the kurds, they have managed to hold isis at bay, especially critical is their ability to have kept isis fighters out of the oil-rich city of kirkuk, but that doesn't mean isis is not continuously launching operations to try to test the person merga, that's the fighting forces result, but at the same time the kurds are also urging a lot of caution moving forward because of those escalating sectarian tensions that you've been speaking about right there because it's not just ice us. they have the support of the various sunni tribes. they have the sport of various sunni insurgent groups that were active under the u.s. occupation of this country. those are at the end of the day groups that don't have the same ideology as isis. they don't want to see an islamic caliphate established and they are going to have to somehow at some point in time wherever this country does reach that point be brought back into the political fold, anderson. >> we're going to check in with arwa damon and nick robertson throughout tonight and the week we're here. a quick reminder, set your dvr so you can watch "360"

firstly longer isis holds that territory the but secondly with every victory that isis has on the battlefield is pro file being raised on the jihaddist circuit you have now fighters flooding in as isis continues to gain momentum. >> meantime malaki government is relying on shia militia, what's their role? >> that's right. just yesterday we saw tens of thousands of members of the army militia marching with heavy weaponry in massive display of force. their stated goal to destroy ices but their remobilization opens up a lot of old sectarian wounds especially here in baghdad. everybody here remembers the sectarian violence of 2006 and 2007 where death squads were terrifying this city. nobody wants to see turn to that bloody time. >> o'donnell: indeed. great reporting clark russ seaward from baghdad. thank you. on diplomatic front arrived in the mid east, margaret brennan is with the secretary in cairo, good morning. >> good morning. cairo is secretary kerry's first stop on week long diplomatic push to try to stabilize iraq. in his meetings with newly elected president and form army chief, kerry s

how isis is getting its message out. the videos we've been talking about, it's a planned fought out effort by them. we'll take you behind the scenes, where they're getting their money and how much money they have. they may be the richest, most wealthiest terror organization in the world right now, talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. two tornados touching down in nebraska. the latest on damage and the severe weather forecast for that part of the country. we'll be right back. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your 401(k) or you are ready for retirement, we'll help you get there. they're the days to take care of business.. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global

isis is the lead dog here. they are the ones that triggered this entire movement from their envags from syria. isis is also a big, rocky group and have a big iraqi component and since they moved back in force, what they have done is gathered to them a quite coalition of other sunni militant groups and now they are beginning to bring iraqi sunni tribes into the fold. it's a large group of people unified but one thing, they hate and fear prime minister maliki and believe he's a dictator. most of the tribes don't care for isis or what it stands for. they don't want to go in western iraq but they are more frightened and more happy with prime minister maliki and see it as the least of two bad options. >> and ambassador jeffrey, the reason i think that's such an important point to think about what we think who iraqi forces are fighting against, the political component is crucial here. this is something you and i have talked about over the last several nights for the government of nuri al-maliki to reach out to the su

isis is how they're organized. they're cash-rich, having robbed banks and hundreds of thousands of dollars. they are growing larger due to videos that you just saw. maybe it didn't go unnoticed that he spoke english very well. urging reahejihadists. the u.s. or overseas could be affected. you hear people speaking english. we think about the attack in brussels. that was done by isis. could we see this from this group just to make a statement? >> the first, is it possible, absolutely. and you had the jewish museum in belgium. we've conducted some research recently paper released. the info has been over 12,000 fighters not in there right now. but at least since 2011 into syria and iraq. so that will remain a concern. isis has the lead-in showed it's been masterful in manipulating social media. >> which is incredible, actually, to hear him speaking so fluently. he's got an understanding of the western thought and the western culture. julien, i want to ask you, when we talk about advisers, 300 military advisers, that co

isis have thumbed their nose at zarqawi. they are not only fighting the iraqi government in iraq but they're also fighting a handful of other islamist groups inside -- inside syria as well. they're fighting at their back door and their front door and their neighbor's door as well. and that is because they are so radical and so extreme. they're fallen out of control of mainstream al qaeda now. and are sort of picking up the banner, really. al qaeda, who leads al qaeda who is the most popular, who is the strongest. who has the biggest following. who is getting the most money. they are kind of way out ahead. if you remember zarqawi in iraq, sorry too much detail here, there was one point bin laden said we've just got to accept zarqawi because he's becoming such a name. maybe zawahiri will do it with al baghadi, but it's becoming that way now, michael. >> pretty much. it was al baghadi who wouldn't take orders from al qaeda and hence that breakaway, too. kimberly, let's bring you into the discussion here. you spent a lot of time

to some of the isis supporters and i vs one social media why he's supporting isis despite the reported killings and he's applied for me that he. has come the closest yet to establishing an islamic caliphate why do you think isis holds such appeal for some of the people back home i think. if you could to use this overused word in its. terrorism so. the one sort of actually going to trouble they're going to come back all the people here in the u.k. when he went to the trouble to be identifying with. the two constituencies important for. which has existed ever since nine eleven so in a way that constituency has always been that it's possible that they'll be more encouraged by. what's happened in syria and become more active not as a direct result of so but they just feel they're on the sort of wave of islam isolation of the world and then you've got the people who actually come back and who can spread who can become recruit first and that's a really dangerous thing that's a meeting it's a national security council this week prime minister david cameron said the government was doing all it

the creation of isis really and strength of isis all grew from what was happening in the last 12 years in iraq. last 11 years. >> i thank you for your time, dr. allawi. thank you. >> thank you, my friend. >>> a crisis growing for a decade. now exploding in iraq. we're going to talk to our experts about what they make of the ayad allawi interview, as well. could things get much worse before they get better? we'll be right back. true business-grade internet comes with secure wifi for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. >>> well, we just heard from iraq's first leader after the fall of saddam hussein, former prime minister ayad allawi saying the u.s. military should not intervene in iraq but he says iraq is on the brink of disintegration and could trigger a ripple effect across the middle

the people who are under isis are terrified. some of them have fled and some of them don't know the where to turn. these isis, look, 10,000, you're talking about 10,000. and you are talking also about 35% of the territory of iraq? this 10,000 cannot adminster that territory. it's impossible. so you can imagine the chaos that's about to be set off. >> ambassador, thanks very much for coming in. weigh continue to check in with you. samir sue may da, the former iraqi ambassador to the united states. coming up, other news we're following including some political news. election night in america. why are democrats turning out to vote for a republican candidate in a closely watched senate runoff? plus sources are revealing new information about the pilot of that missing malaysian airlines plane. we have details what we're learning about his flight simulator. stay with us. at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do what

isis, to the best we can tell, is 2 or 3,000 people. the problem is that because of the sectarian nature of the army, the sunnis there seem to be fleeing and refuse to fight. all of those people laying down their arms and taking off their uniforms are probably sunnis who didn't want to fight fellow sunnis and actually felt a greater bound between them and the insurge jepts than they did with their often shiite officers. we think of these things in the united states -- armies as nonpolitical, bureaucratic. but this is deeply political. and what happened was, a purger of the army so the army is no longer functioning. if you can fix some of that, the iraqi state has massive capacity. they don't need american airpower. they need to get their act together. >> fareed, david, thanks to you. fareed will have much more on this crisis in sunday on "fareed zakaria gps" at 10:00 and 1:00 p.m. on sunday. >>> a special report on the crisis in iraq and cnn has reported inside the country. we'll go there live. >>> up next, though, donald sterling takes

isis is the lead dog here. they're the ones who triggered this entire movement by their invasion from syria. but first and foremost we have to recognize isis is also a big iraqi group. they have a big iraqi component. since they have moved back into iraq in force, what they have done is gathered to them a wide coalition of other sunni militant groups. and now they're beginning to bring iraqi sunni tribes into the fold as well. it's basically a large group of people, all of whom were unified by one thing. they hate and fear prime minister maliki, and they believe that he is a shia dictator. and most of those tribes, frankly, don't really care for isis or what it stands for, what it wants to do. they don't want a caliphate in western iraq. but they are more frightened and more unhappy with prime minister maliki than they are with isis. and they see the militant cause as basically being the least of two bad options. >> and ambassador jeffrey, the reason i think that is such an important point to think about when w

iraq's military forces continue to struggle in the face of growing isis control inside their country r.t. has a crew in iraq for an on the ground report on the violence in that war torn country . and in eastern ukraine anti kiev activists have agreed to a cease fire this is after months of clashes in the divided ukraine more on that coming up. and the world cup continues after this weekend's game as teams usa and russia face some serious competition as fans from around the world watch we'll take you to the action later in the show. it's monday june twenty third four pm in washington d.c. i'm a military man you're watching r t america. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in baghdad today where he met with iraqi officials as the isis militants continue their push into baghdad despite that secretary kerry says that president obama has prepared a quote range of options for iraq in cairo before traveling to iraq kerry had this to say about the present state of both libya and iraq the united states of america is not responsible for what happened in libya nor is it responsible for what is

to a certain degree, his patr patronage of isis and his direction to isis is now what we're paying a price for today. >> jerry is up from road island. democrats line. >> good morning. i have a question for steve. i don't completely understand isis. but i can't help but have a gut feeling also that we're fighting the wrong type of warment we're fighting more of a conventional war over there. i think that we have to be as under handed as they are and we get the terrorists too much information. if we can use the shiites against them and that works, that's fine. my other thought is let them take over and after they take over then annihilates them. this is turning into a real -- bad situation with these people. we have to be hard on them. to me, in a real war, we're giving them too much information. they have taken our ammunition, everything that we've built up over there from our explosives that they have taken. some of our technology that we left over there. we've just fighting the war wrong. the united states has to wake up and we have to fight a more under handed war and be just as, y

isis seems to be on a two-tiered campaign. releasing multiple videos with terrifying images of the fate who dare defy them. but also trying to depict themselves as giving protecters of the people. this video was posted to youtube by the islamic state, which urges people who stood against isis to repent. even those that killed from our people we will form a relationship with that person if that person goes back to his relationship with god, the masked man states. later seen embracing a stoenl hand, those who allegedly did. isis banned journalists and unauthorized filming, but this video shot in secret and exclusively provided to cnn shows one of the mosques where people can repent. later given a piece of paper, as seen in this man's hand, which clears them. isis is also distributing much-needed cooking gas to families, even selling it at a cheaper price than the iraqi government used to. in a nation where the day-to-day basics are such a necessity for survival, acts like this do garner good will. but isis is also implementing i

some of the isis supporters and i vs one station media why is supporting isis despite the reported killings and he's applied for me that he. has come the closest yet to establishing an islamic caliphate why do you think isis holds such appeal for some of the people back here and i think. if you were to use this overused word in its. terrorism six places more than the one sort of actually gone to travel. all the people here in the u.k. right now you went to the trouble to be identifying with. the two constituencies important for. which has existed ever since nine eleven so in a way that constituency has always been that it's possible that they'll be more encouraged by. what's happened in syria and become more active not as a direct result of. the film on a sort of wave of islam isolation of the world and then you've got the people who actually come back and who can spread who can become recruits for the really dangerous thing that's a meeting is the national security council this week prime minister david cameron said the government was doing all it could to dress the threat posed by foreign

there is deep concern here at the white house over isis. a senior official told meet national security team was working with the situation with the same urgency as we saw last week. last week, it got pretty intense. >> quick question. do we know the president will be meeting with his national security advisers in the oval office in "the situation room" at the white house or some other room? i ask the question because if it's in "the situation room," they can can have video conferencing, all of a sudden it were ras up the possibility that the president may be moving toward some sort of military action. >> that's exactly right, wolf. we understand that there's national security meetings were happening here at the white house throughout the weekend and the national security advisor susan rice was keeping the president up to speed how all of those meetings were going. we don't have the location of tonight's meeting. we'll get it back to you. >> jim accost ta, will monitor that. i hear marine one arriving on the south lawn of the white house rig

. >> you say isis really the heart of isis isn't in the iraq but it's in syria right now. if the u.s. where is to start launching air strikes against isis targets in iraq, it had be a waste unless the u.s. did the same thing in syria. >> the best outcome would be to link syria and iraq into one campaign plan. the iranians see it as one battle front and we should, too. the heart, the brain and the resource base for isis is in syria, northeastern syria. >> i suspect the american public has no great appetite to get involved militarily like that. a huge campaign in syria and in iraq. but we'll see, colonel, thanks foech for coming in. >> glad to be here. >> thanks for your service. >>> when we come back, hillary clinton igniting controversy over her wealth for the second time in a few weeks. is she out of touch with the middle class and will republicans possibly even some democrats pounce? [ chainsaw buzzing ] humans. sometimes, life trips us up. sometimes, we trip ourselves up. and although the mistakes may seem to just keep coming at you, so do the solutions. like multi-poli

of the isis supporters online and i vs one station media why is supporting isis despite the reported killings and he's applied for me that he. has come the closest yet to establishing an islamic caliphate why do you think isis holds such appeal for some of the people back home and i think. if you were to use this overused word in its. terrorism six places more than the ones that have actually gone to chapel they're going to come back all the people here in the u.k. right now whenever trouble better to be identifying with. the two constituents is important for us. which has existed ever since nine eleven so in a way that constituency has always been that it's possible that they'll be more encouraged by. what's happened in syria and become more active not as a direct result of so but they just feel they're on the sort of wave of islam isolation of the world and then you've got the people who actually come back and who can spread who can become recruit first and that's a really dangerous thing that's a meeting is a national security council this week prime minister david cameron said th

intelligence on isis? and some of that -- doesn't that need to be at least intelligence on the ground? >> sure. i don't think we have very good options here. and it's because we're looking at this the wrong way. look, with drones, they're going against a point target. a car, a person, a house, you need a good intelligence picture to do that. and i can't believe we would have one at this point. if you're going to use aircraft, you're going to kill civilians. the reason we're looking at this the wrong way is because we're looking at this as an opportunity for the u.s. to intervene against islamic extremist extremists. from an iraqi perspective, what this would be was u.s. intervention in favor of a shia prime minister in sunnis. we don't have a good option. >> and phillip, the reason it's become that, the conduct is largely due to maliki. i mean, all the gains that were made during the surge, maliki basically kind of reversed all of those. he stopped paying the sunni groups who the u.s. was paying, didn't he

response to isis is growing influence while obama insisted no troops would be sent to actually engage in combat he did announce that he would be sending up to three hundred military advisors to the country sounds innocent right unless you consider the fact that so-called military advisors were the original precursors to the us invasion of vietnam but probably the most interesting part about obama's speech was his claim that iraq is a sovereign nation that has the right to choose its own leaders seriously when did iraq become a sovereign nation the minute the us would realize that it's of war in the country result in the creation of yet another failed state because see no western powers have done nothing but violate iraq's autonomy by dismantling its government launching depleted uranium and white phosphorous attacks an occupied its people for the last decade this is old news to me the rapid advance of the islamic state in iraq and syria group is a major cause of concern internationally they are targeting the couple been plotting to establish an islamic order in the ruins of a failed s

this one from pakistan, we're all isis. if it seems like a setup for a joke, it's no laughing matter. isis may want to take society back to the middle ages but their use of technology is in this century. since their explosive growth in the chaos of the syrian civil war, they've stretched their tentacles across the globe. for disaffected young muslim men around the world, videos present the opportunity to join in a romantic struggle, be part of a real life video game. isis made direct appeals in english to urge western muslims to join the fight. nbc can't verify this video but the speakers are identified as british citizens. >> all my brothers living in the west, i know, you feel the pest. the cure for the depression is jihad. >> here's one british man who left behind a wife and three children explaining why he joined isis. >> i don't miss a thing, you know? i really, really i felt like i was in prison in that country and i'm here. i feel free, you know? i can drive, i can, you know, i don't need a license. i don't need insu

is allowing isis to have results last week. but when we were to wave a magic wand tomorrow and turn iraq into sweden, so they could have no purchase in it whatsoever, it's going to turn to jord and not the rest of the lavant. so four one, what do we need to do to counter isis? iraq is the battlefield. and we need to focus on fixing iraq politics there. in that sense, we have to live in iran, and they're not interested in a dysfunctional iraq and an ac that breaks up, this is not an interest to iran. and a traditional rival to iraq's east. >> what do you think? does this carry the possibility of making things better in syria, and settling the ongoing disputes over globalization, and getting a better deal out of it. >> i think that the only thing will be limited to iraq, i think this is an urgent crisis that needs to be dealt with immediately. and i don't think progress is going to be made on the other two standing issues, but i think it's well worth both iran and the u.s. pushing ahead strongly on this, because i think it's one

is going to launch air strikes on isis targets in iraq, why not launch air strikes against isis targets also in syria? >> several officials have made that case. we know there has been disagreement. some of them former, some of them current. kerry and others have been pushing for that kind of action. i have been told by intelligence officials it is not just some distant thought from isis militants about attacking the u.s., but there is training, there is aspiration, there is coordination with al qaeda core leadership about picking out targets, encouraging them to pick out targets not only in europe but also on the u.s. homeland. >> what are you hearing? you think that will happen? >> absolutely. if you look at social -- >> absolutely what? >> there is planning and talking, discussing. >> you haven't heard it's going to happen? >> haven't heard it's going to happen. you do see constantly on social media discussion about what can we do, what are the targets that are ripe for plucking. they do talk about that. >> guys, thanks very much. >>> this important programming note to our viewers out

the praises of isis. analysts warn any alliance between the two the groups could prove extremely dangerous. >> each group's weaknesses could be filled by the other group. say one group is very good at bomb making and another group is very good at propaganda. if you put the right bomb in the right place for the right propaganda effect, that can be far more important than either of these things on their own. >> reporter: yemen is currently on the frontline of a war on terror with al qaeda. the u.s. embassy there has been shut down for almost two months. despite a massive american-backed counter terror offensive that began in april, aqap has proven resilient and resurgent. since 2011, they have even been able to take over areas of yemen. isis is making similar gains in iraq. analysts say the more territory taken by isis and the more the group, would with aqap, the worse it will get. >> if they carve out an area of safe haven and that's their intent, this could be a launching point for attacks on america, on

of the isis supporters and i vs one station media why is supporting isis despite the reported killings and he's applied for me that he. has come the closest yet to establishing an islamic caliphate why do you think isis holds such appeal for some of the people back home and i think. if you were to use this overused word in its. terrorism six places more than the one sort of that she got into trouble they're going to come back all the people here in the u.k. right now he went to the trouble to be identifying with this. to construe troops as a potential threat. existed ever since nine eleven so in a way that constituency has always been that it's possible that they'll be more encouraged by. what's happened in syria and become more active not as a direct result of so but they just feel they're on a sort of wave of islam isolation of the world and then you've got the people who actually come back and who can spread who can become active or recruit first and that's a really dangerous thing that's a meeting is the national security council this week prime minister david cameron said the gove

isis able to capture telafar. they're making sure shah people know what their fate will be if they dare stand in their way. yet another execution video emerged, this one showing a bearded man with a weapon standing over five captives. he's calling them dogs. they were border guards and he's ordering them to repeat after him, islamic state to stay. the first two complied. the third tries to formulate the word but unable to do so. he seems to be severely dehydrated and almost unaware as to what's happening around him. he's shoved to the ground, weapon pointed to his throat. he and the four others were killed. the man responsible proudly boasting on facebook. oftentimes we don't know who the victims are. but in this case we did manage to get in contact with the family of the man who was struggling to speak. he was 37 years old. he had three children, two sons and a daughter. and the reason why he had taken the job as the border guard was because he wanted to build them a home. s.e., van. >> thanks for that reporting.

probably isis central command. anyone who downloads the app, will have tweets that central command posts to their twitter account, as well. it's like a force multiplier effect for isis' propaganda, make them seem like they're everywhere throughout the internet so the hash tag baghdad would bring images suggesting we're going to bring hell and fury on the city. so it has an effect on the crisis, which is what they want. >> insane. and i think it's important to reiterate what nic robertson was saying. listen, brooke, this isn't just propaganda, they are documenting war crimes. so -- >> yeah. >> it's clear that it's at that level. but then we read this article, and i don't know if you've seen this, michael. but "the wire" is reporting that twitter has suspended multiple isis accounts for obviously the violence. but there is the criticism, because by doing that, that negates the opportunity down the road to prosecute war crimes. >> right. i think the incentive for doing that and western governments will argue this, we

isis is also cashing in on oil. taking crude from northern fields in northern syria and selling it back to the syrian government as well as thre threatening iraq's largest field. this adds up to millions of dollars for isis every month. those millions then used to buy arms and pay for propaganda like this high definition highly produced recruitment video. stansfield credits the success to the leader. >> he put together a plan, a strategy he is implementing a at time when nobody else has one. he is following his plan in anbar and syria, and fighting is ongoing. he is capturing territory. capturing point. >>. >> reporter: making isis more dangerous, stansfield says isis has more resources than al qaeda. >> they have an area of operation. a strong narrative of those areas they are working. and they can see them, they have success upon success now as well. and they are working in the heartland of the middle east and fighting against the shia on their own turf. these are all things al qaeda struggled to do. this makes is

the day. >> bombing isis or killing all of isis won't cure it. >> stick around colonel. coming up breaking news on beau bergdahl. how does the bergdahl trade effect america's security. tweet me at >>> breaking news. fox is confirming tonight that the u.s. army has appointed a two star general to investigate how and why sergeant beau bergdahl left his base in afghanistan. colonel hunt is back with me. your reaction to this breaking news? >> this is ridiculous and unbelievable. >> why? >> 2009 -- because 2009 sergeant -- specialist bergdahl left a note, packed his bag, walked off the base. had a cell phone. called his unit and said by the way i'm leaving. there was an investigation at that time in writing that said sergeant bergdahl left on his own accord. we have to understand if you leave the military for one day without approval, that's called absence without leave. if you are gone for 30 days, you will automatically classified as a deserter and then when you come back, there has to be a court martial and the government has to approve. the difference between desertion a

coming up on our tear rocks military forces continue to struggle in the face of growing isis control inside the country r.t. has a crew in iraq for an on the ground report on the violence in the war torn country . and in eastern ukraine anti kiev activists have agreed to a cease fire this is after months of clashes in a divided ukraine more on that coming up. and a new study links the rate of autism with pesticide families living near a certain california farm is seen an increase in autism within their children a look at the new study later in the show. it's monday june twenty third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm a military man you're watching r t america u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in baghdad today where he met with iraqi officials as the isis militants continue their push into baghdad despite that secretary kerry says that president obama has prepared a range of options for iraq in cairo before traveling to iraq kerry had this to say about the present state of both libya and iraq the united states of america is not responsible for what happened in libya nor is it respons

isis not fighting alone. they have the insure get groups fighting alongside it and has support of triable leaders so you don't want to aggravate the sectarian divide by being perceived as striking at the su kne -- sunnis. isis will grow in strength and wealth and military capabilities as this goes on so they do need to be hit at this stage before they get even stronger but it's going to be an incredibly delicate situation, anderson. >> and nick, clearly, the u.s. interested in trying to, arwa was talking about other sunni groups who were aligned with isis or fighting with them, clearly, the u.s. would like to peel off sunni groups, particularly groups they worked for. >> it has to be strategy and certainly some of those groups was expressing the hope that the united states would talk to him. it is an act of desperation but they felt they had no other opportunity and they hope that they don't become targeted lumped in with isis. that's their fear because they know what that would happen, what that you would th

, and or i reject isis. i went through each one of those groups and look for that. >> as it says up there, estimate. on the top of it, when trying to put up an estimate, it is an imperfect model, and i do not like the charts that i see from dod that go al qaeda group 1, 2, 3, 4, and we do that because powerpoint makes us do that. we get into that we are trying to make top-down charts, with stars and bubbles. when we are going through, i was just interviewing a lot of different people. 14 or 15 people that i will talk to on twitter or e-mail and say what do you think about this scenario. i do not like anything that is less than a probability of what things might be. that is why you saw me put up three scenarios. i do estimates based on circle size. just on my general feeling of what the group's size might be. the really trouble someone is a confederation of jihad eights in syria. how do you assess them? i do an estimate for the overlaps of how i think they might communicate. i came up with those estimates in

response to isis is growing influence while obama insisted no troops would be sent to actually engage in combat he did announce that he would be sending up to three hundred military advisors to the country sounds innocent right unless you consider the fact that so-called military advisors were the original precursors to the us invasion of vietnam not to mention that two hundred seventy five troops have already been sent to quote secure american interests in the country but probably the most interesting part about obama's speech was his claim that iraq is a sovereign nation that has the right to choose its own leaders seriously when did iraq become a sovereign nation the minute the us realize that it's of war in the country result in the creation of yet another failed state because see no western powers have done nothing but violate iraq's autonomy by dismantling its government launching depleted uranium and white phosphorous attacks an occupied its people for the last decade this is all news to me. meanwhile the latest reports from iraq suggest al qaeda linked isis militants have take

isis draws its support. the 0 gulf muslim areas, sunni countries like saudi arabia, kuwait and qatar that back isis in neighboring syria. isis makes up the bulk of the fighters in next door syria. and they are backed by the sunni arab countries that are u.s. allies. but isis military are inviting the assad regime next door in syria. and they draw their support not only from the governments like saudi arabia and qatar and kuwait, but also from the general public there as well. this is very much a fight in the middle east between sunni and shia. and the american countries that are allies, american allies, they very much fall on the same side as the isis fighters. >> connor you and i have been chatting online. you told me earlier, buy stock in mass, the middle east is changing. what are you learning that is significantly different about this group than others? >> so isis isn't looking just to overthrow a government and re-create a new country. they're literally looking to re-create the entire middle east order.

of the isis supporters and i vs one social media why. supporting isis despite the reported killings and he's applied to me that he. has come the closest yet to establishing an islamic caliphate why do you think isis holds such appeal for some of the people back home i think. if you could to use this overused word and so it's made terrorism sexy places more than the one sort of that she got into trouble so they're going to come back all the people here in the u.k. we know he went to the trouble better to be identifying with. the to construe troops as a potential threat. which has existed ever since nine eleven so in a way that constituency has always been that it's possible that they'll be more encouraged by. what's happened in syria and become more active not as a direct result of some. film on the sort of wave of islam isolation of the world and then you've got the people who actually come back and who can spread who can become recruiters and that's a really dangerous thing that's a meeting is the national security council this week pri

isis wants a counter faith. the fry balance leader what they want is a more representative government in baghdad that they want to take the fight to baghdad, they're confident that they can take the fight to baghdad, baghdad is their aim. they don't want to storm into the city, they say they want to negotiate, they want a government of national unity to be formed. but they are doing this side by side with these isis fighters. the tribal leader said we've been capturing and letting go many, many iraqi army forces. he said this is not the way that al qaeda operates. this is the way the tribes operate. he said that he believes they have the upper hand over these isis fighter and that if isis starts turning radical islamists, they will turn their guns on isis. it's unclear which way this hundred fol will unfold, but he is clearly deeply troubled that irans that put troops into iraq. he feels the situation could turn into a sectarian blood bath. yesterday he felt confidence, today this news has made him very worried

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president says allow iraq to turn into a safe haven for isis poses great dangers to the u.s. and its european allies which is why some action needs to be taken of course the criticism is that iraq might not even be on the brink of a civil war if it was not for the u.s. invasion while addressing the press even president obama said quote recent days have reminded us of the deep scars left behind of america's war in iraq unquote and obama's speech on washington's plans to help iraq is one of the features of today's breaking the set with abby martin you can watch the full show a little later on today here on a c but just for now here's a quick preview. because he spoke mostly in a vague military jargon you had to listen closely to understand the underlying u.s. response to isis is growing influence while obama insisted no troops would be sent to actually engage in combat he did announce they would be sending up to three hundred military advisors to the country sounds innocent right unless you consider the fact that so-called military advisors were the original precursors to the u

they hated al qaeda and i think they're going hate isis, too. but right now he's managed to bond ba'athists sunnis and people who are absolute implacable enemies. >> you remember during the iraq war when -- i think it was colonel colin powell who said you break it, you bought it. have we bought iraq? >> well, no, i don't think so. it's not up to us to save maliki from his own worst tendencies. like i said before, if it's a government worth supporting then we should support it. but i think the regional context is important here. turkey has been mentioned, but also iran. iran needs to be on board with whatever political solution the iraqi elites come up with because absent then that they will simply inject more violence into the conflict. so in any sense that we talk to iran, it should be about the political composition of a future iraqi government and not necessarily about how are we going to militarily defeat isis. isis will self-destruct when the sunnis decide to stop supporting it. >> that's going to have to be the last word. thank you, everyo

iraq's military forces continue to struggle in the face of growing isis control inside their country our d. has a crew in iraq for an on the ground report at the violence in the war torn country . and in eastern ukraine anti kiev activists have agreed to a ceasefire this is months after the clashes that have divided the ukraine more on that coming up. and a new study links the rate of autism with pesticide families living near certain california farms see an increase in autism with their children a look at this new study later in the show. it's monday june twenty third five pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in baghdad today where he met with iraqi officials as the isis militants continue their push into baghdad despite that secretary kerry says that president obama has prepared a range of options for iraq in cairo before traveling to iraq kerry had this to say about the present state of both libya and iraq the united states of america is not responsible for what happened in libya nor is it responsible for what's

this is the state of isis right now. it is a lot different than what al qaeda was up to last decade, but it is a very sophisticated and organized organization. this will be more difficult to dislodge than anything we have seen before. thank you. >> thank you for those sobering remarks. mike, are you with us? >> yes, i am. >> very good. let me open up a discussion session by asking you if you can bring us up to date on the report concerning iranian military involvement. who it is, where they are, what they seem to be doing? >> it is very difficult to come up with categorical information on this without being in country and seeing it with your own eyes. i spend a lot of time studying the militias in iraq and meeting them on many occasions, quite unnervingly. but what i found was that they were -- let's just say, the iranians have been very nervous since 2007 about risking irgc offices directly inside iraq. now, since the u.s. left in 2011, i am sure some of that fear or trepidation is gone. we have seen senior officers kil

al-qaeda fighting alongside isis isis is now in bold and into countries but here's the anomaly we're with isis in syria we're on the same sort of the war so those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria that is the real contradiction to this whole policy according to reports the us government may have inadvertently played a direct role in strengthening extremists there are also allegations that the united states may have been involved in some of the training of the isis insurgents at a training camp in jordan so the saudis the qataris all those are directly involved in this regime change policy in syria and in iraq and united states has helped and created these conditions and this will cause chaos an expanding war in the region according to german magazine der spiegel americans were still in jordan in march of last year training up to twelve hundred members of the free syrian army to use anti-tank weapon mary we have spent a lot of time trying to work with a moderate opposition in syria now the white house is ready to spend a lot of money the obama

holding up the isis advances but you're right there is that oil there and isis may ultimately attempt something but i think. are going to resist that you see you see a much more unified. unification among the kurds and any than anywhere else and i think it would be difficult for isis to do it would be easier for isis to head west and go into jordan and go into southern turkey and consolidate those positions to enhance its caliphate that is building up on and ultimately of course it's got designs on lebanon where i was where i was just visiting so and there's there's tremendous concern there is well i thought isis and merging with al nusra so you're seeing a lot of these forces can the only thing that is working in anybody's favor is that isis has the has a military capability but the question is will they be able to govern all that territory they're taking over and already they're fighting from within some of the units and some of the other islamist groups and even actually baptists that they that joined them temporarily to take the territory over but now there's actually been gunfire

in fighting isis. the chief of staff told reporters tehran would consider helping if nuclear talks are successful. iran has been negotiating with the u.s. over the nuclear program. they will not tie that discussion to the situation in iraq. >>> happening today, house republicans voting on a replacement for eric cantor after his loss in a primary and his decision not to keep the number two house job through the elections. the number three is expected to win that vote, but there is a tight battle to replace mccarthy. that is where the action will be. stay with cnn for the twists and turns. >>> thousands of lost irs e-mails may never be recovered. senate republicans learned the irs threw away the crashed hard drive from lois lerner. she was responsible for the office accused of special scrutiny. most of her e-mails were lost in the hard drive crash. some republicans have been pushing to turn the drive over to i.t. experts to recover the e-mails. supporters say look, there's tens of thousands of e-mails th

isis seems like some obscure thing. it's even more obscure when you say shia and sunni. >> you use that phrase obscure. i caught it on "meet the press" and i thought sunni/shia, is not obscure. this has been a fight for a thousand years. no? why do you call it obscure? >> i know, but -- because americans, it means nothing to americans where al qaeda means everything to americans. senator menendez even just finished calling the isis shia. we don't know -- i don't think you could tell me the difference between a shia and sunni. if you can, you're one of a handful. my point is these are the same people, they're affiliated with the same people who attacked the united states on 9/11 and still have the intention of attacking the united states and europe. that's why it matters. it doesn't matter that much if iraq ends up in different pieces. frankly, i think the most likely result -- and it's already well on the way -- is much greater autonomy and one of al maliki's mistake sincere not giving him autonomy. the kurds have done

what is life like under isis? >> what isis initially did was establish a set of rules for social behavior that included some very severe restrictions, particularly on women and upon praying five times a day, just very strict sharia law that one would assume would be very vigorously enforced. >> they talk about killing, cutting off hands, crucifixion. >> they live-tweeted a corporal punishment beheading, they took credit for crucifixions. >> what is isis' strategy? what is its ambition? >> they want to establish this state in a middle east where iraq and syria no longer exist. they want that to be a -- not just a safe haven for foreign fighters but in fact a place that like-minded people come to in order to live. they want to expand that with a military as far as they possibly can. and i think they want to be the thought leaders in the global jihadist revolution. >> can you negotiate with them? >> no. i do not think you can negotiate with them. i don't think that they need to negotiate. they have a military. they'r

response to isis is growing influence while obama insisted no troops would be sent to actually engage in combat he did announce it would be sending up to three hundred military advisors to the country sounds innocent right unless you consider the fact that so-called military advisors were the original precursors to the us invasion of vietnam but probably the most interesting part about obama's speech was his claim that iraq is a sovereign nation that has the right to choose its own leaders seriously when did iraq become a sovereign nation the minute the us and realize that it's a war in the country result in the creation of yet another failed state because see you know western powers have done nothing but violate iraq's autonomy by dismantling its government launching depleted uranium and white phosphorous attacks an occupied its people for the last decade this is old news to me the rapid advance of the islamic state in iraq and syria group is a major cause of concern internationally they're told getting of the capital baghdad and plotting to establish an islamic order in the ruins of