secretary general ban ki-moon, is that increasing the pressure on al-malaki? >> it's good in a way, giving the fact that he is the top u.n. diplomat telling a press conference that iraqi leaders need to talk with each other and form a government that meets the aspiration of all. al-malaki is accused of leading iraq on the verge of disintegration and civil war. now al-malaki has other pressure, fighting from the wider international community, mainly the united states, as well as regional governments. >> thanks so much. >> the bodies of another 74 victims from malaysia airlines flight 17 have been flown or are being flown to the netherlands from ukraine. the first 40 coffins arrived wednesday, yet to be identified. the day of national mourning may be over, but the grieving goes on. the mound of flowers laid in tribute to the victims outside the airport terminal three where the fated journey began is growing ever higher. thousands have added their names and thoughts to the books of condolence. >> the flight will no longer be known at mh17 on the departure boards.

it is degenerated into name calls between the kurds and the factions related to prime minister malaki and they are just not ready on who should be the prime minister. that sa long way off. a lot of politics is going on and the back room bargaining and what is clear know is that malaki his chances of a third term are not looking so great and likely he's going to be replaced. >> jane, we are hearing that the russian fighter jets delivered yesterday are now patrolling the skies over iraq, is that true? >> they are. this is announced by the iraqi government. they are used russian fighter jets rushed here and there's been quite a hold up with those, the u.s. delivering as fast as they can, but clearly not fast enough for the iraqi's and they are purchasing the arms any where they can get it and including the russians. >> you warned this was going to happen, the shrine attacked over night and what more can you tell us about that? >> the attack on that very shrine in 2006 set off a civil war. that was by al qaeda in iraq. this is by ar till yar related to the islamic state and more efficient

even today, al-malaki threatened it.id erbu was the headquarters for terrorists which isn't true. the problem we are seeing is not just the armed men. it's about the central government ignoring not only the kurdish authorities but significant parts of the iraqi population. i don't think you need military training and what we need is a government that's inclusive all different ethnic groups and different sectarian groups in iraq. >> akmed, we have about 15 seconds left. are you optimistic about the future? >> absolutely optimistic only because i know the resilience of iraqis we have been endured generocidal safrnthsz, three wa now thanks to america and the american army. so, i think we are very well versed with this and will over corporeal. i think it's imports for people to try to, you know, put a bit of context and analyzing iraq. >> all right. ? >> tweet to tweet. >> that's it for today. thanks to all of our guests. waj and i will see you online. ♪

so it's al malaki. >> you think we're blaming al malaki because he's brown?r clients. that's what i'm saying. >> that's a generalization. do you think we're blaming al malaki for the mess in iraq because he's brown? >> i think we blame our clients and our clients happen to be brown. so i hope al malaki's -- got a bullet in the head from kennedy. we hadn't failed, we were perfect. the same is true -- >> america has made mistakes, have made mistakes in vietnam. i think the iraq war in retrospect -- hold on a minute. in retrospect the iraq war was a mistake. but there's a difference between making a mistake and doing something that's inherently wicked. anyone else who went into iraq and did this would have reimbursed itself by taking the iraqi oil. instead we've spent all this money in iraq and then we turn over the keys of the oil fields to iraqis, it's your oil, sell it, burn it. and iraq costs us money. imperialists typically go abroad to make money. >> no. you're saying iraq is using it the way it sees fit and shell and mobil has nothing to do with it. unbal

the person most culpable in all of this is malaki. >> this is the way rand paul put it when he wasn't speaking to an exclusively conservative audience. >> what's going on now, i don't blame president obama. made there is no solution. >> if you're not a dick cheney republican when it comes to american power in the middle east. >> i would say the war emboldened iran. >> joining me now is david corn, co-author of the book "hubris." david, it is so interesting to use the domestic political prizm of rand paul to watch what's happening in iraq today, and watch how carefully he has to manage his responses to -- about the question is who's to blame. when he's talking to a broad audience, he's very clear about that, that it isn't president obama. then we saw him dealing with the right wing of the republican party with sean hannity's audience, again, refusing to assign that blame to the president, but believing no "i defend the president" line in there. he mutes that a little bit. >> i don't think sean hannity or many people on the right are willing to defend the bush-cheney administration, bec

al-malaki has become history at herriccal and lost his balance and put the blame on others. you must apologize to the iraqi people and step down. you've destroyed the country and someone who has destroyed the country cannot save it. >> it's not only a war of words between the north and the central government in baghdad. the regional government here, the kurdish regional government has taken two significant decisions, number one, suspended its participation in the government. all those ministers in the government who are kurdish have suspended participation in the cabinet meetings. all the oil production revenue, the share to go to baghdad would be withheld, that those revenues coming from the oil production, and there are several oil rich cities in the kurdish region, that the revenue coming from that would not be going to baghdad. on the other hand, al-malaki's government made their own decisions, or towards the kurdish region all government, preventing commercial planes from landing in the two main airports here, a sign that there's going to be commercial economic besiegem

right now, that's al-malaki. unless in the very near future, one of the other leading contenders for prime minister is able to pull together a fairly large coalition, and that doesn't seem like a very strong possibility, it's al-malaki who is going to get first crack. >> if he insist on holding power, despite the intense opposition and calls from the u.s. and other places for him to step down, he vows that stay on he is. iraq can go forward but not well with him as the prime minister. there are two things required now in iraq. one is to pull together the army and to make improvements that will allow them to go on the offensive against the islamic extremists who have taken control of the north and west of the country. the second is political, that is able to reach across ethnic and as h sectarian lines to pull the country back together again. malaki is capable of the first, not exhale of the latter. >> even if they manage to form a government despite divisions, will the baghdad government be in the position, given

now, no one likes malaki, but given this i.s.i.s. threat, and given the administration's stated goal of preventing an i.s.i.s. sanctuary in western iraq, why didn't we support at least in this limited way attacks that would have done damage to these columns? or to the encampments? >> let me try to correct the record on a few things. i thank you for the opportunity to testify in february. i think what i described was when we started to see this problem emerge over the course of last summer. the first aspirin tell and the president's policy is we want to enable local actors to be able to secure their sovereign space as best we can. that was also the desire of the iraqi government. the iraqi government wanted to act on its own with our assistance in enabling functions. we worked through the summer and fall through our own surveillance and also be showing the iraqis how they could use their capability to be able to target some of these sites. they have a platform called a king air, which does persisten, they have a caravan aircraft which

called on malaki to share power cross ethnic divides. he has allowed the parliamentary process to go forward, but even as both his opposition, as well as allies are calling for him to law a new government, the u.s. asking for the same thing. it has not called for malaki to step down. >> aljazeera's libby casey for us in washington. ahead in our next half hour, we'll have a live report from baghdad, plus major mike lyons joins us live for more on what these additional american troops will do in iraq. >> calling for an end to the ceasefire in ukraine. >> i take executive action only when we have a serious problem, a serious issue and congress chooses to do nothing. >> president obama reacting to news that the republican-led house will not take up an immigration bill this year. the senate passed a version last year, but house republicans will not hold a vote on the bill as it is written, so the president says he'll try to fix the broken immigration system through executive action. waves of undocumented children from central america ever flo

prime minister al-malaki saying the nearby kurdish controlled region for iraq is becoming a base for what he calls terrorists. we are in baghdad. tell us more about these attacks. >> the air strikes we're seeing by the accounting of most military experts are designed to try and hurt the enemy within their territory before any ground force gets ready to go in. that's the military strategy. however, we haven't seen any evidence of ground troops massing, ready to go into mosul and create where all these air strikes are happening. also, there's a question over what hardware's being used. the rack keys have two options what it comes to aerial hardware. it's either the american supplied as he is in as with hell fire missiles or russian 225 jets with heavier weaponry. we are also hearing from multiple sources in mosul that armed drones are being used. when you think of drones, you normally think of the americans, they have that equipment and are indeed flying over baghdad for the protection of the american assets here, but these are likely iranian drones used in mosul. the air strikes are c

over malaki. and that's essentially what they're doing. i don't think at the end of the day they're going to stick with isis because they're so brutal. but for now they are. and so it's a political reconciliation, diplomatic that has to happen. i think targeted air strikes if we can hit isis without collateral damage to the sunnis, that provides stability and eliminates a threat to the homeland at the same time, but you're absolutely right on point with afghanistan. we've put too many lives, too much, you know, as they say, blood and treasure in there to watch that one fall apart as well. and i think the iraq experience is very instructive as to how we should be dealing now with afghanistan as we pull our troops out of there. thank you for asking. >> thank you. we have time for a couple more questions. we'll take one right here in the front. >> hi, i am a law student and becoming a patent attorney. i'm also an american. i was 16 when 9/11 happened. obviously it was a tragic day for all of us. my h

we want to see prime minister al-malaki go.ay they were supposed to meet in the parliament, elect a speaker of the house, very simple technical procedure, politically incredibly charged. they didn't meet today and haven't done that and the political cries continues. >> there are reports that the islamic state struggle to go maintain unity with its sunni allies, the ones that helped the group overrun the government. is the islamic state as strong as it was when it started? >> it's certainly more entrenched, let's just say that. it's still in the areas that it controls. it has faced a number of difficulties towards baghdad but in mosul, it's still very much in control, in parts of tikrit, it's very much in control. it's facing pressure. that's not because of the iraqi army. they faced an incredible air assault, but no ground troops have gone in so far. to really get rid of them, the iris need to send ground troops in. it's not so much that their weakening, it's just things seem to be at a stalemate and probably due to the politic

one of the things that we need to do, of course want malaki to be replaced but have to stop isis first. that means that we're going to have to do airstrikes we need to step up our support for the syrian army that is right now getting very badly beaten. >> just one thing, is in for. you say we left, the iraqis would not sign status agreement which would have put under our control, legal control, are you just saying we didn't try hard enough? >> i'm saying they were ready to sign. this administration, this president didn't want to stay and we were there in baghdad and when they agreed to do it. we were actually there. and president of the united states would never give them a number of troops and their mission that they wanted to leave behind, words of general dempsey and testimony before the armed services, cascaded down to,000 people. the president campaigned he was going to get usous. make the same mistake in eaves unless he reverses that decision that he made. you're going to zoo the same result in afghanistan. we just came back from there. they feel abandoned. >> schieffer: senator,

but it's really unclear if malaki, one, wants to do this and who he would want to hand that power to. he might want to pick his own successor so he doesn't end up in prison or facing charges and longer it takes the more unstable this country is. >> it does seem like the conversation's just in an intractable place and as you point out the same old characters again and again and also political repercussions back home and turn to the political panel on that. david, the one clear agreement amongst americans seems to be they don't want troops back in iraq. how's this new deployment of extra 300 individuals going to play? >> well, at a time when things continue to deteriorate in iraq, it is all the more important that our foreign policy be very clear and have no ambiguity as to what our goals are, and unfortunately, the president's policies at best are timid and fractured which if you -- msnbc even did a story last week given the disapproval of the president on foreign policy, could it cause democrats races this fall? certainly is hard for him to rally his support when people don't know wha

malaki is a chance to pull forces together. possibly make the right political moves.e moves aren't made. it doesn't matter how many forces you put on the ground. it's not going to make a difference. we had 160,000 there for almost ten years. without the constant pull on the politicians to do the right things, we won't get the kind of mission completion that looking for. >> general zinni. when you look -- and i know perhapses you think the u.s. maybe should have been in iraq longer than it was. what do you think things would look like now if there were troops and they'd stayed longer? >> yrngs i was there in 2008. i are visited mark's unit in the north. on the ground as long as we were there, the united states, you know, we were building the kind of military, hope into the villages that i think was necessary. but everybody told me if malaki doesn't follow up on this, if he doesn't reach out, if the government isn't inclusive. if he doesn't share power and the distribution of resources down to the provincial and district levels, this will all collapse. you could say ame

. >> and we now see the white house as backing malaki and iraq. they're doing nothing to help the christians in the northern part of the country. the lesson in all of this that's got to be learned, our allies no longer trust us. our adversaries no longer respect us. and they certainly don't free us. if you live in manila, seoul, ri add, lithuania, astonia, be afraid. >> hamas is a terrorist organization. they're dedicated to israel's destruction. so my question is, if the united states doesn't take sides and doesn't stand with israel and they keep calling for a cease-fire before this infrastructure's destroyed, whose side are we on here? fair question? >> we're certainly not on the side of the national security of the united states. the ultimate issue is we cannot exist in this globe, this very disordered globe, without allies. and if you're in any one of those capitals that are counting on us to come to their help, you've got to be very worried about it. and the end result is going to be that many of those countries once iran gets the nuclear bom

are you saying it's all malaki and obama? >> i think it's primarily malachi and obama. that's what i believe and that's what the books will show. >> we had general anthony zin nil here yesterday. and he told me this about the latest crisis. >> one of the opportunities i feel we missed is when arafat left the scene and abu mazen, mahmoud abbas came in. that was a moment when i think that we, the united states, european union and others could have offered things, developed schools, clinics, investment in the areas. and that might have enabled the people to support fatah and reject hamas. >> is there a responsibility of the united states and israel to provide opportunity for the palestinian people so that more of them don't see violence as the only way out of their misery? >> i think the big part of the problem is hamas. if you look where it came from, it's a spinoff from the muslim brotherhood. it's a radical terrorist organization. it's supported by the iranians. >> right. so why not provide the an alternative? >> you are never -- i don't think you can negotiate a settle

. >> to that point, does the carped prime minister, nouri al-malaki, has he failed in your view to be the kind of inclusive leader that the country needs at this moment in time? >> yes. >> does he need to go? >> whether he goes or not. >> in your view. >> up to the iraqis. they have got to decide if he is to stay, he certainly has to taking. >> it to what extent is the sunni shia divide we see particularly in the middle east. >> religion? to what extent is it about two proud countries, saudi arabia and iran. dominance in that region. >> you mentioned 7 factors. they are all involved. this is not an easy thing to sort out. four. >> these are issues you have career. >> trying to sort out. neither ryan nor anyone else has the answer to these problems. i do not favor the position taken by some that we should simply withdraw and leave them to their own devices. i think we do have a critical interest instability there to present the situation that existed prior to enduring 9-11. >> ? >> when people had free rein to organize the united states. in our interest to have aggressive and active po

al-malaki is to bolster al-malaki's worst instincts making this into a sectarian conflict and would make the situation in iraq much worse. host: host: john, sterling, virginia, democratic caller. >> caller: i want to ask the guest. pakistan one day were having nuclear issues. the united states and other countries, they were calling that pakistanians are not capable to handle nuclear issues. and now, we have seen the indian -- pakistan, the power of the battles. the reason i called, it wasn't that. the reason i called is president jimmie carter mentioned bi iran issue on his -- when he say that even if they have a one nuclear bomb, there is nothing they can do about it. i mean we were trying to protect israel. we are -- israel has more nuclear bomb than iran. why do we let them do what they want to do if they -- if they want to use as they say, energy purpose? why we have to go sanction them and punish them? why don't we just tell them, okay. this is what you want to do. we are going to monitor what you are doing and let the chip fall where they might. host: host: okay, john. guest: presi

al-malaki called on government members to put aside differences and is resist be pressures to resign. >> all arab countries are on the brink of purr million and chaos as gangs and terrorists gather together to fall apart targeting >> mo hamed was the life of the family. he was the one closest to my heart. downstairs the shrine to mow maw head fills the wall. there is another son now with the same name as the older brother he never met. >> my parents tell me i look like him and i act like him. >> reporter: this is the area where mohammed died. mohammed and his father were caught in the middle right there. the wall has long be demolished, but if you look at the area and the street right now, it is almost completely abandoned. everyone is scared of israeli air strikes. just a few meters away the israeli army struck a rocket launchers. after a boom in the distance, jamal's daughter admits she is scared. are you used to it? for all gagans old enough, this is the six attack in years. this man feels powerless to shield his children from yet another war. >> this is the challenge our people fa

that's particularly important in iraq where i think the malaki regime has become increasingly reliant on iran as we left. he rl problem was not the obama adoption but the bush doctrine as adopted by president bush and by your dad, iraq had nothing to with with 9-11 there was no al qaeda presence in iraq before the u.s. invaded. the critics would say the problem isn't how obama pulled out it was how bush and cheney went in. >> i am sure we will debate what happened in 2003 for a long time to come. i believe we did the right thing. but i think the critical point is and the point on which there was no debate is what position was iraq in in 2009. because of the surge because frankly president bush, the vice president knew it was going in the wrong direction. they made a decision to change forces -- sends forces in ment al qaeda had been defeated in iraq and they had a clear thinking which was a negotiated stay behind agreement. he is trying now and secretary clinton n clinton now are trying to say we didn't have a stay behind agreement. the president can't have it both ways. he said i am

clearly we don't want to support prime minister malaki. of the problem that unleashed the sectarian violence. we have allies we ought to be empowering to do more than they are doing. as bill notes relief assistance that's going to be required in the long run for the iraqi christian community. but the ultimate solution in iraq which is way down the road is to create a government that represents the iraqi people, all of them, in a nonsectarian state that's inclusive and tolerant and that we are a long way off from that, chris. >> we are trying to create a united america here at home, if you haven't noticed. this is an example of what's going on in cities like mosul. one christian resident said we had to go through an area where they set up a checkpoint. islamic state group militants asked us to get out of the car. we got out. they took our bags, money, everything on us. i don't know what will happen to us. our future is uncertain. what can people do? anything to help these people out or get fellow -- of americans. >> i think there is a lot p

it's unclear about what action may be taken but it's been made clear by nouri al-malaki, the iraqi prime minister that he regards this as robbery. he said that in the past. there is definitely a major, major dispute going on now that's going to escalate. >> there are a big question mark, aren't there, andrew, about who could or would buy this oil and what the likely outcome of any sale would be. >>. >> that's right. there is no education of who the buyer is of this large consignment of crude. right now, there are often oil deals of this kind. many parties involved and they can end up in many different places. for example, one consignment, again, more than a million barrels of crude, went to israel back in june. there were intermediataries but this caused a lot of controversy. israel doing business indirectly with kurdistan. kurdistan says that it has to trade and there is a lot of background to this. we spoke the head of the energy committee for the kurdish regional government's parliament. he said legally, kurdistan isable to do this, that there was a federal supreme court decision back

failed to unit the government or the country. >> i'm sure it cannot happen under prime minister al-malakis not trusted by the sunnis and not trusted by the kurds and has failed miserably to hold his army together. if he doesn't go, the country will ever more drift into three separate realities. >> james jeffery, former u.s. ambassador to iraq, thanks for being with us. stay with aljazeera for the latest on the turmoil in iraq. we'll dig into the growing refugee crisis there in our next hour. >> fears of a new type of al-qaeda bomb will soon change the way you travel internationally, the t.s.a. requiring passengers to turn on electronics such as cell phones and computers before boarding planes headed to the u.s. device is which do not power up will not be allowed on planes. owners may also have to undergo additional screening. >> marijuana sales are a step closer to becoming legal in washington state. today, about 20 stores are expected to get their licenses so they can start offering pot to customers tomorrow, but there may not be enough marijuana to go around. fewer than 80 growers are n

in fact, the statement that prime minister malaki released was down right defiant.ill talk to you frankly and transparentally. i'll never give up on being the candidate and nobody has the right to stand against this. he went so far to liken himself to a soldier that does not desert the battlefield. the group that he was referring to as terrorists is the islamic state in iraq and syria who have taken over major cities in both countries. now a new video reportedly shows the group's leader declaring himself head of the islamic. colonel jack, how bad is the military situation? will baghdad fall? >> no, baghdad won't fall, but the situation is militarily extremely difficult. when you have an army that we trained and supplied that can't hold the extremities of the country when the sunni north falls. by the way, plenty of shia up there reminding me taking a look at the map of india before partition. a million people died, people trying to run to the polls and get away from each other. when that kind of stuff happens, you know the iraqi army is not capable of doing anything

worry they have that the weakness of the troops that we trained combined with the incompetence of malakie are seeing the ones we are trying to help incompetent and without resolve. i think he is worried that baghdad could fall and iraq could turn into a much larger mess or turn into a haven for terrorists again. he is hearing that and worried he doesn't want that to happen on his watch. >> trying to stop baghdad from falling is something 300 american troops is not going to make a difference in and training iraqi forces and you are talking about sending 300 elite troops when we left we had thousands there and we saw what happened with the iraqi military after we left. the idea of american military capacity being determinative for what happens in iraq, if that is the discussion then there's no way out. the camel's nose is under the tent and the tent is almost gone. >> this is a reactive move. we are moving close for potential capacity. we are looking at vietnam-like scenarios. i think one of the larger issues is there is still no broad strategic plan for how we knock this up and bring the

when the group battles the malaki government in iraq, it is deadly and must be ruthlessly attacked, but when it crosses the now nonexistent border between iraq and syria, it is a line with america's stated goal of regime change in da mass kick. with this whole goal in mind, it's difficult to believe that three years ago a modest american intervention of arms in training which is all that is being advocated would have changed the trajectory of events in syria. can anyone be willing to have a moderate intervention of arms and training is going to find genuine democrats, have them win against assad and also against the radicals and also stabilize syria or is washington's newaktive vimp more likely to throw fuel on to a raging fire? for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column. and let's get started. >>> let's start with the kidnapping of three israeli teenagers has erupted into something that looks this week like the prelude to war. i want to talk about the conflict and how it relates to the other things happening in the middle east so i have impaneled a very smart gr

looking to put their man into the president's job and the sunni's -- shia's, sorry would like to see al-malaki retain his problem. the june knees and kurds are saying that is not acceptable, that the prime minister needs to go. >> have there been pledges from new leaders to battle the growing in surgeons there, the islamic state? >> well, at the moment, it all seems to be political in-fighting. the only person who's spoken about how to deal with the current crisis is the prime minister himself. everybody else is looking towards getting into a position of power before they'll make any public demonstrations on what they see. that's the political side of things. the sunni military rebel council unofficially speak for the sunni rebels, have said any politician that is not prime minister al-malaki isn't acceptable to them. >> live in baghdad this morning, thank you very much. >> at least 10 people are dead after a powerful you typhoon raged across the philippines. the giant storm forced hundred was thousands to evacuate. >> the typhoon battered manila for only a few hours but in that time caused co

the current prime minister al-malaki, a shia muslim received the most votes in the april election and pushing for a third term in office. many in iraq blame him for the current crisis. critics say he is leading iraq toward a civil war by alienating sunnis and kurds. >> ban ki-moon arrived in baghdad, saying he supports the new president. >> i sincere hope that under the leadership of president massoum, iraq will make a great progress in the peace and stability and prosperity and harmony. >> creating stat in iraq will be difficult, even as the lawmakers gathered to elect a new president, government attacked a convoy carrying prisoners north of baghdad. more than 50 prisoners and eight guards were killed. there is no claim of responsibility. islamic state fighters still control parts of several provinces, including the largest, an bar and they still rule the cities of tikrit and mosul. >> fighters from the so-called islamic state are tightening their grip on mosul. they've begun a campaign of intimidation against anyone who does not believe their views. christians and minorities are per

al-malaki called on government members to put aside differences and is resist be pressures to resign.> all arab countries are on the brink of purr million and chaos as gangs and terrorists gather together to fall apart targeting stability and security. >> this video shows troops advancing on the city of tikrit. the fighters from the islamic state group are defending the area north of baghdad. it is a strong hold of supporters of formerly loyalists to sadaam hussein. >> in damascus, video posted claims to show opposition fighters in the suburbs. the area is strategically important because of proximity to damascus. >> the center for disease control in the u.s. acknowledged safety lapses have plagued health laboratories for years. some accidents involve the transportation of no one severallized samples of anthrax and burden flu. the agency thought the laps which is were unrelated incidents. they were described as sloppy and inexcusable. we are in atlanta now. this sounds like quite a serious development here. >> good afternoon. indeed it is, the c.d.c. headquarters behind me here in atla

. >> you're saying it's all malaki and obama?i believe and that's what the history books will show. >> when hostilities rose tom cotton said it was the administration's peace initiative that, in fact, led to war. >> john kerry and barack obama reinserted themselves into the so-called peace process at a time when israeli and palestinian relationships were going fine, once again inflating expectations and once again they have encouraged groups like hamas an excuse to under mine any hopes of a peaceful resolution. and you see the outcome. >> may not be surprising that republicans habitually point the finger at the president. has the blame game gone too far? an article entitled not every international crisis is about obama. our colleague writes when 298 people die needlessly because a civilian airliner was shot with a missile, there is a problem when some look for ways to blame america's leaders for the bloodshed. that's not a basis for a foreign policy debate. it's corrosive nonsense. joining me, jonathan capehart of the washington

malaki is accused of promoting sectarian policies. we have the latest on the situation in iraq from baghdad. >> the leader of the islamic state released a message urging muslims to move to syria and iraq. he's always said the muslims need take revenge follow deaths of soon any muslims from cashmere all the way down to the sewers. the meet i can't, the play they get on social media are crucial for him to get the kind of support he needs. once again, this is a great propaganda move for him. >> iraq fails to choose a leader of the house. this was a procedural session of parliament. it's constitutionally mandated they meet, chewing a speaker of the house. they met, took a break, argued about whether they were supposed to choose a speaker of the house. one curt stan m.p. said curt stan was being scragled, using her message to get the point across. >> this session when they chose the speaker of the house triggered a consist process 45 days in which they to have choose the prime minister. that hasn't happened. there's meeting yule eight. it

of this thing and only limited chances of that is for iraq to find a replacement to prime minister malaki reporter: how does the obama administration feel about becoming iraq's next leader. the white house and state department says it's not the role of the u.s. to support any candidate. our efforts to get chalabi to comment for this story were not successful. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> as brian mentioned, keeping track of chalabi is no easy job. aaron has done it better than most and writes for "buzz feed" and authored the book on the man that pushed america to war, their extraordinary life, adventures and obsessions. i got to say, you know, i was there for the invasion when u.s. troops were looking for weapons of mass destruction. i was there after the invasion when there were no weapons of mass destruction and a year later when u.s. forces were part of a raid on chalabi's home because they didn't trust the guy and now ten years later, he's in the mix to be prime minister? it's dumb founding. >> it is dumb founding. he's got. it seems like he's not well liked and he's not well liked

particularly important in iraq i think the malaki regime is becoming reliant on iran as we have left. >> some critics say the real problem was the bush doctrine as practiced by president bush and your dad iraq had nothing to do with september 11th, there was almost no al qaeda presence in iraq before the u.s. invaded. critics would say it's how bush and cheney went in. >> i'm sure we'll debate what happened and i believe we did the right thing the critical point is what condition was iraq in in 2009? in 2009, because of the surge, because frankly president bush, vice president recognized that the iraq situation was going in the wrong direction because the president made the decision to surge forces in, we were in a place where iraq was stable, where al qaeda had been defeated in iraq, where the president had a clear, and specific thing he needed to do. now sh he's trying now and secretary clinton are trying to pretend it was the iraqi's decision. the president said i'm going to pull troops out. now, he's saying it's not my fault the troops came out. it's clear he was his fault. you're

with the advance of isil is sunni tribes in a negative coalition, groups opposed to a malaki-dominatedhiite government and baghdad formally controlling -- formerly -- formally controlling territories but it is gaining significant pace as they marched to encircle baghdad and established itself by declaring a califet,. host: there is a full page spread them "the washington post," how we found maliki and lost iraq. that's the name of the piece. what is your take on the future of maliki? guest: that is a must read piece. it really walks you through the detailed history of how the complex politics of how you find local leaders and groom them when you are involved in a clump -- in a complex counterinsurgency mission and how the facts on the ground and rapidly shift. that story draws out that mailiki was eric ally at one point. this was our ally at one point. maliki rapidly turned to iran. in effect, iran exerts significantly more influence over him than the united states could ever dream of asserting. this causes a much more difficult problem. if it's a regional war, what side you choose? th

it's a part of the conversation i know our vice president had with malaki when he was here in november. we've been very concerned and working with the kurds and iraqi security forces to have coordination. isil comes through that border crossing south of rabia. they filled that space gradually over the last year. >> without our military there conducting ground operations, our efforts have been in the diplomatic field. one, to try to convince the iraqis to be more inclusive and not give rise to this kind of activity or space for that kind of activity to happen. but two, to warn them and help them combat this. it seems to me we've been spectacularly unsuccessful in the diplomatic arena in that regard. do you have any response to that? how hard are we working there? what intelligence do we have? are we passing it on? is the iraqi government simply unresponsive? what's been the issue here? s. >> in terms of intelligence cooperation sharing with iraqi forces and their cooperation with iraqi forces, it is at a level we haven't seen since our troops left in 2011. so there is some opportunities

it's a part of the conversation i know our vice president had with malaki when he was here in november. we've been very concerned and working with the kurds and iraqi security forces to have coordination. isil comes through that border crossing south of rabia. they filled that space gradually over the last year. >> without our military there conducting ground operations, our efforts have been in the diplomatic field. one, to try to convince the iraqis to be more inclusive and not give rise to this kind of activity or space for that kind of activity to happen. but two, to warn them and help them combat this. it seems to me we've been spectacularly unsuccessful in the diplomatic arena in that regard. do you have any response to that? how hard are we working there? what intelligence do we have? are we passing it on? is the iraqi government simply unresponsive? what's been the issue here? s. >> in terms of intelligence cooperation sharing with iraqi forces and their cooperation with iraqi forces, it is at a level we haven't seen since our troops left in 2011. so there is some opportunities