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from the attack and the weapon power from the video? let's dig into it and we also have military retire major mark. mark, start out and tell us about the attack on the military post. >> yeah, well this video is posted on youtube yesterday and seems to be taken place 60 miles north of baghdad. now, what you see here is an ongoing assault as the iraq replacement. it shows a body burning and then you see lined up in a row. i counted 35 m 16's rifles made in the united states as well as piles of ak 47 assault rifles and apc's and the humvees.

now, it seems to be taking place in broad daylight. one wonders where the aircraft. it's not in a mountain area, so it's all very fizable from the air. but, another example of isis getting their hands on american equipment. but what you're seeing here is a small incident. these things take place on a regular basis and where iraq base in the dessert fall to isis. it's not the fault of soldiers. time and time again we hear where the command structure does not reply to urgent request by the basis for help, relief and supplies and for even things like food and water.

the i roraq army is putting a l of effort -- the army has their back against the wall at a time that american officials are talking about offensive operations to retake musel. >> you hear that they're having trouble defending what they have already. what's the confidence when the u.s. launches this in april to take it, that they will be able to do it without u.s. combat forces there side by snide. >> you know victor, great question. the concern that i have is that we're talk of a potential operation that's going take place in iraq. this should not be public. this is the type of stuff that for whatever reason it baffles me why we're having the con ver skpags why the department of defense would allow this to get out. stuff happens.

this is unfortunate and a lack of professionalism and a relaxed approach to a challenge that we have been trying to get our arms around for a year, and we have been conducting an air campaign and yet we have this kind of release. what ben reported on is not unusual. it happens in combat all of the time. clearly if you have this type of capability and not up to it, it's going to be surrendered to the enemy. understand that isis has had access sadly to u.s. capability for the longest time because that's what we trained the iraq army on when we were there. iraq army has collapsed and these are things that go into the inventory for use. >> i hear the concerns for releasing the effort to take it.

is there possibly an advantage that this would be a last stand of some sort where all of their smaller groups would be called to one city, and that could be where it could be a battle could happen for a larger portion of isis than you would see in other sma smaller outposts and cities. is there an advantage for releasing a head of time. >> i like the way that you're thinking:it's called red view. i don't think that we're that good. i don't think that the ability to achieve that is that good. no, that would not be the case. nobody that i ever worked with or any operations that i was involved with do that. that puts the soldiers at risk. releasing the information is far were worse than the positive

outcomes that we should achieve as you describe. that's a high risk, but it's a deception possibility. everybody knows that we're working hard and musal is a major city and a major problem. someone spoke freely, and they should not have. >> the iraq military police and you go into the areas, is it possible and is there concern that they could further radicalize or isolate or grow the ranks of isis? >> well, this is what cnn correspondents were reporting yesterday that there's worry in a city that has a large population. for kurtish sources and they

would already complicate a situation. let's not forget when the united states was in control of mosul, that they had problems and the united states military is far above the iraq military in terms of equipment and training across the board. so yes the word have i is going in and taking over the city with it's large ari, suni population and there are concerns and there's not unrealistic. >> okay. ben, thanks to you and also major general, we want you to stay with us and talk the us about the next story. yeah, 10,000 troops in afghanistan and that's where defense secondary is right now. he arrived in kobul and to get a firsthand look, but major

general, i want to stick with you on this one. are you surprised that he would go to afghanistan first and so soon given that the threat has been isis up to this point and that the focus has been on them? >> i am, but i am sure that there was a security determination. not to bring him into a baghdad. he could have gone or been secured. my first move would have been baghdad. that's the level of resolve so that government, so the very first move would have been extern external to the defendant of defense. going to after gab stan makes perfect sense. that's where the soldiers are in combat. it still exists, and we have deploy deployed soldiers there.

sure, going baghdad would have sent a signal and it accepteds one to the troops. i am okay with that. >> some say that the taliban is going under sur gents, how prepared is the u.s. do you think to fight, and will this change the military strategy in afghanistan because we know that troops are scheduled to leave the beginning of nx year or the end of next year. >> yes. clearly what the united states has with the government is an evolving and maturing relationship that gives us the opportunity to make a determination in our best interest with the support of the afghan government. we have not made a decision and learn from the learn in iraq. we're going to have a stay in afghanistan and smaller than it should be. the united states has a very row bust relationship with this new

government, so we have the ability too plus that up. that is a mitt cal call, but it will be made and recommended by the military kmapders on the ground. that's important and that exists and that's an advantage that we have. >> lrmt. major general, we appreciate. >> thank you so much. now, a desperate search for three goals to london. they maybe on their way to syria to join isis. this is a skyscraper on fire. flames pouring on on to the street. we will set you more. the date is set for boxings biggest match up. floyd may weather and so many people have been waiting years for this. we have the details next. (melodic, calm music)

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the way to syria to join isis. please help them and cnn's chef national has more for us. good morning. >> the senior british diplomat is a clear and disturbing trend and warns that the girls involved in this particular case are at risk of sex ex loation. >> these young girls are the newest foreign recruits to isis. caught on camera at the airport with their luggage they fear that they threatened to join isis. >> we don't know how to three girls have come you up with the plan or encouraged them to go back to syria. we believe that they're heading towards syria. we just don't know how it's happened. the parents themselves, are mystified. >> the girls have been missing since tuesday when they boarded

a flight headed to turkey. this is the same airport that they used to enter syria right before her husband carried out the deadly shooting at a paris kosher market. turkey has been the key point into syria from recruits and other groups. turkish authorities are working to stem the flow. we told wolf bliter that the u.s. is tracking the movements best as they can. >> we have systems in place to track them. it's difficult to pick up broken travel. >> what does that mean? >> where you fly to country a and then you go to country b on the ground and we do not know that fact. >> a diplomat say that woman are a new and growing target.

the group track estimates that one in six isis foreign recruits are woman. that isis recruiting network extends all the way to tus homeland. in october three girls were intercepted as they were making the way to join isis. another american 19-year-old shannon was arrested at denver airport in april on the way to an isis camp near the turkish board. she wanted to be on isis bride. >> the three british girls are friends with another british girl that travelled in december, and police interviewed them at the time and did not consider them to be likely isis recruiting. >> okay. jim, thank you some. secretary of the state john consider have i in london this

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advisory. the winter blast keeping the crews busy. they have been working so hard and in massachusetts and several horses were rescued after a structure clapsed under heavy snow there. sub zero temperatures are forcing people in indianapolis to stay warm. >> i have on two pair of socks, two pair of papts, three shirts, and i am warm. >> spring is 28 days away. >> i cannot wait to get here and take all this stuff off. >> yeah, look at the ice hanging from trees, fences outside of the homes and even sunny south florida is feeling the chill. they're trading the swim suits for jackets. it's south, florida and will not last too long. >> yeah, but it's cold. when you get to the teens in

days it's tough. okay. so we have the snow, sleet and freezing rain. we have to bring in cnn's ivan. uncle. isn't that what you say -- >> yeah, when you have to wear sweaters in florida, you know that means that we have problemings. that's what we're talking about here. look at the wind chill minus zero. if you're going to be stepping outside, that's the way that it feels. that's not nice. it's not that it's not just nice, but dangerous. frost bielt steps in. you want to protect as much as you can. let's go ahead and i want to show you what we have going on. how many weekends have westbound there? this is going to get the knot east in a different way and dangerous way. in the south warnings into north georgia for snow fall here and the area for ice.

now, nashville you're out of it here. warm air has purned in, so at this point just a rain event. to to east we have the ice warnings and all the wiepter storm warnings. now, what will happen is that we have the icing accumulation that will occur and that's the dangerous part here when the roads get coated with the black ice, and you do not see it. i have 360ed on a highway and it's not fun and dangerous. take a look at this. this is what is going to happen. the snow totals are going to be kept down because as the storm heading off, this is knot a coastal low, so the major cities are going to be on the eastern side of the storm and that's going to bring warmer air. you're watching the clock and you're going see all of this rain pushing in. it will start to snow saturday late and then hear the wind streams here and pushing the

warmer and milder atlantic air. what that will do is change the snow and at the surface still going to be freezing. all of those roofs that have been cleared are going to get coated with ice, and that's heavy stuff and dangerous. be careful in the northeast. there's the snow across the west. something that they have not seen so far, but they will take it where they have not gotten it. >> full of good news. full of good news. >> yeah, isn't he? it's not his fault. we do not hold you countriable. >> thank you. the biggest terror threat facing america might be isis or al qaeda. apparently not. there's a new warning of other extremist that could pose a bigger threat right here in the u.s. already. >> we will talk about that and also happening right now tens of thousands are holding a rally in moscow. we're going take you there live.

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fire power. these militants attacked an army post and apparently killed everyone p there and then took scores of u.s. made guns and american humvees and armored vehicles. we're learning detailings of this massive operation to retack the strong hold. we're going take a closer look at this attack and what we can get from the new video that's coming up at the top of the hour. christy. thanks victor. >> we need to think again about that. a new government report says that there are armed domestic terror groups in neighborhoods around the country and ready to attack cops and go after government building s because they believe that the rights are under attack.

this is a real threat. they have been 24 tax and local and law enforcement view it as quelly to or greater than the threat from foreign terror groups. cnn's nick join us us with with more. as a understand it these people don't believe that the federal officials have no authority over them. >> yeah. groups that adhere to a hate philosophy. they have released a new report and say that there maybe thu thousands of others like the man that we're going profile in piece out there today. >> from california to florida. all across the united states sporadic attacks on law enforcement from the citizen extremist. a new intelligence circulated this month at the department of

homeland security buts a domestic. >> we have groups that go to ideology and they malicious ideology, a hate ideology and fup northerly there's a number of them that we have to be concerned about. deadly plots like this one in coming jar coming georgia and armed with several explosions:dennis mark showed up ready to killed. they killed him after trying to drive the suv into the cross. there maybe thousands of others out there like mark tlog attack. >> we have talking of the threat and there's domestic groups that are concerning that we worry about here in the united states. >> a resent survey of state and local law enforcement listed

terrorists and i had to form groups as the top domestic threat. >> mark from the south erp part of the law center says by some estimates there are 300,000 citizen in the united states todayed. >> their believes go back 20-25 years or further and essentially they believe that the federal government has no jurss diction over them. >> the latest counted 24 citizen related attacks since 2010 and law enforcement officers the prima primary target. >> they're telling people that they can can get something for tax. they can simply move into a house that's been foreclosed on by the wank and take it on their own. there's that kind of teaching going on, and that's what driving the moment.

>> it's snot just violence that they're word aed about, tals the paper terrorism and that's the process of burying with nonfi s nonfiles. >> so what you mean is when there's a squatter situation. >> that's right. >> they can end up in the house for months on end because they have tied everything in the courts. >> it's a new court filing and does not make sense f, but able to do damage. >> hey nick, thank you. all right. new reports that we want to tell you about. yemen former president left and he is in aiden after the rebels let him go. now, he was under house arrest. back here in the u.s. and

once america's mayor over the saidisms of obama. in a did ily norng new york he claims that the commender in chief is influenced since the youth. dhoms on the heal of the white house responding and saying that the president does not love america. now, members of the party and gop are reacting with some distances. jim has the latest from washington. >> president obama was feeling the love for america. >> it's about making the nation that we love more perfect. >> the comment came as the white house slapped back after the former new york city major questioned the president baes love for the country. white house press secretary subjected that he had damaged the man dubbed for new york's mayor at the time.

>> it's sad to see when somebody that's on taened a certain level of public st-- the truth is thai don't take any joy or vindication or satisfaction from that. i think really the only thing that i feel is sorry for rudy tomorrow. >> he touched off on a fire storm and say thag know this is a horrible thing but i do not think that president loves america. he was not brought up the way that you and i were. the ex mayor has not apologized. i don't feel a love of america. i feel the initial approach is to criticize the country and then after ward to say a few things about us. >> he defended and saying that it had nothing to do with race. because he made the comments

governor scott walker and other possible candidates are on the spot. >> if they days green, the activates are going say no guts. >> while he is trying to dodge the issue. >> i love merng. think that america is a great country. >> others are seeking distance. >> democrats are not always answering. i think he loves america but just bad ideas. >> this is not a man that sees america as you and i see america. >> mr. obama'ed the charge back in 008. >> let me be clear. i will let no one question my love of the country.

:new th new this morning. standing by them and opening up on the alleged consequences that he ahz received as a result as well. take a listen. >> he is not backing down one bit. he said to me during the brief conversation that i do not regret making the statement. i believe it. i don't know if he loves america. he went on to say that i don't feel the same enthusiasm for america. one of the things that i should point out the former mayor said that his office has received death threats and the secretary has gotten threats over the phone. the former mayor did not say if he leased them to the police. she went on to say that a majority of the phone calls have been supported and he has haerld from a louisiana governor to

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in moscow this morning thousands of activists are marching there in the red scare. they're holing a rally to condemn a cue that removed the president last year. cnn's aaron is there and erin, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: a lot of people here outside of this protest. they told me that they're feeling the pin so to speak. it's weakened and the price and cost of living has increased. now it's spresing to see how the economic situation that's currently impacting the country play out with the approval rating. it's sky high and well over 80 percent. the new figures waiting to of out. >> up deed.

erin, thank you so much. we will continue that later on this morning. closing aurnlts are coming up in the american sniper trial. we will have a look at the keys to the case and the prosecution and the jury. it's the battle that fight fans have been waiting for. the world's top boxers. people there's finally a date on the calendar. >> it's going to happen.

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week in the american snipper murder trial. this is getting attention because of the hit movie based of chris kyle. he is charged with murdering chris and their friend in 2013. ralph's attorney says that he was insane and suffering from ptsd. one of the moments is when they played the video shape confessi confession and look that happens just hours after the shotting. >> i keep talking to chris's and it's like every time that i talk to another man or get sent to one, it was like talking to the wolf. the ones in the sky are the ones that fly, do you know what i mean? the pigs. joey a lot of people are saying that he is insane or did he act

that way. do you think that somebody could act insane enough to convince a jury that it's -- that there's prefshous to it? let me say this and good morning to you. >> good morning. >> test interesting because you have pex perts and what did they say? they said that he is incase. he thought you know what they were kanls ask coming to eat him and flying pig and his neighbor was a mafia and mexican mafia and smelt cooking going on and then you have the rebuttal case with the prosecution and they said you know what to make the point, he is faking it. it's a sign field episode and in that episode they were talking about pigs and half humans and half pigs. in addition to that and paran d

paranoid, why did he have his back turned, so there are all these questions is he faking it or not. at the end of the day remember that people look on insanity pleas and defenses and so if the jury needed an excuse to convict and hold him accountable, certainly the experts for the prosecution gave them the out by saying you know what, hold him accountable. he was not insane. >> the psychiatrist was on the scene and he said that he was e delugsal. that's not with insanity. >> it's not. you have to look at everything on balance. mitchel talked about illusions and hallucinations and schizophrenia and a number of things. what the jury has to do is stay

unbalanced. we understand that insanity is knowing right and wrong, so let's tyke the ex pertds and also take remember what the defense also did was evaluated the family. they put the family on the stand and said what happened. he was so happy and came back and suicidalle. not the person that we once knew. he attacked the family at a fish fly wechlt had to get the police involved and ofblg you have fwirl friend saying that he held us captive me and my roommate with a sword. i hear the government. what is going on around here. i think that the jury will look and say did he know right or wrong? if so, guess what? he is convicted. if not, then he is not. one last point remember the prosecution is playing up this issue of drug use and marijuana and alcohol in a major way.

if it can be that it was the alcohol and marijuana that made you do that, that's not a defense. they reminded the jury with the experts if he is saying that he was actually intoxicated or was high at the time and did this, not a defense and you have to convict. >> the key for the defense is that he was insane. what is the key for the jury? >> well, the key is to take all of this together. remember that the interesting thing about any thing is that you have two o professors and they both sound that they know what they're doing. you have the prosecution making the argumentment and saying that he is not insane. he maybe troubled and then should he depreciate. of course he could. he is on medication and had no

idea what he was doing. you know what? you can not hold him accountable, so it's a lot for a jury to process what they ultimately do. you know what? it's anybody guess. we do know that you're going see the professors and the prosecution and defense making the arguments with the theory. what that jury buys, we will see when we get a verdict. >> he has acted sane in the court room but we know that he is being mad kated now. he is going to be here to discuss the las vegas road rage case. we have to talk about the brutal force of isis. they have weapons and armored vehicles in iraq. what does this mean to retake iraqs second largest city? also the cdc has discovered

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what is expected to bust every record in boxing history. i think that victor wants to cover live. >> yeah, and what the paychecks are. what are they making for the fight? >> we will find that out. ♪ we're going to show you new video this morning. isis kind of showing off i guess that you could say. american made vehicles and vehicles and equipment won in the battle of iraq troops. >> and just days after being confirmed the secretary of defense visits troops in afghanist afghanistan. the mission is access whether the u.s. draw plans are too risky to secure afghanistan. good morning and good to be with you i am victor. >> and i am christy paul, so good to see you. let's get to it today. >> yeah, alarming images of american made weapons falling

into the hands of isis. they attacked a military post in the prove vens and seized dozens of weapons. >> they also made off with american vehicles and left behind a trail of death. we're told that the burned bodies of iraq soldiers are there. this comes after the u.s. plan a major offensive to take back the strong hold. we're covering this here and first of all live at the white house and we want to begin and who is live in iraq. these new images capturing american weapons, a lot of people are wondering are they an indication that the iraq army is over matched? >> well, it's confirmation and the confirmation that we have had going back last june then they fled before a smaller force when they took over.

now the individuvideo is intere. it's an assault on a iraq position. it's about 60 miles to the northwest of baghdad. you see several dead soldiers and then you see what the video calls the booty. i counted more than 35 american m 16 assault rifles and piles of ak 47 rifles and ammunition and humvees. this is a scene that's been played since last june since the iraq army lost -- more than six months of ire strikes on isis. it raises questions on if the united states plans and hoping that the iraq army will do and that's in april and may and retack the city of mosul. a city of more than 2 million

people, so a lot of doubts on the ability to do it. now, the u.s. is basically running a crash course for iraq units to take m osul. there are soldiers undergoing training by the united states and 2,000 have graduated from that source. sit going to be able to do it? that's anybody's guess. kurtish commanders are out here and they say that it's basically impossible. >> okay. we appreciate the update. >> okay. let's bring in ann what is the pentagon saying where they are in anticipation of the military campaign of isis in the spring? >> what was so striking from officials yesterday is how bullish that they are on the effort and giving what ben just said there. they're saying that they believe that they're ahead.

maybe potentially in the campaign than they anticipated. they want to overwhelm isis with sheer numbers. let me walk you through. so far in this military effort against isis they're losses have been to u.s. losses in iraq and afghanistan over 14 years, so they say that with those kind of numbers and that kind of loss, no organization can thrive. they say that three quarters of the equipment and forces have been debleted, and they say that they estimate that they're between one and 2,000 forces in mosul and that's compare today the 20-25,000 forces that they plan to move in may. they can overwhelm isis and they

will have to take stock on how that's going and defense carter said as we know there will not be ground troops involved in this and that once this begins, they will obviously have to take stock of what is happening and have to evaluate that. >> we have to put that in context because they have underestimated isis and they're shone to be stronger than expected. i have to ask you what they have been pondering all morning and since the announcement. what's the thinking behind announcing the plans so far ahead of initiativing this effort? >> it's to prepare the region and mosul. there are some that say maybe there are some civilians that they want to evacuate. the point that they're make as good that they're not outlining any specific battle plans, so

they're not showing the hands just yet. >> okay. at the white house and thank you erin. >> of course. meanwhile 10,000 troops are in afghanistan and that's why ash carter is. he arrived just a short time ago. he laid out why afghanistan is his first stop as defense chief. >> the reason for this destination afghanistan in my very first vehicle in office as secretary of defense is that we have 10,000 american troops, and they come first in my mind always. >> secretary carter is going to make face to face with u.s. troops tomorrow. as the u.s. plans this massive operation to remain mosul from isis, the question is is the iraq army ready to fight

or could it cause more violence? let's bring in james reece. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i just took to aaron and why disclose the plans. they say in any tactical detail, but why release the details. >> i am not sure what details that we talked about other than large numbers and a large aspect on where they are. i know one thing that we have learned in 14 years of combat against these folks that we have to think out of the box a little built. we have to be -- we have got to be thinking about the propaganda. how do we get messages out? is this a scare tactic and one of the reasons 25,000 iraq murder forces go into mosul

after 3,000 isis is there, that's an overwhelming force. that's something that isis does not want to deal with. they will stand and fight but i do not see this as an issue. as we go through the next couple of months and the isis sees the forces start ruling in, it's pretty much a done deal and everyone knows this is going to happen. at the end of the day when the iraq forces get up to mosul, they're not going to start waurkiwaur walking there. they're going to set up to begin the operation. >> there's questions on if the iraq military can handle the job. most believe that you need troops on the ground whether they're u.s. troops or another nation to be involved. i want the play part of a conversation between two and they say that he would consider if he was in the position putting u.s. troops on the

ground there to win this war against isis. let's listen to what he said next. >> at some point in dealing with isis you mark my words whether john you hear from him again at some point it will require boots on the ground for the world to deal with this problem. i would rather deal with it sooner than later. you do not go running over there. you have to have a battle plan and figure out what to do. i would not suggest that we convert these people to our way of live. we need stability and we need to stop this. >> so let's me ask you this. i don't know that anyone has an appetite for another effort in nation building, was that not the lesson of the iraq war that you can not go in and launch this offensive and then leave and expect stability. you have a nation full of young men with weapons and no jobs and opportunity and then they're

radicalized. >> yeah, we the u.s. and other coalition during operation iraq freedom, we learned a lot. we have learned that if we have to get involved in the situations gain, we're taking the lessons learned. right now the governor i get it. kind of emotional, but i think that we have a great plan and general austin and the battle cast are doing this right. we have a force, and we want to help the iraq murder friends that are out there. we have the right numbers and when they feel and he has an idea and he has several different courses of action to push that in. i think what the governor and a lot of politicians have to define where they need isis. is that just in the city of mosul? we might have a couple of

hundred forces in the direct support mostly to do air support and then where they continue to support in the headquarters and things like that. now, you're talking syria. that is entirely different aspect, so we happen to find isis and as it grows around the world, that's a concern and we throw it out. let's define it before. that's how i feel right now. >> yeah, we're going to continue to have this conversation and play move that with john. lieutenant reece, good to talk to you. >> yes, sir. have a good morning. >> you too. isis a high priority right now in the terror front. there's a new are report with a threat here in the u.s. a group carrying out attacks on police, government buildings. how big a treat are they really? no one wants to hear this.

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15 after the hour and there's a new dpovmt report that arms of extremist ready to attack police and go after government buildings. now this has nothing to do with foreign terror groups but concerns over attacks like the one that we saw at georgia at a cross last year when citizen lash out against authority and hoping to inflict death. look at this map from the department of homeland security. there have been 24 of these attacks in the u.s. since 2010. some federal and local law enforcement groups equal it to greater than to isis.

cnn nick joins us now and you covered that deadly shooting. >> yeah, it's people like dennis marks that they're concerned about. many of who believe that the u.s. government is ill jitment. remember that he showed up at the cross armed with plenty of ammunition and smoke grenades and was shot and killed by deputies there. officials say that he was ready to carry out a killing spree. now there maybe 300,000 350e78 like dennis out there today on u.s. soil. >> are there specific targets that they're naming? >> in the report that was in con suggestion, the concern was the primary target being law enforcement officers. they said that it's going to happen in 2014. there will be a stand off and

shout off and there's reports back in 2012 a father and son got in a shot out at a routine traffic stop and the primary concern of the report is law enforcement officials victor. >> wow. they say that these could be dangerous or more dangerous than isis in some cases. >> thank you so much. >> let's talk to harry. i want to ask you of at that question. some people say that these other federal and local law enforcement groups that they're targeting, that this is threat could be so much bigger even than isis. do you agree with that? do you feel that there's a good strength of the citizen? >> well, i think that it's more of an imminent threat than isis on the homeland. we have been having problem with people like this for 20 or 30 years. every once in a while you hear

they attack a police officer or a billing, so, you know, if the intelligence that we're hearing is that they're going to be a danger in 2015, we need the keep our eyes open on when the next attack may occur. >> you talked about it being out there for so long. do you get the sense that they're organizing and go from loan wolf to organized melissa? >> well, this is the first time that i heard a report of this. when i was a police officer 12 years ago we would hear about the guys and look out for them. i have not seen where the government came on and said that we're going to have a tax in 2015, so they must have intelligence to warn us and let us know that something is going to happen. maybe something this year. >> how does that change the way that law enforcement does things? the way that they might prepare for something like this or even

spot something like this? >> well probably not too much. besides intelligence information and trying to get your ears out here there to hear what is going on. they have to be weary and carful on the street. there's not much that you can do. >> do you think that there's a threat beyond law enforcement that they may target joe on the street in some fashion? >> that's a possibility, but we have not seen that happen against for timothy when he blew up the building. there's a possibility of that happening but really from what i know they really hate law enforce pment and the government. they're based mostly the type of people that are going attack. >> all right. harry, we appreciate your incite. thank you. >> thank you. if you're on the east coast when you get out of bed, just

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weather but deadly. so far the winter weather and the ice and snow has contributed to 18 deaths in the state. >> in that state and total we're talking of 23 people that have died this week alone across the country. today more than 125 million of us are under a wind chill warning or some sort of weather advisory. more than 300 flights have been cancelled today. call in ahead. >> yeah, i was going to come with you with when the is break coming. i can look and see not soon for some folks zm yeah, the arctic blasts that we have been talking about will continue into march. that's depressing. >> yeah. >> sorry to have to bring you that news. look at nashville and i 40. this is a big store have i this morning. thankfully we have had warm enough air that's pushed all the way into nashville and that mean that is we're raining and not icing the roads here. further to the east you can see

the pink and then the white. this is going to be the story for the east coast over the next few days. we're going to get the warm air push asking in and what will start as snow will turn to freezing rain and then rain as the warmer air makes it's way. there are the winter storms warnings for the eastern u.s. as far as the snow fall aunt months we're going to have a few inches all the way up, but this is a mountain storm as far as the significant accumulation, so looking good there. here we go. there's a rain and you can see this pushing in. there's the snow and warm air nosing in, and by the time that we get into saturday night phil live, boston we havewill have t switch and we will have to twhach closely. >> thank you ivan. it's estimated that more than 100 americans have tried to join isis in syria.

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we have new video this morning of isis making off with american fire power. the militants attacked an iraq army post and apparently killed everyone in and then seized scores of u.s. made guns. >> they also took off with american humve, s and all of this as they're planning an operation to take the iraq second largest city. a lot of talk and little substance. that's what they're saying about the white house summit on countering the violent extremist. highlighting it president obama said that they're all the first line of defense against

america's young people and keeping them from becoming and being recruited by isis. let's talk to jody and she spoke at the summit in washington. that's you for being with us. i want to listen quickly with you to something that president obama and secretary of state john kerry said at the summit. >> we have the recognize that the best partners in all of everies and the best people to protect them from falling victim are their own community members and family members. family and friends are often the first to see that something's changed. students may see a student with drawn or struggling with his or her identify. if you offer support, that may make a difference. that's a moment for possible intervention. >> much of this work is going to

be done quitly without fan there in classrooms, in community centers and workplaces and places of worship and in village markets. >> all right. so jo diddy, when we listen to we understand that it takes a village so to speak. a lot of people are going to be on the frontline of this. what was your take away? did you walk away and feel that you learned something? >> absolutely. i want to thank you for having me on the show to discuss this important matter. i learned a lot at the summit. i think specifically in addressing your question and speak og to the remarks of the president and secretary kerry, what we know is that the best intervention is the earliest

interventions and while at schools we're not talking about radicalization and we're not talking about encountering violence extremist. we know that parents very often and friends are the first to recognize when students exhibit or when there's a change in behavior. >> yeah. >> they notice when students are not connected. they notice when they're behavior at home begins to change, and in boston what we're doing is falling back on the existing resources and the platforms that currently exist and we're trying to impower parents and friends as well as active bystanders to intervene when they notice that there's concern and behavior. >> i want to talk about that in a minute. let's bring in jeff. jeff, what would tip somebody off? i mean we talk about them being

isolated and with drawn. that does not make them a terrorist. is there anything specific that you can look at somebody and say there's a real threat here? >> well, we have to look at the issue to instability or stability. a lot of people that have been recruited have not been isolated but these are individuals that had had very dilutional type of thinking and anger and rage. not necessarily any of it making any sense, and so they strike out at people, and they isolate themselves in a way that you can tell that they're extremely angry. those are the things that you have to look at. >> we were just talking about the people on the frontlines and not just law enfoement but the teachers and parents. let's be honest. there are parents who think everything is fine with their child, and yet these children go

off and they can do some horrible things. not just to other people but themselves as well. how is it that we can expect a teacher who is already over worked, or a parent who is doing the best that they can to i d t identify when there's a threat to their child? >> what you're saying is absolutely true. from what i do know from the work in boston and counseling center and that no parent wants their child to be harmed. >> right. >> teachers recognize sign ises of kids that are not engaged. we know students -- for instance at the beginning of the school year when teachers look at the lists and one of the exercises is that we initial next to a student that they have a relationship with. those students at the end of the

day do not have any initials to their names, those are the students that we are going to look at very closely because we know that those students are not connecting to schools. like school shooters in terms of bullying prevention, we know students that are not engaged and students that try and have failed at engagement are the most for at risk violence. >> let's listen if we could to some sound from a woman in canada that's 22 year o olson went to join isis and died as fighting with them. she spoke to cnn this week. >> we have a whole media out there that reaches out to the children and smart phones and a pads and we as parents do not have control over. the world is changing quickly. we can't be there 24/7. >> okay.

jeff, she goes on to say that they should take passports and people that are communicating with terrorists and detain and provide counseling. what do you say to this jeff? what's your reaction? >> well, we should look at the signs of people that are disconnected and therefore would be more at risk to being on websites that preach hate and that try to recruit. you know it's so easy to say for parents you know make sure that you know where your kids are on the computer. what they're subscribing too, but it's easier said than done. that's why it's important to engage the kids and be the ones that are conversing with them instead of being plugged into the web and perhaps some of these hate sites that may lead to their being at risk for being recruited like isis is doing. >> it's a frightening topic and you have to think of getting teachers and holding others

accountable, there's a lot of train asking how do we mange that. it's the begin of a conversation? jody and jeff, we appreciate you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. some tense exchanges in the aaron hernandez murder trial. why the judge lashed out on what could be a key piece of evidence. struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine ... what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. invokana® is a once-daily pill that works around the clock to help lower a1c. here's how: the kidneys allow sugar to be absorbed back into the body. invokana® reduces the amount of sugar allowed back in ... and sends some sugar out through the

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prosecutor over how much information can be given from the anticipated testimony of the victim's sister. susan has more on this, and the other developments from massachusetts. >> reporter: christy and victor good morning. this is the last time odon lloyd is seen alive on video and walking from his home and getting into a nissan at 3:20 a.m. driven by aaron hernandez. less than an hour later he is shot dead in a park about 30 miles away. prosecutors show that video recorded by the neighbor and it's the defense during the cross examination that plays another portion of that tape from the same security camera. lloyd drives away from his house in a different car and back again 15 minutes before he leaves with hernandez. the jury is left to wonder what if anything it means. the next witness was supposed to

be the victims younger sister who said that she saw him leave in the altima she is barred from testify. about four text maessages that sent and saying nfl just so you know. just before lloyd's sister is going take the stand without the jury present fireworks in court when the judge and prosecutor disagree over a proposed stipulation over the text messages. >> there's no question with respect to sending or receiving text messages. >> could we just -- i ask that we have a ruling? >> i have made a ruling. >> no, you said that it's more prejudice. >> i have made a ruling. my ruling stands. >> your honor -- >> it's a common wealth. the appeal lit court can figure

out my ruling. >> both sides agreed that there were four communications between lloyd and his sister, the judge rules that the only stipulation that the jury will hear is that lloyd was alive at 3:23 a.m. prosecutors say that it's one minute before he was murdered. over the weekend an agreement might be worked out but the victim's sister is expected to testify in a trial where emotions can run high. christy and victor. >> okay. susan, thank you so much. there seems to be more bazaar twists in the las vegas road rage case. the suspect news the 44-year-old mother that he is accused of killing. ♪

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new details this morning of the killing of a mother in las vegas. police are searching for one more suspect involved in the apparent road rage incident. >> yeah, according to the victim's husband. she did not know the suspected killer, her husband says that she spent hours mentoring the 19 year ol and giving him food and money. >> the suspect told his friends that he shot her and this is coming as the police continue to hunt for another person. cnn's is live in las vegas and we're learning a lot in the

report. >> reporter: that's right. good morning to you. i can tell you that eric is being held behind me in the billing behind me. it's the clark county detention center. he is facing a number of charges of murder and attempted murder for the death of tammy myers. a 44 year ol mother of four. this is an incident that happened a little over a week aago. so here is what we learned from the new police report that was just released. the complaint regarding the arrest and police have recovered 17 shell casings from two separate crime scenes with shots first fired on the street during an encounter with two vehicles and then additional shots fired outside of the home where she was hot and killed. we were learned that nasch confided in go friends that he was involve in the shooting and

showed the guns to the two friends and told the friends that there was a green car after him, and said "i got them. they were after me, and i got them ". now, police do believe that he and nowsch told friends he was a passenger during this exchange so police are still looking for the driver of that car although they aren't getting any more specific for us. i can tell you nowsch will be in court on monday to hear his charges. victor, christi. >> there is a growing number of charges we understand, not just murder now. right? >> reporter: right. it's murder, attempted murder, it's assault with a deadly weapon as well as firing a gun inside a vehicle in a prohibited area. so, police, again, still saying they are continuing their investigation. i believe we'll get more information as the details are

released. but we certainly have a clearer picture as to what may have happened last thursday shortly before valentine's day. >> ana cabrera, we appreciate it. >> lots of questions here. let's get some answers, we have with us hln analyst joey jackson and retired detective harry hauch. joey, first to you. this case quickly evolving from just road rage into something seemingly more complicated, more details here. what do you make of this new report that the suspect told friends saying, quote, they were after me and i got them. could that be used in some way to strengthen the potential self defense claim? >> good morning, victor. it certainly can and certainly the defense attorneys will use that for their purposes, that is of course to suggest that the reason he fired was because he was under attack. but that's one of many pieces to the puzzle that will be added. certainly in the continuing interviewing of people as the police will do, scouring for

surveillance video or anything to add clarity to what occurred the prosecution of course will be building their case and the defense will build theirs. it will come down to what were the motivations, how did this happen, why did it happen, why did it have to happen? so, certainly in the event he was under attack that is mr. nowsch at the time that he fired the shot, that's one thing. in the event, however, that this was not the case and it was related to road rage or there is some back story as a result of him knowing this family and some ill will as a result of that, why that would be no one knows, there is a suggestion that the mother helped him, fed him, clothed him, what have you, as they piece this together motivation as to why this occurred will be important. >> there is one part of this that does not make sense to me and i'm hoping you can help me understand it. while the police were looking for a suspect the description that was given was a 20 to

30-year-old 6 foot white male with a medium build. erich nowsch on the left and the suspect's description, the sketch on the right. if this family, if this woman knew this boy to the degree that the family claims, why didn't they just give the name and say we know he lives across the street? >> it's funny. this is exactly what i was thinking. apparently or apparently when this altercation first started there was a verbal altercation between the mother and the driver or somebody in that vehicle. now, we're learning later on that the mother knew this kid and actually gave him money, gave him food or whatever. so, the conversation in that car when the mother was driving her daughter back home must have been hey, i know that kid, i know where he lives. then when she got home she gets the brother to come out with a weapon. now, them taking the whole week to find a guy the mother knew and probably the family knew is really strange to me. that tells me there's a lot more

to this story than we're hearing. >> i wonder, joey, and let me preface this by saying my question does not suggest that they should be filed or that we even know if police are interested, but, considering that meyers' son went back to get a gun could he face charges as well? >> that would depend on the nature of the weapon. was that a registered firearm, was he in a position where he owned it lawfully, or unlawfully. and how did he use it? and so as the investigation unfolds that is certainly something that investigators are going to be analyze, evaluating and looking at including why was it necessary for him to come out of the home, did they in fact go on a hunt for this particular individual? did that hunt going and looking for him lead to what ended up happening to his mom which is his mom's murder, unfortunately, and so that's a very relevant question. i think it's one that the police will seek to get to in due time. we're early in the investigative

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word on the cause either. >> doctors for bobbi kristina brown are slowly trying to remove her from the medically induced coma she has been in. her condition has not changed. her breathing tube was removed and she will be ventilated through a hole in her throat. she was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub three weeks ago. police are still not exactly sure what happened there. >> you know what, it's a done deal for all of those waiting. one of the most anticipated matches in boxing floyd mayweather, manny pacquiao have set a date to face each oth they're. both making it official. the top fighters tried to hammer out a deal for the better part of five years. nothing came to fruition. but they square off in las vegas may 2nd in what is expected to bust every record in history.

new images this morning, a show of force by isis, american-made m-16s, humvees. what can we learn? >> tensions rising between russia and ukraine. marches in moscow's red square, protesting a memorial honoring the ukrainian victims of the revolution. >> in the "american sniper" trial, a closer look at the confession videos of eddy ray routh made, he made hours after the killings of chris kyle and chad littlefield. >> good morning to you. 8:00 straight up here on the east coast. i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul. so good to have you with us. we do want to get to what's new this morning as we want to show you chilling new images of american-made weapons falling in the hands of isis in iraq. look at this. militants attacked an iraqi

military post in anbar province and this is what they walked away with. m-16s, heavy machine guns. >> american armored vehicles, humvees as well. they left behind a trail of death. the burned bodies of iraqi soldiers. of course we're learning this as the u.s. and iraq plan this major offensive to take back the isis stronghold of mosul. >> i want to get to ben wedeman live in northern iraq there. so ben, i know these images of isis capturing american weapons, they are clearly propaganda. what can we learn? wa is your take away? >> reporter: i think the take away is that isis despite more than six months of coalition aircraft is able to operate, attack iraqi army positions. it appears to be in broad daylight. and get away with it. not only get away with it, get away with, as i counted from that video, at least 35 american-made m-16s, a large

pile of ak-47s, mortars, ammunition, armored personnel carriers and humvees. so, despite this pressure from the coalition aircraft, they are still sort of moving ahead, taking more territory. now, we have heard this morning from sources in baghdad that the iraqi army along with iraqi police were able to retake an area near baghdadi which is north of the iraqi capital, near the air base where several hundred americans are stationed training iraqi forces, so it's not all a sort of negative balance sheet for the iraqi army. but as we can see, the americans are talking more and more about a possible operation to put -- push isis out of mosul in northern iraq, a city of more than 2 million people. that the iraqi army is still challenged very much closer to

the iraqi capital itself. >> ben, i know you spoke with a kurdish commander there in erbil and he calls the impending offensive we've been talking about unrealistic and impossible. is there a concern that other commandos -- commanders echo those same cynicisms? >> well, i've heard going back to last summer the same sort of cynicism and doubt among kurdish commanders, about the iraqi army. they just don't feel it's up to the task, they point to the experience of last summer when they retreated from mosul leaving behind so much american weaponry and ammunition. they don't have a lot of confidence. they feel that they are poorly trained, poorly led, poorly motivated and simply not up to the job of liberating mosul. >> ben wedeman, thank you so much, sir. so the the u.s. is planning to retake mosul could become the

most decisive ground battle so far and would test the capabilities of the iraqi army certainly. let's bring in the director of the international center for the study of radicalization and political violence. guys, i want to speak to the control room for a moment. if we can pull that sound on nation building i want peter's response. before we get to that sound bite, peter the iraqi army is struggling to defend what they have in anbar province. what's the general degree of confidence that they are strong enough to go on this offensive to take mosul? >> well, it's not a lot of confidence and that's inspired by what happened last year when essentially tens of thousands of iraqi soldiers were running away from hundreds of isis and were just dropping their guns, dropping their uniforms, abandoning their position and leaving mosul which is iraq's

third biggest city to isis. now of course, in the months since there has been a lot of training, there has been a lot of instruction, and we'll have to see whether that has paid off. my hunch is that it's not about training, it is about will. and it is about morale and my feeling is that a lot of people in the iraqi army just simply do not want to fight. they are quite capable of fighting if they wanted to, and that makes me still skeptical as to whether it is possible for the iraqis to retake mosul. >> many people asking if it's possible. control room tells me we have the sound from ohio governor john kasich. we'll talk on the other side. >> at some point in dealing with isis you mark my words whether john kasich, you hear from him again, at some point it will require boots on the ground from the world to be able to deal with this problem. and i would rather deal with it sooner than later, but you just don't go running over there, you've got to have a battle plan, you got to figure out

exactly what you're going to do. i would never suggest we should engage in nation building or trying to convert these people to our way of life. we need stability and need to stop this. >> let's take it in two chapters. first he says it will take boots on the ground from the world. you believe that there will have to be some other force, u.s. forces, jordanian forces that have been sent to the iraqi bord border, to go in and fight in a combat role next to the iraqi soldiers? >> that's the key word here. combat role. because there are boots on the ground. there are a lot of americans on the ground and coalition soldiers. the question is how close are they to the front line? and should they directly engage with isis? my personal view is that isis wants nothing more. it is aching for a conflict with america, it wants to kill american soldiers so i think it would not be a good idea for american soldiers to directly engage with isis. we would be back to where we were in 2004-2005.

it would be a justification for isis to say that america is once again occupying muslim lands and i still do not think that would be a good idea. >> the second part, the nation building, a lot of blood and treasure spent building, rebuilding iraq after the iraq war and during the end after the combat ended. but what we learned from 2003 is that when you leave this country, after combat, the young men with weapons, no opportunities, and no opportunities to feed their families they are further radicalized. will there not be a need for rebuilding after any combat effort? >> it's very clear no one disagrees with the governor here in saying that america or the world shouldn't be running iraq. what america can do and what it should do is to prompt iraq to have an inclusive type of government, the reason why some of the sunnis in anbar province

are supporting isis is because they feel that the government in baghdad is not inclusive, it doesn't represent their interests, it is even hostile to them, it's sectarian. because america has a lot of influence and baghdadi, gives a lot of money to baghdad it should force the government in baghdad to have a government inclusive of sunnis, shiites and kurds. it shouldn't build the nation but should make sure what whatever government in place is a government that all iraqis are happy to be part of. that's the huge obstacle that is preventing sunnis from rising up against isis. >> unfortunately, there is a lot of mistrust after the purging and the consolidation of nuri al maliki's government. thanks for being part of the conversation. >> thank you. so days after he was confirmed and sworn in defense secretary ash carter is wasting no time on the job. he is in afghanistan right now

meeting with the afghan president. the topic, u.s. plans to pull most of the remaining 10,000 american troops out by the end of 2016. on the plane to kabul carter laid out why he chose to go to afghanistan first. >> the reason for this destination, afghanistan, in my very first week in office as the secretary of defense, is because this is where we still have 10,000 american troops and they come first in my mind always. >> secretary carter is going to get a chance to talk face-to-face with the troops tomorrow when he goes to bagram air base. let's bring in lieutenant colonel james reese. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. >> are you surprised afghanistan, not iraq, not syria, where we've seen so many threats, that afghanistan was

ash carter's first stop? what does that mean to you? >> absolutely not. i think it was a great move by secretary carter. i call it lead by walking around. you get out of the pentagon, he goes to the first place that we have the largest concentration of u.s. forces. so he's going to meet out there, get a chance to go face-to-face with commanders out there, let them hear what's going on. he has big decisions and adviser rolls to help what's going to happen in afghanistan, pull out, no pull out. i think what you'll see secretary carter then begin to move to the west and go into iraq and hit qatar and the other places again. so he's doing some battlefield circulation as a key leader. >> based on the threats in syria and iraq do you believe that the mission in afghanistan needs to be reassessed right now? >> i think we continually have to reassess. we have to definitely keep an

eye on afghanistan because personally i think we need to watch what we did in iraq, if we do that in afghanistan, we could be -- we would have the same, i believe, the same situation happen to us in iraq where everything started to collapse and find ourselves going back in several years later. >> what do you make of this spring offensive, this plan to retake mosul and some of the definitive information that's come out. a lot of people look at that and say why are we essentially giving a green light to isis and letting them know when we're going to be there and where we're going to be? what's that strategy? >> yeah. you know, it's not a green light. isis know this is is coming. you know, the last couple months now we've watched the iraqi army along with some of the militia, shia militia, moving north up the tigris river valley, they have taken cities, kurdish have done well and put themselves in positions around the northeast of mosul. they had skirmishes with isis,

and everyone knows the iraqis have talked about they are going to take mosul back. isis is watching the iraqis move up. we on the other hand continue to help and help suppress and denigrate isis by air power, having our special morss there, helping the iraqis find synergy in their piece. so i think everyone is getting wrapped around the axle where everyone knows this is going to happen. we also have to kind of think outside the box. i think it's great the iraqis are saying hey, we're bringing 25,000 soldiers after you. and see what happens. >> all right. lieutenant colonel james reese, thank you, sir. >> you too. >> thousands of pro kremlin activists flood the streets of moscow's red square, rally against what they call a coup that removed ukraine's pro-russian president. ambassador weighs in on this story. [engine revving]

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in moscow this morning, thousands of pro kremlin activists are marching. they are holding a rally to condemn what they view as a coup that removed the ukraine's pro-russian president. kiev on the other hand is marking one year since that. guns are blazing despite a cease-fire declared one week ago. let's bring in former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. good to have you. >> my pleasure. >> first, let's start with the significance of the rally this morning. what do you think the significance is? >> it's really of little significance. the kremlin has spread the

propaganda line to its own population, since a year ago that he was removed in a coup. what they don't point out is that before he left he oversaw whether by permitting or by ordering, the use of sniper fire against peaceful demonstrators which killed almost 100 people. ukrainian people were outraged by that violence against peaceful demonstrators and he fled as a result. >> i'd like to know when we have that full screen ready. first, let me ask you about what german chancellor angela merkel and the french president hollande, what do they see as any indication that these agreements will hold? mince 2 was violated after the first agreement in september was violated. what do they see that i guess so many of the people do not? >> well, they are hoping that

somehow you can reach a diplomatic settlement with the kremlin to stop its aggression in ukraine. and they believe that the diplomacy, they say there is no military solution to this conflict. the problem with their logic is there is one person who believes there is a military solution, that's vladamir putin. he has been sending in his troops, his arms, sending in his money to make sure he controls at least these eastern lands in ukraine. there's a need for pushback, military pushback which is why it's sfornt for the united states, president obama to decide to send weapons to ukraine. >> the defensive lethal aid or would you suggest more than that? >> i think start with defensive lethal aid. specifically, we're talking about sending in anti-armor weapons, jav a lin missiles, tanks have been prominent in the kremlin offensive in eastern ukraine. we're also talking about sending counter-battery radar for

missiles. 70% of ukrainian casualties come from missiles from a distance of 30 or 40 kilometers. if we give radar which can target missiles they will be less effective. these will help the ukrainian army nighting to stop the russians. >> you said something that i found interesting, i was hoping we could put it on the screen. i read a report in the military times in which you said -- here it is. i would make the argument that much of our foreign policy's establishment including the president, congress, are strategically confused in paying more attention to the danger of the islamic state than to the danger of mr. putin's russia. isis is a rag tag terrorist group that has no major economy and no nuclear weapons and is not able to change borders. we spent a lot of our show this morning talking about isis, and you believe that vladamir putin is a greater threat to the united states and its interests, safety especially, than isis. explain that if you will. >> there is no question about

this. mr. putin controls one of the world's largest economies, controls one of the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. he has used his army to change borders by force in georgia and now in ukraine. his doctrine is he has the right to intervene anywhere there are russian speakers who are quote unquote threatened. there are many in the baltic states. we have to worry about the provocation of the baltic states. the united states has a commitment to defend the baltic states from aggression. so mr. putin's clearly at much greater danger than isis and is going to look back at this period of western foreign policy and laugh at the cluelessness of our leadership. >> strategic cluelessness. i'm sure we'll talk more about that. thank you so much. as this conflict worsens in ukraine, civilians are falling victim to this crossfire, for

ways you can help support them go to c nrnn.com/impact. >> still ahead, the winter blast that's bringing sub-zero temperatures to millions across the country. we're going to tell you how this is affecting travelers, the human toll this storm is taking, also the trial of the "american sniper" is entering its final week. why lawyers say you know what, drugs are not a defense.

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look at this. close call for a d.o.t. worker trying to move away from an out-of-control car. the car is sliding over the road. you see the cab here and the trailer off to the side of the road. this is -- it's a mess in the eastern part of the u.s. >> dangerous whether you're in the car or not. there have been at least 23 winter deaths since that related just this week to the storm. ivan cabrera is following the latest. what's the target now? >> i think what happens with these spin-outs and car wrecks when it's snowing everyone slows down but what happens is once the snow falls, it freezes, the ground becomes essentially iced

over. nothing is falling from the skies so you think you're good but you're not. this is happening across the mid south. some of the rain is going to be caking onto the untreated roads. you have to be careful out there. nashville is out of the ice storm warning. we switched over from freezing rain to a rain event so that's excellent news along i-40. watch the snow as it moves into parts of the ohio valley and the northeast. this will be a snowmaker for you, just not as heavy. the winter storm warnings now. let's follow this and time it out for you. there is nashville with the rain. there you see the snow binning to push in to ohio and pennsylvania and watch, by saturday evening i think it will be snowing in philly and new york and then eventually boston. it will not remain as a snow event. that is the good thing here is that this warm push of air coming in, you see the stream lines coming in, that means a warmer air direction. so whatever starts as frozen will begin to turn into plain old rain.

this is excellent news. that is what we're looking forward to. i will leave you with more depressing news. there is the siberian air. february 23, 24, 25. it goes through the first week of march we're still in the deep freeze. unbelievable. thereafter i think a pattern change. we'll have to wait. a few more weeks. >> all right. so much for -- yes, no kidding. so much for the groundhog is what i wanted to say. thank you, ivan. hey, we have new developments on the condition of bobbi kristina brown. the latest on how she's doing and why doctors removed her breathing tube. >> plus, the battle of the medical experts in the "american sniper" trial. all to help decide if the defendant will be sent to prison or to a mental hospital.

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closing arguments could begin as early as monday in the "american sniper" trial. both the prosecution and the defense relying on key expert witnesses to prove their cases. attorneys for the eddy ray routh group, they call up a forensic psychiatrist who they interviewed, they say interviewed their client six months after the deadly shooting. he claims routh displayed signs of schizophrenia, was delusional. a psychiatrist for the prosecution says routh knew exactly what he was doing. >> it's a battle of the medical experts in the "american sniper" trial and the question is, which psychiatrist will this jury believe? all those times eddy ray routh is seen squirming around the inside of a police car or rambling incoherently as he was interrogated, the medical experts say these moments are examples of routh's personality disorder. a man desperate for evidence of

an insane killer. >> i got a male on my cell phone watching the convoy. >> at the moment he killed chris kyle and chad littlefield the psychiatrist says he was in a state fueled by marijuana abuse and routh knew what he was doing was wrong and he did it anyway. the judge is not allowing courtroom audio to be broadcast until the trial is over. >> the he wants to smoke pot or drink alcohol he cannot use it as a defense to a crime. what the prosecution is going to say is that was his own voluntary decision, and it's not an excuse. >> talking about a pig man. >> the prosecution psychologist suggested the comedy show seinfeld might have insighted ramblings about pig. he says routh spends a lot of time watching seinfeld re-runs in the jail where he spent the last two years and says routh

might have been influenced by this famous episode, where the character kramer is convinced he has seen a half pig, half man creature roaming a hospital. >> i saw a pig man. a pig man. he was sleeping and then he woke up and looked at me and he made this horrible sound. >> another forensic psychologist says routh was intoxed at the time of the murders. routh is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. the prosecution expert says any time intoxication is present game over meaning routh cannot be considered legally insane. but investigators acknowledge that no one administered a blood exam on routh the night he was arrested to determine how much drugs and alcohol were in his system. testimony is still not over in the "american sniper" trial, they will resume on monday. and it's possible that closing arguments could begin then. >> ed, thank you. let's talk about the trial with

danny and psychologist. danny, no one disputes that eddy ray routh shot and killed these men but so far do you see which side may have been doing a better job convincing jurors which doctors and experts to believe? >> the prosecution has better facts, so the science is going to support their position more. remember, this is a very simple assessment. it's entirely possible that routh suffered from mental disease or defect. that alone does not mean that he is legally insane. he must as a result of that defect, believe that what he was doing or -- or not be aware what he was doing was wrong. in texas that word wrong is defined specifically as illegal. so in other words, the fact that there is the presence of any kind of illness is not enough. and, remember, it's a little counter intuitive but any evidence of intoxication is good for the prosecution. because in texas, voluntary intoxication is not a defense to

any crime. so, the more evidence of drug use that is adduced in this case, better for the prosecution and makes the defense's hill higher and higher to climb. >> doctor, let's listen together to routh in this seemingly rambling incoherent state as he was interrogated by investigators. >> i keep talking to chris, there's a few dozen chris's in my world. every time i talk to another man named chris or get sent to another man named krichris it w like talking to the wolf you know. the pigs. >> so the defense's psychiatrist told the jury he was acting delusional. what is your reaction to that? >> it makes sense to me. after all, this is an individual whose mom tried to get him to be committed to the v.a. hospital psychiatric ward, has had four commitments already to the v.a. with regard to psychiatric

issues, certainly what we heard these ramblings are part of a schizophrenia. your analyst is correct, now that this intoxication issue has come in, perhaps the prosecution will say well, it was the intoxication that may have brought on the delusional behavior. but i think the reality is and it may not play out that well for the defense, is that this was an individual with a long history of ptsd and psychosis but who was in many ways self-medicating with pcp and with marijuana which made his psychosis even worse. >> even worse. danny, let's listen to more sound from routh. this again from the interrogation. >> you can't just keep letting people eat your soul up for free you know. it's not what it's about. it's about having a soul that you have in you for yourself and there are tons of people that are eating on my soul right now. >> the point was made in court,

danny, routh was showing normal behavior since his incarceration because he didn't have access to drugs or alcohol or to proper medication and he is now being properly medicated. the fact that he was not properly medicated at that time and clearly ill, does that play a role in any way? it's not much. here's why. the reality is all of this science ultimately boils down to a lay jury's impression of that science. and that's why insanity defenses even with that sign tichk evidence have such inconsistent treatment. for example, ptsd has been successfully used in the past as an insanity defense. and when used as describing a dissociative state. that may be the situation here. but ultimately this is not a case of on one side the defense says i see dragons, i see things and on the other side aware of what he was doing is wrong. if he is aware what he is doing is wrong consider that a trump card. that beats out the delusions, all of the other things he

imagined or didn't imagine or perceived. that awareness of right and wrong, what is illegal and what is not illegal, is the trump card. >> jeff, quickly, do you think the jury could buy this insanity defense? >> well, i think it's going to be very, very difficult. i think the intoxication really messes things up for the defense here. the really sad part of this, this is yet another individual who couldn't get the proper treatment, couldn't be hospitalized, and now two people are dead, his life is pretty much over whether he goes to jail or to a mental hospital for the rest of his life. and we've got to fix this inadequate mental health system that we have in the united states. >> yeah, a lot of questions shining on that v.a. hospital and the treatment he got. danny, jeff, we appreciate both of you. thank you. >> thank you. for three weeks now bobbi kristina brown has been in an atlanta hospital. we have a new report on her condition. and why her family remains optimistic.

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coming up on quarter till the top of the hour. sources tell cnn bobbi kristina brown has had her breathing tube removed but that's not necessarily great news here. >> the daughter of the late whitney houston and bobby brown now ventilated through a hole in her throat. and more details here. >> two sources close to the houston family tells cnn doctors at emory university hospital in

atlanta performed a trach os too me on bobbi kristina brown this week. the same sources say doctors are slowly trying to bring her out of a medically induced coma. the procedure was done to replace a breathing tube that had been in bobbi kristina's mouth. she will now be ventilated instead through a hole in her throat. according to cnn's chief medical correspondent, this is a standard procedure and it is often done to reduce the risk of infection. as you know, bobbi kristina has been hospitalized since january 31 after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her home just outside of atlanta. the 21-year-old has been in intensive care and on a ventilator for three weeks now. we've also learned this week that her boyfriend, nick gordon, has tattooed her name on his forearm. gordon's attorney says his client has been trying to see bobbi kristina, but is staying away from the hospital to respect the family's wishes.

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new this morning former new york mayor rudy giuliani is again standing by his comments questioning the love president obama has for the united states. check out the cover of today's new york daily news. the picture of the president and the style of the cable tv show the americans. giuliani says obama was influenced by communism and socialism, and we'll talk more about that in a moment. it all stems from this statement by giuliani wednesday night. i do not believe that the president loves america. giuliani goes on to say, he doesn't love you. and he doesn't love me. he wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and i was brought up through love of this country. let's talk more about this and what it could mean for 2016 possible candidates. lisa booth is a republican strategist. lady, good morning. >> good morning. >> lisa, i want to start with you. you knew that was coming, right.

jim acosta spoke with the former mayor last night. he is not only standing by those comments and part of that interview with the new york daily news he says that i don't see the president as being particularly a product of african-american society or something like that. he isn't. the idea that are troubling me and leading to this come from communists with whom he associated when he was 9 years old. obama's grandfather introduced him to frank marshall davis, a member of the communist part are party when he was 9. what is the value of introducing a meeting when the president was 9, and how that could impact his decisions today? what is rudy giuliani trying to get at? >> look, i think rudy giuliani using hyped up political rhetoric, absolutely but if you look at the base of his statement, you look at the broader context of his speech, what he's trying to get at is

something i think a lot of americans agree with, the fact that we do not see the same kind of rhetoric from president obama we have seen from past presidents about american exceptionalism. he doesn't speak about america the way jfk dulgs. that bill clinton does, the way george w. bush did, the same way that ronald reagan did as well. and what we have stine a president weak on foreign policy, weak on the world stage who apologized for america, who said that america is arrogant and who is more concerned with being politically correct than he is about properly naming the islamic extremist threat from isis. i think what rudy giuliani is getting a is it more on the weak foreign uponcy and these remarks president obama made in the past. i think rudy giuliani as someone who led new york city during one of the darkest hours, one of the darkest hours that this country has faced with more leadership than we have seen through president obama has earned his right to criticize president obama. >> what do you believe?

you believe the president loves this country? lisa? >> sorry. no. look, i do believe that president obama loves america but i think he has, as i said he used a different kind of rhetoric speaking about america than presidents past. this is highlighted even by liberal publation slate. slate highlighted the differences between president obama's rhetoric and presidents past. >> i'm not going to take a side here, obviously for obvious reasons, not my job. i'll have to take the side of things that have actually happened and not happened and the president wrote in his book and has said in many speeches, that in no other country would a story like his be possible and has talked about the exceptionalism of america and americans on many occasions. i got to get to maria here. because i wonder if we should look at this from another angle. we're going to talk about 2016, the gop hopefuls, they have to

negotiate this mine field whether they back giuliani or not. why should they? marco rubio asked why they should have to respond to something that giuliani said, in his words, democrats aren't asked to respond every time joe biden says something off color. >> it's interesting that you mention marco rubio. i applaud him. after he said that what did he do, he responded to the comment that rudy giuliani made because he knows if he wants any kind of credibility moving into 2016, he is going to have to respond to somebody who used to be seen as a leader in the republican party. as this giant figure. but i got to tell you victor, after his comments and his continued comments which go from dumb to dumber, oh, how the mighty have fallen. this is somebody as lisa said, that was a huge figure in american politics, and in american mythology, frankly, because of the leadership that he showed after 9/11.

this was somebody who was times man of the year. but man, that has changed now. he has now with these kinds of comments which are just ridiculous in their stupidity and every single republican candidate who wants to be taken seriously is going to have to respond to that question, and you know, frankly moving forward it is something that is going to hurt the gop because it really is a mean that goes to whether this is a party that wants to expand and wants to speak to voters that are more diverse, or whether it's going to continue to be a shrinking party, of bitter old white males, frankly like rudy giuliani. >> did you -- >> in the discussion of 2016 candidates lisa, bobby jindal according to mayor giuliani, called to congratulate him on his comments going to that extent. what do you think about that call? >> look, i think this has no

bearing on the 2016 presidential elections at best a couple day story and maria, did you criticize president obama in 2008 when he said that president george w. bush was unpatriotic? >> i did. i didn't think he should say that. by the way, speaking of that he wasn't talking about president obama or president bush as a person. he was talking about his policy. his policies are absolutely fair game. the same way president obama's policies are fair game. >> outside of parsing individual statements, what he said in the broader context of his speech was criticizing president obama a weak foreign policy and for apologizing for america on the world stage. at its core the core giuliani -- >> let her finish. >> i think he's accurate in that statement. i think that's something a lot of americans would agree with. other statements that people wouldn't agree with, yes. but if you look at the core of his speech, at the base of the speech, at his direct attack against president obama on

foreign policy and apologizing on the world stage a lot of americans would agree. >> we've got to wrap it up. i'm sorry. we've got to wrap it up. we've got to get to "smerconish." >> more about this conversation at the top of the hour. lisa, maria, thank you so much. >> we'll be back. ring ring! progresso! i can't believe i'm eating bacon and rich creamy cheese before my sister's wedding well it's only 100 calories, so you'll be ready for that dress uh-huh...

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