♪ breaking news. violence escalating overnight in gaza and israeli air strike brings down a house and killing a pregnant palestinian woman and her 3-year-old daughter. >> thousands turning out to see bernie sanders with two days before the first democratic debate on cnn and sanders seems to be giving hillary clinton a run for her money. two separate reports conclude the cleveland police officer was justified in shooting tamir rice. this is cnn breaks news.

>> thank you for being a part of our morning here. breaking news and show you the video we are getting in. the aftermath of an air strike in gaza. among the dead a palestinian woman who was pregnant and her 3-year-old daughter, this as violence escalates in the middle east. but, again, we are grateful to have you with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. thank you for being with us this morning. the images overnight we have been getting from gaza and jerusalem as you saw there just striking. when you see people rushed from the scene of an air strike and it demonstrates how severe the violence there is escalating. this was the scene after the air strike. we told awe pregnant woman, a 3-year-old child. nine other palestinians were killed during border clashes with israeli soldiers. in israeli, officials -- israel rather, official report a police

officer was injured after a palestinian woman set off a car explosion near a checkpoint. the officer is expected to survive. the fighting and killing comes in the way of protesters of restrictions by the israeli government on a holy site known as a temple to jews and muslims. aaron is live with the latest on the violence there. what is the latest there, erin? >> reporter: it happened this morning near an israeli checkpoint in the west bank. israeli police noticed a suspicious car. they say that the 31-year-old palestinian driver from jericho inside was looking very nervous. they pulled her over. as she got out of the car, police say that she detonated a device inside the car, causing an explosion, which severely injured her, as well as lightly

wounded an israeli police officer. we asked them how they know that she was the one who detonated the device. they said they weren't able to release those details at this time. but she is now currently in a hospital with treatment. they say the car had israeli license plates and they say it was on its way to jerusalem. then overnight in gaza, israeli air force say they targeted two hamas weapons manufacturing facilities. gaza city fire saying that one of the bombs dropped in a field and nearby building collapsed as a result. inside that building a 35-year-old pregnant palestinian woman and her 3-year-old child, both were killed. three injured. israeli military say that the strikes were in response to a rocket that was fired from gaza towards southern israeli. that rocket overnight having been intercepted by the ire dome

and the second rocket fired in recent days. this is all, of course, part of the wave of violence that we have seen of late. yesterday, u.s. secretary of state john kerry calling both the israeli prime minister, as well as the presidents of the palestinian authorities saying that the united states is committed to helping to stabilize the situation. >> things escalating there far too quickly. erin mclaughlin, thank you. another breaking news stowee following in turkey. a hundred people are holding a demonstration near yesterday's twin bombings. the government has declared three days of mourning there. 95 people were killed and 246 others wounded. the peace rally involved, among others, a pro kurdish group.

arwa damon is live on the ground there. it seems there is instability there again today. can you tell us more? >> reporter: yeah. earlier in the day, a group of mps and members of the prokurdi prokurdi prokurdish opposition party were there. initially there were scuffles between them and police who were trying to cordon the area off. there have been demonstrations throughout the day. we are in front of the where the bodies of those two died are now being released to the families after autopsies were performed. you see vehicles that are meant to be carrying people to their funerals, their final resting place and around this, understandably, of course, people very somber and people still in shock. a lot of them overcome with emotions as they wait to bury their dead. this is the deadliest single

attack in turkey's modern history the last 90 years and the country is reeling from it but great concern this is going to cause more tensions. what is already a very polarized society between the government of the president here whose prime minister came out and said this attack was an attack on the state and on the other side, the various different oppositions parties. you see moments like this one of people trying to comfort each other. everyone's emotions are just so raw at this stage. everyone trying to come to terms with the kind of violence, trying to understand why it is that this has happened to them. searching for answers. answers that at this stage the government is really unable to provide on. no claim of responsibility just yet when it comes to who was responsible for this attack, but as i was saying, a lot of

questions and a lot of very raw emotions. >> arwa damon, we appreciate you bringing us the latest from the scene there. we want to bring in naval intelligence officer now. let's talk about what she was saying. no claim of responsibility. are you surprised by that, first of all? >> no. it's a large complex issue in large part because of the kurds. we saw secretary of defense carter announce a few days ago after pulling the plug on the free syrian army he was backing the kurds and frankly the kurds have had a huge amount of success in fighting isil but a problem with turkey in which you have the hpd which is part of the protest and want to include equalism. they are fighting isil in syria want to have their own state. it's putting us and turkey at the crossroads. >> naveed, the prime minister

toglu said turkey was worried about suicide bombs and arrested three suspects the past three days and you look at what happened there were still two suicide bombings there yesterday. what does that tell you about the strength or the organization or the group behind this? do you think it is isis or do you think this is more internal in terms of the struggle between the kurds and the turkish government? >> it's too early to say. look. if it was isil, i'm surprised they wouldn't have taken responsibility for something. >> right. >> reporter: that is a signature of them. i have to say that this seems like internal strife. this is right before the lextiole elections. you have two camps here. you have one camp saying we want our own autonomy, we want our own state. >> is turkey that vulnerable, do you think, to isis and do you

think the fact that turkey, which has avoided much of isis it seems in terms of attacks thus far, the fact that they kind of shifted their stance and that they are allowing the u.s. to launch air strikes from turkey, is that contributing to this as well, do you think? >> yes. not only that, but, you know, the turks also allowed the kurds from iraq, the pershmega. they wanted to help their fellow kurds in syria. this is a problem with refuges also. it's the fact we have nato, the fact they are somehow being forced to either implicitly support the kurds is not necessarily something that everyone in the government supports. >> naveed jamali, thank you for

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two days until the first democratic debate on cnn. five candidates you see here will be on stage in las vegas. tuesday night will be the first time that americans will see the top two candidates hillary clinton and bernie sanders facing off. the other three there on stage together. take a look at this huge crowd in boulder, colorado, for bernie sanders, which was saturday. 9,000 people came out to cheer him on and 13,000 the night before and he is heading to vegas. let's bring in stephen collinson. the analysts say they compare sanders' rallies to that of a ro concert and the clinton crowd to those of a lecture. these crowds have to be helping him, right? >> certainly. there is a real contrast between the events that bernie sanders is doing, observe in big sports

arenas with loud and enthusiastic crowds than what hillary clinton is doing. democrats in the clinton campaign have been surprised by the progressive wave that is building behind bernie sanders. bun caveat is during campaigns, crowds can be deceptive. he is matching hillary clinton in fund-raising and a lot of his money is coming from small donors. big crowds don't necessarily, on election day, translate into big votes. we have to be cautious at this stage but clearly a sign bernie sanders is doing better in this race and a lot better than people examined. >> you talk about money and support. let's look at the money first. it had had been said that clinton was a fund-raising juggernaut. you cannot beat her when it comes to the dollar. third quarter numbers here. sanders raised almost as much as hillary clinton clinton.

she raised 28 million and he raised 25 million as you you said from small donors. break down the significance here. >> if you raise a lot of money from small donors you generally get smaller amounts of money. that means donors can continue to contribute over and over again until they reach over the limit of 2,000. with hillary clinton she is tapping richer donors and that means they tend to max out their contribution more quickly so that means you have to keep finding more and more donors. most of her fund-raising so far has come from the sort of democratic establishment donors. she did events over on the west coast, for example, where there is a lot of democratic money. i think one of the things she will be hoping at this debate is that she puts in a good performance and taps the democrats and able to widen her support and raise money from the small donors as well. >> because she is the one with something to lose here essentially. any front-runner going into a debate typically does, has

something to lose. sanders has to introduce himself, in many ways, to people who have not been to one of these huge rallies. >> that's true. a lot of democrats have only seen bernie sanders in one of these rallies. he is not an established national figure like mrs. clinton. at the same time, she puts on a strong debate performance it could remind a lot of democrats -- remember, she got 18 million votes in the 2008 democratic primary why they liked her in the first place. in 2008 the first cracks in her campaign happened in a debate on an answer on driving license for undocumented migrants in new york. so there is always a potential for a smaller, less well-known candidate to wound the front-runner in one of these debates. >> stephen collinson, thanks so much. we will continue our coverage all more. the first democratic presidential debate is this tuesday, october 13th, two days away at 8:30 eastern, only on

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coming up on the bottom of the hour now. breaking news out of the middle east where the violence there has escalated overnight. what you're seeing right now is

the aftermath of an alleged israeli air strike in gaza. palestinian officials say a pregnant woman and her daughter, 3 years old, were killed in this bombing. israeli's military say it was targeting hamas weapons missiles. israeli officials are also reporting a police officer was injured just a few hours ago when a palestinian woman set off a car explosion near a checkpoint. the fighting comes in the wake of protests over restrictions placed by the israeli government on a holy site. we will have a live report at the top of the hour. politics now. two days from the first democratic presidential debate is right here on cnn and vermont senator bernie sanders may be telegraphing some punches. during a rally in colorado, he touted his vote against the war in iraq back in 2002 put where

hillary clinton voted the other way. we will see if sanders brings it up when the two meet face-to-face on tuesday night. he has been reluctant to go after secretary clinton directly and we will much have more on the debate throughout the morning. the video i'm sure you'll remember when you first saw it because it shocked most of the nation when it came to light. police pulling up to 12-year-old tamir rice in a cleveland park. one officer drawing his weapon and firing. within two seconds of arrival, all of this happened. someone had called 911, remember. reporting a guy with a pistol. now the officer's actions are being called tragic and reasonable and justified. in two newly released about rice's death, nick valencia is following this story. what did this report find, nick. >> reporter: two of three reports released last night they commissioned these reports as they prepared to bring their

findings towards the prj grand ju jury. one of the reports done by a chief deputy in the denver area, prosecutor in the denver area asked lamar simms and they concluded in their report that officer loman fired the fatal shot toward rice, they believe that he posed a threat of physical harm of death and reasonable as response to his perceived threat. take you back to december 22nd in ohio that night there. 3:00 p.m. and 911 received a call about a guy pointing a pistol at people and the caller telling the 911 dispatch the individual was probably a juvenile and the gun was probably fake. going off the information they had once the police arrived within two seconds they shot rice as he reached toward the right side of his waistband and reports saying that was enough of a perceived threat to justify the shooting.

this is just about whether or not it was objectively reasonable that they did this. turns out that rice was 12 years old and that gun turned out to be a fake. writing in their report, one of the fbi agents said the pistol in question which was an air soft gun was not in response to officer loehmann's shooting. we are hearing from the family of rice releasing a long lengthy statement, they say the hired guns all pro police talking about those that wrote these reports, dodged the simple fact the officers rushed tamir and shot him immediately without assessing the situation in the least. a dramatic video. a story that captured the

nation's attention and one we will continue to follow as these grand jury proceedings continue. >> nick valencia, thank you for breaking it down for us. >> you bet. let's talk about these reports and the legal case ta ahead. tom fuentes and joey jackson are with us. nick went over the facts of the case and no need for us to rehash. i want to go, specifically, a quote from a report to you, first, tom, in which they say that officer loehmann's saying it was reasonable and the response to that perceived threat was as well. your response to that. >> i think the difficulty here, victor, is hard to argue what an officer might believe when he gets there. the video looks bad. in hindsight, we know it was not a real gun and he was 12 years old. the victim tamir was 12 years old but not what the officers know when they arrive at the

scene. they are getting dispatch that the dispatcher didn't rely all of the information that was in the call to them. and so the officer, all they know is they have a subject with a gun and when they arrive, it appears that is true, that they have a subject with a gun. and, you know, when someone reaches in and someone draws a gun, there's not a lot of time for detailed assessment. these are split-second decisions and i think that that's what is happening here. what is unusual about this case is the prosecutor's office saying, normally a grand jury proceeding and investigation is supposed to be secret, but we are going to open this wide open and make at least some of the investigation transparent. so here you have two independent body, the prosecutor and the former fbi legal instructor doing, you know, a report on behalf of the prosecutor to see what they say and they are applying the strict legal interpretation that was it reasonable for the officer to

fear being possibly shot with a person with a gun. >> joey, how about those two elements? we have seen recently the last 18 months as it relates to a police shooting some unorthodoxed methods as it relates to the grand jury proceedings. what will be the role of these reports in the grand jury process? >> absolutely. good morning, victor. good morning, tom. you know, two important things to consider. the first you mentioned is the grand jury. these are reports, and, as a result of that, they will go before the grand jury and grand jurors will have a number of questions in terms of the reasonableness of the officer's actions and what specifically occurred and what are the constitutional and legal requirements are. in a grand jury they are not there to determine guilt or innocence. they are merely there to determine whether there is reasonable cause to believe that a crime was committed and did these officers, loehmann who shot or the driver, did they

commit any kind of a crime. it's not a unanimous decision but the majority of the grand jurors. therks they will hear information in terms of experts testifying before them, what were the procedures and protocols. the second thing to keep in mind is we are talking about reports of experts and being in this field for a long time, i can tell you that you can get an expert virtually to corroborate, you know, whatever point you're looking to establish. so there will be investigator points, i think, that will be brought forward. >> let me jump in here, because we want to read something from the attorney who represents the family that says any presentation to a grand jury without the prosecutor advocating for tamir as prosecutors do for crime victims every day is a charade. i want to chump to that point. you said you can get an expert to say anything. we should expect the family's attorneys will hire their own expert to hire the inverse of this? >> the problem is that you don't, as a particular victim's attorney, you don't have the

opportunity to go before the grand jury. the grand jury can decide whoever they want to hear from. so you don't necessarily get to go in. at the time of trial, certainly there will be people who will be combating these reports. you know, as lawyers, what happens is we don't argue what the law is, right? that's not what we make our living. that is what legislatures do. they create the law. you make arguments on the facts. i think the facts will be was the officers' conduct reasonable? what do the procedures underlying respond to go a deputy say? do you keep a safe distance? do you keep cover? do you have a duty to warn? what specifically do the procedures in that locality say? in looking at the reports they were absent. i don't see anything about the protocols per tainting to officers but only generic statements whether the officers reacted reasonably and these reports say they did. the other thing is not whether the officer's actions are intentional. they are there to protect and

preserve life of course. was there some negligence involved? did they fail to perceive a risk like something could happen? all of those things, i think, will go before a grand jury. >> quickly to you, tom. one of the findings in one of these reports it's irrelevant that this was an air soft gun and not a gun that is traditionally more lethal. do you agree with that? >> absolutely, yeah. i faced that myself on two occasions when i was a street police officer. these guns look -- you can be an expert and i was a firearms instructor and from ten feet away, you can't tell it's not a real gun. so what they are basically saying in the report, i read that also, is that that is not relevant if the gun looks like it's real and it's reasonable for an officer to suspect that it might be real, that's all you have to have in that case. and also they went on to say about tamir's age that a 12-year-old can pull a trigger on a real gun and kill people and it happens all the time, unfortunately, on many of our city streets in this country.

so i think that that is the part of it that is so, i guess, heartbreaking is that everybody, in hindsight, knows it was a 12-year-old boy and not a real gun, but the question is what did the officers know or reasonably know or believe when they instantly faced that situation? >> and were the steps they took were appropriate in light of that? >> exactly right. >> relayed about what information was relayed from the dispatcher to the officers when they got to the scene and how much did they know, based on what that initial 911 caller provided. joey jackson and tom fuentes, thank you both. >> thank you, victor. next, a cnn exclusive. a former congressional whistle-blower accuses the benghazi committee of an investigation targeting hillary clinton. also the u.s. and russia holding a fresh round of talks on safe flight operations in syria as russian air strikes are

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51 minutes past the hour right now. accused army sergeant bowe bergdahl could be close to avoiding a prison sentence altogether. last night it was recommended he not do any time behind bars. he recommended the lowest level of disciplinary action. he went awol in 2009 and captured by the taliban and released in a prison swap last year and later charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. joining me to discuss the developments is retired lieutenant general mark hertling. what is your first thought that he should is not do prison time? is that a universal thought amongst military people? >> first of all, it's not the correct thought. let's clarify what is actually happening.

what we have already read about over the last 24 hours is this is the defense counsel's interpretation of what the staff judge advocate state. nothing has been announced from the official officer who actually did the preliminary hearing. it's called an article 32 in the military. so this is, i think, the defense attempting to influence the commanding general abrams who asked his judge staff advocate to look at the disposition of the case. this is not a formal arrangement yet. this is, again, the defense lawyer's interpretation of what he would like people to see. you know, in these kind of cases, a little bit different than civilian law. the commanding general of an organization, in this case, general abrams, will ask his staff judge advocate's vice on disposition of a case, facts for consideration, seriousness of the offense, the strengths and weaknesses of the case and, more importantly, different again

from the military from the civilian world, the effects of good order and discipline before that general officer refers a case to a court-martial. that is what is occurring right now. >> what do you think a decision like this, how might it affect people who are currently serving in afghanistan or elsewhere? >> if you don't understand the intricacies of the judicial system in the military and most soldiers truthfully only know a small part of that, they are going to get a little riled up, truthfully. they will think there is political influence, which is not the case. they are sweeping this under the rug which hasn't happened yet. a lot of effort has been put into this. what is really going on is the commanding general is trying to find the best way and the most appropriate way to try this young soldier based on the facts and the intricacies of the case.

you see on the web it's political involvement, it's being swept under the rug. that's not the case just yet. the commanding general of the forces command has to decide what is he going to do next and he has several options. >> that has not been decided yet. we want to point out, again, this is just a recommendation. general, we always appreciate your insight. thank you, sir. >> thank you. we are going live to las vegas ahead of the first democratic debate. of course, it's right here on cnn. what can you expect? are some of the candidates telegraphing some punches? also hear how these candidates are preparing for the big stage. a controversial play last night during the mets/dodgers playoff. it cost the mets their star shortstop, but you've got to see the video. if you haven't seen it, it's trending on twitter. but prepare yourself because it's hard to watch. - now that's smart nutrition. ensure's complete balanced nutrition has 26 vitamins and minerals and 9 grams of protein. ensure. take life in.

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controversial play during last night's mets/dodgers playoff game. not only did the mets lose the game, they lost their star shortstop ruben ta haejada to a broken lay and chase utley tried to break up a double play with an aggressive slide. >> ouch. that play has debate on social media. we want to know what you think. sports anchor coy wire is here to break it down for us. >> we can't wait to hear what you guys think. take another look at this play. it's crazy how this happens. in the seventh inning. mets are actually winning at this particular time 2-1. dodgers one out. runners on first and second and tejada with a chance to turn a

double play and end the inning. you mentioned, victor that slide by utley is hard and late and prevents the throw but it breaks tejada's leg. on top of losing him for the rest of the playoffs the mets end up losing the game and dodgers went on a four-run roll in that inning and would eventually win the game 5-2. dodgers manager don mattingly supported his player and said he is playing hard. a lot of people on social media saying this is dirty. we want to know what you think. use the #new day cnn at new day on twitter and we will read your comments coming up. crazy stuff. >> thank you, coy. >> all right. looking ahead to las vegas. the democrats are starting to take over. just two days -- the strip. >> good point. >> two days away from their first debate of the season. we are covering all of the

angles. a part of the investigation. that claim from a former republican staff member on the benghazi committee. now hillary clinton's camp is firing back. nearly one year later, a new report says cleveland police were justified in the shooting of tamir rice. but the family of the 12-year-old, they are not buying it. good morning. happy sunday to you. we are so grateful for your company as always. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. two days until the first democratic debate here on cnn for the five presidential hopefuls. the presidential race runs through the bright lights of las vegas. o'malley and sanders and clinton and chafee and webb will all take the stage on tuesday night. >> those candidates are hunkering down now. honing in on their messages and preparing to stand out in front of a national audience. we want to start our live coverage this week from las

vegas with cnn senior white house corinth jim acosta. set the scene for us. >> reporter: we are inside the debate hall right now. if you're wondering why we got up so darn a early las vegas time to bring this to you, it's because this is your first chance to see inside the debate hall for the first democratic debate on cnn and just over 48 hours from now. i'm standing right next to the podiums. here they are. this is hillary clinton's podium and bernie sanders next to her and the other candidates next to them. lincoln chafee and martin o'malley and jim webb. there is another space if they want to add another candidate, hint, hint, vice president joe biden who has nod said whether he is running for president. the rules are such that vice president biden could join this debate at the last minute if he decides to do that. let me show you the rest of the debate hall here. on the far side of the debate hall, a giant screen is behind me.

not lit up right now but that is where don lemon who is hosting this debate will take facebook questions of people from home who want to ask questions of the candidates. prescreened questions before the debate starts. this is where moderator anderson cooper and other questioners dana bash and lopez will be seated here. the pieces of the puzzle are being created here. i've been to a number of debates over the years. it's cool when cnn puts on a show because they put on a big, big show and that is definitely the case here. you can see the video walls behind me. a lot of bells and whistles for this debate. now as for what these candidates are going to be talking about, i mean, this is the first democratic debate, right? so this will be the first time that we hear bernie sanders and hillary clinton who are really going at each other, you know, when it comes to issues like the iraq war, when it comes to issues like trade, transpacific partnership, that the president is trying to get through. there are differences of opinion here flushed out on this debate

stage. you'll have people like o'malley and cheviee and webb trying to vie for attention and trying to create a moment, if you will, where they can sort of distinguish themselves and perhaps gain some traction in this case because as you know right now, those candidates have struggled to do that. but, obviously, the big story i think of this campaign so far, besides hillary clinton and what she has had to go through to this point so far some struggles along the way is bernie sanders who is filling stadiums and filling arenas. he's seeing 10,000, 20,000 people along the way and incredible to see the self-described socialist from vermont do so well in this campaign to far. my colleague sunlen -- is covering the bernie sanders campaign. from what i understand listening to all of the reports it's one heck after ride so far? >> that's right, jim. for bernie sanders it is about creating this image of momentum

and energy heading into the debate stage this tuesday. he drew 13,000 in tucson on friday and 9,000 last night in boulder he drew at a rally and before the last big rally heading into the debate he really telegrap graphed and tipped his hand a bit at lines of attacks he is trying to ready for hillary clinton. reminding the voters defeating from his stump speech that it was he who voted against the iraq war in 2002. this is a big line of attack, it's clear. here is more of what he told the crowd last night. >> i didn't believe them and i voted against the war in iraq. in my view, a major military power, which is what we are, has got to do everything that he can to resolve international conflict without going to war.

>> reporter: now this is drawing, without mentioning her by name, a very clear contrast with hillary clinton. she voted for the war. she said later she regrets that vote. bernie sanders this is part of his strategy going into the debate. he wants to draw the clear distinctions between the two. at the same time, aides say he is preparing for all sorts of lines of attack against him. he is preparing and they say he is ready to really defend himself. that said, don't expect any one liners from bernie sanders. he says he wants to keep it focused on the policy. jim? >> that's right. i guess the big question whether we see these candidates go at each other. we have seen bernie sanders not go after hillary clinton that hard in the run-up to this debate but people like martin o'mall o'malley, the former maryland governor, who has struggled to rise in the polls, he is looking

for a moment like that where he can go after these candidates and see if he can gain some traction in this race. we won't see much of the candidates the next 48 hours because they are in intense debate prep so far. but you can see the stage is almost set here. it is all starting to come together here in las vegas, and it is a big thrill being here. it's a lot of fun when you get inside this theater. you realize this is about to go on. the show is about to go on. hillary clinton has a lot riding on this debate. her first debate since way back in the 2008 campaign since she clashed with barack obama so it will be some interesting political television to watch coming up on tuesday night. >> no doubt about it and you know where we will all be. jim acosta, thank you so much, sir. you can watch the first democratic debate tuesday night, 8:30 eastern, only on cnn. we are going to have more on the debate from our political experts a little later in the hour as well. stay close for that. >> staying with politics. a cnn exclusive this morning.

a former investigator is accusing the benghazi committee of targeting hillary clinton. major bradley podliska saying they are trying to derail her presidential bid. this comes days before the panel is getting ready to hear clinton's testimony and four months after he was fired from his job. you'll remember four americans, including two u.s. diplomats were killed in benghazi, libya, when their compound was attacked in 2012. chris frates has the details for us. some who are asking, chris, if this sudden revelation, coming just days before the debate, is politically motivated. >> reporter: good morning, victor. it is a politically explosive charge and sure to resonate both the debate and on the campaign trail as clinton runs for president. major bradley podliska an air

force intelligence officer, the republican-controlled committee set its sights almost exclusively on clinton. he says he was fired because he resisted pressure to focus on clinton and because he took military leave. he says he plans to file a lawsuit over his firing and ask a court to give him back his job with backpay. podliska tells jake tapper in an exclusively television interview what was a broad probe into the attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi became, quote, a partisan investigation. here is what he told jake tapper. >> reporter: what do you say to any viewers out there who think you might have an ax to grind you're only talking because you were fired? >> as i said earlier, i have a conscience. there is wrongdoing here and i think it needs to stop. i don't want the investigation tor refocused back to its original purpose. the victims' families are owed

the truth. hillary clinton has a lot of explaining to do. we, however, did not need to shift resources to hyperfocus on hillary clinton and didn't need to deemphasize and in some cases drop the investigation on different agencies and different organizations and different individuals. >> reporter: a spokesman for the committee said in a statement that podliska claims are false and it was terminated for cause and including trying to put together a hit piece on administration officials, including clinton. the statement said, quote, directly contrary to his brand-new assertion the employee was terminated in part because he manifested improper partiality and animus in his investigative work. >> we will learn more about this today as we check jake's entire interview on "state of the union" that is coming up at 9:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn. top democrats are calling for the benghazi commission --

investigation rather to end. they have for sometime called it a sham and the clinton campaign released this statement. these are explosive allegations, this republican whistle-blower's account from inside the benghazi committee may provide the most definitive proof to date that this taxpayer-funded investigation has been a partisan sham from the start. let's bring in cnn political commentator mark hill. good morning to you. first, your reaction to what we are hearing from bradley podliska. >> this is fairly consistent what many of us have been saying a long time now. that is, sure, we need information. we need a precise investigation but we need a nonpartisan investigation, not one that has essentially become a hillary clinton witch hunt. a few weeks ago, the secretary of state expressed the same frustration. she said, hey, nothing wrong with investigating but you've gotten your answers but this is

purely about partisan i'm right now. >> what about the timing before the first democratic debate this is a man fired from his job, those who -- with this committee say it was for a cause who criticize not only the message but the messager. >> he could be a disgruntled employee with an ax to grind who has absolutely no merit to his claims. it's attorney to investigate his claims and figure that out. plenty of disgruntled employees say things they otherwise would not have said. the second thing he could be doing it out of angry or pettiness or out of scorn. it could still all be true. the timing of it is important. yet, he might be leveraging the timing or the power that he has right now so that people pay attention to it so that his implemt demands can be met but it doesn't mean what he is saying isn't true. we are not just relying on his claims we are situating this against the backdrop of years of

partisan attacks on hillary clinton. some of them may be reasonable but a whole lot of them are not. >> we have to cut this short. breaking news this morning. thank you very much, mark. >> pleasure. apprise you of the breaking news. police and protesters are clashing in turkey as tear gas is on the marchers remembering the hundred killed yesterday in twin bombings. we are live for you with the latest. stay close. stealing your customers' secrets. there's an army of us. relentlessly unpicking your patchwork of security. think you'll spot us? ♪ you haven't so far. the next wave of the internet requires the next wave of security. we're ready. are you?

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other breaking news. we are following in turkey, nearly a hundred people who are holding a demonstration near the site of yesterday's twin bombings. 95 people killed and 246 wounded. the peace rally included, among others, a pro kurdish group. arwa damon is live on the ground there. i understand there is more unrest this morning. or has been. >> reporter: yeah. just to lay the scene for you as to where we are right now. inside behind us is that where the bodies are being autopsied and the vast majority of those who are here are waiting for their loved ones who perished in yesterday's attack, waiting to lay them to rest. there are also people have come in slolidarity.

many people struggling to come to terms to the losses they have suffered yesterday. the backdrop of all of this too, there have been demonstrations throughout the entire day, across the country, where angry crowds are blaming the government for the violence. saying at the very least the state had responsibility to try to protect the people. the sharpest critic is the prime minister. the prime minister saying this wasn't an attack on the state and trying to calm the situation down and asking people to stay away from rhetoric and seeing tensions rising and not surprising at this stage. turkey is very politically polarized. earlier in the day, in the morning when the leader of the pro opposition kurdish party and a number of other mps tried to reach the scene of the attack to lay down red carnations they

were let through eventually. that incident and other smaller incidents we are hearing about are clear examples of the rising tensions, the fact that this was supposed to be a peace rally but ended up being the most devastating attack, single attack in turkey's history. now the country is really trying to figure out how to navigate its own politics and its own polarization. one of the women with we were talking to here perhaps put it best. she had it is most critical for turkey at this stage to learn from what has just happened and to learn that it needs to stay united. >> arwa damon, thank you so much for bringing us the latest from the region there. appreciate it. talk about this with cnn national security analyst peter bergen. first, no claim of responsibilities here. we had an analyst on earlier who says this appears to have the markings of some internal clash within turkey. of course, there is a question of isis. a day later, we talked about

this yesterday, are there any indicators to you now of who is likely responsible for the attack yesterday? >> no, there aren't, victor. we have seen other terror attacks in turkey there is no claim of responsibility although an attribution by the government. one was attributed to isis earlier in the year but they didn't claim responsibility. in the absence of claim of responsibility and absence of forensic work by the government determining attribution, we don't have much and explains the discontent arwa was claiming about in her report. not clear if it was an attack by separatists or isis who are the two main potential suspects. or it could be somebody else we are not thinking it bbut it seems like it's the work of one of those groups. >> so many questions there in turkey as there is more unrest today. i want to take a moment and ask

you about the iran missile test, the first missile test in more than a year and a half. who was the intened audience for this? and what is the message to the sunni neighbors there? >> reporter: i think the intended -- iran has tested all sorts of missiles and drones throughout recent years. and i think the message is sort of twofold. first of all, the nuclear deal will not prevent them from going forward with, you know, doing these kind of missile tests on more sophisticated missiles. the intended audiences, you know, israeli, the gulf neighbors, as you refer to them, and the world at large, which is that the nuclear deal is not going to prevent iran from developing the kind of missiles that makes it a major regional player and prevented from the sanctions regime creating missiles available to carry

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26 minutes past the hour. a significant development in the case of accused army deserter sergeant bowe bergdahl. the officer who oversaw bergdahl's hearing last month recommends he not do any jail time and also recommending the lowest level of disciplinary action. remember this is just a recommendation. bergdahl went awol from his army unit in afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the taliban. pentagon will play injured families and victims of those killed in the u.s. air strike against the doctors without borders hospital. the amount of the payment has not been decided. it killed 27 people and 37 were

wounded. president obama apologized for the strike earlier this week. aviation officials have i should safety alerts over iran and over the caspian sea. nearly a thousand miles away. a service says some airlines have shifted their planes to fly over egypt and syria rather than iran now. the sister-in-law of martin luther king jr. says she holds no ill will against two people who tried to carjack her. naomi king was hit in the mouth when she refused to get out of the car. she is 83 years old. she suffered minor injuries. no one has been arrested. >> goodness. bernie sanders seems to be ride ago wave of momentum going into tuesday's democratic debate, while hillary clinton, some say may find the road to

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two days until five candidates will stand on this stage in las vegas for the first democratic presidential debate. the clock is winding down. you can see the stage. the arena here in vegas.

the first time that hillary clinton will be back on the stage since the 2008 campaign. her closest rival is vermont senator bernie sanders who is not a debate novice nor on the other three candidates. let's bring in our guests here. mark, margie, good to have you. >> good to be here. >> good morning. there is a lot of waiting for joe biden to decide. he likely will not make this teb debate, that is pretty clear, but what will his role be on that night, margie? >> i think he is going to be a candidate that some voters may be thinking about. i think, ultimately, people will be focused on the candidates that are on stage and hearing what they have to say, learning a little bit more about bernie sanders, seeing how sanders and clinton interact. you may have some voters thinking about what they want to see should joe biden get in the race down the road. i think this is exciting because it's the first debate and that is what people are going to be looking at.

>> we got the latest nos. from the dickinson university. clinton has a wide lead over bernie sanders. mark, we will put this up. you see 22 points and biden who is included in this at 17% and o'malley and webb 1%. hillary clinton with exchange she had over drivers licenses for undocumented workers in new york, she got kind of fumbled there. recently with this tpp, the trade pac, before she was against it and she has a couple of pitfalls she needs to avoid as well. >> absolutely. but i think she has done a lot of the work to address that before the debates. she has gone in the last two weeks, saying, look, i made different decisions, i got better information and positioned herself as a thoughtful leader, rather than somebody who was for something before they were against it or against something before they were for it and i think wise of hillary clinton. people will come to her for the

gay marriage stuff and a bunch of stuff. i think it will show she has enough vision to address economic issues for the working poor and working class people because that is what bernie sanders is resonating with a big pocket of the democratic base. >> marjorie, bernie sanders has been reluctant to go after hillary clinton directly. even in his mention of his iraq war vote over the weekend. he didn't mention her directly. is that something that voters will be looking for and is he likely to deliver on tuesday night? >> well, this is definitely not going to be like the republican debate where you have folks lining up to kind of take a shot at each other in hopes to get -- to be part of a viral clip of some sort of confrontation. you're not going to see that with the democratic debate, at least not with sanders and clinton. maybe o'malley or chafee may want to try to boost their likelihood of being a story after the fact. i think you'll see sanders and clinton, at least from what they

are eighty, focus more on the issues rather than on a personal attack. one, i think that is what voters want. that is what democrats want. two, i think both candidates want to demonstrate that they have warmth and i think that is another way to do it. sander has been saying for a long time that he has never run -- he has never been negative or negative in his campaign and expect -- hopes to continue to do that so i think that is what you're going to see on tuesday. >> -- mistake. >> go ahead. expound. >> if you're joe biden and you're in the race, hypothetically, right? you can wait for hillary to make a mistake because people believe you're capable of being president. bernie sanders it will take more than hillary make ago mistake or fumbling even an e-mail scandal to boost him up enough to make the nomination. he has to affirmatively and aggressively show why hillary clinton is flawed and not the right candidate and he has to strongly critique her on economic issues and populist

areas. he need to make a distinction between critiquing someone and attacking them. >> i won't say there will be contrast but they will focus more on issues and substance rather than the sort of volatile slug fest. >> i just think bernie is wrong. >> mark, let me ask you about this point of martin o'malley inspect he is, obviously, on the stage. the difference between the democrats and republicans because of the number of candidates but 1% for the republicans were in a completely different debate. martin o'malley will be standing next to hillary clinton, the front-runner. what does he have to do? there are some who says he needs a fiorina moment. >> i needs to shoot his shot. he needs to go extremely strong. carly fiorina was in a race the voters weren't confident about anybody, even the people at the top like jeb bush were far from strong candidates in terms of having the nomination locked up. here, it's hillary's race to lose. so martin o'malley has to be extremely strong and be extremely aggressive and has to

wait for a mistake to put it in sports terms, he is down three or four touchdowns. he needs to play really well and hope the other side makes some big mistakes. >> thank you both. >> thank you. >> pleasure. the family of tamir rice is fighting the cleveland police department for accountability in the death of their son. there is a new report out now, commissioned by the police, that backs the police officers' side of the story. the family has a lot to say about that too. we will get that noo that. breaking news. violence across jerusalem and gaza. several people have been killed and attacks seem to be growing. we will take you live to jerusalem with the very latest. about a biologic, this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me reach for more. doctors have been prescribing humira for more than 10 years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific

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40 minutes past the hour right now. the video, i know you're going to remember it because it was just as shocking as the event itself. police pulling up to 12-year-old tamir rice in cleveland in a park. one officer drawing his weapon and firing within two seconds of arrival. someone had called 911 reporting, quote, a guy with a pistol. the tragic scene unfolding just about two years ago. now that officer's actions are being called tragic, reasonable, justified. in two newly released expert reports about rice's death, nick valencia is following the story. i'm sure a lot of people are just hearing this part of it, the headline, nick, we are wondering how this happens.

plain it to us, won't you please? >> these reports were in the interest of transparency according to the county prosecutor's officer conducted independent from their investigation commissioned by them as they prepared to bring their findings toward the grand jury. according to a report conby a current prosecutor in denver and another done by a former phish agent, the shooting death of 12-year-old tamir rice in cleveland on the afternoon of november 22nd was a reasonable one. lamar sims, the deputy, prosecutor in denver writing in their report that the officer fired the shot into the abdomen of rice. they said the following, quote. back on about 3:00 p.m. on november 22nd in cleveland, 911 there in cleveland received a call about a guy pointing a pistol at people and the caller telling 911 the person that had that weapon it was probably fake

according to this caller and he was also probably a juvenile. based on the information the officers had they pulled up to that park and within two seconds fired that fatal shot towards rice as he reached towards the right side of his waistband. according to the reports that reaching towards the waistband by tamir rice was enough of a perceived threat to justify this shooting. these reports, they get into this saying it's not whether the officers were right or wrong in firing that shot. it's if they had reason to believe that this was a threat to their safety. this fbi agent who wrote the second report making news last night writing in their report the weapon in question was an air soft gun is not relevant to a constitutional review of officer loehman n's actions that rice was holding a pellet gun and the orange tip had been removed from that gun. we will following the story as it develops. >> nick, thank you so much. we appreciate it.

the rice family says they are not satisfied with the report. they slam it as a charade and i want to quote you what they released here. they say to get so-called experts to assist in the whitewash when the world has the video of what happened is all the more alarming. these hired guns, all pro police, dodged the simply fact that the officers rushed tamii and shot him immediately without assessing. they say the family has been invited to submit their own expert reports. the violence escalating overnight across jerusalem and gaza. an israeli air strike brings down a house killing a pregnant palestinian woman and her 3-year-old daughter. we will tell you why the attacks are ramping up. live to jerusalem next. this may be a chance to the underdogs to break away from the pack. who might stand out during the first democratic presidential debate? we are breaking it down in the next hour of your "new day."

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more on the breaking news we are following in the middle east. these are images from gaza.

palestinian officials say a pregnant mother and her 3-year-old daughter died in this attack. israeli's military says it was targeting hamas weapons facilities. also, israeli officials are reporting and israeli police officer was wounded in an explosion near a west bank checkpoint leading to jerusalem. cnn's erin mclaughlin is in jerusalem are the latest on what is happening there. >> reporter: overnight in gaza, more blood shed. israeli air force says they were targeting two hamas weapons manufacturing facilities that gaza city fire officials say that one of the bombs landed in an open field, causing a nearby building to collapse. inside that building, a 35-year-old pregnant palestinian woman and her 3-year-old child. they were killed. officials say three others were also wounded. now israeli official say that the strikes were in response to rockets that were fired from

gaza towards southern israeli. they say that the iron dome defense system intercepted those rockets. one rocket rather. the second rocket to be fired t police say there was an incident near an israeli check point in the west bank. they say they noticed a suspicious looking vehicle. ed in that vehicle a 31-year-old palestinian woman who they say looked nervous. they pulled her over. as she got out of her vehicle, the vehicle explosion occurred. lightly wounding a police officer. the woman is in severe condition in a hospital. >> in jerusalem for us, erin mclaum mcthank you. a former mideast negotiator is with us. what do you contribute or what do you think is contributing to

the most recent wave of violence in the last 24 to 48 hours? this is part of an ongoing half century old confrontation between israelis and palestinians over what i call the much too promised land. we've seen worse but the first and second in 1987, 2000 to 2004. it's probably the worst since the early 1990s. i think the reality is you've got growing frustration among palestinians. tensions over the temple where palestinians are persuaded that the israeli government is trying to change the status quo, but groups like hamas are taking advantage of this to inflame tensions and stir the pot. the reality is there is no end for the this.

it will either get worse or alternatively soft like many of the others will play itself out without any resolution. >> it gets better maybe temporarily. do you see anything that can be done that will calm things done? >> i think it's important both that the palestinian leadership and i think they need to be forceful in condemning the attacks. they are persuaded that in fact palestinian police and security forces are seriously engaged in trying to prevent escalation. government of israel also has the knowledge that part of the reason these tensions were triggered in the first place was because there is a perception that the status quo on the cherif is overlapping sacred space. it's critical to islam. and beneath them the remains of the first and second jewish

temples. there's been a perception in israel is trying to change the status quo. rabbis are permitting jews to go pray. there are reports of nonmuslim prayer. the status quo has to be maintained. this is a tinderbox. the reality is we've seen this before. we've seen worse. it will only be resolved ultimately, a way can be found -- i'm afraid that for the foreseeable future we're going to be remained trapped between a two-state solution that is just too difficult to implement. >> very good point. aaron david miller, appreciate your thoughts. thank you for being with us. >> take care. >> you too. we're working on breaking news right now. iran issued a verdict and a sentence in the espionage trial of american iranian journalist

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