This huge undertaking. But please allow me to be very clear. Peace in libya, either the tribes do this or no one is going to do this. No one is going to achieve this. The only way to reach pieceeace is the tribes finally accept that theyre going to go toward stabilization and piece. Our work is that looking in favor of this at all levels so this effort does, indeed leads to peace. The diplomatic initiatives you are aware of theyre the ones that we are doing, and theyre the ones that the Foreign Ministers are also trying to support and to study. Obviously this is not a job that starts in libya. I would like my Italian Journalist friends to understand that libya which we consider because theyre across from us the main problem, but theyre part of a more complex, greater problem that has to do with the risk of terrorist infiltrations in africa. We are feeling the pain for what happened at the university in kenya, but this regards africa as a whole as a continent. A few days ago, we remember a year has gone by from when some 100 girls were kidnapped by bocaw boko haram and remember the bringbackourgirls. Therefore, the issue of libya is something we have to place in a wider context. The Technical Solutions, our teams are looking at them every single day and there are obviously Technical Solutions in which there is a full awareness, for which there is a full aware awareness awareness. The United States is next. Europe is next to the United States. In a huge challenge that will bring the troops in our country to spend more months more time in afghanistan, much more so than we had thought because if the coalition with the United States considers that the process has to. Italy will do its part. Obviously in terms of the Technical Solutions i mentioned this is not something that has to do with political debates, it has it to do with our technical teams, with their expertise. I have to be sure that i have priority in aassurance from the United States this is not something in which italy is working on its on. I can tell you that as far as we are concerned, the cooperation and the Work Together with you, both in the natural diplomatic way and in the constant work which is done every single day which is a job which is done silently quietly, in everyday life which takes us to heroism, im thinking about coast guard, men and women that saved those people at sea, allowed a young woman to give birth on the boat, she was dying and they saved two lives. We also have to be fully aware of the fact that the work that we do together is a job, that not only regards libya but all of africa. I might say the whole world and allow me to say this without taking the floor too long this is a job we are doing everywhere from russia, to latin america, afghanistan, to the middle east. The cooperation and work done between the United States and italy is something out of discussion that cannot be discussed. We are consistently looking where terrorist threats might emanate and libya, obviously is an area of great concern. Isil has been very explicit wanting to use the chaos inside of libya as a potential justification for putting their some of their personnel there. And so the coordination with italy and with other of our key partners is going to be very important. We will not be able to solve the problem just with a few drone strikes or a few military operations. You have a country that has been broke noon a number of tribal factions some sectarian elements to it and you dont have a Central Government that is functioning effectively. So we still have to guard against the use of the territories in libya as safe haven for terrorist operations much in the way weve done with respect to somalia for means years, but the answer ultimately is to have a government that can control its own borders and work with us. Thats going to take some time. But we will combine counterterrorism efforts in cooperation with italy and other likeminded nations with a political effort and were going to have to encourage some of the countries inside of the gulf who have i think influence over the various factions inside libya to be more cooperative themselves. In some cases weve seen them fan the flames of military conflict rather than try to reduce them. With respect to russia, matteo and i agree that we need implementation of minsk and i expressed my strong belief that the European Council needs to continue the current sanctions that are in place until weve seen full implementation of the minsk agreement. There will be a vote coming up this summer in the European Council and my expectation is to the only italy, but all countries in europe will recognize that it would be a wrong message to send to reduce sanctions pressure on russia when their key implementation steps dont happen until the end of the year. At minimum we have to maintain the existing sanction levels until weve seen theyve carried out the steps that theyre required to under the agreement. And one of the things that matteo and i share and the italian and American People share, is the sense of values and principles that sometimes override political expedience. Thats part of our dna thats part of our memories because of the history of both our countries. And i think we have to be realistic and practical in how we look at a problem like ukraine and we also have to recall that the reason theres a unified and prosperous europe is because enormous sacrifices were made on behalf of ideas and prips. S and if principles and if those principles of territorial integrity and sovereignty start getting ignored, then that carries as cost for carries a cost for europe and the world. Thank you. All right. There they are the president of the United States and the Prime Minister of italy wrapping up more than one hour News Conference during which they went through several major issues. Welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. From iran to libya to Economic Issues facing europe and the United States as well as some marriager domestic issue major domestic issues in the United States on several of these matters. We did see president obama speak very forcefully in the delay of his attorney general for Loretta Lynch. We dont often see him get this passionate on an issue but he is clearly angry at republicans in the United States senate. Watch this. The dysfunction in the senate just goes too far. This is an example of it. Its gone too far. Enough. Enough. Call Loretta Lynch for a vote get her confirmed, put her in place, let her do her job. This is embarrassing. A process like this. More than five months since he nominated Loretta Lynch to replace eric holder as the attorney general of the United States. She would be the first africanamerican female attorney general here in the United Statesp in glor borger is with me and jim sciutto. You dont see the president sdets that agitated. Hes furious and has a point actually because they have held up this nomination for five months on a completely ancillary issue that has to deal with abortion. Theyre mad at her because she agrees with the president s executive orders on immigration. And senator harry reid the leader of the democrats, has now said i am going to force a vote on this. And the way he forces a vote on this is that somebody calls for a vote. Hes not the majority leader remember. He can force a vote if he gets 51 senators to say, yes, they will go with him on that. He would need to convince a bunch of republicans to go against their leader on a procedural issue, not sure whether he can get the votes. This is a huge breach of protocol if harry reid does what he says he wants to do and its going to create even more strained relations between democrats and republicans. Dont forget yesterday, jeb bush came out and said time for a vote on this. Let her get her vote. And thats what the president was effectively saying. There seems to be movement in the last few days maybe there would be a vote. Reid tell graphed that. But he said weve waited i might be able to wait a little longer but not much longer. Hes presenting this Nuclear Option to prod the republicans to move forward and if not hell take this path. The question is whether republicans who are willing to vote for her, are actually going to vote against their own leader on a procedural matter . Im not convinced they would be willing to do that. Public pressure is clearly building on this because the American Public is sort of saying why not just vote if you want to vote her down vote her down. The president made a point, top Law Enforcement official in the security. Made a National Security case. Terror threats et cetera get her confirmed. Jeb bush former governor of florida, whos soon to be a formally announced president ial candidate says the republicans dont like eric holder the current attorney general anyhow move him out and get a new attorney general. I want to go to Michele Kosinski our white house correspondent, in the east room of the white house, its not often you see the president get that angry. Right. That was asked almost as dont forget can you add something about the Loretta Lynch situation, but it turned out to be the strongest statement he made during this. I dont think that was entirely unexpected. Really the time has come for this. Weve seen the white house over the last couple weeks kind of ramping up their language over this as well as their criticism of republicans. Couple weeks ago they started this day count of how many precise days it has been since the nomination. Today i think is day number 161. Theyve started using examples of how much time its taken other nominees even using republicans own words in the past to criticize them. To hear the president say, this theres no reason for this it is simply political gamesmanship and its embarrassing it goes along with what weve been hearing from the white house over the past couple days. Calling senator grassleys comments about why the delay is happening astoundingly due police tus and saying that this delay is unconscionable. The white house is really willing to go farther on the language as this delay becomes more and more pro noupsed. The u. S. Attorney in new york highly respected, the president made it clear he would like to see a roll call vote in the United States allowing her to be confirmed as the next attorney general of the United States. The president was asked about the compromise that was worked out in the u. S. Senate on the issue of iran the Iran Nuclear Deal thats not yet there, seems to be moving forward. Listen to what he said. I updated Prime Minister renzi on the framework that we reached with iran. Our progress towards a comprehensive deal that prevents iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon and we agreed that until any final deal is reached angions on iran ps must continue to be fully and strictly enforced. Jim sciutto the president made it clear, though, he thinks its a reasonable compromise that had been worked out by the chairman ranking democrat on the Senate ForeignRelations Committee in terms of congressional oversight. Exactly. The best he could get. The president didnt want this from the beginning. Votes there, passed 190 veto proof majority in the senate but he said listen first of all he has to live with it he can live with it because he said he believes ss it will not derail the negotiations under way and specific to the congress congressionally mandated sanctions not establishing a precedence that congress would always have approval over political agreements like this. A sense of how precarious the negotiations are, the verbal gymnastics he went through to say not phasing out of sanctions because this is an issue now. The iranians are demanding they happen on day one and he has said we have to maintain leverage but he didnt go that far. He used the word how sanctions are lessened. Very careful not to use phase out. Hes clearly concerned about the snapback provision. He made it very clear, you know, that we have to be able if things arent working out, we have to be able as he put it not to jump through hoops, to reinstate the sanctions. He doesnt want to get in front of john kerry, his secretary of state. Sitting in the front row there. Sitting right there. The president also despite all the tensions with russia right now over ukraine and other issues went out of his way to actually defend the decision by the russian government to go ahead even now before there is a formal agreement and sell new what he called defensive missiles to iran. Pretty remarkable. He said he basically was saying im surprised they held the deal this long. He was sort of thanking russia thanks for pushing it back but these are advanced missiles, though. That said when we were speaking to the chairman of the joint chiefs yesterday general dempsey he was asked about this and said our military option with regard to Irans Nuclear program is intact in his words with the missile sale. In other words, saying american plans could get by it. Weve thought about that. Weve thought about that and were going to work around it. Still russia is selling advanced Missile Systems to iran to defend its Nuclear Sites in the middle of a nuclear negotiation. Thats not nothing. One theory american planes might be able to deal with the surfacetoair missiles but israeli planes might not be able to deal with those. I want both of you to stand by. Much more while the News Conference was happening we got word of other breaking news. An explosion near the u. S. Consulate in erbil. In Northern Iraq. We have details on what happened. Stay with us. Well be right back. Youre driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pickup truck slams into your brand new car. One second it wasnt there and the next second. Boom youve had your first accident. Now you have to make your first claim. So you talk to your Insurance Company and. Boom youre blindsided for a second time. They wont give you enough money to replace your brand new car. Dont those people know youre already shaken up . 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According to Kurdish Security forces there was a small ied explosion into the consulate, a christian neighborhood very popular with expats. Now when that bomb went off, shortly afterwards another a car started to approach the consulate. Kurdish Supreme Court forces outside the consulate opened fire on that car, but the car subsequently exploded. As you said killing at least three people wounding five according to our sources in the area. Now, also what happened afterwards there is a parentally an hourlong exchange of gunfire according to eyewitnesses weve spoken to who were in that immediate area. Now, this is a part of town where theres high security and this is a part of iraq erbil, where the kurds take security very seriously. And rarely are there such occurrences in erbil itself. Fortunately it was fry. Iday. Thats the day when the u.