good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. the terror trail. disturbing new details emerging about the three terrorists who murdered at least 44 people at one of the world's busiest airports. a source telling cnn the attackers were part of an extremely well-planned plot originating from the highest levels of isis. in fact, the chairman of the house homeland security committee congressman mike mccall, the mastermind, the possible mastermind is a top lieutenant to the minister of war for isis operations. more on that in a second. this as turkish officials are still working to i.d. the men themselveses. they're showing this photo to people living near the apartment rented by the attackers. also tonight, new video of the attack unfolding. this angle from a surveillance camera shows a plain-clothes officer approach one of the attackers. the terrorist then pulls out his weapon and shoots the officer at point-blank range. with the officer down the gunman appears to shoot him twice, two times more before jumping in an elevator. >> in dramatic new images is coming in about the fight against isis. the explosions taking out hundreds of isis vehicles and militants. barbara starr is at the pentagon for us with breaking details on the huge operation against isis, but i want to first begin with ivan watson outside the airport in istanbul. ivan, you have new details about these attackers and the days leading up to the attack. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: that's right, kate, but before i get to that, i just want to point out that the death toll grew to 44 today as a 25-year-old turkish man named yasen died in a hospital. many people are still fighting for their lives after this terrible attack and authorities here are still trying to identify some of the victims as this country is still in mourning. meanwhile, the investigation very much moving ahead. here's more on that investigation. turkish police say these grainy images show the terrorists allegedly foreign fighters from russia and central asia as they unleash their deadly attack tuesday night. newly released footage first obtained by a turkish newspaper appears to show one of the men armed with an assault rifle. sources say all three men arrived wearing bulky coats apparently to conceal their weapons and explosive vests. >> translator: these people are not muslim. they will be the occupants of hell. they will secure their places in hell. >> reporter: investigators are reviewing video shot by cell phones and security cameras including this video which apparently shows an undercover police officer confronting one of the attackers before being shot. while there have been no claims of responsibility, tonight a turkish official tells cnn the government believes the attack was coordinated and directed by isis leadership. >> translator: the evidence documents and findings we've obtained corroborate the predictions that this attack was carried out by isis. >> reporter: the turkish government now believe the men trained in the isis strong hold of raqqah in syria before arriving in istanbul last month. sources say they rented an apartment here to plan the attack. investigators say they found one attacker's russian passport inside. across turkey today, police raided homes looking for anyone who might be connected to the attack. at least 22 people were arrested or detained. tonight, the italian newspaper il giornale has obtained surveillance video inside the termin terminal, it appears one of the gunmen throws his gun to the floor before picking it back up and racing away. >> reporter: now, kate, the apartment that the men are believed to have rented is seven miles from where i'm standing right now in a working-class neighborhood in istanbul named fatih. let's show you the photo of who we believe are the suspects because the agency that rented out the apartment they have told cnn that police showed them this photo from surveillance cameras and they were able to identify the three men who had been renting that apartment. neighbors there have told cnn that the curtains were usually drawn on the windows of the apartment, though they periodically saw people smoking there, and at the window and one neighbor telling cnn that she smelled fumes that smelled like chemicals there a few days before the attack took place. so we're starting to learn more and more about the possible suspects behind this terrible atrocity. kate? >> and the clues leading up to this terrible atrocity. ivan, thank you so much. ivan watson is in istanbul for us. following this attack, isis tonight suffering a major setback. u.s. forces unleashing a series of deadly air vibings. this is video of it. each one of the flashes that you see on the screen, that is a strike that altogether destroyed 175 vehicles in that convoy. according to a coalition official, hundreds of isis militants were killed. obviously. barbara starr is out front at the pentagon. what more are you learning about that operation in that video was pretty amazing. >> there were two operation, kate. one in fallujah and one in ramadi and both of these to the west of baghdad. isis clearly on the run now that the iraqis have seized back fallujah and ramadi several months ago now and really pushing isis out. the indications are in fallujah that isis was felt so trapped by the iraqi liberation of the city they made a run for it. they burst through a cordon on the southern edge of the city and tried to make a run for it in the desert and that is when u.s. and iraqi warplanes chased them down. there were some international aid groups in the area that were absolutely terrified by what happened. they were very close to the action. u.s. officials tell us they were as careful as they could be not to involve civilians to be as precise as they could be in targeting isis. the estimates by the iraqis are significantly higher than the u.s. there's no way to absolutely verify it. the estimates range upward of 300 isis fighters killed and those are just estimates and no way of telling how many were inside each vehicle. kate? >> that's right. >> also today, defense secretary ash carter said he wants to start the offensive to take back raqqah from isis and this is a self-proclaimed isis capital in syria and we are learning that the istanbul attack was directed from. what does it mean? >> well, raqqah has been in the pentagon crosshairs for a while, but i have to tell you today defense secretary ash carter was more blunt, more direct than i think any of us have seen him be on this point saying that they wanted to get to raqqah just as fast as they could. no timetable yet, but he's making it clear very much that is next on the to-do list. he wants to isolate, collapse raqqah and get that no longer to be thought of as the capital of the isis caliphate, kate. >> barbara starr. thank you so much, barbara. great to see you. out front with me now, bob baer, former cia operative, michael bait, and michael weiss, editor of "the daily beast" and co-author of "isis, inside the army of terror." >> bob, this attack was directioned by isis leaders and not just inspired by isis. do you see that difference in how they pulled off this attack and what more we're learning today? >> yeah, kate. it's what was well organized. there was a central command for this. the fact that they had a safe house in a poor neighborhood in istanb istanbul. they were probably cooking the explosives there and the neighbors were right about the fumes. the fact that they had folding kalashnikovs which easily fit into gym bags and they used taxis. the discipline of the attack was frankly, very, very good ask it doesn't surprise me at all. this was not a lone wolf attack and they did this on purpose because as michael's been talking about they're really mad at the turks and this is their way of striking back so it all makes sense. this is what happens when you've got so much violence on your border like turk. >> that detail that bob's talking about, i find that an important detail, as well, michael. you have the neighbors around this apartment building saying they smelled chemicals for days leading up to that. that seems something is going on in there. what does that tell you? >> they smell tobacco smoke which by the way is illegal under isis control. you could be thrown into a cage for several days. when these guys go abroad they tend to act out and indulge in the temptations that they're not allowed under the so-called caliphate. the same thing was seen and experienced in brussels and there were strange smells coming from the apartment and the planners of that attack. this is all fitting characteristic sort of m.o., i think. particularly when it comes to isis-directed attacks as opposed to the isis-inspired. isis-inspired attack tend to be keystone cop affairs and they rather end in farce rather than tragedy because you've got idiots talking to undercover fbi agents on the internet. >> with no training. >> it was very clear to me from the start which you see the cctv footage they had combat experience. they had been trained. i'm waiting to see, we're getting some indication of who the suspects are. one of them is from dagestan and the russian federation and another from uzbekistan and kyrgyzstan. i wonder if any of them served in their militaries before they moved over to syria to join isis. this would not be uncommon. the isis war minister who was killed in a coalition air strike. >> right. >> the chechen as he was called. the georgian national was part of georgia's special forces, trained by the united states, fought against russia in the 2008 summer war between georgia and russia and it is no wonder he was one of the most sophisticated commanders isis ever had. >> the more you are learning how it played out, one explosion was diversion. the second were the attacks to kill. what's your take from that? is this a new level of sophistication that we're seeing in these attacks? >> so what we've seen in the middle east in particular is that you can have secondary attacks that you use the initial explosion to draw people out and what you have is tremendous planning and they knew when the planes were coming in and when they can maximize a number of individuals that are coming in from other flights and they waited patiently and when they fanned out they went to different checkpoints and they could maximize what the impact would be and they didn't go in there to pull their cords. they used small arms fire and that when combined the active shooter and the improvised explosive device has been a deadly combination as we've seen in attacks like mumbai. >> they were well trained and directed. that's what we're learning. do you think there has to be other people on the ground that were helping them directly, bob? and if so, are they still in turkey? >> oh, i'm sure -- they could be. there's a huge network. you have a million syrian refugees. the turks can't keep track of them. you have arms coming across the border and no way you can completely seal that border with syria. we still don't know how that one attacker was shot so many times and yet had the presence of mind to pull his switch. was it command detonated? it will take time to get all of this. sometimes they take these guys and they tell them that there's a safety switch that turns the vest off, but in fact, it explodes the vest. that's the sort of sophistication these terrorists bring to an attack like this and, yes, they are military trained. they're used to fire. the fact that they executed a policeman, you know, very coldly tells me that these guys have been on the battle front and probably for a long time. >> do you see anything, michael, as we learned more about the timeline that someone dropped the ball or was this a well-planned attack? >> obviously, they come from outside of the target area. they create a network and the question now, of course, is what else is out there? what other caches do they have out there? and they bring in trained people. how long were they there? who did they interact with? what were the signs and just as we were talking about the taxi driver. what could they have seen? heavy coats and it is so hard and we could look back and say a-ha. and when it unfolds so quickly, and that's the moment that we should have done x and we should have stopped this. very, very difficult. >> we have much more to discuss. out front next, new details on the identities of the suicide bombers and what one had in common with the boston bombers. plus, donald trump has a new message for top republicans who have not endorsed him, he'd like to dust off his famous tag line with them, you're fired. and the private run-in with the u.s. attorney general on a tarmac in phoenix. a coincidence, they say. with hillary clinton under federal investigation, what were they thinking? 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cnn there's strong evidence isis leaders were involved in planning the attack at the international terminal and a nearby parking lot. >> even after the one assailant was shot, despite the fact that there were no victims in his immediate proximity he still killed himself using his suicide vest. these are people who were committed to seeing this attack out to its completion. >> reporter: authorities found a russian passport from dagestan believed to have belonged to one of the bombers. the other men from the former soviet republics of uzbekistan and kyrgyzstan. isis puts foreign fighters into regional brigades based on their nationalities. it's possible the men served together says terror expert william branif. >> it's very likely that because of things like common language these individuals would have fought together as a part of isis. they would be then maybe more trustworthy to send across the border to conduct this kind of high-impact operation because they have a shared history and they can act as a cell. >> reporter: if dagestan sounds familiar it's because it's the same war-torn region associated with the two boston marathon bombers. dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev came to the united states after living in dagestan where authorities believe tamerlan became radicalized. there are as many as 7,000 foreign fighters who have travelled from russia and the former soviet republics to join isis. more than half are thought to be from dagestan and neighboring chechnya where islamist leaders have pledged loyalty to isis. experts say hitting a major tourist destination in turkey which borders syria is not surprising. >> their mod us operandi is to destabilize regimes, primarily in the muslim world and destabilizing turkey is a really, really good way to remain strategically relevant even if you're losing terrain in iraq and syria. another reason that the battle-hardened terrorists may have targeted turkey is that the country has been cracking down and better patrolling airports looking for these foreign fighters crossing back and forth. that does not sit well with isis showing turk they there is a price to pay for any crackdown whatsoever. thank you so much. we'll bring back our panel to discuss. this guy, this possible mastermind that mike mccaul was discussing in "the situation room." who is this guy? does it surprise you? >> no. akhmed chatayev, he is essentially the top recruiter for isis inside russia. there is a famous case that lit up the moscow press core of a little girl studying comparative religion who was recruited by this man allegedly to go off and fight in syria and was arrested and this was a shock to the russian society. according and russia's version of the financial times closely tied to the russian government and take it with a pinch of salt and this guy has arrested by three different countries and let go. they are georgia, ukraine and sweden. he is known as the one-armed man and he apparently got into a fire fight with georgian security forces in 2012 and lost actually the physical existence of one of his arms. he's a notorious figure, and there's a lot of ambiguity surrounding this guy. the russian counter terrorism services with the russian security services don't fight terror the way that we do in the west. it's been reported by a number of publications the gasseta which is the independent newspaper in russia, reuters, the international crisis group and even myself at "the daily beast," up until 2013, the fsb, what he's sending jihadists from dagestan into syria so that they can blow stuff up in the middle east and this is the sochi winter olympics and the idea was keep russia safe and wreak havoc somewhere else. >> it seems gee, whiz it's not a surprise that this guy might be the mastermind. you know this region very well and if so many of the guys joining isis are coming from this region, why aren't we hearing more about it? why isn't it more of of a focus? >> well, because the chechens cater such a mystery to us. when i was in the cia i was in charge of the caucuses, central asia and the whole area down there and we desperately tried to get inside the chechen organizations and they were active many years before the islamic state was founded coming down the pankisi valley and i used to work with the georgian police and we begged them to get sources and they couldn't do it. they were terrified of chechens. they were armed, vindictive and good fighters and the fact that the russians killed them in the civil wars in chechnya and sents them to syria tells them how nasty these people are and i don't mean that ethnically. they're really, really, tough, tough people and the way to get rid of them is just send them to syria and hope they're killed. >> we're seeing the results of that. michael, boston bombers, connection to the region. now you've got this, these attacks are connected to the region. how concerned are u.s. officials? what are you hearing from the u.s. side? how concerned are they about the region here at home? >> if you take a look at the literature that's been out there from isis and al qaeda, the inspire magazine, ramadan has appeared if you come and do martyrdom during this period of time it will be enhanced in terms of what your reward is going to be. so officials in the security world, particularly with airports and transportation hubs have been up on this and what they try to do is change up the security posture. so they have roving teams. they have rapid response teams and a lot more bomb dogs and bomb dog units and they try to push out the perimeter. they're calling all of their contacts and there's a huge use of undercovers so they've been doing that for this period. i just got off the phone with some of my sources over the weekend and on the one hand you sit there and say we're ready and you see this, and we'll be prepared and on the other sense is wait a minute. this is july 4th weekend, it's the end of ramadan, it's july 5g9, could they afford not to have something happen and we're fragile because of all of the people traveling. so that's the challenge that we face right now. >> and the balance of people wanting to be safe when they head to the airport and not waiting too long of a line to keep them from getting on the flight. gentlemen, you have very, very much. bob, good to see you. thank you. donald trump slams fellow republicans and admits the party is at war with itself. >> in some ways i'm running against two parties. >> plus a conservative group is asking for an investigation into bill clinton's impromptu meeting on a private plane with the attorney general. the clinton campaign now dealing with the fallout. we'll be back. like to keep being terrible at golf for as long as i can. new patented ensure enlive has hmb plus 20 grams of protein to help rebuild muscle. for the strength and energy to do what you love. new ensure enlive. always be you. hello welcome to holiday inn. running our own business, we've been 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trump that gives republicans such heartburn and his message about trade veered off track as a plane veered overhead adding this commentary. >> i respect mexico and their leaders and what they've done to us is incredible. their leaders are so much sharper and it's incredible. in fact, that could be a mexican plane up there. they're getting ready to attack. >> you could almost hear mitch mcconnell shrug and sigh. phil mattingly, out front. >> reporter: donald trump tonight struggling to unite the gop, just three weeks from the party's national con vejz. >> it's almost in some ways like i'm running against two parties. i'm not sure it matters because i think we are going to win. >> the presumptive nominee, lashing out at rivals who won't get behind his candidacy. >> they signed a pledge saying they will abide, saying they will back the candidate. they broke their word. in my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again because what they did is disgraceful. >> reporter: this is a top adviser to former opponent john kasich blasted out an email to supporters on campaign letterhead noting that the ohio governor still polling better than trump against hillary clinton. and utah senator mike leeb going off in a radio interview about trump's myriad of problems including campaign attacks on texas senator ted cruz and his family. >> he accused my best friend's father of conspiring to kill jfk. we can go through the fact that he's made some statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant. we can get into the fact that wildly unpopular in my state. >> reporter: republican senator susan collins of maine is keeping the door open to trump, but resting it almost all on one thing. >> i am going to see what happens at the convention. it's going to be very important to me whom donald trump chooses as his running mate. that is arguably the most important decision that a candidate -- >> reporter: trump, for his part brushing off the party's concerns, keeping his focus trade and u.s. competitors. >> we don't play the game the way they play the game. they play the game to win. we play the game in this country to survive. we're going to start playing the game to win. >> reporter: and look, gop officials knew this was going to take time. it was a nasty primary and 17 candidates and a lot of personal attacks and the problem is this. there's a lot of concern inside the republican party that donald trump is actually moving further away from coalescing the party than he is at bringing it together. take a look at this, a fox news poll, trump's support in may was eight points higher than it is now. he's going essentially in the opposite direction, kate and that, even amongst trump supporters inside the party is a big concern. >> it's going to take time. you've been saying that for months now, phil mattingly. great to see you, phil. >> thanks, kate. >> he's a broken record. donald trump supporters, jason osbourne and tara setmeyer and executive chairman of the new york state democratic party, smigel and he also is a hillary clinton supporter, sorry, i couldn't get it out of my mouth. let's begin. the intros are always the toughest for me. with friends like these, with republicans like these who needs democrats when the infighting continues? what is donald trump's role as it's going to take time. what is donald trump's role in bringing the party together? >> his role is to speak with the republican voter because, look, he ran against the political class, the political elite and some of the political elite includes my party, the republican party and the democratic party, as well. he ran against politicians. it's no secret that politicians don't like donald trump and wish they had something else. it's his role to speak to the american voter with the consistent message that i'm putting you first. i'm going to fight for you on terrorism and i'm going to fight for you on the economy and speak to the republican voter. >> at the same time he now seems quite upset that the republican leaders and his rife wills are not getting behind him. they break their word and it's disgraceful and they should never hold office again. which is it? >> i think in terms of the pledge, i think he has a legitimate case to argue and be upset about the fact because we spent weeks going back and forth with the rnc, with every campaign on whether you will sign the pledge or not, and everybody was attacking him for not signing the pledge. when he finally did come out and sign the pledge like everybody else had, they said okay, now we'll move forward and everyone is backing down saying i don't have to do that. they need to be consistent, as well. >> wouldn't people be lighting their hair on fire if the shoe was on the other foot and donald trump wasn't endorsing? the whole idea of the pledge was stupid to begin with and they did that because they were worried trump would run as an independent third party. >> yes. >> this was before trump, a, would ever get the nomination. b, that he would run around and behave the way he's behaved since then. there were a lot of things that have happened since the pledge was signed that has made donald trump untenable to the people in the republican party including the fox poll who said they would prefer someone else. the majority of republicans did not vote for donald trump in the primaries. this whole pledge is nonsense. when you start running around and making bigoted comments about an american-born judge because he's of mexican heritage and not fair to you. when you start saying my rival's father was a part of the jfk conspiracy and you go around talking about trade policies that are completely an ath ma to what free trade and capitalism has been and the free trade issue, that's something that's not even republican at all. you're asking me to stay loyal to a pledge for someone that does not represent what we as a republican party represents. >> we're spending a lot of time talking about a pledge. i don't even think that's the core issue here. >> it's an issue of unity. >> i go back to a comment that mitch mcconnell made in that same interview where he called donald trump an entertainer. he said you're really good at that and to me, this is political theater for donald trump. i cannot take anything that he said seriously. he's inconsistent. he is often incoherent, and to me, i don't think that there is any strategy there as may have been intimated earlier that unify the republican party because he doesn't care. he doesn't care. [ indiscernible ] >> he hasn't campaigned at all. >> the republicans have issues and there's no question. the democrats are not the picture of unity, as well. bernie sanders is still not endorsing if you had a chance to meet on a private plane with bernie sanders like what we'll talk about in a while, what would you be telling him, basib? >> is time running out for that? >> i don't think time is running out for that. i think democrats feel more positive about their candidate than republicans feel about theirs? i'm not as concerned about that because ultimately, i think that because of the kind of candidate hillary has been and the fact that she is talking to the issues that bernie sanders is talking about, she will get those supporters and she has elizabeth warren, joe biden and campaigning with her and for her. i'm confident about our unity. i can't speak for anyone else. >> 41% of democrat voters preferred bernie sanders or someone else. there are unity problems there, and i have to push back on the notion that donald trump is an entertainer. he has stood up and said for the first time i'm putting american workers first. he pushed hillary clinton to say radical islam. he is about putting americans first. the democrats don't want to look at the link between immigration and terrorism. they don't want to look at that because they're more concerned with political correctness. >> final thought. >> i would like to ask which americans he's putting first. that is a key question because to me he spent more time dividing america and talking very specifically and negatively about many americans rather than bringing everybody together under one tent. that is a concern. >> he put america first in his business practices for his entire career. he didn't put america first when he decided to have his ties made in china and with the awful human rights records with turkey, panama and brazil. and he didn't put americans first, when he hired illegal workers to build trump tower. this is hypocrisy. >> and you do think -- >> it's an integrity issue. >> he's playing the game as the rules -- >> you know what i do? i'm very happy that we have solved the unity problem around this table tonight. thank you, guys. thank you very much. we always need more time for those conversations. out front next, donald trump blasts bill clinton's private meeting with the attorney general. evidence, he says, of a rigged system. how is the clinton campaign responding and handling this one? plus, the widow of a former navy s.e.a.l. killed in benghazi believes officials lied. in her first television interview since the attack she tells us why. we'll be right back. if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if other treatments haven't worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works by focusing right in the gi-tract to help control damaging inflammation and is clinically proven to begin helping many patients achieve both symptom relief as well as remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. while not reported with entyvio, pml, a rare, serious brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. tell your doctor if you have an infection, experience frequent infections, or have flu-like symptoms, or sores. liver problems can occur with entyvio. if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. breaking news. a conservative group tonight is calling for a justice department investigation into a private meeting between former president bill clinton and the attorney general. that meeting taking place on a tarmac in phoenix. the attorney general saying that the chat was mostly about grandkids and golf games. jeff zelleny is out front. let me guess, donald trump is having a field day with this one. >> he is, kate. this is a case of poor judgment and this is an example where democrats agree with him. let's talk about the meeting for a second. it came monday night in phoenix on an airport tarmac. the attorney general was already there. the former president was there. he boarded her plane and literally took her by surprise and they talked for 30 minutes. that's the unusual, odd part. why 30 minutes? the optics of this when she is heading this email investigation into his -- any wrongdoing was done about this private email server. it just looks bad and this is what donald trump told a radio interviewer about this earlier today. >> it was really a sneak. it was really, you know, it was something that they didn't want publicized, as i understand. i've been talking about the rigged system, how it's rigged and you know, this is terrible. >> here's your example. >> and no now you understand why nothing's happened and you see a thing like this and even in terms of judgment. how bad a judgement is it for him or for her to do this? i mean, who would do this? >> senate republicans are now again renewing their call for a special prosecutor to be appointed to oversee the email investigation that probably won't go anywhere because the attorney general makes that decision and a conservative watchdog groups are filing complaints with the inspector general saying they really need to look into this. it is optically bad, and kate, it is the last thing the clinton campaign needed and this headache here which raises attention to the email investigation and don't forget, she still has an appointment with the fbi to be interviewed about why she set up that private server in the first place. >> that's an important point to make, jeff. thank you. out front now, former advisers to nixon, reagan and clinton, david gergen. great to see you. david axelrod put out a tweet today about the meeting basically saying he believes bill clinton and loretta lynch. no harm, no foul that they didn't talk about the probe, but foolish to create such optics. how unforce side this unforced error, do you think? >> very unforced. i -- i agree with david axelrod. i've always known him to be honorable people, but this is a very bad call. it was a very bad judgment call because there's already a lot of suspicion out there. you have a candidate in mrs. clinton and more than 50% of the people in the country don't trust her and this plays right into donald trump's hands and frankly, everybody going to law school know that exparte proceedings with one of the parties at risk is inappropriate. you just don't do that. i don't know how this came about and i don't know why they didn't put out the word immediately to protect themselves and it's only now come to light, but the fact is that this is a blow for the clinton camp. and donald trump has a point. >> hillary clinton has trust issues with voters. she's acknowledged that publicly. what does this do to that? >> she has acknowledged it, but she has got to be very aggressive now and be as transparent as possible and putting everything out there, but you know, this whole issue is now mushrooming tonight because of a second related story about emails and that is the state department has gone to a federal judge to say they would like a delay in releasing emails pertaining to the clinton foundation and these are emails under mrs. clinton and related to the clinton foundation and the state department wants a 27-month delay in releasing those emails. that puts it well past the course of the elections any republicans are going to look at that and say, of course, they're going to join forces saying, what are you talking about here? why is the state department has said we haven't handled this well. my goodness, they've had enough time to get this cleaned up and this is a serious problem for mrs. clinton. i think the country would like to be reassured by mrs. clinton who is the front-runner for the presidency. >> this issue will not go away. >> i'm afraid not. >> good to see you. >> out front next, the wife of a former navy s.e.a.l. killed in the benghazi attack speaks out for the first time about who is to blame. ...but easier, like taking a left where you usually go right... ...and if finding that paint... ...made you beam with pride... ...is it still paint? benjamin moore. paint like no other. and you're talking to your doctor about your medication... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me go further. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. doctors have been prescribing humira for over 13 years. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. t t f ll youo area ain fungecommou'vtb hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. ready for a new chapter? 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so not looking for anyone specific to blame, but to place the blame, like i said, i place the blame on this sentiment, this attitude in the upper level of government that says, hey, you know what? i'm just going to lie about this, gloss over it because i want to protect what i look like and you know, i'm thinking about the next job. i'm thinking about my retirement, you know? not being there, not remembering that they were here for us, the people that voted for them. >> dorothy, hillary clinton, was there a report obviously out this week that both democrats and republicans, this has become so politicized and there was a report that came out and here's what she had to say about it. >> i'll leave it to others to characterize this report, but i think it's pretty clear it's time to move on. >> how do you feel, dorothy, when you hear that response? >> well, it -- it goes back to what i just said. i think that nobody in government can tell me how i feel, what i should feel about it. she has no right nor does anyone in government have the right to tell me it's time to move on. they're not in my shoes. you know, i think that's the essence of what they have done is they've been dismissive. the committee's been ridiculed, the committee has been -- they've been criticized and you know, for them to sincerely do the right thing, to care about americans, that's what's important, you know. >> i agree in a way with her it's for the public to decide, some people have made their decision, others haven't, but the facts are there, and it's up to the americans, the american people to figure out where they fall in this. >> did anyone at the state department and the white house whether it be secretary clinton or anyone else ever reach out to you to talk to you? did they ever reach out to apologize for what happened? >> well, i think that on a personal level, to be honest, no, but i did in the very beginning get to meet with all of them as you've seen with the repatriation ceremony at andrews and subsequent ceremonies honoring the victims and the survivors, so i did -- i was able to meet with them, not necessarily on a one-on-one level, and not to the -- not to the extent that they reached out and said sorry. they said sorry for your loss which is the very least they should have said. >> and when you say, you know, when you think back at what happened when you felt that it was looking at the next job and putting career am bigs ahead of what had happened, do you think that this really was about politics? >> well, you know, i can only speak for myself. i think that, you know, that's for other people to answer. that's not for me. i think that the facts are out there. >> and dorothy, you know, your son kaye was 1-month-old when ty's assignment began and i can't imagine how that was, and you must have been looking so forward to him coming home. what do you tell kaye about his dad in? i'm very fortunate in that in losing ty i've gained, you know, a great family, a great family of friends, of co-workers, and a great support network, so i'll have a lot of help, but what i do want to tell my son and how he will be raised is his -- he will know what is important, you know? he will know that his father served his country, and served it proud. he will know that there is a wrong and there is a right. he will know that the world is bigger than him, and sometimes that takes sacrifice. >> dorothy, of course, as we come into july 4th, a time to remember and honor your loss and your husband's sacrifice and your son's great loss, thank you so much. >> thank you, erin. i appreciate it. >> we'll be right back. it's in the quiet moments when you see why she does this. for hillary, it's always been about kids. and when millions couldn't get health care, this first lady worked with republicans and democrats to fix it. creating the children's health insurance program, so that every child gets the health care that child deserves to have. now eight million kids are covered. that's the kind of leader she is. and the kind of president she'll be. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. boy: this is the story of a boy who was very sensitive to lights and sounds. so he built secret hiding places where nothing could get in. the boy didn't like looking people in the eye. it made him feel uncomfortable. one day, he found out he had something called autism. his family got him help. and slowly he learned how to live with it better. announcer: early intervention can make a lifetime of difference. learn the signs at autismspeaks.org. . thank you so much for joining us. "a.c. 360" starts right now. good evening. jake tapper here sitting in for anderson. we begin with breaking news this evening and a photograph. three young men caught on camera dressed for the cold in the middle of summer. we are showing this because authorities want anyone who knows them to come forward. the question, are these the three men who turned istanbul's main international airport into a slaughterhouse? are they the ones responsible for so many senseless deaths? 44 and counting. so many grievous injury, so many lives upended and so many stories that will now be untold. are they the ones? even as investigators try to figure this all out they're learning more about where the killers, wherever they are, likely came from. russia, uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan all by way of isis-controlled raqqah in syria.

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