Thousands of children entering the United States on their own facing very tough conditions. Were going to hear what the federal government is doing about it and what one state is threatening to do about it. They are threatening legal action. And birthday jump. You may look frail, he may look 90, but a president of the United States celebrates his birthday by leaping out of an aircraft. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. [ gunfire ] we begin with the breaking news. Shock and awe in iraq. This time coming from terrorists. American contractors are now being evacuated from an air base near baghdad as a brutal Extremist Group holds a major iraqi city and is battling to take other cities, vowing to march on to the capital of baghdad, trying to regroup and starting to fight back, president obama says iraq needs help and he says hes weighing on possibilities. Our top experts and correspondents are standing by. Lets begin with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. She has the ver
Rapists, referring to john mccain, a war hero 5 1 2 years as a pow, you call him a dummy. Is that appropriate in running for president . Lets, let me speak, frank. You interrupt all the time okay. I know him too well. Thats the problem. Lets take john mccain. Im in phoenix. We have a meeting that is going to have 500 people. At the biltmore hotel. We get a call from the hotel. It is turmoil. Thousands of people are showing up. Three, four days before theyre pitching tents on the hotel grass. The hotel says we cant handle this. It is going to destroy the hotel. We move it to the convention center. We have 15,000 people. The biggest one ever. Bigger than bernie sanders. Bigger than a 15,000 people showed up to hear me speak. Bigger than anybody. And Everybody Knows it. A Beautiful Day with incredible people that were wonderful, great americans. I will tell you. John mccain goes oh boy, trump make is my life difficult. He had 15,000 crazies show up. Crazies. He called them all crazy. I sa
Intelligence committee finally dropped. The big question tonight is, will another shoe drop . The president today declassifying the explosive memo, spearheaded by devin nunes, formerly of the trump transition team. Its the most explicit official republican effort yet to try to undermine the fbi and mueller russia investigation. It was released despite warnings from the president s own handpicked fbi director and Justice Department officials. The president touting it as evidence of antitrump bias at the fbi. I think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. When you look at that and you see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. Are we on the eve of a saturday night massacre . Will President Trump fire his Deputy Attorney general rosenstein, who is named in the memo as having approved one of the surveillance warrants of a Trump Campaign adviser . Ros rosenstein supervised things, too. Do you have confidence in him. You figure
Nunes, formerly of the Trump Transition Team. Its the most explicit official republican effort yet to try to undermine the fbi and mueller russia investigation. It was released despite warnings from the president s own handpicked fbi director and Justice Department officials. The president touting it as evidence of antitrump bias at the fbi. I think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. When you look at that and you see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. Are we on the eve of a saturday night massacre . Will President Trump fire his Deputy Attorney general rosenstein, who is named in the memo as having approved one of the surveillance warrants of a Trump Campaign adviser . Rosenstein supervised things, too. Do you have confidence in him . You figure that one out. Do you still have confidence in rosenstein . You figure that one out. A ringing lack of endorsement, especially from a president who has already fired fbi di
anti-establishment candidate right now. and it is a very big field. and donald trump stand out in in that regard. yeah. ryan gloria. go ahead, ryan. throw out one theory. when i went to interview mccain. i want to talk to him about foreign policy. he started the conversation with the remark about trump firing up the crazies. mccain has been around. a smart guy. i think he knew what he was doing here. i think he was, i think he knew exactly the response that he would get. ryan good to have you on. fascinating stuff. another one in the new yorker now. perspective. matt miller. chief policy officer for iraq former legislative affairs aide to generals david petraeus. matt when you first heard donald trump trump s comments to john mccain. wondering what you thought or what went through your mind? the old adage better to keep your mouth shut and let people know that you don t know what you are talking about rather than opening it and erasing all