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the alleged plot to pat down attractive passengers at denver international airport. this is just the tip of the iceberg, according to a former officer. what's happening at security checkpoints? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a shattering blast outside the consulate in iraq. no american personnel hurt but a calling card from isis claiming responsibility and a direct challenge and threat to the united states. isis is already on the move to the south, where it threatens to capture the key iraqi city of ramadi. sending tens of thousands of residents fleeing, and the terror group has been brazenly showing off its assault on iraq's biggest oil refinery with new pictures of fighting there. i'll speak live with senator king of the intelligence and armed services committees and our analysts and guests standing

by for complete coverage. we begin with cnn global affairs correspondent with the very latest. >> reporter: the u.s. began air strikes in part to protect american personal until in erbil. now isis made clear those personnel are in their sights as militants continue their punishing assault on iraqi forces in the sunni heartland. a brazen attack detonating a car bomb outside the entrance to the american consulate in erbil, leaving at least four dead. images posted on social media show flames and smoke rising near the kboundcompound home to hundreds of american diplomats and personnel. >> the duck and cover protocol activate activated. all accounted for. no reports of injuries to chief mission personnel. >> reporter: as it continues its push through the sunni dominated anbar province isis released

new propaganda storming a check checkpoint connecting two key cities and waging a fierce battle in ramadi 70 miles from baghdad. fighters surrounding villages and destroyed bridges to choke off the city. even as more than half of ramadi's 300,000 residents fled the fighting america's top military officer minimized the city's importance. the city itself is, it's not symbolic in any way. no declared part of the cal caliphate or central to the u.s. or iraq. >> reporter: and the fight over the strategic town of baiji, home to an oil refinery. a day earlier release of clashes in baiji. the iraq government has yet to show evidence proving its claims today its forces took full

control of the area. >> there will be back and forth. you will see instances where they move into retreat but elsewhere in iraq you see them on the offense and eisele, theice isil heading out in caravans. >> reporter: today the iraqi government announced its forces killed former baathist leader about ibrahim, he was later linked to isis. the king of clubs in the deck of cards of the u.s. most wanted members of the iraqi regime before the fall of saddam hussein. now, in the last 48 hours, the u.s.-led coalition launched five attacks near the baiji oil refinery and only two near the city of ramadi. you see where their priorities are. tonight senator john mccain blasted general dempsey for disregarding ramadi's strategic importance calling it an insult to the families of americans killed in previous war in iraq

battles al qaeda there and gross mischaracterization of the situation on the ground now. dempsey, the senator, said wolf is in denial. >> thanks very much. while fighting rages in much of iraq the kurdish capital of erbil has been viewed at least until now as relatively key word relatively safe. more now from our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. who is joining us. learning more how this attack in erbil went down today? more than a lone blast. this was a sophisticated attack. wasn't it? >> reporter: sounds like that wolf. eyewitnesses talking about a few things. one, before the car bomb went off, they report a smaller explosion. perhaps another ied, perhaps a dwegs. then the car bomb and eyewitnesses report gunfire in the streets there for more than an hour. kurdish security official talking about as many as eight gunmen possibly being involved in this. keep in mind very secure area in the city to carry out something like that. a real achievement for isis.

>> pretty ominous. happened exactly where it happened. obviously, could have been a lot worse. walk us through what we know. >> reporter: here's the thing, look at this this way. here's baghdad, here's erbil, capital of the cuddish area. erbil, kurdish controlled area. its own country. travelled there a number of times. pricey real estate. intense security by kurdish forces. looks very different, for instance from the capital of baghdad. relatively at peace. early on in the u.s. operations here when isis was advancing across country they actually moved diplomatic personnel from baghdad to erbil because the impression was it was safer. to carry out an attack in the center of the city is a real rarity there. it shows they were able to penetrate the kurdish defenses and shows isis is able to show its strength in more areas than when you look at the map here that we traditionally think as under isis control. those are the red areas. or under isis influence, here in the yellow areas.

so to project them up here into the kurdish area is a real change a real sign of danger. >> and a calling card to the u.s. get ready. at least that's the message isis is trying to send. jim sciutto, thanks very much. more now joining us senator angus king is the independent senator from maine a member of both the armed services and intelligence committees. senator, thanks very much for joining us. what's your analysis? what's your take jie assume you've been broofred on this isis attack near the u.s. consulate in erbil? >> well, first we have to say that we don't have final confirmation that it was isis. i think if anything bad happens anywhere they claim credit. it probably is. i think you have to look at fact that they did not breach the compound. they did not the security arrangements in place at the dpound compound to protect americans worked. this was a sophisticated and powerful bomb that did not damage the compound itself or

any of the americans. so that's the good news. the bad news is as you guys were talking about, these people can go pretty much anywhere. at least in the middle east. that's one of the real problems in this war, if you will wolf. because it's not like you have to have an army moving in to a city with lines and troops and fronts. it can be four five people in a jeep or a truck, and it really is very difficult to secure a major city. erbil has been secure. the kurdish area is one of the more secure areas. it heightens the alert anywhere in the region. on the other hand we should step back and say, well, the security arrangements at the state department and government put in place for that compound served their purpose today. >> you think they should be brazing for more attacks like these? specifically in whauts called kurdistan and the kurds, alls us now, friendly supportive to the

u.s.? >> right. well, you know i don't want to try to get in the heads of these guy, but isis has been sort of stymied recently. they've really been limited and their momentum seriously blunted by the coalition and by the iraqi forces fighting back. so i think they're looking for ways to strike out in ramadi and in erbil that we'll probably see more of this, but it's -- it's clearly a kind of alternative strategy if you will because they weren't gaining ground like they were late last year, and they're going to be lashing out. and that's, again, the trouble with this kind of non-state actor, terrorist, of single or a few people can cause an awful lot of damage and that's why we've got to be dealing with this. you know the people here in maine say, why are we bothering with this? i say i'd sure much rather fight them ober there than here.

>> and let's not forget there are hundreds of u.s. diplomats and other civilian and military personnel based there at that consulate in northern iraq. samantha power, ambassador to the united nations, on cnn "new day" earlier. in a much stronger position than a year ago, i'm quoting her, in the fight against isis. but you know i'm wondering if that's accurate? do you agree with her that the u.s. is in a much stronger position in the fight against isis today, given what's going on in erbil, in ramadi where 150,000 people have been forced to flee in the last few days alone? >> well you know i don't think we can overstate. i mean this is going to be a long slog. we started with the with the air strikes. i think what she was probably referring to is that there's a broad coalition, including muslim countries, that are now engaged in stopping these guys, and that's way ahead of where we

were when the first, when they swept through and a really lightning strike into northern iraq and western eastern syria. so i think we are ahead in terms of having the means to confront them. i don't think it's accurate to say that you know, they're on the run, or we've broken the back or you know to use a term that you and i remember we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. so, you know, i guess i would try to i would temper my enthusiasm curb your enthusiasm a bit, and say, this is a long way to go and it's going to take -- it's really going to take the iraqi government itself to be more inclusive, to bring in the sunnis and kurds and they have to win the fight in the end. >> referring to those optimistic briefings you and i can remember we used to get during the vietnam war and the body counts and how great things were going, obviously, those assessments were not exactly accurate. senator mccain, john mccain, man you know well blasted the

chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey, for his comments yesterday. general dempsey suggesting that the fight for ramadi is important but it's not as strategically important as winning the fight for those oil fields at baiji. senator mccain saying disregarding the strategic importance of ramadi is a denial of reality and an insult to the families of hundreds of brave, young american whose were kill and wounded during the surge fighting to free ramadi from the grip of al qaeda. there's a lot of anger at the chairman of the joint chiefs for yesterday suggesting that you know ramadi there's bricks and mortar there, it's important but what's really important are the oil fields. that oil refinery at baiji. what's your analysis? >> well i think that's -- it was unfortunate the way general dempsey put that. you know john mccain feels very strongly about this. and i know him well and i'm surprised he was as --

restrained as he was, if you can believe that. but i think what general dmpsy y dempsey was trying to say, there are two different situations. baiji is strategically. we've been successful with isis cutting off the money. one way beav done that cut off access to oil using to sell to fwhans they're up to. if they capture that refinery it would be a huge influx of money for them. strategically it is very important and i don't think we should get into saying which starting more important than the other, but there's no question that baiji is a very important place, and that's got to be done. but the same thing, ramadi is right out there in the middle of anbar province not that far from baghdad, as john mccain said it was a place where there's a lot of fighting during the surge and the iraq war, and it would be a blow if -- if isis

was able to take over that community, but this gets to the more fundamental issue, wolf, of where are the sunnis? this is anbar province is a sunni area ramadi is a sunni town, or city, and are the sunnis going to feel more loyalty to baghdad, which is frankly been more oriented towards the shiites, or are they going to feel some draw towards isis? and that's how this thing is ultimately going to be decided. if baghdad can't form links to the sunnis it ain't going to work for anybody. and that's really a bit of what's going on behind the scenes. >> you're absolutely right. if the iraqi military is m.i.a. in ramadi where there are so many sunnis and they don't see the iraqi military going in to protect their own people those sunnis, they don't have much confidence in shiite-led government now. it will be worse. stand by.

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we're back with senator angus king independent senator from maine a member of the armed services and intelligence committees. how significant is the death of ibrahim al dori one of saddam hussein's top deputies king of clubbing among the most wanted aides back in 2003? >> i think the first thing we

need to do wolf be sure that he's dead. this is the third time he'd reported dead. every time a guy with a red beard is shot there they suspect it may be him. we need to get the dna and be sure it is him. assuming it is i think this is a big deal. leadership is important. it's a little unclear what his relationship to isis is. he as you say, was a former in the top two or three people under saddam hussein. he then went into hiding. he's been wanted. there's been a bounty on his head for 12 or 13 years. he's had an off and on relationship with isis. he was opposed to them said they were opposed to them then good evidence he was working cooperate cooperatively. anybody with that knowledge and infrastructure of the rebel forces if he's been taken out, i think that could be very important. >> what's the next u.s. move in yemen now that aqap al qaeda in

the arabian peninsula, greatest terror threat to the united states right now argueablyrguably, controlling a major airport in southern yemen's how concerned are you, free reign to plot against the united states? >> very. the answer is very. there's a real power vacuum in yemen. a full-scale civil war in reality and then iran is involved now. the gulf states saudi arabia leading air strikes in that area. in the meantime while this civil war is going on you've got aqap al qaeda and the arabian peninsula, as you say is one of the most dangerous al qaeda branches, plotting against the united states actively behind the 2009 christmas day bombing and they're now having free reign. we had a good relationship with the prior yemeni government and able to do counterterrorism work aqap and it was very successful.

now all of that is in abeyance while he sort of have to stand on the sidelines and watch this civil war play out. you know it's as if we had the north and south of the united states 150 years and all of a sudden there's a third group that is using the power vacuum to really take advantage and make trouble. so it's a very serious situation. i think we're trying to work with the former president, we're trying to establish some contact, but ultimately what has to happen is that there has to be some settlement between the houthis and remainder of those who aren't supporters of theirs to set up a government and then we can try to go back in and take care of aqap. it's a -- it's a real a real dangerous situation for us as you know you and i seem to meet like this wolf. >> yeah. >> and it's -- it's on fire. >> certainly is on fire and hard to believe that president -- not

that long ago, citing yemen as a positive a successful operation counterterrorism operation. i wonder if he's getting really bad intelligence information from his aides? hold your thought a moment. we're almost out of time and i want add quick thought, the president was agitated speaking about loretta lynch, the nominee to become the next attorney general of the united states. i know you support her. you want a vote. how embarrassing is it now more than five months and no roll call vote on her? >> yeah. there ought to be a vote. there's no question. it was supposed to come right after the sex trafficking bill. then that got hung up with a dispute about hyde amendment abortion tied us up two, three week. the votes are there. eminently she's a qualified nominee. haven't heard serious objections from anybody to her, and absolutely. i think it's embarrassing is the right word. let's take care of that. it would take an hour and we

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an ohio man accused of plotting to kill americans after training in syria today pleaded not guilty to federal charges he

provided materiel support to terrorists. sheikh mohamud, u.s. citizen, trained to use firearms and explosives and returned home from syria planning to target a u.s. military facility. joining us now former congresswoman jane harmon served on the homeland security committees now president of the wilson center. cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd former cia official national security analyst peter bergen and cnn intelligence and security analyst bob bair former cia operative pap 23-year-old man, naturalized u.s. citizen. what's the appeal of these kinds of individuals to actually leave the united states of america, fly to turkey cross into syria, train with a terrorist group and come back to the united states with instructions to kill americans? >> we talked about the appeal being isis propaganda ideology. you can lead a simpleler life overseas allowing you to practice islam at its forms.

look at this case compared to others like the zrntsarnaev brothers involved in the boston marathon killings. each case human beings involved. a brother who convinced this kid, young man, to go over. also we had a religious figure evidently in isis who persuaded him to come back home. in almost all cases i saw, where a youth was involved with ideology that was this sort of heinous, there's a human being involved in telling him, look this ideology might look ugly but it's okay. >> not the first time. it almost happens, bob bair every week hearing about more americans who want to train with one of the terror groups whether isis or aqap al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, al shabaab, whatever. it's happening seemingly more and more. isn't it? >> yeah. and i agree with phil, wolf. you have to spend a lot of time on the internet, the jihadi

sites and arabic news taking atrocities occurring in syria, where bashar al assad is drop dg chlorine bombs on civilian neighborhoods and seeing these children burned and this every day is coming up on the internet. this is a great incentive for young people to you know to write thing. they may go to syria to go after the regime in damascus but at the end of the day are sent back to the united states. as long as there's conflict in the middle east and chaos, we're going to see more and more of this and the question is when do one of these guys going to not get caught by the fbi and get through? >> important question. peter, saw the new study from fordedom university. analyzed 25 americans arrested charged with supporting isis and found among these 25 very interesting. all young. majority are male. none of them are arab. most of them are converts to

islam. do these statistics surprise you? >> not at all. in fact look at the cases, all of the cases after 9/11 in the united states the ethnic profile is all over the map but the syrian conflict is producing something different. which is there are no syrians going over. during somalias we saw american somalias go to train. not seeing syrian americans going to train. people from around the country. fbi director comey said cases in every state. this is something appealing to people across country, not in large numbers luckily, but the profile you describe is it isn't surprising. >> jane these people, they have obviously, the are u.s. citizen, american passports. it's easier for them to travel leave the country, come back to the united states. you've stdied this. what can the u.s. government do to either prevent initial travel towards, let's say, turkey on to syria, or their return for that matter? >> well the good news is we are identifying a number of these

people. obviously, this man in ohio who was arrested was tracked to and from the battle zone and that's good news. but what we need to do more of wolf, and no one's mentioned it yet, is get ahead of this. we've got to do countermessaging that reaches these kids where they are reached by social media. we know the media forms that are used. especially twitter. we know the pitches, because we're following this closely. i know the homeland security department is and the national counterterrorism center is. we know the pitches made. where many our answer? that answer should be made by government where we can, also by the private sector. john brennan head of the cia is suggested that we, he, can help form some private groups that push back. if we don't do this soon more and more kids are going to be recruited, and, yes, we will find many of them but some will slip through, and one more

point. let's mention yemen right now. which is falling into total chaos. as al qaeda gains ground in yemen, the bombmaker, al asiri, produced all the plastic explosives the underwear bomber's bomb and the ones that we fortunately found in the cartridges that guy is on the loose, and if we get some of these foreign fighters there, and their equipped with these bombs they could really blow up airlines and cause catastrophic damage. >> jane make as good point. aqap actually control an actual airport and have a plane in yemen. >> the thing i worry about aqap, straight straightforward. if they can, in other words, the fight with the houthi's slow down and the aqap guys say think about broader targets, we've already seen what they will do if they have that kind of safe haven. that's come after airplanes, new york come our washington. >> all of you stand by. we're going to continue the breaking news. what we're watching. also newly released leaked i

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newly leaked e-mails reveal how sony pictures was hacked.

the united states blames north korea for the attack because of the sony movie "the interview" mocking the north korean leader kim un. new details. >> reporter: tonight we have new insights how sony might have been breached according to a cachet of sony documents posted on wikileaks, the attacks use add classic hacking technique, and it had been scoping around sony's system for several weeks before the hack was publicly revealed. mid-october, 2014. an e-mail appearing to be from direct iroliver stone lands in the inbox of amy pascal the co-chair of sony pictures movie division. stone is making a film about nsa leaker edward snowden. the e-mail says it's an important message with a secure document. turns out the e-mail's not from stone, who later sends out a warning his account was compromised. this is what cyber sleuths call a weaponized document. >> we don't know ultimately if this was the e-mail that led to the breach but we know it could

have. >> reporter: the purported message from oliver stone came more than a month before the wider sony hack which the fbi says was orchestrated by north korea. these new revelations come from more than 170,000 internal e-mails from sony pictures entertainment. posted by the controversial media group wikileaks. it appears amy pascal was a victim of a spear fishing attack hackers send e-mail the disguised as legitimate e-mails. when they're clicked on hackers invade their computers and move around nltd all kinds of bad stuff is happening. potential spear fish. files writ ton disc. listeners set up. all kinds of bad stuff is happening now. >> reporter: a nation state hacking team, sophisticated, you may not see it? >> you're not going to see it. >> reporter: showing sony was concerned as early as june of last year about north korean retaliation for their movie "the interview." >> president kim jong-un.

>> reporter: jim jong-unkim jong-un has a larger cyber branch. commanded by general kim jeong which o,kho, a former aide of his father's. >> a couple of trial runs with attacks on south korea's media and banks two years ago. >> reporter: tonight, cyber security experts are warning the threat is far from over. north korea, iran any u.s. adversary can strike eastern the most powerful even the most powerful companies. >> every day corporations are targeted by advanced adversaries using e-mails just like this. >> reporter: they would not comment citing an ongoing investigation into the hack. ive representatives for amy pascal and oliver stone wouldn't comment. wikileaks is helping the hackers

harm sony employees. wolf? >> brian todd thanks very much. bring in the former fbi assistant director tom fuentes and cnn justice reporter evan perez. the spear fishing, not unnecessarily a sophisticated attack, is it? >> it isn't. the malware inside the fishing amail was sophisticated according to investigators i've talked to and the belief was they were able to use these phishing e-mails to eventually get into a system's administrators credentials and take over their account essentially and use that to roam around the system. brian mentioned these hackers were in there for months probably before they did anything. >> testing to see -- >> how far they could go. wanted to know the system. get to know it before they did anything. >> makes it sound like almost all of these computer systems are vulnerable right now that tease kinds of attacks?

>> they are absolutely vulnerable and what all authorities and security officials, the fbi, have been saying for many, many years. that you need the most sophisticated security. in this case even said the most security -- sophisticated system in the world swroun prevented the attack on sony. >> even if you're careful in what you open if you open a link or open an attachment that you think is from a friend of yours or whatever you have to be worried about that? >> because somebody else attached something, the malware to that e-mail. to that person's computer. it's not that their dangerous. somebody got into their system using that to get into your system. >> the scary thing is, wolf, that we're told by the fbi, by other experts in the government in this area that if you're connected to the internet you're vulnerable. >> very serious stuff. tell us about this other report. the guy is flying. he's tweeting from the plane. saying that he could bring down the oxygen if he wants. >> right. >> the fbi picks it up. pick up the story. tell us what happened here?

>> his name is chris roberts a consultant computer cyber security consultant and apparently has been trying to draw attention to this question of whether or not you could hack an airplane. just simply plug in underneath your seat to the electronics systems and perhaps wreak havoc with a flight that's already in progress. and he tweeted something that looks like gibberish to me but apparently interpreted by a lot of people to mean he might be trying to activate's oxygen system the emergency oxygen system in this flight. so when this plane landed he was on a flight. landed in syracuse. he was met by the fbi. they questioned him several hours. of course, he's tweeted about it. the fbi doesn't find it funny because they believe it constituted perhaps something of a threat and in the end wolf you know he's getting a lot of attention. probably his cyber security business is going to get a lot -- better known as a result of this this hoax. >> he was trying to draw attention to what he says, how vulnerable boeing or airbus

some of these aircraft commercial airliners are. does he have a point? >> yeah he did. he accomplished that. i think that's the scary part. especially after the germanwings airplane crashed. people talking about the solution having a pilot insane have people on the ground that control the aircraft. really? you want other people having this kind of access? the more that becomes possible just as well for a hacker on the ground to get into a system and crash a plane. >> all right, guys. stand by. there's more coming up later as well. just ahead -- more on the isis claim that it is behind a car bombing right near an important u.s. consulate in northern iraq. how many more americans potentially are at risk. plus a tomorrower tsa officer says groping scandals like the one at denver's airport are in his words, business as usual. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ if you want a paint

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we're learning new details about a story that's causing outrage and deep concern for a lot of air travelers. the former tsa employee saysis no surprise, his words, no surprise that a pair of officers at denver international airport were caught and fired over a plot to grope airline passengers. cnn's tom foreman is joining us now with more on this deeply disturbing claim. what have you learned? >> this is almost impossible to believe, wolf. this former tsa officer is say saying loudly and clearly, that this alleged scheme to grope airline passengers is not limited to colorado and is not unusual. he insisted airports all over the country.

things like this are commonplace. tsa officers using their high-tech scanners to identify pull aside and grope attractive male passengers. that's what authorities say was going on at denver international, until the two officers involved a man and a woman, were caught and left their jobs. if that's not enough to horrify many flyers now comes this from "time" magazine -- the bigger issue here is a systemic one, there are far too many federal hands on people's private parts in airports. the write certificate jason edward harrington a former tsa agent who insists this sort of thing happens all the time in airports everywhere. he writes -- the agent running his or her hands over you after you pass through the scanner is almost never doing it for good reason. what's more he adds victims will likely never even know they were assaulted. since so many passengers have their private parts fondled.

to be sure harrington has written fiery critiques of the tsa before. notably this one called dear america, i saw you naked. he argues that full-body scanners are routinely used to let officers leer at passengers at yet, they find few actual security threats. tsa has steadily pushed back against such notions and suggests the denver incident is an oddity a former administrator defends officers conducted by-the-book patdowns as well. >> individual passengers may object to that. and how they do that. but as long as they're doing that correctly, they're doing their job. >> still, as authorities consider charges against those officers involved the denver story is super-charging harrington's idea that it's difficult to tell where airport security ends and sexual assault begins. these days. >> of course we reached out to jason harrington who wrote those

provocative words. he's so far declined to talk to us on air. the denver district attorney has said he has heard from several more passengers who think they too, have been groped. you can bet, wofrl, the fury over this story will grow and grow. >> i'm sure this is not news to the tsa what are they doing about this? >> they've had complaints about this for a long time. the tsa has said for a long time this is a process of refining what we do. moving forward, these are valid techniques for figuring out how people are being searched out there. and if they're done properly there's nothing wrong. they keep saying this is an isolated incident. don't read too much into it. this kind of concern plays right into the worry that so many people have when they feel their space something invaded it makes them very uncomfortable there will be a long debate about this. even if it's found to be truly isolating. >> if a passenger feels violated what can they do?

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happening now, americans targeted isis says it's behind a suicide car bombing, causing death and destruction on the doorstep of u.s. diplomats, do top pentagon officials have a good handle on the threat. and enemy force ss protesters in ferguson missouri. is how they're referred to. a reserve deputy publicly explains how he mistook a pistol for a stun gun killing a suspect. did he give prosecutors more ammunition against him? and president obama's outrage, you'll find out why the president walked into a news conference and wound up fuming. >> the dysfunction in the senate just goes too far. this is an example of it. >> it's gone too far. enough enough. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and

around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the "situation room." breaking new, isis terrorists are making it clear they were aiming for americans. when they unleashed suicide bombers in a car that exploded just outside the u.s. consulate in northern iraq. police say at least four people were killed 18 injured. the attack comes in the midst of a brutal multifront assault by isis. prompting u.s. officials to debate strategy and whether a new assessment by america's top general is quote a denial of reality. i'll ask senator james rish about all of that a leading member of the foreign relations and intelligence committees. our correspondents and analysts are also standing by with all the news that's breaking right now. first, let's go to our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto, with the latest. >> tonight u.s. officials extremely concerned, it was a bold attack on one of the most secure facilities one of the most secure cities in one of the most secure parts of iraq.

there's evidence tonight it could have been a complex operation. a small explosion, possibly a diversion, followed by a car bomb followed by what seemed to be an armed assault. eye witnesses reporting an hour-long gun battle. a blast in northern iraq the target? america. a car bomb exploding near the gates of the u.s. consulate in erbil, sending u.s. personnel running for cover. >> at 10:44 a.m. the duck-and-cover protocol was activated at the u.s. consulate. all chief mission personnel have been accounted for. there's no reports of injuries to personnel or the local guards. >> on twitter, isis quickly claimed responsibility for the attack confirming the target was the erbil consulate. and in western iraq isis still in a pitched battle for ramadi. sending residents out of city by the tens of thousands, blocking roads. iraqi forces are still holding positions in the center of

ramadi, as they await reinforcements of baghdad. with civilians having fled the city. iraqi forces hope to have an easier time targeting isis militants in ramadi. one bat until a long war. to take back iraq from the terror group. >> isil now continues 25% less territory than they did back then. so there will be back and forth and there will be incidents. >> still, america's top general joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey dismissed ramadi as strategically insignificant. >> the city itself is not symbolic in any way. it's not been declared you know part of the caliphate on one hand or central to the future of iraq. >> today, senator john mccain fired back calling general dempsey's remarks a quote gross mischaracterization and a denial of reality. what is not in dispute is the importance of the baiji oil

refinery in central iraq. also under assault by isis. >> once the iraqis have full control of baiji, they will control all of their oil infrastructure both north and south and deny isil the ability to generate revenue through oil. >> with all eyes on the terror group, a nearly forgotten enemy killed in an iraqi security operation, saddam hussein's former number two. known as the king of clubs in the u.s. most wanted deck of cards. aced out of the picture. >> the pentagon says that ramadi is still contested. they say the baiji oil refinery. the central part of the refinery controlled by iraqi forces. look at this now you have isis assaulting ramadi here. they're assaulting baiji here. we have the attack on the u.s. consulate up here in erbil. in addition to the major cities in syria, raqqa and mosul. the areas in red that they control and the areas in orange that they have influence, even as u.s. officials claiming that

the iraqi forces are gaining momentum isis still able to strike in several parts of the country here including erbil, one of the most secure areas, they're formidable able to bounce back even from losses like they had in tikrit just a couple of weeks ago. >> certainly true true indeed. a very devastating -- thanks very much for that, jim sciutto. let's dig deeper on the isis attack targeting the united states consulate and all the men and women who work there. civilian diplomatic military personnel. what does it mean for the u.s. and the coalition strategy? our global affairs correspondent elise labott. what's ominous about the attack is it was supposed to be a secure area relatively speaking. >> as jim said it's a relatively peaceful area. it's kurdish controlled and in the beginning of isis' advance through iraq the u.s. moved a lot of its personnel from baghdad to erbil. because they thought it was safer. and when the u.s. started its operations against isis in part

it was to protect americans in erbil at the consulate there. so the fact that isis was able to penetrate kurdish defenses and launch this new area of attacks is very troubling. >> isis is making a major move on this major city of ramadi. which son the road from baghdad to oman jordan. isis still controls ramadi. so all the talk that u.s. officials are saying progress something made samantha power says they control 25% less territory than they did maybe a year ago. a lot of that territory is what desert right? i mean why do they think they're making such progress? it looks like isis is still in charge of a big chunk of the people and land of iraq. >> well that's absolutely right. i mean the iraqis are clearly on the defensive, not on the offensive. even though the u.s. says the

trend lines are good they had some success in tikrit. you see some of these other areas like anbar, the iraqis are on the defensive. they're fighting for ramadi fighting for this strategic oil refinery for about a year. i think this is the dilemma of the iraqi forces. this is what they're talking to about the u.s. which is more important -- to build on the successes of tikrit and move up north towards isil and gain momentum in the offensive against isis? or protect the flag. protect baghdad and the western areas, which would certainly hamper the kind of broader momentum against isis. but would protect the center. even if you protect the center then you lose control over the larger campaign. i think it's a dilemma for iraqi forces i wouldn't say necessarily they're in agreement. i think the u.s. would really like them to keep moving up around north. but certainly have to protect baghdad. >> let's not forget tikrit was freed from isis, not so much by what the iraqi military did, but

what the shiite militias did backed by the iran revolutionary guard so that's not necessarily a normal situation by any means. the u.s. in effect cooperating with iran the she yoit militias to deal isis a blow in tikrit. but isis still in charge of big chunks of iraq right now. let's bring in a leading member of the senate foreign relations committee, as well as the intelligence committee, republican senator james risch of idaho. let me get your analysis first of all, isis claiming responsibility for the suicide car bombing attack near the u.s. consulate in northern iraq in erbil. they say the consulate was their target. they wanted to kill american diplomats, military personnel. you're on the intelligence committee. the foreign relations committee. what can you tell us about this attack? >> well wolf first of all that hasn't been confirmed as yet. however having said that it is more likely than not that it was

isis. and certainly the consulate was the target. what's interesting about this is erbil, as your story just pointed out, is a city that's been really relatively secure. it's a city of about a million people. and it is very heavily kurdish. if not almost all kurdish. it's very hard to penetrate. this would have been a very very sophisticated operation. and one that would have been very difficult to pull off. >> are americans safe there now? there are a lot of them hundreds of them at u.s. consulate there and a lot of private citizens are there as well. the u.s. has a good relationship with kurdistan. >> we do have a good relationship and we need to continue to cultivate that relationship. they've been good friends of ours have been reliable. they're excellent fighters. having said all that in answer to your question are they safe safe i guess is a relative term when you're talking about the

middle east. they're certainly safer there than they are in many other places be it yemen or baghdad or other places in the middle east. >> there's a lot of controversy right now over what general dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said yesterday. referring to isis now closing in taking over two hugely potential places in iraq the city of ramadi that's about 70 miles from baghdad, major city in the anbar province. also moving in on the baiji oil refinery the largest oil refinery in iraq. general dempsey said at the news conference at the pentagon that the baiji oil refinery is strategically more important than the city of ramadi. he seemed to suggest that if ramadi fell it would be a setback. but it wouldn't be as bad, necessarily strategically as the oil fields. listen to this. >> the issue here is not, is not brick and mortar it's about defeating isil. so as i said you know i would much rather that ramadi not fall. but it won't be the end of a

campaign should it fall. we've got to get it back. >> there's been a lot of criticism of him for saying that. including from your republican colleague, john mccain, the chairman of the armed services committee. what do you think? >> well you know i think what john was complaining about, or at least putting john's comments into context, i think he's more upset with the fact that the administration keeps spinning the story that oh you know it's not so bad. oh yes, it is you listen to these news stories that go on and on there's just no good news coming out of there. with the one exception today which you've already mentioned that is that is the king of clubs was finally caught. that's about the only good. and interestingly enough he was, he was caught and killed by the iraqi security forces. that's about the only good piece of news coming out of there. and it's pretty small compared to all of the owe things that are happening. you haven't even touched on yemen yet while i've been sitting here. >> we'll talk about it in a

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new video of saudi air strikes in yemen. the air campaign is in its fourth week. but yemen's civil war rages on giving terrorists an opening to gain dangerous new ground. we're back with senator james risch, a member of the foreign relations and intelligence committee.

what do you make of the fact that aqap the number one terror threat to the united states al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has now taken over an airport in southeastern yemen. they've certainly wanted to launch air strikes against the u.s. homeland if you will. what does this mean? >> well wolf think first of all what you have to do is looking at this from way up and down this you got to blame the whole thing on iran. it's iran that enabled the houthis to topple the government. that was in place, there in yemen. and once they did that as we've seen it deteriorates every day. there's a vacuum because the government is gone. the houthis are occupying part of it aqap is occupying part of it. while everyone has been focused on sanaa over more west aqap as we've seen in the last 48 hours has been very active. in mccullough. and the pictures i think you've shown tell the whole story.

they that is makullah although it's 500 miles east of sanaa, it holds an important geographical position. and there should be more attention being paid there. but having said that because of all the things that are going on both in iraq and in yemen at the present time and in syria things are so spread out, there's a vacuum that aqap is filling and it is a very dangerous situation for us. >> yeah that's mukallah not only the air field, the air base they've taken over, but that's where a prison was emptied out of a lot of al qaeda and other terrorists as well so you're right on that. here's a question you're a member of the intelligence committee, i wonder how good the u.s. intelligence is less than year ago, president obama called yemen a place where the u.s. counterterrorism strategy was working. you think he's getting bad intelligence bad information? he also called isis the jv team. he gets a daily intelligence briefing. is the intelligence community up

to it? you get those briefings as well. >> i'm sure he gets the same information we get. i'm astonished to hear him say that isis is the jv team. >> he said that about a year ago. >> but luke at what they're doing right now. if they were the jv team then they've matured quickly and substantially since then. to say that yemen was the poster child for what we're trying to do i wouldn't have said that when he said that. certainly he was getting the same information we were getting. iran muddles in our affairs whenever they possibly can. they love to poke a stick at us. and everybody knew at that time that they were supporting the houthis. militarily financially and every other way. and the houthis were a viable force to topple the government and they did it. and of course now we see what's happening. with the chaos that's taking place. and it gets worse every day.

it gets worse every hour. >> i quickly shift to a domestic issue. the loretta lynch confirmation process. she's nominated to become the attorney general of the united states. that nomination has been held up for more than 160 days and president obama is real lyre tate really irritated. he called it embarrassing to the united states. former governor jeb bush the former republican presidential candidate said it's time for you guys to give her a vote. i know you're going to vote against her confirmation. what's wrong with letting a confirmation vote simply happen? >> well i think we're doing just what the democrats did when they were in the majority. a series of issues we're going to deal with and right now the issue that's right in front of us is the bill that democrats have supported. and that is the trafficking, the illegal trafficking bill in human beings they're supporters of that and they're

filibustering that bill. as soon as the filibuster is over we're going to vote on it and the very next second we're going to vote on the confirmation of president's nominee for attorney general. it's not as if we don't have a an attorney general. we have a an attorney general, nominated and confirmed, i also didn't coat for him. but rehave an attorney general in place doing the job of the attorney general and as soon as loretta lynch is confirmed, and she will be confirmed, as soon as the democrats quit fliktering the human trafficking bill. she'll be voted on. >> the human trafficking bill is one bill that has nothing to do with the attorney general of the united states. why can't you do both? deal with the human trafficking issue, an important issue obviously and lamt let her have a vote. >> well i, you know i don't set the agenda. the leadership sets the agenda. they do put it in place and go one, two, three, just like the democrats did when they were in charge. and the line-up is what it is.

and all they've got to, do all the democrats have to do is stop filibustering, we'll vote on human trafficking. i suspect it's going to pass with a huge vote and the next vote is going to be loretta lynch. >> so if you were in charge you would simply let her have her vote, not link it something totally unrelated to whether or not she's qualified to be the attorney general? >> i'm not in charge and it's a hypothetical question. but i think the leadership is doing what the senate has always done for many years, the leadership sets up these votes in line. and you can stop something by filibustering. and the democrats right now are filibustering a bill. but the bill is filibustering in essence also the vote on loretta lynch. >> because harry reid the minority leader says there's a parliamentary maneuver you could take to force a vote. do you understand what he's saying? >> i do understand what he's saying. and he hasn't done it yet. think they're doing this simply because it causes an irritation

as you've said. they could move along. they could do it simply by getting out of the way. these people co-sponsored the human trafficking bill. and yet, they're filibustering it and stopping the vote on it. it's absolute nonsense people should be impatient with this. >> people look at the way the senate operates sometimes and they say, huh? what's going on over here. we need an attorney general, she's been nominated. clearly a lot of people think she's highly qualify, she's been approved by the senate for other positions, as the u.s. attorney before and so move on and deal with the human trafficking issue. it's an important issue, unrelated to whether or not she should be the attorney general. >> we do have an attorney general in place, he was nominated by the president. >> but don't like him, either do you? >> i didn't vote for him, either. for different reasons. my objections to loretta lynch is her view of the president's power on executive orders. and she has a very broad view on

that. i think it's wrong. legally, i think it's wrong constitutionally and i can't support her. >> senator risch, thank you very much for joining us. to find out more what you can do to help civilians affected by the violence in iraq and yemen, go do cnn.com/impact and you'll be able to impact your world. just ahead, a cnn exclusive -- the provocative words that the national guard forces use to describe protesters in ferguson missouri. does it help explain why tensions exploded on the streets? and a reserve sheriff's deputy tries to explain how he mistook a pistol for a stun gun. his interview is only adding to the controversy surrounding the deadly shooting.

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speaking out the reserve sheriff's deputy accused of platte anywhere the death of a fleeing suspect, robert bates said he shot eric harris accidentally when he confused his pistol for a stun gun. confusing questions about whether bates received proper training to begin with cnn's ed

lavendera picks up the story with the latest. >> it's been more than two weeks since the shooting death of eric harris for the first time we're hearing from the reserve deputy. 73-year-old robert bates. >> i shot him, i'm sorry. >> 73-year-old reserve deputy robert bates was charged with second-degree manslaughter after he used his pistol instead of a stun gun, killing eric harris. in an interview with nbc's "today show," bates says he still can't believe it happened. >> first and foremost let me apologize to the family of eric harris. you know this is the second-worst thing that's ever happened to me or worst. ever happened to me in my life. i've had cancer a number of years ago. i didn't think i was going to get there. luckily i was able to go to a hospital where i had hours of surgery. i rate this as number one.

on my list of things in my life that i regret. >> bates, who had been a volunteer with the tulsa sheriffs department for several years says he can't explain why he confused his gun for his taser. even though they were positioned in very different locations. >> my taser is right here. on the front. tucked in a protective vest. my gun itself is on my side. normally to the rear. >> tonight the naacp and others are calling on the justice department to launch an external investigation, following reports from the tulsa world that the tulsa sheriffs department falsified bates' training records and three supervisors were reassigned when they refused to sign the documents. >> we were told the supervisors were told to sign off on 250 hours of training. most of that he did not have. virtually all of that he did not have. and then the supervisors at the gun range were told to sign off on his handgun qualification,

even though he did not qualify. >> but bates stands by his credentials, stating he was fully trained and qualified to be on the scene during the sting operation involving harris and he has documentation to show he completed the necessary training required of reserve deputies. >> that is absolutely the truth. i have it in brighting. >> but the harris familyiary attorney questions the authent tisty. >> do you believe the documents have been falsified? >> absolutely. i think if there were to be any records to surface, which none have okay but i believe that mr. bates has never been trained as in a field training type of situation. >> and wolf it has been just over two weeks since the shooting death of eric harris. the sheriff of tulsa county. stanley glanz has only done one interview over this entire incident and all the controversy surrounding it.

just moments ago his spokesperson put out a comment saying they're rolling out a we're listening tour to clear up confusion over recent misleading statements over the local and national media news outlets. people can email their questions to the sheriffs department. >> thank you very much. let's get more on what's going on. joining us the naacp president and ceo, cornell brooks. also joining us the president of the national organization of black law enforcement executives cedric alexander and our cnn law enforcement analyst, former assistant director of the fbi, tom fuentes. >> the reserve deputy called robert bates said he regretted fatally shooting this black man in tulsa. but he confused the stun gun for his hand gun. he said that could have happened to anyone. your reaction? >> you know not being there, wolf in all fairness to him and everyone involved. having been in a number of

situations over the years, certainly it can be a stressful situation. but we as sworn officers particularly those as sworn officers today, have all the responsibility of making sure that when they pull their weapon they have to pull the right weapon. and they have to use the resources they have available there. they tell them we were on the scene, i wasn't there and whatever the stressful situation was for them of course the state of oklahoma saw that it was necessary to pursue charges based on what the probable cause is today. that pretty much speaks for itself. unfortunately sad for mr. bates and for everybody involved. particularly the victim who is no longer here. >> cornell, the oklahoma naacp is calling for the department of justice, the oklahoma attorney general to investigate the killing of eric harris do you believe race played a role in his death? >> well what we know is that

young african-americans are 21 times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white kourntscounterparts we know there's racial disparities along the length and breadth of law enforcement. what's particularly troubling here is we have a 73-year-old man, who does not appear to be well trained, or trained at all. carrying a gun, in an undercover operation. those facts alone are deeply troubling. and the fact that we have a man who lost his life a father who lost his life in the midst of this tragic situation is very troubling. so there's certainly enough here to call for a federal investigation. fact that we have yet another african-american man losing his hands, losing his life at the

hands of a white police officer is again, very troubling. whether race played a role in this particular tragedy. the fact that race plays a major role in so many in a series of unrelenting tragedies. is important and we have to look at this. >> tom fuentes, does his explanation, harris' explanation, he mistook the stun gun, the taser for his handgun, does that make sense to you? >> it does make sense because of the way he describes it being configured when they're teaching how to operate a taser compared to a firearm, your firearm is supposed to be on your strong side. they recommend the taser be on the opposite side, you would have to draw it with your weaker hand in most people's cases, their left hand and pass it turnover the right hand. but as he shows in the interview, the gun is drawn with the right hand the taser when he had up in his chest, both are drawn with the same hand. almost in the same way. because of that i think it made it easier to confuse the two.

>> would you agree, he had no business on a sting operation, dangerous sting operation handguns a 73-year-old volunteer sheriffs deputy if you will. >> i have a personal reason for disagreeing. six years ago i reached the age of 57 and that's mandatory retirement for a special agent of the fbi and other federal agencies. so six years ago i no longer was eligible to be on the street as an armed special agent and you know this is a much older situation. >> a 73-year-old guy with a stun gun and handgun in an operation like this a volunteer, they got a to review that whole policy over there. i want all of you to stand by just ahead. ferguson protesters labeled enemy forces. enemy forces in a controversial national guard document obtained exclusively for cnn stand by for that. plus president obama as we rarely see him, outraged over the languishing nomination of the attorney general of the united states.

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from ferguson. what are you finding out? >> the protesters who heard and read about the documents say look we should be called americans exercising our rights, not enemies. >> cnn has obtained new documents revealing how the national guard planned for the situation in ferguson missouri. an internal documents that used words like enemy forces and adversaries to refer to protesters. after protest erupted in sporadic violence looting and burning in the wake of michael brown's death. the article outlined the guard's presence and putting general protesters in the same category as known hate groups like the klu klux klan and the black panthers saying protesters have historically used molotov cocktails, and other debris to throw at police several small arms fire incidents have occurred and some may use militant tactics taught by the

rebel group. >> any time we're vocal, expressing ourselves, any time we're disenfranchised, particularly in the black community. >> how am i an enemy? all i am is a 62-year-old grandmother who is worried i'm going to leave my grandchildren in a world where i can't protect them any more. i want to see change i want to see real change. >> the national guard itself worried about the perception of the words enemy and adversary, in the documents one colonel warned the language could be construed as inflammatory. the national guard spokesman said they were drafts taken from an army form letter and the language was changed and never appeared in the final order. the head of the missouri's national guard told cnn in an email the documents used in the email case were a generic planning format used in a wide range of military missions so the term enemy forces would be better understood as potential threats. in november when a grand jury decided not to indict the

officer who killed brown, the governor and national guard were criticized for the guard's national response as two streets of ferguson went up in flames. back then i asked the city's mayor about the guard's reaction to the riot. did the governor do the wrong thing when it comes to how quickly the national guard was actually deployed on the streets? >> i don't know who made that call. but i do believe that the national guard should have been out there much sooner. >> now i have to say, when you look at the documents it's hard to tell what might have been the final and what was just a draft. we can tell you that the changes that were made taking the word "enemy" out for example seem to have been made in november and the documents, some are from august the first time that the national guard was deployed in ferguson. >> all pretty disturbing stuff. thanks very much. let's dig deeper. joining us the president and ceo of the naacp, cornell brooks. also joining us the community activist john gasken the st.

louis city alderman antonio french and our law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director. cornell what do you make of this? governor nixon of missouri is in charge of the national guard there. was this a blunder, was this sinister? what's your reaction? >> i would simply know this the young people the young practitioners of democracy who took to the streets in the wake of michael brown's death in the main used the very tactics that the naacp has used over the course of 106 years, peaceful protests. under the language of these documents, the same kind of protests that martin luther king jr. engaged in that rosa parks engaged in. that roy wilkins engaged in would label them as enemies and adversaries, this is not the way we use our guard. the fact of the matter is what

we saw play out in the streets is in the main peaceful protests. and we should not escalate militarize protests and these conflicts on the street in ways to create and make it more likely for violence to happen. so these documents are deeply disturbing very disturbing. >> antonio, you say the statements in the documents amount to in your words, american soldiers viewing american citizens somehow as the enemy. explain. >> the language is very disappointing, language mat earns and think that particular language is really indicative of a perception we saw play out many times between august and november. law enforcement saw people out on the streets protesting as the enemy, instead of members of the same community that were upset about an important issue. it also shows that the national guard really painted with a very broad brush by far, the vast majority of people out there,

were peaceful peaceful protesters some of them young people some seniors as those few individuals that committed criminal acts could have been treated as criminals, but not as enemy kpatants somehow on our own soil. >> john gasken you followed it closely. there was antonio just said there was some violence directed the minority of the protesters toward police did the national guard as a result of that violence directed at the police maybe the national guard, did they have justification for using those words? >> absolutely not. i would have thought our country would have learned from the kent state massacre. but to see that type of language being used to refer to american citizens and peaceful protesters is unexcusable and it is absurd. i thinkle real person who needs to be held accountable for this quite honestly is governor jay nixon. as you know the national guard was deployed in ferguson before

the announcement was even made. they didn't even protect the businesses that were most vulnerable along west florissant in that particular area of the community. so this yet again, is yet another blunder primarily on his part due to his lack of leadership. in the community. >> i think that the problem here is that yes we have american citizens exercising their rights. and at times in this incident during those couple of days we had people committing arson. we had them discharging firearms. we had them throwing rocks, bottles, bricks molotov cocktails at police. that's not americans exercising their rights that's attacking the police and i could see where some 21-year-old might look at that when people do that to him, might just think that that is the enemy. >> and your reaction to what tom just said cornell? >> i understand the difficulty of the

of the national guard in this kind of volatile situation. but let's be clear about this. these documents represent a statement of policy and to the extent that we're describing overwhelmingly peaceful protesters as the enemy, as adversaries is as potential enemy combatants that's simply wrong headed. now, we don't want to minimize the exact of violence. certainly, police officers and businesses and peaceful protesters need to be protected. but we do not need to state as a matter of policy that american citizens in an american city in the middle of america are, in fact enemy combatant. that's certainly wrongheaded. >> cornell brooks thanks very much. john gaskin thanks to you as well. good conversation. we'll continue to follow this story. much more news coming up plus this. sunday night is smokin'. times are a changing. >> i just legally purchased marijuana. >> a new movement is growing.

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president obama says enough

is enough. he's blasting the u.s. senate for stalling the nomination of his choice to be the next attorney general, loretta lynch. listen to this. >> what are we doing here? and i have to say that there are times where the dysfunction in the senate just goes too far. this is an example of it. it's gone too far. enough! enough. call loretta lynch for a vote. get her confirmed. put her in place. let her do her job. this is embarrassing. a process like this. thank you. >> you don't often see the president get that angry at an issue that he's clearly very angry about this one. now to the 2016 presidential race and a new showcase for republican hopefuls in new hampshire.

unofficial candidate jeb bush joined the crowd. he seemed to have his family and hillary clinton very much on his mind. let's go to cnn's athena jones. she's joining us live from nashua new hampshire. what's the latest over there, athena? >> reporter: hi wolf. well we saw the former governor speak twice today, and he seemed really comfortable sharing his life story, talking up his record in florida, and also taking questions from voters. one question he keeps getting is how he's going to distinguish himself from his father and his brother. he hasn't formally announced his candidacy, but jeb bush is already acting like a presidential candidate. fielding questions from granite state voters on tough issues like immigration reform. >> deal with the folks that are here illegally, in a rational thoughtful way. my suggestion is earn legal status. >> reporter: that's a view at odds with many conservatives, a

sign the former florida governor isn't afraid to stick to his principles on this and other issues. he says he enjoys engaging with voters in these intimate settings. >> this is what they expect. this is the unique nature of new hampshire. you can do it. it's small enough where people get a chance to see it close up which i love. >> last night, bush also tackled that recurring question about the bush family as a political dynasty. much like the adams' family presidents of centuries past. >> i have to prove that i'm not running for president if i go beyond the consideration of this to being an active candidate. i'm trying to break the tie between the adams' family and the bush family. >> reporter: and he poked fun at a potential rival from another political dynasty, saying that hillary clinton's recent visit to an ohio chipotle -- >> do i go there? yeah, i go there. the one on u.s. 1. drive my own kpar. park my own car, get out of my own car. >> reporter: but while bush has been jabbing democrats like clinton and president barack obama, he hasn't focused much on

his fell lowe gop contenders even as the rest of the field try hard to distinguish themselves. former texas governor rick perry warning today that nominating another first-term senator would be a mistake. a not-so-veiled digs at senators ted cruz marco rubio. >> we spent eight years with a young, inexperienced state senator. and we're paying a tremendous price. >> reporter: now, republicans here are generally more moderate than republicans in some of the other early voting states. much more like the general election electorate. now, jeb bush says he's a conservative not a moderate. but he's someone who's also talked about running a general election-style campaign from the very beginning. whether he'll be successful in winning over enough voters with that approach is an open question. wolf? >> athena, thanks very much. athena jones reporting from new hampshire. remember you can always follow us on twitter.

go ahead, tweet me @wolfblitzer. you can always tweet the show @cnnsitroom. be sure to join us here again monday right here in "the situation room." you can always watch us live or dvr the show so you won't miss a moment. thanks very much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. out front next breaking news. target america. the first isis attack against the united states. isis claiming credit for a suicide bomb outside an american consulate today. and new video of a man brutally hit by a speeding police car. you'll see him moments before the collision stealing a gun from walmart. and a texas man spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to shoot an endangered rhino. he says he's saving the species. let's go "outfront." blnk good evening. i'm erin