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They're also pledging $161 million for security and governance issues. all of this water, about a quarter billion dollars, senior lawmakers in washington still don't think that will be enough to stop the problem. senator john mcclain is one of those lawmakers, and he aired his concerns yesterday. >> right now, with the number of thousands that are crossing the border, that are sort of -- that have left central america and are on their way here, it's a roughly 15-day trip, that if we stopped tomorrow, there would still about that backlog that would be coming here. so it's got to stop. and it's ...

>> reporter: vice president joe biden meeting with leaders in guatemala as the obama administration struggles to deal with the growing immigration crisis. thousands of unaccompanied children like the ones we met along the texas/mexico border are risking their lives to enter the u.s. illegally. biden's visit is part of president obama's response to a growing problem. the administration hoping to quash rumors driving families and children north chasing a dream. >> so much of what we're seeing on the southern border is the result of a deliberate, misinformation campaign that is propagated by crim...

Many as 300 u.s. military advisers to iraq this morning, president obama is urging iraqi leaders to come up with a politically inclusive solution to the nation's crisis. >> part of the task now is to see whether iraqi leaders are prepared to rise above sectarian motivations. to come together, to compromise. if they can't, there's not going to be a military solution to this problem. >> lawmaker in washington say iraqi president nuri al maliki has been unable to govern exclusively with shia and kurds. let's talk about this. the author of "obama in the middle east. : the end of america's moment, ...

Where this threat emanated from? >> i think it's important for to us distinguish between a counterterrorism effort that is ongoing. dealing with al qaeda and the remnants that still exist in the fatah, creating platforms, taking targeted strikes where necessary. gathering intelligence. all that work has to be done -- would have to be done even in the crisis in iraq wasn't occurring. and there's no doubt that the problem in syria is one that we've been paying a lot of attention to over the last couple years. as you see jihadists coming in from europe, as far as australia, to get trained, and th...

When an extremist group, isis, started rolling through the western portions of iraq. so part of the task now is to see whether iraqi leaders are prepared to rise above sectarian motivations. to come together, compromise. if they can't, there's not going to be a military solution to this problem. there's no amount of american fire power that's going to be able to hold the country together. and i made that very clear to mr. maliki and all the other leadership inside of iraq. >> but by go into the country to support this iraqi government, to support iraqi forces now, there's a real risk that you ...