Those of you here in the audience and people who are joining us virtually. With the election less than three weeks away, it is important to remember it is essential to preserving our democratic republic that we have secure elections in which every citizen who is eligible to vote is to cast a ballot. We want a process in which when it is over everyone agrees, even the candidates who lost and their supporters that we had a fair and honest election. How do we do that . That is the question today. It begs the question, are comprehensive election audits a way to achieve that goal . In depth audits of elections are almost nonexistent yet indepth financial and accounting audits are standard practice. Heritage has published a new study explaining this issue available online. It is called best practices and standards for election audits. I encourage you to read it or download it. Today we have three experts with us to discuss this very important question. The honorable senator paul that in cour
Number of u. S. Troops now already on the ground in baghdad. Theyre trying to learn if iraqs military can withstand the insurgent onslaught as the militants take aim as an extraordinary new target. And grilling Donald Sterling. His clients have included the beatles, michael jackson, tom cruise, and john travolta. And now the legendary lawyer burt fields will crossexamine the clippers owner and join us to talk about that can this hour. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Hes the man in the hot seat of a House Republican investigation, but as yet to break a sweat. The irs commissioner john cos kanaan is no stranger to washington and now finds himself at the center of the scandal over the agencys targeting of conservative groups. John kaskey nen will join us but first, heres tom foreman. I dont believe it. Why should anyone believe you . What i didnt hear in that was an apology. I dont think an apology is owed. Amid the storm of congressional outrage and accusations, there he sa
President obama has not made, but u. S. Troops, about 180 military advisers, are now fanning out across the baghdad area, doing that assessment work of how the Iraqi Military is doing, what the isis threat is. With u. S. Troops on the move potentially around baghdad, there are armed drones overhead to protect them. This is a forced protection measure according to a u. S. Official who has direct knowledge of this effort. It all began in the last 24 hours because u. S. Troops are now there and on the move. This, however, has been commissioned to another level. Until now there have been no armed drones over iraq. Th there had been manned reconnaissance flights, pilots in the cockpit. Those aircraft were armed, of course, to protect the pilot. These armed drones, this today hasnt happened in a long time, carol. I know youre going to gather more information for us. Barbara starr reporting live from the pentagon, thank you. In detroit, an odd case grows even more bizarre. Police are hoping f
And calls are now growing louder for the Justice Department to the appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. Cnns tom foreman has details. John koskinen admits a few people in his agency once held up granting tax exempt stat to us some consecutive political groups. He admits emails possibly related to those events were lost. However, that was before he got there and he has been furiously denying talk in congress of a further conspiracy or i an coverup. What i didnt hear in that was an apology to this committee. I dont think one is owed. But listen to what he is saying now to the public. I apologize to anybody who had their applications held up needlessly. Everybody needs to be confident that the irs is going to treat them fairly no matter who they are, republicans, democrats. Conservative websites are exploding saying koskinen despite the interview is simply widening a tangled web of deceit. Republicans are calling for the attorney generals impeachment if he doesnt appoint a special