expectations ended up being off by just shy of a gazillion percent once the returns came in. that does it for us tonight. see you've tomorrow night. first look is up next. good thursday morning everyone. right now on first look, target iraq, a new islamic militant organization in the region considered radical and dangerous may be causing the u.s. to consider military air strikes. gop in turmoil. house members jockey for power as many republicans worry about the same fate as that that defeated eric cantor. >> chuck hagel faced tough questions over the p.o.w. release. >> plus the new york rangers live to fight another day. >> a dice sy situation in texas and get ready for the world cup. good morning and thanks for joing us.

i'm betty nguyen. radical militants sieged two of the country's major cities and will launch attacks against baghdad itself. the iraqi government wants the u.s. to consider offering air support in their fight against the militants. richard engle has more from istanbul, turkey. >> the iraqi government is lu losing control. some iraqi security forces are fighting but most appear to be stripping off their uniforms leaving them in the streets and abandoning their posts, weapons, and vehicles. they're retreating from islamic extremists who today got control of iraq's second largest city and advanced much further. thousands of civilians are fleeing the area living in

tents. the u.s. fought a decade long war for this not to happen. the radicals are from an al qaeda offshoot. many are the same insurgents u.s. troops battled for years. now they're allied with militants from syria creating a single front. why is this happening? they ruled iraq for 13 centuries until the u.s. invasion toppled saddam hussein. they want their country back. they hate the shiite government which excluded them from power and there are no u.s. troops around anymore to stop them. we could be witnessing the start of a long civil war in iraq. and this is not just a problem for iraq and syria. these militants are also very anti-american. one former top commander of u.s. troops in iraq told me what is happening is tragic. richard engle, nbc news,

istanb istanbul. >> eric cantor plans to step down on july 1st and a handful of members are looking for power. it is following his loss to the tea party challenger dave brat. so creigh sy, what's next for the gop? >> trying to wrap up this leadership issue quickly because they don't want the scenario to be a big split in the republican party going into the fall election. they have this vote coming up one week from today. as one member put it, we've got to get this train back on track as fast as we can. >> reporter: after losing his seat in congress, eric cantor says he'll step down asthma j my leader next month. >> he'd make an outstanding majority leader. >> two texans are also in the running. >> i think we work very well together.

>> the party votes june 19th, next thursday. if mccarthy wins, republicans will also need a new whip. republicans are throwing their names in the hat for that. cantor's announcement came after a tearful meeting where john boehner called for unity. >> he is doing the right thing for the conference. he wants to keep us all united. >> he was held in high regard as a leader. we're feeling the pain. >> still up in the air as to whether there's any chance for immigration reform. that's the issue that propelled eric's opponent to victory. >> eric cantor saying he opposes amnesty is like obama saying he opposes obamacare. >> any degree of modest support for immigration can be cast as pro-amnesty. >> a shocking defeat leading to a big political shake up and perhaps more gridlock. but there's one thing we don't expect to change, house speaker

john boehner is not leaving, in fact, he plans to run for speaker again in january. >> thank you, tracy. more quick action on capitol hill for the nation's veterans. a senate bill passed wednesday would allocate $35 billion to hire doctors, open new facilities and pay for veterans to see physicians outside the v.a. system. the bill aligns closely with the house measure passed earlier this week raising hopes that the legislation will be settled and signed soon to help the more than 57,000 vets that waited three months or more just to see a doctor. >> a defiant chuck hagel defends the obama administration's controversial bo bergdahl swap. including why wasn't congress notified about the exchange and were their actions against the law. he says why the u.s. soldier

remains in germany weeks after his release. >> you're trying to tell me that he is being held in germany because of his medical condition. >> congressman, i hope you're not imlying anything other than that. >> i'm just asking the question mr. secretary. >> i'm going to give you an answer too. i don't like the implication of the question. >> answer it. >> he is being held there because our medical professionals don't believe he is ready until they believe he is ready to take the next step to rehabilitation. >> have you ever seen a traumatically injured service member brought to the united states immediately upon being stabilize? we do it all the time. >> this isn't just about a physical situation, congressman. this guy was held for almost five years in god knows what kind of conditions. >> meanwhile, new details have emerged about sergea sergeant bergdahl's past. he joined the coast guard in 2006, that was two years before

he enlisted in the army but was dismissed after 26 days after failing to make it through basic training. >> a not guilty plea from the man in the tracy morgan car crash. he appeared in the courtroom thursday. prosecutors say roper was sleep deprived and hadn't slept for 24 hours when the accident happened. morgan remains in critical but stable condition. >> now to sports with the globe trotting richard lui who is back. >> a must win game for the rangers against the l.a. king. the suspense to stay alive came down to the final minute and a few inches. >> lundqvist has got it. and a scrabble there. a big football pile up. >> well, the puck stopped just short of the goal line there and short of the king's tie.

>> oh, man. >> but with a little bit of luck and saves by lundqvist, the rangers were able to avoid a sweep. they head back to l.a. for game five on friday. the kings lead the series 3-1. >> now to rio where christ the redeemer was lit up to welcome the arrival of the soccer teams. it kicks off later today with brazil facing croatia. the u.s. faces ghana on monday. ghana eliminating the u.s. in the last two world cups. not this year i say. they arrived in a pokemon dedicated plane. in their words it says, how awesome is that. >> kicks away from left center field. the throw in and they're going to get him again, yes. >> you've got to be kidding me. >> oakland does it again. fires a missile. he makes the play at third just

a day after his incredible throw to home plate. he leads the league in the most outfield assists with 8 of those in his past ten games. tampa bay needed a prayer facing st. louis. scoreless the last three games. st. louis strikes first. he grounds toward right field allowing allen craig to score. barely missing the glove there by inches. st. louis up 2-0. then after 32 scoreless innings, tampa bay finally scores to st. louis's peter borgis and nails one for a possible come back. diving for that catch. tampa bay's prayers answered, betty. they win 6-3. a little trickery during a high school regional finals game. the pitcher pretends to throw the ball toward second to catch the runner off the bag. the runner thinks he can go to third. oh, no, you don't. he finds out he has been fooled. umps call the out. sorry, bud. >> that is crazy looking.

i was trying to follow it in the midst of all the dust. >> got to keep your eyes open. >> thank you. a house in texas teeters on the edge of a 75 foot cliff. pieces of the home became crumbling into the water on tuesday a year after authorities noticed a massive crack in the cliff below it. luckily there's no injuries because the owners moved out two weeks ago. smart thinking guys. that's hopefully something that we, when it comes to weather are not going to see something as dramatic as that. >> nothing like that. >> do you think the weather may have caused that? >> it's hard to tell. it may just be a natural thing as the water just slowly ate away at the base. that's what happens when you build a million dollar house on a cliff. we had a lot of bad weather in the mid-atlantic yesterday. we have numerous showers and thunderstorms drenching south florida this morning. we're also watching numerous showers. not so much any severe weather or lightning but just a lot of areas of rain from pittsburgh up

through upstate new york. keep that in mind for your morning commute and morning travels. the other areas of severe weather moves through tulsa and southern oklahoma and through texas. we have numerous areas of rain. we'll see severe storms later today. dallas to austin to shreveport, a lot of umbrellas needed today. we'll see travel delays possible. >> at least there's no big storms in the area. >> yes, nothing organized. >> thank you. just ahead, an american space hero goes under the knife and starbucks wants to charge you up. and she's back, y'all, paula deen plots her come back but will the fans return? you're watching first look on msnbc.

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nationwide. you must have an external battery or phone case with a supplemental battery. amazon will launch a streaming music service today. most new releases won't be included and neither will songs from big artists like kanye west and taylor swift. >> other stories we're following, lawyers for dzhokhar tsarnaev plan to ask that his trial moved out of boston. change of venue requests are used in high profile cases. former astronaut and senator john glenn is recuperating at ohio state university after heart valve replacement. the soon to be 93-year-old was the first american to orbit the earth as a member of the mercury 7 program. so as fellow astronaut scott carpentered once famously radioed, god speed, john glenn. >> we're learning about the

gunman in oregon that killed a classmate on the second to last day of school. they revealed him as 15-year-old jared michael paget. he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. no word on a possible motive. >> paula deen with a major announcement about her new network launching in september. >> guess who has gone digital, y'all. >> but can she recapture the fans she lost over her racial comments? we shall see. the latest fall out from eric cantor's stunning upset and babs goes to washington. politics is next. [ brian ] in a race, it's about getting to the finish line. in life, it's how you get there that matters most.

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all right. now, here's yours first look at this morning's scrambled politics. they're celebrating dave brat's win over eric cantor t. chair of the tea party in virginia said they shouldn't stop at eric cantor. john boehner also needs to go. >> i think boehner needs to go and he needs to step down and the conservatives in the house caucas need to find the courage to run somebody and nominate a strong conservative. they showed it is possible to take down goliath and they need to do the same in washington d.c. >> meanwhile, eric cantor's poll stirrer is blaming democrats like former congressman ben

jones for cantor's surprising loss this week. in an interview with variety jones says he doesn't know and doesn't care who gets the credit for cantor's defeat but he will gladly take some of it. jones ran against him in 2002 and lost. >> they blocked elizabeth warren's bill that would have let them finance student loans at lower rates. now she is going to side with his competition. >> i plan to fight back on this and i hope everybody else does too. one way i'm going to start fighting back is i'm going to go down to kentucky and i'm going to campaign for allison grimes. she is tough. she is fiesty. she endorsed the student loan bill. >> montana is the only state that doesn't have some kind of texting and driving ban. now that south carolina put a new texting law into effect this week. at least one montana senator says she'll propose a bill next year. well, babs hit the nation's

capitol yesterday in support of women's heart health. she spoke in front of a house bipartisan women's caucus on wednesday pushing for more funding and research. wednesday was national sere sucker day in case you didn't know. bill cassidy filed a proclamation to reinsatate the tradition of wearing the fabric. i'm joined by bob not wearing that today. >> if i ever do you have permission to smack me -- >> i like me a seresucker suit. >> you do? >> i do. >> i'm so sorry. i'm so sad about that. let's get to eric cantor. >> who you will not see in a suit any time soon either. >> gop lawmakers are jockeying

for his position. who are the front runners. >> representative mccarthy is the one that cantor prefers. there's other really conservative ones but i think we'll have a situation here where thing versus gotten to bad in the republican party that people are stabbing themselves in the front. it's going to be an interesting race. i think it's going to be all out in the open. >> yeah, you mention mccarthy. does he have an advantage, eric mccarthy since eric cantor helped groom him? >> yeah. i would think maybe the last thing that he wanted was an endorsement from eric cantor but there it is. i think that john bainer is spending a lot of time right now looking over his shoulder but have to say something here. we need to get a grip here. i don't think that this is the end of the republic. i don't think that history is going to be shaken by this for 100 years or more. i think this kind of thing happens. the speaker of the house, tom foley was beaten in a congressional race.

>> that's true. >> right now we have a situation where those of us in pundant land are trying to justify what it means. i always had this fantasy live shot i wanted to do when the anchor would say we now go to capitol hill and bob franken, bob, what does this all mean and i would turn to the camera and say absolutely nothing. and i think this is close to being one of those things. >> well, thanks for telling us nothing today. appreciate it bob. >> call me seinfeld. >> all right. have a good one. bill karins and richard lui are coming back with first buzz. we're talking about a pothole and epic traffic jam. could this be the future of space travel? stick around for details. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out.

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who is this david brat fellow. >> he's a college economic's professor. >> a 3.4 rating out of 5 on rate my professors.com. students gave him a chili pepper as in he's considered pretty hot as in good-looking. >> looks like congress has a new mcdreamy. >> a new hottie, huh? >> that was your voice too. >> shout out to the daily show. >> i heard that when you said that yesterday. >> yeah, right. >> that was easy pickings. >> so today we have a super hero none other than -- pothole man. >> we love people that will do anything for a cause. and this man in virginia beach will do just about anything. he's sick and tired of the potholes in town so just say no

to potholes wasn't doing it by himself so the spider mansuit was necessary. >> what does that have to do with potholes? >> nothing. >> pothole man. >> what would pothole man look like? >> his emblem will be a big hole or something. >> we're digging. >> speaking of potholes and traffic and all of that kind of stuff. in brazil, world cup opening ceremonies tonight, they have had a 214 mile traffic jam as reported by bill neely. can you imagine what traffic is going to be like going to the opening ceremony tonight? >> the big cities in brazil known for this, man. this is just more. >> is there any positive stories coming out of brazil right now? we'll have to see once it starts. someone is going to win. that will be a positive story. >> let's go to outer space. >> there's no traffic in outer space. the ixx enterprise that was drafted by two people.

one was a designer and the other was a graphicer designer from star trek came up with this. this is the new nasa warp drive spaceship. >> i'm sure they'll approve that. won't cost anything. >> thanks for playing. way too early with to thomas roberts starts right now. >> voters are angry. >> people don't like the status quo. >> the big message for washington is nothing is going to get passed in any form of legislation. >> no chance for compromise. >> compromise forget about it. >> immigration reform is dead in congress. >> it's going to be very dangerous now for a republican to talk to democrats. >> oh, no. congress's current golden age of cooperation and productiveness is over. right, what's old is new again as predictions of more gop paralysis after eric cantor's loss. let guessing game begin on who takes his leadership role on the

hill. >> insurgents take over saddam hussein's hometown. and did a pile of snow turn the tide in the stanley cup final. the shot that has rangers fans hoping it can all turn around. this is "way too early." >> hey, there, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. it's thursday, june 12th. welcome to way too early. the show that didn't crack forbe's list of highest paid athletes. but that's okay because none of us are actually athletes unless you count duck pin bowling. nobody did that? yes, okay. we have a whole crowd of duck pinners here. let's get to business as we start out with iraq. we have 11 years after american