toe all one word and the show on the lead cnn. i'm going to turn you over to wolf blitzer who is in as always "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com happening now, irs fallout you. heard my interview with the irs commissioner. now republicans are on fire. we have the reaction. armed drones are now patrolling over baghdad protecting u.s. advisers on the ground. are more american forces on the way to iraq? and a tea party leader's parent suicide. a grim shocking aftermath to an ugly republican primary campaign in mississippi. we have the details. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." a simmering scandal now boiling over in the fallout of my interview with the head of the irs. republicans are pouncing on john koskinen's remarks about irs targeting of conservative groups

and calls are now growing louder for the justice department to the appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. cnn's tom foreman has details. >> john koskinen admits a few people in his agency once held up granting tax exempt stat to us some consecutive political groups. he admits e-mails possibly related to those events were lost. however, that was before he got there and he has been furiously denying talk in congress of a further conspiracy or i an cover-up. >> what i didn't hear in that was an apology to this committee. >> i don't think one is owed. >> but listen to what he is saying now to the public. >> i apologize to anybody who had their applications held up needlessly. everybody needs to be confident that the irs is going to treat them fairly no matter who they are, republicans, democrats. >> conservative websites are exploding saying koskinen despite the interview is simply widening a tangled web of

deceit. republicans are calling for the attorney general's impeachment if he doesn't appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. and on fox news. >> we know those i mails are out there and know they can be found. we need the people to help find them. >> louis gohmert is pushing a bill to give a million dollar bounty to anyone who can recover the lost e-mails, a half million more if anyone is arrested for hiding them. the chief archivist said is the irs broke the law. >> i think it's a serious matter. when evidence is not available, it's. >> potentially criminal? >> i don't know whether it's criminal or not. certainly we need to get to the bottom of it. >> worthy of a criminal investigation. >> i don't think there's any evidence of that. >> furthermore he says. >> i should emphasize all e-mails are not official records. if it is lost, it doesn't mean we've lost an official record. >> many democrats are calling all of this a witch hunt but koskinen's own politics aren't

helping. he's personally donated more than $100,000 to politicians all democrats. yet he insists -- >> i've never been a partisan orply operative. i have had asked by the bush administration 0 come in and work on freddie mac. >> still as wisconsin congressman paw ryan's office put it in a note to cnn, there's a credibility gap that commissioner koskinen is struggling to overcome. the irs first said it targeted no groups then admitted had. it said that was the action of a few rogue field agents. now a retired senior level officer is refusing to answer questions about who else might have been involved. the irs said it would cooperate fully with congressional investigators but didn't reveal for months those e-mails had vanished and that the hard drive that once held them had been routinely destroyed. >> does this mean that something nefarious happened or that someone further up in the administration was involved in an illegal use of power? we do not know one way or the

other. but all of it including can your interview with koskinen, yesterday, wolf, is enough to keep raising very sharp questions from this congress. >> questions continue indeed. tom foreman, thanks very much. let's get reaction to my interview yesterday with john koskinen the irs commissioner, aaron shock of illinois is joining us, a member of the house ways and means committee. congressman, thanks very much for coming in. >> good to be with you. >> do you have any hard evidence there was a deliberate destruction of those e-mails on lois lerner's hard drive? >> we, we don't have any deliberate -- any information to suggest there was a deliberate effort, but let's start what we do know. everything we've been told by the administration and the irs that was supposed to be fact has been proven about the particulars of this issue. and that is what -- that is what is driving the outrage right now

is that from the very beginning, the testimony repeatedly to congress by the ways and means committee who two years ago asked whether targeting was occurring and the assurances it wasn't all the way up to the point where it was rogue agents in cincinnati and it wasn't, the point which we were told nobody in d.c. knew anything about it and we now have copies of lerner's e-mails in black and white, the ones we do have that show she gave direction in violation of what the white house and president said they thought was the case. she gave direction to people in cincinnati to forward that information to her in washington, d.c. because that's where the deliberations and the decisions would be made. so the question is. >> let me interrupt for a moment about the lois lerner, the woman the head of that audit division that looked as tax exempt status for these applicants, if you will. she's now pleaded the fifth. she's refusing to cooperate which, of course is her constitutional right. but do you have any evidence,

any e-mails? because yesterday john koskinen said they've looked at all of e-mails as far as her relationship with the treasury department and the white house and could find no e-mails between her and either the white house or the treasury department. >> well, look, they've also lost two years of e-mails during the point of time that's in quell. >> them did say they recovered -- koskinen did say he recovered 24,000 of those e-mails which are being made available to the congress. >> right. and those are e-mails that were able to capture from the receiving end from people she shoe she was communicating with. >> let me just ask you, on those e-mails is there any evidence she was getting guidance from political leaders at the white house or the treasury department? >> no, but there was -- there is in those e-mails guidance by her directives by her to subordinates for additional harassment, additional questions because they were conservative leaning. and that is a violation of law,

wolf, which is it gets to the heart of the matter of why we believe the department of justice needs to prosecute this. the information was so substantial just by the fraction after e-mails we got that the ways and means committee and the congress voted overwhenningly to ask the department of justice to prosecute. more people voted to hold lois lerner in contempt of court in congress, i'm sorry, in contempt of congress, more members of congress voted to held her in contempt than voted for the obamacare legislation. >> let me ask you a question. you're accusing her of breaking the law. is that what you're saying? >> based on the e-mails we have, she broke the law. let me say this. nobody believes that dave camp, the chairman of the ways and means committee sent a letter to the irs asking them to investigate the targeting of these conservative groups and ten days later by happenstance, her hard drive crashed. and nobody believes that during that two-year period in

question, can all of the e-mails were destroyed and are unrecoverable. nobody believes that. and then when we asked -- >> who did you suspect destroyed if you're making that accusation that she broke the law and that she was involved in destroying e-mails, who was involved? what evidence is there a, she was involved, what evidence is there others may have conspired to be involved? >> i'm not suggesting i know. what i am suggesting is it no american listening to your program today, wolf, knows people whose hard drives crash and their e-mails are unrecoverable and by the way, at the same time, six of the 80 people under investigation at the irs six of those same people's hard drives crashed during the same two-year period all of their e-mails are also unrecoverable. the probability statistically of that happening it's just unbelievable. >> so it's basically. >> that warrants, wolf, that warrants an investigation. >> right. >> it may come out that nobody did anything wrong. but for those who is suggest

this should not be further investigated by the department of justice is abdication of responsibility. and wolf, the only reason cnn is covering this is because the ways and means committee has not let up. the white house, treasury, irs has not been forthcoming. we've had to press them to get the little amount of information we have. it rnt warrants further investigationing >> what we heard yesterday from the commission ker of the irs, john koskinen, remember he took office only last december. he was not involved in any of the alleged shenanigans going on earlier. what he says the inspector general of the irs has engaged in an investigation right now. he's going to be issuing a report very soon. wait for that report. what's wrong with that? >> well, the inspector general is only able -- the inspector general does not have the same power as the department of justice. they are not able to walk into the fbi, they're not able to issue the same subpoenas and get the same documentation. they're not able to use their

i.t. forensic specialist to try and recapture e-mails in the same way. it's apples and oranges in terms of the type of investigation and prosecution that needs to happen to those that we know based on the il info we have broke the law and potentially more information we might gather with a full blown investigation. >> he also says that the computers over at the irs, this was sort of shocking to me are antiquated. here's the question, is it possible that this is just big government bureaucracy screwing up, if you will, that they couldn't handle what was going on and as a result, those hard drives were destroyed? >> it doesn't take new computers to tell the truth. it doesn't take new computers to be forthcoming with congress and wolf, in february, this irs commissioner, this irs commissioner was verified that there were missing e-mails in member, he was notified the

e-mails were unrecoverable and in may, he gave testimony to our committee that all of the e-mails would be disclosed with no limitations. and it wasn't till june that we found out that there were two years worth of e-mails missing. that is not being honest. that is not being forthright. that has nothing to do with the age of the computer system. second, i guess i would go back to my original point which is the death that this hard drive crashed during the two-year period in question ten days after the letter was sent is unbelievable. the fact that five others and six total of the eight employees under question had the same april malfunction during the same period of time all of which their e-mails are unrecoverable is again unbelievable. >> there are a ton of questions that have to be answered. you may be right. i pressed the commissioner yesterday on potentially the need for a special prosecutor outside independent counsel to investigate his only point was wait till the inspector general's report comes out. then there will be time to make

that decision. one final question. do you believe he lied before your committee or in any other official capacity, john koskinen? >> i don't -- i'm not going to going that far. i would just simply say you know, he's making declarative statements without the information to back it up. for him to say people didn't break the law, he doesn't have the information. i wouldn't dare say that somebody didn't break the law when you're missing two years worth of e-mails. how can you make that statement? so for him to say to our committee that we were going to get all of the e-mails in question in may and he was notified in march that they were unrecoverable, i don't know what that is. maybe he was confused. but he told us one thing and he was briefed basically being told another several months before. so he was told in february and march the e-mails were unrecoverable. he told congress in may we were

going to get all the e-mails in june. we were then notified we wouldn't. so your listeners are smart enough to figure out what that is. >> aaron shock from illinois, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. good to be with you. >> we will certainly stay op on top of this important story. up next, armed drones ready for trouble are patrolling the skies over baghdad right now but they're there only for one reason. stand by. and a tea party leader is found dead after an exceptionally nasty republican campaign in mississippi. we're peeling back the layer lars of an ugly scandal. kid: hey dad, who was that man? dad: he's our broker. he helps look after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don't know exactly. kid: what if you're not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn't work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed?

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drones are now flying over baghdad to protect u.s. military advisors who are on the ground. at the same time, iraq's government says it's buying fighter jets from russia and belarus and hopes to put them into action soon. meantime, human rights groups say they have evidence of mass killings by i was and its sunni allies and by iraqi troops and their shiite allies and the leader of the kurdish region in the north has now announced the virtual annexation of the-rich city of kirkuk and other disputed areas in the north. let's get account latest from our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. i take it more u.s. forces military advisors heading to the region and elsewhere? >> more u.s. troops, u.s. marines on the way to the asian gulf, wolf. the "uss baton within 1,000 marines on board is now moving we have learned from its position in the mediterranean back down south it will go into the persian gulf with those 1,000 marines joining another thousand marines already in the

gulf region. seven warships are already there. they are upping the firepower, they say not because they expect president obama to order air strikes but to be ready just in case. and the just in case comes along with those armed drones now flying over baghdad. they've been conducting reconnaissance missions but by putting missiles on them, they will be ready if the 180 military advisors from the united states united states run into trouble on the ground, if they come under attack, the armed drones will be on station ready to render help to them. more military advisors could be on the way next week. the president said up to 300. right now it's at 180. >> barbara, thank you. let's discuss, let's bring in douglas oliphant with the new america foundation, a retired u.s. army officer who will have a key planning role in iraq, later director for iraq at the national security council in both the bush and obama administrations. he's a managing partner with

mantid international. also with us, cnn counter-terrorism analyst phillip mudd, a former cia official now with the new america foundation. our foreign affairs reporter elyse la by the and andrea taylor from the washington institute here. even as we're speaking, the kurds are making it clear they're so-called autonomous region in the north is expanding. they've taken over kirkuk. that's part of kurdistan right now. it looks like they're trying to create an independent state out of iraq. >> there's a lot of concern among the community. i think they're trying to secure as much territory as possible and laying down claims as isis is laying down counter claims to other territory. it shows how this can be sort of spin out of control faster than we thought. >> phillip, does it make much of a difference to the u.s. if iraq is iraq as we've known it these past 100 years or so or if it

becomes three independent countries kurdistan a shia country, a sunni country? >> if it you look at the situations around the world, horn of africa looking at so mailia, breakup of somalia, our position all along has been the breakup of these countries leads to 0 tremendous instability. you're looking at kurdish populations in iran and turkey. if you get the breakaway of those kurds in the north, are you going to lead to calls for independence elsewhere. we've got a lot of interest there. >> syria seems to be splitting up in a similar fashion. >> i think it is. the question though when we're dealing with syria and iraq is not necessarily just the breakup. it's in my experience when dealing with insurgents is if you get safe haven held by insurgent leaders coupled with visionary leadership, there will be a sliver of this insurgency where foreign fighters start to train to go to plays like europe and north america. >> what do you make of nuri al

maliki. he says the u.s. is not providing fighter jets to iraq. i'm going to go to russia, belarus and do what i can to get fighter jets. >> this is pretty normal behavior for him. he gets very, very frustrated with the speed with which the united states delivers weapons. half the fault in iraq's case is generally the iraqis about half is the fact that it is a slow system. every time something doesn't come fast enough, he talks about going to usually the former soviet republics to go get more weapons. >> he seems to at least to be blaming the united states for the current problems. his military collapses in the face of a few thousand isis militants who come in from syria into iraq, take over mosul. they run away. but he says if the u.s. had done what he wanted, provide these planes earlier, it would have been a different situation right now. he's not showing a whole lot of gratitude to the united states for the commitment they made over the years, training and equipping the iraqi military. >> or that they're making right now. that's what's annoying u.s.

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development. what happened? tributes are pouring in tonight for mark mayfield. it might be awhile before we know whatever caused the nastiest fight in primary history to take a deadly turn for the worse. mark mayfield was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound friday morning inside his home in jackson, mississippi. a suicide note was found. mayfield, a tea party leader, was one of three men charged with conspiracy after photographs of senator thad cochran's wife were taken in a nursing home. conservative blogger clayton kelly was supposedly behind the plot. all the men faced felony conspiracy charges punishable up to ten years in prison. mcdaniels' campaign denied any involvement in the plot. it's another strange turn in the nation's ugliest primary fight. >> meet chris mcdaniel. >> it's so interesting to see this woman basically using her

[ bleep ] using her to run for office. >> a fight that hasn't ended even after cochrane narrowly beat mcdonnell by fewer than 7,000 votes. in the republican primary runoff. >> we all have a right to be proud of our state tonight. >> the tea party backed mcdonnell is refusing to concede saying cochrane's strategy of courting african-american democrats wasn't fair. >> 35,000 to 40,000 democrats jumped in this race and apparently tried to decide it. they have their own primary. we have ours. what we're looking for right now is irregularities. we're going to keep looking >> the cochrane camp says there's clearly no evidence of widespread rotor irrigarities but mcdonnell isn't backing down. >> they ridiculed me, mocked me and called me a racist. they used race-baiting tactics and scared people to the polls.

that's no way to behave. >> there is no provision in mississippi for a ballot recount. county clerks in the state are not cooperating. >> joe, stay with us. i want to bring in jacqui kucinich, the host of the "washington post" in play. joining us alsos are jeffrey toobin and chief political analyst gloria borger. >> what a shocking development today, gloria. >> as joe was saying is, it's tragic. this was such a bitter divisive ugly race in every way and this development is just one more kind of twist in, you know, a race that was ugly from the start. and you know, where pictures were taken of thad cochran's wife who suffers in a nursing home and then were posted. so i think it's just a sad

story, wolf. >> jeffrey, what do you make of it? >> how about how revolting what chris mcdaniel is doing. his whole argument at this point is, i lost because black people voted. isn't that awful? >> i was robbed. >> what kind of message is that if you are trying to appeal to a broad group of people. by the way. >> it's not. >> he lost by 7,000 votes. i mean, it wasn't even that close. i mean, the guy is obviously a sore loser, looking to damage the republican party. >> jackie, do you think he's got a shot of overturning this election because that's what he's trying to do? >> flow, i don't think so. when you talk to some of his supporters they say this is not going to be overturned. it seems like he really thought he had this. and he didn't. >> he's frustrated? >> and he's frustrated. >> also the republican party, by the way, does not want this overturned. the republican party is opposed to him on this and think he ought to leave it alone. >> a lot of tea party activists would like to see it.

>> the club for growth congratulated cochrane when he won. they want this to be over. >> he could have won that race had it not been for that break-in at rose cochrane's nursing home. so i mean, he was definitely in good position before that happened. >> but you know what happens when you get the second most number of votes? you lose. and this it is what happened. >> is that what happened? oh, okay. >> yeah. it's just ridiculous. >> here is a statement that the mcdaniel camp put out today. i'll read it. regardless of recent allegations made against his character, mark mayfield was a fine cristian man who was always respectful and kind. he was one of the most polite and humble men i have ever met in the politics. he was a loving husband, father, a pillar of his community and he will be misses. we send our thoughts and prayers to his wife, his family and his friends. >> he's certainly a highly respected lawyer there in the state, did a lot of real estate work, which makes this all the

more explicable how he would find himself in the middle of this. i think there is a question, of course, where that legal case is going because when you look at this, one of the statutes that they're talking about bringing on the underlying case, there's a lot of questions as to whether this thing will stand up in court. some of the lawyers have already asked whether a misdemeanor ought to have been charged and not i an felony. >> legally speaking, it's an open primary, jeffrey. so anyone can vote but he's arguing that if you intend on voting for a democrat, you really shouldn't vote in the republican primary. >> but that's not the law. the law is if you voted in the democratic primary, you can't vote in the republican primary. >> you can't vote twice. >> you can't vote twice i which is a basic tenet of democracy. it seems like this is sour grapes, we don't want black people vote ing inour primaries and it is repulse sib. >> what bothers him and the reason he feels robbed obviously, is that this was a

primary that as he put it on election night was decided a republican primary was decided by liberal democrats. you can understand why he would say oh, it shouldn't be this way. but the truth of the matter is, this is the way it works. and sad thad cochrane organized and he organized on the ground with a powerful group to help him, haley barbour's political machine and he won fair and square. you don't like the rules, change them. >> he knows how to win. >> he knows mississippi. stand by. we have more to discuss. we're going to continue this conversation. we'll also talk about president obama's dismissal of john boehner's plans to file a lawsuit over the president's use of executive action. the president calling it a stunt. and a massive change impacting millions of people. many of them don't even note about it. we have details of what this map reveals.

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they've got polls, republicans look at their polls and what polls number one for them above obamacare? the so-called imperial presidency, this notion of presidential overreach. it's a very convenient rubric for them to use into which they can put obamacare rules, immigration rules, energy rules, executive orders, all these kinds of things and it appeals not only to their base they're finding out but it appeals to independent voters, as well. it's going to be used in the 2014 midterms. >> but you know that the speaker is probably encourages by the unanimous supreme court decision yesterday saying the president acted unconstitutionally with these recess appointments. all nine. jeffrey, you're an expert on the supreme court. all nine including the two justices named by the president elainal kahgan, sonia so the toe

mayor. they said the president went beyond his power. he was slapped down. >> the veem court said exactly what john boehner has been saying, that the president acted unconstitutionally. there's no question that is a good argument. >> that will encourage him 0 go forward. now, it is true that the law does not really allow congress to file these kinds of lawsuits. this lawsuit was filed in the appropriate way by the people who were take theed by the national labor relations board actions. that's how the court system, would. the courts don't like to get involved between in fights between the legislature and the president. but no question, this was a very important decision that went against the administration on precisely the grounds the republicans have been saying. >> he has another option the speaker if he doesn't want to file a lawsuit. he can try to impeach him in the house of representatives. >> he said he's not going to do that. i think we would have to tack on a yet. he said on wednesday he was not going to do that.

one of the interesting things about the lawsuit is it wouldn't affect president obama by the time it worked its way through the courts. it's not only helping out republicans but democrats. the dccc had one of their best days ever fund-raising wise as a result of this lawsuit. both sides are going to benefit from there one way or the other. >> it's not a lawsuit yet. he's talked aboutfying a lawsuit. >> i haven't seen any papers. >> exactly. i think the good lawyers, the republican lawyers like paul clemente, the former solicitor general will be the voices saying this is a good political argument. but let's be sure there's really a legal case to be made. >> i think the president made a political case saying you guys are all obstructionist and this is why you forced me to do the court said you may have a political argument, fine argue it in politics. just because you have a good political argument doesn't necessarily mean you have a constitutional case to make. >> there's a reality check here, too.

there's some studies out there one from brookings that suggest this president has signed fewer executive orders than any other president since grover cleveland. he really hasn't done it. >> and all orders aren't created equal. >> and made fewer recess appointments. the problem is he made them in an unconstitutional way. >> what irritates the republicans the most is some of the executive orders were designed to change the obamacare, the affordable care act law and the president decided to unilaterally make those changes. they say you can't do that. >> absolutely. there's a lot of frustration about that. as the gloria said, frustration doesn't necessarily mean they have a constitutional case. >> all right, guys. we'll continue this conversation on another occasion. i'm sure it's not going to go away. we'll see if the speaker does file a lawsuit. thank you. straight ahead, so what's this map revealing about the air we breathe? at least many of us? we have new details of huge surprise changes can impacting

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something major changed for millions of americans over the last decade and many of us don't know it. the quality of air we breathe has improved dramatically. brian todd is working the story for us. what are you finding out? >> well, wolf, take a look behind me. this is rush hour in d.c. in the summertime. you've got till pipe emissions,

the air is heavy. not untypical this time of year. with all of this and the scientific evidence that air pollution causes global warming with you would think that the air quality would. be going down fast. but new at light pictures show it is just the different. the pictures from nasa that dial back the doom and gloom pictures of our air quality. the air in the united states has improved. over the last decade nitrogen deox side has decreased. red and orange with the worst areas, green and blue are better. especially along the i-95 corridor in the northeast, the difference is striking. >> this represents a map in 2005 of nitrogen aoxside. >> what do we have now? >> now we have much lower levels.

levels have gone down about 40% since 2005. >> nitrogen deox side is a smog that comes from vehicles and cole burning power plants. it forms the ozone. >> why is the air getting better even though the number of cars on the roads have increased? >> the cars are becoming more fuel efficient. >> and the power plant now scrub most of the emotions out before they can get to our lungs. in 2012 about 3.7 million people from around the world died from effects of outside air pollution. the people whose smog has hit the hardest on the ones who can feel the improvement in the air. >> people who has asthma can definitely tell they're breathing easier. and it's easier when we're looking at it on a long term basis or looking at hospital records or other records. >> nitrogen dioxide are a good

indication of how other pollution is trending. but there are other pollutants out there causing harm. >> we have about half the nation who lives in counties that have unhealthy levels air pollution. >> reporter: that's about 140 or more million americans who still live areas with air. the worst in the united states for even that city made big improvements. l.a. has cut it air pollution bs a problem for europe, isn't that right scientists we talked to today say we have a problem with par tick la lates in the air. and with thestream, carries it all east up around a europe. goes 0 intoeurope.

that's problem for them and they say the have to cut down on that. >> brian todd, for. human rights groups now at we're investigating a mass slaughter. also, as president obama makes a plea about the humanitarian border, i'll get te personal story behind the cnn film

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happeningnow, armed and dangerous. drones flying over russian fighter jets are in the mix for the battle for iraq. plus, targets. can the syrian army fight back

with millions of dollars come in right now from the united states? president's great why he's trying to get out of the so-called white house get a we want welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." that coming up. we have some breaking news coming into "the situation room. just got a read out of a high level meeting at the white house on the scandal involving y veterans. scandal that was initially exposed nationallycnn. there's now an outline report o the entire problem highlighting. jim acosta is here in "the situation room". >> we know the president just returned the trip in minnesota. he with his acting va

and also a top official. the review said that theva's guidelines to get veteran to see doctors within 14-day window qud and misunderstood and be replaced with a more insightful measure pipt goes on to say, u causes inappropriate ak actions. goes on to conclude that va has corrosive cull chaur that i that asked neighbors to stay io help implement the changes. typ.

they know how fired eric shinseki when this review isment coing it not going on the of that. >> the more we learn, the worse >> that's right. it seems that these guidelines that the va for years to try seen within this 14-day window was never adhered to agency. what saw because of cul report talks about, saw personnel going at va facilities around the country, having secret waiting lists and that sort of thing that really hid the problems that going on. that is why you're seeing the president today asking rob neighbors to stay on at the agency overseeing what's happening there. and in the meantime the has notd permanent sloan gibson is the acting rig a few before he acting secretar.

i'm told by white house officials that the president is getting closer to flaking a va secretary, they're just not there are too many problems tht are in this report that they need to get a handle on before they new there. are recommendations in sf. >> there are we're talking about. the review suggests out some for tlifring care. it also that measuring the wait times should not be as of care has been delivered. they suggest more transparency, doctors and when president announced that eric shinseki was stepping down, he said he wanted to see surge scheduling people to help. question is whe comes from secretary this task. they're going to need somebody who can take on the be heem it

atva and the changes. >> reinforces known for a while when drew griffin and our cnn investigation team began investigating these wait times at the phoenix and elsewhere, he was on to a huge problem. we didn't know how big i was at that time. >> did report don't go far away. we're monitoring a knew level of danger for the battle of iraq from executions to deadly fire power. both isis and iraqi forces are being accused massive. the united states has launched armed drones into the skies over baghdad. our correspondent is joining us with more. these drones are armed puy

with force to respond to any attacks on the u.s. military advisers. in addition armed drones, there are also manned flights other iraq as well. that is standard when flying in hostile environments. defense officials tell us that u.s. forces ready for official mission us, the possibility of air strikes on if the order comes down from the president. but the president has yet order those american drones armed with hail fire missiles now patrolling the skies over baghdad. they wi targets. flying instead to provide protection for 180 u.s. militar >> they are prepared to use military from the air if we're the in chief decides he want to strikes, is to be ready to do that aspossible.

>> has now turned to buying russian fighter jets, just the latest in string of adversaries from syria to iran now aidingiraq. iraqi prime minister nori malik could propelled sigh sis advances if the u.s. f-16s first ordered years ago. >> translator: if had air we h what has in this country. >> those s say officials are just weeksaway. maliki asked for air strikes by. syrian jets already carrying out strikes on targets. this is some of two mass graves believed contain bodies of iraqi soldiers, and civilians,

murdered. a report analyzed isis photos and concluded that militants executed three groups of men numbering in hundreds. the group

these ships, the marines, the sailors, the air power that's going into the northern arabian gulf or the persian gulf could be designed if necessary, rescuing some of those 5,000 americans who are still in baghdad. >> absolutely, wolf. they are fully prepared for a full evacuation of american citizens out of iraq. those in baghdad and those that may be somewhere else. that's why you're seeing so many ships with aircraft and especially helicopters on board.

>> barbara star at the present gob, disturbing developments there. let's go to iraq right now where cnn has been investigating allegations of atrocities the. the pim js we're going to show are graphic and the stories is disturbing. our senior correspondent has exclusive new video, interviews. tell our viewers here in the united states and around the world what you're learning. >> reporter: well for weeks we've been reporting on the atropsties carried out by isis, the mass executions carried out by their fighters as they've swept through the northern portion of the country. now there's disfush tushing allegations of the execution of sunni detainees. the report they're about to see is very, very disturbing. the woman stands over her

brother's lifeless corpse found in a room with another bodies in a detention facility. he was killed, she says, clearly still in shock. they killed a lot. i don't know. survivors say it was iraqi guards who carried out a mass slaughter against sunni pris prisone prisoners. this was the sight where some of the killings took place. some of the bodies were brought to a hospital with the gunmen affiliated with isis. on the last night at 2:00 a.m., three guards came into our cell. there were 36 of us. this wounded man who was held in the same prison says they opened fire with a machine gun. me and four others were wounded. after about two hours they died, the rest died. in a separate incident these bodies were found dumped in a ditch close to an abandoned potato factory. some of them believed by

witnesses to have also been executed by iraqi forces a few days before they withdrew from the detention facility. this man who asked that we conceal his identity and voice says he was being held in that facility. >> translator: the guards were screaming out names. they took 15 of them and handcuffed them together, and they took them away. he says he went to this site and recognized some of the bodies as those who were held in the same facility, accused of having committed serious crimes. amnesty international has been investigating these and other alleged killings of june any detainees while in custody of iraqi forces saying, the killing suggests a warring pattern of attacks against june anies in retaliation for isis gains. the spokesman for iraq's judicial council tells cnn while they're aware of the allegations, no families or witnesses have come forward with such claims and no one has officially asked for an

investigation. but, he says, they're monitoring the developments. this battlefield has seen horrific sectarian atrocities. human watch has now confirmed that bodies of iraqi soldiers, police and civilians found in a mass grave were executed by isis. on all sides the worry that humanity and compassion is lost. and, wolf, with these atrocities, we're seeing the hatred, the fear, the sectarian divides grow even greater in a country that's dangerously close to unraveling. >> just when you think it can't get worse, it gets a whole lot worse. up next, the state department deputy spokeswoman, she's walking into "the situation room" right now. we have a lot to discuss. stand by. >> absolutely.

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we're following the escalating battle for iraq and the flash points across the region. there's a lot to talk about with the deputy spokeswoman for the state department, marie harf, here in "the situation room" with us once again. thanks very much for coming in. so nowry al maliki tells us that he wants to get aircraft from russia. he's blaming the united states for some of the problems. is this a loyal ally? is this someone who should be grateful if to the united states for the blood and treasure that the u.s. provided for nearly over a decade there? >> wolf, i think this kind of blame of others on the outside is quite frankly what's gotten iraq into the situation it's in today. it's helped create the crisis. when we left iraq, we gave the iraqis the ability to create a

better future. unfortunately, leaders didn't step up and take the opportunity. they blamed others and didn't bring the country together. look, we're going to work with them but they need to start looking outside of iraq and start doing a little more look in the mirror. >> what do you think of the decision by him to ask russia for war planes? >> we've said that other countries can provide assistance to iraq. there's a process to do that. if it's all in the service of promoting inclusiveness and helping fight isis. but doing that under the inclusiveness. obviously they need a lot of help right now. >> what do you think of his statement that he well comes bashar's force coming in. >> as i said on the very show, the iraqi security challenge is

not going to be fixed by bashar. they're a force because of the assad regime. it's counter beauty to think that the same regime that's allowed the terrorist group to flourish and grow in strength would be part of the solution. >> the secretary of state, john kerry, he goes to bag zad and makes an appeal to maliki, the prime minister, who then after what kerry leaves, he seems to do the opposite. is that a friend? >> well we've seen prime minister maliki say publicly he's committed to forming a government as soon as possible. today we saw grand ayatollah say the same thing. and, look, i think we're going to see in the next few days whether iraq's leaders are up to the challenge, whether they step up to the plate, realize the emergency and take steps to do things differently g you don't think they will, do you? >> i think iraq's leaders

understand the seriousness of the situation. they know they need to do things differently. if you look at the last election in iraq, what all of the can dates ran on, even maliki was change and doing things different. >> yesterday the obama administration asked congress to approve $500 million to equip, train, arm, moderate syrian rebels fighting isis in syria, fighting the bashar al assad regime. you give them the weapons, they should end up in the hands of bashar al assad regime or wind up in isis. look what's happened in iraq. >> that's why we vet people before we give them any assistance. >> use those weapons, hold on to the weapons and make sure that the weapons don't get into the wrong hands. >> we go through a very serious vetting process. we do this very deliberately to

try to prevent exactly what you're saying. the moderate opposition is fighting a war on two fronts. they're fighting the assad regime and they're fighting ie sill and thigh need more help. that's what we're going to provide. >> the moderate, on paper they look great. but the question is do they have the military capability of securing those weapons, securing what the united states is about to provide them and make sure that they don't get in the wrong hands? they have good intentions but how tapeable are they? >> we're working with them to improve their capabilities. we've been working with them for is efrl years now. we've continued to increase our assistance to them. and as we find members of the moderate opposition we do think can get the assistance and use it to fight the terrorists, we're going to help. >> you saw what happened in mosul. they left a lot of armored carries, sophisticated equipment, all sorts of stuff there. the iraqi military which the

u.s. trained and equipped at the cost of billions of dollars in u.s. taxpayer money, they simply took off their uniforms, ran away and isis got control of tank after tank. it's a serious problem. >> there's always a risk there. but you make a judgment. and you vet people and you, at the end to have day say, it's important enough that we need to train and equip these people of the opposition. it's so important that we help them get back on their feet and really improve their capabilities. >> secretary kerry made a major effort to get a peace agreement. he head many attempts to meet with the israelis and the palestinians. now that seems to have ended. italy's peace negotiator, he resigned today. is it over? >> it's not. the whole team is still in place. frank loenstein will be stepping

np. this has been the work of the ambassad ambassador's life. he thought it was appropriate to go back to the institute. but we are trying to get the parties back to the table. we're talking to them both every day trying to see if they will come back in a meaningful way. but until they do, we'll keep having the conversations because the secretary and everyone else is certainly still committed to this. >> marie harf, nainthanks for cg back. does president obama have a hankering for fast food or is there another reason he's been sneaking out of the white house so often. and a key player on team usa is injured. will that hurt america's prospects of winning its next big world cup match?

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urge to break out of his cage. lost in the political wilder ps for months -- >> i'm finding lately that i just want to say what's on my mind. so let me -- can't be regular, can't be routine. >> it's fair to say president obama is doing more than working through some cabin fever these days. now these presidential bear sights happen every week. but this creature of washington is hungering for more than coffee runs and fast food as he told a town hall in minnesota -- >> i'm like a caged bear and every once in a while i break loose. >> oh my god, it's a bear. >> unlike the actual bear that tried to escape to the minnesota woods, mr. obama wants to reconnect with the voters outside the white house fence and beyond the beltway noise. >> critics and the cynics in washington, you know, they've written me off more times than i can count. >> now the white house is make

these getaways part of his schedule by having the president spend more time with everyday americans. this week it was reck becca erla's turn. she's a minnesota mom who wrote a let tore the president about making ends meet. with the president's poll numbers approaching record lows, democratic strategists say the looser the better. >> it's an election year so there's no question that the president will visit not just those important states but those not so important districts. so i'm sure that there's a little bit of politics in all of this. >> no surprise with the midterm election battle with republicans under way, the claws are coming out. >> they don't do anything except block me. and call me names. >> the president prefers the bear, and aides say he's out to

convince americans that washington can be more than the circus where he's not the popular exhibit he wunsz was. >> cynicism is, you know, popular these days. but hope is better. >> president obama is not the first occupant of the white house to see this place as a cage. harry truman once referred to it as a glamorous prison. aides say the president will be back on the lose meeting with americans about their issues later this summer. wolf? >> jim acosta at the white house, thank you. let's bring in the host of cnn's sper connish. do you think the president is trying to get out of that d.c. bubble? is that a political strategy? does he have cabin fever? what's your assessment? >> it's a combination of both. i buy into what i heard, donna talking about the political irp occasions puppet's good for a president whose approval is

object 40% to get out there and mix. it's probably good for his mental health as well. he's five years no now. that is the ultimate bubble. you know what that environment is like. it's like living in a fishbowl. and you know, i'll bet he relish to do what i'm going to do after our conversation tonight, which is walk a couple of blocks in new york city, meet family members, have a cocktail, have dinner and interact with some real folks and call it a night. he doesn't get to have nights like that. >> let's shift gears. you have a major interview tomorrow with the gm whistle-blower. there have been a lot of recalls as all of our viewers know from gm. there's an investigation underway. he tried to alert gm to the problems with the ignition switches that led to some deaths. i want to play for ou viewers part of a clip from what he said. >> it seems that what you're really telling me is that if the problems within the gm culture as you identified in the letter

of july 25, 2002, had been addressed at that time, the ignition switch issue would never have grew to what it became? >> that's exactly what i'm saying. the point i'm trying to make, michael, is if your environment says a problem is unacceptable, you can't have a problem, that's what happened with the ignition switch. people knew that was a problem but problems were not acceptable. so they just, they just ignored it. >> so michael, why did gm ignore what he was saying when he spoke up? >> let me give you a brief background. this is a guy, wolf, who had 36 years in at gm when all was said and done. long term employee. he was running for a decade what they called the corporate quality audit. this is before the ignition issue pops and he becomes so frustrated that he pens an unbelievable letter to the entire board of directors in 2002, that's two years before

ignition issue was known to gm and he speak to serious safety defects that he's noticed that they don't act on. they never formally respond to his letter, don't acknowledge its receipt although it exists. he says it was a culture issue and if the culture had changed at the time that he alerted them to the concerns, the ignition issue would have never taken place and the 13 people would not have died. >> did he raise other problems? >> a whole myriad of problems. and i should tell you he also filed a whistle-blower action and was unsuccessful in that regard. i assume that the company position will be one that this is sour grapes on his part. the statement we received from gm is one of saying pretty much if today he were to voice those kinds of concerns, they would be taken more seriously. >> tomorrow morning we'll be watching. airing 9:00 a.m. eastern on saturday.

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a new personal appeal today for president obama to try to ease a humanitarian crisis, the huge influx of young illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. >> our message absolutely is don't send your children unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers. a direct message to the families in central america. do not send your children to the borders. if they do make it, they'll get sent back. >> cnn a taking an in-depth look at immigration. the critically acclaimed film "documented" explores the journey of a journalist. it debuts on sunday right here on cnn. jose is joining us from new york along with the republican congressman peter king. congressman king, let me zart with you. the house homeland security chairman mike mccaul, he said this week that the estimate is

150,000 unaccompanied children may attempt to cross the u.s./mexico border this coming year. how do you fix that? >> i've heard estimates as high as 99,000, 100,000. i'm sure the chairman's number are accurate also. ho do you fix it? basically several things. we have to convince the gochlts of guatemala that they cannot send the young children up. we also have to have mexico secure its southern border because all of the young children are coming through the southern border of mexico. we have to step up prosecution of the coyote gangs that are smuggling the kids across the border. we have to make it clear like the president tried to do that these children are not going to be allowed to stay in the united states. it sounds harsh and cruel to have these young children being turned back. but we cannot continue to have

these tens of thousands of young kids, many of whom, we don't know if they've been inoculated, they don't speak the language, don't have family members with them. we have 12 and 13-year-old girls coming across the border that are pregnant. the humanitarian issue is to find ways to convince the governments and these families not to allow these children to come across the board. >> jose, do you have any thoughts on what the u.s. should be doing about this? >> i have a lot of thoughts and i think this is a tragedy all around. and you know, as i listen to congressman king and as i listen to the president, you know, i can't help but kind of think of history. like, look, i understand that a country, our country has a responsibility and a right to protect our borders and so secure the borders. but then i wonder what would have happened if these kids were coming from italy or germany or ireland back in the ellis island

days. what would we have done with these kids? and to me, it seems as if i understand, of course what the president has said and what a lot of people are saying are political responses, right? what if this was your kid? like, do we actually think these unaccompanied kids are crossing the border and thinking to themselves, oh, some program is going to save me when i get her pap when desperate people are desperate, they do whatever they can to leave. what we haven't discussed is what are the root causes of this? what responsibility does the united states have with the kind of situation in guatemala and honduras and in el salvador. we haven't talked about that. >> you're raising important issues and i want congressman king to also weigh in on this specific issue but first i want to play a clip, congressman, for you. it's a scene where jose is attending a mitt romney alley from his new fill. he speak to romney supporters

afterward about his pim congratulations status. watch this. >> are you in line? >> no. but sir, there's no line. i was brought here when i was 12. i didn't know. my grandparents were american citizens, didn't tell me. i've been here. i've been paying taxes since i was 18. i want to be able to get legal to get in the back of the line somewhere. >> and i think romney made a point. >> yeah. >> we want the highly intelligent immigrants here. >> there's in way for you to get in the process if you're undocumented. >> it's going to be a dramatic fill. . congressman romney supporters back in 2012, you saw the clip, is there a lack of understanding among republican voters about the need for comprehensive immigration? i know your position probably is in the minority among republicans. >> i do believe we need immigration reform but vi to

disagree with them to this extent. we have to secure our borders. and listen, i am a grandson of immigrants, i grew up in an immigrant community. i certainly understand the absolute, not that we're doing them a favor. immigrants are the life blood of our society. some of the most dedicated americans are those who come here at immigrants because of the guts it takes and the initiative it takes to come to a foreign country and to leave everything behind you. so i am absolutely committed to us being a nation of immigrants on the other hand, we have to do it in an orderly process. as far as the young children, there's been a massive increase over the last several months and a lot of it has been done by the coyote gangs telling families if they bring their children across the border they'll get citizenship. this is what the homeland security secretary testified to the other day. there's these mass publications

or distribution of leaf lets telling the families they'll get amnesty pass. so again it's changed dramatically over the last several months. and the situation in guatemala, honduras has not changed over the last several mon months. >> and the deportations, they continue. since president obama took office, the u.s. has been deporting about 400,000 illegal immigrants every year. that's a lot more than occurred every year during the bush administration. what's going on as far as you can tell? >> i have to say, by the way, that i'm not an illegal immigrant. my being here is here illegally but i as a person am not illegal. what the real problem here is not only the lack of facts but the perception. you have a lot of republicans saying we can't trust the

president to enforce immigration laws. wait up. you mean the same president who's enforcing the law and has deported nearly 2 million people in five years? if that is not enforcing the law, what is? congressman, i agree with you sir, we have to do in in an orderly fashion and a humane way. but my question is, are we really asking the hard questions to be root causes of why this is happening. i don't think we understand the desperation that people feel of why they're coming here. >> we're almost out of time but i quickly want you to tell us what is your status right now here in the united states. >> i'm undocumented. i'm the most unprivileged undocumented person in america. what do i do? i make a film. i'm grateful for cnn for airing the film on sunday night. if you think i should be deported, if you don't believe in amnesty, please watch the film.

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two major stories for team usa at the world cup. rachel nicholls is joining us with details. tell us what is going on. >> jose altidore pulled his hamstring but this was his third day running around in training and he looked good and the coach expects jose to be back for that match against belgium on

tuesday. that is huge for the u.s. now the bad news, jermaine jones did break his nose in the last game. that is two broken noses in the world cup. this is an issue with breathing. you try running around for two 45-minute halves while holding your nose. they have to breathe through their mouths while exerting themselves and play the game. it is difficult to deal with. >> that is not easy by any means. especially difficult with a broken nose like this. cnn spoke with the u.s. goalkeeper, tim howard earlier. listen what he said about the upcoming match on tuesday against belgium. >> i think we match up really well with them. having said that they're strong and they're powerful. defensively they're been rock solid. in the attack they have

dangerous and tricky players. very much like germany. we feel like we're strong and powerful and have been playing some of the best soccer that this team has seen. so hopefully we'll give as good as we get. >> let's see if they can. the usa team, as you know, remains the underdog. what are the chances they can beat belgium and make it this far and go beyond in this final group of 16? >> belgium is a strong team. they won all three of their opening round matches and they are considered a team that can play beautiful soccer. but they haven't been doing that so far in this tournament. they have won each of their matches by one goal. they have injury issues as well. their captain has groin issues and may not even play. we'll see if the u.s. catches a break there. and they're not an elite team the way germany was. the americans, on the other hand are the underdog but they are coming in on a headful of steam

and confidence. they survived the group of death. they have a confident feeling of a european player that american-born players haven't had in the past. and they are getting jose back and that should be a boost as well. >> more than 10 million americans watched yesterday's game. here's the question, is soccer going to emerge from this world cup more popular in the u.s.? >> that's the thing, right? they're already making it further than anyone thought they would in this world cup. we see the crowds everywhere. you got to think, though, this is an event. people are excited for an event just like the miracle on ice or olympic hockey events. we have not seen that translate into nhl ratings after the huge hockey events. we'll have to see if it is different for soccer. >> rachel, thanks very much.

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