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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Deborah Feyerick June 22, 2014

No iraqi police, no troops. This map changes every few hours. Thats how moving this situation is. More red spots, more towns fall. New video shows the town of rch aula, the person that shot the video says smoke is coming from the Police Station overrun by isis militants and then set on fire. In baghdad, iraqis with their own weapons are in the streets saying they are ready to fight if isis militant extremists make a move on the city. These are the people who tell cnns nick robertson, theyre looking forward to the arrival of the americans, the time lean of the deployment, no clearer today than it was yesterday. The word from the pentagon, still is soon. Live to baghdad, and Nic Robertson in a minute. I want to talk to our chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto in jordan. A man who commanded the Marine Division during the iraq war, james williams. General williams, youre a straight talking man. What is the first element of american advisers . What are they going into . Theyve got to assess the situation but now you have shias who are marching in baghdad and theyre ready to confront isis, the sunnis. Well, you know, first of all, theyre going to have to make contact with the military government in terms of working with the ministry of defense. Theyll have to be assigned to various units of the iraqi army and make an assessment of the situation. Remember, theyre in an advisement role. In this advisement role, theyre not going to be in direct combat but theyre going to direct the individual iraqi army elements on how to resolve their issues from a military perspective. You know, general, you talk about the iraqi army. But now youve got the shiite forces and also sunni of isis, iraq, various tribes that are now following this. How is the iraqi army the one who is ultimately going to gain control of this situation with possibly american help . Well, you know, i think this is the difficulty, you know. In es spensence, the challenge this faction of sunnis and a faction of the Iraqi Government representing the shia sect of islam and essentially what i believe you have is this clash of civilizations. As such, with the clash thats going on, efforts being made by the secretary of state to talk diplomatically to countries in the region to help because its going to take cairo, its going to take riyadh and its going to take tehran. As you know, we have a we have difficulty talking with tehran. One of our challenges is, if youre going to solve this, you have to get the principal countries that are involved on the sunni side of the world and those pretty much in tehran as on the she. Reporter side of the world to resolve this. Jim sciutto, youre in jordan where secretary of state kerry is today. Hes been looking very closely at this growing crisis. Look, its pulling a lot of din elements together, because as the general said you dont just have iraq you have iran who could possibly become involved and russian president putin is supporting the Iraqi Government. It seems like theres a singular galvanizing issue and that is to stop isis, jim . Thats exactly part of secretary kerrys message here. In effect, he has two messages to deliver. One, this is not just an iraqi problem though a grave threat to the state of iraq. Its a regional problem. Its a global problem. Hes talking to the jordanians who are neighbors. As i speak to you, isis 70 miles off the border, speaking to egyptians saying this is a threat to regional stability but driving home the point when isis militants have a home basis, to train and stage attacks theyll threaten europe and the u. S. , american homeland, worried about returning fighters from the battles carrying out attacks that far afield. The second is a sense of shared purpose, because this is a regional, international threat, all of these parties, the general was referring to, have to be involved in the solution even parts that dont play well together. Iranians on the shia side, gulf countries on the nigh side and the relationship between u. S. And iran. His argument is that all of the countries have the same goal and that is stabilizing iraq because it is no ones interest to have a good part of the country under the control of militants as brutal as this. The trouble is, herding those cats to move towards that goal together. Its a lot of competing agendas, extreme diplomatic challenge for him. Which is remarkable. One thing that has been made very clear, according to one newspaper report today, all of the various militias in this region one thing they dont want, they dont want american troops back in iraq, which is very interesting. Willing to accept the americans in an advisory role but not in a fighting role. First, jim, is secretary kerry dealing with that . Im going to ask you the same question, general. Jim, you first, is that an issue for the secretary . Well, it isnt for the administration. The president has made clear they will not be in a fighting role. Theyll be in an advisory role with the goal of building iraqi capacity to respond to the threat. When iraqis on the ground who have bad memories of the u. S. Occupation see american uniforms they might make a different judgment and say these are fighters, theyre not advisers. But its a small presence. Theyre not going to be in the feel. Theyre going to be at regional headquarters, so it seems, its the administrations view, that would be a minimal risk. Nic robertson now in baghdad with established communication wit him. Nic, let me go to you. We saw these iraqi men, volunteers in the streets. These are shiites, these are men who support technically the existing government but they are also militias under al sadr. The men you saw today, do you get the feeling that theyre going to defend baghdad or that theyre going to march on these isis forces . I think that depends on what happens in the broader battle feel. These are men who will go into action if theyre leader tells them to. This march and demonstration was for multiple effect, one, to send a message to isis and more broadly, to the sounnis that th shia are ready to defend themselves. A message to Prime Minister Nuri Al Malaki as well, every one of them that we spoke to said malaki has done a bad job and he should go. Lets not forget al sadr gets some direction from iran. Is this an expression of irans view at the moment . We heard from the top shia cleric in the country friday press, saying that malaki really needs to go, needs to be a new government, the new government shun create the mistakes of the past. A direct shot at Nuri Al Malaki. This militia that we saw on the streets represents and how bad the sectarian fighting could get if isis was able to get to one of the important shrines. That would lead to really a massive outpouring of sectarian violence, which is exactly what isis wants. They want to get sunni recruits, thats how they do it. Nic, before i let you go, some of the men, volunteers, in were answering the clerics call to rally, volunteer. I saw some in uniforms. Are these members who were part of the iraqi army who are now sort of switching to these militias . No, these are people in the militia before. Sadr stood down his militia 2008. First time hes called them out on the streets you saw every shade of sort of the police part of the militia, the army part of the militia, a womens part of it a suicide bombers part of it if you will, a roadside bomb makers part of it a guy with the rock the launchers, guys with heavy artillery pieces, it was a big show after strength ands first time these guys have been put back on the streets in six or seven years now. Its really just from a u. S. Perspective, fascinating to watch the dynamic going on between iraq, iran, syria, United States, and now russia. Jim sciutto, Nic Robertson, general williams, well be bringing you back later on. Thank you so much. Have search teams been look for flight 370 in the wrong place . They could move to a new area to look for the missing airliner. Police push back against a report of a prime suspect in the planes disappearance, malaysias facing questions about how badly the investigations been bungled. 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Wednesday, almost four months after the 777 vanish with 239 people aboard, authorities plan to announce theyve pinpointed a new search area, close to the other areas na have been scoured but after reevaluating satellite data, experts believe this could be where the missing airliner might be found. Separately, also Malaysian Airline authorities are blasting a report which names the planes captain as the prime suspect into the planes disappearance. Clive irvin, a scathing piece on malaysias handling of the probe april london newspaper reporting that perhaps the captain may be behind the disaster. There are a lot of ifs in the report. It were human error, perhaps its the captain. So they them carefully. But what are your thoughts . This is all part of a pattern weve seen going on over the last months in the story where the malaysians keep coming back to the idea of blaming the pilot, someone, we dont know who. Where do the stories originate from . Theyre obscurely sourced. This is a problem with all of us trying to cover the story. Once an allegation floats it gets picked up by people all over the world, multimedia picking up everything from a tweet to bloggers. Sure. The story gets carried along by events which are very dubious, by statements, which are very dubious. Theres a real Public Interest here in having better answers and i found it significant, for example, that the head of Emirates Airlines they fly more 777s than anyone else said two very important things. One, he was not satisfied with the forensic standards of the investigation thats been going on in malaysia but, two, he said for everyone to have achieved what was achieved in cutting off communications, the three basic systems of communications between this plane and the ground, anyone to be able to do that they had to have more skills and more training than any of his pilots had. So if the man who runs the airline which flies the most 777s in the world says that, you have to be doubtful about whether a captain of Malaysia Airlines would be any more skilled than the pilots of emirates airline. Where you have written a scathing article where do you think again, people are saying where are we in the investigation . What do we know . What is the most plausible other likely scenario what happened given its been months, youre had time to digest everything thats happened. What do you think, as an expert on this in. Ai am looking for, what is it that we dont know that we could know . We seem to be accepting an idea we dont know anything until a piece of the plane is found. Thats not true. This is another side of the investigation which is different than looking for pieces of the plane its to do with the investigation of the hours leading up to the plane leaving the gate, to do with security around the plane, the screening of the panes who got on the plane. One of the key things, the story said it was the Malaysia Police investigating, the police investigation. Somehow going to be related to the passengers, if its a police investigation. The profiling of passengers becomes important. Who amongst those passengers would have had the kind of technical skills, say if we accept the scenario posed by Emirates Airlines that someone got on shut off someone got into the cockpit if you look through the list, youre looking for a narrow feel of people, a combination of rare technical skills. Its fascinating to watch. The family of the pilot has said absolutely not, that he was hes the father of three, happy, jovial. Absolutely. Theyve defended him until anything that is known. One point he seems to have been the only one that didnt have plans. What a tenuous thing to advance a whole theory on. Exactly. I dont have plans for next week. Im going to sabotage the plane i dont have plans for next week. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. 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She has always supported her children, even when one of them wanted to take on the dangerous and uncertain voyage to the United States in search of opportunity. Nearly 20 years ago, na talia kissed her daughter leslie goodbye. The 25yearold left on foot. Never to return to honduras. This mom says, shes now trapped in the very situation her daughter left behind. Over the years, she has only spoken to her daughter by phone, never seeing her face to face. I met the family filing special reports for cnn in honduras. When i learned about the agony they were facing, due to separation, i thought theres something we can do here. And i started looking for her daughter leslie. And found her living in new york. Sharing her mothers grief. Leslie says she used to cry alone, thinking about her family thousands of miles away. She was undocumented and couldnt visit. We took a dvd of my interview with her parents and showed it to leslie. 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