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Time to attack? >> exactly. and not oath that theres a bunch of these draw prophet mohammed contests across the cun. its like a reason an excuse to activate one of these people. >> were going to get back to you. amid this fear of an imminent attack by an isis sympathizer in the united states. the obama strategy to fight terrorists on their own turf. that seems to be falling shockingly short. lets go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciuto working this part of the story for us. >>...

>> the u.s. led effort faces its own delays and obstacles. iraqi forces have now been held to a stalemateealalemate and rounded in ramadi even as they outnumbered isis fighters and backed by a u.s. led air campaign. military officials say the pentagon has not given up on the syrian rebels training program, they add theres been no shortage of volunteers including more than 1,000 more volunteers signing up in just the last ten days the key problem is those volunteers are either not fit to fight ...

Military conflict. it clearly stated that the russian military was likely making preparations for contingency in crimea. they listed a number of these scenarios a and they listed things like what we have seen with the militias and so on. and the question is, could they say when that would happen? and clearly they couldnt tell and could not accurately tell when it would happen. >> right, jim sciuto. stick around, were going to come back to you shortly. i want to take a look at more of what motiva...

Lows. it is evident in the numbers. nearly 5,000 people died in the last three weeks. thats the deadliest stretch of violence in the nearly 3-year-old civil war. it is evident in the pictures, with thousands of injured, some of them starving, people fleeing the city of homs during a brief crease fire and its evident in the rhetoric. >> this is grow searching. >> apocalyptic disaster. >> horrendous situation on the ground in syria. >> unproductive to this point, peace talks in geneva seem doomed ...

The former nba player dennis rodman now apologizing for his unruly behavior in a cnn interview. jim sciutto reports. >> dennis, dont put it on them. >> reporter: dennis rodman is running away from his comments admitting in a statement to cnn that he was out of bounds. "awant to apologize. i take full responsibility fr my actions. it had been a very stressful day. some of my teammates were leaving because of pressure from their families and business associates. my dreams of basketball diplomacy w...

. day after meeting with the nations spy chief, president obama sat down with the lawmakers as he makes new rules on nsa surveillance programs. lets bring in our chief national security expert jim sciuto. what is going on? >> im told that an hour is focused on 9 bulk collection of phone metadata. the president has said that there are three other reforms that the president is seriously considering, including making public exactly how many times the nsa queried phone companies. with the decision...

Im joined now by jim sciuto. so six months, where do we go from here in terms of the next step in this deal? >> arguably, this is the tougher time. they have had weeks of very difficult talks to get to a temporary agreement, a temporary halt to some of these agreements here. now theyre going to -- you look at centrifuges, iran has agreed to add no more centrifuges, now theyre going to get to dismantling all of it. theyre going to get to the discussions of tearing it down. so in effect, they have...

President obama now attending a luncheon at the united nations hosted by the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon. there is the picture. many world leaders are at this luncheon. apparently the iranian president, hassan rowhani is not. maybe he will surprise everyone and show up in a little bit. according to iranian officials and others, he did not rsvp to attend. maybe theyll let him in any how if he decides to come. were all anxious to see if theres going to be some sort of exchange, some sort of...

Will help iranian people meet their extraordinary potential in commer commerce, in culture, in science and education. >> clearly, jim sciutto, the president is sending an olive branch to the iranians. there hasnt been a meeting between the president of the united states and a president of iran in three decades. >> this would be truly historic. he talked about mutual respect, something that was also in his cairo speech four years ago when he reached out to the muslim wo world. thats the footing t...

Gop senator bob corker captured much of the bipartisan disappointment. >> i did not think this was a good moment for our country. >> now as one senior republican congress leader put it to me earlier today, it was shocking to see the president side with putin, but another source close to the white house whos familiar with the presidents thinking is that the people around the president are too air frayed air afraid to confront the president. >> pretty shocking indeed. were following all the reac...