linked militant group, including many of the same insurge enlts the u.s. fought during nearly a decade of war. as the militants set their sites on baghdad will the u.s. intervene again. >> if i sound angry, it's because i am angry. to declare that a conflict is over is it not mean that it necessarily is over. it's time that the president got a new national security team. it's time that he got a group of people together that know what it is to succeed in conflict. >> this is not just a syrian problem anymore. i never thought it was just a syrian problem. i thought it was a regional problem. i could not have predicted, however, the extent to it which it could be seizing cities in iraq and trying to create boundaries. >> defeated in the primary, eric

cant to cantor is stepping down and how the republican party plans to regroup. >> this is a time for unity and focus on what we all know is true, that the president's policies have failed the american people. and a celebration today at 10,000 feet. here he is ten years ago making the big leap. today on his 90th birthday, we'll show you george h.w. bush doing it again. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the militant fighters have now moved on to at a krik. could they threaten baghdad? >> it would be we're seeing the

start of civil war, al maliki is moving army divisions from basra in southern iraq to try to reinforce the capital. this is a very serious situation. it would be wrong to just say that this is a problem for iraq and syria and to dismiss it. these militants tens of thousands of them are very anti-american and don't see this fight as just being limited to this region. many of them also want to carry out attacks in europe and the united states. this is not just a problem more the middle east. this is a problem for everybody. >> iraq's leaders have now asked for u.s. assistance for air cover. i'm joined by michael leiter and counter terrorism and national security analyst and from the brookings institute, michael o han lynn and colonel jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient

and msnbc analyst. let's talk about this group. they are in syria, they are in iraq. how have we let them become so dominant and the maliki government so weak? the isis is an offchute of al qaeda and iraq. it has broken with al qaeda leadership because they are so extreme. the fight in syria, they became a very powerful force there, very armed and one of the most effective military groups fighting assad regime. second, with the maliki government being anti-sunni, they have opportunity for adherence and those combined and that's what we're seeing today. >> we're even seeing rohani saying would come to the help and support maliki, his fellow shiite and defend baghdad against these insurgents.

the players are just -- have moved srn in such a way and the u.s. is the big loser after ten years, almost a decade of war. what are we seeing in iraq? >> i would pick up on michael's earlier point and isis is very influential and very extreme. it's remarkable how much support they are getting from the sunni population. most iraqi sunnis i know are not jihadists, they are not tact theory in the sense of this fundamentalist extremist ideology but they are so angry with maliki they are prepared to collaborate to make an unholy alliance with extremists. that does suggest there's a silver lining in the situation. it's a horrible situation but there should be ways to try to at least win back in of the sunni. i'm not suggesting it's going to be easy and i believe he should step down. ken poll lack said we ought to

get him to agree to a constitutional amendment, if anything, to patient of a approach. we have got to see the iraqis come together as a central government because politics in baghdad are driving this, every bits muches the terrorist movement. >> colonel jack, i wanted to play a little bit of lindsay graham. some of it democrats saying is justified. you have john mccain and lindsey graham after classified briefings, really sounding off and calling for a wholesale firing of the national security team. the caveat is he is in a re-election fight but just won his primary. >> i've been to iraq at the time, about 7 or 8 times. every time i go it gets worse. our people on the ground are telling me this place is falling apart. i don't know what the president is being told, but what i heard today scared the hell out of me.

the worst is yet to come and this place is completely falling apart. >> should we help with drones or with fighter jets? should we begin air strikes against these militant targets? how would that work? >> no, i don't think we should. i don't think we will. the last time we responded to calls for air strikes by people on the ground who are not americans invariably, we wound up hitting the enemies of the people who told us to drop the bombs and they didn't necessarily have tactical or strategic significance. i don't think we're going to get involved here. but that's very much different from what lindsey graham is saying when he says the president's national security team is weak, is most decidedly is and isolated and a lot of decisions it makes to the president are either ill considered or do not consider

everything that needs to be considered. i don't think that we're going to render any kind of support of the type that you suggest but it also doesn't mean you've got a really good national security team over there at the white house. >> michael leiter, who is funding these groups. >> these groups haven't needed an enormous amount of funding and there are reports that isis stole over $400 million from iraqi banks. as richard engel said in the opening, this is not a iraq problem. this is a true regional and international disaster. this is -- we know the instability in syria. we've got iraq quickly crumbling with the kurds in the new york. we'll have greater instability in jordan and lebanon when all of us watching for two years, syria can spin out of control for regional and sectarian conflict. this is exactly the sort of

thing we're worried about. >> michael, what do we do now? >> i think we have to do more than perhaps jack is comfortable but it should be conditional. if you don't have a more inclusive approach that gets more of the sunni leaders willing to tolerate associate with maliki or his successor it ain't going to work. until we get that new political agreement and new team in baghdad, i'm more worried about the change there than any possible change in washington. maliki has lost any and all support from the sunni and kurdish populations at this point. he has to go. at the minimum has to share power with minister of interior and possibility of a sunni region being allowed under the iraqi constitution, that has to be tolerated and give the sunnis more control over their own finances and lives and security. if they do that, i believe we

have to be willing to help them because the threat is so serious as richard engel began the report with. >> briefly, i want to ask whether we pulled out too quickly. that was a campaign promise, it was his commitment and belief it was the wrong war from the beginning. they blame that on the maliki government refusing to inindemnity our troops and to give us the legal protection, our troops. did we press maliki hard enough? were we too eager to leave and soothe the american weariness with the war. >> i think that's true but iraqis fundamentally made the decision. i was in favor of staying and wrote that even as a democrat, in favor of staying. i don't blame president obama fundamentally. i think iraqis made the decision, now we have to reassess and try to forget our

past fights here at home and abroad and reassess because the stakes for american security going forward are high enough that we have to be fresh and flexible. it's got to be contingent on the iraqis coming together as a people first. >> michael leiter, what is the terror threat that is emerging because of this group. we've been thinking of yemen as the heart of the terror threat that could eventually threaten the homeland, but what about this? >> it's very significant. the u.s. intelligence community was already worried about isis in syria and westerners traveling to syria. they have more arms and more mb. >> and more european passports. >> all of that ends up to a threat well beyond the borders of syria and iraq. >> thank you all so much. we'll have more on this coming up. meanwhile, world cup competition kicking off this afternoon as the home team brazil takes on

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as we continue to report on the emergency in iraq, i'm joined by virginia senator tim cane, a member of the foreign relss and armed services committees.

you were part of the briefing on iraq today. tell me your takeaway, lindsey graham has said that it's falling apart and that he's really scared by what is happening there on the ground. >> andrea, i share that sense. it's a very dire circumstance and the way i look at it is basically this. the u.s. was willing to stay and aassist iraq in its security needs in 2011. the government of al maliki and iraqi people said we don't need you. then after that was made very plain to the united states, we've withdrawn the military support because we're not there to occupy, but to assist. they didn't want us and the situation has degraded horribly and largely because maliki has carried out a government that has benefited one wing of iraqi society, shia population and made sunnis feel excluded and unwelcome. this significant sunni extremism is a fairly predictable response to a government that has not included the sunni population and now iraq wants us back in.

even foreign minister has been saying we made a mistake. they want us to come in and help figure it out. it's a dire circumstance. we need to dialogue with our allies to determine what can be done. >> senator, first of all, were we too willing to take no for an answer from maliki? were we eager to get our troops out rather than really pressing him. we had leverage back then. >> we did have leverage but weren't too willing to take no. we were not there to be occupiers, that was never the intention in iraq. as soon as the elected government said they didn't want us and weren't willing to work out a security disagreement, status of force agreement that provides immunity protections for american service personnel, we don't -- our business is not to be in some other country that doesn't want us there. the iraqis did not want us and regret that now and been stating that publicly for a number of

months. but the other thing that's been so debilitating is the way maliki has governed in a way that heightened tensions in iraq and isis stronghold in the north that's moving is a sunni reaction partly because the way that maliki has governed. we have to talk with our allies to determine the appropriate ways we can help. but we shouldn't be helping a government that is only governing for part of the citizenry and setting themselves against others. >> should we help with air strikes, drones, some other military support or should we only condition that on maliki finally opening up and doing what he's refused to do all of these years, which is to include the sunnis? sfwl i came out of a classified briefing and i don't want to get into that. the way we ought to do this here in washington is the president should put a plan on the table and make a suggestion to congress about what we should

do. just as we did last summer on the foreign relations kmtd, we debated the use of military force in syria. that's how the process is supposed to work. the administration hasn't provided a plan or suggestion, although they are deeply and xon sta constantly engaged to determine what that should be. they need to bring it to congress then let us debate about what we should do. frankly, andrea, as you know, this is -- it's not really about iraq. it has stemmed out of the syrian civil war, which at the beginning looked like a civil war between bashar al assad government then it looked like a super power battle on the u.n. security council, but increasingly being revealed as a sunni/shia, sectarian split with hezbollah and iran and groups like isis who are sunnis trying to take it down. we've got to get back to work to

do in syria. the aggressive delivery of humanitarian aid to those under siege and in accordance with the revolution. it will also help reduce tensions in iraq. >> when you say the president hasn't produced a plan, you almost sound as critical as the national security strategy as some of your republican colleagues. >> well, this is a late breaking development. looking nobody in the administration contemplated that the iraqi armed forces would just melt away and capitulate as fast as they have. >> shouldn't they have? we were there for ten years. >> we've known about isis but they didn't imagine the security force would capitulate. we were willing to stay and help and they setd no. the fact the that the iraqis cannot govern their own country

because of maliki, so you're right, this is a very fast moving situation. and the administration does need to come and lay options on the table. the classified briefing this morning was more of a state of play than a presentation of options, but i would strongly recommend that the administration come to congress very, very soon and put some options on the table about what we should be able to do and we should be able to do in tandem with neighbors and allies. as you know, folks associated with the turkish diplomatic facility have been kidnapped and there's discussions about the release of those, turkey and other nations are deeply involved in this and obviously our decision-making needs to be in tandem with saallies and neighbors. >> thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. >> talk about gridlock. in london, major cities across europe, taxi drivers brought traffic to a stand still clogging up major intersections

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>> don't you love it when politician are sincere. eric cantor's decision to step down will have a big ripple effect and amuse. for democrats at least initially. eugene robinson, "washington post" editorial columnist and susage page and "washington post" correspondent dan balsz and as we face this leadership fight, first to you, let's talk about kevin mccarthy is trying to hold on and move up and become the majority leader but you have a challenge from pete sessions and red state texas. there's a lot of back stabbing and trading gone o. >> before cantor's defeat there

was talk of real conservatives in the house and real red state conservatives wanting one of their own in a higher position of leadership. that asserted itself now but it doesn't look like from what i hear, doesn't look like it's going that way, kevin mccarthy got into the race early and countered effectively and everything i hear says he has a substantial upper hand to take that position. if the red state conservatives in the house will assert themselves, it's likely to be for lower office. >> eugene robinson, as you look at this, what is the big message do you think comes out of eric cantor's defeat? >> andrea, i think this is part of the larger drama going on inside the republican party with the tea party fashion, the tail is effectively wagging the dog and republicans are depending on money and intensity in future elections as they have in the

past. but there's a danger there. i think there's a real danger there for the party. we see the danger that was there for eric cantor and it's moving the party further to the right. >> vin was saying it's hard to distinguish the tail from the dog. >> dan, this has implications for thad cochran, no longer okay o to say i'm a majority leader or big shot in washington. the last thing you want to be is connected to washington. >> that's exactly right. one of the lessons don't take your base or district for granted. it appears he did. we'll see whether thad cochran runs into that same problem. lon gefty is an issue. he's running into that problem there and the tea party energy is another thing he's dealing with down in mississippi. he goes into this race and this runoff in a very tenuous

position. he's fighting hard but he may be fighting a very uphill battle. i think we have seen that play out in individual cases but not necessarily across the board. >> and the national tea party was not invested but it was a grass roots tea party sympathizing eruption, susan page. >> because they didn't think he was going to win any more than of the rest of us can. they a did. they are allied with him now. to republicans who want to be elected, don't be in washington. don't compromise with barack obama. i think if there are two big victims from this result, one is eric cantor and other is president obama in terms of doing anything in terms of making a deal with republicans in the next two years. >> you've seen it from behind the scenes, the push/pull within the republican party. it's really a very pronounced

heart and soul thing going forward to 2016, there are implications for jeb bush on immigration, rick perry. this helps rand paul. this helps ted cruzes of the world. >> i think rand paul is probably the most significant outside player if you want to think in those terms, more so than ted cruz. he's arctticulating policies th do depart. and he has a network all around the country. his father started building it and he built it up. that's the most significant insurgent candidacy that's going to develop that time around. >> i also want to bring up, speaking of rick perry, he said something in san francisco, y eugene. we got this from the san francisco chronicle. he said at the commonwealth club of california when asked whether home sexuality is a disorder.

he said whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifetile or not, you have the abit to decide not to do that. i may have the genetic coding that i'm inclined to be an alcoholic but i have the desire not to do that and look at the homosexual issue the same way. maybe this helps in a republican primary but -- >> i'm not sure. >> i'm not sure how that helps him anywhere to tell you the truth. i think this is a big foot in mouth episode for rick perry. you know, look at what the country has -- how the country has moved on the issue of gay marriage and home sexuality in general. a big step backward for him. >> dan, what about the social issues that are also coming to the floor with the candidacy, if you look at brat and where he is, the religious message he

gives, are social issues going to -- >> social issues will always be a factor particularly in a republican nomination fight. the candidates will feel a real tug and pull on those how you navigate versus how do you preserve conditioning on a further election. the more they are pulled to the right the more difficult it's going to be in a general election. i think any candidate who's thinking of being a serious prospect running for president has to think hard in advance of how you protect yourself while trying to win the republican nomination. >> and immigration, the easy answer was that okay, this is the end of any compromise on immigration. but does that marginalize the republican party as we look at the demographic changes? >> it marginalizes in national elections but district and house races, members of the house,

they figure this is not something they need to be on the side of doing, path to citizenship, dealing with the dream act. it's a short versus long term. in the long term you hear people like eric cantor and john boehner talking about the need to do something about this issue. that's another issue rand paul is in a slightly different place than a lot of republicans. >> what about john boehner? his plan was presumably to step down sometime next spring? what do we look forward to? we think that was his plan? we think republicans hold the house clearly but what happens now with the speaker ship? >> well, question mark, but i do think that the shake-up of leadership underneath of him in a strange way strengthens boehner. up until now the focus of discontent has been on we're not going to keep the speaker, going to keep the speaker. i don't think his grip on the speakership was in doubt. but all members will have a

chance to vent and vote for new leaders, that's what the earthquake we described -- >> safety belt. >> so i think the john boehner if he wants to stay is probably pretty secure as speaker. >> dan webb e. eugene robinson dan balz, thanks so much. >> voters are angry. >> the big message for washington is that nothing is going to get passed in any form of legislation. >> immigration reform is now dead in congress. >> i think it's even deader. >> it's going to be very dangerous now for republicans to talk to democrats. >> oh, no! congress is' current golden age of cooperation is over. any pro. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust.

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violent surge in iraq. senate armed service member jack reed was part of that briefing, classified briefing. senator reed joins me from capitol hill. i want to share with you that the president has had a photo opportunity, we're waiting for that tape to be fed out by the so-called pool, but we understand that he said he's not ruling out anything in terms of helping iraq deal with the insurgents. what do you think the u.s. should do? >> well, we have to recognize that we cannot do for the iraqis what they are not willing or able to do for themselves. so our first responsibility is to ensure that they are using all of the resources that they have and they are significant, to first counter the resurgence of isis and then to roll back their gains. this is a government, security force that be significantly supplied by the united states, has been more than a decade of training.

they have the capability and the question which was so obvious is where's the leadership and the will? that's what we have to do. if they don't have that, then we have to be very, very skeptical of their capabilities -- not their capabilities but intentions and their ultimate sort of success. >> why have we been unable to get the maliki to open up because he's now driven sunnis into the arms of insurgents by excluding them from legal participation in society? >> i think you're absolutely right. this is a military crisis at the moment but it's been a political crisis for months, it not years because of maliki's behavior. some of it his own temperament and sense he has to do to maintain his power and other aspects reflects the deep dif individual still between the shia community and sunni community. and until he can sort of

re-establish a working relationship with significant elements in the shia community which presumably has better bearing there and also the sunni and kurdish community, that's the key question. >> what makes us think that maliki is either able or willing? we have seen how his military that we supposedly helped pram abandon their post and uniforms and their equipment to the insurgents who then some of it was carried across the border -- there is no border, into syria. >> i think the reality of the situation is even believed penetrated president maliki. he knows this is a critical battle and at times thinking back over the years he has taken action which positive action which surprised us. he was the one that initiated sort of actions against shia

militia in basra in first few years of his leadership, which anticipated our actions against them. at that point, suggested to many people, including in the sunni community that he was going to take a more even handed approach. but over the last months aenyears, he's been much more exclusive than inclusive. he has seen this coming but not dealt with it reasonably. he hasn't taken effective steps to ensure that the leadership of his army is the most capable, rather than the most dependable political to him. he is steering a very stark reality in the face and that i can hope transform the previous behavior into something nor effective for his country. >> senator jack reed, thank you very much. >> shortly we're going to see the president. here's the president at the photo opportunity asked about iraq. >> well, this is an area that we've been watching with a lot

of concern, not just over the last couple of days but over the last several months. and we've been in close consultation with the iraqi government over the last year and we have been providing them additional assistance to try to address the problems that they have in anbar, the northwestern portions of the country as well as the iraqi and syrian border. that includes in some cases military equipment, includes intelligence and assistance and a whole host of issues. what we've seen over the last couple of days indicates the degree to which iraq is going to need more help. it's going to need more help from us and the international community. my team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them. i don't rule out anything. because we do have a stake in

making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in iraq or syria for that matter. part of the challenge and i've said this directly to prime minister maliki and vice president biden has said this in his very frequent interactions with the iraqi government that the politics of shia and sunni inside of iraq as well as the kurds, is either going to be a help in dealing with this jihadist situation or it's going to be a hindrance. frankly over the last several years, we have not seen the kind of trust and cooperation develop between moderate sunni and shia leaders inside of iraq. and that accounts in part for

some of the weakness of the state and that then carries over into the military capacity. so i think it's fair to say that in our consultations with iraqis, there will be some short term immediate things that need to be done militarily, and you know, our national security team is looking at all of the options but they should be also a wake up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shia who care about building a functioning state that can bring about security and prosperity to all people inside of iraq, come together and work diligently against these extremists. and that is going to require concessions on the part of both shia and sunni that we haven't

seen so far. last point i'll make, this -- what's happened over the last couple of days underscores the importance of the point that i made at my west point speech, the need for us to have a month robust regional approach to partnering and training partner countries throughout the middle east and north africa. we're not going to be able to be everywhere all the time. but what we can do is to make sure that we are consistently helping to finance and train and advise military forces with partnering countries, including iraq that have the capacity to maintain their own security. that is a long and labor yus process and one that we need to

get started that's part of what the counterterrorism partnership fund that i am going to be calling for congress to help finance is all about, giving us the capacity to extend our reach without sending u.s. troops to play whack a mole wherever there ends up being a problem in a particular country. that's going to be more effective and more legitimate in the eyes of people in the region as well as the international community but going to take time to build it in the short term, we have to deal with what clearly is an emergency situation in iraq. >> if i may take one question. >> mr. president, just on the point -- [ inaudible ] >> where is the line drawn? >> i gave a very long speech

about this and probably would refer you to that as opposed to repeating it. the basic principle is that we like all nations are prepared to take military action whenever our national security is threatened. where the issues have to do with the broader international order, humanitarian concerns and concerns around the rights to navigation, concerns around our ability to deal with instability or fragile states or failed states and pt consequences for populations there and refugee flows, those issues wherever we can our preference should be to partner with other countries. we're going to be more effective if we can work with other nations. that's why -- that's part of where australia is so important

to us. there are a handful of countries we can count on, not because they share our values and australia is one of those countries. a world view that's governed by international law and norms and aussies know how to fight and i like having them in a fox hole if we're in trouble. i can't think of a better partner. part of our task knew in a world where it's less likely that any particular nation attacks us or treaty allies directly but rather more typically that you have disorder, asymmetric threats and terrorist organizations, all of which can be extraordinarily disruptive

and damaging but aren't the traditional types of war that so often we've been equipped to fight. it becomes that much more important for us to build new partners who aren't going to be as capable as the australians and our own troops. that's going to take some time and going to take some resources but we need to start now. we've learned some lessons over the last decade and we need to start applying. >> thank you, everybody. as you awe president obama, saying he wouldn't rule anything out in terms of helping iraq. richard engel, our chief foreign correspondent is in northern iraq. richard, having spent so many years living there and covering the war from start to finish, this situation is really coming unglued much more prapdly than the white house seems to have anticipated? >> it is coming unglued and a lot of things are happening at

the same time. we have this assault by is is leading a charge in the sunni area. then we have the rest of the country collapsing along ethnic and religious lines. so sunnis are fighting and they are charging towards baghdad. they have reached around 100 miles from baghdad they have other positions closer to baghdad and you have the kurds where i am right now, who are using this as an opportunity, one of self-defense so their militia -- have deployed all around the perimeter and taken new territory, the kurds today took the city of kir kuk, something they always wanted, that is the second most rich oil production area in this entire country, one of the oldest oil fields in the world. in the south, where the shia are, they are aligning with the

government and today lining up in the thousands to join the government forces to fight against the sunnis, we have a three-way fight going on here. and it sounded like listening to the president that he wants to help the government, that he's leaning in that direction. i don't know what kind of help it will be, drones or more weapons. i would think certainly advice. then he's picking a side, that the other two, the kurds and the sunnis aren't necessarily aligned with. this is an incredibly complex problem. all of the issues that were there right after the u.s. invasion, which were held together by the presence of some 100,000 u.s. troops are coming up to the surface and coming back to roost and falling apart at the seams. it is an incredibly difficult situation. we're watching state collapse.

>> in fact, richard, we've got rohani, leader of iran, offering to defend baghdad for the fellow shiite maliki, who resisted all efforts by joe biden and others pressuring him for all of these years to be more inclusive and not drive the sunnis into the hands of the more sunni insurge enlts. >> the most dangerous thing i've seen, this group of very radical insurgent, isisgroups are even more extreme than al qaeda. post pictures of people they beheaded and horrible things, i'll leave it at that. they are winning support as they go from town to town. they are seizing weapons and seizing money in the city of mosul, their strong hold in iraq, handing out gasoline on the streets and as they go from town to town, other sunnis, not

necessarily -- tribal clerics and elders are joining them. other people who have a grievance with al maliki, that he is representing shia interest, iran's interest and are siding with this very disgusting organization that is able to take advantage of the situation. then don't forget you have the kurds, a large portion of the population carving out their own state and just took a major oil field today. this is probably the most complicated foreign policy challenge that president obama is going to have to deal with as president. >> richard engle. thank you so much and be safe. talk to you later. and much more on all of this coming up on "andrea mitchell reports," including one big leap for the ages coming up next. this is interesting.

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