see the pictures of them on the wall and it hit home. i highly recommend you take some time to do that. bill: overwhelming. martha: "happening now" starts right now. ♪ jon: and new report sunni gunmen in iraq have taken over the chemical weapons facility. hello, i'm jon scott. >> and i am in for jenna lee. seizing the main chemical weapons factory as the battle wages over the country's largest oil refinery, the prime minister's facing pressure from iraq who called for effective government in friday's prayers. didn't exactly get an endorsement from the white house yesterday either.

jon: national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon for more for us now. >reporter: u.s. officials confim forces have captured saddam hussein's former chemical weapons facility north of baghdad. they say the material was so degraded at the time the u.s. was in iraq it was more dangerous to move the aging materials then leave them behind buried in bunkers. the state department issued the following statement. "we do not believe the complex contains cw materials of military value and it will be difficult if not impossible to safely move the materials." they city capture of the facility is a propaganda victory for the isis fighters that militants will not be able to create a chemical weapon out of the material. the facility is in essence defunct. this is how they describe the facility. "two wars, sanctions and

oversight reduced iraqi premier production facility a stockpile of old, damage, contaminated chemical munition field in bunkers. a wasteland of destroyed chemical munitions and unusable war-ravaged facilities." in the run-up to the iraq war they were looking for weapons of mass destruction's at the time. this facility did not fall into that facility because it was known to the u.s. and had been inspected and virtually dismantled by u.n. inspectors before the war started. jon: still not good news whatever that stuff is, it is in the hands of the isis folks. >> never good news when isis takes over military facility. jon: jennifer griffin, thank you. uma: when the irs commissioner on the hot seat taking tough questions from the furious lawmakers i house ways and means committee. refusing to apologize after claims lois lerner's hard drive

was destroyed. e-mails have simply gone missing. all of it potentially evidence in the political targeting scandal. mike emanuel joining us from capitol hill. a lot of fireworks this morning. >> a lot of fireworks with john koskinen on the hot seat in a line of fire about the issues of missing e-mails. let's take a look at the house ways and means committee room. chairman dave camp asked about bringing in a special prosecutor for the tax collection agency and the irs chief says that would be "a monumental waste of taxpayer dollars." this aggravation they told obama administration officials there were e-mails in april but didn't tell congress until last week. chairman dave camp says his committee is fed up. >> what i didn't hear in that is a apology for this committee. >> i don't think an apology is owed.

madison lima has been lost since the start of this investigation, every e-mail has been preserved that we have, we have producer will produce. >> you don't think the time. back between generally 2009 and april 2011 is relevant to this investigation? reporter: emphasizing irs emphasis in the process of turning over about 67,000 lois lerner e-mails to congress mostly internal. republicans were e-mailed to outside agencies and organizations about the irs targeting of conservative groups are gone after her hard drive crashed and it was recycled and irs servers were erased after six months. copies and paul ryan says the agency and koskinen himself have a credibility problem. >> the apology that should be given is to the american taxpayers, not to a government agency that is abusing its power.

i am sitting here listening to this testimony, i don't believe it, that is our problem, nobody believes you. reporter: and koskinen says he has had a long career and nobody has said that to him. he is testifying under oath. uma: paul ryan on fire. thank you for the update. jon: for more, let's bring the chief's bonnet for the "washington examiner." it is getting hot on the hill, susan. this e-mail chain, why does it matter? >> it matters because for months now republicans have been trying to establish a connection between lois lerner, the head of the tax organization within the irs, and other agencies within and higher above her with the administration. now it is a big puzzle. they have assembled a lot of parts of the puzzle that seem to point to administration

officials above lois lerner's pay grade. a key part of that are those e-mails between 2009-2011. what happened during that time? lois lerner shifted a massive database of tax and fed groups to the fbi. those e-mails may be incredible relevant. who is she talking to, what are the motives behind this? again, all part of the puzzle. the of administration would like to create this atmosphere where this is just a witch hunt. the hearing we are listening to today will make that a lot more difficult. you heard paul ryan saying i don't believe this. the ways and means committee incredible and powerful committee holding this hearing. i think what it will do is create an atmosphere where people want to know more about this, not less. jon: why can't the committee or someone on capitol hill get the documents from some other agency

in the administration whether it be the justice department, fbi or whatever? reporter: i think you will see just that, jon. you will see subpoenas and more inquiries in the recipients of those e-mails. the idea that they erased the e-mails on the server after six months, something that information is still recoverable, there may be a way to get it out of the server. they may try to find it on the other end of whoever lois lerner was trying to communicate with. i suspect they will follow the trail to understand who she was sending those e-mails to so that information may in fact be recoverable. jon: so much of the skepticism of what is going on comes from what we have been told at this point has turned out not to be true. we were told with a few rogue agents responsible for this extra scrutiny paid to conservative groups, that turned out not to be the case. and then you hear john koskinen at the head of the irs saying

that is in the e-mail has been lost since the start of this investigation. yeah, maybe since the start of the investigation, but they want e-mails going back years before that. >> direct has a real credibility problem and part of the issue is this is one of the most feared agencies in the government, it requires taxpayers to hold onto all their records or else, now they say we don't know where any of this information is and this is no big deal. the problem for the white house is the public has maintained their interest level, maintained their angle level in this. this is not health and the irs and i suspect this will continue. jon: the president says he was outraged and that outrage seems to have dissipated. reporter: look at what is happening on capitol hill. an increased interest among democrats. in the senate you have worn hatch and others, both powerful members of the ta text committen the senate

saying we will work together to get to the bottom of this. that was drilled trouble for the irs and the white house. jon: a lot of work to do. chief congressional correspondent, thank you. reporter: thank you. uma: house republicans electing new leaders in the wake of eric cantor loss. on august 1, he will move to number two position from the current number three spot as house majority whip. louisiana representative after a competitive three-way race. both mccarthy and the other will stand for reelection after the november midterm election. jon: a shocking lapse in safety precautions at the center for disease control in atlanta. 75 employees there may have been exposed to anthrax. this is not the first time the cdc practices have been questioned. john roberts has details now from atlanta. reporter: good morning to you.

there is no way to sugarcoat this, this is a huge screwup that put at risk the lives of dozens of people who dedicate their lives to protecting us everyday from deadly diseases. here's what happened. the high-security rapid response lab with procedures like this were trying to find ways to protect against anthrax. they were try to come up with better protecting anthrax in powder like the ones mailed to new york and washington back in 2001. the samples of the bacteria are usually irradiated to make them inactive but they used chemicals in this case which is not the normal protocol. five days after they were sent out it was discovered they contained live anthrax bacteria. cdc has been scrambling to find everyone who might have been exposed. they are up to 86 workers now, 52 of them are taking preventative antibiotics. one of the most troubling of all

of this, they may have become erol's lies, blown in the air force and the center for disease to shut down labs and thedecontaminate hallways. congressman fred upton and others saying there is no room for error or negligence when it comes to bioterror research and every precaution must be taken to ensure the safety of our scientists. the committee has look at past safety labs including problems with the ventilation system and some of the high-security labs in one case back in 2012 error was blowing out from a level three containment lab into a hallway where there were visitors. the center for disease control is looking at environmental air samples taken each and every day last week at those labs to find out if anthrax actually did get out. jon: scary proposition. thank you.

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jon: minnesota's governor declares a state of emergency there after heavy rain sparked massive flooding in 35 counties. a huge mudslide in minneapolis right next to a hospital. 8 feet of mud and debris collapsing on a highway, drivers narrowly missing the slide. officials fear the erosion could threaten the hospital stability. roads closed and 20 employees were evacuated from a building nearby. overall the region is facing flooding concerns, debris is in the mississippi river and could cause problems downstream. uma: we have seen the terror group isis on a tear cap string key cities leaving a trail of death and destruction.

in a recent "wall street journal" op-ed piece, former vice president says it's not just iraq we have to worry about, says the tragedy unfolding in iraq today is only part of the story. al qaeda and affiliates are across the globe. according to a recent grant, studies 21,010-2013 there has been a 15% increase in the number of jihadist terror groups around the world. the number of terrorists also dublin. st who has a federal policy researcher. great to have you here today. >> great to be on, thanks. uma: discuss what has developed over the past years. the fact there has been severe weaknesweaknesses in the governf africa and the middle east, that creates on stability.

>> one of the reasons we found for this rise in 2010 of jihadist organizations is the result of the arab uprising which has we can read james across north africa and the middle east in countries like libya, syria providing an opportunity for these kind of groups we see in iraq to establish a sanctuary to build up their arsenal. uma: we are hearing more about isis, but tell me about the other groups out there. >> some of them are pretty well organized. in groups like libya, several them involved in the attacks that killed u.s. investor stevens, others have perpetrated attacks at oil refineries in places like algeria that have killed citizens, so others in countries like syria have developed nodes into europe and other locations in american suicide bombers from states like

florida to fight in jihadist. >> are we supposed to take away from the report we should be more vigilant when these groups will be really focused on the west or more locally in their own country? >> that is a great question. what we found is there are some groups, not a large number of them interested in targeting the united states homeland including the group out of yemen, al qae al qaeda, but most of what they found is these were targeting regimes in the countries operating in but also present a threat to u.s. embassies and citizens in a range of these countries so vigilance will be actually quite important. uma: it is quite provocative, one we have to keep a close watch on. we really appreciate your insight. >> thank you very much. jon: our diplomatic facility is now in custody on the uss

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the light with yellow and the driver was cited for making an illegal left turn, but what a video. jon: in custody after a daring raid to capture him. he is now being questioned by fbi interrogators onward the uss new york heading to the united states being tried in a civilian court. investigators don't know how long the he will have to questin him before he is given a lawyer. ultimately that decision is up to president obama did former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the detainees, manager for national security law program. how long would you let interrogators go after this di.

>> as long as they're getting useful information and across the atlantic because the issue here is whether he is providing intelligence we fear for the newspaper he is so the president should be patient. jon: as you know, new york is one of the fastest ships in the navy, could be here in a matter of days or taken at one not per hour and a matter of months given the choice, what would you do? >> there will be a point in time because he's a criminal suspect being interrogated for criminal purposes but headed toward court the federal district court or fbi director will say look, you cannot violate the unreasonable presentation you are being given. they're going to transit not at

full steam unless this report we built between interrogators, there will be a point in time where he will have to be presented. jon: he has had a couple of years to rehearse his story. what are the chances he gives up any useful information? >> we don't know. what we read this morning was he is being cooperative. some of the high-value guys, they have big egos. they like to pretend or they think they are the smartest guy in the room, so hopefully we have the top interrogators with all the intel who can go at it through a lot of means to plan to his ego, plan to his mentality and draw him out. jon: he is going to federal court somewhere in the

united states, will say you have to throw out everything this guy said in his trip across the atlantic because he has not been read his miranda warning. how do you answer that? >> you say that dog doesn't hunt, judge. interrogated on safety exceptions cited against quarrels the main case there. don't plan to use anything he said in court against him anyway. the judge will not jump right to dismissal. might give him extra question to ask the jury, might do nothing and say they are not using the statements against him, there is no issue so i will deny your motion. there is a slight risk but not an unreasonable risk so will take time on his quotations and not if it can be used against him in court. jon: human rights watch demanding he should be read his miranda rights.

we will sue the timetable is that only for the u.s. navy but the fbi and justice department. thank you. >> thank you, jon. uma: u.s. lawmakers being added to the scandal. should they receive millions in bonuses while veterans die waiting for care? as president obama announced in 300 military advisors in central iraq, we will look at the media coverage of the iraq crisis. stay with us.

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>> at this hour, capical lawmakers are in the midst of a hearing looking too ten million in bonuses paid to the va hospitals as people were force today wait for care and some died. doug mccowl is live. >> reporter: bonuses or performance awards are not uncommon for high achieving employees but at the va it is different. an aanalogy was made today saying they are all above average.

>> not a single member of 470 individuals released a less than satisfaction rating. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> reporter: in 2012, the year six people died at the pittsburgh hospital the director received a perfect bonus and the regional chief got $60,000 in bonus and the construction working got a $50,000 bonus and the dayton va advisor got over $10,000. and this is a quote: the idea that let's fire everybody and pull their bonus away. that is a bunch of crap. he has suspended performance

awards for fiscal year 2014. 80% of va executives received some sort of performance award. today the witnesses said it was worth streamlining the process. as the latest iraq crisis unfolds, militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria continue their path of destruction. they took over a chemical weapons facility north of baghdad and they are battling iraq forces for control of the largest oil refinery as talk of the prime minister is going over the talk of his handling of this. let's talk about the media covera coverage. judith miller and tammy bruce is here. there has been iraq fatigue among the public in this country

but what about the media? >> the media still loves to beat up on who was responsible for the iraq war and who is to blame for the current crisis and that is not helpful, jon. what the media should be doing is encouraging everybody who has a view of what to do in iraq to come forward and discuss it. but they are trying to shutdown dick cheney, liz cheney and all of the neo conservatives that brought us the war. >> even the president said one lesson we ought to learn from iraq is don't go invading independent sovereign countries. saying this isn't myault basically. >> everything in history-look we can look woo -- we can look at and blame it on everything but

at this stage leadership requires what is needed in action now. it is a partisan argument as opposed to an argument not even based on solutions for journalist but based on the facts of what are transpiring now. there is genocide, chemical weapons, what is happening with libya and their relationship, things that can help the american people get a handle on this. >> she makes a point the media ought to be covering what is going on now. the point now is to fix this mess that we have on our hands. >> every president makes mistakes. you can point the president obama's mistakes or bush's

mistakes. and the idea that killing bin laden would go and long way in ending this. if we litigate the past, and who is responsible for what, we will not get anywhere. diane feinstein among others said let's end this and figure out what to do. >> in addition to suggesting that people like the cheney's shouldn't be speaking up, attacks on reporters for reporting fact-based dynamics. cheryl atkinson and other individuals who move into situations maybe partisan media might not discuss. you don't know where a story is naturally going to end and sometimes the information and facts you have are not going to be perfect but reports have to be comfortable to report and discuss stories. have fights about politicians but reporters and journalist

have to be free of fear of watt the partisans will do. >> it is strange hearing people in the media saying be silent. we have first amendment rights and let's hash it out. >> that is what we do in democries and that is what is not happening in iraq where you have an unpopular prime minister who is trying to hang on to power and a president trying to fig iiure out what to do with t terrorist and not align with the unpopular man. he needs all of the advise he can get. >> when you look at the history, in 2009, i believe it was, iraq after the surge was a relatively peaceful place. >> see, that is it. if you are going to have news coverage about what happened, and not that everything was

fabulous, but they were not mass murders happening in the street. but when it comes to what the american media does is it informs the american people and it is their family and loved ones who are going into that environment and they have a right to know what is happening and the media provides that. >> the 300 advisors going in and now we will have the debate and the media needs to encourage that. judy miller and tammy bruce thank you. >> a strip club is trying to settle a score claiming a man owes him a big tab but the goy says he was drawinged. and a woman flips in a raft while white water rafting. her story coming up next. her story coming up next. good job!

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our criminal panel. gentlemen, wem welcome. the club is now refusing to drop the charges against this doctor even though the allegations are showing he is a victim in this crime. >> they have no choice. they are owed $135,000. their only acquisitions haven't been proven. if these defendants went to trial the women that work there and accused of the drugging and they were found not guilty then the civil lawsuit would go on and they could win their money back. so it would be premature to pull out and say we are canceling the lawsuit. it would be like waving the white flag and there is no reason they should do that. >> shouldn't the management be responsible for employee's actions? >> they should be.

and as the case unfolds we will pull away the layers. but there is a lot of legal gyration taking place before we get there. but if you read the indictment, i am not sure these women actually work for scores. and under what the law calls responding and superior if they didn't work for scores, scores isn't responsible for their behavior and even if they get convicted scores might be able to collect the handful of bills. $135,000 of them. >> the doctor didn't just pay a visit once. he was there four times. >> let me play devil's advocate. in terms of the civil case, it would be premature and in terms of the criminal case, they have a strong case. besides the doctor they have an undercover officer who was

solicited and slipped a drink and drugs and he didn't consume it. the district attorney doesn't make an arrest like this until they have their ducks in order. so the facts are powerful these defendants are guilty of something and therefore the civil case may drop. >> were you surprised the club is going after the doctor still trying to get the money? >> no, from my understanding, this club has a reputation of doing something like this. this isn't the first time they have sued someone with a huge tab. >> but there have been indictments. >> i understand that. but they haven't been convicted yet and why should they drop their civil case? if they are acquitted or it is shown they are not employees the club maybe entitled to their money. i think the whole thing is a

mess and disgusting but to drop the case now wouldn't be a smart move. >> what they are accused of is fishing. going out and finding victims. if you are walking on the subway and some guy bumps into you and picks your pocket that was just an opportunity. but they are going out and trying to say what sap can we entice, put something in this drink, and what they do is get their american express card and every $50,000 charge american express calls and video tapes them. scores or the strip club video tape them talking to american express so they have conformation he is authorizing the charges. but he is saying he was drugged and doesn't remember it. >> he went back three nights in

a row. so either he is a big sap or he is not tell thiing the truth. >> or the third option one of the girls said i love you. looking for love in all of the wrong places. >> where do you think this is headed ultimately, fred? >> on the civil case, if they are smart they'll see how the criminal case plays out. >> thank you, gentlemen. >> i think it is more than $10. >> that is the biggest bill i have. >> cry me a river. >> thanks for having me. there are new clashes between government forces and pro-russian rebels in ukraine. what is mind the violence and

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