s a case by case analysis. >> amazing the statements that came out that said i did it and i'm sorry. not saying what i did, but i made some mistakes. remarkable story. thank you. happy memorial day. have a good weekend. >> thank you all as well. it's been nice to have you with me. dana bash sitting in for wolf and she starts right now. lelhello, i'm dana bash in for wolf blitzer, 1:00 p.m. in washington 6:00 p.m. in dublin and 8:00 p.m. in baghdad. thanks for joining us. we start with new important advances by isis one in iraq and one in syria. first in syria where isis militants have taken control of a keyboarder crossing. it was the last one held by syrian government troops. iraqi troops still hold their side of the border and in iraq isis has captured a key city between ramadi and baghdad. those isis fighters are moving closer to habania a major

military base for iraqi security forces and iran nan backed shiite militants. thousands of civilians have fled isis' advance in ramadi but many are trapped at a key bridge unable to make the trek towards baghdad. our senior correspondent arwa damon is live in baghdad right now. why are those refugees unable to get to baghdad? >> well simply put, because today the government decided for reasons that have not been fully disclosed to us even though we have been asking about it to close the bridge. this bridge was open yesterday for refugees but only those who have a sponsor in baghdad province. this is a bridge that connects baghdad province to anbar province. the hundreds we saw there earlier today, really trying to get by in what can be described as unbearable conditions. not just because of the violence that they witnessed that forced them to flee but because of this sandstorm that was taking

place that lasted for hours. it was the kind of sandstorm that causes the dirt to get stuck in your mouth, stick to the back of your throat. fill your lungs. and we saw in the middle of all of this babies, the elderly, women and children just trying to shelter themselves because there was little, if any actual shelter they could use to try to protect themselves from this horrific sandstorm that was unfolding. they were so angry because they could not understand how it was that their government could allow them to languish like this. one man was so upset, so aggravated he said if i die i do not want to be buried in iraq because a country that treats us like this i cannot call my own. >> absolutely horrible and heartbreaking. as you were talking we were playing the pictures of that sandstorm and just how horrific the conditions are. what about those who actually make it across?

who is taking care of them? >> well so to come across the bridge you need to have a sponsor and, in fact tens of thousands of people have fled anbar province for baghdad. many have family relatives and also what we have been seeing for those who don't, kind citizens are coming forward and saying i will sponsor these people. in a number of mosques in the capital they have been turned into makeshift refugee shelters lot of the predominantly sunni neighborhoods are opening up vacated homes, partially built buildings as shelter for the various refugees. there does need to be batter system and a better plan in place as we saw earlier today for those that aren't able to get themselves into this baghdad sponsorship program system that has been de facto established because they cannot be left in the conditions that we saw them in earlier and also you have these calls from the united nations for additional support when it comes to trying to help shelter these individuals

because if the trend is as we have seen it over the next few days isis is slowly making progress in anbar province. it did manage to take over another town that is to the east of ramadi and trying to attack yet another area closer to the habbaniya base where the iraqi government trying beef up its presence and seems unto this point unable to do so that would prevent isis from advancing. >> all of those women and children and other refugees are just sitting ducks there. thank you for that report. i appreciate it. the fall of ramadi is being blamed by some on the united states. some say the iraqi forces were ill equipped for the fight and others say u.s. commanders in baghdad made iraq's prime minister delay the deployment of iranian backed shiite militia fighters. joining me to discuss this is retired lieutenant kourple james reese, cnn global affairs analyst and delta force commander and here in washington phil mudd cnn's counter

terrorism analyst and counterterrorism official and also mu bean sheikh, a former jihadist and former counterterrorism operative. colonel reese, does the united states share the blame for ramadi? >> well i don't know if we have to shares the blame. we're always going to be blamed because when you're the big guy on the block everyone will look to that person the person everyone looks to around the world and we've said this, people expect the u.s. to inspire everyone around them. right now we're not inspiring and, you know, i'm not sure if i believe that we told the prime minister to hold up the militia but in tikrit the u.s. leadership over there was not happy about the shia militia being up in tikrit, very instrumental in the fight over there. it breaks my heart to watch in this humanitarian crisis is going to get worse as we go on. >> it seems that way. mu bean you understand the

culture of groups like isis. what do victories like ramadi do for isis with regard to recruitment? >> it's great for recruitment. you will see videos coming out of parades in the open square in full daylight individuals very happy about it people are tweeting about it and you'll start to see the video clips embedded into some of their propaganda pieces that will come out. >> phil we were talking earlier, you think there's too much of a it focus on ramadi and other specific cities that fall or battles and we're not focusing enough on the broader war. >> that's right. look i spent 25 years as an analyst at cia and the fbi. any time analyzing a complex problem you have to look at least a handful of characteristics. want to buy a car it's not just price, there's a bunch of other things. you want to assess an insurgency it's not just space, not just towns. it's things like does the government maintain the will to fight. the answer so far is mixed. does the government have foreign support in a counterinsurgency

the answer is yes. the americans are sticking with them. what's the capability of the government to have the training and equipment to bring the fight to the enemy, are the battle lines hardening, how capable is the enemy of using an ideology to effectively recruit people. i would say isiss has not graduated there. we're focusing on what happened in the last day or two or week. the average insurgency is a decade or more. if you want to assess this in-depth look at a bunch of characteristics not just ramadi. >> part of the issue seems to be colonel reese, is that the iraqi military they're just, you know, not doing what they're supposed to be doing and there are lots of reasons for that i guess, but the bottom line is isis now controls ramadi and fallujah to the east now fighting iraqi forces to connect the road between the two cities if isis does end up controlling that whole corridor and you see it on the map, does it set up a possible advance on baghdad which is just less than 50 miles

away? >> no i don't think it does. phil and i talked about this morning. phil is right we can't look down a straw and make a determination about iraq. iraq has had problems in al anbar province because i believe isis has shifted their main effort down to anbar where they have a huge sunni backing there and can do some recruiting. where they try to get up in mosul, mosul surrounded by three areas, they've lost in baji they've lost in tikrit so the iraqi forces have done good things in some placesp. they're not doing well in anbar but they have to try to get it together. i do not think that isis will make a push to baghdad but i will tell you what in the last week and this is continuing in baghdad, they had 26 ieds and ten vehicle born ieds in baghdad alone last week. still things happening in baghdad even though they have it

locked down well. >> to get it together as colonel reese was saying, you have to have the will to do so right? you have to have the will to fight the enemy which in this case is isis. do you believe that there is the will there? i know it's kind of hard to tell but knowing what you know about the culture of this? >> well i think the will is there to fight. but in certain places there's a greater role than other places. i think the iraqis are going to want to hold the territory they have. the strategy has been to deny isis the so-called caliphate and shrink their land and make the argument that what point is the caliphate you can't hold the land but isis is showing even if it loses land elsewhere it can gain land in other places and that's the strategy. >> phil mudd on that issue, we've seen reports of the iraqi soldiers the military not being paid for six months. >> yeah. >> and not having kind of the fire in the belly if you will to do it whether or not it's their job or not.

that they're actually getting a paycheck. that's a problem when you're fighting a group like isis which is all about ideology. >> that's right. this is one of the reasons you're seeing shia militia move in. we've got a shia led government backed by the iranians across the border. we're thousands of miles away and want the iraqis to look at the world through our perspective. they're closer to the iranians including the iranian generals sitting in baghdad saying bring it to the sunnis don't trust them and be careful bringing them into the government people like the sunni tribes. who will you listen to in baghdad? listen to the iranianers your backers across the border bring the shia militias into ramadi or the american the take the art of the long view and practice democracy and make friends with your enemies. tough scene? if they're getting mixed messages you don't know what to do. >> coming up the senate is heading towards what could be a weekend showdown over nsa surveillance of americans. they're debateing a bill that would continue but limit broad

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department released almost 300 of clinton's e-mails on-line they span a two-year period concentrating on events before during and after the benghazi attacks. cnn investigative correspondent chris freights joins me now, going through the e-mails. so far, i know we got them within the last hour any bombshells. >> no bombshells. democrats are pointing that out. no stand down order here there's no evidence she ever ran any arms through libya or in benghazi. thus is more evidence that this committee isn't doing its job. republicans on the other saids the e-mails raise more questions about the security on the ground. in fact there's one e-mail from august 24th, 2012 bewhere a top aide jake sullivan says to hillary clinton there are warning signs of decreasing security situation in benghazi republicans want to know what was done about that. there are examples where republicans are saying this opens up more questions for us

to pursue then say it's a dead end and move on. there's color. interesting e-mails. here is one, a few days before christmas, in 2012 where hillary writes to her top aides who are going to testify on capitol hill and she says i'm sorry i can't be up there with you today. i'll be nursing my [ inaudible ] and cheering you on as you remain calm and carry on. so, you know -- >> you get a sense of her personality. >> that she is in touch with her aides and we're also seeing some color here. a little peek behind the curtain for how she ran her state department. >> in front of the curtain, we're looking at live pictures of hillary clinton on the campaign trail at the smutty nosed brewery in new hampshire and i just wanted to say that because i wanted to say smutty nosed brewery on television but you're talking about e-mails released. there is skepticism the e-mails that were released were the e-mails they are okay with the public seeing and not necessarily all of the e-mails. >> that's right.

i think it's important to remember that hillary clinton kept all of these e-mails on her own private server and last year she turned over about 30,000 of these e-mails that she said were the official record and turned those over to the state department. the state department has been going through those. hillary clinton has asked for those to be released. what we're getting is the first 300 of those e-mails today. a very small portion of the total 30,000 and these only have to do with benghazi and libya. the reason we're getting them first is because the committee that's investigating benghazi on the hill already had these e-mails. they had already kind of been vetted and we're getting our first looks here. lots more e-mails to come. >> very briefly you mentioned the investigation, the committee on capitol hill what does this say about that investigation. >> i think republicans say we have more questions. democrats say this puts an end to crazy conspiracy theories republicans have. these e-mails were not put an

end to this debate. in fact republicans just today said, these are the self-selected e-mails of hillary clinton and so we have to take them with a grain of salt. >> nothing she does or says will put anything to an end for republicans now that she is running for president. appreciate it. >> the state is preparing a possible showdown over surveillance programs that try to track potential terror suspects. the details next.

two years after edward snowden blew the lid off the nast secret surveillance programs congress is tied in

knots over whether and how to keeps the programs going. the senate i expected to vote as early as today on a bill approved the house which extends authority for the nsa to collect massive amounts of phone data but with important changes, changes some in the stateenate say go too far. these programs expire on june 1st. and the house they've left town. they're already on a holiday recess until that very day, june 1st. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch pleading with congress for an extension. >> with the expiration of not just that part but our ability to track the electronic communications of terrorists as well as to obtain the records of terrorists is that we will lose important eyes on people who have made it clear that their mission is to harm american people here and abroad. >> should these charges make it through the senate intact?

i want to bring in michael, nominated to be attorney general in 2007 by president george w. bush after almost 20 years as a district court judge for new york. thank you for joining me. i appreciate it. start with what you heard from loretta lynch and talking about the fact that she in the administration want the house bill with the reforms to pass you i know disagree. where you believe the problem is that the nastsa surveillance program is too narrow not too expansive, why? >> the nsa surveillance program is not just properly speaking not a surveillance program it's a data gathering program is what we're talking about. it gathers the metadata the calling number the called number the date and the length of the call that's all. not any content. that's done so that we can if we get a suspicious number we can run it against that data base to find out whether a foreign

terrorist has either called or been called by a number in the united states. there's no content of any kind involved. the trouble is they don't get cell phone records. all they get is land lines. it ought to be extended so cell phones and stay in place. the house -- go ahead. >> that's what i was going to ask you about the house bill. why do you think what they passed is just to be specific so our viewers know this is obviously kind of in the weeds, but it's important, what they have done is pass the bill that says that no longer should the government hold on to these records. it would actually be the companies that do so. but apparently there's not even a requirement for them. that is that the issue you have. >> that's one issue. there's no requirement they keep the records and i think it's in the company's interest and their competitive interest to get rid of them as fast as possible. they don't want this. so we're really at the mercy of the companies.

also even under the best of sirc stapss if they do keep the records, then the justice department has to go running around to each -- or the nsa has to go around to each telephone company and search their records, about 100 carriers. it's quite a cumbersome process. >> you were on capitol hill this week went behind closed doors with republican senators to brief them and i'm guessing to give them these arguments because they are tied in knotses right now about what to do. broadly, what did you tell them and what kind of skepticism did you hear back? >> well, broadly there's no civil liberties issue involved here. they're not eavesdropping on anybody's conversations or not getting the identity of the person making the call or the person receiving the call. it's only a list of numbers to find out whether a number has been called by or has called a suspected terrorist number. what i got was some skepticism relating to that i guess, and

also relating to the question of whether the law under which this was done really authorizes it. we went back and forth on that. i believe it does. and there may have been one or two who believes it didn't. >> talk about your own experience. you've been in the trenches with these programs. truly this helps you. this has helped you with going after terror suspects. >> right. and the way it helps is not necessarily catching somebody right at the moment that they're about to set off an inferno device. this is not about the jump shot at the buzzer. this is about gathering intelligence always an incremental process, it's a piece of the puzzle here and piece of the puzzle there and you put them together and build a database. that's what intelligence gathering is all about. it's not about necessarily the game winner at any moment. but it's enormously helpful. >> you mention civil liberties.

a fair number of democrats and republicans who say that it's not worth infringing on american civil liberties that you talk about. one of the most outspoken members of congress is senator rand paul and you have been critical of him. you talked about the possibility that he could become president and you said it's a terrifying prospect. you said on fox news he's completely off the wall. no way the republican party is going to nominate somebody like that. how much damage he is going to do in the meantime. that's pretty tough stuff. >> it is. and, you know, it's -- i was feeling cast inging the caffeine at that point i suppose but i stand by it. whatevers the reason the description that he's made of what this program does enormously misleading. he suggested that the government is eavesdropping on people's content that it is data mining

their records, that it's drawing profiles of them and so on and none of that is true. >> you're saying he's dem going toing, he's saying he's standing up for the rights of the american people. >> that sums it up neatly. >> okay. . thank you very much. appreciate your time. thank you for that insight because you are one of the few people who has experience at the head of when the agency is conducting this. thank you very much. we're going to turn up next to officials in california who are preparing to update us on an oil spill near santa barbara. the latest on the damage up next. does your makeup remover take it all off? every kiss-proof cry-proof, stay-proof look? neutrogena® makeup remover does. it erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. need any more proof than that? neutrogena.

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first their emergency procedures evaluate them see what they have learned from that. they cannot use this pipeline which you would expect until they figure out what went wrong. that means taking out the part of the pipe that ruptured doing a met learningcle examination to figure out what went wrong and this doesn't happen again. they have to remove the crude oil in this pipeline as well. you're talking about a pipeline about ten miles long. they have to go through removal and submit a plan for approval on how they plan to make it safer when the pipeline does get up and running again. they have to go back to the department of transportation to get approval before they can use this pipe after all that's happened. they want to make sure what doesn't happen is that you don't have the release of another 100,000 or more gallons of crude oil into the cove here or into this nine mile stretch of beach that has been affected not even sort of totally affected by all of the oil coming in affecting

the marine life and as it continues to push out further into the pacific ocean. >> it's such a shame. santa barbara county beaches are absolutely beautiful and to see those pictures it's just absolutely heartbreaking. what does it mean for cleanup? just the fact that the oil plume already out there is moving more and we see the pictures of exactly what's happening but with regard to the cleanup what are officials saying? >> it's a really difficult task as you might imagine. you have oil that is seeping into the sand you've got it permeating the surf. you can see it along the rocks here along this stretch of beach. they've been out here since datebreak cleaning and working on this. oil breaks up into droplets that can be harsh on the animals that are out there and in ways you can't even imagine how it's affecting the surf affecting the life here. so this is going to take a long time and it's going to take weeks until we know what caused

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details. in fact it's not as i'm told been fully negotiated yet. i do have concerns. i have concerns that the standards will not be tough enough that they will not be enforceable. i have concerns about currency manipulation which has been a big problem in the impact on our companies and our workers. i have concerns about the -- >> okay. . we just lost the signal and you couldn't see hillary clinton but you could clearly hear her voice in the scrum of reporters there. and joining me now to talk about that and a whole lot more we have gloria borger and jeff zeleny. let's get to what we were just hearing, she was actually talking about trade, which is very, very important when it comes to the democratic primary, okay we know she has maybe nominal opposition but a trade bill going through the senate now and a lot of key democrats like sherrod brown of ohio an important state has kind of withheld his support for her

until she says whether or not she's pro trade or not and she seemed to be kind of from that answer not saying one way or the other. >> you know, this is because she's a candidate and got elizabeth warren to the left of her and when she was secretary of state, she said that these trade deals were the gold standard that was a quote. now clearly she is backing away because she feels the pressure from the left wing of the party. she's distancing herself from the president on this. i would also add. it's not really a surprise gives given the fact that she needs to get some emotional support from the base of the party. >> and before i let you answer that i just want to say that we went to hillary clinton speaking live because she was talking a little bit about the fact that e-mails were released. we didn't hear what she said but hopefully as we're speaking we will get word on what she said about that. first of all take a step back and say hillary clinton was answering questions second time in a week after getting pummeled

byp are bes and some journalists by not doing so. >> she was talking about the e-mails and saying what she said earlier this week in iowa that the state department is fol following a process. all the e-mails released, i was just reading all of the e-mails have been vetted by her and her team. all 50,000 pages printed out and given to the state department were vetted by all her lawyers and things. they are not surprised by any of this. now, of course she wants them out because these are hanging over her head. they are showing an interesting glimpse into how her aides protected her and she was responding to information at the time. no smoking gun as our chris has reported. >> the republican field because as we speak there is a meeting, the southern republican leadership conference going on in oklahoma city chris christie jeb bush spoke this morning. let's listen to what jeb bush

said. >> leading from behind is not a foreign policy. think about it. as isis continues its march to create a caliphate, taking over ramadi, growing in its influence in syria, and also spawning other forms of islamic terrorism, not just in iraq and syria, but around the world, leading from behind is not a policy. in fact i would say, we now see what happens when we lead from behind. we leave behind our credibility. we leave behind our blood and treasure. we leave behind security. we leave behind peace. if we're going to be serious to create prosperity at home we need to re-engage with the rest of the world. >> very clear argument there or at least the idea of a philosophy i should say from jeb bush. still, you know, recovering from last week trying to get his answer right on what would have happened back when the u.s. went to war in iraq what he would

have done and now looking on republican message turning it against president obama. >> last week he had a lot of problems trying to figure out how to differentiate himself from his brother whether he would have gone into iraq or not, whether the war in iraq was a mistake. this was very clearly stated republican sort of policy more hawkish, more muscular. >> more anti-obama, that's the key-point. >> accusing the president of leading from behind which is the protocol for republicans, and, you know, very clearly in sync with many of the candidates we're going to see out on the campaign trail. >> this comes after he distanced himself from his own brother not on the war but on spending which is something that almost uniformly among republicans they say that his brother spent too much federal money when he was president. >> his brother and the vice president. back during the era as we remember where deficits didn't matter and no one talked about the fact that they were spending

so much money. >> true. >> in new hampshire when you're jeb bush that is the place you want to distance yourself on spending. a lot of a fiscal conservatives in new hampshire. i think it's no surprise he was doing that. that's a safe thing to distance his brother on. >> chris christie is running on that same kind of a platform in new hampshire, cutting entitlement spending very much a fiscal hawk and that plays well. >> thanks gloria and jeff. that was good timing that we got that press conference going on and we'll be interested to see what else she says. >> they leave their jobs and families to walk willingly into a war zone. still ahead, a look at the so-called white helmets in action. dr. sanjay gupta spends time with the brave volunteers who are serious only first responders. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain

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some 300,000 people have died in syria's civil war, a war that is now in its fifth year. neighborhoods and entire cities are reduced to rubble. but amid the tragedy there is heroism. group of courageous volunteers syrian citizens that risk their lives to save others in the war zone. they're called the white helmets and cnn's dr. sanjay gupta embedded with them getting an exclusive look at the heros in action. sanjay? >> reporter: as you well know syria has been in the middle of a civil war for five years and i

can tell you there are zones within syria considered fire-free zones, meaning that they ares just bombed and shelled indiscriminately with no help in site for the civilians. there is a group called the white helmets which is trying to fill that void provide some help. how they do their work is remarkable. i embedded with them to see how they do it. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: you're watching an extraordinary rescue in aleppo syria. for 12 hours these men have been digging and drilling. tare they're about to save the life of a 2 week old baby. the baby saviors known only by the iconic protective gear they wear on their heads in an area bursts with too many men in black hats they are the cavalry, the white helmets. >> they have all chosen they have all chosen to risk their lives to save others.

and that makes every one of them a hero. >> reporter: james is the architect of the organization. >> in syria, there is no 911 system. there is nobody that you can call. you can't pick up a phone and call the fire you can't pick up a phone and call the fire service. you can't call a local police department. they don't exist. >> so this group of ordinary syrian men and a few women have organized themselves to fill that void. this man was once a black smith. ibrahim, a basher. amad a detective. he is supposed to get married next week. but for the time being, they've left their previous jobs their previous lives, and now volunteer to run toward when everyone else is running from. we're traveling along a border between turkey and syria.

we're with the white helmets. they've just gotten a call. we wanted to see exactly what they do. this is all part of an intense training to become even better even faster. all the sudden this area filled with smoke. there is concern that there may be another bomb or another attack coming so they've asked for all the lights to be turned off. they don't want to be a target themselves but you can see just how challenging that makes their job. the concern is that. the white helmets tell us this video is of a barrel bomb being hurtled from a chopper by the syrian government. as you see, they can be wildly inaccurate. as you hear they're incredibly vicious. >> a barrel bomb dropping on your house is like a 7.6-magnitude earthquake 50 times a day. >> these bombs are so malignant, full of explosives rebar, wire

nails, anything else that can brutally maim and kill. but now the white helmets are concerned about a newer enemy, chlorine gas. they were able to save these children but believe chlorine gas led to the death of a family of six. and it gets even worse. >> helicopters normally carry 3 es. the pilot then remains in the sky, circling where the explosion took place, waiting for a crowd to gather and waiting for rescuers to come to the scene. when a crowd gathers they release the second bomb. and that is a double tap. >> 84 white helmets have now been killed mostly by double taps. it is why syria is one of the most dangerous places in the world and why being a white helmet might be the most dangerous job in the world.

and yet they go on. 2600 have saved the lives of 18,000. >> how long more does it go on do you think? >> one day at a time. >> as for the white helmets, another day is another chance to save a life. and dana simply getting to these training sessions in southern turkey is potentially life threatening in and of itself. these syrians have to cross the border. sometimes they get harassed. sometimes they get fired upon. it can be extremely dangerous work. again, just to get the training. then they got to get back to their homes as well. it's incredible but i can tell you seeing it first hand that so

many lives have been saved because of the remarkable work that the white helmets are doing. dana back to you. >> true definition of a hero. thank you, sanjay for that report. and still ahead, a landmark vote happening right now in ireland. it's the first country in the world to let the public decide on same-sex marriage. a live report from dublin next. after brushing listerine® total care strengthens teeth, helps prevent cavities and restores tooth enamel. it's an easy way to give listerine® total care to the total family. listerine® total care. one bottle, six benefits. power to your mouth™.

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just sign into my account to pay bills manage service appointments and find answers to your questions. you can even check your connection status on your phone. now it's easier than ever to manage your account. get started at xfinity.com/myaccount happening now, a historic decision facing voters in ireland. they're voting on whether to change their constitution to allow same-sex marriage. if the referendum passes ireland would be the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage through a popular vote. our cnn's senior international correspondent phil black is live in dublin. phil i know turnout today earlier was about 14%.

three hours until polls close. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: well, dana at the polling station behind me they say it's now at about 35%, which they say is very high for a referendum. ireland has a lot of these, holds them frequently. there's still some three hours of voting to go. this is really the peak time now. this is the post-work period. this is when most people are expected to come home from their jobs and cast their votes in their local polling station. it's been a long difficult debate in this country between the yes campaign and the no campaign. yes saying this is about equality fairness gay couples getting to love and commit to their partners in the way that heterosexual couples can. the no campaign has been campaigning on the issue of parenting, even though that's not specifically at question here. their argument largely focuses on their belief they say, that gay couples cannot be as effective parents as straight couples. >> and phil explain to people

here in the united states in countries around the world why ireland is even holding this vote. because obviously gay marriage same-sex marriage is particularly polarizing in that country. it's a catholic country. so why this vote and why now? >> reporter: you're right. it is traditionally a very conservative country, one where the catholic church has had absolute moral authority on pretty much everything. that authority has declined in recent years because of successive scandals involving children abuse, mistreatment. its credibility in this regard has deteriorated a great deal. at the same time ireland has become a more open country. it has moved closer to europe, more open more cosmopolitan. two factors that together have brought us to this day here now. the fact this country is prepared to have this conversation and hold this vote which is pretty extraordinary when you think about its conservative past and the fact that homosexuality was still illegal here just 22 years ago.

>> it really is extraordinary. we're going to be watching that to see what happens when the polls do close there in about three hours. phil black, thank you for that report. for our international viewers "amanpour" is next. for our viewers in north america, "newsroom" with poppy harlow starts right now. hi everyone. i'm poppy harlow in today for my friend brooke baldwin. we begin this hour with breaking news in that d.c. mansion murder case. the suspect is due in court soon for the first time since his stunning capture after a widespread manhunt. daron dylon wint is accused of killing a powerful d.c. businessman, his wife their son, and their housekeeper. he allegedly set fire to the mansion, leaving the four victims inside.