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Good afternoon, everyone, im jake tapper, welcome to the lead. The most powerful people in the United States government in a single room right now. The dilemma before them, how to respond to the chaos seizing iraq . The top four members of congress could emerge from the white house any moment now after a private meeting with the president on iraq. The president weighing his options for days now on what action to take, if any, against isis, the Islamic State in iraq and syria, but we know exactly what the Iraqi Government would like the u. S. To do. Deliver death to the terrorists from the air....

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The u.s. facing a court given the complications that would arise for this president in particular who is a constitutional law professor and a democrat, for him to have to battle, i think, a huge part of the progressive wing of the democratic party over your potential extradition or a criminal prosecution would be a very complicated situation for him indeed. >> i think you're probably correct, while that said this president only has a couple of years left so a matter could actually proceed into the next presidency, but we have, through a lot of effort including by people like michael rattner wh...

Calling on the department of justice to, quote, officially close all criminal investigations of wiki leaks and its editor in chief julian assange. michael rattner are still with me. michael, let me ask you from a legal perspective how likely is it that the u.s. would consider closing criminal investigations? >> you know, they certainly should. this is remarkable. it's the biggest, probably most serious investigation of a publisher, journalists that's ever been taken in this country. despite the fact that journalists and publishers should be able to publish this kind of material, the warlordses...

Instances in which american soldiers killed civilians. u.s. authorities failure to investigate hundreds of reports ever abuse, torture, rape and murder by iraqi police and soldiers. a reliance on private contractors on a scale not well recognized at the time and hugely relevant to recent reports about possible u.s. cooperation with iran in the current iraq crisis. the war logs revealed the extent to which iran intervened aggressively in support of shiite combatants offering weapon, training and sanctuary and in a few instances directly engaging american troops. julian assange published the ira...