a recipe to solve this crisis. reporter: plus the colonel says to enforce these borders and then to ensure that sunnis and shias in iraq will not kill each other, you would need a peace keeping force. there is not one big enough to do that job and he says who would sign up for it. brian todd, thank you very much. let s dig a little deeper here. joining us is the deputy spokeswoman. do you believe that dividing iraq as joe biden recommended when he was a senator in 2006 into three parts is potentially a good idea? we really don t, wolf. our position has been very consistent across the administration that the strongest iraq is a unified i q iraq. and the leaders have said they are committed to forming an inclusive dpoft and that s what we re focusing on.
rejecting calls for an emergency government calling it a coup against iraq s constitution. it comes days after secretary of state john kerry pressed him to reach out to the people of iraq. we ll talk about that with the deputy spokeswoman here in the situation room. we ll discuss in just a moment. but first, brian todd is also here with a closer look at what some say the best way out of this crisis, simply splitting iraq in three. brian, tell us what this is all about. it is about dividing, separating iraq into shia, sunni and kurdish regions, all responsible for their own destiny. some argue that will make this place more violent. others say we re already there. why devote more blood and treasure trying to hold it all together? reporter: on the ground, violence. usual territory overrun, a
earlier this month on what the obama administration would do if russia did not de-escalate the situation in eastern ukraine? if they disrupt this month s presidential election, we will move quickly on additional steps, including further sanctions that will impose greater costs. escalating violence in eastern ukraine, putin calling the ousted ukrainian president the legitimate leader, would that be disrupting elections? joining me now is the deputy spokeswoman for the state department marie hart, thank you for joining me. you heard president obama say that these separatists are, quote, russian-backed groups and are, quote, heavily armed militants receiving significant support from russia. so isn t russia meddling in this election? absolutely. this election is going to happen. a vast majority of ukraine i know you just spoke to jim
asked about your offer to travel to try to save kenneth bae. here s what the deputy spokeswoman had to say. we support the efforts of course of the family but also of reverend jackson to bring kenneth bae home. have you been in touch with the state department? it sounds like they have supportive. well, i haven t because we want to be respectful of our government and the north korean government. at this time we re recycling the attention. we do the exercise and they do the missile threat and we must break that cycle of terror and fear and irritation and go another way. i have found that whenever there is a war between the u.s. and north korea and south korea, behind the walls is ignorance and fear and hatred and violence so i would hope that through some faith mission we would be able to break a hole in this wall and the beginning of mr. bae would be such a good thing
house said to reporters that, well, he has to find out if schumer is serious about this and he went on to say, i m not sure that he is. to which schumer s office tweeted, he is serious. so we ll have to see how all this plays out. this is some of the bluffing that, of course, goesz on heren washington. but brooke, during the so-called off camera briefing that we just had with the deputy spokeswoman, sarah huckabee sanders, she said she continues to be optimistic about this, that he continues to make phone calls on all of this and they re confident this is going to get passed. but there remains some very big questions and one of the questions that came up during the briefing is what the president is willing to accept on the medicaid front. the program that provides medical care coverage for the poor, that appears to be one of the big sticking issues, as you know, for some of these moderate republican senators. they don t want to see poor people in their state go without health care. tha