how much business activity has been lost. >> it brings offices together, right? >> i love you more than i did yesterday. >> see, it's a good thing. >> thank you, i will see you tomorrow. "wolf" starts right now. an emotional joint funeral wrapping up for the three israeli teenagers found dead in the west bank. israel's president warning again that israel will, quote, get our hands on the murderers and punish them. also right now, potential hurricane is spinning in the atlantic ocean, threatening to ruin july 4th for millions of americans living along the east coast. right now, we're less than three hours away from the big game, the u.s. versus belgium. a win, america's world cup dream moves on, a loss, they go home. hello, i'm jim sciutto, reporting again from washington. wolf blitzer is off today.

and we begin with the sorrow and anger in israel over the death of three teenagers. it is a tragedy that threatens to make already strained relations between israel and the palestinians even worse. israel accuses hamas of kidnapping and killing the teens. hamas denies it. israeli military says it carried out more than 30 strikes against targets in gaza overnight. those strikes, say israeli officials, were in response to rocket attacks from gaza. a funeral service for the teens just ended a short time ago. and prime minister benjamin netanyahu delivered the eulogy. he said the image of the three will forever be in the hearts of israelis. >> translator: honest and decent young men. who were cut down by the hand evil men who wielded a knife

over them, murderers. >> an emotional moment certainly for israel. cnn's atika sherbet joins us live. i know there's a debate inside the israeli government as to how intense the retaliation should be. where does that stand right now? >> still very divided actually. they will have a second emergency cabinet meeting later tonight at around 8:30. we're expecting to hear from the prime minister after that cabinet meeting. what seems to be the division is what action to take against hamas. we've seen air strikes on hamas facilities in gaza. we've seen that very aggressive manhunt in the west bank, trying to find the two main suspects that israel says are hamas members behind this kidnapping. but we are expecting more of a reaction from the government. the division seems to be how much to punish hamas. one of the ministers, the

defense minister, has said apparently that they want to build a settlement and dedicate it, a new settlement, and dedicate it to the three teenagerings. that has divided the cabinet for now. we'll see whether or not we get any clarity from prime minister benjamin netanyahu later today. >> settlement would be extremely controversial because even u.s. officials, european officials, oppose building settlements in the occupied territories. i want to play a sound bite from the plo executive committee member. she smopoke with cnn internatiol moments ago about her thinking about israel's response. have a listen here. >> well, actually, israel cannot just start accusing everybody without any evidence. it cannot decide who's guilty before due process. it cannot carry out a collective punitive campaign against all the palestinian people. though it has been doing the last 19 days. it has killed 11 palestinians, including teenagers and

children, so there are funerals every day in the west bank, in gaza, in palestinian. it decided it's going to punish everyone. it decided hamas guilty even though hamas denies any involvement. >> she raises an interesting point. hamas has denied involvement. that id said, they had praised kidnappings. has it been established that hamas was definitely behind these attacks? >> the fact is, no, we don't know exactly what happened that night. we do know of course they were abducted. but exactly by whom, there are two main suspects who are believed to have been hamas operatives, but what's not clear is whether or not hamas actually gave the order, whether this was a premeditated attack or whether or not these are two men who took an opportunity to commit this horrible crime. we're still waiting to find out the exact details. and that's going to take a lot more digging by the itsraeli authorities. they've been putting pressure on

the hamas community both in the west bank and gaza to get more information. but so far hamas is saying they didn't do it, even if they do praise the abductions. instead, a very small group has claimed responsibility. it's a group no one hass ever heard of before so there's not a lot of credibility. >> and the connection on the israeli side, how the teens were kidnapped and how the police responded. reports in the it's rasraeli mee of those teens called police after he was kidnapped. what can you tell us about that story? >> yeah, i've heard that recording too. what would be the local 911. as you say, we haven't been able to independently confirm it. but it is a very chilling audio recording. it's exactly 2 minutes, 10 seconds long. you can hear one of the teenagers calling in, saying, whispering into the phone, we have been kidnapped or abducted. and then what you hear is barking orders, telling him to get his head down, telling him

to stop. you hear sort of muscled sounds of a thump. and then what could be a gunshot. now, if this is correct, if this is the actual audio recording, it's horrifying to know this could have been the last minutes before they died. now, what happened after that, in terms of the police response to that call, they tried to call the number back several times, but it went unanswered. the police say they believed at the time that it was a prank call. and took several hours later when the parents reported the teenagers missing before any action was taken, and that has been very heavily criticized here. whether or not they could have been saved if the authorities had been able to move faster. >> possibly track that cell phone call if it turns out to be true. thanks very much to atika shubert joining us from jerusalem. in the region as well, to iraq, and a new commitment of u.s. troops. you'll remember president obama already announced the deployment

of 300 military advisers. now there will be a new contingent. our barbara starr is live at the pentagon. the pentagon just announcing 300 additional troops to iraq. president obama said on monday sending an additional 200 for security. can you walk us through those numbers now? i believe the total is 800. what will they be doing? >> edging up to 800, indeed. this is the third additional amount of troops in the last two weeks. so what we have now is the president ordering in another 300 security forces. about 100 of them were already standing by in kuwait. another 200 joining in. but here's what's interesting. these security forces, this latest group of 300, are going to move to protect the embassy. that would be expected. protect some roads and travel routes. but also protect baghdad international airport. there is growing concern that isis fighting positions are moving closer to the airport on

the northwest side of baghdad, and the u.s. feeling right now, is they have to do everything to keep that airport open and safe for operations. there's a lot of supplies and equipment going in and out of there. but perhaps even more importantly, to keep it open and safe in case, in case, the u.s. decides it wants to or has to evacuate the u.s. embassy very quickly if there's an attack on baghdad, if there's an attack on the epbasmbassy. this is putting things into place even more. even more security than the u.s. had there over the last couple of weeks. >> it's an alarming prospect, the idea of the airport being threatened. just knew in there last week with secretary kerry. very important people fly into that airport with regularity. about these troops, so now it's up to 800. the stated mission is protecting the airport. but some of the military advi r advisers would be advanced deployed with iraqi units. are u.s. troops getting closer to a combat role that the

president said he would not put them in? >> what the pentagon will tell you is not a combat role. look, you know, as you and i have talked so much together about this, in iraq, combat can come to you very, very quickly. if they feel the airport is threatened, they will take action to defend it. that would put them into contact. it's not like they're going out looking for isis. i guess the question is, is isis going to come looking for them. >> no question. great reporting. thank you so much, barbara starr at the pentagon. also in iraq, the new iraqi parliament met for the first time to consider a change for the government. but things did not go exactly as planned. cnn international correspondent arwa damon is in baghdad. this first parliament session ended badly. i was there with secretary kerry last week. one of his key missions was urging the iraqis to make a

political deal, a political compromise. it doesn't look like there's any real chance of that right now. >> that's not entirely surprising, jim. the iraqis have been under a lot of pressure to even hold their first parliamentary session. one of the main reasons why we saw the date of july 1st announced. things seem to start off fairly well. 255 members of parliament showed up. quorum was achieved. they were sworn in. they took a half hour recess. about half of them did not return. mostly sunnis and kurds. at the core of all this is the iraqi politicians inability to come to consensus on the various positions. this is something of a package deal and has always been a very lengthy and painstaking process. the last government's formation took months, but without the additions being preagreed upon. that is the speaker of parliament, the kurdish president. you're not going to see the political process here moving

forward. what makes it all the more frustrating and angering is there was a sense that given how dire the situation in iraq is right now with isis threatening to destroy the capital, that perhaps their politicians would have found a certain level of maturity and capacity to put aside their sectarian divide, their own personal political gains, and actually get this process started. but the iraqi population once again was left very bitter he dis disapointed. >> there's talk about iraq splitting u.n. splitting up. you have kurdish leaders effectively declaring independence in kurdistan. as you're there on the ground, do you feel there's momentum towards an effective split? that that's the more likely outcome now? if politicians cannot reach that compromise agreement? >> it's something that's being talked about more and more, jim.

albeit somewhat reluctantly. people at the end of the day did not want to necessarily see their country split into three different sections. but we are beginning to see the start of that, as you're mentioning there, the prime minister of iraqi, the president of iraqi kurdistan, barzani, coming out and annexing the oil-rich city of kirkuk, saying it is part of the autonomous region of kurdistan. you have these growing bitter divides between the shia and the sunni. some iraqis will say to you, look, clearly, we aren't able to make this work, and it's something we don't want to accept but maybe moving ahead that is the only choice we're going to have. again, further complicating all of this is isis has taken over large portions of the country, sunni lands, and so either way one looks at it, iraq is finding itself in a very difficult and challenging situation at this

stage, jim. >> no question, the other part of the political compromise, the u.s. has made that an addition of additional military action there, saying that has to come first. thanks very much to arwa came be, live now in baghdad. another storm, the first named tropical storm of the 2014 season could put a damper on our july 4th holidays. right now, it is off the coast of florida. we're joined now by meteorologist chad myers at the weather center. looking at this now, should we just accept this is going to spoil our weekend along the east coast? >> much of it, yes. north carolina, south carolina, georgia, florida, for sure. and then some rip currents up into new jersey, into new england by that saturday and sunday time frame. so let's go tick tock this as we go where we are right now, on shore flow coming into atlantic beach, up to jacksonville. a lot of rip current activity taking place. off shore flow in miami, no real

problem down here. and then we will get rains. every time a rain band comes by today, you'll pick up a little bit of wind. the storm is about 35, 40 miles per hour right now it it is gaining strength. it is getting deeper in color. it's going to continue to get into this very warm water right off the east coast. we call it the gulf strooem. by tomorrow, we're already at 60. and then to 70. and then 80 miles per hour. very close to north carolina. now, remember, haven't had to do this much lately with no landfalling hurricanes for so many years. here, that's our cone. it could be almost to raleigh or completely off shore missing the u.s. altogether. if we're staying out here, though, in the gulf stream for much longer, this could be a bigger storm than 80 miles per hour. there's all that potential, all that energy in the atmosphere, all that very warm water off the florida east coast. already some watches and warnings posted along there. if you're going to the beach this weekend, you will see those

big red flags stuck in the sand. and go ask a guy what that means. it means don't go in the water. especially if there's two of them. without a life jacket on, the rip currents are going to be tremendous this weekend, jim. >> looks good, looks like you just spoiled my weekend. >> go to kansas, it's going to be beautiful. >> thanks very much, chad myers in atlanta. coming u next, president obama doubling down on his go it alone strategy. what message is he sending to congress? our gloria borger joins me to talk about that. later, we'll be live in brazil as the u.s. team and the u.s. fans get ready for their knockout match against belgium. stay with us. that we serve. people here know that our operations have an impact locally. we're using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. the trucks are reliable, that's good for business. but they also reduce emissions, and that's good for everyone. it makes me feel very good about the future of our company. ♪

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as we come back now, our eyes are on wall street. as you see, it is inches towards 17,000 on the dow jones industrial average. that would be a record. it's already a record. 17,000. first time it would have ever crashed that threshold. the markets just seem to go up and up. president obama doubled down on his go it alone strategy on issues affecting the middle class. at the start of a cabinet meeting, the president said he'd

prefer to work with lawmakers but he's not willing to wait while they do nothing. >> if congress can't act on core issues that would actually make a difference in helping middle class families get ahead, then we're going to have to be creative about how we can make real progress. keep in mind that my preference is always going to be to work with congress and actually get legislation done. that's how we get some more permanent fixes. >> cnn chief political analyst gloria borger joins us. you listen to the president there, you listened to him yesterday, he seems like he's given up with congress. >> he's frustrated, he's had it. republicans in congress are starting to talk about his so-called imperial presidency and how he's trying to legislate through executive order and he started giving it back to them and said, okay, i'm going to tell the american public why i'm doing this. i'm doing this because you guys won't do your job.

he keeps saying, i prefer legislative fixes. one of the reasons we saw him meeting with his cabinet today was of course maybe he would like to poll them about what he could do in each of their agencies vis-a-vis some kind of executive order -- >> without congress' help. >> yeah. >> and how much can he do through executive order? >> he did his own little version of the dream act. he's done that. on minimum wage, he said federal contractors have to pay the minimum wage. on obamacare, he issued a lot of regulations, changing that. so there are -- there are things he can do. don't forget, though, this is a president who came into office saying he was going to be transformational. now, and you could argue that obamacare, for better or worse, is a big piece of legislation, but now he's talking about using the executive order. that's not big stuff, that's littler things, because he can't work with congress and they don't want to work with him.

>> we know where congress' approval ratings are. the president's aren't great either. in this battle who do americans blame and how does this affect the 2014 election? >> first of all, i think americans are sick of everybody. and the president's approval rating is in the sort of low 40s. that's probably a set point that he won't get much higher or much lower. >> they're not going to change their opinion. >> not wildly unless there's some kind of huge crisis. they know how they feel about congress. they don't like either party in congress. they don't think they're doing their jobs. what the midterm election will be is an election that brings out the committed motivated voters of both parties. >> most extreme. >> most committed. and what the democrats are worried about is their turnout is going to be low. because people aren't excited about president obama anymore and it's the republicans who have the motivated voters.

when you have those motivated voters in midterm elections which are usually lower turnout to begin with, then you have an advantage. >> this is obama motivating those voters -- >> these guys wouldn't work with me, this is why i have to do this, this is why your vote counts, they're going to call me an imperial president, i'm not, i'm just trying to get something done here. he's trying to motivate democrats out to, you know, out to vote. and he will use something like the supreme court decision yesterday, the hobby lobby decision. >> sure. >> which i guarantee they will bring it up on the floor of the senate. even though democrats know they will lose. but they can sort of reignite the so-called war on women again. >> and motivate women voters. >> and motivate women voters to come vote for democrats. >> thank you very much, gloria borger. coming up next, why general motors is recall another 8 million calls. we're going to ask if the company can turn things around. we're also keeping an eye on the

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welcome back. let's do a check of the markets. as you watch there, the dow inching towards 17,000. it's been within 2, 3 points for the last several minutes now. we'll keep watching that. that will be another record in the dow jones industrials. the market just seems to keep rising. i want to bring in the assistant managing editor at "time." thank you for joining us. as you look at this market, we've had so much mixed economic news. gdp growth was negative in the first quarter. mao does the market keep going up? >> it's amazing, i think this really speaks to the fact that we've been in a low interest rate environment for so long, and typically when you have low interest rates and easy money slashing around, stock prices go up. that said, corporate profit margins are also the highest they've been in a long time. companies have been able to keep those margins up not only because they're growing in fast moving places like emerging markets but also because they've been doing a lot of cutting and

they've been buying technology that allows them to downsize workers. in some ways, there's still this split between how buoyant the markets are and what people are really feeling on the ground in the real economy. >> no question, no question. one of the stocks surprisingly that's helping the dow today is gm, it was up more than 2% from the start of trading. this is happening as the company issues yet another recall. this, 8 million cars, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled this year to 27 million. that's more cars than they've sold this year. they're also moving forward on compensating the victims of some of the faults in the cars. i wonder, is gm successfully drawing a line under this controversy? >> i think that it's too early to say they're drawing a line under it. mary barra, the ceo, is being very true to her word. she's said many times in the last few weeks in interviews she will do whatever it takes and recall as many cars as it takes

to put trust and faith back in this company. she was asked as little as a week ago, are there going to be more recalls, con you say that you're done, and she said no, we can't. you may still see more recalls. i think the key thing is she is trying to live up to this commitment to bring a new level of security and new culture to gm and that is a deep long process. this is a company that has for decades had a culture of secrecy, of different division not speaking to one another. we saw that in the internal report gm released. so i think it may not be done yet. >> well, tough way for her to start in that position, as ceo, mary barra. in sports, it's win or go home. time for the u.s. national soccer team. they're gearing up to face belgium. we're going to be live in brazil. that's right after this break.

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welcome back. i'm jim sciutto reporting from washington. wolf blitzer is off today. now to the big event of the day. the world cup. argentina is playing wit zerland right now. the u.s. is playing belgium in 2 1/2 hours.

i'm not going to be doing a lot of work during that 90 minutes of play. we have our chris cuomo in salvador. our richard roth is checking in with fans in new york. and i'm sitting here at a desk in washington. there's something not fair about that. anyway, to chris and laura who i'm very happy for down there as you get this very tough assignment in brazil. what's it feel like today? you have to tell me. do we have a chance to win? is it going to be tough? how are injuries going to play out? walk me through this. >> all right. >> please, let him have it. >> injuries are going to be very interesting. jozy altidore is back for the usa. a lot of people love jozy altidore, they think he's a great striker. i am not one of those people. chris kind of rolls his eyes when i say that. i don't know if he will be included in the starting 11 which we will find out pretty soon. a lot of people saying if jozy altidore is back in the lineup

it will take some pressure off clint dempsey but clint dempsey's a guy would loves to be under that pressure. so i don't really know if jozy altidore is needed what sofr. >> what about -- >> you're not going to have -- >> well, this is pure american-ism, i want you to know. this is the jersey they actually won a match in. it's belgium's choice and then the u.s. will have to match kits with their -- this one or the white one. i have both so i'm prepared. because this is also the most popular one here. there's a little bit of a culture going on about this whole us soccer run at the world cup, jim. last night at the fan fest people were believing this was the jersey of strength, this is where they got their strength to beat ghana. so that's why i chose it today. i'm confident, though, that i can make the quick shift if i need to. the fans last night all said, many of them were bringing both

jerseys just in case, you know. i don't know if you have it ready for us, but we met a guy last night that you would have loved. he really symbolizes this newfound dedication to soccer in the u.s. he is -- you don't have -- i'll tell you about it. >> we sadly don't have it. >> teddy roosevelt but he goes by teddy goals-avelt. u.s. soccer flew him to the party last night. a culture shift, not just about sports. >> chris is out meeting these people, out at the fun parties. i get down to the mitty gritty and give you the injury news. >> you got to have both, you got to have the head and the heart. >> i've known chris long enough, more than 20 years, so i know he actually think he's going to be called on the field today so walk him down a little bit from that so he's not disappointed. >> stretching the hammies. >> that's why he has the two jerseys, just in case.

>> ready to go. loosening up. getting my neck loose. >> hey, so where do you guys get to watch the game? do they let you down on the field? can you be in the stadium? >> i am right in the press area because that's where i get to do my somewhat quiet work and actually sit there and analyze this game and make notes for you so i can tell you what i think. chris, however, not so much. he gets to have fun. >> there we are, my brother. there it is. i will be in the actual stands among the americans bringing you live tweets and all types of electronic reporting about what is going on in the game as it happens from where the people at. >> i feel for both of you. i think you're really, you know, you're really sacrificing a lot for us by taking this tough assignment. if you can make it through these next couple of hours, we'll all

be very proud of you. thank you so much for leaving me back home here. >> jim, we all know that your talents would be wasted in a place like this. you got all these different issues of international intrigue going on. they need your acumen for that. i am here in case there's a fight that breaks out. and then lara will do the analysis of it afterward. >> he's here for the party. >> we'll look for you afterward. we're definitely watching this game also. to new york, where our own richard roth is. he got the tough bar assignments another difficult one. what are the fans feeling now? do they think we'll win this game? how do the beers taste there? walk us through it. >> all right, well, we're here at nevada smith, one of the soccer meccas of new york city. people are watching that game you say you don't care about, argentina and switzerland, i'm

still getting over that. i know you'll tell me america will win. why do you think america will beat a talented but young belgium squad? >> we believe we will win. >> tell me why specifically. >> we got clint demsen would will score and then we'll have excellent defense. >> why are you rooting and why do you think they'll win? >> because they're awesome and they got clint dempsey and they'll win. >> wilson, give me your prediction. >> 2-1, usa, last-minute goal. >> a lot of the good teas have been having trouble with teams that were allegedly weaker. we're seeing in our scoreless battle between argentina and the lowest ranked switzerland. we saw germany extended -- >> a lot of teams are underestimating the younger teams and it's giving them problems. you got to play your base. >> thank you very much. that's a scene here game time a few hours away.

this place will really be packed. jim, back to you from nevada smiths here in new york, awaiting u.s./belgium. >> just to be clear to our argentinean/swiss fans out there, there's a little monitor just to the right of camera where i can watch that game as well. either game is important. every game is important. he pushed for the u.s. invasion in iraq, even providing false claims saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. now ahmad chalabi is back in the political spotlight. israel considers its next move in retaliation for the deaths of three teens. i'll talk with a middle east expert and former diplomat about the fallout from the tragedy.

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israel's prime minister says they were murdered in cold blood. today, a funeral service was held for three israeli teenagers, students who disappeared 19 days ago. hamas denies it was responsible for kidnapping and killing the teens. israel is laying the blame squarely on the militant group. overnight, the israeli military says it struck 34 targets controlled by hamas in as gogaz. joining me now is aaron david miller, a former middle east diplomat and distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson international center. you have a debate going on in israel how hard to strike back.

proposals about building a settlement in the name of these teenagers. what's behind this debate, why the disagreement? >> you got to find the balance between an effective response that creates some measure of deterrence. and also tries to figure out who did this and try to apprehend them. the problem is everything in the israeli tool kit has been tried. deportation, housinining demolitions, without much effect. if they go too large, they could trigger a hamas response with high trajectory weapons and open another front which they don't want to do. >> tens thousands of rockets in -- >> right, and they have an iron dome and other instruments provide some measure of defense, but in the end, they face a huge problem here. so, again, they're looking for -- they're looking to find a balance, plus they have to

preempt the possibility of a sustained and dramatic settler response in retaliation. so they're going to have to do something. >> as always, there's divisions within the israeli side. hamas says it's not responsible. israel is already in effect blaming hamas. is there any doubt hamas is behind this, that this was ordered, this operation ordered from on high in the leadership, and if so, why would hamas do something like this? >> see, no evidence obviously that hamas had foreknowledge that they provided material support. a lot of it's inductive. the reality is, hebron is a hamas town. the clan, the third largest clan in the area, basically has been a conduit for hamas activists for years. one the guys disappeared on the days of the be an suctiabducted. they are certainly sympathizers. the question is did the organization in gaza or outside of the territories have

foreknowledge, did they orchestrate it, did they provide material support? if they did, the realities, i think the israelis would have made the evidence clear it maybe after the funerals, they will. at some point, they may well decide to target leaders if, in fact, they have that so-called smoking gun in gaza. >> this happened after hamas be an the palestinian authority in the west bank led by mahmoud abbas joined up in an arrangement that was effectively recognized by u.s. and european leaders. difficult timing. what does it do to that recognition? israeli officials already, and have been, criticizing the u.s. for recognizing that. puts the u.s. in a tough position. >> unity was always a phony objective. if this were an effort to provide one gun, one authority, one negotiating position, to truly united palestinian national movement it would have been a game worth playing. it might have been serious. but it wasn't. it was a tactical response by hamas and abbas, both weakened, but both feeling the necessity of unity.

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on this day in history. july 1, 1997. control of hong kong was handed back to china. had been under control since the opium war. hundreds of thousands of pro democracy demonstrators took to the streets to protest what they called the heavy handed influence of the chinese government. remember that day? i was there. he was once the darling of the bush administration. many thought that ahmad chalabi would be the next leader of iraq after the 2003 u.s. led invasion. that was until he fed the bush administration, lawmakers and journalists bogus intelligence on iraq's weapons of mass destruction. >> i believe the u.s. will find weapons of mass destruction. they certainly found the software. we've been talking to many of the scientists who were involved

in these programs and they confirmed that manufacture of those weapons. >> now, in an incredible twist, he is back. now being considered as a potential candidate for prime minister of iraq. brian todd joins me now. incredible, who would have thought. literally coming back from the dead politically. what does the administration thing? >> it's so strange in iraq, what's old is new again, like always. the bush -- excuse me, the obama administration is now taking the position it's not really the u.s. role to support any u.s. candidate. however, they did have him meet with the u.s. ambassador to iraq recently and with an assistant secretary of state in baghdad. chalabi asked for that meeting. they're trying to sit back and see what happens here. in the zeal to get nuri al maliki out of power, he is now being considered a serious candidate for prime minister. it riles a lot of americans of course because of what you just played, his sound bite there. for year, this intelligence that

saddam had weapons of mass destruction. he campaigned with the state department, with congress, he fed them faulty intelligence. in iraq, that is not a consideration. they consider him, many people do, a secular, moderate shia leader. i spoke with the spokesman for whose alliance holds 30 seats. they think they can work with ahmad chalabi. the problem is, as you remember, he was in charge of the debathification process. there's still a lot of resentment. >> so the u.s. has bad memories. iraqis don't blame him for the invasion? >> not particularly. they have to solve the problems that are in their path right now. >> in that country, if you can find a unifying politician, it

sounds like even the americans would accept that. >> possibly. we'll see how that goes. >> all right. >> they are going to take it with kid gloves and watch what they say. >> thank you very much to brian todd. coming up next, we're going to be live in southern california where a group of 140 migrants are about to arrive. why they have been sent there by the u.s. border patrol. you hoped she wouldn't pass. the thought of your baby girl driving around all by herself was... you just weren't ready. but she did pass. 'cause she's your baby girl. and now you're proud. a bundle of nerves proud. but proud. get a discount when you add a newly-licensed teen to your liberty mutual insurance policy. call to learn about our whole range of life event discounts. newlywed discount. new college graduate and retiree discounts. you could even get a discount when you add a car.

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later this afternoon, we're expecting the arrival of 140 migrant detainees at a border patrol station north of san diego. this is mostly women and children who have been flown from texas as a way to handle the crush of migrants in that state. they have asked congress for $2 billion to help with the surge of the migrants that have crossed the u.s. border recently. stephanie elam is live in marietta, california. why are they expecting the migrants now and are they coming without their parents, as we've seen the migrant children come across the border? >> reporter: right, jim. what we're hearing here is that this facility in marietta, they will not be taking in children alone simply because they can't house them here. they don't have the facilities to do that and they can't fingerprint any children 14 or younger. there is a worry that they will create family groups and that

will allow families to get into the u.s. no children coming here by themselves. >> i know you've been talking to border patrol agents there. how are they reacting to this arrival? >> reporter: they are very concerned. they are concerned for multiple reasons. one, they are concerned about their safety and they are concerned about the health conditions for these migrants coming here and who are going to be housed here during the process of processing them, figuring out who they are and whether they are able to stay in the country or go home. we talked to one border patrol agent who works here and is an official for the union. this is what he had to say. take a listen. >> they are going to be eating in the same holding cell that someone is sitting five feet away and using the bathroom. these are alleged family groups. i say that because i can easily say those five boys are mine. disregard the gang tattoos. they are all juveniles, they are my sons and we are going to l.a. i can't dispute it.

>> reporter: and the concern here is after they are processed, they will be taken by bus to other cities and the concern is that they will not check back in with i.c.e. so they can find them to figure out if they need to stay or go back to the country from where they came. jim? >> stephanie elam in murrieta, california. if facebook was around, it might have helped chuck hagel who was trying to reconnect with his platoon commander. it wasn't until he became secretary of defense that he was able to track him down. it's a great story. barbara starr reports. >> it's only been 40 years. >> reporter: it was a reunion more than four decades in the country. secretary of defhuck hagel reuniting with lieutenant jerome johnson. chuck hagel was just 22 when he

and his brother tom went off to war in vietnam in the toughest times. >> the army in 1968, it was a bad year for everyone. we sent 16,000 dead americans home in one year. >> reporter: back home, civil rights marchers were on the streets. a bullet would take the life of martin luther king jr. the racial tension felt by the troops in vietnam thousands of miles away. >> a young african-american took over. >> reporter: chuck hagel spoke about it with jake tapper. the young lieutenant soutried t change that. >> he said, no more. we're all americans. we're going to live together, fight together, and we're going

to like each other. no segregating. let's get it done. >> reporter: and johnson did just that. >> though we came from different places, we were all children, for the most part, not having had any experience with combat or that type of thing. in order for us to somebody successful or to be able to do the mission that was given to us and to go home, we had to try to work together and resolve what differences we might have had. >> reporter: after the war, the men lost touch but hagel never forgot his lieutenant. as a u.s. senator he tried to find him but came up short. it wasn't until he took the helm of the entire u.s. military that he was able to find his old buddy. johnson and his family came to washington to see the hagel brothers who decades later still defer to their lieutenant officer. >> he's the officer in charge.

>> well, actually, it's quite fulfilling to have had time to digest the experiences that we went through then together and to have gone and done separate things all these years but to still feel the connection and unity that we had at that time. >> reporter: a relationship forged by the fires of combat unbroken by decades of separation. >> war is messy. there's no glory. only suffering. but in the end, this is what matters. the relationship, the friendship. >> reporter: secretary hagel made one last stop with his lieutenant from vietnam. they went over to the white house to meet their current commander in chief, president obama. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> a powerful reunion.

you can see how tightly secretary hagel was holding on to his friend after all of these years. we're going to do a quick market check. it's holding at just below 17,000. "the newsroom" about brooke baldwin begins right now. we have to talk about a storm this tuesday afternoon. thanks for watching us on cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. this could be a holiday nightmare for millions of you up and down the east coast. tropical arthur spinning in the atlantic could become a hurricane by july 4th. so new york, d.c., they will feel the effects. let's go to chad myers and find out when this will make landfall. >> well, it's already affecting florida. >> really? >> really. the outer banks of