so many were surprised this week when five former obama administration officials came out strongly against what they think would be in such a deal. those five were former cai director saved petraeus former face chairman of the joint chief. former middle east negotiator and former non-proliferation officer robert einhorn and my next guest gary sama. welcome, gary. >> welcome, fareed, hi. >> what prompted you to put your same to this letter? you're limiting the ability of the administration to negotiate and to make deals. if you were on the other side of the table right now, gary if you were in -- negotiating with the iranians i cannot imagine that you would appreciate having a public what appears to be a public warning from your former colleagues telling you what you should and what you can and cannot make concessions on.

senior obama administration official tells nbc news the military advisors would help train iraqi forcesregain ramadi. the city 70 miles from baghdad fell to the islamic state last month. right now the u.s. has 3,000 troops in iraq. meanwhile, despite heavy fighting iraqi force say they're continuing to make gains against isis in the town. the city is home to the largest oil refinery on the road to ice sill. libya says it's in control of the key power plant. officials say the rival between militias is allowing the reach in the north african country. >>> day one of his european tour jeb bush addressed a standing room only crowd. he had words of encouragement to allies about global unrest. >> russia must respect sovereignty of all neighbors whochlt can doubt russia will do what it pleases if aggression goes unanswered? our alliance, sol daretysolidarity are essential. to resolve security challenges before they unravel, it will take a serious and united effort of nations and our alliance. if events can be turned in the direction of peace, ladies and gentlemen, then who else but us the great

this morning, a senior obama administration official con officials a new proposal reportedly sending 500 military advisors to the area to potentially help the iraqi military training them to take back ramadi. the national security council says it's considering a range of options. this afternoon barack obama will have a closed door meeting with secretary of defense ashton carter. >>> after four days the search for two escaped murderers has turned to an international man hunt. fresh clues had the police looking in an area close to where it began. stephanie goff spoke to the son of mitchell person of interest in the case. >> she is not the kind of person that's going to risk her life for other people's lives to let these people escape from prison. >> we're also hearing from the son of one of the escapees. >> he's intelligent from the people i knew talking about my father. i don't really know him directly. that's what they would tell me about him, things like that. and other things i can't disclose. >> tracey pots is live in washington d.c. this morning. good morning tracey. is the trail

if you listen to what obama administration officials have been saying for the last month, they essentially sound just like karl rove and the cheney and that whole crew in 2004 and 2005 every time they wanted to course something they wanted, which is, we are in danger, the terrorist threat is mounting. and unless you submit to what it is we want, which is a renewal of the patriot act, you are putting lives in danger. if you are a critic of the patriot act, you are endangering american lives. they actually went anonymously to "the new york times" to say that anybody standing in the way of patriot act renewal is playing "national security russian roulette." something karl rove is probably jealousy never thought of himself of a phrase of scaremongering. you see them very much a line on this question. mitt romney tweeted last night in opposition to rand paul and said the patriot act keeps us safe and we need its renewal. exactly what obama officials have been saying for the last several weeks. on the other side of the debate come and not only rand paul but huge numbers of liberals. 86 people in

that word from a senior obama administration official. >> that official says president obama and secretary of state john kerry will speak about the embassies tomorrow morning. this will be a major step in reestablishing diplomatic ties between the united states and cuba. >>> also nearly 400,000 people suffer cardiac arrest outside of a hospital every year. less than 6% of those people survive, according the a new report from the institute of medicine. cardiac arrest occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating. it is different from a heart attack. the survival rate for those who suffer cardiac arrest inside a hospital is only 24%. the report's authors say educating the public about how to help is vital. >>> switching gears now. volunteer fire companies in delaware just got a big boost. the state today announced a $450,000 grant to train volunteer firefighters. the money comes from the federal emergency management agency or fema. it goes to the delaware state fire school. the school will use the money for training programs as well as a fire engine and equipment. >>> the nbc 10 investigators

so i called obama administration official.aid bring the money back, be the biggest stimulus plan it would help the economy it would grow jobs. the guy goes well, you know, they might give it to shareholders. i said god forbid that let them put t. in r and d. let's get the money back here. the most important thing we have to do in this country is economic growth. we need to work with people on the other side and our people to realize there is some fundamental things that have to happen. if you don't have economic growth. everything else is a waste of time -- i don't want to say a waste of time. economic growth is not an end unto itself a means to an end to do a lot of other good things. i think you can get both parties to agree with that. >> explain to me this. in the month of may ohio had added 1500 manufacturing jobs. and i didn't know if that was good number or bad number so i went to some other states where they had had possible governors running. new jersey only had 600 and wisconsin lost 800. first of all 1500. is that a

. >>> obama administration officials reportedly waited four weeks before telling the public of the massive hack into the private information of federal works. the associated press cites two people directly involved in the investigation. the a.p. says six weeks into the case officials still don't know exactly what information was exposed or how many people were affected. >>> the justice department is touting what it says is the largest criminal health care fraud takedown in its history. 243 individuals are facing charges over $712 million in false billings. 46 doctors, nurses and other health care professionals are among the accused. the charges include health care fraud, the providing and taking of kickbacks, money laundering and identity theft. >>> beginning tomorrow vietnam war veterans exposed to residue from the herbicide agent orange will be eligible for disability payments from the government. this will affect as many as 2100 air force reservists and active duty forces not cover previous policies. the v.a. says pilots mechanics and medical personnel both overseas and in the u.s. will

obama administration officials weren't ready to apologize for vulnerability to the cyberattack. fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel with our report. >> reporter: lawmakers demanding answers about the hacking of the office of personnel management didn't get many details in today's open hearing, and that made house oversight members furious. republican jason chaf its tried to pin down the step the of the damage. >> i would be glad to discuss that in a classified setting. >> there is nothing classified what the information includes. >> why the personal information wasn't encrypted and was told aging computer systems couldn't handle it. democrats didn't like what they heard either. >> i wish that you were as strenuous and hard working at keeping information out of the hands of hackers as you are keeping information out of the hands of congress. >> reporter: at least 4.2 million government employees had information compromised and perhaps more in a new kind of warer. >> it's not bombs and missiles launching it's the constant stream of weapons aimed at data. >> rep

so many were surprised this week when five former obama administration officials came out strongly againstuld be in such a deal. those five are former cia director former vice chairman of the joint chiefs dennis ross robert ion horn and my next guest. he served for your years as obama's principal advisor on gun control issues. >> hi. >> what prompted you to put your name to this letter? you're limiting the ability of the administration to negotiate and make deals. if you were on the other side of the table right now, if you were negotiating with the iranians i can't imagine that you would appreciate having a public -- what appears to be aub warning from your former colleagues telling you what you can and cannot make concessions on. >> we were very aware of the importance of not asking for things that are unachievable. i think if you look through the substance of the letter, you'll see that the positions we take on the key unresolved issues are very much in line with current u.s. policy. >> but then i don't understand the point of the letter. the point of the letter is to say the united sta

a senior obama administration official says the u.s. and cuba will announce the opening of new embassies in washington and havana tomorrow. the next major step in the president's unilateral of restoration of diplomatic ties with cuba. the administration removed cuba from list of countries that sponsor terrorism after a four-month review. president obama and secretary of state john kerry are now expected to announce the new embassies tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. in the rose garden. everyone turning to 2016 politics, the already crowded republican field expanding to 14 with new jersey governor chris christie's announcement he is running for president. christie declaring candidacy at alma mater livingston high school in new jersey. there, the governor vowed always to be truthful even in difficult times. >> i am not looking to be the most popular guy who looks in your eyes every day and try to figure out what you want to hear, say it and turn around and do something else. when i stand up on a stage like this in front of all of you, there

. >>> critics of the dealing including some former obama administration officials, and others argue itr enough and they have called for secretary kerry to walk away. the feastest opponents including benjamin netanyahu, and mike at oren the bass doral to the united states. he's out with a new book called ally my journey across the american/israeli divide. thank you, ambassador, for being here. >> thank you. >> obviously the iran nuclear deal on the table -- what does an israeli-approved nuclear deal looks lie, obviously they have been pushing back. >> it's not the netanyahu government but pretty much a national consensus, even the opposition to netanyahu agrees that the deal on the table is a bad deal. >> so what do you think you're not getting? >> a couple things. one is dismantling of a much bigger part of the program. the program is being frozen not being dismantled. facilities not being taken apart, but the bigger part is the deal is not attached in any way to behavior. iran is the world's largest state sponsor of terror. it's complicit in the murder of 200,000 syrians, trying to un

last week two obama administration officials met with yemeni rebels to push for his release. other americans. >>> the u.s. navy is releasing new video of a russian fighter jet flyby in the black sea. the military says the video shows the aircraft and ship had a routine encounter which is far different than what russia is reporting. russian media says it forced the u.s. ship to head away from russian waters. >>> cnn just turned 35 years old and our jeanne moos has witnessed practically all of those years. she's been here for 34 1/2 years covering both silly and serious stories and looks back at some of the best and worst in her career. >> reporter: amid the hoopla of cnn celebrating 35 years of itself came this quiz question. >> richard roth is the longest serving on air personality currently at cnn. who is second? yes. >> larry king. >> come on. larry and his suspenders left cnn over four years ago. >> jeanne moos. >> correct. >> look at you. >> look at you. look at me. i'm the one who has been at the network 34 1/2 years arriving at cnn for my first job in tv in new york. th

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correspondent jim acosta chief national correspondent jim sciutto, josh rowgan and the former obama administration official van jones. set the scene for us jake. what do we expect from hear from the president. he has russian aggression in ukraine, isis aggression in iraq and syria for that matter. he has a lot of issues on the agenda. >> not to new england themention the deadline for negotiations with iran. a lot of thorny issues. president obama and his team have made it very clear, wolf that one of the key items they are focusing on at this g-7 summit exemplified by the fact this is the second g-7 summit and not g-8 because they have kicked russia out is russia's continuing aggression in ukraine. there was an agreement that russia has not abided by, the minute minsk agreement in march. president obama is trying to get sanctions extended against russia for its aggression in ukraine. >> he's got the approval of angela merkel to continue the sanctions. >> that's right. and he finds himself in a little bit of a vise because there's pressure from some in ukraine and domestically in the united states for him t

a senior obama administration official tells nbc news that military advisors will help train iraqi forceso reclaim are a mad yishgs the city which is 70 miles from baghdad fell to isis last month. up to 500 additional trainers are being considered. right now the u.s. has about 3,000 troops in iraq. meanwhile, despite heavy fighting, forces are continuing to make gains against icy in the town of baji located on the road to mosul. isis is now in control of a key power plant in libya. officials say the conflict between rival militias is allowing isis to expand the reach in the country. so this is part of the debate. do we still try and get the iraqis to stand up for themselves? will trainers help? do we need to just go back in completely? >> i don't know. well trainers aren't going to help by themselves. you never know what's going to happen. a lot of people said that the surge with i guess 30,000 troops wasn't going to be enough. most of the generals i talked to said it wasn't going to be enough. it ended up being enough. so it's hard to say. it just feels like the president is treading wat

you had five former obama administration officials saying you've got to have these things in the deal of course we have the other five nations that are with us on this and the question of how far they're willing to go on sanctions or whether they will give in and sign the deal as it's evolving. >> steve that's the really perverse dynamic of these negotiations. we have walked the other five to this point and we've done it all right? it's our negotiating style. not the french who have been tougher. we have walked them to this point so that if now we pull the plug and back out, we really do run the risk of what you describe happening, which is the other five saying why are you guys backing away now because you're -- in essence, you're the one breaking stride not us. >> so what do we do? >> like i told you, this is an ugly baby and i don't really have a good plan b. >> but we have to have a plan b, right? >> i do fear -- look joe, the last time i was on here i said we've gone from no deal is better than a bad deal to steve, right now i think we're at any deal is better than no deal and i

the cyber attack on federal government computer systems may be worse than the obama administration acknowledged. officialsllion current and former government workers were affected. the union said stolen data and social security numbers were stolen from every employee and retiree and as many as 1 million former government workers. it is believed china is behind the attack. >>> major shakeups at the top of important companies in the u.s. rupert rupert murdoch is stepping down. the media world is abuzz. murdock built 21st century fox and fox broadcast and fox news channel. questions over his sons filling his shoes. big power sharing deal there. over at twitter, the ceo is out. dick costolo. twitter has struggled to add new members. many calling for him to step down for the past year. now he stepped down the stock is up before the bell. i always wonder how that is. jack dorsey will be the interim ceo. >> media world abuzz and a atwitter. >>> and new details of the washington, d.c. family held hostage and killed in their home. disturbing new details ahead. >>> new information this morning about the grizzly sce

>> obama administration officials continue to say that no duel is better than a bad deal. but unfortunately as we've seen this deal progress, i think it is just more empty rhetoric out of the white house. as we have seen these talks continue. iran has been emboldened by attacks because we're essentially playing into their hands. they know that the obama administration wants this sort of foreign policy win if the talks go through, and they feel as, though, that that will be a, you know, an a plus on their foreign policy mark when had a long list throughout. >> it is obvious that administration say what you will about wanting something so desperately to sign on to complete nonsense clearly over from john kerry is apparently inspection issue is it rightly should be a big issue and could say it has not an issue not something that we're gipping to debate, it appears u.s. team is saying yes, yes it is something we're going to debate. let's say this ul pas -- falls through, then what? >> as it stands now iran has gotten very aggressive in terms of what they're demanding out of th

. >> joining us now, the former obama administration official in charge of implementing the president's health care law and professor at lsu health sciences center in louisiana. gentlemen, great to have you here. i want to start with you. you heard the sound bites there of what we heard from john boehner, mitch mcconnell. do you think that's just rhetoric or do you anticipate that these legal fights and the momentum from the republicans is going to continue. >> i think the supporters are relieved. the opponents of the law that are really really relieved. because they will no -- they had no alternative. the republicans in congress were in disarray. republican governors certainly didn't want to have benefits taken away from the people in their states. so this really is a victory for everyone. it's a victory for the people who now have insurance and get to keep their insurance. but it's also i think, despite what they said despite what we just heard, it's really what the republicans and mitch mcconnell and john boehner and all their friends wanted. they can now use this rhetoric but they d

but the letter by these key former obama administration officials raising questions about the solvencyhings that it shouldn't. it's going to be a very action-packed few days as we come down to the june 30th deadline. >> talk to me a little bit about that open letter because as you say, these aren't like political operatives against president obama. these are people that at one time and still are very close to the negotiations and are keenly aware of what the original purpose was. >> these are good people and people that want i think, a good deal a good negotiated deal with iran on the whole. and they're worried that in areas when it comes to the quality of inspections and the rights of inspectors to inspect various parts of iran's nuclear program, to inspect and interview people involved in its past activities also looking at the potential for iran's modernization of centrifuges and various things they said that some of the terms that were agreed to in lausanne seem to have weakened. so this letter is a public call to the administration to maintain its backbone to stand strong. they're

in this case they didn't give or administration officials with the obama administration frankly, haven'tnted the finger directly at beijing at all. so it's a little bit less clear cut this time from the perspective of those who might be sympathetic to the u.s. viewpoint. china is accused, though by officials, investigators, of hacking into some 18 million, perhaps more current, former and prospective federal employees. now, the reason this is worrying to many is it could also include those who are trying to get highly sensitive security clearances to work in government jobs or contract fields with the government including in homeland security. so it's a major issue. who's at fault? well that's just finger-pointing at this point. but certainly, both china and the u.s. have been saying they want to figure out some kind of dialogue on the issue of cyber hacking, but at this point, the dialogue seems very far away indeed. john. >> seems to be you did it no we didn't. i have to say, the scope of this is just enormous. david mckenzie in beijing. thank you very much. >> it's almost like you did

officially the obama administration has not said he is dead but yemeni officials and a number of socialts right from al qaeda itself are saying that he was killed in a drone strike and now a successor to him has been appointed by al qaeda in yemen, the organization itself. so even within hours or days of his potential death, the organization moving ahead with new leadership. but wuhayshi was a guy who had direct connections to osama bin laden, had been appointed number two of all of al qaeda by ayman al zawahiri the successor of bin laden. so this was a guy who had a lot of credibility within the organization. we don't really have many details about the drone strike did the u.s. know he was there? was this a lucky hit that they got? what we are told is they are still trying to confirm information from the ground. but it does come after, you know a couple of real successes by the intelligence community. it was just earlier this week we learned there was an f-15 air strike against a top al qaeda operative in libya who ran the north african operation and a couple weeks ago, of course we ha

also a question on what is the official obama administration policy on bitcoin? guest: the obama administration, i do not think of the white house it self has said much about bitcoin. the treasury department, which is part of the administration, has been looking at this. they have been slow to act, but to the degree they have said anything, they said this is an interesting technology and we are looking at it and we the existing rules are enough for now, but they have let it develop slowly. an interesting note is the administration did recently take on as one of its tech guru advisors, a princeton professor named ed felten who has been invited -- excited and involved with bitcoin. he has been a math and computer guy fascinated by the new things bitcoin makes possible. this is not a guy saying everyone should go out and buy bitcoin, but it is interesting they brought on someone who is in this movement and is excited about bitcoin. host: we hear from dan in wisconsin. good morning. caller: people have to realize that, i believe bitcoin was introduced by the u.s. gov

a senior administration official tells me that tomorrow president obama will announce that hostages' families can privately pay ransom money. basically, the government's going to look the other way and will not threaten to prosecute families that pay. the white house is also going to announce it's creating what it's calling a hostage recovery fusion center. it will be based at the fbi. they're also creating a mechanism to keep families better informed. but the government will not pay ransom and the white house has no plans to appoint a high-level hostage czar. a lot of families and lawmakers had recommended that. >> poort alexander tonight. thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, how safe is the air we all breathe on airplanes? alarming new accusations from flight attendants about toxic fumes on board and serious health damage. >>> also remembering a hollywood legend. an oscar winner who brought to life some of the most famous scenes in movie history. guess what: your insurance company will only give you 37-thousand to replace it. "depreciation" they claim. "how can my car depreciate bef

, it is former obama administration officials that all agree that what we are doing is without strategy and without prospect of success. "politico" article obama's iraq quagmire, the president finds himself dragged back into a war he was elected to end. when pressed on why the latest efforts do not include having american troops serve as spotters for airstrikes or sending apache air aircraft to back up iraqi troops, deputy security advisor ben rhodes told reporters the president has been very clear he'll look at a range of different options. that's encouraging news, that the president has been are very clear. i love it. all these spokes people, they use two sort of fillers. one is very clear and the other is quite frankly. do you ever notice that? isn't that interesting? maybe we should take that out of their vocabulary. very clear and frankly when they are neither clear nor frank. but anyway, mr. rhodes a really interesting guy said the u.s. military is cannot and should not do this simply for iraqis and frankly iraqis want to b

a senior administration official tells nbc news president obama spent last night working on the eulogy. and hillary clinton will be there as well. >>> you can join mourners at a vigil hosted by the stafford county naacp. that is tonight at 7:30 outside the united states christian ministry. it's open to the public and of course to pastors and worshipers from other churches. >>> new details this morning, montgomery county police are investigating the death of a 60-year-old man montgomery village man as a murder. someone beat bradley colmes so badly that he died. this beating happened on june 12th. montgomery county police believe three people saw the attack and they're asking the witnesses to call them. a $10,000 reward is being offered for information in this case. >>> the son of the late marion barry is headed to jail. that's according to "the washington post." christopher barry is facing 15 days for violating his probation. police caught him driving on a revoked license last year. barry is supposed to report to jail on july 3. he will serve his time on weekends. >>> 4:34. today we're

lou: until now, the obama administration had avoided blaming the attack on china in public, although several u.s. officials had said in briefings that the cyberattacks were carried out by chinese hackers. >>> troubling new developments in the irs scandal. the inspector general overseeing the irs acknowledged that irs employees destroyed thousands of e-mails during the investigation into the agency's targeting of conservative groups. specifically, e-mails between targeted tea party groups and the former irs official at the heart of this scandal, lois lerner. and it happened ten months after a court-order to preserve the e-mails. listen to testimony before the house oversight committee today. >> we determined that 422 of the 424 tapes were degazed or magnetically erased. the erasure was done by irs employees on or about march 4th, 2014, one month after the irs realized it was missing e-mails. our investigation found no evidence to prove that the erasure of the 422 tapes was done in furtherance of an effort to conceal evident from congress or law enforcement. >> the chairman of the house oversight committee s

also a question on what is the official obama administration policy on bitcoin? guest: the obama administration, i do not think of the white house it self has said much about bitcoin. the treasury department, which is part of the administration, has been looking at this. they have been slow to act, but to the degree they have said anything, they said this is an interesting technology and we are looking at it and we the existing rules are enough for now, but they have let it develop slowly. an interesting note is the administration did recently take on as one of its tech guru advisors, a princeton professor named ed felten who has been invited -- excited and involved with bitcoin. he has been a math and computer guy fascinated by the new things bitcoin makes possible. this is not a guy saying everyone should go out and buy bitcoin, but it is interesting they brought on someone who is in this movement and is excited about bitcoin. host: we hear from dan in wisconsin. good morning. caller: people have to realize that, i believe bitcoin was introduced by the u.s. gov

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obama administration the obama/biden administration. and so again what we've seen here today, is an official function, but also very, very personal. f the altar and hugged joe biden, seemed to kiss him on the neck there too, just words were shared between the two of them and you could see that bond you're talking about. very unusual when you think back in history, the presidents and vice presidents to have that kind of a bond. so as you can see, saint anthony of padua the church now, emptying out. the mourners exiting the church. the vice president and his family have left the premises. the mass is wrapping up. as we said the body of bow biden is going -- beau biden will be transported to greenville delaware that will be his final resting place and also the final resting place of his mother and his sister who died in that car accident back in 1972 now more than 40 years ago. that car accident that he survived. that this concludes msnbc's special coverage of the funeral for beau biden, which as we say, just wrapped up in wilmington delaware. we saw moving tributes to beau biden, the eldest son of vice president joe biden from the u.

tonight the obama administration is facing new questions about another massive cyber attack on the government. officials now say hackers may have gained access to sensitive security clearance information on intelligence and military personnel. now, this a day after the federal employees union accused the white house of lying about the extent of another breach disclosed just last week. our john terret is following this story from washington so john, the scope of this problem just seems to be getting bigger each passing day. >> reporter: jonathan that is absolutely right. the numbers get bigger every day if not indeed every hour. because when we first heard about the cyber-break in in the office of personnel management last week the number was said to be around 4 million now there was the union push back and the administration said okay there were military and intelligence personnel affected as well, some applying for security clearance and that involved more people, family friends co-wokers and the guess is somewhat around 14 million american accounts potentially hacked. 24 hours after the biggest federa

. >>> the obama administration is blaming hackers in china for what officials are calling the biggest cyber attack against the united states government ever. personal information of 4 million current and former workers, federal workers, have been compromised and millions more could be at risk as well. without specifically denying that it's the culprit, china is calling those allegations not responsible and counter productive. cnn's evan perez is following this story closely. maybe you could put in lay people's terms who got hacked, what did the hacker get, and how serious is it? >> it's very serious, ashleigh. the office of personnel management, like the hr department for the federal government, essentially, says that it's notifying 4 million people, former and current employees of the federal government, that their personal data may have been compromised in this hack. now, we know that the hackers got in there several months ago. it was discovered in april when the office of personnel management noticed there was some anomalies in the network, computer network, and then the homeland

the obama administration is rushing to assess a massive data breach that one u.s. official says could affect every federal agency. as many as 4 million current and former employees' records were hacked from the office of personnel management. officials say chinese hackers appear to be responsible. much more on this story is coming up on "world news" at 4:30. >>> in the zhou bay hearing for the first time from a parent of one of the children allegedly molested by a counselor at a popular science camp. we are covering her face and altering her voice at the mother's request. abc7 news has this story. >> reporter: 27-year-old edgar me deeia is charged with molesting a 10-year-old boy when worked as a counselor at wall don west a camp operated by the county office of education. there may be others. jane doe's 10-year-old son attended a three-day overnight program at wall don west back in january. he immediately noticed a change in behavior when he returned home. >> first night he came home he slept in mine and my husband's bed, which he hasn't done for years. he would have night

a senior administration official tells nbc news president obama spent last night working on the eulogy. >>> here in our area you can join mourners at the vigil in stafford county. it will be hosted by the county's naacp chapter. tonight at 7:30, outside the united states christian ministry. all are invited. >>> we are following developing stories in montgomery county. speed and alcohol may have caused this deadly crash. take a look at the scene here. two people died in this crash in north potomac. montgomery county fire and rescue says just before midnight this car went off the road, through a fence. and landed in someone's driveway. dufief mill is still shut down near travilah while police investigate. melissa mollet will have more on how you can get around this issue. >>> new this morning we are learning a 16-year-old boy is recovering after being shot at a rec center in prince george's county. maryland national capital park police say this happened at the birchwood community park in ox hill. police say it was the result of an argument between the victim and the friend of the shooter

the obama administration wants to bail out student loans, and officials have told this particular storywall street journal" under the emerging plan, the government will consider forgiving any loans made directly by the government. so isn't this a larger plan of the obama administration trying to forgive student loans? >> it could be, and i might go one step further with that. whenever we want to make something more attainable in this country using government program, we only ever do one thing. we artificially puff up buying power. what happens when you do that? prices spiral out of control. you get zimbabwe-like inflation, what you have in college costs and you get the new actors entering the market with low quality products trying to soak up the government cash. not an affordability program, it's an unaffordability program. david: there's $1.2 trillion of debt in the student loan pr programs. do we have the money to forgive all those? >> i don't think we do, a. b, who is to be sued here? it is the college, if the college perpetuated fraud, they could be sued for that, fraudulent or pro

in iraq and syria, officials are telling reporters that the situation is this - the fight against i.s.i.l. in iraq is led by the iraqi government, not the obama administration so it would be inappropriate for the administration to try to tick date how the i.s.i.l. fighters should be taken on particularly right now in anbar province one thing that is stressed by u.s. official is that the u.s. is basically trying to look at how to train fighters. it's trined more than 89 fighters in the iraqi military. however, they say that one of the big problems is that prime minister haider al-abadi has not provided enough recruits for additional training saying as long as he is providing enough proof from the sunni majority population, it will be difficult to take on i.s.i.l. in any xreps iway. that said it was committed to coming up with a strategy, and is doing so as quickly as possible. they are stressing it comes down to the government to make the fight against i.s.i.l. a success. >>> while the united states ponders a strategy iraq is torn apart, struggling to provide. zeina khodr reports from northern iraq. >> reporter: she greaves for her husband and eldest son. it

the three-term south carolina senator who officially brings the gop field to nine has been an outspoken critic of the obama administration'soreign policy, especially when it comes to defeating isis. >> i want to be president to defeat the enemies that are trying to kill us, not just paralyze them or criticize them or contain them but defeat them. >> reporter: he's also blasted president obama ally big drawl of u.s. forces from iraq saying he would send an additional 10,000 troops there despite the responsibility of more american casualty. he's also made it clear the u.s. needs to strongarm iran over the nuclear program. >> ladies and gentlemen, there are no moderates in iran running their government. >> reporter: on the democratic side, hillary clinton has a new challenger even though she's still widely considered to be the nominee. martin open mally is looking to carve out his position in the possessive wing of the party, taking aim at wall street reform. >> tell meal how it is you can get pulled over in our country for a broken taillight but if you ruin the nation's economy, you are untouchable. >> reporter: he's conside

obama administration calls the report a wakeup call. >>> firefighters are battling a massive firefighter south of markleeville. officials say the washington fire has burned at least 6500 acres. mandatory evacuation orders are in place. at least five homes and 15 historic cabins are in danger and several local roads are closed. a wildfire in san bernardino county is still burning out of control. it started on wednesday about 90 miles east of l.a. more than 17,000 acres have burned so far and the fire is just 19% contained. the cause is still under investigation. >>> drought is starting to have a major impact on summer recreation at folsom lake. boaters who rent slips at the marina had to remove them this weekend. in normal years, the boats could stay docked well into september but the water level is so low at 414 feets owners could no longer leave their boats in the water. >> i'm gonna miss coming out and taking the kids and wake boarding and enjoying the afternoons and i guess i have to find another hobby. >> once the water level falls below 400 feet, the speed limit for boats drops to 5 miles an hour which is too slow

them on it and the obama administration not only refused to call it cheating but, in effect started making excuses for them. so they gave an interview, a senior administration official gave an interview to bloomberg and said it was probably a mistake that they were using these banned centrifuges. at a certain point, it can't be the case that the nuclear program because a side issue for barack obama and his iranian legacy. the iranian nuclear program really matters and ought to be the center of this discussion. >> what about the quote from david axelrod, that i'm the closest thing to a jew that's ever sat in this office? >> well i'm not sure i can understand what that means. but perhaps the judgment of israelis 6 million of them are jews and, more importantly v. have a good idea of what a friend is i think the approval rating for obama is 15% among israelis. so the administration has a favorable view of obama and overwhelming majority of the israelis know that this president has been probably the least favorable to israel of any in israel's history and at a moment where israel's existence is actually in question, for oem obama, this is matter of personal hurt? who ca