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and ban ki-moon will hold a meeting on climate change. these are going to be huge topics of discussions at the united nations. our cnn correspondent richard roth says the sideline conversations, often referred to in his words, speed dating diplomacy. let's begin with our top story right now, the war against isis. several countries are sprorespog to the terror group isis. both countries have launched air strikes against isis in iraq. joining us now, the former british prime minister tony blair. mr. prime minister, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> do you remember a time when the world has seen -- world war ii -- but so many of these

crises on folding right now? >> it's particularly grave and serious and it's been building up over a long period of time. but the president of the united states is absolutely right to assemble the broadest possible alliance of nations to go out and beat it. >> are you with him on his strategy? >> absolutely. i think the right thing to do is to build a broad alliance. he's got the opportunity in a way that post 9/11 we didn't always have to be able to make sure that he gets significant arab support in the region to take on isis. but, you know, it's a long, hard struggle and this is not just about isis. you've got many other terrorist groups, not just in the middle east but also in north africa. you've got huge problems in libya. you've got boko haram and even in asia you've got major problems. i think the most important thing is, of course, to deal with isis

and there are ground forces and contain them by air power and if you want to defeat them. i assume britain has ruled them out. what about france? and none of the neighboring arab or muslim countries seem to get involved militarily on the ground. >> with respect to isis in iraq, iraqis, kurds, others. >> you can't count objen the ir military, can you? because they crumbled in the threat of the isis threat and for them to rebuild and get the job done is going to take an enormous amount of time and the political will which a lot of experts on iraq are not necessarily convinced the sunni there is will have, the shiites

and sunnis have been battling each other for years. >> you're going to need that capability on the ground. now, america is already getting a huge amount of support there, by the way. but i think this strategy will evolve over time and personally i think the lessons of the past and we've been fighting these terror groups for a long period of time, is you have to have the force capability to go and defeat them on the ground. >> and the iraqis, that's a work in progress, even if this new government in baghdad steps up and we're not 100% convinced that they will, even if they do, they need to have training and motivated. the peshmerga, they are fierce fighters but they don't have the equipment to fight these isis groups. we're talking about iraq. we're not even talking about syria. >> sure. the air power will make a huge difference because you'll be targeting the isis people in iraq. as you rightly say, they came out of syria. and, you know, their base and where they really operate out of

is in the northern part of syria. look, as i say, i think this is a strategy that will evolve over time but i think the important thing is, the will on the part of the world and, as the president of the united states has indicated, the power of america is there to fight it and we're -- but we're in for a long battle. and, you know, you can talk about iraq and syria. i would watch libya very, very carefully. >> libya has turned out to be a total disaster. is it better to say that libya was better under gadhafi? >> no, i don't think so. there are two really important points to make here. i mean, if you can get evolutionary change, it's better than revolutionary change. it's why i argued after my experience in iraq, if you could have gotten agreement, it would have been better to do that. but the important thing about arab spring is that people are not going to take the dictatorships. the question is not do you keep the status quo, they are not

going to do that. the question is, and this is the fundamental battle, it's the philosophy on the other and the good news for us is they are modern minded and they want the right things for their country. we've got to get on site with them and support them. by the way, in this regard, it's important that we support the president in egypt. >> he's going to be here, the new president of egypt. just clarify what the uk is willing to do in this war against isis and syria and in iraq. i know you're not part of the government and you don't speak for the prime minister but you follow it very, very closely. here are a specific questions. is britain, like the united states and france, willing to launch air strikes against isis targets in iraq? >> well, i mean, i hope we will. >> but they haven't agreed to that yet? >> that's a matter for the uk government to consider. >> what about syria? >> look, as i said, i don't think you're going to defeat

this unless you're defeating it in syria as well as iraq. >> right. >> this is the uk government to decide. i think what the british prime minister has said is perfectly strong on this. look, it's difficult for your opinion and my opinion but in the end, if this isis group, you know, it is growing in this way over the past 18 months, two years so i cannot speak to the government but i hope we stand with france on this. >> in terms of air strikes, forget about ground troops but no final decision yet i'm told by the british government of prime minister david cameron. >> in the end, it's a question of realizing the single biggest problem we have in the uk are fighters from syria. same with france and germany. we're not doing this simply for someone else's interests.

>> right. and the prime minister announced they are going to the highest state of alert. hold your thought for the moment. i want to take a quick break. stay with us. coming up, the growing humanitarian crisis and the prospect that russia may jump in to help. also ahead, two security incidents over at the white house in 24 hours raising serious questions about whether the secret service was caught napping. a former agent joins us with his ex peer tease. stay with us. he found it cleans everything... from stove tops... ...to scuffed shoes, and more. and when ran out of pages, he made a website instead. share your tips at mycleanbook.com

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slightly more than our population. >> 20% of the population? >> yes. >> are refugees from outside the country? >> an equivalent of 60 million refugees in your country. >> king abdullah talking about the surge of syrian refugees fleeing isis and other terrorist groups. turkey closed its border following another mass exodus from syria. more than 130 syrian kurds have crossed into turkey. get this. over the past three days alone. let's bring back the former british prime minister tony blair. jordan is really -- these refugees are escaping for their lives right now from what is going on in syria and iraq. i don't know if the international community is doing enough to help. >> i think it's mobilizing but it's still being created by the instability that is there. you've got the problem in syria and iraq and you've got problems

in other parts of the middle east and north africa. you've got -- look, even in pakistan, you've got a million people displaced. >> a million people. >> you can debate what you do about isis in the short term and that is vital but then we have to decide what to do about syria and there's this far bigger global question which is this extremism, how we deal with it and root it out, how we defeat it not just by combatting it but also, in my judgment, we've got to go to the education systems around the world where young people are being educated to, i'm afraid, a warped view of the world and this is going on with millions of young kids right around the world as we speak. >> i just read a very long article that you wrote about dealing with this crisis. what's the single most important thing that the world needs to do to deal with this threat?

>> to treat education as a security issue and say it should be a basic principle for all countries that they educate their young people, to religious tolerance and respect the difference and against religious prejudice. because whether it's in the middle east or far east or central asia or africa, if you've got millions of young people being educated where they are being taught from early in the morning until late afternoon one particular view of religion that is hostile to other people, it's a disaster. >> there are hundreds who have gone from the uk over to syria, over to iraq to become terrorists to work with isis and -- they were educated in the uk. >> right. and educated, i'm afraid, some of those people would have been educated outside the formal school system in informal settings where they are educated to a prejudice way of thinking. now, let me make one thing clear. the vast majority of muslims in the uk would absolutely detest

isis and everything they stand for. and by the way, also, there are large numbers of people in the arab world and in the middle east region who are prepared to stand up and to take the fight back to these people. so, you know, we're not without allies and wore not without hope. but we do have to have a comprehensive strategy. the deal is not just the symptom, which are these terrorist groups, boko haram, for example, in nigeria, and we have to deal with the root causes. >> what -- of the countries who are most directly affected, the neighboring countries doing enough? let's go through point by point. saudi arabia. i know they are training moderate syrian rebel forces. they've made a equipment to bring them into saudi arabia and train them. what else should saudi arabia be doing right now? >> i think the saudi leadership, work around the world which i think has been trying to bring

his own country on the progressive change. it's really important that that happens. because saudi arabia, it's the heart of islam, he's the keeper of the two holy mosques. it's important that saudi evolves as it is doing. >> they have an impressive air force. they are not willing to do that to fight isis, are they? >> well, as i was saying about western policy, i think there are things that are going to happen in the future that maybe at the moment people think, well, i'm not sure we can do that but at some point we're faced with a very simple look at these people. when we went through afghanistan and iraq when i was prime minister, the reason it's tough, when you're fighting these fin fl fanatical groups, they can be beaten and they have to be beaten. >> is turkey a disappointment? so far they have not agreed to allow u.s. planes based in

turkey, they are a nato ally, to launch air strikes from turkey. >> turkey, as you have been seeing in terms of refugees, they've got a huge problem and a lot of tension on their own borders as a result of all of this that's happened. so, look, again, i think and hope that they will come in and be part of this. >> now that their diplomats have been freed, the ones being held by isis, do you think they might reassess? >> look, i hope so. and i think that the coalition is being built, the alliance is reasonably impressive. it's got about 50 countries in it. and over time what you'll find is, as general allen gets to see exactly how -- >> he's the retired u.s. general john allen, former nato commander in afghanistan but also served in iraq. he knows the region. >> right. and knows how to deal with this type of terrorism. i think as he also analyzes the

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i really thought that it was important for us to maintain a presence and maintaining 10,000 u.s. troops there and to be able to continue the momentum. >> we have the former defense secretary of the united states on "60 minutes." tony blair is joining us. he wanted 8 or 10,000 u.s. troops to stay in iraq 2011. they say that nuri al maliki was to blame. john mccain says the u.s. didn't try, the president didn't try very hard. what do you say? >> well, i wasn't part of that discussion.

and you can go back over the past and debate the decisions, right or wrong. the question is, what do we do now? and that's the best thing to concentrate on? there's 1600, 1700 u.s. troops in iraq. realistically, what do you think the u.s. might need? >> i don't know in terms of numbers and that's for the experts to decide but what is important, the support that they require and then, you know, for the actions that are going to be taken against the terrorist groups, that will require a whole new different set of d dispdi disposition. he created a broad coalition that he keeps the country together. because the point is all over the region. if you can obanly get stability these are wealthy countries. iraq is potentially a wealthy, wealthy country. >> they export a lot of oil. >> it's an ancient civilized

history. they've got a huge potential not just in oil but in everything. >> tourism would be huge if they could get some peace. speaking of the middle east, one of the jobs that you have is special middle east enjoy trying to achieve israeli/palestinian peace. is anything happening on that front? the cease-fire seems to be holding but that's very tenuous. >> the cease-fire is holding but we need to open up gaza but do so in a way that also protects and deals with israel security problem and then we need to get back to a proper negotiation, around the two-state solution. and if you don't have that political process and there's no alternative to it, then it's hard to make progress in the peace deal as a whole. and as the israeli/palestinian issue remains fundamental. >> is the two-state solution

viable? >> it is the only viable solution. t . >> i hope you can do it and i know secretary of state john kerry worked hard but it seems he's got so many other things going on that basically he has given up for the time being. >> no, i'm speaking to him a lot and on this very issue and he remains completely committed. he's actually done a fantastic job in putting real political capital into it. and look, all over the region, there is this -- one of the things we're going to have to get used to in the west is understanding that this is the long, drawn-out problem and the issue fits into one part of this. but the issues in the middle east and broader are going to take a generation to see through. >> i don't know if you saw former president bill cloeinton interview with fareed za kakari.

he said that he is expecting chelsea clinton to give birth in the coming days, by october 1st. >> he's a very good friend of mine as is hillary and we know chelsea, too. you know, it's going to be -- it's going to be great to have clinton as a grandfather and grandmother. >> and we wish chelsea and her husband the best. >> i'm going to have to stimulate my kids to start -- to start emulating that. >> put some pressure on them. mr. prime minister, good luck. >> thanks, wolf. >> good luck with all of these issues. let's hope the peace process can get back on track. tony blair, former prime minister of britain. you're happy about the scottish, though, right? >> i >> i'm delighted. i'm relieved. it's the right decision for all of the united kingdom.

>> good work. thank you. three afghan army officers, get this, training in the united states are now listed as awol. the latest for the search on them coming up. and the secret service is on edge after two incidents at the white house raising serious questions about the president's security detail. eenie. meenie. miney. go. more adventures await in the seven-passenger lexus gx. see your lexus dealer. means keeping seven billion ctransactions flowing.g, and when weather hits, it's data mayhem.

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of the u.n. general assembly in new york. we want to once again welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. white house security has noticeably tighter today following two incidents in recent days. the man seen sprinting across the lawn on friday goes before a judge today on charges of unlawful entry with a weapon. he's an iraqi war veteran who made it all the way inside the white house with a knife before he was stopped. his family says he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from his u.s. military service. a second unrelated incident on saturday resulted in the arrest of a teenager who left his car at a barricaded entrance at the white house. the young man tried to enter the white house grounds on foot just a short time earlier. daniel spent about a dozen years with the secret service. he's joining us now from washington. daniel, look, i spent almost eight years covering the white house when bill clinton was president of the united states. very often you see these guys trying to jump over a fence.

i don't remember a time when someone managed to jump over the fence, run through the north lawn of the white house or the south lawn, for that matter, and actually get inside. what happened here? >> yeah. sadly, wolf, that's not uncommon, as you've just stated. we've dealt with fence jumpers for over a decade i was there and they've never gotten 10 or 15 yards. the system always worked. what happened here, i'm not sure, wolf. you have to wonder if it was misfeasance, a lap in attention, it didn't work for some reason or was it malfeasance? did someone neglect to push a post, as we say, cover a post that they should have posted. and you're going to see an exhaustive analysis of this. this is shocking to anyone who's ever worked in the secret service and is still there now,

including the spokesman and the director. they have been clear on that. >> there should be a complete review to make sure it doesn't happen. and do they normally leave the door at the north portico unlocked? >> well, it depends, wolf. you've been there quite a bit. it's a place of business as well. it's not just a tourist attraction or a place of business but the president's home. people walk in and out of that door all the time. you know, there are multiple ways to engage the locking mechanism on that door. it's not just one. it's not as if it's a person sitting there with a skeleton key who locks it. i think that's why the secret service is so confused as to how this happened and how all of those mechanisms failed. wolf, there are dogs and unseen security measures that were defeated here and that's why we are all so confused as to how he got so far. that's a good 70-yard sprint there. there was some time, not a lot,

but enough time to engage and we've always successfully done that. that's what the review is going to focus on, how the security on the door failed and how the personnel failed to respond. >> they apparently made a deliberate decision not to shoot and kill this intruder. what are the rules of engagement as far as stopping someone who is sprinting across the north lawn of the white house towards the residence? >> well, i'm elated that you asked that question because i've been getting e-mails on this all morning. the secret service personnel guarding the north lawn or the agents that protect the president -- remember, the uniformed division protects the white house and the agents protect the president. this is the same as it would be for any law enforcement officer. they are no different. you have to be careful, you can't just shoot someone because they are trespassing. that's not in our use of force

guidelines or our training. >> daniel bongino, thank you for your perspective. >> thanks, wolf. >> appreciate it very much. jeh johnson is going to be speaking with me live later today in the situation room. department of homeland security oversees the u.s. secret service. that's coming up later today, 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." coming up, it's being called one of the largest solidarity movements of the 21st century. a kickoff for he-for-she campaign trying to promote gender equality around the world. you're driving along,

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we'll give you $150. comcast business built for business. fighting terrorism certainly will be president obama's top priority when he arrives here tomorrow at the united nations for the annual meeting of the general assembly. the president hopes to broaden the coalition of countries signing on to fight the isis terrorists. at a meeting on wednesday focusing on isis and a threat posed by the foreign fighters, they will also address the united nations general assembly wednesday morning. joining us to talk about all of what the president is planning to do, our chief political analyst gloria borger. it's a huge week for the president, gloria. he's got to show the world that he's on top of the immediate crisis in syria and iraq. >> yeah. he's got to do, that wolf.

he wants to gather a coalition that will be willing to overtly participate in air strikes. you see the secretary of state john kerry lobbying about that. the president will be lobbying about and also chairing a session on countering violent extremism so the countries can coordinate with each other about how to counteract these violent extremists before they get to the point where you have to fight them the way we are now. >> i want you to listen, gloria, to what the former president, bill clinton, said. he was speaking to our own fare fareed zakaria about -- his wife, what the former secretary of state wanted, whether he agreed with her. listen to this. >> i agree with her and i would have taken the chance when we were talking about doing it there was no isis. however, it was an argument she lost within the administration and she admitted then and

acknowledged in her book that she can't know that if her recommendation had been followed it would have worked. that's one of those things you can't know. that's why all of these decisions are hard. >> he was referring to hillary clinton's recommendation that the u.s. go ahead and arm those moderate syrian rebels opposing bashar al assad's regime a couple of years ago. the president decided that would be too risky. he was concerned where those weapons would wind up. >> yeah. and, you know, the president was opposed by other members of his national security team as well, wolf. but, you know, it's very interesting the way president clinton framed this. because while his wife clearly disagreed and he says he clearly disagreed, there is always -- you know, he gave weight to the president's argument because he doesn't want to see him out there completely opposed to the president, which is that it was hard to know and it would be hard to know what if these

weapons got into the wrong hands. now, bill clinton says it's a risk he was -- he would have been willing to take and that's the way his wife felt. but they are clearly giving some weight to the president's argument that you never know. of course, right now, as you know, we're in the situation where that's exactly what we would be doing. >> and were you surprised at all what leon panetta told "60 minutes" last night that he disagreed with the president as far as his refusal to arm the syrian oppositions, that he would have liked 8 or 10,000 troops to remain in iraq, even after all of them were supposed to be pulled out at the end of 2011? >> i thought it was interesting because it shows you how united in many ways that his national security team was against the president and the president made his own decision in opposition to them. it didn't surprise me so much as it sort of showed you a little

bit about the president's leadership, which is that when he looks at an issue, he solicits all points of view but was willing to disagree with panetta and clinton and, you know, it tells you that he's the one making the final decisions and then they march out there and support him. >> let me quickly bring in michael from the brookings institution. michael, this is a work in progress. the president's evolving strategy in fighting isis right now. give us your assessment. how's it looking? >> hi, wolf. well, i think that's right and i think it's going to remain a work in progress because the syria part in particular is so underdeveloped, partly for the debates that you're rehashing right now but also because of the inherent difficulty and the place of the situation. i think it's going to be 2015 at the earliest before we can see our options. the idea of knowing how we can

have a syrian opposition to take down isis when our current plan is only going to train 5,000 people. that shows you how far we have to go. the iraq piece is going to have to play out first and then the syria piece will play out gradually and secondarily. >> you think this new government in baghdad is going to be better than the old government in baghdad which turned out to be a disaster? >> yes. but i also think we have to avoid thinking that our problem is solved just because we now have prime minister abadi and the beginning of national unity. as you well know, the sunni/shia divide is so deep that to think that the removal of one person would solve it would be thinking that saddam hussein was going to bring peace 11 years ago. which is now why they are talking about the national guard in iraq. that's the kind of army institution in iraq that doesn't currently exist but the idea is

to have locally trained and recruited forces fighting for their homeland because that's the only way to avoid having these sunni/shia chasms poison the military. >> the moment for the president here is that he has to be willing to tell the american public -- he's done it a little bit -- but actually be realistic about this and say, as michael is saying, this is not going to be done overnight. this is a long-term proposition. it's something he never intended to be part of his legacy, to be honest about it, but it will be and he needs to let the american people know that this is a commitment for better or worse that's going to be years in the making. >> and gloria, and michael, both of you weigh in -- michael, first you -- this president was not anticipating that the final two years of his presidency he would be deeply involved in a

u.s. war. >> that's right, wolf. but you know, i think, first of all, he has to handle the inbox that is thrust upon him. even though we can have the debates of who was wrong and when, he has nothing to worry about in terms of his political flank. he has a long history in foreign policy and he will address the threats in a realistic and serious way. whether or not he promised to get us out of two wars and that was always his aspiration, it's not going to be a standard that most americans will hold him to. they will hold him to the standard of trying to be serious to responding to the challenges that we have before us today. i don't think he needs to worry about the political fights of the past as long as he has a good plan going forward. >> well, i would say it's affected his overall popularity. the american population is

ambivalent. his leadership on foreign policy is now under 50%. i think it's going to be a struggle for him going forward to have the american people go the way he wants to go on this. >> all right. gloria and michael, thanks. >> sorry, wolf. >> finish your thought quickly. >> i just don't think he has to worry about just dealing with the debates of the past. if he gets serious about a new strategy going forward, he'll be okay. >> i agree. >> michael, thanks very much. gloria, thanks to you as well. much more news coming up. we'll be right back. ♪ some come here to build something stronger. others come to build something faster... something safer... something greener. something the whole world can share. people come to boeing to do many different things. but it's always about the very thing we do best.

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on american spacecraft. >> the obama administration made it clear that the greatest nation on earth should not be dependent on any other nation to get into space. >> reporter: the first flight to the international space station is planned for 2017 in which an agreement with russia ends. the contracts are worth $16.8 billion. boeing bid with cst 100 space capsule. spacex already shuttles cargo. the program flew 135 missions over three decades before being cut amid funding concerns. >> the space shuttle pulls into port for the last time. >> reporter: it marked the end of an era and now a new chapter for cape canaveral and a new beginning for nasa. >> it will allow nasa to focus on an ambitious mission of

sending humans to mars. >> reporter: it cost 70 million per seat. recent tensions between russia and the u.s. over ukraine led to increased tensions between the two space programs. >> and just ahead, it's being called one of the largest solidarity movements of the 21st century. >> we are launching a campaign called he for she. i'm reaching out to you because we need your help. we want to end gender inequality and to do this we need everyone involved.

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wonderful role that women and girls have played throughout the world. >> i was thrilled to introduce the actress emma watson named a global goodwill ambassador. at the event saturday night here at the united nations she told the audience that no country has achieved gender equality and spoke about the experiences that shaped her own views. >> i started questioning gender based assumptions a long time ago. when i was eight, i was confused about being called bossy because i wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents. but the boys were not. when at 14 i started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media. when at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of beloved sports teams because they didn't

want to appear muscly. when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings. i decided that i was a feminist. this seemed uncomplicated to me. my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. women are choosing not to identify as feminist. >> she did an amazing job. the global goodwill ambassador. i recommend you watch her entire presentation at cnn.com. the he for she campaign intends to mobilize 1 billion, billion men and boys around the world in the fight for gender equality over the next 12 months. go to heforshe.org. you can go ahead and sign up. i recommend. this is an extremely important

cause. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back here at the united nations 5:00 p.m. eastern later today. jeh johnson, and rudy giuliani will join me live. for international viewers, stay tun tuned. for everyone else, "newsroom" starts right now. >> thank you very much, wolf blitzer. i'm don lemon in for brooke today. thank you for joining us. this into cnn. new information about the 100 or so americans believed to be actively supporting isis and other rebel groups fighting in syria. here's what a senior administration official says that federal law enforcement agents are keeping tabs on americans that may have joined isis and already returned here to the united states. our chief national correspondent jim sciutto joins us now with the