xfinity customers add xfinity home for $29.95 a month for 12 months. plus for a limited time, get a free security camera call 1800 xfinity or visit comcast.com/xfinityhome. hello, wherever you're watching around the world, welcome. thank you for joining us. covering fast-moving developments from the front lines of two major stories. isis forces advancing towards a base housing u.s. military personnel and fighting of ukrainian and pro russian forces rages on. in iraq isis militants taken control of the town of al baghdadi. that is just 9 miles from the al asad air base where some 400 u.s. military personnel training

iraqi forces. and today, eight isis suicide bombers attacked that base breaching the outer security limits. in the ukraine, the defense minister says eight soldiers died and almost three dozen injured in the past 24 hours and no let-up in the fighting so far today. reports even of tank battles under way. a cease fire is scheduled to take effect at midnight saturday local time. we begin with isis on the move in iraq. militants taking control of the town of al baghdadi after attacking it from three sides and activating sleeper cells inside the town. they then deployed eight suicide bombers to attack the al asad air base with the u.s. military personnel and u.s. officials saying there's no plans to evacuate u.s. troops from the base at this time. western iraq is not the only place where isis is advancing.

phil black is on the ground in northern iraq by telephone now. phil tell us we have been talking about isis on the defensive but we see them on the offensive both down by al baghdadi and kurdish areas in the north. >> reporter: yeah. that's right, jim. the latest first of all, on the area around the al asad air base we understand there's still fighting fairly close to the location from iraqi security officials in the area and baghdad, as well. you mentioned eight suicide bombers tried to get to the air base itself. indeed they say they were all stopped, all killed. according to the u.s. military. that location was attacked by eight isis members that they had not called them suicide bombers, though. we do not have an accurate sense just yet as to whether or not those bombers able to detonate their vests or cause damage or

casualties there. at the nearby town of al baghdadi said to control about 90% of the town and done this fairly rapid time overnight with sleeper cells in the area able to move in and take control of security checkpoints they had previously not taken control of. here in the north of the country, it is quieter today and over the last 24 hours there have been attacks across a wide range of areas. this is on top of the significant towns and cities they still control in the region. even though here in the north they have been wound back in terms of control, they still control mosul, big towns and cities even here in the north where the battle against isis going relatively well. still tremendous work to do jim. >> yeah. still clearly the able to carry out major military operations. thanks to phil black. we want more on the attack of isis troops and the danger to

american troops at the base. i had the chance to get more details from the pentagon spokesman rear admiral john kirby. admiral kirby, did the attackers at any time breach the base security? >> well it looks like they at least got to the outer base limits. we're still looking at this. and it's hard to say, you know whether they breached the perimeter or not but they got, you know to the perimeter level. at the very least and they were immediately engaged and important to note by iraqi security forces right away. >> now, keeping in mind that they control this town just a few miles down the road al baghdadi from the base i imagine the threat to the base is still ongoing. >> well we have been saying that for a long time jim, as you know. we put trainers in al assad, we did that knowing that al anbar province is contested and took a while to get advisers set and established on the base because

there were some force protection measures to make sure were in place so we readily admit that it's a contested region sill continues to want to pose a threat here. this is a huge sprawling base. roughly the size of boulder, colorado. i mean, it is not just a small outpost somewhere. there's mini bases inside the big base and very very big area. and i would say that this incident though not that we're not taking it seriously, happened nowhere near where u.s. forces or coalition forces are operating. >> assuming there's an attack are there contingency plans for evacuating the personnel? >> we have plans for all manner of things and one thing to say without detail is that there's nothing more important than the safety and security of our people. >> let me ask you this because a lot has been made a lot of statements made that there are no combat forces on the ground there. but isn't it fair to say that

these military personnel, particularly in anbar, are in combat if not combat troops considering the threat around them? they're very close to combat and therefore close to danger. >> yeah. there's no question that they're close to danger. i mean there's no question about that. i don't think anybody here said that. the question is really good one and requires context here. the policy in place is that there will not be a return to u.s. troops in a combat role or a combat mission on the ground. these u.s. troops that are at anbar are trainers advisers and that's what they're doing. they're training now hundreds of iraqi security force personnel. they have the right to defend themselves. and so when we have been honest that of course u.s. forces in a combat role in iraq. we have conducted more than 2,000 air strikes. that's combat. but there's not a return to a combat mission on the ground and these individuals are not in a

combat mission on the ground. now, again, they have the right to defend themselves and should they ever feel under threat they certainly have the right, the responsibility the obligation to shoot back. >> now, there have been plans to put u.s. military advisers at other forward bases in northern and western iraq. are those under way in places other than for instance anbar province? >> we're right now four building partner capacity sights, three training sites and that's going to be the limit in terms of geographic locations. at least right now. again, the purpose of those sites, those training sites are for training and advisers. i want to clear something up. there seems to be a notion here it was a u.s. base and you know jim, al asad is an iraqi base and there's american personnel working there but not a u.s. base. the u.s. doesn't have bases inside of iraq. >> a final yes if i can on

yemen. you have acknowledged in light of the removal of the u.s. beast embassy there's an impact. u.s. officials quoted in "the new york times" today saying that the cia had to significantly scale back operations. can you quantify how much ct ops curtailed in yemen as a result of the removal of the embassy? >> well i can't speak for other agencies but for the pentagon yes, there's an impact. i'd be loathe right now to give you a percentage but clearly there has been some adjustments to make. what i want to make very very clear is that counter terrorism training with some yemeni security force personnel continues. we are actually conducting some training with the yemeni security forces outside of sanaa. no question about that. we don't have personnel there right now and maintain the capability inside yemen for counter terrorism operations. that capability still exists.

i would be less than honest if i said it's not been adjusted and curtailed in some regards because of the political instability but this is a capability we'd like to maintain in yemen and of course that requires a good partner and it's the partnership side things are getting a little difficult. >> admiral kirby, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. and just ahead, more on the isis advance in iraq and what it means for the war against this terrorist group. our panel puts it in perspective. police say this man snapped and killed his muslim neighbors following a long-running parking dispute. why the fbi is now investigating. ♪

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iraq is calling in reinforcements after an advance of isis in western iraq. isis militants within just a few miles of an iraqi base and u.s. mill personnel are housed. house services committee hearing today a former adviser says that violent islam is on the rise no matter how you measure it. >> the numbers of casualties they inflict, their broad expansion and use of the internet which is very serious, or just their sheer barbarism, the threat of extremism reached an unacceptable level and that it is growing. we are at war with violent and

extreme usislamists and we just face this reality. >> let's get perspective on what it means from the panel. lieutenant colonel james reece, former delta force commander, bobby gosh and bob baer. colonel, i wonder if i could start with you. you have the attack on the al asad base and personnel training not in a combat role and combat came close to their doorstep today and isis controlling a town a few miles down the road. isn't the line blurring between what a combat ground troop is and what u.s. forces are doing on the ground now in iraq? >> jim, you're right. you and i have had this conversation over the last five six months of this kind of blur on the line and really the semantics of this where comes. the bottom line is we are always going to give our soldiers the

right for self protection and take care of these things. these forces out in al asad by name are combat arms type soldiers. they know how to fight in combat even though right now they're doing training and if something happens, they're allowed to defend themselves for force protection. they have the rules of engage engagements and the air cap up to make sure they're safe out there helping the iraqis. >> bobby, has the administration in its constant protestations of no ground combat troops no combat role been misleading in some -- to some degree as u.s. forces are in more forward positions and particularly in a base like anbar and good percentage of the province controlled by isis in saying definitely no combat when in reality they're very close to combat? we had the pentagon spokesman admiral kirby acknowledge in his words there's no question

they're close to danger. >> i think you could say that the administration has been economical with the facts shall we say. i think any time you send soldiers into a war zone they are soldiers. it is a war zone. even if you give them specific instructions to concentrate on training they are armed and as admiral kirby just said if they face fire then they are authorized to shoot back. explaining all of that to the american public when the president first made the decision to send the trainers out might have seemed complicated but the reality on the ground as we have seen so often in the middle east and iraq so often the realities on the ground quickly change any political calculation to be made in washington. >> bob, the narrative to this point from the administration isis on the defensive. the momentum stopped in iraq and even pushed back in some areas. now you have them going on the

offensive both in the north against kurdish forces and now iraqi forces and very close to u.s. forces. is it safe to say that they're showing their strength here and back on the offensive despite the u.s.-led coalition, iraqi efforts? >> well jim, of course we don't know what their strategy is exactly. but they did fail in kobani and strictly a kurdish area in syria and withdrawn from there. they have withdrawn some forces from aleppo and moved them into iraq and what we see them doing is focusing on the sunni arab areas with more ground root support around the base one place and i have heard that isis is attacking around south of tikrit and took over baghdadi. that village. so i mean they seem to be changing strategy where they know they can hold ground which would be mosul, al anbar province and the rest of those

places and see how it unfolds in the coming days and i think the administration is disingenuous of forces. i hear you have delta in action in the kurdish areas, blackhawk helicopters, little birds. hit an isis position. these cannons are quite fantastic and people get out and run and then the little birds, shoot at what's called the squirters, the runners. so i'm not worried about that base. delta force, defer to colonel reece, is not at threat there. but we do have to get engaged in combat to protect our troops. >> jim, let me ask you, former delta force commander, have you heard, do you believe reports that delta force is in action in iraq? >> well jim, here's what i do know. we have special operation forces in there and even the president said the other night, we will take our special operation forces if need to and to conduct a manhunting for senior leadership and the isis command

and control aspect. just like we did with the saddam regime just like we did with zarqawi. we have to try to knock off and capture or kill the senior leadership in these aspects. only certain units do that do it very well and it would not doubt they're positioned but again these are intent-based operations and they have triggers to when they are. we're not just going to rush those type of units out there to do those things on a whim. the intelligence has got to be there and be a strong indication of when to go especially if we can get a guy like baghdadi who's a leader of isis. >> there's a word for what you just described. isn't it combat? >> you're right. that is a combat operation. and i believe the president did say that the other night and the authorization speech that if needed he could take special -- you know the tier 1 special operations forces to go after

that leadership of isis. >> all right. well thanks very much jim reyes, bobby ghosh, bob baer. breaking news a federal prosecutor in argentina asking for an investigation of the country's president. the president is accused of covering up iran's role in the bombing of a jewish community center in 1994. the original prosecutor in this case you will remember was found dead the day before he was due to face questions on the investigation at congressional hearings there. as we get more details, we'll bring them to you. also the family of three muslim students killed in north carolina are calling their deaths a hate crime. now the fbi is taking a look at this case which police say was a dispute gone too far.

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welcome back. the investigation into the killings of three muslim students in north carolina is still under way and now the fbi's getting involved. at issue was it a dispute of neighbors that escalated out of control or was it a hate crime? two friends of the victims spoke to cnn about a recent incident with the suspect craig stevens hicks saying razan abu-salha

said he came to the apartment with a gun and complaining they woke up his wife. after today's shooting or tuesday's shooting rather happened one person came to mind. >> from what i know it didn't happen once. it happened several times. from what i have been hearing recently not just us that experienced this. other people the friends, everyone really noticed this guy and i mean it's sad because when we heard about this he was the first -- he was the only person to come to our mind just because you just don't come to -- you don't come to your neighbor's house with a gun. you don't do that. if you're mad, you send a notice to the apartment complex and they send out something. >> cnn's jean casarez joins us with the latest. police have not wrapped up the investigation but is if fbi getting involved specifically to investigate the possibility this was a hate crime? >> reporter: they are.

i just spoke with the north carolina division of the fbi and they tell me that today they are continuing to assist the local authorities in processing evidence on this case and they have opened up what they're calling a separate and parallel preliminary inquiry in regard to whether any federal crimes have been violated. now, our colleague evan perez his sources are telling him that so far the investigation has not found that this was a hate crime. but that it was an issue with a parking space. however, of course there are many levels of evidence of when you're talking about an investigation that can take some time. now, meanwhile, many many disagree with that and today 150 faith-based organizations and civil rights groups sent a letter to the u.s. attorney general eric holder asking for a vigorous full investigation into whether this in fact was a hate crime. investigation on the federal level. they're saying that the u.s. attorney general's office needs to show that they care about all

americans and this is a time to step forward and show that caring. this is taken an international stance also. the president of turkey actually came out today talking against the u.s. government asking why u.s. officials have not come out to talk about this atrocity that happened right here in north carolina. that these were not terrorists. that these were young students here at universities. one in dental school. the parents are doctors. and that we as a country have an obligation for our highest authority to come out and speak against the violent attacks. meanwhile, the reality is the investigation is still in the preliminary stage to determine was this a hate crime or just an issue about a parking space? >> all right. horrible no matter what. the fbi now on the case. thanks very much jean casarez. cease fire on the horizon. will troops pay attention when the deadline comes? we'll take you to ukraine live right after this.

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peace deal put in place in september and quickly failed. our knick payton walsh talked with forces and civilians in a devastated town to get their takes on the prospect of peace. >> reporter: head to the front lines and you can feel how hard a cease fire will be. here a thousand yards from the ukrainian army this is the reaction to the news the fight stops at midnight saturday. i think the cease fire is so they can gather strength. personally, i with these people can't talk peace. because they've killed too many civilians. i hear rockets being fired and say move against the wall. >> it's coming. how can we talk to them, he says. only with this.

like many of the soldiers on the front line here he said why would you give somebody a third chance to deceive you and the cease fire is used by the ukrainian authorities to buy themselves time to regroup for further conflict. yuri shows us where that morning he says a missile landed. it happens every three hours. he doesn't expect hit to stop. unlikely he says. ukrainians don't go for cease fires. the's no talk of cease fire here because of how many of our women and children have been killed. so until we've freed all of the next region, we aren't going anywhere. it is a cold and distant front here disconnected from the palatial world of the mincinge mins k. another hit here. killing a woman. peppering the school with

phoenicia rap knell and leaving the neighbor furious at kiev's disregard for them. you think someone will like being called second class people he says. told get a suitcase a train and go to russia. these are towns that are found a whole new wretched world underground. paulina and the girls sleep down here most nights. underground labyrinths that residents barely knew existed that loathing for the other side slowly growing making it so much harder for many to imagine a future with ukraine united adds it once was. everyone finding a space underground. as a dark mood greets the cease fire ahead. >> cnn's senior international correspondent nick payton walsh joins us live now from eastern ukraine. listening to the comments from the separatists doesn't sound

like they're invested. are you seeing preparations on the ground to get ready to stop fighting in 36 hours? >> reporter: frankly, the opposite jim. we have been hearing from the self declared deputy minister of defense for the defense and what they felt of ukrainian territory, it's a key town both want to take before the cease fire kicks in and whether he felt it was separatists or ukrainian territory and he said clearly it's ours and the troops should give themselves up only it. the picture seeing now are over an elaborate device of an artillery shell to fire over the heads of those troops and that then fire and drop leaflets on them explaining terms and reasoning behind them surrendering and clearly heavy weapons in the city as well. part of the pr strategy to try to get them to surrender. most troublingly, seems like moscow believes they should be on separatists side of the lines agreed in minsk.

a key flashpoint and saw today ourselves how three children killed in a separatist held area as they had their first bath in a week. depriving a mother and father of their children and deeply troubling for many that area and also today on the you yan krahn side of the lines, a child and person killed when shelling hit a village. the fighting still continuing. peace theoretically 30 hours away. jim? >> enormous disconnect between the facts on the ground and the talk at negotiating table. we just saw this tweet from the ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. mentioning russian-backed terrorists bring war to the peaceful. killing a 7-year-old. this is how they fulfill the minsk agreements. not a ringing endorsement from ukraine's top diplomatic here in the u.s. coming up next, an american journalist imprisoned in iran. is he just a political pawn in

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mary. she is joining us from istanbul turkey. mary thank you very much for joining us today taking the time. >> thank you so much for having me jim. >> i wonder if i can ask you. i know you met with him on christmas day, spoke to him on the phone on thanksgiving. when you have contact with jason, how are his spirits? how does he sound? >> well whenever i've had contact with him, we have realized that other people were listening. and so he's not able to speak about things that he can't speak about. but jason is a sunny person and most of the time he sounds good. he sounds hopeful. but at the same time he sounds impatient that he's more than ready to come out. >> yeah. when you say other people with him, i assume you mean his handlers are there watching and listening. >> exactly. either they're there, cameras or

we know there are microphones in the room. >> yeah. not the best way to have a conversation with your mother. we know that he has had health issues. what are those issues and do you have any sense of how his health is holding up? >> well jason has an enlarged heart and he's been on high blood pressure medication since he was a teenager. i will say that this forced - detention has changed his body a lot. he's lost 40 pounds. it was good that he lost that weight but at the same time he lost it very rapidly. i know that they are monitoring his blood pressure so they're keeping his blood pressure low. which is probably a good thing because it must be very stressful for him where he is. he had developed an eye infection in i believe it was in november. and it took them almost two months before they started addressing it with eye drops.

i am not aware that he's actually been given antibiotic eye drops. they did take him out of the prison to see an eye doctor. and he's had other -- he always gets a respiratory problems in the wintertime. he's had that. so he has a number of issues and i also understand he's developing dental problems because they're not permitting him to floss and just learned that this week. >> i can't imagine something more stressful than the lack of knowing how long he's going to be there. i've spoken to other prisoners in iran who have talked about that. now, this is happening as the u.s. is very deep into negotiations with iran over its nuclear program. you know increasingly warm relationship between u.s. and iranian diplomats. secretary kerry. the iranian secretary general.

i wonder if you feel the u.s. is doing enough to secure jason's release. >> well the reality, jim, is that jason is a dual citizen. and as such the iranians consider him to be an iranian. and, therefore, subject to the laws of iran and the united states really doesn't have anything to say about it. i understand that our state department and various other people in our government have been working very hard for jason's release. but many times when there's pressure that is exerted the iranians go in the other direction. so there really is not all that much that our side can do. >> let me tell you. i met your son, interviewed him in the 2009 election crisis in iran. we certainly are -- our hearts go out to you and him and only wish for a quick resolution so thanks for joining us mary.

>> thank you. and please remember the change.org petition free jason rezeiain is a great help. >> you can learn more about the case at cnn.com. mary rezaian written an op-ed about her son. check it out there. it's a powerful story. calls for o orr's governor to resign growing louder by the day. the democrat under a criminal investigation over a scandal involving his fiancee. find out what the couple under such scrutiny right after this.

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oregon. state's four-term democratic governor is facing growing pressure to resign after troubling questions surfaced about his live-in fiancee. suzanne malvo is covering the story. he has legislative leaders calling for the resignation. how did he get here? >> these are the friends, too, by the way. people of his own party. >> yeah. some resigned. >> absolutely. a wild ride for th residents of oregon getting conflicting messages over the governor all week. we have several state officials met with the governor and said there were indications he would resign and after meeting with the legal team and fiancee he changed his mind telling reporters in his driveway that in fact he was staying. this all began back in 2002. he met hayes, the next year hayes formed a nonprofit environmental organization. the same year that the governor divorces his wife and they begin they begin dating.

well hayes turned the nonprofit company to a for profit one. it was a $60,000 consulting contract through the state's department of energy and despite the fact that this company finished last among four bidders. they investigated whether or not this was awarded proper will i but ultimately said they lacked the legal grounds to file suit. hayes denied any wrongdoing here, but they looked into whether or not hayes' work was. both of these individuals, they're now lawyered up, they say there's no conflict of interest. and here's another bizarre twist. hayes has apologized. she said she made a mistake in 1987 to marry an 18-year-old to

secure status in the united states. she said she wasn't financially involved in all this she wasn't proud of that period of her life that this was an abusive relationship that she had with this man. but fast forward now to today, a lot of speculation over the governor's steps. what has alarmed them is kitzhaber called brown abruptly to return from a washington, d.c. conference. if he resigns, she would be the next person in line to replace him. brown said she, in fact did meet with him and he told her that he is not stepping down and she called all of this here an unprecedented situation. so jim, you can imagine the confusion that is taking place in that state and his dear friends who have taken him aside and said look this has got to stop. >> i mean you look at this. there is so many warning signs, red flags about this business

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we heard a candid admission from a supreme court justice. ruth bader ginsburg and anthony scalia took part in a discussion. cnn had the only camera there, app when the subject of the state of the union came up justice ginsburg revealed why she fell asleep. >> the audience for the most

part is awake because they're bobbing up and down all the time and we sit there, stone-faced, sober judges. at least i wasn't 100% sober because before we went to the state of the union, we had -- we had dinner together and i vowed this year just sparkling water, stay away from the wine, but in the end the dinner was so delicious, it needed wine too. so i came home and one of my grandmothers said you were sleeping at the state of the union. >> shocking, shocking admissions there. supreme court justices drink wine as well. such an unusually candid moment for this vaulted supreme court

justice, ruth bader ginsburg. >> they were. they're on opposite sides of the spectrum but they respect each other for the way they write their opinions and they know they're writing for other judges and they've built this incredible friendship over the years. >> seeing them sitting there, just an odd combination. >> they get along. they get along really well. >> so they each vacation together when you say they get along? >> they have vacationed together. he talks about the south of france and he talks about how brave she is and she tried parasailing. this light woman had gone in the air. he couldn't believe she did that. they went to india and rode atop an el familiarity and spent some new year's eves together. so they're very close even though on these hot button

issues they don't agree. >> that's the thing. does it bring them together in any way on a decision before the supreme court decision? >> well no. they respect each other. he'll be in the majority and she'll be in the dissent. he really appreciates the way she writes her opinions and the way she cares about the issue. >> that's unusual to hear. the other idea before the supreme court is the idea of cameras in there, something that some justices are for until they get into court, is that right? >> that's the thing. we thought with justice kagan and sotomayor before they took the bench, they would be interested. they're so transparent. they give you their opinions their dissent, and they give you their thinking but they don't seem to be locking in on the idea. >> we have this impression that

they're so impenetrable. it would be interesting to see. other headlines today, a bill approving a keystone pipeline gets a ceremonial signing but it won't get the signature it needs, that of president obama. house speaker john boehner signed it in a photo op but he knows president obama promised to veto it. it will generate tens of thousands of new jobs. democrats not so sure. no word on when it will arrive on the president's desk. he'll have ten days to veto it once its arrives. taking a look at the dow, it traded more than 18,000 up. if it closes up it would be the second straight week of gains. right now it seems the dow is up slightly but just below 198. we'll keep an eye on it. gas pleen prices won't help change that.

oil hit its highest level trading about $60 a barrel despite an oversupply of crude oil. that's it for me today. for our international viewers amanpour is next. if the rest of you, the news starts rye now. >> all right. here we go. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. we have to look at what's an incredibly dangerous situation of some 320 troops based in iraq. isis has activated sleeper cells inside of the town baghdadi and just in the last couple of hours this strategic move has helped them take over 90% of this town. 90%. why is this so disturbing other than that number? i want you to take a look at the map here and you can see the sheer proximity here. this town is just about nine miles from this air base there on the left side