Good friday morning. The chaotic situation in iraq shows no signs of letting up, as mill trants claim more territory. And president obama is weighing his options, as the insurgents creep closer to baghdad. Will u. S. Strikes be next . Abcs Christian Fisher live from the white house. Good morning, kristen. Reporter the u. S. Military is going to do something. But after nearly nine years of war and sacrifice in iraq, one option not on the able is putting more u. S. Troops back on the ground. This cell phone video shot yesterday, appears to show islamic extremists, through mosul, and vehicles seized from iraqi soldiers. The soldiers have been trying to stop the militants as they storm through city aftercy towards baghdad. As this Youtube Video shows, iraqi troops are losing. Thousands of iraqi soldiers are seen here surrendering to the militants, with links to al qaeda. Iraqs government is begging the u. S. To step in. Yesterday, a caution president obama said help is on the way. My team
Launch an offensive against the city of baqubah less than 40 miles from baghdad. We will speak to professor juan cole of the university of michigan. He just wrote a piece titled dont trust the bombers on iraq shock and awe never works. Then 50 years after freedom summer, Voting Rights are under attack again in the south. They have attacked early voting, making it harder to vote with voter id laws. Every one of those reforms voter repression laws and tactics have the same effect of driving down the black vote. We will speak to former naacp president ben jealous on true south voters of color in the black belt 50 years after after freedom summer. And on the First Anniversary of the death of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, his widow publishes the novel she found on his computer after he died in a fiery car crash. It is a scathing critique of the news media today called the last magazine. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace re
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Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl returned to the u. S. Today. Hes now in a Texas Military hospital to continue his treatment there wer. Officials will speak about his condition. Well keep an eye on this for you, and well bring you, well, it looks like military brass coming to the microphones. Lets go to san antonio right now and have a listen. Can everyone hear me now . Okay, good afternoon, everyone, im colonel hans bush, the spokesman for the south. The mission lead headquarters for this reintegration phase three press conference. Today were going to address your questions in the reintegration of sgt. Bowe bergdahl. From burke Army Medical Center dr. Wolfe. As a reminder, his reintegration activities here at brooke Army Medical Center. Questions about his activities before and after the integration will be made by me and the department of defense. Well make a previous statement and then go to q a for approximately 30 minutes. The United States military is proud that we have honored the co
Birthday leap. The former president celebrates 90 with another jump. Scrunch the human toll, 4400 americans killed. More than 30,000 wounded. The pricetag more than a trillion dollars. Tonight, there are new questions about what the United States accomplished in the nineyear iraq war. President obama is on the spot tonight. Republicans say he was caught off guard. The white house says it will help iraq. The question is how . My team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them i dont rule out anything. In iraq, an alqaedainspired group sieged two major cities and say they are headed for baghdad. Today, the kurds in the north took over the oilrich city of kirkuk. There are reports iran is getting involved battling what the their president calls terrorism. Reporter a Senior Advisor in the Iraqi Ministry of defense confirmed that special forces as well as highlytrained forces he described them as elite forces will carry out military oper