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Theyre also pledging $161 million for security and governance issues. all of this water, about a quarter billion dollars, senior lawmakers in washington still dont think that will be enough to stop the problem. senator john mcclain is one of those lawmakers, and he aired his concerns yesterday. >> right now, with the number of thousands that are crossing the border, that are sort of -- that have left central america and are on their way here, its a roughly 15-day trip, that if we stopped tomorro...

>> reporter: vice president joe biden meeting with leaders in guatemala as the obama administration struggles to deal with the growing immigration crisis. thousands of unaccompanied children like the ones we met along the texas/mexico border are risking their lives to enter the u.s. illegally. bidens visit is part of president obamas response to a growing problem. the administration hoping to quash rumors driving families and children north chasing a dream. >> so much of what were seeing on the ...

Many as 300 u.s. military advisers to iraq this morning, president obama is urging iraqi leaders to come up with a politically inclusive solution to the nations crisis. >> part of the task now is to see whether iraqi leaders are prepared to rise above sectarian motivations. to come together, to compromise. if they cant, theres not going to be a military solution to this problem. >> lawmaker in washington say iraqi president nuri al maliki has been unable to govern exclusively with shia and kurds...

Where this threat emanated from? >> i think its important for to us distinguish between a counterterrorism effort that is ongoing. dealing with al qaeda and the remnants that still exist in the fatah, creating platforms, taking targeted strikes where necessary. gathering intelligence. all that work has to be done -- would have to be done even in the crisis in iraq wasnt occurring. and theres no doubt that the problem in syria is one that weve been paying a lot of attention to over the last coupl...

When an extremist group, isis, started rolling through the western portions of iraq. so part of the task now is to see whether iraqi leaders are prepared to rise above sectarian motivations. to come together, compromise. if they cant, theres not going to be a military solution to this problem. theres no amount of american fire power thats going to be able to hold the country together. and i made that very clear to mr. maliki and all the other leadership inside of iraq. >> but by go into the coun...

Militants belonging to isis. they seized town after town. they are south of baghdad. these are gangs isis made. >> the shiites are vowing to defend their capital and country. >> militants are putting out propaganda video to urge people to join them in jihad. >> and we have been told, no amount of american fire power can hold iraq together if the iraqs leaders dont unite. >> part of the task now is to see whether iraqi leaders are prepared to rise above sectarian motivations, come together, compr...

And united states is scrambling on this side of the border to deal with the problem to find space to handle all the kids. >> federal authorities expect as many as 80,000 children. enough to pack a football stadium will try to cross this year. cnns nick valencia is here with us. is this obviously a real challenge four u.s. immigration officials but theyre trying to, i guess, i dont want to say throw some money at it but invest in the solution. >> its a huge challenge. and it seems that the united...

Civil war on behalf of the shia. on the other hand if we sid on the sidelines, sheetia will accuse us like in 1999 where we stood by and led saddam kill hundreds of thousands in the south. weve got to accept theres not a good narrative in the interim and we need to deal with it as it comes up. and be very sensitive to politics while discovering that is where the real aspect is. >> arwa damon was in iraq talking to a gentleman listening to one of the isis militants cheering on, saying theyre goin...

Its gone way beyond mehmet. >> now, he did say, didnt he that his attorneys are working, it sounded like around the clock to try to keep these companies from using his likeness and his image. how hard is it to keep up with them? >> it is extremely difficult. i mean, he has sent hundreds and hundreds of letters to the ftc saying stop these companies from doing this. my good friend rachael ray, the same thing is happening to her. people have used things she said in her show and promoted so its rea...

Theres been none of the record in iraq of ethnic militias fighting one another that produced so much bloodshed and permanent scars in bosnia. we have no idea what kind of ethnic strife might appear in the future. although, as ive noted, it has not been the history of iraqs recent past. >> those kind of things never happen in iraq, other than, you know, saddam gassing the kurds, and the army all running as a despotic tyranny over the other groups in the country and the other groups in the country...