Week before the 9 11 anniversary . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com president obama, an urgent consultations with americas allies as the United States puts troops into two war zones. U. S. Troops will be going into ukraine not to on fight, but to join nato exercise isses as president obama accuses russia of an allout assault on a sovereign nation. And following the latest saf rajry from isis, the second beheading of an american, another 350 u. S. Troops are now heading for a security role in iraq. The president vowing to seek justice as it destroys isis and there also seems to be a bit of a mixed message going on. Our cresses and guests are standing by with full conk and lets begin with our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta and hes traveling with the president , the nato summit in wales. Whats the latest, jim . Wolf, president obama has arrived in wales after reassuring nato countries in the baltics earlier today that the u. S. W
Lets beginning our coverage in jerusalem with wolf blitzer. Tell us more, wolf. Carol, the spokesman for the Israeli Defense forces, Lieutenant Colonel peter lerner has come to cnn, hes with us right now. I want to get specific, Lieutenant Colonel. You say the ceasefire first of all is over, right . Well, absolutely. This organization that s you know, just taken advantage of the humanitarian ceasefire that israel had agreed to carry out and indeed implemented for that full 90 minutes, but they came out of the ground, suicide bomber blew himself up, killing two soldiers, and within the gun fight there, they went back down in the hole and abducted one of our boys. You identified that young israeli soldier, lieutenant, right . Second lieutenant hadar goldin. From a suburb of tel aviv. Was the incident that occurred on the israeli side of the tunnel or the gaza side of the tunnel . It all took place within the gaza strip in the areas where we were operating in recent days, indeed they were
Strategy to combat isis. Chuck hagel making the case to the house as the senate gets ready to vote on training syrian rebels. Critics are pressing for more answers on any extended engagement. Chuck todd is the moderator on meet the press. We are getting mixed messaging from this administration. We will play you what we heard yesterday to get you to react. If there threats to the United States, i of course would go back to the president and that may include the u. S. Of u. S. Ground forces. I want to be clear. The American Forces that had been deployed to iraq do not have will not have a combat mission. As your commander in chief, i will not commit you and the rest of armed forces to fighting another ground war in iraq. Dempschmpsey opens the door president obama closes it. He owns this. He closed it and we could parse the statement and say that doesnt mean he is fully ruling out the idea that troops will be necessary in syria, but for the most part he was trying to send that message an
We begin this afternoon with breaking news in the battle against isis. The militants are still advancing on two fronts both iraq and syria. The situation is so desperate in Anbar Province right outside baghdad that leaders there are asking iraqs Central Government to request u. S. Ground forces to intervene and save anbar right now. They claim isis has seized control of 80 of the province and without help they say collapse is imminent. If that happens isis will control a huge area from iraq into syria. Where the city of kobani is also under siege and could fall. On the allied front u. S. And allied warplanes are hitting targets in syria and iraq since yesterday striking a commandandcontrol facility, a staging building, a fighting position and two small buildings north of kobani and warplanes killed more than 30 isis fighters west of ramadi earlier today. Lets bring in erin mcpike who joins us live from the white house. Anbar says it is being overwhelmed by 10,000 isis fighters. It is a
These two complex, threatening problems, isis and russia. Good to see you. Reporter this morning while president obama met with british Prime Minister David Cameron their joint oped circulated titled we will not be cowed by barbaric killers stating nato is as important to our future as it ever been and president obama is still fielding hits on how hes said thing. Yesterday he said this was the objective. To degrade and destroy isil so its no longer a threat. Reporter and then he said it was. To make sure isil is not an ongoing threat to the region. Reporter and . Continue to shrink isils sphere of influence. Reporter cnns jim sciutto later sat down with secretary of defense chuck hagel to framed the u. S. Goal this way. To degrade and destroy the capability of isil to come after u. S. Interests all over the world and our allies. Reporter he said destroy and degrade its capabilities, is that the same as destroying isis . He says yes, that all of the above statements are true, that the l