and, cokie roberts on the women of washington during the civil war. >> woodruff: it was a deadly dayq. a series of bombs ripped through baghdad, targeting public places and killing at least 40 people. further north in erbil, a car bomb exploded outside the u.s. consulate, killing one and wounding five. in ramadi, military forces fought back islamic state militants trying to control the city. local authorities warned the situation was critical. in a striking victory government forces claim they killed izzat ibrahim al-douri, the king of clubs in the deck of playing cards given to u.s. forces to identify key figures in sadam hussein's regime. he became a leader of sunni extremist groups and recently allied with the islamic state group. said were image of al-douri's body in an effort to confirm that he was dead nor more on who he was and what this means for iraq we are joined by drerk derek harvey. welcome again to the newshour. so let's start out by reminding everyone who al-douri was. what was his role under saddam hussein? >> he was the vice president under saddam hussein and importa

jim avila won an award for his cuba coverage at the white house correspondents dinner and our cokie roberts has a great book out that i think will debut on the "new york times" best seller list this weekend. >> a great weekend. >> unfortunately we start off with tragedy. >> a very, very tough story on the other side of the world. the massive be rescue effort under way in nepal. >> help is being rushed in from all corners of the world. rescue crews, equipment and even doctors. >> and the death toll from saturday's earthquake has now surpassed 3,000 with the aftershocks as powerful as california's deadly 1994 north ridge earthquake. abigail hunter the sister of an abc news producer was inside a shop when the quake struck. >> the building on top of it completely collapsed. so if we haven't halved as quickly, we would probably also be in that pile of rubble. >> the streets of kathmandu are virtually impassable at this point. the streets are piled with rubble bodies and shell shocked victims too afraid to go indoors. >> incredible images. on mt. everest a deadly disaster is playing out on the sl

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abc political analyst matthew dowd and cokie roberts. so, we're going to start with you, capital dame, and talk about hillary clinton, a lightning round if we can here. did she meet expectations in iowa? >> i think that she did what she needed to do in iowa. she can't just go one-on-one because of the national press is all over her, you know, by the hundreds and so she can't just have a normal iowa trip. >> this is clearly the lessons learned, we talked a lot about lessons learned today from 2008, so, why is this the real hillary clinton compared to who they had last year. >> i think the whole trip has been a mistake, because authenticity is what you have to focus on in this. hillary clinton who's gone from private planes to black suburbans to huge evens, drives up in the scooby doo machine. >> you don't even like to say that, do you? >> it was called the mystery machine. i think her biggest problem in all of this, is how she does separate herself from president obama. hardest thing is to win a third term in a row. >> and the republicans

. >>> i'm here with our friend cokie roberts.u back. i want to talk about the book in a minute. i gotta talk to you about hillary. >> speaking of powerful women. >> trying to do it in a different, low-key way. >> she's kind of running against herself. her own last campaign and -- who america thinks she is. and our crack pollster here at abc has put out research that shows a woman who is strong and powerful is not seen as friendly and empathetic. here we are in 2015 and we still have to deal with that. so that's what she's doing. trying to show people how she's a warm and friendly person. i think we'll see a lot of that baby. >> the grandbaby is one new thing. last time she had a didn't theory. she was going to be the strong woman. >> she was afraid people would think a woman was too weak to have her hutton or the red telephone in the night. now she's selling wisdom which is a good thing in an old woman. >> it's a good thing. you write about the civil war era. how an entire population of men were out fighting the war and women had