center there. it wasn t taken as a threat until now. and hillary clinton she s standing by the president on iraq and has stood by him on other issues as well but a new poll suggests she may want to re-think that if she wants to run in 2016. hello, everyone. i m john berman. michaela pereira is off today. those stories and more. right now at this hour and let s get straight to iraq and the claims of human slaughter there. the militant group isis is boasting about its conquests and its killings in their march to baghdad. that s where we find nic roberts robertson. give us the latest on the ground. reporter: absolutely horrific and bar bearic images released
all right. this just in to cnn, some gruesome video. one of the terrorists in iraq has posted three extraordinary videos, scrood and awful to a facebook page showing the inter investigation of several captured men. this video is graphic. it is. and it s very difficult to watch. now, in it, you see a bearded man with a gun who is walking over to four or five men on the ground on their knees, and he is really ruthless in the way that he s approaching them. he s saying, look, look, they have the iraqi flag, look, ministry border guards. he walks from one man to another, slapping them on the side of the face, calling them maliki s dogs and other portions of the video, he s trying to get them to repeat after him, to say islamic state here to state.
has killed 200 isis fighters. that s yet to be backed up by verifiable evidence. this is the message that the iraqi leadership is putting out. we can do it. reality, isis is still advancing. if nothing else, we have the sense of incredible turmoil right there now. we know that a new contingent of u.s. marines headed to the persian gulf on a war vessel right there. what s the goal of that? reporter: 550 marines aboard this amphibious ship mesa verde. it has these osprey aircraft that can air lift people out of the embassy or any other location. it seems a precautionary measure if there needs to be evacuations under emergency situations, this
actually know what happened. we didn t have sleekt committels on afghanistan, on iraq, on how the north koreans renuclearized under george bush george bush, george bush, george bush. we didn t have select committees when we were in power on big mistakes the republicans made i understand. this is very small compared to the mistakes made in iraq, afghanistan and osama bin laden and other things. i think we ll finally find out. president obama finally breaking his silence on the veteran affairs scandal, promising a full investigation. chris, was it enough for you? a lot of people thought he was going to say that shinseki had resigned. it was really sort of a nothing burger, to term president obama recently. there was no there there. it was 20 minutes of repetitious, the v.a. is good
way does he go? i think he goes to the u.n. for a start. let s put us in the context of iraq because it s on everybody s mind the last couple of days. the idea is minimize the u.s. role potentially any troop involvement in syria which nobody envisions at this point. one challenge i have for richard it seems to me this idea providing lethal aid to the opposition is not at all an easy proposition. i mean, a question of divisions among the opposition. who is doing what? the prospect of jihadist groups infiltrating the opposition. how do you go about that? i think a real test whether air power is stronger. look. this is what makes it so hard when you are a president who says there will be consequences. and there is a red line past which you must not crosses. you re dealing with actors who then go ahead and cross it. what are you going to do? because it s knots just the end game in syria but it s north korea is watching and iran is watching and watching to see what this president does.