being asked to do? and then when we have that assessment in hand i think we ll make, not i think, we ll make some decisions whether there is other kind of support that we could provide. reporter: iraqi lawmakers lasted all of two hours in parliament yesterday trying and failing to figure out what iraq s new government is going to look like. the sunnis and kurds, just walked out when the shiite members didn t name a replacement for the shiite prime minister nuri alma laky. they have been nuri al-maliki. they want iraq to put a new government with isis militants closing in on baghdad. instead they re following a similar, a familiar pattern of the former american ambassador to iraq ryan crocker is not surprised. you look at past efforts of gorte formation in iraq. it is a similar pattern. it will be messy. it will take time, even with the wolf at the door.
have 160,000 people being slaughtered or iraq where thousands have died in the isis advance on baghdad but still, a flash point in the middle east. to go by history, we have every several years, israel has had a round of fighting with hamas and other terrorist elements in gaza. i think the idea again is to strike a balance between retaliating for this atrocious murder of the three israeli teenagers but not triggering off another round of fightinging yeah, and we ll see obviously how that proceeds from here. ambassador oren, thank you so much for being with us. the al qaeda spinoff that sent the underwear bomber on a flight to the u.s. may be working on more frightening explosives that cannot be detected by today s air sport screening devices. u.s. authorities are racing to catch up here. cnn chief national security
to even put pressure on baghdad and to be seen to be closing in on the capital would be a huge propaganda claim gain for the militant, let alone get in fighting range of the capital. thank you so much, from baghdad. all right. we have learned who the president is nominating to be the next secretary of veterans affairs. we ll tell you all about him, next. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that s not a coincidence. it s one more part of our commitment to america.
indiscriminate bombing campaign by the iraqi government, victor. so arwa, i want to ask you about the u.s. drones in the skies over baghdad. iraq s prime minister, of course, is insisting, as we understand it, that the capital is safe from isis. do you feel safe? do the people there feel safe? can you help us get a sense of the situation there? reporter: look, to put it quite bluntly, iraqis have never felt safe. they have not for quite some time, not since the u.s.-led invasion, one could, in fact, argue. right now in terms of daily violence, daily bombing on baghdad, they do still occur, albeit at a slightly lesser level, but people are very frightened by this potential for an isis defensive, because even if isis does not manage to storm baghdad, as one may imagine, there are various sleeper cells that do already exist within the borders of the capital and there have been numerous car bombings
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