brand-new. over the last year, we've been steadily ramping up our security assistance to the iraqi government with increased training, equipping and intelligence. now iraq needs additional support to break the momentum of extremist groups and bolster the capabilities of iraqi security forces. we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq, but i have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support iraq security forces and i'll be reviewing those options in the days ahead. i do want to be clear though. this is not solely or even primarily a military challenge. over the past decade, american troops have made extraordinary sacrifices to give iraqis an opportunity to claim their own future. unfortunately, iraqis leaders have been unable to overcome too often, the mistrust and

sectarian differences that have long been simmering there and that's created vulnerabilities within the iraqi government and as well as their security forces. so any action that we may take to provide assistance to iraqi security forces has to be joined by a serious and sincere effort by iraq's leaders to set aside sectarian differences and promote stability and account for the legitimate interest of all of iraq's communities and to continue to build the capacity of an effective security force. we can't do it for them. in the absence of this type of political effort, short term military action includes any assistance we might provide won't succeed. so this should be a wake-up call. iraq's leaders have to demonstrate a willingness to make hard decisions and kbrproey mizs to bring the country together. they will have the support of

the united states and friends and allies. iraq's neighbors also have responsibilities to support this process. nobody has an interest in seeing terrorists gain a foothold inside of iraq and nobody is going to benefit from seeing iraq descend into chaos. the united states will do our part. but understand that ultimately it's up to the iraqis as a sovereign nation to solve their problems. indeed across the region we have redoubled our efforts to help billed more capable counter terrorism forces so that groups like isil can't establish safe haven and we'll continue that effort through our support of the moderate opposition in syria and support for iraq and security forces and our partnership with other countries across the region. we're also going to pursue intensive diplomacy throughout this period both inside of iraq and across the region. because there's never going to be stability in iraq or the broader region unless there are political outcomes that allow people to resolve their differences peacefully without

resorting to war or relying on the united states military. we'll be monitoring the situation in iraq very carefully over the next several days. our top priority will remain being vigilant against any threats to our personnel serving overseas. we will consult closely with congress as we make determinations about appropriate action and we'll continue to keep the american people fully informed as we make decisions about the way forward. all right? i'll take a question. >> due to the recent u.s. history there, are you reluctant to get involved again with iraq? >> i think that we should look at the situation carefully. we have an interest in making sure that a group like isil, which is a vicious organization and has able to take advantage of the chaos in syria, that they don't get a broader foothold. i think there are dangers of fierce sectarian fighting if,

for example, this terrorist organization tries to overrun sacred shia sites which can trigger shia sunni conflicts that could be very hard to stamp out. we have enormous interests there and obviously our troops and the american people and american taxpayers made huge investments in order to give iraqis the opportunity to chart a better course, a better destiny. but ultimately they have to seize it. as i said before we are not going to be able to do it for them. and given the very difficult history that we've seen in iraq, i think that any objective observer would recognize in the absence of accommodation among the various factions inside of iraq, various military actions by the united states by any outside nation are not going to solve those problems over the long term and not going to

deliver the stability that we need. anybody else? >> mr. president, is the syrian civil war stilling over the iraq border? >> i think that's been happening for some time. isil has been able to gain a foothold in syria. that's part of the reason why we've been so concerned about it and why we've been supporting the syrian opposition there. but it's challenging problem. in iraq, the iraqi government which was initially resistant to some of our offers of help has come around now to recognize that cooperation with us on some of these issues can be useful. obviously that's not the case in syria where president assad has no interest in seeing us involved there and where some of the governments that are supporting assad have been able to block, for example, u.n. efforts even at humanitarian aid. but this is a regional problem and it is going to be a

long-term problem. and what we're going to have to do is combine selective actions by our military to make sure we're going after terrorists who can harm our personnel overseas or eventually hit the home larnd, we're going to have to combine that with what is a very challenging international effort to try to rebuild countries and communities that have been shattered by sectarian war. and that's not an easy task. >> have you been in touch? and what are they willing to do as part of the international operation? >> we're in contact with them now. we'll have a better sense by the end of the weekend after those consultations and we will be getting a better sense from them of how they might support an effort to bring about the kind of political unity inside iraq

that bolsters security forces. look, the united states has poured a lot of money into these iraqi security forces and devoted a lot of training to iraqi security forces. the fact that they are not willing to stand and fight and defend their posts against admittedly hardened terrorists but not terrorists who are overwhelming in numbers, indicates that there's a problem with morale. there's a problem in terms of commitment. and ultimately that's rooted in the political problems that have plagued the country for a very long time. last question. >> thank you. can you talk a little bit about u.s. concern of the disruption -- potential disruption of oil supplies? >> well, so far at least, we have not seen major disruptions in oil supplies. obviously if in fact isil was able to obtain control over

major output, significant refineries, that could be a source of concern. as you might expect, world oil markets react to any instability in the middle east. one of our goals should be to make sure that in cooperation with other countries in the region, not only are we creating some sort of back stop in terms of what's happening inside of iraq, but if they do ends up being disruptions inside iraq, then some of the other producers in the golf are able to pick up the slack. those are part of the conversations that will take place this week. to give people a sense of timing here, although events on the ground in iraq have been happening very quickly, our ability to plan whether it's military action or work with the iraqi government on some of these political issues is going to take several days. people should not anticipate

that this is something that is going to happen overnight. we want to make sure that we have good eyes on the situation there. we want to make sure that we've gathered all of the intelligence that's necessary so if in fact i do direct and order any actions there that they are targeted and precise and going to have an effect. and as i indicated before and i want to make sure that everybody understands this message, the united states is not simply going to involve itself in a military action in the absence of a political plan by the iraqis that gives us some assurance that they are prepared to work together. we're not going to allow ourselves to be dragged back into a situation in which while we're there, we're keeping a lid on things and after enormous sacrifices by us, as soon as we're not there, suddenly people end up acting in ways that are

not conducive to the long term stability and prosperity of the country. all right, thank you very much. >> sergeant bergdahl, now that he's home -- >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the president now heading to marine one, leaving washington, going to california, but he has just restated his opening position at least about iraq. i'm joined here by nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd. the president not announcing military decisions and saying that they can't do it for the iraqis, importantly following the advice of many on the hill who are saying do not just jump into this unless you get a commitment from the maliki government that has failed over the years that has excluded and repressed the sunnis to end the sectarian violence by ending the exclusion of your sunnis rivals. >> he didn't say it explicitly

or perhaps even agreeing to open back up the formation of governing process but he basically did. he said he needs assurances to do this. it looks like that's -- i love he said he wants some options as mik reported, they have the options. he has a, b and c. now, he can weigh -- obviously he's going to weigh those options but this is really about negotiating publicly now with maliki and sending the message. we're not helping until you put some promises because it's your army that's laying down their arms and your -- you've got governance problems and you've got to make real promises here and political solution. iraq's ambassador says we can't do political solutions until there's breathing space from the militants. >> maliki has arrested sunnis, put people in prison. >> been authoritarian.

>> and thrown sunni rivals into the arms of these insurgents. general mccaffrey, we're falking about air strikes but the concern is who will trust maliki to give you the targets? and know that he was really targeting the insurgents and not his enemies, political enemies. >> andrea, i thought the president's address showed real wisdom and balance and sensibility. i take it a step beyond though perhaps how chuck set it up. i think there's zero possibility in the near term of maliki regardless of what he does, defusing the enormous excess of these isil fighters. basically the president said you're on your own, it was a great statement of u.s. principle and avoided being

goeded into some harmful action. >> jim mick klaszewski has join us. you know better than anyone how burdened the troops are and how weary everyone is here at home from the wars. what are the military options that might be effective here? >> i have to echo what barry said, one of the biggest concerns here among military leadership, as one senior official told us, we can drop bombs and kill a bunch of people but that will not solve the problem. if there was no end game here. military leadership looks at okay, we're going to do this mission but what happens next. well, the president has laid out what he expects to happen next. now, in terms -- whether that happens is a long shot given the history of iraq, given even pre-maliki. given the weapons systems they

have everything they need in the region in terms of weaponry, planes, ships, surveillance assets, and they could go in there in very short order and start dropping bombs. you get into the situation of targeting, they would want some of their own people involved in that, the u.s., because they can't rely on the iraqis and also worried about collateral damage, that there could be heavy civilian casualties. it's not as easy as putting a plane in the air and saying, look, there's a target. let's bomb it. far more complicated and intrica intricate. it is an an trick at military dance to get all of the assets working together. if you don't have people on the groundworking with you, it's almost impossible to ensure success. >> our chief foreign correspondent richard angle joins us from iraq.

we've talked about this rapid march towards baghdad and how the iraqi forces just completely folded. how close now are they toward baghdad and what about this iranian engagement with the force offering help to maliki? >> reporter: yes, look, this country is rapidly deteriorating -- excuse me for a second. it just started raining where i am now, in case it gets a little droplets of water on the lens. the country is descending into chaos. i've spoken to iraqi soldiers and some of those who took off their uniform and decided to defect, not to fight. they say that it was organized, that the militant group isis is gaining strength. it is gaining alliances with some members of the former regime, some old saddam hussein bath party generals and they have been bribing their way through it. that sometimes when isis and new

allies arrive at the town or city, the commander will tell the soldiers, time to leave, don't fight, take off your uniforms. we heard this story consistently from more than a dozen soldiers in different locations that they were specifically ordered by their commanders to retreat. they were suggesting that at least some levels in the military command who have either been bought off or sympathetic to this move on the government. >> and richard, you tell me if i have to let you get out of that storm, could you tell us whether you think baghdad will stand? baghdad half shiite, half sunni, what are the chances of them getting into baghdad? >> reporter: the latest intelligence we've been receiving is that the insurgents clearly want to get to baghdad. they said it themselves, they have scores to settle in iraq, which is a very threatening and

ominous thing to say when this is a group that cut's people's heads off to settle scores. the latest intelligence we've been receiving from sources that are familiar with the movement, some inside the movement, that they are probably waiting, accumulating some of their weapons, accumulating in numbers, they want to get military advice from former bath party officials and then we'll try and assault the city. but it might not be like a leningrad style fighting, baghdad is very divided and half of the city is sunni -- and the iraqi forces haven't been willing to fight and haven't been willing to fight and die for maliki. a key thing, we're listening to the president's comments, he's talking about propping up maliki. he wants to consider how to do this over the next several days but then convince maliki to go in some sort of agreement to show more openness to the sunni

parties and exchange help save his government by guiding the military. there are many people who believe that maliki is the problem, that he has caused the sectarian bitterness in this country by being so exclusive, that allowed a group as aggressive as the isis and its saddam loyalist allies to make the comeback that they are right now. >> the storm maybe is breaking. maybe it's a good sign. >> we've outlasted the storm. thank you so much, richard. thank you, barry mccaffrey and jim miklaszewski. chuck, before we go to break, this is a real challenge because joe biden and the president with joe biden having the iraq account for the last couple of years, put their money on maliki. >> it wasn't just him. everybody in congress too. for better or for worse, everybody was all in on this strategy, mccain, graham, those folks, betting on maliki of

these options. i hear what richard is saying, you couldn't have the president go out and say maliki had to go as a price for the u.s. to get involved. in many ways, that was the subtle message he was saying. >> and perhaps a term limit and agree not to a third term which we'll talk about in a bit. we talked earlier with john mccain and what he thinks about the obama administration, what they should do. we'll hear from that in a moment. we'll be right back. >> we have enormous interests there and obviously our troops and the american people and american taxpayers made huge investments and sacrifices in order to give iraqis the opportunity to chart a better course, a better destiny. but ultimately they are going to have to seize it.

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earlier i spoke with senator john mccain, one of the chief critics on the president's policies on iraq and what he thinks the administration should now do. >> tell me what you see as the existent shal threat to the american home laland for what i happening in iraq? >> our director of national intelligence, general clapper, already said that what is happen beinging of this area of syria, iraq which has now been dramatically expanded and also now financially enriched, does pose a threat for attacks to be planned on the united states of america. that is the opinion of our director of national intelligence. and i share it. >> what should the president do? he says he's only ruled out ground troops. so he is considering military options we're expecting decisions.

what would you advise him to do? >> andrea, i think that the national security team should be replaced but that's not going to happen. so then he should bring in other individuals such as general keen, the architect of the surge which succeeded and we had it won in iraq, people like the okayi kagann and ryan crocker and i think i would put david petraeus ton a plane to baghdad right now to try to sort all of this out. and, also, maliki has got to be more inclusive. he's got to completely change the way he's treated the sunni and it may be too late. i don't know. maybe he needs to be somebody else. now we've got to move forward. we've got to plan not only on the military side of it but on the political side of it as well

because it's clear that the sunnis have been alienated completely by maliki and the way he's handled his position of leadership in iraq. and bit the way, this news of two battalions of the iranian force entering into the fray here, this is very disturbing, andrea, very, very disturbing. it could lead maliki to rely more on the iranians and then the consequences of that are incredible. >> so far we have spent years trying to get maliki to be more inclusive and not be repressive and exclusionay to the sunnis and driven the sunnis into the arms of the radicals. what makes us think with american air strikes and more military equipment from the u.s. that he'll change at all? >> well, he has to or he has to be changed, one of the two.

it is an unacceptable situation. and by the way, if we had had a residual force there to stabilize the country as we have in bosnia after that conflict and other ones like germany and japan, korea, i think it would have had a dramatically different effect on maliki and his behavior. and unfortunately as i predicted in 2011, we're seeing the debacle that we're seeing, but now it's time to move forward and come up with not just a military approach like air strikes but an overall strategy and that's why you need to call in a whole bunch of people who are responsible for the success we had in iraq thanks to the surge, which wasn't just a military operation, it was a political operation as well. >> senator, let's talk about iran because iran is now coming to the aid of maliki to save

baghdad or protect baghdad from the approaching insurgents. what is the real threat here where iran is even more tightly connected to iraq than ever before? >> i think you raise an excellent point because this is also connected to syria. this whole isis group are moving back and forth from the syria into iraq, which is the area that general clapper and others have warned us about establishment of this area of extremist control. so i think that if maliki turn to the iranians, then to a degree, he turns iraq into a client state much like the situation in syria today. that has horrendous potential consequences for us. right now the saudis are scared to death of what the iranians

are going to be doing and lends urgency for us to get a political reconciliation and take whatever action we need to take to try to stabilize the situation before the iranians -- before the iraqi people view as the iranians coming in to protect them. >> senator, what do you say to americans who are just weary of war and didn't want to stay in iraq and want to get out of afghanistan? you know the political facts. how do you persuade americans that this is worth american blood and treasure? >> first of all, i would assure them that that residual force left behind in iraq was not in danger of any casualties of any significance because we had the conflict won for all intents and purposes. i would have argued the reason why we left forces behind in bosnia after that conflict was as a stabilizing force, not as a

continued combat force. and i also would have warned the american people as i stated numerous times in 2011 when we completely pulled out, that the consequences of a complete withdrawal would be what we are seeing today. and that is so tragic because of the loss of american blood and treasure. >> now, given the state of the facts on the ground right now, how do you persuade americans that there is any military option that they ought to embrace to try to bail maliki out and restore our country that is coming apart at the seams? >> first of all, i think you have to explain to the american people what kind of a threat isis takeover of iraq would pose to the united states of america. can you imagine a caliphate or muslim extremism dedicated to

attacking the united states, the consequences of that. that has to be explained to the american people. i would also explain to the american people i do not envision a scenario where ground combat troops are on the ground. and i would also try to explain to the american people that the consequences to the people of iraq -- we are already hearing stories of mass executions in mosul where they took over. i might talk economically, they are the second largest oil exporter as you know in the whole region. and price of oil is already reflecting the problems there, libya and other places, but especially there. i would explain to the american people that it is in our national interest to see a stable iraq but i would not commit putting american boots on the ground in order to achieve that in deference to this weariness you so accurately

describe. >> finally, what about the fact that we helped train these troops yet the forces in mosul took off uniforms and abandoned the weapons we supplied them, against a much smaller force of insurge enlts. they are basically was not command in control or no loyalty to the central government. what was going on there? >> well, maliki never even appointed a minister of defense. he ran it all from his office there in baghdad. he replaced good generals with bad ones. he kept bad generals. he starved those for a lot of things they needed and alienated the sunni components of the military and even the shia components of the military to the point where they no longer felt the kind of loyalty to maliki and the government in baghdad that was necessary for

soldiers to fight. and this is a consequence of terrible mismanagement of the government and corruption by maliki and we obviously are paying a very heavy price for that. >> nor john mccain today. ken pollack, recently returned from baghdad, was there in spring and met with u.s. and iraqi officials including maliki and served as cia military analyst and national security council under president clinton. >> thank you. >> you have a good sense of where maliki is. is he going to change and do the things now that he resistded for all of these years in terms of sunni rivals? >> i'm pretty pessimistic about it. when i saw him last, he was looking forward to a big electoral victory and didn't seem to want to use it to reach his opponents and wanted to do things his way.

it was a ominous sign and everyone is right to ask this question, can maliki change? he's clearly a big part of the problem, the biggest part of the problem and the solution has to be a change in what's happen so far. >> what do we do now that maliki has iranian support on the ground? is this going to be a tug of war between the u.s. and iran over who has more influence on baghdad's government? >> for the moment we've got to recognize that our interest in a very narrow sense are aligned with iraq's interest. i think you're right -- >> with iran's interest. >> we're going to think longer term. the simple fact is if we do nothing and iraq desends deeper into civil war, the shia will side with iran because there's no one else there. it's why the united states does need to take a more active role but we can't just be anotheral lie of the shia the way the iranians are because that's going to put us on the wrong side of the sunnis and arab

world. >> we've got the saudis who are very concerned and others as you just mentioned in the arab world. is this all going back to not only the way we left iraq but the way we didn't engage in syria? >> yeah, it's part and parcel of all of that. it starts after 2003, after the invasion of iraq, we did not secure it, we created a security vacuum and produced the civil war in iraq. >> the famous decision to dismiss the army. >> exactly and not occupy it and secure the populist and prevent looting. you're also right, the other kpoen enlt was the decision to not take a more active role in syria. as a result both places we've seen internal problems bubble back up to the surface and they are now link being together in very pernicious ways. >> do you agree with the analysis that mccain cites and that in fact the white house is citing that there is now a real threat to the homeland? michael leiter said this as well

from is dis? >> i have no reason to doubt it. i don't have any independent evidence of what these guys are up to. there's no question they don't like the united states. they are a group of people who have wanted to hurt the united states and given the amount of free space they are now going to have, i think we should expect they will at some point come after us. i think we also have to recognize, it's not like we should be expecting isis terrorists to be blowing up the mall of america tomorrow. while there are very serious problems in iraq, military problems that need to be dealt with, this is not henny penny the sky is falling moment for the united states. one piece of the president's speech i liked is his point we need to think this through and deal with the political aspect as well as the military. >> thank you so much. ken pollact.

>> after five years in captivity and transition in germany. this video appears to show bergdahl's plane arriving in texas overnight. he was taken to brook army medical center to continue getting treatment. this afternoon the army will have a press conference to discuss the final fasz of bergdahl's reintegration process. i asked john mccain what he would say to bergdahl and his critics? >> bowe bergdahl is on american soil and has returned overnight to texas for recoup race. do you have any message to him and to all of those who are judging him for whatever he did or didn't do as he goes through this process? >> my message is welcome home, my message is that the proper investigation will take place and we should not make any judgments until that investigation takes place.

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reporting that the tea party could mount a small but significant challenge. joining me now, chris cillizza, managing editor of postpolitics.com and amy at the cook political report. welcome both. chris, kevin mccarthy had the votes so pete sessions dropped out. >> look, the movement conser conservati conservatives, call them what you will, tea party, whatever, they are not thrill a california republican not one of them already in leadership is going to go unopposed for the second speaker in waiting job. nancy pelosi in leadership, it's much more in that realm and mccarthy has -- >> don't forget, we're watching you.

>> right, jeb henser ling and pete sessions dropped out. this is a symbolic run if it becomes a run at all. >> it is a good indication that the house republicans despite losing cantor and against the turmoil it was supposed to create actually are seeing a quite you know, very easy process -- >> orderly. >> very orderly. >> with a guy who is basically establishment. it signals the fact that house republicans want to win this election, do not want to hand democrats more ammunition in a race they feel they've got handled. >> they might permit some sort of change on the whip side -- >> if there's going to be a movement conservative, it's probably in the whip, the third ranking position. if mccarthy gets elect, steve xa lease is of that world, conservative. i will say though, i'm stunned

that in the aftermath of eric cantor, first majority lead are ever to lose, and losing to a tea party person, all of a sudden, there's no -- there's no energy. kevin mccarthy is the establishment of the establishment. >> it's because i don't think the tea party wants to be in leadership. they want toage tate and they are good at that but do not have a strong enough coalition to lead. that's a big piece of it. >> in the advance of father's day this weekend, we want to show you chris, the dad's dance last night on -- >> the tonight show with jimmy fallon. this is chris christie doing the dad's dance. ♪

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one of lucky ones who escaped when one of the trucks broke down and she was numb. kept talking about her friends, what has become of my friends, tears were streaming down her eyes. her cheeks i should say. then i met with a father who lost two of his daughters and they are muslim. most of the targeting of boek co-har ram is against christians and it is a radical islamic terrorist organization and the end game of the overthrow of the nigerian government and imposition of a very extremist sharia law that would make women not just second or third class citizens but far beyond that. they hold women in contempt and of course they kill christians, male or female simply because they are christians. >> congressman, what can the u.s. do? >> well, we need to do more. i have to say, we have very fine people on the ground. some of our military people are now trying to train the nigerian

military. they are very good at peace keeping, whether in bosnia, back in the 1990s or most recently in darfur, nigerian peace keepers can be found. but now this is a counterterrorism effort that requires a very specialized skillset and our military can convey that to them. there are some obstacles, the leahy moment, it's well intentioned and i support it, the vetting process has been cumbersome when whole units are disqualified from being trained. we're doing about a battalion, 600 plus soldiers but they need far more than that. two weeks ago i had a hearing, ambassador said this is going to be a long war. they are growing in their intensity not unlike what we're seeing in iraq right now with this move on baghdad. they want to move on abuj ja, the capital of nigeria and just

recently set off bombs there and i was in in jost last september where large numbers of churches were fire bombed and people were slaughtered. the world community is mobilizing and the british just held a very important conference so intelligence sharing -- and i was at the fusion center in abuja, where u.s. and u.k. and france are working side by side with intelligence officers in the nigerian military and the training for counter insurgency and has to be done with extreme urgency and vetting to ensure those we train are human rights advocates rather than people who commit atrocities themselves. >> ronan far row interviewed angelina joe lee coming up in the next hour on msnbc. much more ahead.

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and that does it for this edition of quts andrea mitchell reports, happy father's day to all of you dads out there, especially sid mitchell. follow the show online and on facebook and twitter and my colleague, ronan farrow is in london today with angelina jolie. >> we have a big show as you mentioned today. a state of emergency may be declared in what was already a war zone. how things have gone from bad to worse in iraq. also, sergeant bergdahl back in the u.s. we've got the latest and my interview with angelina jolie, in helping to end sexual violence in conflict zones. i don't want you to pay for this. it's not happening, honey.

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it's the home of double decker buses and madonna's accent and also host to a high level summit on sexual violence in conflict zones. i sat down with a u.s. envoy, not your run of the mill bureaucrat. >> it is such a violent crime. and it is -- it makes you not only feel so abused and so horrible about yourself but you also as a woman do not feel like a woman anymore. what that does for you as a person and how you hold yourself is vile. it has nothing to do with sex. it is disgusting and you are lower and to take the shame off of the victims and put it onto the perpetrators and embarrass them. they should feel embarrassed and vile. they are. >> the lovely angelina jolie with a plea that may change the way you think about