james jeffrey, you heard jamie mcintyre describing back and forth tempo of the battle.it too soon to conclude something is working or not in this part of the world. >> first of all, it tracks with everything i heard. this is fundamentally different with mosul, where troops refuse to fight. the security forces have been fighting off the attacks for a year and a half. they weren't inexperienced. it was typical military problems that i knew in the army, a lack of unity of command. logistical problems. one unit pulls out. it's like a couple of players go up the field, and the rest of the players think he lost a couple of guys. they have a tendency to go off the field. this can be remedied and recognised as something serious. setback. i think it's more that that. some of the things we do out there, we have to see if we can do it better. >> troops that abandoned ramadi are an important place. these are some of the best troops, the golden division, in the iraqi army. >> there's a failure at the regional level to support in other ways and compliment the u.s. activities, you men

katty: for more on a very volatile situation, i up with the armor american ambassador james jeffrey. he's now at the washington institute for near east policy. some debate between washington, the iraqi government and analyst over how serious a setback this is, the taking of her mighty writ what is your take >> it's what the people in iraq think about it and what the potential volunteers for isis throughout the middle east inc. about it. i believe the answer is this looks like a big isis victory for the people in the region and this is trouble right now. katty: that was the former american ambassador to iraq. now i'm joined by samir who is now at the wilson center. ambassador, do you agree with james jeffrey there that this is a serious setback for the iraqi government? >> trying to play this down is wrong. of course it's politically embarrassing for some people what has happened. but this is very significant. a lot of people will have lost their lives and will lose their lives before this is finished. katty: so how do you account for the anti-gun spokesman here in washington saying t

james: lingerie is the thing you're into. jeffrey: how is that weird? james: lingerie. that come about? do you remember the first lingerie that you bought? halle: i do. i was about 16. james: we have a photo here. [laughter] halle: oh, god. jeffrey: everybody's head snapped. james: you were 16. halle: i was 16 and i needed a bra. i went and got one. not a training bra like most girls get. i got this beautiful lacy bra. so yeah. so. james: that's really cool. halle: what about you? james: when did i buy my first bra? it was underwired. halle: no, your first bra for a woman. james: i did buy my wife some slutty underwear once. let's just say she can't wear it anymore. it is not in a good state. [laughter] [applause] james: for the first time in my life, i'm so glad that letterman overran. if we watch this on d.v.r. now let's talk about yours. you and paul rudd bought a candy store. jeffrey: yeah. yeah. james: tell us about it. jeffrey: we live in upstate new york. paul's family and my family and my friend andy and his family. a buddy of ours had this candy store called sa

ambassador to iraq, james jeffrey. ambassador, thank you for being with us. you heard governor pataki. robert gates, the former secretary of defense, says the united states needs to change the rules of engagement. michael hayden says 5,000 to 10,000 troops needed on the ground. lindsey graham has been saying that for years. would you support a greater u.s. involvement, more u.s. troops, there are 3,000 there now. would you like to see 10,000 troops perhaps with the right to actually fight? >> i would like to see whatever the u.s. military commander for that region needs to do the job be given to him. in this case general austin. president obama said the mission is to destroy isis. we're clearly not moving very fast to destroy isis. what would it take? the administration doesn't want to put more troops on the ground. we have today with no problem from the american people, 10,000 troops on the ground in afghanistan. many of them with frontline afghani soldiers fighting the taliban and more liberal rules of engagement. the administration should explain why it ca

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i interviewed james jeffrey, the only current part-time butler who i did get to interview. you might see him there right now. worth every we get the white house. nine members of the family work there. his uncle john and charles or rate of these, the head butler. he told me my uncle ran the white house. they brought him and when he was 17 years old in 1959 during the eisenhower administration and he is still working there. he described how he used to work in the kitchen and he was a skinny guy. they kept giving him ice cream to eat. it was incredible he remembers what the eisenhower's were like. a dying breed of person who remembers that and that is what i wanted is to get chevy it to these people. -- two contribute to these people. >> next, on american history tv national park historian ranger eric martin discusses the history of ford's theatre where john wilkes booth shot president lincoln 150 years ago. he examines the timeline. from lincoln's's assassination up until the death of booth and his co-conspirators. this program is a little under one hour. [applause]

they are an incredible family, nine members of the family the white house command interviewed james jeffrey who is the only current part-time butler who addicted to interview. -- i got to interview. nine members of this family worked there, his uncles john and charles were the head butlers, and he told me they ran the white house. they brought him him when he was 17 years old during the eisenhower administration. he is still working there, 80 this cartel used to work in the kitchen and he was a skinny little guy. they gave him ice cream to each great. it gives a 19 with the eisenhower's were like. i want to pay tribute to these people. >> sunday night on q&a. >> attorney general loretta lynch has announced her department will conduct a new federal investigation into the baltimore police department. this follows the death of freddie gray while in police custody. his death sparked protests and riots. this is just over 20 minutes. loretta lynch: good morning everyone. thank you all for being here. i'm joined by the head of the department's civil rights division and ron davis of the community o

>> nine members of the family worked at the white house and i interviewed james jeffreys who is the only current part time butler i got to interview. he's still there. he might be there right now. he works every week at the white house and nine members of his family worked there. his uncles were the headbutt butler, he said my uncles ran the white house and they brought him in when he was 17 years old during 1959 and he's still working there and he decemberscribes how he worked in the kitchen and he was skinny and they kept giving him ice cream. it's incredible he remembers what the eisenhowers were like. people that is a dying breed of person who he remembers that and that's what i wanted to do was pay tribute to these people. >> sunday night at 8:00 on cspna prksp cspan's q and a. >> this mother's day cspn prkscspan remembers life in the white house. we hear from margaret hoover who reveals her grand grandmother lou hoover was the first first lady to invite an african american woman to tea at the white house. here is a look. >> unless you study lou henry hoover you don't know she was t

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former cia officer jeffrey sterling has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for leaking classified information to "new york times" reporter james risen about a failed u.s. effort to undermine iran's nuclear weapons program. risen later exposed how the risky operation could have inadvertently aided the iranian nuclear program. in january, sterling was convicted of nine felony counts, including espionage, becoming the latest former government employee jailed by the obama administration for leaking information. we'll have more on sterling later in the broadcast. we will hear an exclusive interview with him before he heads to jail. freed al jazeera journalist mohamed fahmy is suing the television network al jazeera for $100 million over its handling of his imprisonment in egypt. fahmy, who is egyptian-canadian, spent more than a year in prison along with two other al jazeera journalists. in a lawsuit filed in canadian court, he accused al jazeera of giving him misinformation about his legal status in egypt, and airing his reports on its egyptian channel after it was banned by an egyptian court. >> [indiscernible] instead of punishi

jeffrey stirling was sentenced after being found guilty of violating the espionage acts after allegedly leaking details of a programme to reporter james who wrote about it in his book, and was pressured by the justice department to confirm that stirling was his source. he refused. prosecutors wanted is longer sentence. stirling's lawyers cited the case of david petraeus as a legal precedent. he was spared gaol time after sharing informs with his biographer and one-time lover. mohamed fadel fahmy, one of three journalist in prison is suing his employer. lawyers filed a lawsuit in vancouver on may 5th, and is seeking $100 million. he said the network: he was the cairo's she have along with peter greste and mohammed badr. they were convicted of spreading false news. peter greste has been deported. mohamed fadel fahmy and mohammed badr are awaiting retrial. the network said: >>> in bangladesh another blogger has been murdered, the third killing in three months. on may 11th he was hacked to death by a gang in the east. authorities are yet to confirm the motive. but the 33-year-old was threatened over a pro-secular blog post. religious grou

jeffrey saud is the chief investment strategist at raymond james, he's live for us in florida, jeff,come back. >> thank you. >> you talk about a transport trauma. impacting the market. i mean we've repeatedly said that as the market has either hit or confirmed these highs, the transports haven't delivered. and is it now the time to start to get worried about that? well i'm hopeful that just like you had an upside nonconfirmation a few months ago with the dow industrials making new ehighs, unconfirmed by new highs in the transportation average, the same thing will happen here. you've got a down side none confirmation with the transportation average breaking below a previous support area. but the industrials aren't caving in. i think the surprise here would have the industrials and the s&p rally, while everybody is sitting around trying to figure out what's going on. >> jeff, are you concerned about what we heard about yesterday, about the potential of capacity and how aggressive the airlines might be with that? the huge selloff yesterday of very small rally off of those lows today? do

officer jeffrey sterling was sentenced today to three and a half years in federal prison in a high- profile leak case. he'd been convicted of telling "new york times" journalist james about a plan to disrupt iran's nuclear program. >> woodruff: new york governor andrew cuomo called today for a task force to investigate nail salons, and for health regulations to safeguard workers. a "new york times" series last week found many manicurists are being forced to work long hours, amid toxic chemicals for little pay. >> ifill: general motors now confirms least 100 people have died in crashes caused by faulty ignition switches in its vehicles. the announcement today said their families will be offered at least at $1 million each in compensation. another 184 people who were injured in crashes are also eligible for payments. >> woodruff: and on wall street, stocks could not maintain friday's rally. the dow jones industrial average lost 86 points to close near 18,100. the nasdaq fell 10 points, and the s&p 500 dropped nearly 11. >> ifill: still to come on the newshour: opening up the arctic to offshore oil and gas drilling. fighting intensifies in yemen as some, but not all,

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