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>> michelle thanks very much. also breaking now isis claiming responsibility for a pair of deadly bombings at hotels in the heart of baghdad. both hotels popular with the citys elite and foreigners including journalists. our pentagon correspondent brash starr is barbara starr is working her sources. what about the claim it strike inside baghdad? >> reporter: technicallies pentagon cannot confirm the isis claim, they have no intelligence to confirm it but the reality is people accept that claim o...

Directly. being attacked by both an independent kurd quasi-government and the sunni tribes. now we have real chaos going on. that is the breakdown of a central authority in the area. some might say thats already occurred. obviously the united states is trying to go the opposite direction that is to rebuild a central authority, the baghdad government. which hopefully will be an inclusive government. isis is off doing terrorist attacks in saudi arabia. saudi arabia has got to get in this game and ...

Extend the program but we have a handful of senators why want to see this expire and go away. that is what is getting in the way. get the programs reauthorized and take the house bill and fix the problems with that and make sure that all the people in our intelligence community, law enforcement community, have the tools they need to prevent future terrorist attacks. >> do you have concerns that will senate will not work this out by the deadline on sunday? >> i think we will. the senate is always...

Reasonable mind there is who may be willing to consider that. not having anything is off the table. 80% of americans agree with rand paul. of course they want to see something there. >> benefit, you hit on the confounding divide that the republicans and democrats cant even agree on whether or not the phone collection program worked for terrorist attacks. we have mike rogers on one side the chairman of the house intelligence committee now cnn contributor who says that if thwarting 54 terror plots...

Majority of americans dont trust her with good reason. its clear hillary clinton went to great lengtss to be deceitful, hide information to the american people. we know now that e-mails she received were marked classified. so her whole, you know she wasnt e-mailing about b highly political information is a farce. most specifically in regards to benghazi, theres more information out there. she received an e-mail from sidney blumenthal that alerted her to the fact these were planned coordinated te...

Threat rising sea levels could pose to thousands of military facilities. the report suggested more climate changes could mean more natural disasters and that could strain already limited guard resources. in making the broader connection to national security, the president also cited severe drought conditions in nigeria which he said led to economic instability and later the rise of the terror group boko haram. he also added that drought conditions plunged syria into a devastating syrian war. but...

>> after 9/11 all the police departments started getting this stuff because there was the threat of terrorist attacks on the homeland and there still are. we had this thing in waco. what if those guys all decided to take their guns and fire against the police? there was over a hundred weapons found. we need this type of equipment -- [ all speak at once ] >> do you think waco is an example this police may need military equipment from time to time in situations like this? >> first of all, lets be ...

Real forces on the ground. that seems to be a nonstarter for a lot of candidates right now. theyre not willing on talk about it. so indispensable does not seem be to be the approach that many presidential candidates are prepared to actually live up to in specifics than they are in theory. on the other hand, you look at how bad isis is in the middle east the fact of the matter is iraq is falling apart. its producing more oil than at any point in the last 35 years and were feeling that at the pump...

Grow. this is what a long-term safe haven in iraq and syria would give isis and it is exactly what the group is planning to do. they have announced their intentions just like bin laden did in the years prior to 9/11." is that a fair assessment? is that alarmism at all? >> well theres -- its complicated question. so isis has not made clear its intention to carry out a 9/11-style attack against the united states f they chose to do that and they very well might, they have more manpower and more mon...

For it and nothing changed. he did the one thing that he thought might change something. fred has some good ideas about how to make the intelligence committee a safe harbor and more welcoming for whistleblowers and i would agree that generally speaking thats a better route for dealing with this. but that cannot be the only route. the fact is that congress, despite these revelations, has been very slow to change what is a fundamental unconstitutional surveillance program. >> people do want to kil...