Israeli artillery. One official says the world stands disgraced for not protecting children. A live report from the middle east is coming up. But first, a frightening warning to americans from u. S. Born jihadist fighting in syria. That battlefield is 6,000 miles away and feels even farther as the worlds attention is focused on the conflict in gaza. But there is a group of americans directly involved in the syrian civil war, and theyre vowing to spread jihad. Cnns jim sciutto has more. Reporter it is a chilling warning from a terrorist born and raised in america. We are coming for you. Mark my words reporter in this video posted online this week, an american jihadist destroys his passport, and warns his home country is not safe from attack. My name is im from america. Im 22 years old. Reporter he is monar abu who traveled to syria to join extremists in the fight against the regime of syrian president bashar al assad. Then this may he died in a suicide bombing, detonating a bombladen tr
Its degrade and destroy, then its, well, we need an International Coalition and then its managing the threat and then chase them to the gates of hell. Whats going to happen on we say . Sean, as you lay that out, youre right the president fumbled his first couple of attempts if you will to sort of explain this strategy to the american people. It took three news conferences over about a week here at the white house all the way over to europe before he did finally settle on that strategy. Now as we press for details about what hell say wednesday to flush all of that out, the white house is being very vague. All theyre really saying is what he will not say, which is that he will not send in u. S. Combat troops to either iraq or syria. That leaves the door open to what you referred to as that threepart strategy, continue the u. S. Air strikes in iraq number one. Number two, try to stand up the Iraqi Government so they can start taking care of some of this on their own, their own military ta
Rice himself in a statement to espn. Questio quote, i have a lot of people praying for us. John harball briefly addressed the press last night. It changed things, of course, it made things a little bit different. The nfl has suspended rice in definitely, the league claims it never saw the tape and didnt even know about it. But tmz says thats not true. We are assured that someone from Roger Goodell, but there were people from the nfl who came and saw the video. I believe they actually turned a blind eye to it. And its a shameful story that the nfl knew that the Surveillance Video existed. Eric, theres no way that the nfl has not seen that video. Can i just do this . Look, believe me, im not defending anybody, Roger Goodell is a great man, i think he needs to get in front of the camera and explain this to everybodys that watching. He admitted he made a mistake, gave rice a twogame suspension. Surveillance types. Harvey levin, theres no one who came out and said, we showed this to a repre
Rice himself in a statement to espn. Questio quote, i have a lot of people praying for us. John harball briefly addressed the press last night. It changed things, of course, it made things a little bit different. The nfl has suspended rice in definitely, the league claims it never saw the tape and didnt even know about it. But tmz says thats not true. We are assured that someone from Roger Goodell, but there were people from the nfl who came and saw the video. I believe they actually turned a blind eye to it. And its a shameful story that the nfl knew that the Surveillance Video existed. Eric, theres no way that the nfl has not seen that video. Can i just do this . Look, believe me, im not defending anybody, Roger Goodell is a great man, i think he needs to get in front of the camera and explain this to everybodys that watching. He admitted he made a mistake, gave rice a twogame suspension. Surveillance types. Harvey levin, theres no one who came out and said, we showed this to a repre
Already shared with congressional leaders and is right now fine tuning with his National Security team. Our sources tell us it will be a mix of politics, diplomacy and precise military attacks and just a reminder here, context, this time last year, the administration was stalling on a plan of action inside of syria to stop the brutality committed by bashar al assad. Isis changed the calculus here and we expect to hear the words u. S. Air strikes in syria and prospect of arming and training socalled moderate Syrian Rebels. U. S. Secretary of state John Mccain John kerry is laying the groundwork of this plan. When the world hears from president obama this evening, he will lay out with great sp specificity, discussing how to best build on the work thats already been done and to assemble the broadest possible coalition for this fight. Joining me now, dana bash, our chief congressional correspondent. Youre talking to your sources. What are at the telling you . What are they hearing as far a