bashir says they couldn't survive without help from groups like iocc. his dream is to get back to syria as soon as possible, but he says, only if it is a syria at peace. the catholic group caritas jordan has centers across the country where refugees can come for help. this caritas center in zarqa serves about 200 people daily, and has been logging in some 100 more new families every day. here, refugees can get medical assistance, emergency aid supplies and referrals for other help. every center has a counseling program as well. in child-friendly spaces, children do art and play therapy. their parents can receive individual counseling and group therapy sessions. >> reporter: one of the caritas volunteers is bassam zarrour, himself a syrian refugee. zarrour owned an electronics store in homs, and says he had a "beautiful" life there until the violence exploded. he and his family left syria last march. he heard right away about caritas' help for refugees and then became a volunteer, acting as a liaison between caritas and his fellow syrians. like most of t

well among the accusations the president there bashir al assad his regime attacked his own people withorine gas eight times back in april and it's three years that president obama said he needs to go and quite a long time since he crossed the red line yet there he is. our chief intelligence correspondent kathryn harris is live in washington. we're learning more about the islamic state's military capabilities. >> reporter: that's right. the terrorist group isis or isil has taken a strategy jig approach to gain recruits and equipment according to a new analys analysis. an independent and privately funded research group reads in part isil did not become effective suddenly in early june 2014 it had been steadily strengthening and actively shaping the future operating environment for four years. >> there's been a deliberate and very thoughtful approach to how they built themselves up. they have armored units. they have vehicles. they have tactics. they have command and control structures. they are very well organized. it's not a bunch of terrorists running around. it's organized militant ar

other speakers included kentucky governor steve bashir and senator rand paul. beshear is first to speak in this 30-minute portion of the picnic. >> thank you. thank you very much. excuse me just one minute. i'm sorry. i just had to get one less photo of the senator before kentucky voters retire him in november. and retire him they will. kentuckians are tired of the partisan bickering in washington. they are tired of dysfunctional government. they are tired of name-calling. obstructionismof . senator mcconnell has been chief obstructionist for the last 30 years. yes, it is time for a change. send allison wondered in grimes to the united states senate. in contrast to washington, d.c., we still know how to make democracy work in the commonwealth of kentucky. republicans control the state senate. statehouseontrol the . we are a divided government, and yet, kentucky pala -- pass a balanced budget. we have improved funding for schools. we have raised our dropout age. we've expanded substance abuse treatment and cracked down on prescription drug abuse. we've reformed

the group fights bashir assad in syria. that is where the journalist is believed to have been abducted in 2012. was sentis mother while he was traveling to turkey close to the border with syria. shortly after curtis was freed, his family released a statement to thank those who stood by them and the authorities who played eight key role in helping free the american journalist. >> the family is not privilege -- pretty to the exact terms negotiated. we were repeatedly told by representatives of the qatari government they were negotiating for his release on humanitarian basis without the payment of money. >> a u.s. senior official says curtis was released in the goal on heights where he was met by american personnel taken to tel aviv. he is to be debriefed by the fbi before returning home. to july, he back pleaded for western governments to contact his abductors or he would be killed in the following days. no news has filtered regarding the exact conditions of release and whether the demands of the fighters were met. his freein

and while certainly there's room for discussion on this issue as we discussed earlier about whether bashir al assad whether the first policy point should have been that he should he should go i understand the point you're making but i'm much more interested in what we're going to be doing going forward because i think we have an enormous challenge and whether we come to an agreement or disagreement on something that took place three years ago is not going to help us get through that challenge or worse yet something. took place eleven years ago is not going to help us get through this challenge my point is i think all like minded countries the united states and yes i would include russia in this as well needs to kind of get together and work on what syria should be in the future and how iraq how we can all help iraq overcome these sectoral enmities that i think it is fair to say have been going on for some one thousand years so rather than litigate the past let's see how we can go forward and what are workable arrangements for the national here we are not less a giving the past here and i'm

and we have people like president bashir of sudan who kills people by droves.k we're going to shame him into doing something? >> that's why it's probably not necessarily going to be successful. and it's not legally binding. it's an effort for him to basically get the u.s. to do what he wants the u.s. to do. but whether we do that or not is up to him and his administration. and eventually, up to law. >> betsy, i imagine the environmentalists aren't going to like this at all. he has given them an honor system. and they want something much more definitive. >> and on top of that, they're already irked that he has done so little. look, he had a chance in 2009 when the house passed cap and trade legislation. the senate didn't even take it up. the president has staked so much of his legacy on climate change. when he was running in 2008, he said it was a moral challenge and a national security risk. >> but he said is that on the va when he ran in '0. he was going to clean up the v.a. you don't think that distresses him? >> there have been so many reports that he wanted

battle to take the military base in rhaka province in northeastern syria was the last stronghold for bashir al assad's regime in that particular area. isis claims it captured 250 of them. they are prisons of war. this is what they do to them. they march them through the desert, knowing full well what their fate is and executing them and gloating about it on the internet. a short time after that video was posted, christine, there was another video from isis. this time showing kurdish forces all wearing orange jump suits, the same jump suit worn by american journalist james foley, who was horrifically beheaded in a video last week. one of the soldiers makes an appeal to his president here in kurdistan, to stop cooperating with the united states allowing the u.s. air strikes to be conducted here in iraq. it finishes with a soldier kneeling before a mosque in mosul. three isis militants standing above him. e grabs his head, the tuft of his hair and gets out his knife and beheads him. this is how the video ends. we have seen this time and time again. certainly, it's just a horrifying image that

in order to do that, you would have to sort of talk with bashir al-asad, the syrian president. he's not exactly our best friend. can the united states effectively fight isis without smou getting involved with mr. asad. >> you've raised one of the most intriguing and complex issues we've got at this point. how do we do this? how do we target isis within syrian borders? that border is broken down with iraq. we can cross back and forth with that some guarantee that we're not going to worry about syria military. thanks to vladimir putin, the syrian has a defense system that they have had for years. asad has been painting it as a contest with terrorists. when he talks about isis, he's right in some regard, but there is likely very little chance that this white house is going to do a complete left turn and decide that they are going to work somehow with asad in combatting isis. it may be a pragmatic choice in the sense of if your objective is to defeat isis, but it's not really realistic given our history with assad and everything he's done. we should be sitting down with the turkish

he was kidnapped while whilew9l covering the kidnapping of bashir assad.>> now to my ope this is thea'z president oesh's respon -- obam response to the beheading american james foley was so ñ÷ it isq>bs embarrassing.2i# in times like these, great leaders understand both the enormity and urgency of the situation. t(#. take the reigns and they lead..)4xz but not our, >> relentless? for at least eight minutes until you get back to youri9kp golf ce on your three-week vacation. mr. president, where is your humanity? this innocent man and his family deserve better. britishp prime ministerskykyí& it's the sound of the killer's british accent immediately left vacation to get back to work. brits are identifying the leading suspect and it wasn't even one of their own who was killed. mr. president, americans are justifiably outraged an they wonder if you are disengaged, tired, over worked, bored or just clueless. but then again at this point, what difference does it make? what difference do you make? what difference can you make? there are no words to describe the h

would a bold stroke against isis put us in bed with bashir al assad the person barack obama swore hef? tonight we look at the revolt and development facing the american president. how to choose the greater evil? a terror group or a dictator who

i've got to say it was 1973 that bashir assad told me that he wish he had more of a childhood, but that's irrelevant now. i mean, the man is an animal. he's taking testosterone supplements along with putin. but i think obama is right and hillary is wrong, because for the simple reason that obama has been on this thing a lot more than hillary has. oh, yeah, the other thing about benghazi, i think petraeus was at getting his multistate. >> host: okay, we'll go to fred, republican caller. go ahead. >> caller: thank you for c-span. all i see is where giving hillary clinton free advertisement and three campaign realm. we certainly don't need another clinton in the white house, and her stance on sure is just to make it look good for her now. it's all part of a plan that the democrats got to get the first woman in power in the united states. and she has no program to make this country come out of the mess it's in. we are in as financially. we are in mess most morally, and she certainly is not the person to bring the country together and get us out of this mess and only god knows what it's going

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would a bold stroke against isis put us in bed with bashir al assad the person barack obama swore he would get rid of? tonight we look at the revolt and development facing the american president. how to choose the greater evil? a terror group or a dictator who has shown he'll do anything to save himself. howard fineman is the editorial director of the huffington post and bobby gaush is from the digital publication kwarz. the u.s. is sending missions over syria authorized by president obama this weekend to assess targets for potential air strikes against isis. they are using both manned and unmanned aircrafts for the purpose. u.s. officials won't seek approval from the assad government. meanwhile the pentagon is drafting plans for potential strikes against the terror group. the president hasn't ok'd strikes yet. nbc news reports the decision could come as early as this week. the strikes would target isis forces, weapons and supply lines between syria and iraq. today president obama, once again, talked about the need for rooting out the cancer that is isis. they warned it won't be easy

remember a year ago we were talking about whether to intervene in favor of syrian civilians with bashir al assad was massacring them. many didn't want to. let's replay that story. >> the only thing that's different there's 40 americans in irbil, 250 military personnel, americans in iraq. which the president put in there to try to stabilize the situation provide advice. if they are indeed at risk, would that then justify the united states doing military strikes and can those strikes be surgical or is that the slippery slope towards a combat situation >> that's exactly the point. the united states can intervene at will. i don't think they need any justification. they have a partner in iraq and very shaky and tenuous relationship with baghdad. we have to right that and stand that up. the fact that americans might be in harm's way certainly gives sufficient justification albeit not necessary to goudeau something to extract those folks but what the real issue is, is the united states should not at this point say what they are not going to do. this could be an escalation and we could be as ph

i spent time looking at the bashir numbers. governor beshear numbers. you look at the map and you look at the correlation and the state has changed a lot. he won the cold counties. coal counties. >> will it be a bigger share? >> i think so. there is the urbanization. the underrated part here is northern kentucky. 10 years ago, northern kentucky west wing -- northern kentucky was swingish. last 10 years, a bunch of ohio republicans have moved to northern kentucky. it is why hamilton county has gone democrat the last two cycles. which it has not done in decades. part of the reason the republicans have moved to northern kentucky. she has a tough path. it is about running up the score. you mentioned some other swing counties. we were care. -- we work here. campbell and davis county. >> both of those are college town aspects. >> does that mean that younger college age are going to vote for her? is the assumption that democrats are making. it's part of her past. you are going to see -- she has to find odors -- voters to replace the coal bovote. it has been a

but i mean the problem is with cooperating with bashir al assad, he's a shiite muslim essentially andof down sides. we don't want to get in the middle of a sectarian conflict. that's why it's such a fine line this administration is walking. >> thanks very much for joining us. >>> coming up, don lemon's exclusive interview with michael brown's mother and the mothers of trayvon martin and sean bell. they talk about the worst part about burying a young son much too soon. their words of comfort and their words of grief. that's just ahead. so what we're looking for is a way to "plus" our accounting firm's mobile plan. and "minus" our expenses. perfect timing. we're offering our best-ever pricing on mobile plans for business. run the numbers on that. well, unlimited talk and text, and ten gigs of data for the five of you would be... one-seventy-five a month. good calculating kyle. good job kyle. you just made partner. our best-ever pricing on mobile share value plans for business. now with a $100 bill credit for every business line you add. having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a

say, it wasve to 1973 that bashir assad told me that he wished he had more of a childhood.t is irrelevant now. the man is an animal. obama is right and hillary is wrong. that obamaple reason has been on this thing a lot more than hillary has. the other thing about benghazi -- petraeus was out getting his monkey spanked. host: fred a new york pr republican caller. -- fred in new york. republican caller. caller: we're giving hillary clinton a free advertisement and free campaign. we don't need another clinton in the white house. her stance is just to make it look good for her now. it's part of a plan the democrats have to get the first woman in power in united states. she has no program to make this country come out of the mess it's in. we are a mess financially and morally and she is not the person to bring the country together and get us out of this mess. god knows what it's going to take. on the republican side, who do you think could get us out of this mess? caller: the person that comes up is going to have to be somebody that is more trustworthy than what we have seen. i

the white house saying it is not .orking with bashir assad the front page of the new york times has this headline. the u.s. is mobilizing its allies to widen these possible strikes. then in the new york times this morning. what's next for syria. the washington post, u.s. relies on bases in the persian gulf. president obama, when he was speaking before the american legion's national convention in north carolina yesterday, talked about the strategy in iraq and syria. [video clip] is not to send in large scale military deployments that overstretch our military and leave occupied countries, feeding extremism. our military action in iraq has to be part of a broader strategy to protect our people and support our partners to take the fight to isis. we are strengthening our partners. more military assistance to kurdish forces in iraq. we're urging iraqis to forge inclusive government. it will merely be the antidote to terrorists. we're urging countries in the to support iraqis as they take the fight to these barbaric terrorists. president obama in north carolina before the american legion audien