ak m achmed abu khattala faces court. >>> president obama ponders exactly how far the u.s. will go to help, and one iraq vet in the house affairs committee says it's time to consider more action. >>> and a check on presidential power. the supreme court rules against some of president obama's recess appointments as house speaker john boehner threatens a lawsuit. will this put the brakes on a case critics call executive overreach? our editor will break it all down. i'm shannon green. america's news headquarters live from the nation's capitol starts right now. >>> iraqi helicopter gunships are striking in positions in tikrit today. they vowed to take down hassein's hometown today. hello, conor. >> hi, shannon. they are holding operations around the country to take back territory. this appears to be the most concentrated effort we've seen in the last two weeks or so. saddam hussein's hometown sits just outside baghdad and is really key to controlling the capit capital. the battle of tikrit has been one of the bloodiest in this complicat conflict, using helicopters and tanks to

ak m achmed abu khattala faces court. >>> president obama ponders exactly how far the u.s. help, and one iraq vet in the house affairs committee says it's time to consider more action. >>> and a check on presidential power. the supreme court rules against some of president obama's recess

so right now, achmed abu khattala is being interrogated aboard a navy ship as it makes its way slowlythe word slowly all morning because time is a valuable commodity to those speaking to this man, yes? >> indeed, chris, they want to talk to khattala and find out everything he knows about everything, but this mission, this was a secret mission in the works for days. intelligence agents on the ground, commandos on the beach, but in the end, they got khattala with very little drama. new details emerging from the capture of ahmed abu khattala, a senior law enforcement official, tells cnn, u.s. special operations forces including members of the fbi arrived by sea over the weekend. the official tells cnn khattala was lured to a villa south of benghazi when u.s. forces swooped in sunday. we're told khattala tried to wrestle with the troops. the key operative in ansar al sharia, the group the u.s. blames for the 2012 attack on the compound in benghazi was quickly apprehended and we're told no shots fired, no one hurt. the official also tells cnn u.s. special forces did recover some form of me