they did not plan to occupy iraq. general frank's plan for that on donald rumsfeld's instructions -- the military and the state department believed they were going in to remove saddam hussein, find weapons of mass destruction, and get out very quickly. jay garner, the general in charge of dealing with the iraqis, had a council, ready to take charge. and then on may 1 when bush spoke on the flight deck of the abraham lincoln with a banner that said "mission accomplished," bush changed the ground rules. he said we were going to occupy iraq and bring in democracy. they had not planned for that. they were taken by surprise on may 1 on the flight deck on the abraham lincoln when bush said we were going to bring democracy to iraq. the difference between being liberators and occupiers is profound. liberators make a country free. occupiers impose their will. the military had not planned for that. they had planned to go in and get out. brian: george bush at west point. june 1, 2002, before the war started in march. [video clip

look at iraq and syria. but isis have very clearly in their online propaganda written about wanting to move east, about trying to take over these majority muslim countries, 146 million muslims in bangladesh and that is seen by all the terror groups as a great breeding ground for them. bangladesh had traditionally been relatively moderate but a has really moved, moving the wrong way, and we have seen a number of people join isis in syria and iraq from that part of the world and also the philippines. it really is a region which has been overlooked, but if you look at the sheer numbers out there, it's remarkable that it's taken so long, and here we are today. there were warning signs. we're seeing some tweets which possibly heralded this attack. suggested it's couple of days ago. what's next, and all the hallmarks of an isis, al qaeda style attack, hostages, multiple gunmen, explosive devices, and now the see how the police respond to it. typically you would want them to go in as quickly as possible, not waste

this report was really about learning the lessons from the iraq war. ofouple of headlines, couple takeaways -- john chilcott saying the war was not thehe strategy of contaiaining saddam hussein coud have continued. the war did not have to be waged at that point in time. >> it is the argument that hass been debated and made on numerous occasions in the course od.the postinvasion peri already veryas much under way and raging across britain. he summarizes the report as an account of intervention from a military intervention that went badly wrong and has consequences bothis day and those are very important aspect because you cannot stress enough, within britain itself, the degree to which this has created a trauma which has had an impact on the way britain wages its foreign-policy. it does go back to this now sort of almost not original sin of iraq because british foreign-policy mother have been blunders in the past. --ut definitely foreign-policy mother have been blunders in the past, but -- foreign-policy, there have been blunders in the past, but defini

ground in iraq and syria. more now on this from charlie d'agata. >> reporter: even under attack, isis has gone on the offensive. officials in saudi arabia are investigating the bombings in three separate cities. in iraq, they're still counting and burying the dead from the worst single terror attack that country has seen since the u.s.-led invasion in 2003. yet, largely with the help of u.s. air strikes, the militant group so-called caliphate has taken a beating in recent months. u.s. defense department estimates isis has lost almost half territory controlled in iraq and more than a third of the area held in syria. despite the battlefield setbacks, during the holy month of ramadan, isis managed to accelerate its global brand of terror by either directly organizing attacks or by inspiring suicide bombers and gunmen to kill at least 800 people around the globe. cbs news senior national security analyst, juan zurate. >> this uptick in foreign attacks is less a demonstration of reaction to losing territory in iraq

in iraq? to protect any americans that are there. >> this is something that we're on every single day at the state department both protecting our american citizens and people who live and work and stay in the country are protected. the day starts with the report of every single official at state of any threats to our positions in different countries and american citizens there and working across the government to make sure we're defending our people. >> let me ask you about e-mails. the state department asked for a delay in releasing thousands of e-mails that we thought would come out this summer. the delay will take it to 2018, past the 2016 presidential election. do you feel the state department is being transparent? it leaves the appearance the state department is trying to run out the clock right now. >> we made extraordinary effort to provide all of the information that we have to provide as quickly as we can. but this goes to significant review process to make sure the information provid

>> what people see is how terribly we came out of iraq. >> if you support the iraq war, if you thought it was a good idea, if you thought vietnam escalation was a good idea, if you thought toppling gadhafi, which party should you vote for. >> if you thought those were all good ideas. >> chris, i'm going to have you voting republican before this is over with. >> suppose you believe the iraq war was a mistake and you thought the vietnam war went on way too long, should you. >> suppose you think isis is a really, really bad organization. i told you, you're going to be voting republican. >> you're changing the subject. >> national security is the issue. >> here's my problem because a lot of people like trump because he is changing the course of our foreign policy saying we've gotten stuck in the mud. the middle east in the sand too often. we should pull back. is that the right message? trump's message. >> what trump is saying let's be wise. let's bring some -- let's bring together our military leaders. what happened with the down fall of iraq? obama wasn't listening to our commanders in th

al qaeda wasn't even in iraq. so i would say with the removal of hussein, that is behind the terrorists we have today. >> let me go to the acknowledgements in the back. i'm gonna ask you by a fellow. you say john in 1954 classmate of mine at princeton read the manuscript for every chapter of every book i have written beginning with the defense of berlin in 1963. he has died since then. >> he died. i think he died in 2013, i think. >> that's what you say in the book. >> yeah. >> so why did he read every chapter of every book that you have ever written? >> well, we were roommates at princeton. we were good friends. and he just agreed to do it. >> "gang of 13." >> yes, the gang of 13. >> who are they? not by name. >> i do it chapter by chapter. whenever i finish a chapter i send it out to these 13 people. they read it. and they send me their comments on the chapter. i don't go back to them. they send the chapter to me and it's a one-shot deal. i read what their comments were. if i like it, i'll use it. if i don't, i

al qaeda was not in iraq. i would say it was the removal of saddam hussein that began a terrorist threats today. brian: technologies in the back. -- acknowledgments in the back. you say, it 1954 classmate of mine read the manuscript for every chapter of every book i have written beginning with the defense of berlin in 1963. he died in 2013, i think. brian: why did he read every chapter of every book? jean edward: we were roommates at princeton and we were good he just agreed to do it. brian: gang ofbrian: 13? who are they? jean edward: i do a chapter by chapter as i say. one of finish a chapter, i sent it to 13 people. they read it and they sent me their comments on the chapter and i don't go back to them. they sent a chapter to me and it is a one-shot deal. their comments were and i like it i use it if i don't, i don't. brian: who are these folks? jean edward: they are people i have met over the years. helen tillman, i meant after she wrote a book about frank on and zero different. d. lindsay rutherfor she is

troops back to iraq, this time to fight isis. since that summer day, 2014, when president obama announced he would send up to 300 u.s. soldiers back into iraq as military advisors he has slowly been adding more and more and more. another 200 soldiers here, another 130 there, 350 more, another 475. over the past two years it has been a slow isis -- escalation, steady undeclared expansion of the war the u.s. military is now fighting in iraq again, this time against isis. today, we got the most recent and one of the largest expansions yet. secretary of defense ash carter took a surprise trip to iraq and he announced there another 560 american troops will be deployed into iraq, this time specifically to help retake the large iraqi city of mosul from isis control. this latest addition means we're now back up officially to about 4600 american troops in iraq, unofficially the number is larger than that. unofficially the number has already cleared 5,000 americans back in iraq and that number is riing and riing and rising. and the last ti

gave for invading iraq. it said if sanctions against hussain's regime -- and it would have taken the country several years to deploy long range missiles. the report also said that blair's government believed the saddam regime had biological weapons. but intelligence on the potential threat was not established beyond doubt. it also points out that blair wrote to the then-u.s. president george w. bush saying i will be with you whatever. and it claims this shows the two leaders had agreed to overthrow saddam before the start of the war. blair said wednesday he accepts full responsibility for his actions. >> the decision to go to war in iraq and to remove saddam hussain from power in the coalition of 40 countries led by the united states of america was the hardest, most momentous, most agonizing position i took in my ten years as british prime minister. >> blair said he disagrees with the decision that it triggered the chaos in the middle east. he said saddam himself was a source of terror and a continuing threa

invasion and occupation of iraq. with respect to iraq, isis has a machiavellian strategy. it has been the case since 2004. iraq is a shia majority country. isis is the extremist outcopping of sunni jihadism. to get sunnis on side, what do they have to do? they have to attack the shi'a in a genocidal pathological fashion and brutalize and radicalize the shia, such that they join these shia militias, which then go in and conduct retaliatory violence against the sunnis, ethnic cleansing, burning the homes of sunnis, et cetera. that pushes the sunnis into the isis fold. fallujah right now is a popped moon scape, uninhabitable. it's not going to be habitable for a long time. isis says it's a tactical loss for us but in the long term this could be a gain in terms of morale because it's going to make sunnis want to rejoin the fold. one of the reasons iraqis put forward in going after fallujah and prioritizing it for the battle above mosul, fallujah is only 40 miles from baghdad. this bomb came from a different province, which is where isis has set the most intense sectarian battl

in iraq and afghanistan. sorry for raising my voice, when they go to afghanistan after bin laden and the taliban, ok. but they went into iraq on a lie and look at the unbelievable mess that they caused. they didn't even care about them before they wept in there. they thought we're going to go in there, everything will be fine. i just think that either people that hate the clintons and that's just all there is to it. and she's going to be president and they can't deal with it. host: a report from iraq is coming out coming from the perspective of those in britain. that's the iraq inquiry committee. that's out of london. will release a report wednesday about britain's role in the iraq war. the report is a product of seven years of work likely to be the definitive assessment of a conflict that's rightly seen britain as the worst war blunder since 1956. the war claimed the lives of 179 british troops and more than 4,500 funs service members. some of the key issues out of the report will be intelligence failures ar

in iraq. we are very much living with that mistake. has that lesson been learned? looking at libya, it is clear it has not. during the uprising against qaddafi armed militias focused on toppling the regime. the british government seemed surprised once the goal was achieved they turned their fire on each other. although they were more tribal than sectarian divisions in iraq it was the same. the democratic elections would help fill the power vacuum and seem optimistic. a faction that found themselves in the minority simply refused to accept the result as legitimate. things tilted at the time, they would have formed a government that this would happen. search warnings were available and informed impartial advice and the same way it was clear to many experts in the region that if qaddafi was toppled there was a huge risk of instability, highly trained and returned to native country like niger and chad and such advice was either not heard until it was too late. there was a parallel to be drawn betw

ground in iraq and syria. more now on this from charlie d'agata. >> reporter: even under attack, isis has gone on the offensive. officials in saudi arabia are investigating the bombings in three separate cities. in iraq, they're still counting and burying the dead from the worst single terror attack that country has seen since the u.s.-led invasion in 2003. u.s. air strikes, the militant group so-called caliphate has taken a beating in recent months. u.s. defense department estimates isis has lost almost half territory controlled in iraq and more than a third of the area held in syria. despite the battlefield setbacks, during the holy month of ramadan, isis managed to accelerate its global brand of terror by either directly organizing attacks or by inspiring suicide bombers and gunmen to kill at least 800 people around the globe. cbs news senior national security analyst, juan zurate. >> this uptick in foreign attacks is less a demonstration of reaction to losing territory in iraq and more a manifestation of l

report detailing britain's role in iraq is being released. we speak to families who lost loved ones in the word. a cause of celebration. no spacecraft enters jupiter's orbit. ♪ laura: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. the fbi will not recommend criminal charges against hillary clinton for her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. the director called mrs. clinton's actions careless and faulted the state department for a lax approach to the handling of classified material. it came before president obama joined mrs. clinton on the campaign trail for the first time. and hillary obama clinton on a mission to stop donald trump from ever boarding this airplane. it was another branch of the federal government, the fbi, that threatened to destroy the candidacy. a statement from the fbi director was one of the most eagerly awaited. made more dramatic isil much of it happened like a prosecutor's in a criminalent trial. hillary clinton and her staff had been extremely careless in the handlin

that is what i was involved in in iraq. this is the establishment report. they interview? politicians and generals. said hasthose people been crafted into something for public consumption. >> this is david. his grandson was shot and killed when serving in iraq. to westminster with his other grandson. he is encouraged by some of the findings. u.k. joined that beenbefore disarmament had happening. >> what we would have liked the report to address would have been the allegations of war crimes that went on for many years during the british invasion and occupation of iraq. there are hundreds of allegations. >> the report includes damning criticisms of tony blair. including a previously unpublished memo to george w. bush and months before the war. saying, i will be with you whatever the outcome. the outcome doesn't seem to be the whitewash that some campaigners have predicted. anchor: let's move on to football. who aree, even people not fans are paying attention. france has made it to the semifinals. they have a mountain to climb. they will champion germany. let's go over to our

this time in iraq. have killed 120 people. two bombs went off sunday in the capital city of baghdad. just as people were breaking their religious fasts. the bombings followed an assault on a cafe in bangladesh in which three american college students among the dead. an attack at the airport in istanbul, turkey last tuesday. as we report, isis appears to have a hand in all enough is. >> reporter: the first explosion rocked the business district, engulfing a shopping mall in flames. against an orange guy, first responders sifted through twisted, charred wreckage for survivors. the attack happened shortly after midnight, sunday morning, as families were eating dinner after fasting during the day for the holy month of ramadan. baghdad police blamed carnage on a massive bomb in the back of a pickup truck. people couldn't recognize their families who were engulfed in the fire, said this man who managed to escape. police said many of the victims were children. the islamic state was quick to claim responsibility. it is the third attac

so there was hardship in iraq. so it was understandable that people should be against the sanction on that basis, but they were on the campaign against it and it was itself good. >> dish you fully understand the significance of chapter 20 and the executive summary which says quite clearly that this was not a last resort. now the importance of that is that it's absolutely fundamental to the definition of a just war. if we accept that assertion the collaborate was this was not a just war with all the consequences that followed. so all of this volumes of stuff, in the summary that bangs up a lot. >> i'm not actually a lawyer but i do not think it was a military or legal concept. i do understand it in those terms. apart from the question of whether or not this was a last resort, can i also say on the matter of containment, that, that after the invasion, evidence was found that indeed saddam hussein had been in breach of resolution more than we had understood at the time of the invasion, a breach which we are unaware fo

all of this news coming against the back drop of turmoil in iraq. the suicide bomber that killed 200 people. how are the people dealing with this recent news? >> reporter: boris, you would be surprised people were indifferent to the release of the chilcott report. 2.6 million words. equal to five "wars and peace." for most, this is water under the bridges. we contacted the prime minister's office. they said the report is an internal british matter. another reporter i know contacted the foreign ministry asking about the report. they said what report. for most iraqis, the damage has been done. the chilcott report is a searing indictment of the war and aftermath of the war, but as i said, the damage here is done. as far as mr. trump's comments go, many people rather surprised that he would make the suggestion that saddam hussein was good at fighting terrorists because for most iraqis, the reign of saddam hussein was a reign of terror. many people remember it was saddam hussein's forces that conducted what was known as the campaign in the late 1980s in

war. >> we went to war, we went to iraq. >> we ent to iraq that was handled so badly. that was a war we should not have been in. >> your running mate voted for it. >> i don't care. >> what do you mean you don't care? >> it is a long time ago and he voted that way and they were mislead. >> but you harped on this. the war in iraq from the beginning. >> you used that vote of hillary's that was the same as governor pence's as -- as an example of her bad judgment. >> i'm one of the few that were right. >> he is entitled to make a mace take once in awhile, but she is not. >> another great moment that he never got to discussion. >> yeah, he has beaten hillary clinton like a trump on this issue. he used it effectively in the republican primary, and i think he shattered the orthodox. we discover there is a republican elector rate that is very much opposed to the interventionalism that we have seen. i don't think we will be reiterating the iraq war, but it could have been avoidable. >> and joking that his vote on the iraq war doesn't matter, but -- >> i don't think he was joking

ground in iraq and syria. more now on this from charlie d'agata. >> reporter: even under attack, isis has gone on the offensive. officials in saudi arabia are investigating the bombings in three separate cities. in iraq, they're still counting and burying the dead from the worst single terror attack that country has seen since the u.s.-led invasion in 2003. yet largely with the help of u.s. air strikes, the militant group's so-called caliphate has taken a beating in recent months. the u.s. defense department estimates that isis has lost almost half of the territory it once controlled in iraq and more than one-third of the area it held in syria. despite those battlefield setbacks, during the holy month of ramadan, isis has managed to accelerate its global brand of terror by either directly organizing attacks or by inspiring suicide bombers and gunmen to kill at least 800 people around the globe. cbs news senior national security analyst juan zarate. >> this uptick in foreign attacks is less a demonstration of r

that happened for iraq as well. but the sense of urgency that this is going to raise questions for french officials who are saying, we're shoring up our counterterrorism laws, shoring up intelligence, shoring up security and then seeing this vulnerability, once again, it's going to raise questions about how this happened on a day where security should be heightened. and we're constantly making analogies to what it was like on the fourth of july. whether it be new york, d.c., or l.a., we know these cities shut down. i mean, in new york city, days leading up to it -- >> massive security presence. >> the nypd showcased what they rememb were doing to lock down the city for these celebrations. french officials did that. you were not allowed to drive on it. how did a vehicle manage to get that close to pedestrians? >> the horrifying effectiveness of this attack is the novelty in so far, the official moments of the truck rolling past, you have police and others rolling after it, fairly clearly not grasping, thinking this i

bbc news, northern iraq. katty: the war in iraq seems a long way from cleveland. please join us for the national anthem. >> and the home of the brave. katty: you are watching "bbc world news america." republicanme, the national convention has been full of surprises. not alter the trump campaign's content. the islamic state militant group video showing the 17-year-old afghan asylum speaker attacking people on a train in germany. five were injured near the southern city of whitesburg -- of wurzburg. correspondent: terrific attack in a quiet corner of seven germany. they have dealt with the aftermath after a young man armed with a knife and an axe brought terror to a suburban train. one witness said the carriage was like a slaughterhouse. 30 passengers were onboard. people from the same chinese family were injured, 2 critically. others were treated for shock. when the train stopped, the attacker fled before he was shot by police. >> lucky. we had special police forces in the area. he was stopped. he attacked policemen. there was no other option but to shoot correspon

not only in syria, but iraq has been liberated. second is that the number of foreign citizens or individuals coming to join the group has decline. i've seen figures as high as perhaps declined by 75% compared to the height of the period where foreigners used to come. and there are efforts to push against both daesh but also against more. we will come to that tactical american-russian strategy to deal with it. my sense is that we need to look at, and i advocated to take the areas that daesh and al-nusra control to take back. had to do in a specified timeframe i think six months seems would be unreasonable go goal. and for the united states, and this could be done by the coalition perhaps even with russia, that we pursue or use the afghan model that we did against the taliban and al-qaeda in afghanistan as a method, a combination of local forces and regional forces with heavy u.s. air power and with special forces with the afghani forces to take over territories, remaining territories such as mosul and raqqa and other areas that are

in syria and iraq. announced before , theice attack strengthening of our military support to the iraqi army. decided as part of the anti-isis coalition made available to the iraqi forces, artillery means they will be on the ground next month. be aircraft carrier will deployed. the 14th ofthis on july. it will be deployed at the end of september. andill allow us to step up intensify strikes against terrorist groups in syria and iraq with our jets. i have asked the defense parliament asform of next week. it is not a question of changing the nature of our intervention. our allies in iraq and syria. we are not deploying troops on the ground. we have advice to provide .raining it is not our soldiers who are waging war on the ground in's area -- in syria and iraq. defending is what it holds most dearly. what constitutes it, freedom and security. without which, freedom cannot be expressed. we know the risks exist. we must reduce these risks. peopleprotect all french and deploy all resources, legal and human me

ground in iraq and syria. more now on this from charlie d'agata. >> reporter: even under attack, isis has gone on the offensive. officials in saudi arabia are investigating the bombings in three separate cities. in iraq, they're still counting and burying the dead from the worst single terror attack that country has seen since the u.s.- led invasion in 2003. yet largely with the help of u.s. air strikes, the militant group's so-called caliphate has taken a beating in recent months. the u.s. defense department estimates that isis has lost almost half of the territory it once controlled in iraq and more than one-third of the area it held in syria. despite those battlefield setbacks, during the holy month of ramadan, isis has managed to accelerate its global brand of terror by either directly organizing attacks or by inspiring suicide bombers and gunmen to kill at least 800 people around the globe. cbs news senior national security analyst juan zarate. >> this uptick in foreign attacks is less a demonstration of

if you do afghanistan is going to become iraq. very quickly. >> have rules of engagement that we can utilize the full use of american military power. >> senator mccain, on that afghanistan question, the situation there, by some reports, is quite dire. unity government is in, a very shaky state. for an american public that has seen 15 or more years in afghanistan. leaving the troops there may feel like, throwing good after bad. >> well then that means we have forgotten the lesson of 9/11. that is that -- of course, if we leave and these forces take over. then there will be further attacks on the united states of >> by the way, there is going to be further attacks on the united states of america as long as they have a base in syria. then they will have a base in afghanistan. p>> i want to ask about turkey. lot of analysts will say, turkey was turning a blind eye to isis. a lot of fighters want through. almost off all them were going through turkey. turkey was an enabler. one person put it where now do you think turkey is in the figh

ambassador to iraq and afghanistan was part of a recent discussion on u.s. policy twor policy towards syria. >> what needs to be done with syrian president. this was hosted on our interest and it is an hour and a half. >>> well, good morning everybody, thank you for turning out on a brutally hot day in the middle of july on a friday afternoon when you should really be some where else. we do have some important things to discuss and my name is jeffery kemp, i am the director of regional security programs here of the center of the national interest. i am joined by two speakers and one commentator and paul pillar and demetrius let me talk about the format that we are going to have this morning. a fascinating book that was just written called "the end void." my journey to the turbulent world to afghanistan, iraq and the un and had a distinguish academic record as well. he brings both academic to the project. paul pillard, covering in southeast asia, i don't know what it is called today. clearly critical part of the wo world. he also published a book which i do n

we know he did a tour in iraq. we also found a treasure-trove of stuff online from the past year that he posted calling himself convos with cosmo. a freedom strategist, a nutritionist and spiritual advisory. there is a lot of strange stuff, and i will and i will not be covering everything. he talks about police in america. on july the 10th, he was in dallas, he did a march, and he wore a body cam. perhaps most chilling was a tweet he put out this morning at 1:12 a.m. on july 17th, just because you wake up every day doesn't mean you're living, and just because you shed your fiscal body doesn't mean you're dead. investigators are going to start with this, build from this, figure out what the motive was behind the attack. it was a lot. more than 1,000 tweets. he had a you tube page with literally over 100 videos on it. >> in the information that we have picked up about him being in dallas, is there anything in that information about what weapons he might have had with him in dallas? >> no, nothing on his pages that wo

it has happened very clearly in iraq. the iraq war, there was the surge. you had 140,000-some-odd troops there battling day in and day out, clearing towns in western iraq, neighborhoods in bagdad. then they left and saw isis take over, shiite militias take over, corrupt officials allow these projects to go to rock. i think the legacy of what happened in iraq is hanging over very clearly this decision for afghanistan. afghanistan has been getting worse. you have these three competing enemies that compete with each other, al qaeda, the taliban and isis has been encroaching, all vying to make afghanistan their home. i think it was with a look over the shoulder to iraq that the president decided he couldn't in good conscience go down even to the troop withdraw number of 5,500 that was planned. >> thanks as always to our chief fornt correspondent richard engel and all who participated in this coverage of the president's appearance and announcement from the white house. a break for us. our coverage will continue on the other side. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ take on any roa

today, iraq is harvard for terrorism. you want to be a terrorist? you go to iraq. it's like harvard. okay? [ laughter ]

today iraq is harvard for terrorism. you want to be a terrorist, you go to iraq. liz: rob o'neal is a former u.s. navy seal team six member and the man who killed terrorist number one osama bin laden. what did you think about? >> it's an interesting way to say it. it's -- now is a breeding ground iraq and syria both because of isis. it was more under control if you will although brutal by the dictator saddam hussein but that's more saddam and his party which is both iraq and syria, if that makes any kind of sense at all. saddam just suppressed the people over there and the reason why it's such a bad place now is they were used to the dictator and they're not quite ready for it. liz: when you hear that, people look at it saying, well, osama bin laden, you neutrallized, terrible, terrible guy, but, boy, did he have organizational skills, he brought down the twin towers. why not use a better example? winston churchill, you know, in charcoal on raid. why not use something like that? >> i think right now because that's just the hot burning item where isis is and where

and now iraq. we will full coverage, senior international correspondent ben wedeman is following the biggest attack there in iraq. also with me is cnn military analyst lieutenant colonel rick francona. he is a former u.s. military attache in the middle east. ben, let me begin with you, if you can tell us more about the neighborhoods targeted in these attacks in baghdad. >> fred, the major attack happened right in the middle of the center of baghdad. there were hundreds of people out on the street shopping, strolling, going to cafes, really just doing what normally people do on a hot summer's night in baghdad when we believe a truck bomb went off at about midnight. not only the blast causing huge damage, but it set fire to many of the buildings around it. we understand that people are still being pulled out of the ruins. according to the iraqi police, among the 125 dead they say are at least 25 children and 25 women. now, when the iraqi prime minister went to the scene to inspect the damage, many pe

we went to iraq >> yeah, we did go to iraq and that was handled so badly. that was a war we should have ended because iraq did not knock down -- >> your running mate voted for it. >> i don't care. >> what do you mean you don't care that he voted for it? >> it's a long time ago. they were misled. i was against the war in iraq from the beginning. >> you used that vote of hillary's. >> many people were. >> as the example of her bad judgment. >> many people have, and frankly, i'm win of the few who were right on iraq. he's entitled to make a mistake every once in a while >> she's not >> no, she's not. >> he's entitled to make a mistake. she's not. your running mate voted for it. i don't care. is there a historical allegory for this? or is this something new? >> it's a pretty rough-edge rollout as i think some people on our air were saying a little earlier. i was thinking of 1980, when george h.w. bush was asked by ronald reagan to run with him as vice president. and reagan very carefully said in that telephone call, now you know that means you have to support t

certainly in iraq. do you see the iranians as being supportive, being in a supportive role, because of the side they had taken in iraq? or do you see them as being in the opposite? mr. brennan: yes. [laughter] mr. brennan: there are things they can do and have done to address some of the terrorist threats they face, which are similar to the ones we face. one of the things about isis that distinguishes it from al qaeda it has an anti-shia dimension to it. that is how it has sort of rolled over many parts of iraq. because of the years where the sunni community felt shia dominated in the influence in baghdad was not addressing the needs of the community. they are very concerned about that. at the same time, iran is still identified as the leading state sponsor of terrorism because of what they have done. they are both a part of the problem, but they are also -- i am hopeful that maybe with the growing influence and ascendance of some the more moderate elements within the iranian government -- that we may s

weapons inspectors from iraq. president clinton and i authorized military strikes on his facilities. and from that point, regime change in iraq became the official policy of the u.s. administration. >> in a country where a majority of iraqis are shia muslims and 20% of the muslim population kurds, he ruled with an unparalleled brutality with a government drawn almost exclusively from the sunni 20% minority. though many of his victims were also sunni. saddam was not the only developer of weapons of mass destruction. libya had a program, north korea was trying to obtain nuclear technology. the network of the pakistani scientists, a.q. khan was a deliberator of such technology and iran's program had begun. but only regime had actually used such weapons, that of saddam. intelligence still valid indicated al qaeda wanting to acquire such material and 9/11 showed they were prepared to cause mass casualties. so it's important now that we're here 15 years after 9/11, to recall the atmosphere at that time. america had neve

invasion of iraq and so on. but these other crises in some ways are very different from the current crisis. the number of syria and jordan's have greatly exceeded the number of iraq is who during the previous waves. the kingdom has tried to control the inflow of refugees into the kingdom particularly in the last couple of years so now instead of a thousand refugees per day they let them 5200, some days not at all. they prioritize security. jordan, if one knows again what contributes -- the third-largest number of recruits that have joined isis have come from jordan. so there is a concern about the degree to which jordanians are being radicalized and went back to me for domestic stability in the country. . . >> >> where people showing up on dangerous overcrowded votes and graphs? and the young boys who washed up on the beach why did they risk their children's lives making those decisions? it is a serious question we started to discuss today we learned from the first panel only about 1% of those two are designated

iraq's interior minister resigned. where can the country go from here in making sure the citizens are secure, bob, you first. >> i think one thing they have to get a government that really, truly has sunni represent zapgs. they need to have a national army that can go into diala. a truck this size with the sophistication is a really a bad, bad sign and there is no way to protect them. there are no detectors in the rest of it. you really need to get a national government in iraq before you're going to solve this. but right now, i think the islamic state may be losing ground but it is picking up adherence, radicalized sunnis. >> i think bob's exactly right in this. this is done also, the prime minister is being booed. you're trying to turn -- make a failed state even more failed if you're isis. but you know, once again from this sort of defensive perspective, if you're at the stage that you cannot stop a truck going into a crowded market in a country that is not, you know, sort of has had its history of violence, there h

from a certain perspective it wasn't surprising. 1000 french nationals traveled to iraq and syria to join ranks with isis, 250 of those people returned to france and are inside the country today. french authorities are monitoring 11,000 suspects as best they can. from that perspective this should not surprise people. this is a soft target with a red x. >> there were 1200 cameras along the route at which point boarded the truck in the hills of nice, all the security cameras and all that footage together and going back to the scene side, they are pulling a lot of that, the regional president calling for the investigation to focus on accomplices at this point but a lot of that security is -- >> too bad they didn't catch him putting grenades in the back of the truck. >> this takes the debate, the president would love to have a debate about gun control when one of the things happening. >> will we need truck patrol? >> weapon i think vehicles is a new thing. i had a conversation with a law enforcement official. he said every day they wake up in the us thinking there is going to be a weapon

isis claimed responsibility for the worst attack in iraq since 2003. drum-footed shows the devastation. two days later, the search for victims goes on. >> the government in baghdad for the entire country of iraq has failed the citizens of baghdad. that's very troubling. furious iraqis desperate for security. surround prime minister when he visits the site. then throw objects at his convoy. the coalition says this and other recent attacks suggest isis is lashing out because it's losing ground in iraq and syria. >> as they attract crazies and sickos from across the globe, they are trying to show that, hey we're still a viable threat, a viable force. >> turkish authorities are still unraveling isis-linked to the attack at istanbul airport. that killed 45. in bangladesh. the government is working to determine what links the attackers at the cafe in dhaka linked to isis where more than two dozen died. israel believes a june 8th attack at a tel aviv market also inspired by isis. >> isis what been able to take advantage of time. they've increased their messag

that was the main reason given for invading iraq. if sanctions against saddam hussein's regime remained effective, iraq could not have developed nuclear weapons and would have taken the country several years to develop and deploy long range missiles. the report also says blair's government believed the saddam regime was continuing efforts to produce chemical and biological weapons. but the intelligence on the potential threats was not established beyond doubt. it also points out that blair wrote to then u.s. president george w. bush saying i will be with you whatever. and it claims this shows the two leaders had agreed to overthrow saddam before the start of the war. blair said wednesday he accepts full responsibility for his actions. >> the decision to go to war in iraq and to remove saddam hussein from power in a coalition with over 40 countries led by the united states of america was the hardest most agonizing decision i took in my ten years as british prime minister. >> blair said he disagrees with the criticism that removing sad

he was in iraq for about eight months. he was a data network specialist. essentially an i-ty guy which may explain his very large online presence. again, no criminal record, was married very briefly according to public records for about two years, but again in that online presence, alex, he said while he had been a christian, he had been a muslim, now his religion, he said, was justice. yesterday, in late yesterday, in kansas city, missouri, where he's from, there is a house that is his last known address owned by his mother according to public records. our local tv affiliate went to the door, knocked, there was a man who came to the door with a gun. later he was taken into custody by local police. it is believed to be his brother who also lived there although nbc news has not confirmed that. we expect to get an updated briefing from police this afternoon. here. alex? >> okay. all this carnage on his birthday. thank you very much chris jansing. >>> this morning we are also learning more about the three officers slain. there was montrell jackson, 32 years o

i was against the war in iraq. and if you take any candidate and i don't care who, can i go through hundreds, you are always going to have differences in terms of what you were with and what they were with. i was against the war in iraq. mike pence who has been so fantastic and to well received. you see what's going on and the love in this massive arena that i'm about to go in to very soon. you see the love and enthusiasm in that arena, it's incredible i think a lot of it is the fact that they really liked my choice. years ago he has made decisions that were different than i would have made. i was against the war in iraq. i said it was going to destabilize the middle east. it has. right now the middle east is in the worst shape it has ever been in. this is after spending trillions of dollars and thousands and thousands of american lives. worse off now bill than we were 15 years ago when we started. >> i think republicans genuinely like pence as v.p. the liberal press right away tried to demonize him as a right wing

up to 1,000 have traveled to syria and iraq. more than 250 have come back. those are the ones they know about. this is an unprecedented terrorist threat that is starting to face france. isis is singling out france. there are appear to be a number of french operatives to extend the division who have made this a very big priority. they are able to dispatch wave after wave of recruits to france. we do not know what this attack was at this point. was it a lone-wolf attack? was it indeed isis? could it have been al qaeda or another group? we don't know those answers yet. there has been no claim of responsibility by any jihadi group. as the hours tick by, that will become a bit of a deafening silence. if it is isis, we can expect them to claim the attacks very soon. they claimed the attacks in paris last year. we saw the claim of responsibility coming from isis. we go through today and no claims of responsibility, that puts you more into the idea this was perhaps a lone-wolf operation and perhaps al qaeda or isis did not know this was coming. >> paul cruickshank i

was in iraq for about several months, when he got out of iraq, he divorced his wife and had no kids. gavin eugene long, also went online as a person he -- he has two websites, in which he called himself an author, he is seen in african-american communities, handing out these books to young people, usually young men. he belonged to several groups that you might consider, and certainly the splc considers radical groups, he posted on a website, called stop organized gang stalks and he had several youtube videos cnn has chosen not to show because we do not want to give this killer any more notoriety than he has already earned on this terrible day. he posted a youtube video from dallas, where he says you've got to fight back, that's the only way a bully knows to quit. that was just one of the videos that he posted, seemingly protesting and calling for action instead of just merely protests that he has -- he wanted a call for action for people across the country, and he also, at 12:12 a.m. this morning, tweeted this. this is his birthday, at 12:12 a.m., he tweeted, just because you wake up

and what people see is how terribly we came out of iraq. >> okay, if you support the iraq war, even though it was a good idea, if you thought the vietnam escalation was a good idea, which party should you vote for? >> you should vote for the republican party. >> if you believe all those things. >> chris, i'm going to have you a voting republican before this is over with because look at this. >> suppose you think toppling gadhafi was on -- >> suppose you think isis is a really, really bad organization. >> i knew you were going to change the subject. >> i told you you're going to be voting republican. >> no, you're changing the subject. >> here's my problem because a lot of people like trump because he's changing the course of our foreign policy. he's saying we've gotten stuck in the mud in the middle east too often, we should pull back. >> what trump is saying is let's be wise, let's bring together our military leaders. what happened with the downfall of iraq? obama wasn't listening to our commanders in the field. he said afghanistan is the good war. >> yes. >> do you agree with that? these

they're going to be defeated in iraq. they are going to be on the run wherever they hide. >> i think we still have a ways to go before we're able to say that we have made some significant progress against them. >> cia director john brennan with a more sobering assessment on the war on isis than his boss, president obama. joining me now from california to discuss the throwing threat from the terror group and the aftermath of this week's terror attacks in turkey and bangladesh and last month's massacre in orlando is the chairman of the house intelligence committee congressman devin nunes. mr. chairman, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> it's great to be here with you, shannon. thank you. >> i want to get your reaction, what you can tell us, about the intelligence that's being gathered both on bangladesh and on istanbul and this morning we're getting reports as well as two bombings in baghdad. isis claiming responsibility there. 90 or more believed dead at this point. what can you tell us? >> well, this is really the plan