Emotion captured on camera and the location where chen yes was hidden. Why were the photos hidden from us for so long. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following major new developments in the war against isis including a rare emergency nato meeting. Turkey has called for the extraordinary session as it faces a growing threat from isis forces, disturbingly close to its border with syria. The danger is so great, the u. S. Is now working with turkey to establish an eye saysfree safe zone. Were also getting a first look at some remarkable pictures taken as the country was rocked by the 9 11 terror attacks, the images capture the shock and horror of Top Bush Administration officials in the minutes after the twin towers were struck. They also revealed the top secret location where dick cheney was whisked away. Were covering that with our correspondents and guests including james risch, a key men of the intelligence and Foreign Relations committee. But we begin with president obama, using the international spotlight to slam lawmakers and president ial candidates over remarks he calls ridiculous and sad. Sore surWhite House Correspondent is joining us for the ethiopian capital. Hes traveling with the president. Update our viewers on the latest what is going on . Reporter wolf president obama is in ethiopia about as far as you can get from the 2016 campaign trail, but he unloaded on the gop field. He saved his toughest comments for Mike Huckabee though he was hardly the president s only target. From his first real dive into the race for the white house, president obama blasted one of the republican fields top candidates Mike Huckabee who said the nuclear deal with iran threatened another holocaust. The particular comments of mr. Huckabee are i think part of just a general pattern that we have seen that would be considered ridiculous if it werent he told Breitbart News that the president was ignores hes so naive to trust the iranians and take the israelis appeared basically march them to the door of the oven. Reporter responding in a News Conference in ethiopia the president sounded disgusted, accusing huckabee desperately trying to play catchup with donald trump. Maybe it gets attention. Maybe its just an effort to push mr. Trump out of the headlines. Reporter but there was more as the president i aggressively denounced trump for his comments on john mccain. That arises out of a culture where, you know those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated nonstop, through the internet talk radio, news outletts. Reporter the president pated the gop action being in a race to the bottom saleming senator cochran for describing john kerrys role in the iran deal as pontius pilot pontius Pontius Pilate. Weve a sitting senator call John Kerry Pontius pilate. And also one running for president to suggest that im the leading state sponsor of terrorism. These are leaders in the Republican Party. Reporter refusing to back down huckabee backed down saying whats ridiculous and sad is president obama does not take the threats seriously. The president signaled this is hardly his last comments on the campaign. It signified he may be taking an increased role. As one official said its also about the nuclear deal with iran the president wants the debate to be on the facts. Well see if he gets that debate. Thanks jim acosta. Were also learning about new details of a safe zone. Were talking about turkey. Barbara starr is standing by what exactly would this safe zone be . Thats the question officials scrambling to explain it to figure out what exactly they can and will do with the turks after president obama and his turkish counterpart appear to have informally agreed to this in a telephone conversation. Now the hard work begins. Officials are telling you what they are looking at is the possibility thats wear planes fly out of the Southern Turkey keeping a watch over the border with syria, will be able to do a better job of keeping the area safe the border air where isis is. Because they will be there, because they will be close by theyll be able to strike isis targets, keeping civilians safe and also keeping syrian rebel forces safe. The u. S. However, doesnt want to get dragged in too deeply. They are resisting, calling it a nofly zone. Thats something the pentagon doesnt want. That would put them in the air 24 7. Theyre willing to do the air strikes, willing to keep watch. Well have to see how far this goes and if they really can come to an agreement on how to make it happen. Wolf . How much barbara, does the use of turkish bases help the u. S. Operation against isis . Well look the u. S. Had wanted those air basses for months because it will put u. S. War planes much closer to the critical isis targets in the isis strongholds in Northern Syria and northern iraq. Now there theyll be a few hundred miles away instead of coming all the way up from the persian gulf bases that they had been limited to. So this puts them overhead much quicker. They can stay aloft longer they dont have to stop to refuel. They can keep watch. They can look for isis targets. To u. S. Commanders say this is a Real Advantage in the war against isis and by the way, world. We checked the numbers, you this now a war that has cost 3 billion. Since when . In the last year. Since the air strikes began, latest pentagon tally, 3 billion. When they do sit down at nato tomorrow as you mentioned, the turks will make their case the u. S. Will be listening carefully and deciding just how far it wants to go. Thanks Barbara Starr. Lets bring in arwa damon from istanbul. Turkey called for in emergency nato meeting. Theyre walking a fine line now. Tell us whats going on . Reporter turkey is in a fairly vulnerable position at this stage. It does seem a lot of factors have come together at the same time. Turkeys policy of wanting to sit out this war with isis on the sidelines, not wanting to get actively involved not wanting to officially join the antiisis coalition have failed and ankara right now is changes its policy setting asize some of the conditions too among them for example, the insisten that Bashar Al Assad also be removed from power and that this campaign also somehow go after the regime elements. Turkey is also not just fighting isis at this stage. It has reopened the front that it has with the pkk, the Kurdistan Workers Party that it deems to be a terrorist organization. This meeting with nato is an attempt by turkey to on the one hand lay out its current strategy but on the other 457bd also ensure it has the capital, that it has the support from nato as it does move forward along these two front lines against isis and against the pkk, and additionally to all of this turkey has realized to remain relevant in the region accomplicically relevant it has to take an active and aggressive role against isis wolf. Arwa we also heard a rare speech from the syrian president , and he admitted setbacks. What did he say . Reporter he was basically saying that the Syrian Military justifying why the Syrian Military had withdrawn from some strategic key areas, and conceding that yes, his forces were stretched thing, that they were struggling when it came to logistic when it came to manpower remember they have been embroiled in this war for well over four years now. The president also was saying that he would be open to dialogue but as assad has said in the past this would not be dialogue with any terrorist Organization Since he deems all limits of the Syrian Opposition all of the rebel groups to be terrorist organizations, its difficult to see exactly whom he thinking he would be holding this dialogue with but yes, we are sees the president acknowledging that they are struggling throughout this battle that their forces are stretched thing, but at the same time one has to remember that they do still have the solid support of some very strong regional allies that have in the past and will once again come to their assistance. That is namely iran and the various different militias that it supports. Led by hezbollah from lebanon as well. Ar ka thank you very much. Lets talk about all of this and more with senator james risch of idaho. On the intelligence and foreign relation committees. Thank you for coming in. Let me quickly get your thoughts on some of these republican president ial candidates other republican senators what theyre saying about the president of the United States and the secretary of state. You were relatively mild in your criticism, saying john kerry had been bam boozeled by the iranians iranians but Mike Huckabee saying the president is leading the israelis the jews in israel to the door of the oech a reference to the holocaust. Is he going too far . I dont want to get between governor huckabee and the president , but let me say this with all the rhetoric going on you can see this is a serious, serious matter. Each side is dug in. Each side hag positions that they think are the right positions. That very frequently causes the war of words that we are seeing now, but it is serious. Im saying when governor huckabee seems to be making this comparison between the president of the United States and hitler who took the jews as we know to the doors of the oven. That seems to be going way too far. Again, like i say, when you get into these situations people will sailing things that perhaps on reflection they hadnt ratcheted that up. But hes standing by those comments. As time goes on perhaps he will have a different view of it. But again, i think the takeaway is the fact that people feel so strongly. This is a serious, serious matter. I totally agree. You can make criticism, make arguments, but you dont have to start throwing the holocaust into this dont have to say the jews in israel are about to go to the door of oven. When i train young legislators, that words are like bullets. You always want to be careful about the words that you use. You think governor huckabee had not uttered those words . Thats between Mike Huckabee and the president. I come back to the fact this is a serious issue, that really demands serious debate and serious consideration. And very quickly before we move on ted cruz calling this Iran Nuclear Deal a jihadist stimulus bill senator tom cotton compare john kerry to fontity pilate we all need to debate this civilly, but at the end of the day in congress most ly pressure voting to affirm there, but i think were using language that they want to underscore. For instance the fact that theres going to be a tremendous amount of money that goes to iran that will go directly to the various terrorist organizations. It has, we know thats going to happen and people are upset about that. When you say the secretary of state was bamboozled what do you mean by that . I think they gave away the farm before they ever sat down to the table. They should have required that iran give up the financing of terrorists and give up their ambitions to produce another weapon. That means stopping enriching. Both of them were giving away. They continued to give and give and give. The u. S. Kept moving towards irans position. Iran never moved toward the its position. Those of you who watched it thousand it was handled poorly. I know the administration strongly disagrees. No question. We have to keep the debate as civil as we possibly can. I agree. Stand by, senator. We have much more to discuss with john risch, when we come back. When you do business everywhere, the challenges of keeping everyone working together can quickly become the only thing you think about. Thats where at t can help. At t has the tools and the network you need to make working as one easier than ever. Virtually anywhere. Leaving you free to focus on what matters most. music imagine these kids wont have to remember passwords or obsess about security. For them, every screen is meant to be touched. And web pages are meant to be scribbled on, and shared. Theyll expect their devices to listen to them. And talk. And sing. And tell a funny joke. And as they grow, and get better at things their technology will too. 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And as you know the white house and administration has pushed back for many months but now they are talking about. Turkey is a key nato ally a significant air force, why cant turkey do that by itself . Why do they need u. S. Airpower potential Ground Forces to help . Turkey probably could do it by themselves but look there is no substitute for u. S. Airpower anywhere in the world. It is that simple. We have ways and means available to us that no other country in the world has. We are much more efficient at it. We have experience with it. Its interesting to see turkey now also changing its attitude. They have tried their best to stay out of this fray. I was in turkey once when they were shelling and they did very little to push back on it but did back them down. Now, of course things are blowing up on them. Isis is actually crossing in doing things. Interestingly enough the kurds having very effective in creating mostly a buffer zone in syria, between syria and turkey. How do you feel about the facts that the it shalls are not only going after isis forces but going after kurdish forcess well. Generally they dont go after the peshmerga. The pkk is their concern. Thats the difference between the pkk and between the special some special pusheshmerga. This is my judgment that the pkk is using the current state of afarce and turmoil to take advantage. Theyve been fairly quiet over the last 18 to 24 months but now again theyre stepping forward. Turkey doesnt like that. Theyre concerned about it and theyre now having to take a second look at whats going on on their border and how theyre going to engage us and other countries. Potentially a turning point. It is. Thats a good point. Thats true. I want your reaction to what James Combe Comey toweled me. Isis is now the major Terror Threat to the u. S. Homeland even a bigger threat to the u. S. Homeland than al qaeda. Do you agree with it . I agree with him 100 . Al qaeda has always looked for the great big iconic things they could do here to make a statement. Isis has much lower target than that. Theyre happy to take these lone wolves that go out and do these things where they will kill a handful of people. We are much more vulnerable to than we are the big iconic type of attacks. On top of that they work differently. Al qaeda was really hung up on command and control and titles and whos in charge. Isis is serb is much more spread out. Theyre not nearly as hung up on the chain of command, that sort of things. Thank you for joining us. James risch, from idaho. Investigators find new clues on the mass shooting in louisiana. Also newly released photos from the white house at the september 11th terror attacks unfolded. They finally reveal Vice President chen yes ace secret, undisclosed location. Push your enterprise and you can move the world. But to get from the old way to the new youll need the right it infrastructure. 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Turkey a key u. S. Ally has now joined the fight bombing isis targets, raiding suspect a suspected highout, it also wants an emergency nato meeting. Will it draw u. S. Forces closer to the fighting including syrias civil war . Joining us are cnns National Security analyst peter bergen and former cia official phil mud, and Joshua Walker former advisers under secretaries john kerry and Hillary Clinton. Thanks very much for coming in. This new socalled safe zone. They dont really want to call it a nofly zone but it has elements of that. I dont think it will drive us into a combat role yet. We had the president of syria this week talking about his inability to project power all across the country. Very interesting speech where he acknowledges the military is not doing that well. Now we have the turks and americans say in this northern strip, we will take care of isis for you, so until and unless the syrians decide to confront the turks and americans, i think we