Strikes. Speaking a short time ago, president obama says he doesnt know the course of action hell take if any at all but hes sure of one thing, no boots on the ground. We will not be sending u. S. Troops back into combat in iraq but i have asked my National Security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support Iraq Security forces and ill be reviewing those options in the days ahead. The United States will do our part, but understand that ultimately its up to the iraqis as a sovereign nation to solve their problems. We have doubled our everies to help build more capable Counter Terrorism forces so that groups like isil ka establish safe haven and well continue that effort through the modern operation in syria and Iraq Security forces and partnerships across the region. For the people of Northern Iraq and baghdad, a city now in the cross hairs of these radical extremists, time is running out. The u. N. Now saying in just a few short days as isis fighters stormed onwa
Good morning s. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Alex is off today. President obama and the first lady are headed to india. They just left moments ago. We learned the president will cancel the end of his trip to india and fly to saudi arabia. Lets get to kristen welker. Talk to us about what led to this change and whats the purpose to it reporter good morning. The white house made the announcement that president obama is going to cut his trip short and travel to saudi arabia early this morning. The president is expected to meet with the new saudi king while in riyadh tuesday. Vice President Biden was initially slated to lead the delegation. In a statement, josh earnest stated as the president s and Vice President s travel schedules became clearer, we determined the window when the Vice President would be on the ground in riyadh coincided with the president s departure from india. Accordingly, we adjusted the schedule. The president will meet with king solomon and offer his condolenc
The president says Houthi Rebels demanded concessions he wasnt willing to give including putting their people in key positions including defense. Now the Parliament Said it rejected the president s resignation and want a special presentation tomorrow to discuss it. The next in line is speaker of the parliament. Hes an ally of the previous president who have had been pushed out a number of months ago. So this is yemeni politics at its worse and sign of instability in the country essential ally of the u. S. In the fight against aqap. To further complicate matters, peninsula is against the Houthi Rebels that have taken over the rival. You have various rivals here. You cant call the houthis because they say theyre ally of iran. None of these outcomes is great for the u. S. Particularly instability. Instability is one word. Jim sciutto, i was talking to smart people at the top of the hour. They called it chaos. Its complicated but important because as you hammered home yemen has been an imp
Right now theyre going to want to know all the information they can gather. What does he look like . Has he made any statements on board the plane . Did anybody actually see a suicide belt . Does it look real . Does it not look real . Is he standing up . Ise sitting down . Is he at the front of the plane, the back of the plane . They want to know all this information to give them the tactical advantage. The other side of the coin is that right now its difficult for the people left on board, and probably the passengers that are getting onto that bus at larnaca will be able to say who else was on board, maybe somebody knows the rest of these passengers. Maybe they know foreign affiliation. Because the indication is that the foreign passengers are still left on that plane. One of the things that has to be kept in mind, that plane is no longer under the jurisdiction of what egyptians would do in their country had it still been on the ground there. They have to go with the protocol of cypru
Reporter we are learning a lot of what happened that night from all kinds of sources. We are learning about mateens childhood. It is revealing a great picture in terms of his personal behavior. This is going as far back as he was when he was a third grader. In fact, records released by the County School board here revealing that in third grade going back to the third grade, he was considered verbally abusive and rude and aggressive and much talk about violence and sex. A report on him of lacking control and lack of remorse. All the way through sixth grade when there is instances of behavioral problems and in high school he was suspended for 48 days as a result of altercations with fights he had with other students. Something he wrote about when he was applying for a job later on in his life. So you get a sense from some of these early reports that were coming out of his earlier years all the way through his professional years when colleagues of his, the Security Company described him a