sting operation that went wrong. speaking publicly for the first time, bates maintains he accidentally shot eric harris and apologized to the family of the victim. here s cnn s ed lavandera. oh, i shot him! reporter: in an interview with nbc s the today show bates said he still cannot believe it happened. first and foremost, let me apologize to the family of erik harris. this is the second thing that ever happened to me in my life. i had cancer a number of years ago. i didn t think i was going to get there. luckily i was able to go to a hospital where i had hours of surgery. irate this as number one. on my list of things in my life
saddam, it was a fairly significant thing. in terms of practicality he was not a significant member of the islamic state. he worked with a group alongside them. basically, i think he turned into somewhat of an irrelevant figure. he was also quite old, 75 years old. mitch, thanks for that. good to see you this morning. thank you so much for having me. let s bring in cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling as well. let s start with isis claiming responsibility for the attack in afghanistan and the u.s. consulate in erbil. do you get the sense or any way to definitively determine whether it was isis itself or lone wolf groups? well christi, in afghanistan, what i would suggest is, there are a lot of younger elements of the taliban who see the downgrading of the taliban with afghan security forces that are now being recruited by isis to
for cnn eric bradner. what are you expecting today? yeah, walker is the keynote speaker at the dinner don t. if you remember, walker really shot to the front of the polls. it was a must-attend for every republican candidate in iowa who really wowed the crowd there. and the question is can he do it again in new hampshire. but he s not the only one on the stage today. ted cruz is up. rand paul is up. several contenders who are really known in the polls but are trying to get a little attention on the schedule for this afternoon. so let s talk marco rubio, a recent cnn poll has him far behind his competitors. do you feel as though he did anything to help his stock yesterday? he really did, rubio was probably the most impressive of the speakers on day one. he did an interesting job of framing everything. whether it was, you know, comments about social security and medicare looking forward. or comments about the american
stay right there. we ve got a busy morning of news. the next hour of your day starts right now. breaking this morning, isis claiming responsibility for deadly attacks in afghanistan killing more than 30 people in suicide bombings. it s gone too far. enough! enough. president obama furious with the senate. why he says it s embarrassing his nominee for attorney general has been in limbo for more than five months. and all eyes on new hampshire as republican presidential hopefuls take center stage this week. come on. and take a look at this video that we are just getting in to cnn here. a scare at the circus sends people running for the exits. this was in texas. as you can see from this video people were watching a
perception of the words enemy and adversary. in the documents one colonel warned the language could be construed as potentially inflammatory. a national guard spokesman told cnn these are only drafts taken from an army form letter and the language was changed and never appeared in the final order. the head of missouri s national guard telling cnn in an e-mail, the documents used in the ferguson, missouri, case were a generic military planning format. utilized in a wide range to the term enemy forces would be better understood as potential threats. in november when a grand jury decided not to indict the officer who killed brown, the governor and national guard were criticized for the guard s lack of response, as two streets in ferguson went up in flames. back then, i asked the city s mayor about the guard s reaction to the riot? did the governor do the wrong thing when it comes to how quickly the national guard was actually deployed on the streets? i don t know who made that cal