Disturbing. U. S. Officials now put the number of isis insurgents inside iraq and syria as high as 10,000. Their number is growing with each stunning and savage success on the battlefield. At the same time, the pentagon now says new u. S. Troops have just arrived in iraq. Their mission, to try to help iraqs military counter this isis terrorist threat. The latest battle is for control of iraqs biggestrefinery. Its not clear at all if iraqi air strikes will really make much of a difference. Nic robertson and arwa damon are both standing by in iraq. Ill also speak with a key iraqi insider. Lets begin with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. What are you learning . Would he have, the latest is the pentagon a short time ago announced u. S. Military advisors are back on the ground inside iraq. About 130 of them now near the embassy in baghdad and working to set up a joint Operation Center in the baghdad region with the iraqis. Thats 130 advisors there, and another 50 on the way in the
New hampshire. My economic agenda can be summed up in three words; jobs, jobs, jobs. Hes talking about jobs there and were going to get into his new jobs plan tonight. Lets go to breanna keeler. You are out covering Hillary Clinton tonight. I want to start with something donald trump said in an interview just published in the Washington Post. Trump again refused say president obama was born in the u. S. He said this, ill answer that at the right time, i just dont want to answer it yet and moments ago Hillary Clinton responded, listen. Today, he did it again. He was asked one more time, where was president obama born. And he still wouldnt say hawaii. He still wouldnt say america. This man wants to be our next president. When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry . You can hear the blow back from the audience he wont say those word. Reporter yeah, i dont know why he strayed from that, which is why i dont talk about that anymore because he basically said hes not ready to say it. There
New jobs plan tonight. Lets go to brianna keilar. She is at the dinner in washington tonight that i mentioned. You are out covering Hillary Clinton tonight. I want to start with something donald trump said in an interview just published in the Washington Post. Trump again refused to say that president obama was born in the u. S. He said this, ill answer that at the right time, i just dont want to answer it yet and moments ago Hillary Clinton responded, listen. Today, he did it again. He was asked one more time, where was president obama born. And he still wouldnt say hawaii. He still wouldnt say america. This man wants to be our next president. When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry . You can hear the blow back from the audience he wont say those word. Reporter yeah, i dont know strayed from what he has said before, which is, i dont talk about that anymore. This is different. Because he basically said he is not ready to say it. There will be some other time for it. I think you h
Happen again. Snug big news back stateside. The president getting new lawyers because of the special Council Investigation and his former National Security adviser pliblg flynn faces new pressure, too. More subpoenas today for documents detailing his Election Year russia contacts. The walls feel like they are closing in on the Trump Administration right now. Im not sure that they can hold them off much longer. Plus, todays an anxious day for republicans. A new report card on the new Gop Health Care bill is due any minute. The big budget cuts proposed by President Trump being framed by democrats to you as heartless and has more promises broken. Simply put, the trump budget takes a sledgehammer to the middle class and working americans, lavishes tax breaks on the very wealthy and imagines all of the deficit problems away with fantasy math. With us to share the reporting and insights Ashleigh Parker of the Washington Post, perry bacon of 538, kelsey snell of the Washington Post and dana b
Thats been looming over this administration during a week of chaos and upheaval. President trump will sign the russian sanctions bill weve learned tonight. In a statement the white house said, President Trump read early drafts of the bill and negotiated regarding critical elements of it. He has now reviewed the final version and based on its responsiveness to his negotiations, approves the bill and intends to sign it. The legislation which was sent to the white house today would sanction russia while sharply limiting the president s ability to ease penalties against moscow independently. So lot to discuss tonight. Lets get right to cnn Global Affairs analyst david road. We have counterterrorism political commenter david sord leg. I want to start with you on this breaking news. Did the president have a choice here . No and thfts the right move politically. If he had vetoed this bill it adds more fuel to the whole russia fire. Smart political move for the white house. Lets give them cred