Confederate flag protesters rally for and against the diadviceive symbol. Will the flag come down . Keeping their distance from donald. After a series of outrageous statements by donald trump, his republican rivals back away from the billionaire, but is a francis shooting adding fuel to his fire . Wolf blitzer is off today. Im pamela brown, youre in the situation room. The u. S. And is allies have pounded dozens of targets in iraq and syria, including the city which isis has turned into its capital and command center. At the same time isis has recaptured a key town and is on the move elsewhere. President obama has just made a rare visit to the pentagon conceding that the fight against isis will not be quick, but stressing that the terror group has suffered heavy loss, and cub pushed bake. At the same time the president warns there is concern about lone wolf attacks in this country and the u. S. Is working to quote, smother new isis cells. Ill speak with jason chaff detz. Here at the pe
For Justice System granting clemency to nearly 50 prison all at once. Why the president said the punishments did not fit the crimes. And a guy who didnt wait for clemenscylemency, em scaping through a tunnel being called an engineering masterpiece. He is now on the run, again. The latest on the hunt for el chapo. Welcome to the lead. Instead of going to class. The son of a Boston Police captain wanted to blow up college kids in campus cafeteria cafeterias cafeterias the explosions all while broadcasting the carnage to the world on the internet. They wanted to do it all for isis. That is according to Court Documents that allege a 23yearold massachusetts man. Officials at the fbi and atf put the shackles on him as he took delivery of a weapons cache, including an a ref15 rifle. Right to alexander field, who has been working the story. Once the weapons arrived, four different fire firearms. They went the excused the search and found he had also been working on mottelotov cocktails. Theres
Trip to the border before heading back to washington where his plan to address the border crisis is far from a sure thing. For president barack obama and Texas Governor rick perry, the showdown was more of a sitdown. Different ends of a roundtable discussion in dallas on the crisis at the border. Just had a good meeting with governor perry. Reporter president later told reporters his beef is not with perry, its with congress, who has a 4 billion request to deal with the emergency. Are our folks more interested in solving of problem or more interested in politics . If they are interested in solving the problem, then this can be solved. Reporter perry was Less Charitable releasing a statement calling for the National Guard and more drones on the border, adding the crisis has been created by bad Public Policy, in particular the failure to secure the border. Back in washington, critics from both parties slammed the president s decision to attend fundraisers in texas. Hes visiting democrati
Contribute to the misguided fears of islam, just as the sotloff family challenges the head of isis. And inside the mind of an executioner. Is isis an organization that attracts psychotic killers, or do they become that once inside . Were going to get into all of that this evening. We have a lot to get to ahead tonight. We sure do. Lets begin with the obama administrations message to isis today. Cnns security correspondent jim sciutto joins us live. So jim, the president , the Vice President , and the defense secretary all spoke out today about isis. But they werent necessarily all on the same page. What did they say . No, they were not there. Was something of a conflicting message. You did hear stronger words than you heard in the past from president obama, our reach is long, justice will be served. Vice President Biden taking a rhetorical step further by talking about chasing isis to the gates of hell. But the president added some confusion by after making his comments about destroyin
President obama is trying hard to ease growing concerns with his plan to degrade and ultimately destroy isis will lead down a slippery slope interest a long, bloody ground war in iraq. The commander in chief said flatly the United States will not have a combat mission there. Secretary of state john kerry has been saying the same thing up on capitol hill where lawmakers are ready to approve and pay for the president s initial plan, and in a slick new video, isis is making clear it is ready for whatever the the u. S. Military has in mind. Our correspondents and analysts and guests including the White House Press secretary josh ernest are all standing by and lets begin with our chief National Correspondent jim sciutto. Jim . From the president today from secretary kerry it arc peers the administration has settled on its message about the war against isis, what it will be and what it will not be. It will not be a grand Ground Invasion like you had in iraq in 2003 and that u. S. Troops will