about five minute and by that time i'm, like okay. >> tell me what train station this is.perfect ment. thank you very much. >> extraordinary. thank you so much for being with me this afternoon. much more of "the news room" straight ahead. here on the cnn news room i'm suzanne and we are getting more word that isis fighters are ending up with american-made weapons in iraq. cnn has not con officialed when this video was shot, but it comes as the u.s. and iraq plan an offensive to take back the stronghold of mosul.

they overran a military post in anbar province seizing m-16s and heavy machine guns and armored vehicles. the video shows several dead iraqi soldiers with one of the bodies burp bodyies burning. meanwhile, ash carter arrived in afghanistan. you see the pictures, and he talked about the plan to retake mosul, and a possible timetable for this. >> that is one that will be iraqi led, and the u.s. supported and it's important that it be launched at a time when it can succeed, and so i think the important thing is that it will get done when it gets done successfully and i -- even if i knew exactly what that was going to be i would not tell you. >> cnn senior correspondent is

in iraq. tell us what you know. >> reporter: pentagon officials say the united states is planning for an iraqi led offensive in late april or may to drive isis out of mosul, but a video posted on facebook showing one battle about a hundred kilometers northwest of baghdad indicates that the iraqi army is still on the back foot when it comes to fighting isis. in this video, you see asies fighters having overrun this iraqi base in the desert. they clearly got their hands on dozens of american-made m-16s, a mountain of ak 47st ammunition clips, armored personnel carriers and humvees, and this is really been the case going back months as far as the situation in anbar province goes. time and time again, they overrun the bases getting their

hands on more and more american made equipment, and the worry is of course if the iraqi army is going to be given the task of driving isis out of mosul, are they up to it? the united states has conducted a crash training course. there's currently 3200 iraqi soldiers undergoing that course. 2,000 already graduated. going into mosul, a city of 2 million people some of the inhabitants who were hostile to the iraqi army before it was driven out will be difficult and kurdish commanders we spoke to for instance said even in small villages where they've managed to drive isis out, isis has left behind dozens and in some towns, hundreds of ieds making it almost impossible for the original inhabitants to move out, so when you're talking about driving isis out of a city like mosul, it's going to be a huge task.

cnn, irbil. >> absolutely. isis has a new target now in its sight, talking about europe, and specifically italy. isis forces are in libya, which is just a short boat ride across the mediterranean. the country's a big problem now with refugees making their way on to share shores to seek asylum making it easy for isis to actually slip in. in a video purportedly from isis this week the islamic state warned they are south of rome and this is what they say, rome will be conquered. we want insight from our guests here the contributor for the daily beast and former u.n. and state department official. starting with you, jamie, you're in italy. we are talking about authorities looking at warnings here and i wonder how seriously they are taking it. are they making preparations? beefing up security here? potentially rounding up isis sympathizers where you are?

>> they are taking precautions and taking it seriously. the problem in libya is taken seriously, and as you know the foreign minister and defense minister talked about the lead for intervention in libya to block isis out. that was clawed back a bit by the prime minister partly because they do not have the forces that could lead even an international coalition into libya. they are 5,000 front line troops deployed in terms of italy, the mainland 72% is the latest poll of italians fear an attack by isis. they don't believe they will invade, but mount terrorism, and the authorities are alarmed that deploying 48 00 soldiers on to city streets in rome and some of the other bigger cities to protect sensitive sights like synagogues synagogues landmarks, embassies, newspapers. they fear a "charlie hebdo" massacre like in paris a few

weeks back. there is alarm. they are trying to monitor various sympathizers in the country. they have talked about, or the officials talked about 50 lone sympathizers who could present a problem, but officials have said to me that their biggest concern are the people they don't know. you have to remember that they don't know about it. they have not identified them. remember a hundred thousand immigrants poured into illegally into italy last year alone. >> right. and, david, i want to follow up on that point, the good point that we've seen terrorists strike already. paris, copenhagen other places and now you got a threat to italy. a lot of people in the united states and elsewhere wonder if it's safe to go to europe at this point. is there a real concern about travel to the area? >> well sure europe is still very safe and it's also a wonderful place to go for vacation or a visit. however, we can expect and we should expect more isis attacks. we've had a couple very

recently. some of them were not people who were specifically trained by isis. they are followers trying to emulate things they see isis do trying to make a big scene, and they've accomplished that. we have to expect more of that. europe certainly needs to be on the ready, needs to protect its borders to the extent it can, but we also need to go to the root of the problem. the root of the problem is failed states and countries that are on the way to becoming failed states. libya is in the latter category and moving quickly towards possibly becoming a failed state, which is very unfortunate because the u.s. and italy and france and the u.k. had great involvement in libya in 2011 helping with the revolution, and help defeat the 42-year dictatorship of gadhafi, but we're not engaged in libya. that's a problem. we need to help the elected government of libya with the security side of its effort to secure libya meaning training forces.

that means providing guidance to forces providing weapons, and we have to do air strikes again. we need to confront isis and the islamic fanatics in libya before they become stronger. >> back to you, jamie, because one of the things david talked about, talking about failed states, obviously, libya, but there's new leadership in italy as well you know untested leader there, and the threat isis threat to conquer rome it seems that it's backfired a little bit because of this tweets tweeting campaign italians taking to twitter to respond in this way. one says tomorrow isis strike of public transport, well good luck. another one here you're a couple thousand years too late. you know we talk about how the italians are reacting here to isis issue and they don't seem to be upset or bothered or

scared that they are coming to rome. they say worry about the traffic and the economy here. it's terrible. >> sure. we make no mistake as we did in the arab spring for example, of reading too much into social media, which is an advantage that isis has because they pour out propaganda to recruit people. i mean that is -- the tweet campaign here in italy is amusing, but it's not reflecting general opinion. there is larm. i gave you the figure of an opinion poll yesterday of 72% of the population fearing a strike. in rome there's quite of lot of jitters in rome because of the upped security presence in villages and towns outside, just outside rome. people are very worried about this. also recall that italy has a population of about 1.5 million muslims. now, obviously, huge majority are law-abiding, pro-italian, all the rest but one of the

problems facing the italian authorities is there's only eight official mosques here. there's a huge number of improvised and unofficial mosques which they are not really monitoring so there -- there's room from maneuver here for groups like isis or al qaeda to recruit in unofficial mosques without security services up to speed in identifying and monitoring what's going on unlike in the u.k., for example. >> all right, david, last point here. rome, it is home obviously, to the vatican, italy, predominantly roman catholic saw the mass execution of the egyptian criss chanhristians. are catholics feeling more threatened by isis in the area? >> everybody should feel threatened. remember i used to you know kills muslims as well. there's a special relationship between italy and libya. of course libya was an italian colony and after that time libya -- italy stayed involved.

there's a strong trading partner and people who go back and forth between libya and italy. if some libyan isis members are able to get into libya, certainly, they will target catholics, and catholic churches and other historic places. >> all right. david, jamie, thank you so much for an interesting conversation. we appreciate your time this weekend. another story we're following, rudy giuliani getting death threats following the unusually harsh criticism of the president, but the mayor stands standsing by his belief that the president does not love america. more to that straight ahead.

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patrol car, police say they have a suspect in custody. the wounded officer, one of two, just responded to a reported burglary. well the police chief says he believes there is now some doubt that there officer was the gunman's intended target. another story we're following, rudy giuliani refusing to back down from disparaging comments made this week about president obama's patriotism. despite drawing fire from fellow republicans, rather the former new york city major says that he's standing by his statements that the president of the united states does not love america because he did not be forceful enough against islamic extremist extremists extremists. axelrod says the comments feed in a negative undercurrent in our politics today. >> there's no doubt that race enters into the criticisms. no other president had his citizenship per sis tently challenged. no other president had a man stand up in the house of

representatives, a member of the congress and shout, you lie. i think some of that is rooted in people's resistance to the notion we're a more diverse country and there's a president, african-american president named barack obama, i don't know whether he's up and down doring the point of view i don't know. >> i covered obama back in 2008 the campaign and what happened when people started to use this chorus of the guy is somebody other than not been raised like everybody else that it opened the door to some other racist comments that occurred during the campaign. we heard giuliani smack down and say, look it's not a racist thing. what do you make of what happened in light of the comments? >> yeah i covered the, you know obama back in 2007-2008 as well. i remember when he accepted the nomination in denver, and there was so much energy and

enthusiasm and great feeling amongst democrats this was a fresh leader yet there was a new tone we noticed back then. one of the claims brought up by some now president obama's opponents back then were not only claims about his upbringing as a child in indonesia, talking about his grandfather into deuced him to frank marshall davis, a known member of the communism party. this front page story out today in "the daily news," he reiterated those comments and said on fox news why aren't people talking about president obama being influenced as a child by communism and socialists? it's these old arguments brought up yet again, but by a man who was held in such high regard. >> so this is i guess, my question whether or not this is a political call cue louse, right? how is this going to play out in 2016? we saw scott walker potentially republican candidates who has not denounced this.

he's not been -- he's asked several times, only speaking to what i believe. i love america. if you don't have these republican contenders denying this do we think that's going to be something we will see come to fruition in 20 16? >> the analysts i talk to today do not expect the backlash of this is going to last into 2016. you are seeing a growing list of republicans. they are not condemning the remarks, they are certainly trying to make a point. wisconsin governor walker the event giuliani made remarks at, senator rand paul commenting reiterating their own love for america and even bobby jin dell putting out the comment to call the office saying he was behind him. he put out a statement saying that the former mayor should be using different phraseology. i think in the republican party, people realize that an attack like this on a sitting president is something that universally is

frounded upon. again, surprising for a lot of americans who still hold on to an image of rudy giuliani from 9/11 gaining so much respect through his leadership. >> he was america's mayor. that's right. he led so many people here through that tragedy. thank you, will appreciate it. of course talking more about it later in the show. the controversy, going to explore how giuliani's comments impact the larger races will talked about, the gop presidential hopefuls. coming up, following the multimillion dollar money trail of isis and why experts say they are funded like no other terrorist organization.

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money to finance its wars. small oil smuggling operations some estimate adding up to millions of darrellbarrels in the last few months have been uncovered coming from refineries isis has taken inside iraq and syria. why? smuggled cheep oil is a prized commodity here and it does not matter who sells it even if it's your enemy. buy gas at the station across the border in turkey and you see why it's easy to overlook who sells what. if you think just knocking out isis's oil stops this radical islamic army you don't understand just how many ways isis funds itself. >> we've described this as the best financed group we've ever seen. >> reporter: a student of terror financing, working previously for the u.s. treasury department, the fbi, and now with the washington strut of near east policy. isis he says is different than any other traditional terrorist

group and is funded like no other. yes, there is oil. yes, there are charity donations from sthizympathizers from countries like qatar and kuwait but isis is financed within born amongst the crooks and thugs of iraq it is within the group, a criminal enterprise. >> they were always pry limb theirly financed within the borders of iraq. >> it's massive organized crime run amuck with no cops. >> exactly. >> reporter: want to do business in isis controlled territory? pay a tax. move a truck down a highway? pay a toll. villagers pay for just about everything. >> there's reports people in mosul who want money from their own bank accounts make a not-so-voluntary donation to the islamic state, to isis. >> they tax the people. that's a rouge revenue. >> reporter: the kbekttive director of the syria emergency task force in washington, d.c.

says isis literally formed in the void made by the pull out of u.s. troops and the retreating iraqi army. that kind of self-financing mob, he says can't be destroyed from air strikes. you have to take back the territory and restore order. fighters willing to do that are frustrated that the u.s. so far, will not help them. >> it's a white house decision. >> it is a white house decision. it always has been. i think the white house is slowly moving in the right direction. i can tell you the policy the white house has now, if they had this policy, three years ago, there would have never been an isis republic. >> reporter: u.s. led air strikes have gurn to target isis locations attacking oil facilities and even grain silos, but as long as isis controls ground where sooiflians are taxed, extortded, and robbed isis remains self-financing. drew grif fip, cnn.

>> an extremely important player in the middle east given the incredible wealth and position in the persian gulf. the country has also been a crucial ally to washington and yet it's taking heat from the united states for playing both sides in the fight against isis and other extremists. we are joined by jay my again, laid out in the article "the daily beast," and qatar surpassed saudi arabia as the source of the largest donations to al qaeda and isis, accused of providing sanctuary money, weapons to a number of terrorist organizations and radical groups in hamas, gaza militias in syria, and now iraq. where does it lie? >> they run with the hare and hump with the hounds. they've been doing that a long time. one, remember, they are a small

emirate, leverage their wealth and they feel vulnerable to say try to play a lot of groups befriended jihadists to protect themselves from being attack by jihadists, they have 205 princes who share an extreme interpretation of the official strain of the religion and what we looked at was on the friday before the burning of the jordan pilot, a saudi preacher is preaching in the ground mask in the capital of qatar, state controlled that mosque calling for deaths to jews christians shia muslims as well. we know they have a tradition of doing this. this was his sixth visit, this particular saudi, but there are -- there are examples of this happening in the last two

or three, four years, and they are landmark mosques having outside preachers who are jihadist preachers calling for death to religious minorities and to people of different faiths from theirs. >> so to pick up on the point point -- i want to pick up on the point because there's a good one there, which, obviously, the united states is looking at disturbing trends including the mosque that you mentioned in some of the religious leaders who fueled that kind of in language. we see this right, in the u.s. launching its war planes to conduct air strikes against isis from its base in qatar there's been a military installation there and the region that's been critical for quite some time. how do they draw that balance, if you will? how do they figure out in what

way qatar is most important and relevant to the united states in defeating isis? >> well that particular air base you're talking about is the largest in the gulf. it is the main u.s. air base in the region now where most of the attacks on isis by u.s. war planes are coming from. the -- clearly, i mean, this problem predates the obama administration as well. i think washington various administrations, take the view of trying to persuade and coax those to be more on side in the fight against the jihadist groups. not just paying lip service to it or providing bases, but going after, if you want the ideology which is fuelling this jew had ingling ingling jihadism. there are contributions here and great ironies involved.

as you point out in libya at the moment qatar is charged as well as the turks of feeling the islamists there libya, not the jihadists there, but using them out of tripoli. eventually, i suppose the administration will start losing its callgull and there's going to be a breach. at the moment it's a policy of per persuasion if you will. >> thank you so much. i wish we had more time. we'll talk more about this. it is a complicated relationship between the united states and qatar and the president, by the way, we should let you know on tuesday is going to be meeting at the white house to discuss what we've been talking today. jamie, thank you, really appreciate that. another matter the darling of the gop, dubbed america's mayor, but after what rudy giuliani said about president obama, well there's some republicans who are starting to distance themselves from the former new york mayor. the political fallout from his

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despite drawing criticism by his own party, rudy giuliani is standing by his comments made this week stating that president obama does not love america because he's not speaking out strongly against islamic extremism. giuliani said the president, quote, was not brougts up the way you were brought up or the way i was brought up through love of this country. giuliani says he's received death threats for remarks but will not back down. when asked about it, he said, i don't regret making the

statement. i believe it. let's talk about rudy's comments with two cnn commentators tara joining us in new york and in chicago, elsie, and, tara people rand paul marco rubio and others are distancing themselves from the mayor, from his comments. why do you think that's important for them? is that a good strategy in i mean is it obvious? should they be saying look you know we don't agree with this guy on this one? >> well, i think this is the problem here with this. given what rudy giuliani said, the implication, i think, it's just an extension of the frustration a lot of americans are feeling about the president's pathway of approaching terrorism and other instances, being a con fluns of a lot of events over six years. from a political side of things of course politicians back away from something as controversial as that. you are talking about questioning the president's motives. they are looking at running for president. they don't want to have to go into rehashing some of the more

fringe elements of the this discussion that are brought up. >> do you think it was fringe? you're a conservative. was what the right thing to say that the president of the united states does not love america, his own country? >> well, i don'ti think the people are bringing up fringe things because it is a valid concern, a frustration that the american people had with the president because of how passive he's been particularly with isis and threats of terror, but the apology for america. the constant chazstising of america, and people are frustrated that the common denominator of the resolve, strength and american exceptionalism that makes the country great, that thread that brings us together as americans, i think a lot of people do not feel that that's come from this president as much as they would like to see. even in our darkest hour, that brings us together. i think it's a sense of frustration, like, what is he doing? this is -- this -- i don't know about love of country, that's a little far, but people are furious as to, you know what is it that makes him chastise us

and put america down and apologize for us rather than lifting us up. >> you thought it goes too far? >> yeah, i think we -- weather he loves the country or not, i don't know like a parent you have your kid who is the overachiever overachiever, graduates top of the class, and you are a parent reminding them of all the bad things they did, the kid knows the parent loves them but not proud of them. >> bringing into the conversation here you know it's one thing, maybe it's tough love right? maybe the president put it out there for the country to improve. we saw that from martin luther king and others who call out the country because i love the country that much and i want the country to live up to the constitution and standards set for the country. what do you think of what's happening here? the fact that you've got some republicans and some republicans who are not standing up like scott walker and denouncing clearly denouncing what giuliani said. >> well giuliani has industry

he supports. he has to say things to be relevant. we saw that in the grant controversy and seen it time and time again. dropping out of the race he finds ways to be relevant because then conservative groups fly him in for speeches says something inflammatory we talk about it he's relevant. this is his industry. this is his business. there are voices on both side of the aisles that do the same thing, and this is just an extension of that. it taps into something that i think tara is saying but can't help putting down president obama as she says it that there's a portion of the country not approveing of the president's foreign policy. that does not mean it's passive. it's hard to say that more than 2,000 air strikes against isis is passive, but they don't agree with the steps he's taken thus far so they find what he's said to support disapproval of the foreign policy. >> saying american should lead from behind is a passive thing

to do. they'll tell you it's not aggressive or the way to defeat the enemy. he won't name the enemy. that's a clear qualification to say it's passive. come on. >> let's look at this in its entirety, right. you talk about the so-called apology tour. look at what he apologied for and not what he acknowledged. there is a difference. he apologized for the u.s. experiment in guatemala, he apologized for that. when the u.s. had the fill pea know soldiers in world war ii never honored what we told them. first thing president obama did was acknowledge that and went back and fixed that wrong. if you want to look at the apologies, there are certain things he's done. acknowledging mistakes made in the past does not mean he does not love the country. does not mean he's critical of the country, but man enough to say something people have not been which is i am sorry. i made a mistake. people have difficulty sending a

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tara talking about the comments rudy giuliani made. lz was talking about the president being man enough apologizing for things he felt appropriate to apologize for and it has nothing to do with lovping your country. you can love your country and be critical. >> absolutely? >> why would he go there? what was the point? what was the purpose? because some people think, you know he's about dividing being divisive. what was the point? >> this happens on both sides. i told you i don't think rudy giuliani can speak for himself, but i don't think his attention to do this at a private dinner was to draw attention to himself. >> certainly the follow-up was. >> well, sure. >> doubling down on the comments. >> i think he like i said before it was from a frustrated pointed view that americans feel because of everything going on in the country, and the president's disposition of being

so disengaged plarksarticularly with national security. when the president sees and american journalist beheaded on national television all over the world and internet and goes off to yuck it up on the golf course and on vacation and, you know he's going out and finger wagging at the american people and finger wagging christians while we have isis gaining territory. people are frustrated. like what is happening? on top of that there are, you know the president's own words when he admitted his mentor growing up with a card-carrying communist. he was proud of that. things lead to this that people are frustrated over. >> do you think the mayor should apologize? >> no. >> to the president? >> no. >> because, i mean, it's one thing to be from theed about foreign policy. it's another thing to question to say he does not love his country. >> i think rudy giuliani has every right to say whatever he wants. >> do you think it's helpful in the fight against isis? >> that's a different

conversation. whether he has to apologize for how he feels and expressing it or it's the right thing to do is two different things. no he should not apologize for it. if he should then i guess obama should apologize for calling george bush unpatriotic over the debt when running for office. talk about man enough? the president needs to be man enough to look the enemies in the eye and call them what they are and stand up for this country instead of placating our enemies and have a policy of apiecement. that's man enough as president of the united states. >> lz bringing you back in the conversation here. do you think it matters? does it matter what rudy giuliani says? really? i mean can we have a discussion without this? i mean does this speak to a larger issue, a disrespect of the president in this very heated time that we're debating war? >> as i said earlier, you know rudy giuliani's job is to make sure that rudy giuliani stays relevant. this is how he does it by making inflammatory statements. he's not engaged in policy.

he's not having any meetings back and forth in washington over the years, never recall running into rudy giuliani coming out a national security meeting. his job is to make sure that the money keeps flowing into the bank account. that's what he's doing. as far as, you know saying he was not drawing attention to himself. that's ridiculous. obviously, he was. he does that every time he goes out to speak. does it matter? it only matters who people who respond to the dog whistle that he was doing, which is to drum up the otherness of president obama. some of the criticisms we have about president obama's foreign policies absolutely 100% accurate. some of it is not. some of it is based upon true facts and what he decided to do was not the best thing to do, and some of it is because we don't like him. we don't like him for various reasons. part of the reason has to do with his race. to separate -- >> really, lz? >> to separate is not possible. >> i let you talk. i let you finish. >> go ahead, sorry. >> thank you.

thank you. so we've seen this since president obama's been on the national scene back in 2006-2007, there's been this constant criticism or ways to put him as some sort of other, take our country back. is he an american citizen? it's this constant other ness that has an element of racism to it. people who respond to that sort of dog whistle think what giuliani matters. this who don't roll their eyes at it or don't pay attention to it at all. >> ten seconds to respond because we're running out of time. ten seconds. >> i think it saddens me that this always has to devolve back into race. the president of the united states when you're running for president you should be vetted thoroughly. scott walker they're going back to what he did in college. whether he graduated or not. those things are totally

legitimate. the fact the president's associations beliefs. he talks about how he associated with marxist professors in college. it has nothing to do with race. i'm sick and tired of people throwing race into this and distracts from the legitimate failures of this president's policies or attitudes. >> we've got to leave it there we've run out of time. we're going to continue that conversation at a later date when we can bring you guys back. coming up. oscars. swag bag win or lose this sunday a-listers not going to go home empty handed of course. next we take a look at the $160,000 in gifts awaiting every nominee!

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winning an oscar may be priceless, but nominees don't even have to win to go home with $160,000 in gifts. we're talking cars trips, even weight loss products. our cnn's jake tapper shows us that anything an a-lister needs is probably going to be in that swag bag. >> dude fill that bag up as fast as you know how. >> >> reporter: hey, want a bag full of money? for decades, hollywood stars have basically just had to ask.

>> take the money and put anytime that bag. >> reporter: and on hollywood's biggest night, some losing nominees won't even have to ask to get swag bags worth more than $160,000 each. that's double what the prize packs were worth last year and oh yeah, more than three times the median american salary. so what's inside? chichi brands gambling on an inadvertent endorsement. >> not only are they giving away thousands of dollars worth of product but paying for the chance to be recognized in the first place. >> reporter: cheesy commercials may not do much to sell rocky mountaineer's train trips but what if an appreciative a-lister were to snap a photo from his or her own $14,000 excursion provided to them free in the bag? that could put the company on the fast track. emphasis on could. >> you really put that stuff in there just hoping that maybe the celebrity will use it or pass it along to a friend of theirs who will use it and talk about it.

>> reporter: stars who didn't make the cut to george clooney's wedding in italy can work on cultivating that friendship with a stay at the nearby grand hotel trimezzo. that's one part of a 11 $500 getaway. clooney agreeing to your pop pop in? that's not included. from 45 bucks and free hydroxy cut weight loss products to $20,000 worth of swanky car rentals from the tech friendly premium brand silver car losing an oscar never felt so nice. but before the red carpet elite start feeling too special. the irs reminds us the companies providing these items quote do not do so solely out of affection, respect or similar impulses for the recipients. translation? that means $160,000 in so-called gifts, if everything is used, could mean-mile-per-hour more than $40,000 in taxes for the car stars.

those statuettes? the irs lets you enjoy those for free. before everyone celebrates the best in cinematic achievement at the academy awards our own don don lemon and michaela barrera will bring you all the glitz and glamour sunday night at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn.

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