the east. we do we bin with breaking news because russia claims it may have killed one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, isis leader al-baghdadi. they are now investigating whether an air strike took him out in syria. >> there are a lot of reasons to be skeptical of this report and even russia is going throw on this. now, there have been multiple reports of al-baghdadi's death in the past that have turned out to be not true. his whereabouts have been unknown for some time. his death is confirmed. it would be a blow to the terror group, but just about every expert says it wouldn't end isis. let's begin our coverage with coll cla ris sa ward. what do you make of this news? >> reporter: chris, i think there is a lot of skepticism

about this claim that al-baghdadi may have been killed in what russia is saying was an air strike on an isis military council meeting on may 28th in the evening. they are claiming that 330 isis personnel for at that meeting. 30 mid level field commanders and potentially al-baghdadi himself. this took place in a southern suburb of rocca and was dealing with the question of how to move people or evacuate senior personnel from rocca to a southern corridor as the coalition is preparing for an assault on the city itself. isis is very adapted and learned a lot from the endless air strikes they have experienced in the past few years. they do not the end to travel in large numbers. they do not the end to congregate in large numbers. al-baghdadi has been extremely

elusive for years now. he is believed to be moving location regularly. it is inconceivable that he would still be in, a, rocca and, b, be meeting with a big group like this. there is certainly a lot of questions. if it turns out this is true, of course, it would be a huge propaganda victory for the russians and it would also be a significant blow for isis. though, the group has continued with its attacks throughout the muslim holy month of ramadan. >> thank you very much. let's get to the ground and those trying to verify whether or not al-baghdadi is dead. joining us now is the jokspokes live in baghdad. we hope you and your men and women are safe there serving your country. what do you make of this news? >> well, first of all, we cannot confirm these reports. if these reports are true, then

everybody wins. we know al-baghdadi is a leader of isis. does it affect the rattle in rocca and the fight we are going to defeat isis in mosul? largely not. the moral of the fighters that are there. but we don't think al-baghdadi is one of these guys making battlefield calls and making decisions on a day-to-day basis. >> part of the russian disclosure is that the u.s. knew about the attacks. is that true? >> we maintain an open deconfliction line with the russians. we don't talk specifics about the strikes that happen. we just confirm whether or not our forces are in the area or their forces are in the area so that we can maintain a level of safety so that we are not inadvertently targeting one another as we continue our fight against isis. >> the grounds for skepticism here, do you share them that

there was a feeling the leadership moved out of that area as early as march, that they don't usually meet in those kinds of numbers, that al-baghdadi is not usually in these kind of big groups and that the numbers targeted and hit sound artificially high. does that sound like the proper scrutiny? >> we have also seen that al-baghdadi or heard that people like this at this level do not expose themselves. and we have been looking for senior isis targets and when we find them, we will strike them. we have not found al-baghdadi. but we have found just about everybody else that falls underneath him, all of his lieutenants. when we have these opportunities and we can strike them safely, we will and we have done so many times. >> do you think you will be able to verify this information any time soon? >> i don't know. and just like right now, we have seen this before, as you have already been reported. this has been a battle drill

where many times these claims have been brought up. but before the united states, before the coalition comes forward with any kind of confirmation, we want to be 100% accurate and correct. >> so while i have you there is word that 4,000 more troops will be deployed to afghanistan. general mattis has said we're not winning there right now. it put us at about 12,000 troops on the ground. what should the american people know about how it's going where you are? >> well, i think it is fair to say that isis losses are undeniable and irreversible. in the course of the last two and a half years since the coalition has been supporting our iraqi security force partners and syria, isis has lost more than 40,000 square miles of ter rory. we have been able to libber rate

people back in their homes. so the progress and the trends of what we are doing here in iraq and syria are definitely moving in the right direction. rocca, the de facto capital and their twin capital in mosul, the largest isis stronghold ever are both being liberated right now as we speak. >> thank you for the update and the analysis of these headlines. we appreciate. thank you for your service. please stay safe. >> let's bring in john kirby for more on this. john, do you share the kern ker skepticism? >> i do. i think it's all been covered so well there is not much more i can add. i share skepticism over the fact

that there was even a strike to begin with. i don't think we've confirmed that. this zone is not where they tell us what they're hitting and when. it is simply they're in this area. there is no evidence right now there was even a strike. it is important to remember the russians do not have the same precision capabilities we do. even if there was a strike, that it was this precise, i find that very dubious. >> one of the things that president trump ran on was his strategy or ability to fight isis and that it was going to be quick. do you have a sense of what his administration is doing right now to fight isis? >> i think we're getting more and more information, but i don't think we have enough. i don't think it's been thoroughly vetted by them and certainly not well articulated to the american people. we talked about this the other day. largely, when the president speaks about this threat, he does so in militaristic terms only. yes, there is a military role. we've been saying that for a couple of years.

there is a military element to killing these guys, to shrinking their territory, to drying up their ability to fight, but it has to be more comprehensive. there has to be an economic, a political aspect to it and there has to be an effort to get at the root causes of extremism to begin with, which this administration does not seem to want to pay attention to, and i think that's a problem and they haven't articulated a grander, deeper, broader strategy. >> obviously, if it were easy, the obama administration would have done it. what should this administration be doing in terms of all of those other tenants that you are talking about? >> good point. let's go back a little bit two years. it has been a long fight against isis. we said at the time when i was both at the pentagon and state department that this is going to be a long struggle and it is turning out to be that way. it is viral and it does have traction and they are adapting

and they're very agio gill. they are focussing on spreading that ideology to western nations. they need to make sure that they -- that they tell the american people, tell people around the world that they aren't taking a deeper, longer approach. that this isn't just going to be about killing terrorists. you cannot kill your way out of a problem like this. it's never going to end this particular threat in the long term. this is a generational struggle. >> right. obviously on line and the internet has to play a big role. >> absolutely. >> the attacks we have seen recently, that's where a lot of the inspiration comes. but are you seeing any progress on fighting it there on that front? >> i can speak for my time in the last administration. we were putting a lot of effort into that, particularly at the state department. there was a center set up to battle the ideology and the spread of this ideology on line and we were having some success and by the time president obama left office, isis's social media

footprint and influence was considerably reduced. i don't know what they're doing in this new administration, but you're absolutely right, it has to be more about killing them. you have to kill the ideology and the spread of it and the ability of people to be attracted to this thought. >> thank you very much for all of that. >> president trump is lashing out about the russia investigation again. given after what happened in virginia and these promises that let's try to keep the talk less testy. look at what he just tweeted. after seven months of investigations and committee hearings about my collusions with the russians, nobody has been able to show any proof. s sad! i thought the president didn't want leaking. let's bring in our political panel.

chris cillizza, and michael selden. >> chris, what is the impact of this type of tweeting, not just saying i don't agree and i don't like it and i think it will reveal nothing but the people who are doing it it is bad. it is a witch hunt and a sham. >> it is his mo and has been his mo not just in political life but his entire life. the new yorker, you are probably closer to this than i am not growing up there, but this is what donald trump does when a story comes out that he does not like. he attacks the messenger, pivots and tries to tell a story that's better for him. why isn't hillary clinton being investigated? the cumulative effect, it will continue to convince people who support him unquestioningly that this is a witch hunt, that he is the subject of an unfair and

biassed system from the media on down. for everybody else it will affirm donald trump is not terribly popular in polling. he is in the 30s in approval. he is in the high 50s or 60s in disapproval. this will not help that, in addition to the fact that it is going to continue to complicate republicans efforts to say we have walled off the mueller investigation. whatever bob mueller finds we are comfortable with. but we don't want to talk about it day in and day out. we want to talk about other things that we are getting done. but when the president tweets about it day in and day out, it is hard to get out of it. >> is there a legal complication? obvious president trump is venting his frustration that this investigation that he says, you know, laz phas produced no evidence continues. but is there a legal complication for him continuing to tweet since those are part of

the public record? >> it depends on the tweet. these last tweets which are really just sort of rants i don't think put him in any greater legal jeopardy. if he makes factual assertions, i did not say this as was reported in his press conference or other things that are factual statements of his action or his intention, then that could put him in legal jeopardy. but rants just are rants and they don't really implicate him terribly from a legal standpoint. >> the instinct is to suggest that this can't be help him except with his base. but maybe it is help. >> in political terms. >> absolutely. thank you, mike. but in terms of the political terms, maybe it is helping him. it is cementing resistance. it is setting up a long-term explanation for whatever the investigation does uncover and it is a pretty shiny distraction

from this, you know, secret of process that's going on with the health care bill. the fact he just fired his son's wedding planner. >> that's our fault, right? we allowed ourselves to be distracted by that. >> but i'm saying it is working for him. so every time we say, i don't know why he's saying this, how does it help him? maybe it does help him. >> well, as chris points out, it is what he has always done. if he thinks he could get something on page 6 of the new york post and tag it off by producing other stories with a new outrage. it's worked for him in the past and i do agree that this is now he sort of not only stoking his support among his base but also doing this kind of premortem on whatever the special council concludes at the end of the investigation. bob mueller has been

delegitimated by the allies. just imagine the day of the congressional baseball yesterday with so much emotion and so much sort of unified, you know, expression about the need to deescalate the rhetoric. newt gingrich, the top ally, is maligning bob mueller in tweets all day saying he is the tip of the spear of the deep state out to destroy the presidency. so there is a definitely a campaign out not through officials at the briefing room podium but others to make sure that bob mueller is a bad guy no matter what. that's fine. i understand that they're doing it. it's what bill clinton and his allies did to ken star in the '90s. but he lengthens the story about russia by tweeting about it all the time. we're in a new phase that we need to talk about on capitol hill where not only do they really take issue with him, you know, having a celebration in the rose garden about the house

passed health care bill and saying this week it is a son of a b and it is brutal and it's mean, essentially throwing them under the bus, but his level of tweeting, his level of potential obstruction, reaching out to people on the phone and saying, you know, i'm not under investigation, so could you please make a public statement and know everyone knows there was no collusion or all this stuff, his own aids inside the white house are thinking he is going to land himself in more legal and political trouble because of his obsessive reactions to things. >> i was going to say that the real trap that he is in is if he sets himself up to having to testify under oath about something which isn't true. so if these -- his own tweets sort of box him into a position as his press conference with the romanian leader said when he said i did not say that, if that's true, fine. if it's not true but he now has to say that again under oath,

that's where he puts himself in legal jeopardy and that's the danger of speaking by him at this time. >> let me ask you about what has been described as a peculiar statement that rod rosenstein put out about articles, you know, about press and what can be trusted here. he said americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous officials, particularly when they do not identify the country, let alone the branch or agency of government with which the alleged source is supposedly affiliated. americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. the department of justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny allegations. perhaps he felt pressured by the white house to put out a statement like that because we know the president also has been railing against anonymous sources and now a justice official has just told our evan perez that the white house did

not order this statement. so what are we to make of it, chris? >> that's a lot of words by rod rosenstein to say two words, fake news. this is the argument that donald trump has promulgated throughout his campaign and presidency, which is ifanyoneisspeaking anonymously, it is by nature not true. as a reporter, of course we always try to get people on the record. meaning, we try to get them to say things with their name attached to it. some people fear for their jobs. some people fear for other things and they ask for anonymity. we carefully try to figure out is it the right thing to do or not the right thing to do. the idea that anonymous officials should be all dismissed, it doesn't bear out from the years and decades of good journalism produced by people who can't or won't leave their names. >> we have never seen a statement like this coming out of any a.g. office before.

evan perez is a great reporter, a justice department official says this. i give him the benefit of the doubt. doesn't smell right. >> now we have to tell you about this next story. you probably know congresswoman jackie spear. she's been on our air as well as many other networks. she herself survived a shooting that left her congressman dead and severely injured her. so we will get her take on this week's horrible attack on republicans. that's next.

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>> steve scalise remains in critical condition after a gunman ambushed him during a practice. jackie spear was injured 38 years ago when she accompanied her congressman, her boss, to investigate the jones town situation there and congressman was shot five times on that trip. but she survived. she is now here with us. congresswoman jackie spear of california. congresswoman, i think very few people know that you endured violence like this in your past. can you tell us what happened on that day, november 18th? ? congressman ryan made that trip because many of his constituents had loved ones that had gotten involved in this church in san

francisco. about 900 of his congre. he went down there to find out if they were being held against their will. it became very obvious people wanted to leave. we were with many of these people at the airstrip. unbeknownst to us a tractor trailer with seven gunmen came and started shooting. i was shot five times on that airstrip and left there for 22 hours without medical attention. so i ensured ten surgeries, two months in the hospital and many years of rehabilitation. so i have just the greatest empathy for steve scalise and his wife and children and i think this congress needs to recognize that we have an obligation to all those who have

gone before us and done things that have been heroic and who oftentimes are forgotten. so he was a remarkable human being and should always be remembered for what he did for his constituents. >> this story is so dramatic. when we spoke on wednesday to the republican congressmen who were part of this baseball game and they talked about the ambush, you know, the police down there say that it took them three minutes to get to the ball field. but the congressmen or senators like rand paul described it as feeling like an eternity. to hear the gunshots and not to hear the sirens yet they described a feeling like an eternity. the idea that you endured 22 hours being left for dead, it's impossible to get our minds around what that experience was like for you. >> well, it was an experience

that shaped my life in many ways. i remember being lifted by the air cat on to the u.s. med vac plane. it was like someone wrapped me in the american flag and there is never a time when i sing the national anthem that i don't take myself back to that moment and realize how lucky we are to live in this country. >> what was last night's ball game for you? what have these past 48 hours been like for you with this? >> i just ache for steven and his family and his children. father's day is sunday and his two kids are going to be with him in the hospital, hopefully able to give him what he needs to rally. and it sounds like he is. but he is in for a long recovery. and it is -- it's something that we should recognize and be very supportive of him. it is -- it is a horrific

experience to go through. i was in the line of fire for, you know, nanoseconds. when you think of our men and women who go in to defend us abroad and realize they are under fire every day, the entire length of their service, it is very compelling. and that's why i feel so passionately about making sure our veterans have all the resources they need. >> understood. and so everyone for the past 48 hours on capitol hill has been talking about how urgently we need unity, how to stop this toxic partisan ship that we have all been experiencing and this toxic climate. but, you know, it is hard. i think that people revert to the mean. no pun intended. what do you think the answer is for how to preserve this current feeling of unity. >> i hope it is not just words. i do feel very strongly that the

effort underway right now to sabotage bob mueller, to somehow throw mud after him is unbelievable. this is a man who served his country in war, who received a purple heart and the vietnamese cross of gallantry. he spent years as the fbi director. has been called by both sides of the aisle as a straight shooter and now there are efforts underway to somehow suggest that he isn't up to the task? i mean, come on. if we're really going to talk about unity, let this investigation run its course and i would say to the president of the united states, stop tweeting and stop using the vitriolic language and stop attacking americans. this is not what this country is about. >> congresswoman jackie spear, thank you very much for sharing your personal story with us.

>> thank you. >> chris. >> it is good advice, many would suggest, and the president is not following it. he just tweeted again. he is talking about his love of social media, bashing the free press. what is his strategy? why does he believe this works for him? the bottom line next. that fits.. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over 200 sites to find you the hotel you want at the lowest price. grazie, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. that one right there. ♪ ♪ ♪ for those who create their own path.

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yes, there is legitimate cause to believe things may change, at least for a while down in washington after virginia. there was so much great vibe and energy at the baseball game last night. but not by president trump. within 24 hours of that shooting he was back at it on twitter attacking the process of investigation, attacking the people involved, including decorated war veteran bob mueller. moments ago he tweeted the fake news media hates when i use my very powerful social media. over 100 million people. let's get the bottom line with david chalian. to be clear on the record, i love that the president tweets

because i think it is a window into his direct thought process and a legitimate avenue of scrutiny of his positions. what do you make of the political play here, once again bashing the investigation, bashing mueller, et cetera? >> as you know, chris, the white house has conceded that these are official statements from the president. so i agree. it does give us insight into his thinking. i think we also have to be smart enough to separate out some tweets from others. not all of his tweets are the same. and, so, i don't want to conflate the moment of bipartisan ship that you are talking about with the president defending them, having now been under investigation. >> he is not defending himself. he is attacking others, he is attacking the democratic process. he is calling mueller conflicted and bad. that's not just complaining, david. >> i agree with you.

i think attacking the process is bad. this morning his tweets were about pushing back that there has been no proof yet on collusion with russia. that was his first tweet this morning which by the way after seven months of investigation and committee hearings about my collusion with russia, nobody has been able to show any proof. sad. whoever said he was under investigation with russia. our reporting has always been and what jim comey testified before congress and the american people that they were looking into trump campaign associations with russia, not necessarily donald trump. he always makes this about him. that's why he was so adamant to get out there that he wasn't under personal investigation except that now of course he is for potential obstruction of justice. >> but shame on us. i mean shame on us. we are the people who become consumed with the tweets. i know chris likes the tweets. he thinks they are a window

inside the mind of the president. but we are the people devoting our hours of this morning to that instead of something like health care and what the republican plan is and why they're doing it behind closed doors. i mean, we are the people that have to be judicious about which rabbit hole we want to go down. >> it hurts when she says that, david, because it is true. >> there is no doubt. we do make those choices and listening to you this morning with mo brooks and talking about how this moment in the last 48 hours has caused you and all of us to reflect how we contribute to the vitriol, we should reflect on that. but what the president says is worth our attention. that doesn't mean we should do it at the expense of talking about health care. >> there's only 24 hours in a day. we have been doing it at the expense of health care. let's change that right now. let me put my money with my

mouth is. so we're done with the tweets. what do you know about the health care -- what do you know about what's going on? do we know any of the details of what the president will be presenting? >> it would be easier to talk about health care if we actually knew what was in the bill. but as you noted it is really mitch mcconnell's strategy here to do this behind closed doors dealing with senators almost one by one at times but sometimes in larger groups to get to the 50 votes, if it's a tie, and using the vice president to break it that he needs to get this bill across the finish line. he is not looking to have this dy died by the death of a thousand cuts. what we do know is one of the big hang ups and you know this by the way the house bill was constructed is this issue of medicaid and funding medicaid. we know that there are a bunch of senators from states that

took the medicaid expansion that are looking to keep money in the bill that the house bill cut out. that's going to be one of the big sticking points. >> i feel better already about our job. >> they're important discussions. i think we do better than most, but you're right we should do more. >> thank you. again, a rare moment of unity. >> i don't really mean it that way because i'm actually blaming you. i'll just do it more after the show. all right. so did russia bill isis leader al-baghdadi? that's their claim, that they may have. we have new perspective if spes for you next. is is the new guy? hello, my name is watson. you know wine, huh? i know that you should check vineyard block 12. block 12? my analysis of satellite imagery shows it would benefit from decreased irrigation. i was wondering about that. easy boy. nice doggy. what do you think? not bad.

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russia after seven months, defending his use of social media, bashing the mainstream media. you can read them for yourself. >> democrats and republicans uniting at last night's charity baseball game. they honored steve scalise who remains in critical condition after being shot. >> the death toll is up to 30 in that horrible high rise fire in london and still they don't know the toll. we do know 24 people are in the hospital. 12 are critically injured. but dozens are missing. >> jurors in the bill cosby case begin day five of deliberations after telling the judge they were deadlocked after nearly 40 hours of deliberations. >> for more on the five things to know, you can go to cnn.com for the latest. >> more than 100,000 children live in homeless shelters across the nation.

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ago. i was walking in this park. i was feeling profoundly fortunate, lucky. i never not had opportunities and a great education and a loving family. every door has been opened for me. and the boys and girls club for many of these kids has been the first door to open. kids love, love the gym. this is carrot right here. and then they could join the activities. >> what is your favorite thing about coming to the boys and girls club. >> the computer lab. >> i love that. what about you? >> i like coming here because they help us with our homework. >> that levels the playing field so that young people have the opportunity to succeed and out grow their current circumstances. >> the club helps my family with

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club mean to you? >> you know, it is a calling. i think we've been doing an awesome job. >> one, two, three, awesome! >> what is your favorite moment here every day? >> 3:00. >> why do you love 3:00? >> when our doors open. >> come on, let's get inside. >> do you feel like a dad to a bunch of the kids that walk in these doors? >> these are my kids. >> tie your shoe, buddy. >> you have to make it so that kids believe that you agacare. >> this is less than a mile from my apartment. what separates where i live over there and where these kids is these projects over here. >> having a mentor is amazing. to help you conquer your dreams, just basically telling you you can do this, you can do this,

you can. >> there you go. all right. 1-1. we're tied. >> what is it like being back here? does it remind you of good times? >> of course. the club is like family. >> you're more than halfway done with college. how does that feel? >> it is nerinnenerve racking, is like, wow, i can do it. >> you will be the first in your family to graduate from college. >> i got my mom to go to school as well and now she's in college. >> you and your mother will be college graduates. >> pretty soon. i conquer my fear and my disability. >> she overcame a speech impediment, found her voice and two years ago was secelebrated the youth of the year. >> i have wondered a lot what

would my life be like if i was born somewhere else in a different community and there is something fundamentally unjust about that. this isn't about the money, power. it is about something more important. what is it for you? >> it is about influence. you can influence the next generation of leaders and really instill in them a feeling of community and giving back, then you have done something greater for the world. and i think in that is where the power lies. >> oh, my goodness. what a special place and what special kids. >> what amazing kids. and what heroes that work with them every day. i mean, they don't get rich doing this, right? they don't get famous. but the power they have like sam king who runs that clubhouse. >> he's seven feet tall. >> he plays ball. he could have been a professional basketball player. this is what he did. i said what is it for you and he talked about i changed the

trajectory, we changed the trajectory of these kids lives and there is nothing more powerful than that. >> your interest isn't passive. mentoring is huge. i only know because my mother runs a huge mentoring program. people like you in those kids lives make all the difference. it lets them know there are other avenues. >> when angel called me and said i've got so much going on between work and college, i think i'm going to take a semester off, i said, no, you aren't. her mother plays an important role in her life. i am there on and off. i'm not there like her family is, but i'm there when she needs it and she's given me more than i've given her. >> thank you for sharing that story. we have been bringing you their causes every week. you can go to cnn.com and tune in tomorrow for a special event

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