member. jen says there's only bun gretchen so my mombpla says, too. eddie thought it was funny. he thinks they may have some new writers. i want to thank you 0 you for being part of the real real, real story today. i'm gretchen. here is harris. >> we begin with the battle against the islamic state. [explosion] >> iraqi forces launching a major operation came at taking back tikrit. shiites suns and iranian fighters trying to work together against a common enemy. we're following the case of an american woman locked up in japan after her mother mailed her a prescription refill. let's get going. a large-scale military operation now underway in the fight against isis. iraqi security forces trying to

retake saddam hussein's home town of tikrit. they're fighting alongside thousands of militiamen, including many backed by iran. analysts say taking back tikrit could be critical but could further divide iraq along sectarian lines. video from iranian state television shows fighters launching rockets and firing on islamic state militants from just outside tikrit. iraqi media reporting fighters were attacking from difference directions with the happen of iraqi airstrikes. military officials say so far the fighters have not entered the city proper. tikrit is 80 miles north of baghdad, on the main highway to iraq's second largest city, mosul. isil took over both cities last year, and right now forces are being trained to try to take back mosul, possibly as soon as next month. pentagon officials are aware of the iraqi operation in tikrit

but they say the united states is not providing air support and iraqi forces have not asked for it. a senior defense official tells fox news iran is involved and according to iran ya media, a powerful general from iran's elite revolutionary guard is helping in the fight. conor powell has more. this is actually not the first time iraq's military has tried to retake that city. >> yes, harris exactly. last summer the iraqi military tried to retake tikrit. they fell within a few days and fizzled after that. taking tikrit is a really important part of the operations to retake mosul this summer, maybe later this spring, depending on when it happens. tikrit lies on a key road that goes from baghdad to mosul and you can't launch any type of operation on mosul unless you can control tikrit because you need supply lines. so taking this spot, just north

of baghdad as well is a really key thing. it is also important in terms of psychology and the gateway to the sunni triangle so if isis loses tikrit it will signal a weakening ofl+vsupport. >> analysts are saying even if thex6fç fighters are successful it could create bigger problems. why is that? >> so, at the heart of the current conflict in iraq it is a sunni-shia divide. the iraqi government is primarily shiite and backed by iran and in the isis areas the sunni tribesmen, basically a sunni-shia divide in terms of where isis has support ask the iraqi government has support. the fear is this military force that moves in tikrit, if they were able to hold on it to, they would move in there and be primarily shiite, baghdad based and irany fighters and the sunni population would feel a -- still

feel disenfranchised and the conflict would just continue there because neither side is addressing the legitimate concerns of the other. >> conor powell reporting live. thank you very much. let bring in a former deputy director with the joint chiefs of staff and spent 26 years as an intelligence officer in the air forcem first ofou all. shiite sunni iran yawns? is this going to work? >> that's the $64,000 question, harris. the big issue here is all of these different pieces and parts are coming together all of these elements, especially the shia and the iran ian elements are against isis for sure. on the sunni side of things there are quite a few sunni elements that are really angry at what isis has done so they don't support isis in terms of the areas they occupy the fact they massacred so many people and done such damage to

artifacts in mosul and other bad things. so there's a lot of reasons to fight against isis. the key issue is can this coalition hold together, and i think the jury is very much still out on that. >> colonel, will all due respect there are people being massacred all over the world. what really is bringing these two groups of people together? >> they're coming together because they believe that this is an existential threat to them. whether or not they want to be part of a unified iraq, all of these groups and the other group we have forgot ton mention is the kurds. they're coming together and they are ganging up in essence against isis because they see isis as threatening the gains they have had or their way of life. so the idea is of you capture tikrit, then it becomes really the gateway to other things you can do. but the problem that you have is if you don't move forward from

tikrit -- let's say they do capture tikrit, then it's a real problem if they don't keep the momentum going. you have to keep the momentum going in order to actually make gains that are required, and defeat and destroy isis. >> well, colonel, i know there's critics who say can you trust iran and are you doing their dirty work for them? a real quick response and then i want to talk about how we're helping them. >> sure. the iranians have their own national interests in this case.úze so what you cannot trust them but in certain cases they're going to do the same exact thing that you would want to do if you were in their shoes. that's why iranian generals on the ground in tikrit, and they're really conducting military operations there. >> all right. so a couple of things. can you point to anything positive how they are doing the fighting there on the ground the iraqi soldiers there, and if they cannot succeed, do we go in? >> well right now the iraqi forces are doing a pretty good

job of in essence a modified combined arms approach. by that i mean using the elements of iraqi air power with iraqi ground power and also bringing the in different elements from different sides. so there's a possibility they could encircle tikrit. that's what i would advise them to do. now, as far as if they fail do go in as a result of that? this may not be the one thing that tips the balance one way or the other, whether the u.s. commits ground forces or not but that's say tikrit does not fall and isis turns the tables and threaten baghdad, i can see u.s. forces coming in. but at this point in time, i don't see that happening in regards to the tikrit battle. i think the tikrit battle is a key element in the next phase of the war here. >> you talk about a tipping point and we have heard different things out of the

administration in terms of timing, but we know something is happening in order for our military to press back against isis in mosul. if they were to move on baghdad those are two huge cities so i understand the importance of tick tikrit. thank you for your time and we'll report the changes. >> thank you. >> as the world focuses attention on the violence in the middle east, a reminder of what is going on in east asia. the south korean defense department is reporting north korea fired two missiles which landed in the sea of japan. the drills are sparking angry rhetoric from the north. today a spokesperson for north korea's military called it quote aggression and war by u.s. imperialists saying they should be dealt with only by merciless strikes. here at home the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is starting his visit to washington dc with a warning before iran. >> i plan to speak about an

irany regime that is threatening to destroy israel. >> the tensions the white house threatening to overshadow his message. we're coming right back. stay close. i have great credit. how do you know? duh. try credit karma. it's free and you can see what your score is right now . i just got my free credit score! credit karma. really free.

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cam main against the administration's negotiations with iran over the nuclear program. house speaking at an event today, netanyahu insisted he was, quote, has great respect for america's commander in chief watch. >> the last thing that i would want is for israel to become a part of the issue, and i regret that some people have misperceived my visit here this week as doing that. israel is always been a bipartisan issue, israel should always remain a bipartisan issue. >> observers note president obama is going to great lengths to try to work with iran, something his critic are calling a mistake, saying iran cannot be trusted. representatives from the u.s. and other five other nations are up against a deadline at the end of the month and they've been trying to convince iran to scale back the nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions. ed henry is live at the white

house. this has been well, they say rough. i can think of other words -- back and forth between the administration and netanyahu. >> you're right. it's been brutal, and just last week susan rice suggested that this whole trip by the israeli prime minister would be destructive, is what she called it and that did no -- not go over well so as the israeli prime minister spoke today at aipac, the american israeli public affairs committee, the large pro israel lobby the united states, samantha power, the president's u.s. ambassador to the united nations, made it clear they're trying to smooth over the tension. listen. >> debating the most effective policy both within our respective democracies and among partners is more than useful, it is a necessary part of arriving at informed decisions. politicizing the process is not. >> republican john mccain told fox today the administration is

being more diplomatic because they realize that some of the comments may have backfired and that the administration is nervous they might be putting together a bad deal with iran bottom line is tonight susan rice herself will be speaking to aipac just after 6:00 p.m. eastern time. >> i don't now if you caught this but in yemen, the long suspected iran-backed rebels that took over the government there got a shipment by air from iran. so theirs this independent watchdog suggesting netanyahu may have some valid points in his concerns. >> that's right. the chief of the iaea, the u.n.'s watchdog you mentioned that overseas nuclear issues, they say they're not getting full cooperation. iran has been very slow to cooperate about its previous nuclear warhead research and they're skeptical about iran being at the table right now negotiating with the u.s. and its partners, that whether iran is being straight, and so i pressed josh earnest today because he claims iran is

turning over material. listen. >> that flies in the face of what you said. >> ed what we have confirmed is that iran has lived up to their agreement as a part of the joint plan of action. >> this is iran -- this is the u.n. nuclear watchdog saying they haven't been able to verify that. can you explain how the u.s. verified that? >> in the the context of the joint plan of action our international inspectors have gotten very important access to iran. >> administration officials maintain that the iaea has previously confirmed that iran complied with the earlier stages of this agreement to comply and explain the key pieces of its nuclear program. you see secretary of state john kerry in geneva trying to make sure they follow through. >> ed henry good to see you. thank you very much. there's word hillary clinton could officially start running for president a whole lot sooner than even she has been hinting at. it was a bit of breaking news

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physical struggle. neither man made it on the white house grounds. a big defense from last year, remember the fence jumper got into the east room of the white house. of course, people are not the only concern. a few weeks ago a drone crash-landed on the white house lawn. it operator is facing possible charges. he claims it was an accident. hillary clinton could announce her second run for the white house as early as next month. that is what she and her advisors are telling democratic donors according to "wall street journal." on the republican side, kentucky senator rand paul won his third straight straw poll at the political action conference. scott walker came in a close second, though, followed by texas senator ted cruz, decider ben carson and jeb bush. let's talk about this with a reporter who broke the news about hillary clinton's possible earlier announcement. white house correspondent carol lee. good to see you today. >> good to see you. >> so, on hillary, the last

check her ca$ñ said they would delay an announce up. because she wasn't feeling pressure to get in. something change? >> one is that she is coming under some pressure from donors democratic donor who are saying, if you're going to have to raise a billion dollars or more, you need to get out there and start raising the money and if she started later in the summer as late as july, then that would put her at a disadvantage in terms of raising that amount of money. second, there is this mounting -- she is a de facto candidate so she is getting a lot of criticism from expected places like republicans are criticizing her, and then she is -- but she is having to deal with stories, particularly one recently that looked at some of the donations from foreign governments to the clinton foundation, and if you're not a campaign in a formal way you don't have a rapid response team or the kind of apparatus that would normally respond in real time to those issues.

and the downside for her is she gets in earlier, which -- there are people in her circumstance whole think she should wait -- is that she -- once she is a candidate, you're a candidate. it's a whole different ball game and she knows this better than anyone wholes is running, and she will be asked to respond to every day-to-day news event everybody is talking about prime minister netanyahu's speech there she would have to weigh in on an issue like that. the iran deal and so forth. >> well carol would think as a former secretary of state, she could rock and roll like that. come on. geopolitical issue in the world and you have been secretary of state and you can't weigh in on senate you need a machine to help you weigh in on that? >> well, as you know, anytime somebody is a candidate, your positions on these issues are very scrutinized and you are having -- whatever you say is going to be put under a big microscope and she doesn't like that. she said that herself.

that's not one of the most enjoyable to go things for her and if you look how she handled things so far it's easier to sit back and send out a tweet here and there when you feel like weighing in on something, or giving a speech and not really being held to the standard that a presidential candidate is held to. >> well, the other thing is just the physicality of it all. when you start running, it's exhausting. we'll move on and talk about the g.o.p. conservatives loving senator rand paul of kentucky. a third year. big news or not? >> not really. i would would have bigger news if he lost. he was expected to win. and cpac is not necessarily the demographic there is not necessarily representative of the republican primary voting base. he appeals to that crowd. so it would have been a bigger story if he lost. >> jeb bush getting credit for going and sticking to his message among a crowd that might

not have been warm and fuzz you to him. you say he has a lot to point to as a candidate. how did he do? >> he is trying to be -- burnish his conservative credentials by pointing to a time when he was governor. i think the challenge that he faces is that he was governor ten years ago, and a lot has changed since then, in particular the fact that what was considered conservative enough then may be is a little bit different now, and so he is really struggling on his issues on immigration and education and how he talks about those will be definitely something to watch. >> carol lee the "wall street journal" broke the news on hillary clinton possibly announcing as early as april. we appreciate you coming on. thank you. >> thank you. >> a major mystery in the killing of a high profile critic of russian president vladimir putin. happened just steps from the kremlin where security cameras are every. hmm there's word surveillance

video doesn't exist because somebody switched off the cameras. now at least one official denies that report. also, that nurse infected with live ebola while separated by her dog is taking her form bosser bosses to court. that's coming up on the fox news deck.

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he was shot and killed while he was walking home with his girlfriend, hours after he gave radio interview criticizing put's quote mad aggressive policy in the ukraine. a tv station released video from a web cam which shows the shooter running to a getaway car. his girlfriend said she did not see the suspect. she says she just wants to go home to ukraine but that russian officials went let her. russia's foreign minister calls the killing, quote, heinous crime. ambassador nicholas burns is a former undersecretary of the state department who is a member of secretary of state john kerry's foreign affairs policy board. good to have you here today with us. >> thank you. >> how surprised are you about the death of this opposition leader and the fact it's getting such global attention? >> well, i think it is certainly strange isn't it that in a society that is so tightly controlled and authoritarian dictatorship in the heart of

that country's capital, in red inquiry, a major opposition leader is gunned down? very strange and so what are the scenarios? one possibility ex-someone in the russian security apparatus in the massive government, decided to murder boris nemtsov. another is that these nationalist groups, right-wing nationalist groups that have been emboldened by putin took it in their ohand. i don't think we'll see the truth. the russian government will bury the truth. >> the obama administration over the weekend was calling for a thorough investigation, and really, ambassador, there's nothing we can do. right? >> there's nothing much the united states can do. i think that president obama was right to call for that investigation. we ought to keep the pressure on the russian government. we ought to shine a bright spotlight on the defifth sunday of the regime and denial of human rights. when things like this happen in

the capitol city that the government controls. >> that's big and bold talk. how are we doing? crima now eastern ukraine. what are your thoughts on how much pressure we're really putting on them. >> actually i think that president obama is ahead of the europeans. the dilemma of the united states is we want stronger sanctions against russia over eastern ukraine and crimea, as you say. we want -- i think we ought to sell defensive or give defensive arms to the ukrainian government so they can defend itself and we ought to be stationing more nato troops in estonia laugh via -- latvia and lithuania to protect them and commit to our article 5 agreement to protect them from russia. i think president obama is a tougher minded than the europeans. we have to bring the europeans, particularly the german government, held by chancellor merkel, along with us. that's the big challenge in the weeks ahead. >> i think you made a little news there, i haven't actually heard this administration say it would be considering giving weapons to those who are

fighting off pro russian rebels in eastern ukraine. is that right? >> i'm not a member of the administration. i'm a private citizen. i have been advocating for several weeks now that the united states ought to give defensive arms, antitank missiles so the kiev government but i don't represent the administration. >> putin's power returning a kremlin to what we knew in the past kind of an view. what are your thoughts on that? >> i think that he has shown himself to be a demagogue brutal cynical dictator within russia but more worrying to the united states he is pushing out, trying to create strategic depth for russia. that's why he is intimidating ukraine and other countries. we have to be strong to make him pay a price threw higher sanctions and defensive ukrainians. we're not going to fight putin. nobody in the united states, republican or democrat, thinks

we should but we can use strengthening nato as levers to make him pay a higher price. >> ambassador, i appreciate your time today. one of the nurses who survived ebola is suing her former employer. she claims her hospital in dallas lacked the right equipment to care for the virus and did not properly train the staff. nina pham and another nurse contracted ebola after caring for thomas eric duncan who died. she had to consult the internet for the gear to wear and her neck and hair were exposed. she didn't get a change of clothes to put on when she left for the day. an attorney says the hospital ran her as a pr pawn and released video of her recovery without her permission. she was even separated from her little dog bentley. the dog was placed in isolation but later tested negative for

ebola. trace gallagher is live in our west coast news hub. what else is in the lawsuit? >> the lawsuit is filled withye astonishing accusations. she she claimed when she told thomas eric duncan would be her patient they said she was in stable condition, could use the bathroom by himself and she would not have to good into his room very much she could monitor him remotely. all of which she says was untrue. then when she asked her manager how to protect herself from ebola, the manager decided to google it. the lawsuit reads, quoting here, when it came time to admit him to ic and have nina take care of'ort them the sum total of information she was provided to protect herself before taking on her patient was what her manager googled and printed out from the internet. after thomas duncan died, she claims she cleaned up his meed sheets and other contaminated waste inside his room. >> the nurse claims the hospital was looking out for itself and not her.

>> in fact anyplace na pham claims while the hospital to hold rest of the world she was going to be fine, doctors withhaving an end of life conversation with her and because texas health resources was so worried about taking a public relations hilt before she was transferred to a new hospital for different care a doctor from texas health came in with a go-pro trying to get her to say good things about the care she was receiving. nina says she never approved that but texas health ills now released a statement saying, quoting here we view all our employees as part of the family. that's why we have continued to support nina both during and after her illness as distressing as this lawsuit is to us we remain optimistic we can resolve this matter with nina. she is very unsure at this point if she'll ever go back to being a nurse again. >> trace gallagher, thank you very much. a jury today convicted a woman of second degree murder for killing her five-year-old little boy by pouring salt into this

feeding tube. the mom followed little reaction following the verdict. jurors con vehicled the mom of most serious charge against her. they rejected the lesser option of first degree manslaughter. prosecutors say the high sodium level that led to the child's death was nothing short of torture. they claim spears did it for attention. she had chronicled her son's halve problems on social media. her attorney says no direct evidence of the crime exist cozy the boy's death devastated his mom but she november faces life in prove. >> the u.s. border patrol is now looking for a few good women to spy for some of the agents who protect america's borders are female. border patrol officials said they want to change that. they say the number of women and girls they have apprehended has more than doubled since 2011 and many of the women from central and south america report being sexually assaulted during their trip are and now often reluctant to talk to male agents about the

abuse. we're live with more on this. >> reporter: the u.s. customs and border protection sought a federal exemption to launch a massive recruitment of just women. the border patrol needs to hire 1600 new agents by october 1st and the border patrol says that men are eligible for the new hire effort but the agency needs moore female agents in part because border patrol agents are the first responders to incidents involving immigrants crossing the border illegally. accord dog amnesty international more and more are women and children attempting to cross the u.s. via the southern bored and have been victimizedded. the border control commissioner says women bring a perspective to the job that is of valuefr÷ and at the train are standards for men and women nor different. >> male and female agents are required to do the same job, in the same locations. there is no difference between what we're expected to do. it's just there are times when

there are sensitive issues that it makes sense to have a female involved if possible. >> reporter: after the new recruits pass exams, background checks and polygraph, they head to the federal law enforcement training academy in new mexico. preparation to become an agent is roughly five months long. it includes language instruction, fieldwork, and rigorous physical testing. >> it's a fun thing to be able to be physically matched with another male and to be able to surpass some of them and to be able to challenge yourself to be the best. just because you're a female doesn't mean you can't do those things. >> reporter: now, the border patrol has what is known as a search, trauma and rescue team that responds to a number of incidents. however they only have a handful of women on the team so they're trying to change that. >> all right. thank you very much. police reportedly have arrested an american woman overseas because her mom sent her a prescription drug that is

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through the trees and monkeys helped them fine the perfect location of course. well an interesting legal story. in japan they have arrested a 26-year-old american teacher for her prescription pills and now could be facing years in prison. the woman's mom is a physician who apparently mailed her daughter one about offed atta roll for attention defer sift disorder. she was out to eat when she was arrived. she was weeks away from starting her new teaching job teaching english there. now police reportedly accuse her of taking part in a smuggling operation, and attorney for the family told the newspaper the woman is in solitary confinement and that police have been questioning her. japan has some over the toughest drug laws in the world so we'll start with that and the nation has banned imports imports imports of adderoll and similar drugs. we have a former federal

prosecutor here. good to see you. i have a lot of questions about this case but you say it brings up important issues. what's the short list. >> one question is, here we take it for granted adderoll and these drugs are accepted and used routinely, especially with children. overseas it's not necessarily the case. and one of the lessons out of this is perhaps when you do travel overseas, you are bound by whatever the laws are in that country. and just because somebody is okay here in the united states, it may not be overseas, and if you get caught with something, potentially that is illegal over there that is okay here, you'll face the consequences over there. >> now to my question, i have this healthy skepticism as a reporter. the mom is saying she did this for her safety, for her health. she needed to get this mid indication to her. normally we might not know what the list of drugs that japan doesn't allow but i would think a doctor might have looked that

up. so she put those pills in a over the counter tylenol bottle. okay. why would you do that unless there were a robe to -- a reason to do that unless you're trying to hide something. >> and to make it even more interesting, the bottle of medication was actually first sent to south korea and then from there it gets shipped to japan. so now the story is that the girl was originally in south korea, living in south korea, teaching, and got the new job in japan. if that pans out, then that certainly would support their story, but it's certainly strange to have it sent to one country and then behind so another country and have it basically camouflaged in a different container. >> i would think this is easy. if you get a diagnosis on paper she does have add and needed this drug and you can trace the mail there she was living in south korea, but what is it like to fight a case like this in a foreign country, particularly japan?

>> it's very different than the united states. they can hold her for at least 21 days without bringing charges. right now we're not sure what the charges are going to be. we assume it's smuggling, perhaps other charges teed it when the actual charges come out. so it's a different system everything is different. she is interrogated without the presence of a lawyer doesn't have a right to a lawyer apparently during the interrogation, the family is afraid she is going to evegetablely just fall apart and say, fine, i did it because they're interrogating her intensely without anyone there to protect her. >> to me reading, i want to know are they administering this drug to her now? i imagine it's serious, and it's a schedule 2 drug and is controlled in this country, meaning you can't automatically gate refill but it's powerful so if you're on it, you're on it. you might need it. >> and you're supposed to take it every single day. >> right. >> so if she does in fact have add and parentally diagnosed

when she was seven years old the assumption would be she has been on this drug for many, many years and that may also affect, for instance, the interrogation, because if she is being questioned and she has add, and now all of a sudden she is not on this medication and it may be her body is going to have some sort of reaction to that, and certainly her responses may be affected by it. >> i hear in your voice -- we have been together enough to know you're concerned. >> it's very difficult and raises the issues that sometimes here we may be cognizant of add and high functioning autism and these type of disorders, whereas overseas, they aren't necessarily even recognized. and then the treatment isn't there and if you good overseas and you have something with you to treat something so simple here, and overseas they may not even understand really what it is. >> good to have you've today. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> surveys show more than half of all students have trouble figuring out financial aid offers from colleges. so let's bring in the experts.

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>> he the -- the letter in the mail first the letter of seasonnance and then the financial aide. the cost off aten dance, the grants and student loans-parent loans work study, and then the expected family contribution. this isn't something you make up. you decide. you actually are told what you're expected to contribute. >> really. >> yes. >> wow okay. can i show -- this is how complicated this -- these are her notes for the story. okay? so if you're having a hard time at home she is the expert and it's like a color chart. >> it is. >> can these letters not only be confusing but misleading. >> offer misleading of. and different universities speaking the same language. they have their own words to describe scholarships scholarships and grants. >> how do you compare them. >> give you chart here. we went through these letters to find out what they're doing. check this out. first of all, one letter says sign and return a copy of this

letter and guess what the deadline isn't until may 1st. they're trying to rush you to sign up. this one estimates the actual cost of attending 31,006 -- it's more like 35,000 because they left out transportation and books. you may not get a complete -- >> left out books. >> i think books are important. so, finally, let me show you this, alternative financing, yeah, we got a grand for $8,800. no. you got pay that money. so you have to call the student aid officer and say explain all of these terms you're using, try to under what is going on, because otherwise you might misunderstood and be on the hook for more money that you expect. >> how do you look at this in terms of taxes. you're laughing. >> no no, look, here's the deal. i mentioned your expected family contribution. people manage this as closely as they manage their taxes. they try to make their income

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