there is a fight here at home. republicans blame the president and democrats blame president bush. and this is media finger pointing that is fuelling it. howie, you say it is a pointless and partisan debate and how do we fix it? it is a default setting of the media. you have conservative pundits if only barak obama had left a force in iraq isis would be curtailed and liberal pundits refighting 2003 saying it was all george bush s fault. it gets us no where in dealing with a dire situation in iraq and syria. there is a lack of actual veterans and fought there weighing in on this debate. and here we are right before memorial day, is that laziness
societies there as well. quite stunning to behold those ruins. they may not be there if isis do what they ve done in the past but there has been substantial group there s now a very modern human crisis emerging 100 soldiers killed overnight as isis swept in taking the airport there. a prison and intelligence headquarters we re told. unclear the fate of the prisoners, potentially they ve been killed reports of executions in the streets as well. potentially 100,000 people in that city. a long telegraphed capacity for isis to move in but seems the regime have pulled back. it s a vital moment alisyn because this is the first time that isis who haven t really messed with the syrian regime quite some time focusing on other rebels the first time they ve moved against the regime population center and this does potentially give them a straight highway move toward the capital damascus run by the regime. troubling indeed isis still having that momentum. this is a vital moment as you say, nick
we ll be remembering all this and talking abt more this morning because guess who s here? oh yeah bill gert godfried is here and we ll talk about letterman s legacy and appearing on the show himself a few times. dave is big news. there s no question about it. but there s a lot of news this morning. let s get right to it. isis militants capturing a strategically important city. the ancient city of palmyra. it is at the mercy of isis. new developments in the quadruple murder mystery. authorities are looking for a 34-year-old man with a long record. dna left on pizza inside the home. the u.s. sees this as international waters. china used these islands as its sovereign territory. it appears to be buildup of military infrastructure. this is new day with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning everyone.
in other words, you acknowledge that you have to give up some territory. you prefer not to, but you have to give it up. in return you achieve some time which hopefully the united states can build the iraqi forces up so they can get back into the fight and get this thing going again. that s clearly the strategy right now. and i would tell you within the national security council the discussions are we re okay with what we see now but here are the trigger lines visa vi baghdad and those are not gauchenegotiable. there s news crossing the reuters wire but this comes from syrian monitors on the ground. they now believe isis controls half of syria. having gotten palmyra, they believe isis is in control of half of that country. how can that be possible? total chaos. well clearly there s it s what we have been discussing for months and months alisyn, which is really the collapse of governance in that part of the world.
there s a very sharp contrast between one wing of the jihadi movement led by bin laden and isis. i mean bin laden in these documents repeatedly says don t try to form an islamic state, we have too many enemies, we re not ready, we can t defend it. concentrate on the far enemy, quote/unquote, the united states. that s responsible for everything going on in the middle east. and isis really has kind of completely opposite point of view. peter, it s also interesting to know if he feared being caught or feared being listened to. here is an example of that. this is on august 7, 2010 between bin laden and his aides he says we should assume that the enemy can see these e-mails and only send through e-mail information that can bring no harm if the enemy reads it. it s sort of nice to know that he was afraid of the u.s. watching over this. yeah. one of his aides in another e-mail to him said look you should really encrypt your e-mail. in fact he referred to a