it actually united iraqis. the sunnis realized they preferred a united federal iraq under a new government to being at the mercy, the mercy of isil or dependent upon the other sunni states. the kurds realized that withdrawing from iraq was not a viable option, and they did not want a terrorist state on the doorstep. the matter how many conversations i had with president bersani. the shia realized they did not want to take on isil alone. consequently, they each concluded they are better off if they are in this together. to quote a famous american politician, weaver hang together or hang separately. the iraqis themselves recognized how badly the trust had been broken. nothing less than a comprehensive change could deliver a united iraqi government that could effectively take on isil. many iraqi natives believed that the only way to do this is, as i believe, was a wholesale change in leadership. that every interest in iraq had to find different leaders this time. to occupy the seats of power. i remember speaking t

iraqi army folded. they left office state of the art military equipment made in the usa. islamic state forces rushed south through the deserts of anbar. they got to within a birdseye view of baghdad and shiite militias came out to meet them and the people's detection unit opened the humanitarian corridor leding tens of thousands of people to flee to the area. the second phase was human humanitarian. america's approach evolved to a point where we focused on retaking territory and assisted some iraqi forces and the battle to retake the mosul dam and launched counter offenses to regain other territory like on the region of the turkey/syria boulevard. all of this is happening at the same time we were getting involved in kobani and isis is a real threat to iraq to syria, it controls people that live under isis control. isis is well-armed because of the arms they seized from the iraqi's armed forces. they were operating 18 oil wells and refineries and generate revenue from hostage taking and artifacts. the bu

-- iraqis. as they stand up and together, we are committed to standing with them. i need not tell this audience since 2003, more than 1.5 million american women and men including my son, have spent significant amounts of time on iraqi soil. every single morning since i have been vice president, we contacted the defense department and i ask the same question. give me the exact number of americans who have given their lives on iraqi soil and afghan soil -- the exact number, not a generalization. the exact number of those who have been wounded and or lost in afghanistan. no one knows more than this -- every one of those lives, brave women and men represent a community, represent a family and a larger family. only 1% of all americans have waged these fights for us but 99% of all americans owes them support and recognition. 4000 481 -- 4004 at 81 americans have given their lives on iraqi soil including many who served alongside the people in this room. i bet everyone of you in uniform know somebody w

what happened to the iraqi military?now the iraqi military that was -- has the ability to do the work was used initially up in tikrit and right now engaged in hawiga between tikrit and kirkuk. major oil refinery up there, which is a critical piece of infrastructure for the iraqis. you know out in al a anbar, we've watched this for years out there, with the sunnis out there, the sunni triangle we've got the u.s. forces that are out there, in al anbar province doing the training at the air fields out there. one of the biggest issues right now that i see is that arwa reported is and we watched this for last month, what isis was doing, they have cut off, attacking from the east which literally puts a barrier between baghdad and blocks off the rest of the anbar province. so the reinforcements able it to come in from the east from baghdad and other areas, is now cut off which may just -- makes a major concern which is going to have to have the coalition put in some major bombing in there to allow reinforcements to get in there

not the iraqi army.rime minister al-abadi: if we are talking about militias -- the iraqi concentration for militias. what i am saying, what i am saying is we have to think about two different things. if you talk about militias they are organized armed people outside the state. i have said that in iraq and here. these are the enemy of the iraqi people. we do not allow them. we have placed many of them in prison. charlie: but aren't you using them in in the right against --? -- in the right against -- uin -- in the fight against dash? prime minister al-abadi: we are using volunteers. we will have volunteers the fight against dash. out of their national aspiration, they want to fight this enemy to liberate their own area. though civilians, some of them have not received enough training so some of them will commit such crimes and we make them accountable. if we catch them -- every recording, unacceptable thing that has been committed, i will ask for these people to be arrested and brought to justice. we have

. >> iraqi i'm not aware of that. i'm not aware of any dialogue or any contract with the syrians. we have contracts with -- embassy in baghdad. and i have visited syria recently. but that is because we don't know, we don't have information about the bombing mission at all. and of course we're not even being notified. >> rose: how does the coordination take place between these air strikes and iraqi armed forces and shi'a militias who are on the ground so they could be most effective as possible. >> that's the example what we have done is we have brought everybody, every fighter there under the control of the commander in that area. there's a commander which is appointed by the commander that includes the police force and this what you call militia. this would come from him. he has to designate, he has to get to us a target which he thinks and that target is approved by this commander who comes to the joint command center which is approved by an iraqi general and passed on to the international coalition. they have to ap

commanders and help training iraqi forces.he iranian advisers go to the front to a divisor own force -- to advise our own forces. charlie: we have seen general sulaemani at that front. prime minister al-abadi: they don't have arms. charlie: do they give instructions to the shia militia? prime minister al-abadi: they give advice. i have to be clear -- if they are making militias in iraq it would be considered as hostile to iraq. i have made that very public. charlie: two president rouhani? prime minister al-abadi: everybody in iran. charlie: if they are -- prime minister al-abadi: this is a hostile move towards iraq. if they useanna:prime minister al-abadi: they would respect the iraqi sovereignty. and it is because it is hostile. i ensure you, they are not doing this. they only give assistance to the government. charlie: what do you think the purpose is? and is it the same? prime minister al-abadi: welcome each country has their own interests. charlie: has there been any consideration, conversations at the white house, in the

and iraqi kurdistan. that means that weapons should be delivered directly through the airport in erbil. instead of light and medium defensive weapons, we should be providing heavy weapons including those of an offensive nature. our training program should be intensified so the peshmerga are better skilled to go into battle. i had a conversation with the state department 48 hours ago about these very subjects. i made a point that treating the kurdistan regional government as an ally and a friend isn't going to encourage their breakaway from iraq. it'll actually encourage a more moderate and slow approach on their part because hale be tweet -- they'll be treated with a dignity that they have shown to deserve. we should also be working closely with the kurds in syria. the head of the pyd was invited by columbia to come to a seminar here. he submitted his visa application at the u.s. embassy in stockholm almost three years ago. the u.s. government still hasn't acted on his visa request. since the pyd has show

we work by, with, and through the iraqi government and so through the iraqi government and the iraqi security forces the iraqis came back and asked for support and we adjudicated that decision to the highest levels and decided to engage there. it's within the iraqi interest and the coalition's interests to be successful in tikrit because we don't want to have another success for daesh or isil. and we anticipate that the support that we're providing, the iraqi security forces with the minister of defense -- with the ministry of defense in charge of the command and control of that operation, that we're in a position that we can provide that support to be successful. >> with regard to the command and control, the -- there's a difference between the role of the traditional shia elements that are aligned directly with iraq and supported directly with iraq and those elements of the pmf that have provided a larger force posture and a larger force generation capability. they are not -- they don't intend to be or are not intended to be a permanent part of the iraqi security force entity. they

solders are training the iraqi army in iraq.nd with the shia militias the president said he does want though weapons given to the shia militias. the white house likes to say they didn't have reason to fight because the government doesn't unified. they believe that is the key to ensuring that they actually put up a fight, but some of the things they are talking about sensitive drones fighter jets those are technologies they might not be willing to share with the iraqis. so hopefully we'll hear from the two leaders today. >> thank you very much. >>> now to the war in yemen. the u.n. security council has approved a resolution aimed at stopping the fighting there. it targets houthi rebels restricting travel and their ability to get weapons. samantha power spoke right after the vote. >> we condemn unilateral actions to undermine yemen's security and stability. in response the houthis working in close coordination with president salehiva extended their offensive. the united states strongly supports the adoption of today's resolution w

it actually united iraqis.he sunnis realized they preferred a united federal iraq under a new government to being at the mercy, the mercy of isil, or dependent upon the other sunni states. the kurds realized that withdrawing from iraq was not a viable option, and they did not want a terrorist state on the doorstep. the matter how many conversations i had with president bersani. the shia realized they did not want to take on isil alone. consequently, they each concluded they are better off if they are in this together. to quote a famous american politician, weaver hang together or hang separately. the iraqis themselves recognized how badly the trust had been broken. nothing less than a comprehensive change could deliver a united iraqi government that could effectively take on isil. many iraqi natives believed that the only way to do this is, as i believe, was a wholesale change in leadership. that every interest in iraq had to find different leaders this time. to occupy the seats of power. i remember speaking to

iraqis will not see this as a fight against extremism _ especially iraqi sunnis will see this as a fight against their neighborhoods. the us is only taking sides in a sectarian and ethnic conflict, supporting some extremist groups against other extremist groups. >> abu ali once fought in saddam hussein's army. he asked us not to show his face for fear of retribution from the militias. he said that shia militias that had formerly fought u-s forces in iraq are taking advantage of u-s backing to target sunnis. namely asaib ahl al haq. >> the shiite militias that have been funded and trained by the iraqi security forces and now by the u.s. have committed gross violations. human rights watch has documented murders and crimes and torture committed by both the iraqi central government forces directly or by shiite militias affiliated with it. >> the refugees here say they are caught between multiple armed groups -- from isil to the shia militias, and they don't know if they will ever be able to go home. >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> tonight on "techkn

iraqi and american. it is the assessment of those military leaders that we need to do more to assist iraqi forces -- if it is the assessment of those military leaders we need to do more to assist iraqi forces, we should eat ready. laura: are you hopeful for iraq's future? ryan: since tikrit i am more hopeful that i've been in the past. i have learned two things along foreign service career. be careful what you get into in terms of foreign engagements. be more careful what you propose to get out of. i would suggest that we did not do very well in iraq on either. getting in and coming out. our disengagement contributed to the challenges we face now from the islamic state and iran. laura: ambassador ryan crocker. thank you for joining us. there has been a surge in fighting between government troops and pro-russian rebels and -- in ukraine. six were killed and 12 are injured. tom barrett got caught up in crossfire. a warning. this report contains disturbing images. tom: these and the men and women in ukraine

the iraqi military was not there to defend the people. where was the iraqi military? the same iraqi military that, remember back in the day dropped the weapons we gave them and isis took them. so maybe isising using to the same weapons. so where was the iraqi military? the iraqi military says they can't really in there to defend the citizens because there are so many citizens there. that's what they said. they said, we can't risk civilian casualties by having war with isis there in ramadi so ramadi is coming in. they're? the center of the city of ramadi. still defense secretary ash carter says there's been real progress against the islamic state in iraq but there is big fear about ramadi. the fear that they didn't just talk about is it's not far from a military base where hundreds of american troops, hundreds of them are now stationed. a local official is asking baghdad for reinforcements calling the situation and i quote, catastrophic. ramadi is the capital of iraq's anbar province. the u.s. troops are 70 miles away training government forces. our people are training

and if iraqi government and the u.s.-led coalition are not going to be putting in the effort to try to help save ramadi what kind of a message is that going to send at this critical point to the country's sunni population? >> arwa damon -- >> brooke if i could. >> just quickly, jim. >> it also gets to a point the defense secretary made. the iraqi government has to be more inclusive. the military effort has to be more inclusive. that's about getting the sunnis involved. you lose the sunni capital in western iraq that's a loss. >> thank you to all four of you, very much. still ahead here on cnn, just 24 hours after handing down that guilty verdict, today the jurors in the iran hernandez murder trial are speaking exclusively to anderson cooper. they're elaborating as far as how they reached that decision. anderson joins me next for a preview. wait until you hear what these jurors toll him. back in 90 seconds. >>> you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. just one day after convicts aaron hernandez on first-degree murder the

if the question of the iraqi government is for this budget to be to train the iraqi army, the question is does the american or iraqi government capable of training the iraqi army and prepare them to fight isis within six months? they couldn't stand for hours after ten years of training. what are they going to do within six months? i don't think it serves to train them for six months. >> the success window overred night. what is clear is we will be successful. do you think there is going to be more money coming in towards bolstering the iraqi army rather than helping the humanitarian side as the military operation is going on as well. do you think it will be more aid in the fight against isil? >> if there is an serious american army to aid the army. no what we're witnessing in iraq because of the airstrikes of the coalition forces, and because of the iranian militias who are the actually iraqi show in tikrit and other areas occupied by the militias. and they now they excuse fighting but month so the casualties are from the civilians. other than 27,000 persons have been abducted. all thi

iraqi government now facing a big financial crisis it has a huge deficit. estimated to be around $20 billion and iraqi government is not only going to ask for weapons but they will ask for a delay in payment as well. >> omar thank you very much indeed for that reporting there live from baghdad. in the past year 800,000 children in nigeria have been forced to flee their homes because of boko haram, the findings come from the u.n. children agency unicef and has a report marking one year since abduction of over 200 school girls in nigeria and says at least 2000 women and girls have been abducted by boko haram since the start of 2014. and children are being forced into marriage and sexual slavery and are being trained to fight. the report claims 5500 civilians were killed as boko haram swept through villages and towns in nigeria last year and despite this unicef received 15% of $26 and half million for operations in nigeria this year. well n the capitol of nigeria abuja campaigners demanding return of the girls kidnapped and put tape on their mouths during a si

the iraqis still working to clear the city of them and a lot of questions, because the iraqis not able really to do this all on their own. in the last weeks, the u.s. started air strikes that pounded those isis targets that were very well dug in. isis defenses were very strong in the city. they were able to push them back and of course the iraqis had considerable help from those iranian backed shia militias. right now a victory for the iraqi forces but it is just the beginning of what they are going to have to deal with if they hope to hold on to this city and move ahead. wolf? >> lots of complications there. barbara, why is this victory in tikrit so important in the overall war against isis? >> reporter: well tikrit literally is on that highway to mosul. the city in the north that is the big prize, the u.s. wants the iraqis to get their fighting force in shape to move north and take mosul, the second largest city in iraq that isis has held on to for some time. both tikrit and mosul, though very problematic. you have to be able to hold on to the city. you have to provide security. you

there is nothing that can be done of meaning without extending iraqi sovereignty and iraqi authorityver the total iraqi soil and governing the entire map of iraq. you cannot leave and govern or semi-govern or weakly governed spaces in the country and do any kind of governing from baghdad. this is and it has been one of the problems in iraq -- too many ungoverned spaces that has led to flares of violence, flares of weakness, and let's face it, isis was a phenomenon of an ungoverned space, or spaces in the country. so that is an important aspect and it has to be coming first before the other two. and before even talking about any kind of future plans on all fronts, the extending of iraqi authority over the total soil, getting back mosul, anbar, and getting back those territories in the true sense, not in the fashion of squeezing a balloon where you take one place and the terrorist will go to the other chase you there, and then be in the place you just liberated and they keep chasing you and you are chasing them, and that is not going to work. the united states tried that in iraq before

>> reporter: well sammy, the iraqi government forces are facing tough resistance from i.s.i.l.ers and to the west of goma in the area. most parts of anbar more than 70% of anbar rather remain under the control of i.s.i.l. so i think the iraqi government has a long way in its forces have a long way to even think about launching a big operation to clear anbar from i.s.i.l. >> and we understand the iraqi prime minister will be asking the u.s. president for more weapons. what exactly are they seeking and why does he need more weapons in a country that is already receiving no shortage of u.s. weapons? >> prime minister abadi will be asking for the delivery of the f-16 purchased by the previous government. he will be asking for drones and apache helicopters and you mentioned u.s. weaponry that the americans have provided the iraqi army in the past and most went in the hands of i.s.i.l. and other groups when i.s.i.l. backed by several sunni groups stormed mosul and stormed tikrit since june of last year. i think the prime minister will be faced with tough questions when he meets presi

surprising to iraqis the senior u.s. commander chief of staff chairman martin dempsey was quoted that i rather ramadi not fall but it is not the end of the campaign should it fall to isis. that is a surprise to iraqis. it is so close to baghdad. the fall of the city like this after some nine months of u.s.-led air strikes would be a moral setback for the iraqi government and it has displaced according to iraqi government officials 150,000 civilians forced to flee and having to take a roundabout route traveling over a importantly protected pontoon bridge over the euphrates river to escape. it gives you a sense that isis despite some setbacks is able to carry out offensives just an hour's drive west. >> ivan watson, thank you. >>> crisis in yemen. on thursday al qaeda fighters overran an airport and oil export terminal in yemen after seizing the city of alqa. in washington the officials tell the l.a. times they are concerned about the air campaign which caused hundreds of civilian casualties. now the u.n. worried about a h

then nearly a month ago, iraqi forces launched their latest offensive. celebration today, today's declaration of victory comes nearly a week after u.s.-led air strikes targeted isis bases around the city. and that allowed the iraqi army with the help from a coalition of shiite militiamen to invade the city. arwa damon visited tikrit earlier today and filed this extraordinary report. >> reporter: we're in tikrit city center. this is the main road that leads through it. the tank behind me right there is one of those belonging to the popular movement units. you also have iraqi police. that building we were told had a sniper and a suicide bomber in it. and over here you see what was tikrit governorate. this is one of the many buildings that isis fighters had booby-trapped booby-trapped. as one of their officers stepped on the stairs they detonated. the stairs themselves had been inlain with explosives. two officers were killed in here, three were wounded. further down you can see smoke continuously rising. this is a scene you see throughout the entire city.

this is a test of the new iraqi government.general dempsey. >> that's arwa damon. she's been in iraq for a long time. he made the point, in fairness to him, the oil refinery is strategically very important because of the oil and wealth, and they have to devote their energy to protecting the oil refinery refinery. >> i would argue that the oil refinery is more a tactical win. we'll take it back. we can blow it up. taking the capital of anbar province are where the iraqi army fails to defend anbar province and the people of ramadi destroys any ability to bring the country back together. >> they're here the prime minister. i don't know if you were here. >> senator cain did. >> he's asking for hundreds of millions of dollars, asking for apache helicopters, tanks, other sophisticated artillery, humvees or whatever. this after the iraqi military abandoned all this u.s. equipment that the americans left behind. do you trust the iraqi military right now to have control of additional u.s. weapons that it won't wind up in the hands of is

government the iraqi politicians.d say the international community that is dealing with iraq because we all have to think about it in the right way. thank you very much and thank you again, mr. ambassador. thank you, professor. >> i'm going to open the floor to questions. i see the microphone that i was looking for. you'll have to come to the microphone so that the audio-visual stuff will work right or the microphone will be brought to you if you're in an inner slot. the floor is open and i ask you to identify yourselves before you speak. i'll take two questions at a time. one there. >> thank you very much for a very interesting panel. >> please identify yourself. >> insight iraq, sorry about that. i wanted to pick up on the three r's. i wanted to pick up on the reconstruction one. when we think of reconstruction in the united states, some would say u it took a hundred years. but the question i have is how do you see -- i'm sorry, on the reclaiming of land, it's obvious that we have to reclaim, that's obvious. but wha

and mosul are totally different battles and the iraqi forces are not ready for it. >> now the iraqi primer will be asking for help for weapons from the u.s. has he made the kind of reforms though which the u.s. president called for when, of course, isil first swept through iraq last year? >> reporter: well, in terms of those reforms to reach out to the sunnis and the kurtz are cureds are not fully implemented. the different is when the the kurds however with regards to the forms the sunnis demands including things like forming sunni forces in sunni area to his defends themselves against isil and others. there are other differences now, i think that the prime minister will have to answer in his visit or in his meeting with the united u.s. president including the role of the shia paramilitaries the so-called popular mobilization forces and their role in atrocities in areas that isil have controlled. so tough questions. now, also prime minister will be asking for the speedy delivery of weapons iraq had bought from the u.s. including f-16s there are also demands from the iraqi government on t

the iraqis and u.s.-led coalition recapture a key town while isis uses one of its best known hostages to say the west should consider a truce. would isis actually do that? would the west ever consider such a thing? >>> the national lead. first he said he was going to sign it. now arkansas's governor is kicking a religious freedom law back to the state legislature. we will ask one of the main authors of the bill why he insists it does not allow people to discriminate against gays. >>> the money lead. amazon wants to make sure you never run out of toilet paper again and that you never have to schlep to the store to get more. a new device you slap on your coffee maker, press it and wait for the supplies to show up on your doorstep. this is not an april fool. good afternoon. i'm jake tapper. welcome to "the lead." we will begin with our world lead. >>> why would isis the vile terrorist group that has vowed to attack here in the united states seemingly be floating the idea of a truce with the west? news outle

can be done of meaning without extending iraqi sovereignty and iraqi authority over the total iraqi soil and governing the entire map of iraq. you cannot leave and govern or semi-govern or weakly governed spaces in the country and then do any kind of governing from baghdad. this is and it has been one of the problems in iraq. too many ungoverned spaces that led to flares of violence flares of weakness, and let's face it, isis was a phenomenon of an ungoverned space in the country. or spaces in the country. so that is an important aspect, and it has to be coming first before the other two. and before even talking about any kind of future plans on all fronts, the extending of iraqi authority over the total soil, getting back mosul, getting back anbar and getting back those territories in a true sense, not in a sense of the fashion of squeezing a balloon, where you squeeze one place and the terrorists go to the other and they go to the place you liberated and you are chasing them and they are chasing you. and that is not going to work. the united states tried that in iraq before, and w

the ally of choice for the iraqi people. in that sense, if this is all he gets he will have fail. >> the question is how much more can the u.s. help. we have 3,000 troops advising on how to fight i.s.i.l., and spent 2 billion on the effort. >> it's easy to see both sides of this. the united states, as you said it's like what more do you want from us had we not given enough, we spent thousands of bodies what more do you want from us much the iraqis say we are the ones fighting i.s.i.l. and you say it's a threat. we are the ones doing the fighting. it's really easy to see how there are two different narratives here. >> iraq is struggling a deficit of $20 billion and a get of $100 billion. if it's going along to baiji and i.s.i.l. can they do it without u.s. aid. >> that was part of prime minister haider al-abadi's objective to get the aid with deferred payment plan. his argument is you can see where we are. we had a responsible budget and all of a sudden the bottom falls out of oil, we no longer have the prices. oil will not s

the united states warned the iraqis.areas, but they are not listening at this point. it's quite a dilemma for the united states to get baghdad to understand this. >> i remember phil when i went there in 2005 with then commander, i walked through there at the time. a lot of american marines and other troops died in that battle as you remember. to now think that ramadi, these places where so many american men were severely injured, if not killed and women, they are going to go into the hands of isis. it's heart breaking. >> not yet. take a time-out here. we talked about this months ago. isis had the element of surprise. they had the iraqi military on its heels. other the past months iraqi military made territorial gains. you can look at it as a military failure. it's a sign of success. as isis lost territory, they are looking at places to redeem itself. places to say to its followers, maybe there's another area we can have some success. this is not necessarily a sign that isis is on a role. it's a sign they are looking for

-supported iraqi offensive?on about the degree of control that iran exerts over the houthis. if you look back at the history of their relationship they have not exerted control in the same way that they exert control over lebanese hezbollah, for example. but they are a source of resources for the houthis. and the houthi leader himself is -- you know considers himself to be one of the heirs of the prophet. and the sect of shia islam from which the houthis draw their inspiration has an aspiration to restore that empire which existed centuries ago that included all of yemen and parts of southern saudi arabia. so i don't see them as having the same kind of relationship as lebanese hezbollah has with iran but they clearly have a relationship with them. to that extent the saudis are right to be concerned. >> and on the second question? >> yeah i forget what it was. >> do the saudis have anybody on the ground to fight as their proxy? >> yeah i won't speak to who's on the ground doing what from any of the coalition part

them to work with the iraqi military.epresentative says they don't need american help, just more iraqi assistance. >> ( translated ): we need air support from the iraqi government exclusively. iraqi pilots have expertise in the area. iraqi expertise should take precedence. >> reporter: shia leaders have officially condemned revenge attacks against sunni arabs believed to have cooperated with isis. the massacre of recruits from nearby camp speicher and the isis video documenting it helped further that goal of fragmenting the country. one of the fighters, hashim basheer salim, tells us he wants to die fighting. >> ( translated ): that's where the slaughter happened. those in charge and the cameraman were standing up there. it was a slaughter. they treated them like spoils of war, not like human beings. >> reporter: he says they blame some sunni groups for working with isis. >> ( translated ): we weren't doing the same thing with the sunnis. in 1991 in and we sent them to their homes. >> reporter: but this is a much differen

we have reports from baghdad on a tough task facing the iraqi army. >> on the outskirts the iraqi army said it is making gains. clearing mortar tore and preparing to advance further. more reinforcements have been sent. and soldiers are ready to fight. but isil is holding tight. the town center is in their grip. behind these lines is the real battle front. jets from the u.s.-led co-alation have beencoalition has been performing airstrikes. >> we advance four kilometers from north to south. now we're preparing to storm the city center. >> but more than 75% of anbar province is under isil control. it's fighters are entrench: roads are littered with bombs and houses are booby trapped with explosives. isil is sweeping through more areas in the northeast of the provincial capital. most of ramadi is now under isil control. the head of the provincial council said that the iraqi army needs help. >> the battle is very big. the arrival of the reinforcement is not enough. there is huge pressure from isil in anbar and they want the victory to show public opinion that we're here. we will stop them.

military and with where the iraqi military is.s island in the middle of no where with the iraqi civilians. >> do you think, bob, it makes sense for the u.s. right now, the obama administration with the support of congress to go ahead and provide hundreds of millions of dollars in additional economic and military assistance to this iraqi government right now, including some work military equipment, apache helicopters, armored vehicles, stuff like that? >> >> well wolf the problem with iraq we could put billions of dollars more into it and we could train the army but the problem is it's a country so divided that we don't have a political solution for it. we don't understand it well enough. even the iraqis don't. the sunnis keep telling me they're not coming back. they're not going to let it into an albar. they will fight alongside the islamic state. not that they like it but they simply don't trust the government in baghdad and they don't believe the true prime minister. they still see malaki behind every corner. pouring more money

thousands of families fleeing as isis closes in on a key iraqi city. desperate pleas for help to stop threatening offensive crushing that city. >> hi, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. >> new developments in shooting death of unarmed black man by reserve deputy. "tulsa world" newspaper now claims supervisors were advised to forge training records of robert bates. bates a 70-year-old reserve deputy who said he absolutely shot eric harrison when he mistook his gun for a taser. this new report is important and potentially devastating because officials have claimed that bates had all the training he was supposed to. >> the newspaper also obtained copies of bates training records but records may not provide a full picture of his qualifications obviously because authenticity of the records are not being questioned. ryan young has more details on this. he's joining us now. ryan, what more are you learning? >> reporter: kate and john, a lot of people talking about this, obviously questions about 73-year-old man part of this detail. you look at this video, you can ac

the iraqi army pleading for reinforcements leaving 150,000 iraqi citizens caught in the cross hairs. leaving their homes. desperately trying to flee. >>> good afternoon, everyone. i'm jake tapper. welcome to "the lead." we begin with breaking news in the national league charges just timed against the florida man who flew that small aircraft over what is supposed to be the most restricted no-fly zone. the national capitol. landed on the front lawn of congress. just released doug hughes from custody now on house arrest at his gnome tampa. he showed up to court today dressed in his mailman uniform complete with the postal service logo. the stunt exposing a serious national security vulnerability, posing major questions today of senate committee leading a loud national chorus demanding answers. how could so many law enforcement and safety personnel miss this flying contraption as it flew an estimated two hours into washington, d.c.? after 9/11 the people in charge of keeping us safe were blamed for a failure of the imagination for not anticipating terrorists turning planes into weapons,

iraqi officials say u.s. air strikes are helping to contain the rebels but reinforcements are needed. a massive evacuation of families has been called. 150,000 fled since wednesday. causing huge traffic jams on the roads. >> iraqi prime minister haider al-abadi wrapped up his first visit to washington in a meting with vice president biden, who reinforced america's commitment to help iraq reclaim territory from i.s.i.l. >> it's a strategic partnership that helps iraq provide for its people and reinforces sovereignty and independence. in other words, a partnership that will continue to grow long after d.a.e.s.h. has withered away and been defeated >>> jamie mcintyre joins us live from the pentagon. while i.s.i.l. has its sights set on ramadi the u.s. and allies focus on another factoring in iraq. >> that's right. it's not that joint chief chairman general martin defrl si said ramadi is not importance it's not as important important as the fight to the north with baiji and the oil refinery are under called. >> r

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when you think about there are concerns also about the iraqi government the iraqi military whether they'rele to keep isis out of tikrit. >> oh yeah no doubt. the iraqi military not showing that much aptitude for war fighting over the last several months. >>> 25 minutes after the hour. a police officer charged with murder caught on camera shooting an unarmed black man in the back. alarming video. you can see the victim running away. we have new developments in this next. >>> a police officer accused of murder, caught on camera shooting an unarmed black man in the back. as he tried to run away. this morning, how that officer is defending himself and what the victim's distraught family is now saying. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> good to see you today. i'm john berman. 29 minutes past the hour. we have new developments this morning in an alarming case in south carolina. a police officer is behind bars charged in the murder of an unarmed black man who was running away following a traffic stop. north charleston police officer michael slager was arrested after a disturb

what's important is what they are doing together with the iraqi military.t you're saying and i believe you are right, those air strikes have had a significant impact on what's going on on the ground. bobby, want to weigh in on that? >> yeah. it's understandble why the iranians are saying this. they need their messaging to their own people their view is iraq is now part of the iranian sphere of influence. iran you had iranian authorities senior officials saying in public that baghdad is now one of our cities. so it is important for them to project to their own people that they rather than the americans ors the rest of the world, are protecting iraq. it is their ground forces their commander who is the real savior of iraq. that is internal propaganda for political purposes that suit the current regime in iran and they will try and erase any other influence in iraq in that propaganda. >> on yemen right now, how worried should we be? i'm worried about a miscalculation a blunder or whatever nine u.s. warships off the coast of yemen right now led by the "uss tedd

but you have iraqi government officials there speaking to cnn by phone this morning saying that the iraqi government forces there are inadequate to try to protect the city center, that they're exhausted and desperately calling for reinforcements. even in this sunny arab city they are calling for shiite militias to please come in. which gives you a sense of the desperation there. the deputy head of council, city council in ramadi, telling us this morning that there were two groups of reinforcements that eye raved over the course of the past 24 hours. a convoy of at least 15 humvees. those american supplied military vehicles and then another convoy of 24 humvees and he was saying that simply not enough to help protect that city. he described the city as being effectively deserted. no citizens on the streets. and calling for more assistance saying that isis maintain their positions in control of eastern parts of the city and that iraqi government forces and tribesman are in the control of the center but nobody is giving ground at this time. then have you the beiji refinely to the north which

announcements made on iraqi state tv by iraqi militia commanders, by the governor of the province. what's really striking about this is the fact that -- al duri is succeeded in operating and surviving in iraq for, for some 12 years since the u.s. in vaegs of iraq. in 2003. despite a $10 million u.s. bounty on his head. despite the fact that he was one of the most wanted former figures of saddam hussein's regime during the u.s. military occupation of iraq he succeeded in surviving and evading capture, though there had been previous reports of his demise. he was allegedly the leader of a group that called itself an army and seemed to have some kind of alliance with isis. though there were also reports of tensions between the two suni militant groups. since isis managed to capture the northern city of mosul last summer. and has succeeded in, in holding territory against the combined forces of the iraqi kurds to the north and iraqi government off to the south. if he has in fact been killed. big question -- what kind of command and control did he in fact have over isis. it seemed that h

iraqi official says mr. abadi did ask for air strikes as well. >> he requested coordination withy forces. he is s to meet with congressional leaders in the coming hours. >> meantime, a paramilitary force in iraq says hundreds of reinforcements are heading to the country's largest oil re refinery. isis began attacking the refinery. they controlled several buildings by sunday. the government denied that. the militia says iraqi troops in the refinery are holding their ground. >> defense ministry says security forces won back a small town north of baghdad. in doing so they have cut off an isis apply line. >> the white house says it is willing to give congress a say on any potential nuclear deal with iran. a bill headed for congressional approval would give congress up to 52 days to review any deal. during that time, mr. obama would not be allowed to waive any congressional sanctions against iran. >> we hope congress will listen carefully. and ask the questions that it wants. but also give us the space and the ti

when you see the iraqi prime minister parading through the center of tikrit do you think iraqi forces can hold the city? >> i hope they can. this is good news in an otherwise bleak situation in iraq. we needed this. the prime minister needed this. it is a great achievement. he is right to celebrate. i think he should be possible to hold the city. laura: whose victory is this? a victory for iranians ground forces or u.s. airstrikes? >> for both. it is a victory for iraq, first and foremost. any defeat of isis is for iraq. they are mortal enemy of the country. they have brought death destruction, and violence, and must be defeated. a lot of critic has to go to trimester vitae. -- has to go to prime minister abadi. he managed to get all hands on deck without excluding anyone. host importantly, the iraqi armed forces did their job. laura: it was an uneasy alliance between the iranians and the americans. do you see that holding? >> the conductor of the orchestra is the prime minister. if he manages to get them all to do their role, and keep a central role for the iraqi security forces. ira