this clown, marco rubio i have been so nice to him. what explains donald trump? this is new day with chris cuomo, allison camrota and mikaela pereira. welcome to this new edition of new day. it s 6:00 in the east. allison and mik are if new york. you have me and the pontiff leads new york in a few hours. we are set up on the bengals man parkway. hundreds of thousands are expected to gather at the festival of families event. we will have to see what happens. the holy father will celebrate mass shortly after his arrival and deliver a major message at independence hall and end his day with a parade down this parkway, around city hall, before speaking at the festival of families. pope francis capped off his war
new day starts right now. there is a rockstar here in walk. the world is waiting to see what pope francis says before congress. the pope is not expected to advance a political agenda. all eyes zeroed in on pope francis. nobody wants it to go down during their watch. i don t care what a person s religious beliefs are. i don t have to defend president obama. he s not going to defend me. i m not going to go out and aoutrageous things, to say to win. is there anybody you d like to apologize to right now yourself? ah. no? this is new day. with chris cuomo, allison camrata and mikaela pereira. good morning, welcome to new day. what a day it will be. wednesday, september 23rd.
femur. we have critical negotiations with iran. iraqi troops hitting an isis strong hold hard. they have been in combat with isis fors. now the enemy is just across the river. i don t think think thousands and thousands of american forces oak is the probably the right move right now. this is new day with chris cuomo, alisyn camerato and mikaela pereira. welcome to new day. mikaela is off. your phone records have no longer fair game for the nsa. this is a key provision of the nsa lapsing after a late night session in the senate could not keep that law alive. an idea that is still alive is the usa freedom act. it has already passed the house. it is getting the senate s attention. we hope started today at noon. supporters say it is the right mix of security and privacy. let s begin our coverage. we have cnn s athena jones on capitol hill. we do think they ll get after
of course, all of this happening on memorial day weekend with the detonation happening before the annual memorial day concert on the u.s. capital s west lawn. this is a major event and this year included big names, including gloria estefan and colon powell and chairmans of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey. a lot of people scared out there. i can imagine. the nation is pausing on this memorial day to remember service members who gave their lives. ceremonies at arlington national cemetery will get under way. cnn will be watching. correspondent barbara starr is there, in fact with more for us. barbara. reporter: good morning, mikaela. we are here at arlington. it will open to the public in just under an hour and we expect of course every memorial day as we always see a great number of people american coming here to pay their respects to the nation s fallen here at arlington, 400,000 are interred here.
of iraq. i m sure as he was headed back he was fed with the wrong information. nevertheless ramadi was a disaster. it makes my heart plead because we lost ramadi but we assure you we can bring it back soon. reporter: and many here do feel that this is just the u.s. attempt to try to take away any responsibility it may have for its failed strategy in iraq by blaming the iraqi security forces themselves. one soldier we spoke to mikaela said he was on the front lines until the very last minute but tehran out of ammunition blaming their orders for withdrawal on an order because tehran out of bullets. but he was saying the real problem lies with the leadership of the iraqi security force and this was, again, an army that the u.s. built up alisyn.