there's jeb hencerling, jim jordan. i voted for jim jordan a year and a half ago. we need someone who actually has a proven commitment to conservative principles that doesn't talk about it, and we look at the background of the three current leader, they come from blue states. they certainly don't push for the republican principal plgs that are in our platform. >> would you rule out kevin mccarthy and kathy rogers? >> you're breaking up on that question. i'm sorry? >> you would rule out kevin mccarthy that is right behind in the leadership right now behind cantor? >> again, i think the message should be understood as it's applying to the entire leadership team. at the end of the day, john boehner runs the leadership team, he runs the u.s. house. there's this frustration that they spend more time beating up on conservatives than they do on taking on the president in his radical agenda. here we have a humanitarian crisis precipitated by the president's policies on the southern border, and cantor pushing basically the same policy by giving amnesty to young folks. those

. >> that is why it is important to getting to jim jordan and the special prosecutor. if you are a man of integrity and you know you don't have evidence versus you know no crime committed you have to understand your agency is at risk. you possible have people at the irs who are committing crime. the only way to know that is calling the fbi and asking them to do an investigation on the disappearance of the e-mails. so my question is will you call the fbi and ask thel them to investigate the e-mails that their destruction could have been a crime? >> an inspector general, not controlled by us -- >> they are not a criminal investigation. >> they are capable of doing criminal and civil. they make recommendations. >> the integrity of your group is at stake. lois lerner evoked the fifth and that should be enough to say maybe crimes were committed with my agency and now the e-mails are missing maybe someone not of integrity committed a crime. you should call for the fbi and you should call for a special prosecutor. >> i cannot enter into lois lerner's mind. >> i asked you to p

and the people that were in attendance of note would be people like mitch mcconnell marco rubio jim jordan and cory gardner tom cotton all people that are running. potentially for president in the sixty's and why really quickly why should people care about the koch brothers or any of these guys gathering together. people should care because i mean this is a transparent and you have millions of dollars. funneled into our electoral system that you know we're not sure as to what their interests are at the end of the day this isn't transparent so when you have elected officials that are beholden to their corporate masters that should be very problematic to citizens at large and what's amazing is even though they don't allow cell phones in there and they're trying to be all over secretive you had a source on the inside you actually got a copy of this agenda let's talk about what it was so on the agenda. it comforts took place over two days and so in the agenda there's various strategy discussions featuring coke political operatives so one of the major ones was energy changing the narrative so p

operations guy john mark they said he's an ideological operations guy, not the right winger that jim jordannd some of the others in the conference are. to getguy who will want things done within limits and if boehner and mccarthy want to move, they will have to have steve with them. the problem is i can't quite see what they are going to move on. closed-door meeting with the republican from labrador this week and he told his fellow republicans and they supported kevin mccarthy for majority leader, they would be supporting the status quo and in his words, you will prove we are still not listening to the public. what type of change does the public want at this point in the republican ranks? republican ranks are interested in seeing a party that can govern effectively and move legislation. one of the important things to her member about kevin mccarthy as he was the man who recruited many of the people elected in 2010 that move the republicans into the majority. his ability to have close connections to the entire caucus cannot be underestimated. to arrive it easier at a consensus from the botto

then jeb hensarling and pete sessions chairman of the house rules committee and jim jordan from ohioing he will not jockey for the seat. it could lead to a domino effect. >> it is not just the majority leader it it bump down. pete sessions from texas is in the mix. it will be interesting to see how moderate republicans use their position in the caucus now. some are worried. >> chris mcdaniel both say this is a chance to change the stat cuss quo -- status quo in dv. >> people aren't happy with the same things in washington. they want republicans to be bold they want us to be for reducing taxes and against corporate warfare. they want us to be against raising the debt limit. they want us to stand firm on what we are supposedly for. i think the gentlemen who ran it was as much of an ascertainment he is somebody who will carry that forward. >> people of this countryfinall. they know washington, d.c. is broken. they know we are headed in the wrong direction. to fix that we can send new people to washington to represent us. he claims it was too risky to notify congress. >> he did say the a

there isn't going to be an attitude that will throw out the entire bunch and see an insurgent, jim jordan, of ohio, mulvaney, sort of bubble up from this faction within the house conference and say we need a true conservative now. which sort of makes me smile. eric cantor is a very conservative gift. i didn't think there was any room to his right. they apparently found some. >> you know him. served with him. don't think there is room to his right. 96% lifetime rating from the conservative union, pretty solid. jonathan, a night of politics. and fundamental change for the republican party. is it good, in your view for the electoral prospects of this party going into the mid terms to have this big fight now, nationally? i don't think it makes that much difference. this one particular district i do think the ongoing fight, tea party and establishment wings of the republican party is something that is difficult. makes it hard for them, for the republican party to have a clear agenda, offering the american public, particularly in presidential elections and statewide elections for the senate and

what about jim jordan of ohio, kathy mcmorris rogers, lynn jenkins of kansas -- names are flying all over the place. but these elections will happen at the end of july as well. what does it mean for the gop and coming together moving forward before the midterm? >> well, it means that these lawmakers are going to be looking closely at the issues they vote on. this had an amazing impact. we talked last night at length about how this likely wasn't solely about immigration because it was a big anti-establishment vote for dave brat. he did campaign against cantor on the issue of immigration. and with the breaking news out west about the children -- illegal immigrants being in arizona and texas, it seemed to compound that issue but i think you're going to see immigration reform move to the back burner again. i think the hopes of passing something comprehensive for supporters of that are going to fade. and i think lawmakers are really going to be looking hard at some of these issues that really fired up the base. >> it's interesting. steny hoyer said, the republican party is deeply divided

the only one i can think of is ryan who could beat the tea party leadership like hensarling and jim jordan and a whole bunch of others. i can think of a lot of tea party people who would like that leadership people, but not a whole lot of moderates. if tom cole ran, that might be a possibility. but now, you know, figuring out who is going to have john boehner's back, it's going to be very difficult to get somebody in there. so i'm not sure how much longer john is going to last. >> christina, ezra klein quipped that john boehner is having an emotionally complicated evening tonight, which i thought was pretty on the money. he had a very fraught relationship with cantor in lots of ways. >> yeah, he did. and in fact we had a role cal reporter waiting for him outside of his dinner at capitol hill a few minutes ago. he wouldn't comment about it. but you have to bet that a lot of these republican leaders, but also cantor's deputies, they've got to be on the phone right now. they've got to be trying to figure out a strategy because this race starts right now. and it has consequences for john boehn

the only one i can think of it is ryan, who can beat a tea party leadership like jim jordan and a whole bunch of others. i can think of a lot of tea party people who would like leadership positions but not a whole lot of moderates. >> christina. >> if tom colbrunn, that might be a possibility. figuring out who's going to have john tran-1's back, it will be very difficult to get somebody in there. i'm not sure how much water john is going to last. >> klein quipped about him having an emotional night. he had a very fraught relationship. >> we had a roll call reporter waiting for him outside of his dinner at capitol hill a few minutes ago. he wouldn't comment about it, but you have to bet that a lot of these republican leaders, cantor's deputies, they have to be on the phone right now trying to figure out a strategy. this race starts right now and has consequences for john boehner and everyone. the question i was going to ask the congressman is if he thinks cantor sticks around, or do you step aside and say i'm going to resign because you can't be effective in the last five months of a lam

we're also hearing about jim jordan, and also two texan in this race. they want to give some time to have cantor, you know, sort of manage the house the next six or seven weeks, pack things up and have a regular transition, as one senior leadership aide told me, this cannot be, quote, lord of the flies. if they don't do something to shore up who is in charge the next few weeks, it will be chaos. they can't focus on anything at all. if there's an election for kevin mccarthy, then there would be an election for whip, because mccarthy would matriculate up the system, and steve scalise, the repair of the republican study committee, the bloc of the most conservative members of the house of representatives. he would be running potential against pete roscum. he's something -- i'm told john boehner will come right down the steps in just a minute. here comes the speaker of the house. mr. speaker? i asked earlier a senior house leadership aide if john boehner would go anywhere. there are some people in the republican hierarchy who would like to, you know, have a

take a listen to jim jordan a republican from ohio said to her this morning. >> we asked you to come to the hearing a week ago. in the week you didn't ask like, what happened here? we learned in april the congress didn't learn until june. >> the letter i received from chairman issa said the reason you wanted to talk to me was to understand what i learned at my time at the irs. i didn't not have much time to prepare. i prepared to tell you. >> you didn't think to ask about the fact that the white house new in april and the house doesn't know until june? >> now, oh connor's point is the white house knew about the lost learner e-mails in april the irs was aware. there are discussions about whether or not how much the white house was aware. because she worked last year before the lost e-mails were even heard about she had nothing to do with this. the other point you saw from the irs commissioner what's night that o'connor has been making and other folks have been making there are 24,000 lost e-mails from found people lois learner was e-mails. it's whether or not the groups were political

there isn't going to be an attitude that will throw out the entire bunch and see an insurgent, jim jordano, mulvaney, sort of bubble up from this faction within the house conference and say we need a true conservative now. which sort of makes me smile. eric cantor is a very conservative gift. i didn't think there was any room to his right. they apparently found some. >> you know him. served with him. don't think there is room to his right. 96% lifetime rating from the conservative union, pretty solid. jonathan, a night of politics. and fundamental change for the republican party. is it good, in your view for the electoral prospects of this party going into the mid terms to have this big fight now, nationally? i don't think it makes that much difference. this one particular district i do think the ongoing fight, tea party and establishment wings of the republican party is something that is difficult. makes it hard for them, for the republican party to have a clear agenda, offering the american public, particularly in presidential elections and statewide elections for the senate and other r

congressman tom cotton cory gardner jim jordan and then you had senators marco rubio and mitch mcconnell. but some some major power brokers in the republican party and where there are other billionaires in addition of the koch brothers. i don't know about specific billionaires so much as they do about the particular lawmakers and i think the long and it's in it and i understand that they're you know the they were talking about we want to free america but they wouldn't allow anybody to even bring a cell phone into the thing for fear that what they're saying might leak out there's a. distance there yeah. it's kind of striking it's actually given some of the sessions were titled free speech. and free speech but they want to guard it really well until you know they've had their maximum impact on our election. so. so what do we know about what happened. well we know that these lawmakers were in attendance we know that mitch mcconnell in particular met with a smaller group of like top donors to talk about free speech. defending the first amendment he gave a talk to the general session later th

jim jordan got a big response from his speech. he was one of the 12 nominated -- who nominated raul labrador. those votes will be tallied in the next half-hour or so. we will show you the comments of john boehner this morning who spoke before the house came in at 11:30. he talked little about the leadership elections. he talked about direct. we will take you back live to capitol hill if anything breaks. >> good morning, everyone. happy election day. every day in the house we are focused on the people's priorities, jobs, and accountability. but can we say the same thing for the white house? american people still as the question, where are the jobs, while the administration is working on their next week the house will focus on solutions that will deliver a real all of the above interview strategy to lower cost and to grow our economy. and there is the irs, which, after illegally targeting americans for their political beliefs, dilating their first amendment rights, is apparently of e-mails. years the white house promised to cooperat

why didn't one of the more senior right wingers, like someone like jeb hencsar long o jim jordan. --ere's no good way to be a tea party majority leader. tea party politicians have promised tea party voters something they can't deliver that by simply standing their ground and refusing to compromise they can force any policy agenda they want on a democratic president and a democratic senate. basically, if you become majority leader you will end up doing the sorts of things eric cantor did that made the conservative base hate him and therefore you risk meeting the same fate that he met. that's why hard right heavy weights stayed out and most voted for mccarthy, even those who scored high would never raise the debt limit. they want a majority leader that would vote for its political instincts and they want a majority leader that will sell out for them so they won't have to sell out themselves. hard right conservatives can defeat eric cantor, so all they've gotten themselves is a new guy to be angry at. that does it for "the cycle." now alex cagger in starts right n now. . >>> we ought to

and joining us representative jim jordan who we just saw on some of that tape.ood evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. >> did we learn anything new tonight. >> we learned that john koskinen when he did find out that lois lerner's emails were lost, he didn't tell anybody except the white house. he didn't tell the congress. more importantly he didn't tell the justice department. think about if you are an average -- greta your prosecution background. you got an average citizen out there who is under investigation by the fbi. they lose documents in a critical time period critical to the investigation. critical to the case. and they don't tell them? they just hold that information which is what mr. koskinen did for a couple months? that starts to approach obstruction. >> why do you think did he that? >> i think he did that because he wanted to give the white house a heads up. wanted to make sure they got their stories straight. that's why 700% 'of the american paye people say we don't trust this guy. they don't trust the agency. frankly they don't trust the white ho

it has nothing to do with representative jim jordan's district. to their credit this bill has not moved. t hasn't moved in committee. and it certainly hasn't moved to the floor. but we resent it was filed at all. because it didn't have to do with anybody's district except the district of columbia. the member who was just on the floor has introduced an interesting amendment. representative phil gingrey of georgia, expressing of sense of the congress -- understand a sense of the congress measure has no legal effect. and he has, when questioned by the court, indicated that this was a, quote, message bill. using his saging not own constituents but using mine. so this messaging bill said that active duty military personnel in their private capacity should be exempt from the gun safety laws of the district of columbia. but not anybody else's district. now, for the third year in a row i'm going to get this one taken care of. twice he introduced it as a part of the defense authorization bill and twice i have been able to have it taken off. it got passed a

. >> when this investigation started jim jordan was great being aggressive and revealed the person atdepartment of justice they put in charge of this was a maxed out donor to the obama administration. you look at this every step of the way it's infuriating how bold they are say nothing we are not going to do what you asked us to do. martha: the president said he knew there was not a smidgen of corruption in this case. it goes back to how he knew that when you can't seem to get the information that would help you ascertain whether that was the case. >> somehow the president went to this outrageous and we'll get to the bottom of this to there is not at smidgen of corruption. did they look at the emails? if they didn't look at the emails how did he come to that conclusion? somebody was definitely looking at that stuff at some point for them to go more than a year. martha: they said sit would cost $10 million to have the software to that would allow them to keep these emails:'. they say they don't have the money to keep those fancy emails. >> they were using microsoft outlook. get the gee

i like jim jordan. i think he would make a great leader. he has done a great job of building coalitions. a lot of the conservative leadership trust him because he has been consistent. he has been a reagan republican. that is what people are looking like. someone like dave brat who understands the winning coalition for republicans is that. it is a coalition of all of them -- all of those in the conservative movement. caller: i am calling because i am watching and have been watching for some time, since i retired. have been parte of our country and community in tune with the fact that we are spending way more money than we should peak -- then we should be. where the tea is party came from. our democrat party decided to go on a spending spree. becauset is insulting this country has spent so much money that we are in oblivion. it is not going to be one party that goes down. people who do not pay attention to follow the pundits who say things that sound good and the people who -- versus the people who are a little smarter for whatever reason or

i want to talk to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto in jordan. a man who commanded the marine division during the iraq war, james williams. general williams, you're a straight talking man. what is the first element of american advisers? what are they going into? they've got to assess the situation but now you have shias who are marching in baghdad and they're ready to confront isis, the sunnis. >> well, you know, first of all, they're going to have to make contact with the military government in terms of working with the ministry of defense. they'll have to be assigned to various units of the iraqi army and make an assessment of the situation. remember, they're in an advisement role. in this advisement role, they're not going to be in direct combat but they're going to direct the individual iraqi army elements on how to resolve their issues from a military perspective. >> you know, general, you talk about the iraqi army. but now you've got the shiite forces and also sunni of isis, iraq, various tribes that are now following this. how is the iraqi

it was sponsored by congressman jim jordan of ohio on may 7, 2014 and i will note in the house the resolution passed 250- 168, 26 democrats voted in favor. madam president, why is it in the house of representatives there are democrats who can muster up the courage to stand up to the partisan pressure from the white house, but yet in the united states senate we hear crickets chirping. this used to be the body praised for its independence, praised for its ability to stand up to abuse of power. just today the u.s. supreme court unanimously reversed the obama administration for the 12th time in the last two years in its assertion of overbroad executive authority. this time when the president unconstitutionally attempted to circumvent the checks and balances of the constitution by unilaterally appointing recess appointments while the senate was not in recess. madam president, the united states supreme court unanimously by a vote of 9-0 said that the president's actions were unconstitutional in that case and once again, as with the i.r.s., my friends on the democratic side of the aisle were silent.

. >> right that's why it's so important getting to what jim jordan said about a special prosecutor. if you are truly a man of integrity and you know the difference between you don't have any evidence versus you know no crime has been committed. you have to understand that the whole integrity of your agency is at risk. you possibly have pex at the irs who were committing crimes and not being held accountable of the the only way you can know that is by picking up the phone, call the fbi and ask them to come in and do an investigation on the disappearance of these e-mails. my question is will you call in the fbi to ask them about the disappearance of these e-mails possibly being a crime. they are not a criminal investigating agency. >> they are actually capable of doing criminal investigations as well as civil. >> will you call the nfbi becaue the integrity of your agency is absolutely at state. we have lois lerner invoeking te fifth in front of the committee indicating she's fearful of criminal prosecution. now that these e-mails are missing maybe someone not of integrity committed a

with me now is jim willie, jordan corporation's ceo. great to have you here. >> great to be here.aying maybe all anybody needs is a couple of shares of stock because you're up over 115% in the past two years. what is driving that performance besided just the general market? >> look, i think it's about great products, great people, innovation, focusing on what the consumer needs, what the consumer wants and bringing value to the consumer in everyday life whether it be in the united states, europe or asia. liz: you have got more than a hundred active brands. >> that's right. liz: this is the perfect time for you, you want some of those dollars. talk to people who are watching and tell them the brands you think are most appropriate. >> look, i think whether your dad's a fisherman, a camper, he plays baseball be, is an outdoors person be, is a foodie, wants to cook, we've got products for that person whether it's a baseball bat, fishing poles, if you're into home canning. liz: given enough time, you can customize balls, right? >> absolutely. you can customize a bad -- bat for your dad

sitting here and i asked you would there be any democrats that stood up and matched the outrage of jim jordan and jason chaffitz and darrell issa because the i.r.s. is a nonpartisan organization that could be targeting the other party the next time. you guys were kind of down on that prospect. >> which democrat stood up and said mr. koskinen, you are wrong? none. >> none. >> you have the evidence that there is no e-mails from the white house. you have all the treasury e-mails. the basic premise that this was an argument and a conspiracy driven by the white house -- >> no, sir, you're wrong about that. you're repeating a talking point from our colleagues on the other side that we're obsessed with the white house. it was jay carney who perpetuated the myth that it was two rogue agents in ohio. it wasn't any of us. was that accurate? was that first initial line of defense that this is two rogue agents in ohio? was that accurate, commissioner? >> not that i know of. >> that wasn't accurate and that came from the white house. who said there is not a smidgeoon of corruption. who said that? >> my un

i like jim jordan. i think he would make a great leader.done a great job of building coalitions. a lot of the conservative leadership trust him because he has been consistent. he has been a reagan republican. that is what people are looking like. someone like dave brat who understands the winning coalition for republicans is that. it is a coalition of all of them -- all of those in the conservative movement. caller: i am calling because i am watching and have been watching for some time, since i retired. have been parte of our country and community in tune with the fact that we are spending way more money than we should peak -- then we should be. where the tea is party came from. our democrat party decided to go on a spending spree. becauset is insulting this country has spent so much money that we are in oblivion. it is not going to be one party that goes down. people who do not pay attention to follow the pundits who say things that sound good and the people who -- versus the people who are a little smarter for whatever reason or pay atte

i tried for three days to get jeb hensarling and jim jordan to run for this position.or just a member of leadership to just ascend to the throne. that's not what this should be about. it should be about representing the values of the conference and making sure that the conference can decide for itself which direction it wants to go. >> win or lose, you clearly have an important vote for the party and the country. thanks so much and best of luck on thursday. >> thank you. it's great to be on your show. >> the same here. >>> 12 minutes before we're done. illegal immigrant children coming across our borders in droves and some people say, just put them in foster care. our next guest says big mistake. first let's check in with bill hemmer for what's coming up on the top of the hour. have you decided what's going to be on your show? >> we're working on it. got about 12 minutes. >> take your time. >> good morning to you. breaking news out of iraq. what we are planning to do about a terrific line - up on that. mike mccall, john bolton. terrible storms last night here at home.

he discussed the crisis today with leaders of egypt and jordan. jimthe secretary. what is kerry saying about the severity of the threat? >> reporter: well, a great deal. he's very concerned and the point he keeps hammering home, as he jumps around the region, first to egypt, now here in jordan, is that this is jot just iraq's problem, syria's problem, but the region's problem and it is, frankly a european and american problem as well because it's the judgment of the u.s. administration that foreign fighters emanating from syria and iraq threaten the u.s. and threaten the american homeland and europe as well. we are all in this together, as effect part of his message to the response has to be a regional one and international one. and a big focus of this administration is not just the 300 military advisers they're sending in, consideration of air strikes but reaching a political settlement quickly so it gets all of the sides, kurds, shias, sunnis together fighting isis as one and developing a government that represents all of those groups equally, and i

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jim acosta is at the white house and our senior international correspondent nic robertson is in amman, jordanhouse has had a rocky relationship with prime minister maliki and now he's being asked to come to the rescue. how is that being handled behind closed doors. >> you can lay irony on top of irony here. this is a president who xwaned on a promise of ending the iraq war. he did that nearly three years ago. now he is on the precipice of making a critical decision as to whether or not to reengage the united states militarily in that country. it's a big critical moment for this president. there's no other way to put it. keep in mind, carol, i've talked to senior administration officials all morning. they say the president has not made a decision yet on whether to proceed with some sort of air strikes over iraq, targeting isis militants. i have been told that the president may decide on a route to proceed this weekend and that route may include air strikes. so we're just going to have to wait and see how they proceed on this. another senior administration official says the white house is worki

secretary of state john kerry is in the neighboring country of jordan to discuss the threat and explore ways to contain it all. our jim sciutto is traveling with the secretary. what is kerry saying about the severity of this crisis right now? >> reporter: well, he's extremely concerned. we just learned tonight that as we arrive in jordan, those isis militants are just 70 miles now from the jordanian border as they expand the land that they control inside iraq. now as we met with secretary kerry a number of times on this trip, he's been repeating two goals of his diplomacy in the middle east now. one is to get the message across not just to the iraqis but to iraq's neighbors that this is a regional problem. it's not just an iraqi or syrian problem. the other one is that their focus is on a political solution to this. that to make this problem go away, really it's not just military action by the u.s. and others, it's about getting a unified iraqi government that represents all of the sects inside iraq, sunni, she aand kurd. and with great urgency. here's what secretary kerry had to say in cairo as he spoke alongside the

. >> our jim sciutto is traveling with secretary kerry and joins us live from jordan. >>> pope francisthe mafia right in the hometown of a notorious crime syndicate. hear what the pope told more membersters that mobsters. >>> team usa takes on portugal in four hours from now. we'll put you all in the middle of it coming up. >>> first up, islamic militants in iraq known as isis are making significant gains in their efforts to take down iraqi troops and take over strategic towns. two iraqi security officials say isis now controls 70% of the western province of anbar. and that includes a strategically key town that includes a border crossing interest syria which is an -- into syria which is a stronghold, and militants control a town that is about 60 miles outside the capital of baghdad. togeer

of critical iraqi border crossings with syria there and neighboring jordan and have a direct line to the western outskirts of bagdad. jim sciutto, our chief national security correspondent is in bagdad traveling with secretary kerry. jim, to you. >> reporter: john kerry came here at a time, say u.s. officials of extreme anxiety among iraqi leaders, fearful for the sur vivival of their countr and for their own lives. i can tell you in coming here over ten years, this is the worst i've ever seen. iraq needs to get its political house in order first to solve this problem. before leaving, he spoke to reporters. here is what he had to say. >> iraq is a strategic partner of the united states with shared interests encountering the scurge of terrorism, maintaining stability of the global energy markets and easing the sectarian polarization that plagues this region. that's how we have to understand this, the serious threat that isil poses, to iraq and the urgent need for the security forces to be well supplied, well equipped and well trained. that is why president obama has prepared a range of options for iraq including enhanced

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jim sciutto has been traveling with the secretary of state and joins us from iman, jordan. what can you tell us about this trip today? >> i've been coming to iraq for a long time since the invasion, like you. i've never seen it more precarious. an american diplomat said to me today having isis within 40 miles of the capital is the new normal. just an alarming prospect. it's into that caud dron that secretary kerry landed in iraq today. >> with alarming momentum today, isis militants captured two more crucial towns on iraq's syrian and jordanian borders. fast becoming the regional threat secretary kerry has been warning of throughout his mideast trip. as kerry landed in iraq to meet with its embattled prime minister nuri al maliki and other leaders he pledged u.s. diplomatic and military help that would be robust. >> the support will be intense, sustained. >> reporter: and if necessary, imminent. >> the president has moved the assets into place and has been gaining each day the assurances he needs with respect to potential targeting and he has reserved the right to himself a

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jim walsh, thank you. >> coming up, a report from the jordan border where many refugees are going to escape the rye lenviolence. >> our colleagues jailed in egypt, diplomats and members from the news media from 17 countries gathering from the united nations, expressing support for them. they were sentenced by an egyptian court to seven to 10 years in prison for reportedly supporting the ousted muslim brotherhood. we continue to deny all of these charges. >> in a letter that was posted on facebook, peter greste saying i am devastated and outraged by tuesday's verdict. throughout this trial, the prosecutor has consistently failed to present a single piece of concrete evidence to support the outrageous allegations against us. at the same time, our lawyers have highlighted countless procedural errors, irregularities and abuses of due process that should have had the entire case thrown out many times over. >> now to an historic decision that could lead to the legalization of gay marriage nationwide. a federal appeals court ruled wednesday that same sex couples in utah have a constitutional right to marry. the crux

jim acosta live from washington. nic robertson in amman, jordan, tell us when's happening on the ground. >> reporter: we know that the iraqi government supposed to meet today to declare a state of emergency. guess what. they couldn't get enough mps to show up to make the vote happen and that's an indication of how divided the country is, underpins the rapid advance through the country. the prime minister clearly not in control. not able to bring about enough influence to make political compromises, to even get a state of emergency declared. despite that, we have heard from the state television saying that the government troops have taken control of tikrit. that city about 100 miles north of baghdad. they say they've taken control of it from isis but they haven't offered any evidence of taking control of it yet. even if they did, it is a long way from mosul. there are other controls isis controls between baghdad and mosul for the government to be able to reinforce the forces there and also heard now that the kurdish forces in iraq have taken contro

if you do not love para trooper jim martin for this interview, go to the cardiologist and get your heart checked because it's not working. consider bernard jordan, a former city counselor and the former city of whhome homs in southern england. he reportedly tried from the nursing home to sign up for a bus trip for d-day veterans to go to normandy for the 70th anniversary. for whatever reason, he was told they did not have space and he was not able to go. yesterday at 10:30 in the morning mr. jordan left the nursing home for his usual trip into town. he is able to be up and around on his own. the trouble is, by 7:15 p.m. yesterday he had not come back from his trip to town. the nursing home looked for him and then called the police. the police searched the area. they contacted nearby hospitals, bus companies, taxi companies. nobody had seen bernard johnson. everybody is very worried. turns out he went to france. he went to normandy. after police put on an assist that they were looking for him. another d-day veteran who is just slightly younger than jordan called the police and said don't worry about bernard jordan, i've got him, we're together a

go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who's been traveling with the secretary in baghdad. he's now joining us from neighboring jordanst. >> reporter: today secretary kerry said the threat from isis is so great it could accelerate military action before the crucial step of political accommodation by the iraqi government. i've been coming to iraq for 11 years. i've never seen it so precarious. secretary kerry calling isis today an existential threat to iraq's future. with alarming momentum, isis militants captured two more towns on iraq's syrian and jordanian borders. fast becoming the regional threat secretary kerry has been warning of throughout his mideast trip. as kerry landed in iraq to meet with its embattled prime minister nouri al maliki and other leaders, he pledged u.s. diplomatic and military help that would be robust. >> the support will be intense, sustained. >> reporter: and if necessary, imminent. >> the president has moved the assets into place and has been gaining each day the assurances he needs with respect to potential targeting, and he has reserved the right to himself as he should to make a decis

jordan and threats to elsewhere which means it could be that u.s. airstrikes are trying to contain things in iraq rather than actually creating a new situation on the ground. >> jim phillips, do you estimate there will be any expansion of u.s. plans to share intelligence data with the iraqi forces? >> i would anticipate there would be not only a greater flow of intelligence from the advisors on the ground, but stepped-up drone and satellite to air reconnaissance discern exactly where isis is located, what its possible we weekmay be -- possible points may be. >> is her a chance any of our allies might be involved in this? >> right now i'm a it is pretty much a one-man show, that man being barack obama. beorrow, kerry is going to in the kurdish area of iraq. the kurds are actually a pretty good ally of the three groups in iraq. i am sure he will be looking for some help from that and. >> also, what implications are therefore jordan as well as for neighboring syria and iran? well, this is a very competent at situation. jordan is in a tough spot. not only do now have the jihadist's threatening their border, but jordan has absorbed a lot of the refugees from syria fro