john dickerson, nancy cordes, and bob schieffer thanks very much. in another major story unfolding tonight, more than 4,000 americans died fighting in iraq and what they won is being lost now with remarkable speed. more towns fell today to islamic extremists who launched a massive surprise attack this week. this is, in large part, a battle between the two main branches of islam. an extremist group that wants to impose a strict islamic state has taken territory now, highlighted here in orange, spanning from syria all the way through iraq. iraq's second largest city, mosul, fell yesterday. and here's elizabeth palmer. ( gunshots ) >> reporter: this evening iraqi forces were digging in to battle islamic militants on the outskirts of the oil city of kirkuk. ( gunshots ) but just 90 miles away, mosul had already fallen into militant hands with barely a fight. youtube video shot yesterday shows one of their convoys rolling into the city past burning police and army vehicles. the only sign of the security forces-- the uniforms they abandoned before they de

nancy cordes, bob schieffer and john dickerson on why eric cantor lost and what it means. >> elizabeth palmer reports militants in iraq are seizing more and more territory that had been won with the blood of u.s. forces. they're moving ever closer to baghdad. ben tracy on the group that successfully fought teacher unions in california. now taking the battle to a dozen more states. and don't believe your eyes, anna werner on counterfeit trucks carrying real illegal drugs. >> if you can think of it, and name it, we have stopped it captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. a few hours ago eric cantor was one of the most powerful men in washington am but late today he announced he is stepping down as house majority leader after a stunning defeat in a republican primary in virginia last night. he was up set by a candidate backed by the tea party, david brat. and it wasn't even close. cantor, elected to the house in 2000 and majority leader since 2011 appeared to be on track to become speaker of the house. his defeat was the first

book is called hard choices, and we talk about it this evening with joe klein, maggie haberman, john dickersonry clinton in this book as you read it, i think from the lay reader will look at this and think boy she did a lot. she was on the plane for 87 days i think it was. and she was kind of always plugging away. and if she's running for president and people are thinking about who can we put a complicated world, in whose camp can we put that. a person who recognizes all the complexity, you get that from this book and nothing more. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a talented young woman named sarah louise who wrote a book called the rise creativity the gift of failure and the search for mastery. >> it's how incredible iconic work happen, right. and i started to notice when i was curating at moma or artist studios there would be these back turn paintings that artists didn't want to show me.

john dickerson said the midterm strategies are struggling for the future. >> with the party divide, the question is whether it's debilitating when these primary fights leave a broken party or broken candidates in the end or whether they're hard fought and get the support of everyone. >> reporter: mcdaniel a state senator nearly beat cochran at the beginning of this month. >> they wasn't fighter. they want somebody strong and brave and courageous. we're going to fight. >> reporter: the 76-year-old cochran is reminding voters of what he's delivered in 3 1/2 years in the senate. billions of dollars in projects. >> we think we have big ground to claim opportunity to serve again for the united states senate for a six-year term. >> reporter: but tea partier ross aldridge said that's why he's voting for mcdaniel. >> washington is not our nanny and should is not be our nanny. we need to be a lot more self-reliant. >> reporter: he's supporting the incumbent who said -- >> we're seeing ads and everything. there's a lot of things being thrown around. really, honestly, i think everyone should split

book is called hard choices, and we talk about it this evening with joe klein, maggie haberman, john dickerson. >> hillary clinton in this book as you read it, i think from the lay reader will look at this and think boy she did a lot. she was on the plane for 87 days i think it was. and she was kind of always plugging away. and if she's running for president and people are thinking about who can we put a complicated world, in whose camp can we put that. a person who recognizes all the complexity, you get that from this book and nothing more. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a talented young woman named sarah louise who wrote a book called the rise creativity the gift of failure and the search for mastery. >> it's how incredible iconic work happen, right. and i started to notice when i was curating at moma or artist studios there would be these back turn paintings that artists didn't want to show me. but they weren't going to burn those paintings either, right. they were critical for the works and would go on to their acclaim and i started to wonder about whether these paintings, these po

cbs news political director john dickerson says the midterm primaries are straddling to gop's future.> the republican's party has a divide. the question is whether it's debilitating, whether these primary fights leave a broken party and broken candidates in the end or whether they're hard fought and whoever wins then suddenly gets the support of everyone. >> reporter: mcdaniel, a state senator, narrowly beat cochran in the primary earlier this month but failed to get over 50%, forcing tuesday's runoff. >> they want a fighter. they want somebody strong and brave and courageous. and that's what we're going to send up there. >> reporter: the 76-year-old cochran is reminding voters of what he has delivered in 3 1/2 decades in the senate, billions of dollars in projects. >> we think that we have good grounds to serve again for another six-year term. and we run on a record of service. >> reporter: but tea partier ross aldridge says that's why he'll be voting for mcdaniel. >> washington should not be our nanny. we need to be a little more self-- a lot more self-reliant. >> reporter: leslie r

we'll get reaction from capitol hill and analysis from political director john dickerson. >>> plus ad by drug traffickers. >>> and filmmaker sebastian junger joins us in the studio on his new war documentary. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ptions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, june 11. i'm michelle griego. >> "hump day" is here. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 4:30. look who is back. >> hey. >> ladies and gentlemen, it's been a long time without you guys. >> yeah. are we supposed to say we missed him? >> no. [ laughter ] >> hey, guys. >> what's your name? >> good to be back here today. glad things are cooling down. high pressure weakening somewhat so the fog is back. the winds are kicking in. more coming up. >> we have a lot of overnight roadwork no surprise. but a lot of it hasn't been picked up and it's causing some slowdowns already heading into dubl

nancy cordes, bob schieffer and john dickerson on why eric cantor lost and what it means. >> elizabethreports militants in iraq are seizing more and more territory that had been won with the blood of u.s. forces. they're moving ever closer to baghdad. ben tracy on the group that successfully fought teacher unions in california. now taking the battle to a dozen more states. and don't believe your eyes, anna werner on counterfeit trucks carrying real illegal drugs. >> if you can think of it, and name it,

nancy cordes, bob schieffer and john dickerson on why eric cantor lost and what it means.reports militants in iraq are seizing more and more territory that had been won with the blood of u.s. forces. they're moving ever closer to baghdad. ben tracy on the group that successfully fought teacher unions in california. now taking the battle to a dozen more states. and don't believe your eyes, anna werner on counterfeit trucks carrying real illegal drugs. >> if you can think of it, and name it, we have stopped it.

john dickerson, political director for cbs news, derided the tomb as a low salt, low fat localry offering with vanilla pudding as the dessert. >> clinton's memoir will saerves a useful mark -- marketing on her political. >>> one. >>> instead one expressed revulings with her mode us opener randy. >> the clintons using deals to get where they want to go. >> we came out of the white house not only broke, but also in debt. >> clinton the speeches netted the couples $100 million in all. >> we struggled to piece to go the resources for mortgages for houses, for chelsea's education. you know, it was not easy. >> asked if she would oblige a call for her testimony from the newly formsed house benghazi committee we'll see how they conduct themselves. they also sought so distance herself from the preattack security decisions that left the u.s. consulate so vulnerable. appearing to blame those shortcomings on underlings. >> i'm not equipped to sit and look at blueprints to determine where the blast walls need to be. >> senate testimony on benghazi she stated flatly she did not know any reports that c

john dickerson, political director at cbs news and "slate" magazine's chief political correspondent. i am pleased to have them here at this table. is this a book that serves her so she should not have gone out and done what bob gates did, try to give you a very smart and sharp and precise view of what it was like to be at a top post in the obama administration? >> i would rather she did what bob gates did. if i am one of her advisers, i would tell her to do exactly what you did which is you wrote a very careful, not particularly revealing book that does have some very interesting moments. she mostly gets right up to the line of something interesting and then pulls back. there are couple of instances. she doesn't go into the great detail about how controversial they are. >> you would think that would be harmless for her to argue. it is about revelations about a friend of hers. >> someone she was very close with. >> you compare that to the way gates handled that very same business in his memoir which i have read. he is pretty -- he talks about the whole group being controversial but th

frank luntz is here as well as john dickerson.hy didn't republicans see it coming while others did and fought it back. >> there are over 200 house republican republicans praying as they wake up. i'm one of them. we as poll sters suck. his pollster told him 12 days ago he was going to win by 34 points and then he loses by ten. number one, he didn't even see it coming. >> mitt romney's pollster, he told him he was going to win. >> there's pollsters. you have to be able to analyze who is going to participate. this is also about that anti-washington mood that still exists. if the candidates come home, if they spend time in their district, if they cam paper hard like mitch mcconnell and listndy graham did, they survive. eric cantor never thought he had a problem. he was out helping republicans all across the country. >> this has huge implications, john. a top rupp saepublican said to t night this means immigration reform is 100% dead. is that how you see it? >> yes. although it was 99.5% dead because even before this, you had a lot of

. >> cbs political director john dickerson is in washington this morning.d morning to both of you. frank, why didn't eric cantor see this coming when other republican establishment members did see it coming and fought it back? >> right now there are 230 house republicans who are waking up praying they do no have the eric cantor's pollster. honestly, i'm one of them. we republican pollsters suck. we have no ability to be able to analyze the electorate. his pollster told him 12 days ago he was going to win by 34 points, and then he loses by 10. number one, he didn't even see it coming. >> mitt romney's pollster told him he was going to win. >> it was pollsters. there's something -- you have to be able to analyze who is actually going to vote and who is going to participate but it's deeper than that. this is also about this anti-washington mood that still exists. if the candidates come home and spend time in their districts and campaign hard like mitch mcconnell did, like lindsey graham did these are people who survived very tough primaries, down in texas, the

john dickerson has also been digging in to "hard choices." good morning. let's dig in. >> there's a lot to dig into. 700 pages. secretary clinton is at ease in this book but it is a very careful book. we knew it want going to be gossipy, that's not her style. but if you compare it to secretary gates, that was a bit of a tell-all not gossipy but behind the scenes. there's a lot of weasely behavior. it's not about that. >> is this book do you think because there aren't many mistakes admitted because it's very careful, a suggestion she in fact is running for president? >> this is not the book of somebody with nothing to lose who is just winging it on the porch with a glass of scotch. this is a book where there are really no harsh words for anyone. she said putin is thin skinned add autocratic. he might wrinkle his nose at the first but he would think the second is a complement.iment. >> there's a chapter on libya and a chapter on benghazi. her toughest critics come from that subject. she does say far and away her greatest regret is not being able to bring tho