a conservativorship. >> i will say listen and think about this as we go through the next month -- who stands to benefit from all of this? all the lawyers involved, right? >> and shelly. >> perhaps, although it's her, it's her nest egg that's being eaten away, too, by all the legal fees on both sides. he's got long-time lawyer those ho have been with him for decades who are talking in his ear and saying to him, yeah, you go get them, donald, you sue, you fight her. they're benefitting from this as well. you talk about confidantes, people close to him, who should be advising for him to turn the page and walk away. some of his closest confidantes right now are the lawyers around him. >> and they're eating into the profits he will have from the sale of the team. he would have even more money to retire on. so would shelly. now they're eating into that. i'm sure his legal fees will be

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very special beginning to this year's sixth annual congressional women's softball game. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> gabby giffords, everybody! >> former congresswoman, gabby giffords, injured in a shooting in arizona in 2011 threw out the first pitch last night. i'll tell you, three months of 7:00 a.m. practices came down to this -- members of congress putting aside their differences to take on two common foes, cancer and, yes, the press. >> number 17, kelly ayotte. >> it's a rare thing on capitol hill these days, members of congress from opposing parties cheering each other on. but one night every year, the members team, a group of female senators and representatives, takes on the bad news babes.

that would be my team. a team of washington journalists with a strong showing from the women of cnn. the congressional women's softball game brings out big names, republican house speaker, john baoehner is a regular in te stands. they were propelled to a 10-5 victory. >> we love seeing our democratic and republican women, house and senate working together. and you all played very well. we just played better. >> the game raises money for the young survival coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting young women diagnosed with breast cancer. >> $150,000. >> an issue dear to dnc chair and co-captain of the members team, debby wasserman-schultz, also a breast cancer survivor. put your all into this. >> well, it means so much for all of to us come out here and

do all we can to make sure we can raise awareness about young women and their likelihood of getting breast cancer. >> but the game also fosters relationships inside of congress that otherwise wouldn't exist. >> it's awesome, because it's bipartisan. bicameral. i have met people playing this game that i don't think i ever would have interacted with. so it's great, the relationships you make here you do take back to congress. >> and the sometimes tense relationship between the press corps and the officials is good. >> there's way more than a little sweet revenge, my friend. that #takebackthetrophy, that's what it's all about. >> the congresswoman actually -- pulled a hamstring last night as she was running into second base. she left the game on crutches, we hope that she's feeling better. good enough we would say for a

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