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Good morning. >> reporter: good morning. michaela we were here as those thousands of students walked inside the state capitol. they were chanting largely. they formed a circle inside the state capitol and you heard the chant, black lives matter. i can stress the fact they want to make sure its not just about black lives but the entire community of support of the familiary because they believe the unarmed teen should not have been killed. there were reports he was causing trouble in the streets. ...

Negotiate a nuclear agreement. >> reporter: it may not be complicate prod this perspective, martha. they simply want to have their opportunity to be heard. on the other hand, the white house would argue that listen, while negotiations are ongoing, you should step back and let us complete the process. that is the crux of the disagreement here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. martha: lots more to come on that today. kevin, thank you. >> reporter: you bet. bill: meanwhile overseas today iraqi forces no...

His crew have messed this up from end to end. >> karl, thank you. of course, i know you have an op. ed about this tomorrow in the "wall street journal." thank you karl. >> in the "wall street journal" tomorrow morning. thank you. >> thank you. this is a fox news alert. the pentagon standing on the sidelines as iraqi forces released this dramatic video of the mission to take back the city of tikrit. a leaked combat units from iran. yes. iran. teaming up with iraqis, fox news correspondent john hu...

Troops and also iranian backed shiite militias. as we have been talking about, this is a critical fight because of tikrits location. if iraqi troops retake tikrit, it sets them up, puts them in position to get closer to go northward to mosul. and remember iraqi forces did retake the beijing oil refinery which is right above tikrit. at this point iraqi troops are pushing in on tikrit basically surrounding tikrit and putting the squeeze on isis militants. the u.s. says that it will join iraqi forc...

♪ ♪ welcome back. thank you. its not home. but with every well considered detail, it becomes one step closer. no wonder more people choose delta than any other airline. isis clashing clashing with iraq forces near tikrit. john huddy joins us live from jerusalem john? >> isis is not only using suicide bombs and suicide attacks, roadside bombs, but also snipers and artillery fire to take out the you know the iraqi troops that are moving in on tikrit. we are talking about, by the way, close to ...

Tikrit but there are enormous challenges. as i said earlier, several different groups are working within iraq that are part of the offensive. you have the iraqi military which is backed by the united states, you have shiite militias who are loyal to shiite leaders and loyal to iran working side by side in this offensive, and you have a couple thousand sunni tribesmen who are allied with the other two groups simply because they want to see isis destroyed and kicked out of their area. will this be...

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One on an isis controlled oil refinery are having a crippling impact on the militants. and on the key city of tikrit and inside of the ranks and a group struggling to maintain control. one analyst said the key challenge facing isis is more internal than external lets bring in jim miklaszewski at d.o.d. lets start with isis in iraq focusing on tikrit that is a key city. >> reporter: that is right. and tikrit has become critical in determining whether the ultimate u.s. strategy to defeat and degra...

About 27,000 iraqi troops taking part in this operation in tikrit and there are also several thousand iranian backed shia militia fighters as well so its a force of 30,000 or so so it has a sizable force. the question is what type of capabilities do they have? one interesting thing weve heard out of iraqis is that there are iraqi fighter jets being part of this operation and that was a big question whether or not their air force was at all capable to be a part of any type of operation. were hear...

Tikrit from above. iraqi military is trying to secure the highways into and out of baghdad. they are going to be aided by a fleet of russian fighter jets. these are bought second hard reportedly for $500 million. the first batch of those jets arrived in baghdad yesterday. we want to get the very latest from the ground from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel who is on the ground in baghdad. richard? >> reporter: good morning. as you said, it seems like the government is finally la...