Exclusively on the conflict in the middle east, and the Immigration Crisis at home. Plus the cia fesses up. It spied on a Senate Committee. Never believe that an agency of government, particularly with the capabilities of the cia, would carry out such actions. Two lawmakers on committees that oversee the cia, house chairman mike rogers and senator angus king, on whether heads should roll. The then i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Carl bernstein and dan rather on the story 40 years ago. This is state of the union. Good morning from washington. Im Candy Crowley. Israel says the soldier they feared was abducted is dead and palestinians say at least ten civilians taking shelter at a u. N. School were killed by an iz rilie rocket. Cnns wolf blitzer is in jerusalem. John vause is in gaza. First to you, wolf, how close to israeli officials believe they are to finishing their military mission, which i am assuming is destroying all those tunnels. They think theyre close
Appear to have none, still the wife of british hostage alan henning is begging his isis captors to spare his life, and Muslim Leaders in britain have publicly declared that killing henning is not permitted by islamic law. Law, order and even mercy may be on the agenda for World Leaders gathering in new york this week. Does any of this make a difference to terrorists . With me former british Prime Minister tony blair. Mr. Prime minister, thanks for being with us. Pleasure, candy. Let me start with the u. S. Led effort against isis and ask you what you think overall of the plan . The president is absolutely right to take on isis and to build the broadest possible coalition, so he and secretary kerry have put together right about 50 countries now as part of this coalition. Weve got absolutely no choice but to do this. Not just in order to contain and then destroy the onward march of isis but also to send a very strong signal to the other terrorist groups operating in the region and beyond