"now" with alex wagner starts right now. >> no strategy or no good options, it is friday, august 29th, this is "now". >> poisonous ideology of islamist extremism -- >> president obama facing criticism. >> because he said the words we don't have a strategy. >> that's the quote the white house is trying to clean up. >> to think that barack obama and everybody else around him had not been thinking and obsessing 24 hours a day is outrageous, they have. >> what we're facing with isil is a greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before. >> the terror threat in the united kingdom was increased to the highest level since 2009. >> inside iraq on a tactical level -- >> the president does not like the options when it comes to syria. >> the president is being commendably cautious about being involved in the middle of a

syrian civil war. >> the question is not whether there is a will, whether there is a way. >> we cannot appease this ideology, we have to confront it at home and abroad. >> i'm ezra klein in for alex wagner. the reaction to president obama's no strategy line was swift and it was harsh and it came from all sides. >> to say we don't have a strategy was really shocking given the severity of the threat. that's what so concerning to me. >> i've generally been a fan of president obama's foreign policy, when i look at the speech and press conference and say there's nothing there, then he's got a problem. >> one word to describe what happened today and that's disaster. >> the president is genuinely confused about how best to respond. >> it was a disastrous sound bite because it summed up what people have feared. >> though white house points out

that president obama was making a more limited point. he was asked about being asked to congress for authority to strike in syria and saying there is no strategy, not yet for striking in syria. saying he was not saying the u.s. does not have a strategy to deal with isis full stop. but the problem with the president's remarks and reason he's actually coming under so much fire for them, is that people feel they were right, that the u.s. doesn't actually have a strategy to deal with isis. president obama made the worst kind of mistake, the one where a politician accidentally says something that is just a little bit too true. but there's a reason obama doesn't have a single strategy towards isis, he doesn't think there is a good strategy that will solve the problem. the president remains unconvinced that any military option can fundamentally change the main problem on ground, which is a dysfunctional iraqi state and civil war in syria and brutal contest between sunnis

and shias in the region. this is a hard thing to say with the american political system and arguably an impossible one for a president to say. america is not a country that believes in problems it cannot solve. barack obama's 2008 campaign was all about that belief. you remember in america there's never been anything false about hope, you remember that line? a mistake like the one president obama made at thursday's press conference was almost inevitable because he is trying to avoid saying the thing he seems to believe. the thing that backs up a lot of the policy. the reason we don't have a clear strategy here, the reason there isn't a comforting, here's what we'll do to solve the problem, is that the president doesn't believe this is a problem we can solve. it is easy to criticize president obama for not having that strategy and even easier now that he's basically said those words himself. what is hard is the next step, where you say the next words,

this is what our strat fegy is d this is why it will work. we invated iraq and afghanistan to make sure terrorists had no home in the middle east. farm lpartly as a direct result of that strategy, terrorists have their own small state in the middle east. having the wrong brand strategy can be whole worse than having no grand strategy as all. joining us now center for american progress, brian catulis, good to see you. you are a lot smarter than me on this thuf. what did you hear? >> i hear the nonsense debates that come up that's parsing the words of the president or as we saw a couple of weeks ago the hillary clinton -- color of the suit, it's quite superficial. if you look carefully at the toe talty of what he said yesterday, he was emphasizing the need that this problem is not a problem

that we are going to carry on our own. that we actually got to get countries in the region to pull their weight. he repeatedly came back to it if there was a message point, how to build a regional coalition, easier said than done in today's middle east but the main message is the overall minimalist approach to not getting back into the trenches of iraq but yes, protecting americans when they are in harm. does this in yemen quite frequently and pakistan. he's not adverse to the use of force. what he's adverse to is using force for the purpose of using force. he wants to actually have some sort of outcome. in syria, i don't think they have good enough intel and that regional coalition put together yet to any ses tate action. >> sometimes it's true when he talked about initially the limited strikes in isis and what it would require from the iraqi government, it's true when he talks about the regional alliances needed here.

a lot of countries that do not work well together that the strategy essentially is to create -- it requires such a high bar that it is very unlikely to be met. it seems to me that unless the region changes quite dramatically in its approach to the problems, it is not beneficial, does not clear a cost benefit analysis for america to get much more directly involved. >> thank heavens it's the high bar. in iraq it took two months from the time isis swept into mosul until they con ducked air strikes, because an an iraqi government was starting to come together and but they have a capable and reliable partner in the north. you can't conduct strike without having a ground force. we won't go into these countries boots on the ground, but we have in the strikes up in northern iraq have a partner. and i think that action sends a message of look, the u.s. will

back you if you're willing to fight for yourself. under bush, it was when iraqis stand up, we're going to stand down. that got incentive structures all wrong. obama's approach, if there's an -- we won't bury the cost in terms of blood and treasure. that's wise. we'll do what we can where we can but others have to pick up the slack. >> there is in washington and washington foreign policy community, a real bias towards action, a bias towards having big grand strategies and goes -- there's a bias towards big strategies that govern a very active america in the world and it often seems to me that obama's foreign policy is a little bit in a reaction to the excesses of that thinking in the bush years in which he is very conscious that it is often the outcomes of american action that hurt us in the middle east and

elsewhere. not just the consequences of american inaction. >> absolutely. >> you remember shock and awe. you remember president bush flying on an aircraft carrier and saying mission accomplished that's when we were overreaching. there's a legitimate argument of we've underreached a bit. i go to the region in the middle east once a month or so and want us to play more much a quarterback role. easier said than done. this is a region at odd with itself. it's not only shia sunni tensions but saudi arabia versus qatar, that couldn't align to overthrow assad. i think it's wise for president obama to have this cautious look before you leap but let's keep our eye on the ball and make sure american citizens when they are potentially threatened. if there's a credible plot against the u.s., and doesn't seem there's one from isis in syria, let's stay the hand until

we actually can assemble a coalition. >> i feel there are two questions about american threat, there's sort of short term american threats and i think that one of the real main stays has been a real aggressive use of force towards potential american threats. drone program has been an overwhelming assault on any actionable intel jengs we get about possible terrorists who could poetz a short term threat. then there's a question that some of this resolves around long term threats, isis developing a real strong hold that can project fighters and terrorist outwards is say long-term threat. that's the question that is hard here and hard to answer. do you need to do more now not just to protect from short term threats but to try to change the trajectory of some of the long-term threats in the region? >> i think you to but you can toenl do that with the region. countries like saudi arabia have to be part of a counter

radicalization effort. >> will they be? >> on mondays and wednesdays and fridays yes. tuesdays and thursdays, not sure. that's part of the challenge here. it's a region that's at odds, even the countries, they are internally divided and have many different shades of different islamists if you will. that's the challenge, sort of the region has entered this fray. we've got to watch it and be vigilant for any threats but ke can't pretend like the use of force. if we learned anything, when you go and invade and of course pay and pretend you're going to do counter insurgencinsurgency, it work. now we have a approach in yemen for the light footprint using drones, i'm not certain that's working as well either. is there a sweet spot between the two models? is there a real prospect for the partnership, president obama talked about a counterterrorism partnership fund. they need to put the flesh on the bones of what that means.

they haven't yet and i think syria will be a key test of that. >> how confident can we be on any policies we try to pursue that they will work? one of the things that is hard here, you can run a cost benefit analysis on the stuff and say this is an acceptable level of risk. in the long run you've ended up arming a group like isis who took your arms away from more modern elements of a civil war. how do you think about that, about trying to make sure in a couple of years when you've raised qatar up because they seem like a legitimate partner, scherr not funding extremists. >> how do you define what success looks like. if you look at from the perspective as has america been attacked, we have not seen an attack like the 9/11 attack. it's difficult to predict but we've gotten really good. are we going to stabilize the region ourselves? no. part of it is the u.s. has a unique status in the region despite the talk of u.s. decline. we have relationships with every single country except for iran.

everybody looks to us. the question is how do you leverage our unique capabilities, not direct military action all the time like conservatives would like but security assistance we provide, how do you use that as leverage. it's still incomplete but better than when we were here with 160,000 troops policing a civil war. it's a different strategy. will it work? i don't know at least the costs aren't as high. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> after the break, orange jumpssuits and reports of water boarding, isis may be obsessed with gitmo but does it pose a real threat to the u.s. next on "now." try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief.

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as the obama administration develop a broader strategy to combat isis, the group's vitality has been on display. a new propaganda video appears to show isis beheading another prisoner, an iraqi kurdish fighter killed due to the government's alliance with the u.s., this came hours after the group executed 100 syrian soldiers after parading them in their underwear and after they tortured hostages, waterboarding jim foley and three others. american hostages have been treated far worse than the european counterparts. earlier today after the united kingdom raised its domestic terror threat level from substantial to severe, british prime minister david cameron planned to introduce new legislation to make is harder for british citizens to fly to

syria and laid out the global threat posed by isis. >> this is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles from home we can hope to ignore. it is a threat to our own security here in the uk. the root cause of this threat to our security is quite clear. it is a poisonous ideology of islamist extremism that is condemned by all faiths. >> as u.k. raised its terror threat today the obama administration found itself on defense on the willingness to act on the isis threat. >> this building and the united states military shares the same sense of urgency over the situation in iraq and the threat that isil poses. there's no doubt or debate about that. anybody who has any knowledge of the united states military knows that we're ready. we're ready all the time.

that we are ready shouldn't be in doubt by nobody. nobody, our friends and enemies and our potential adversaries. >> joining me now is even yor fellow for mid eastern studies, steven cook. i want to ask you about that last line. what does it mean for the u.s. military to be ready for a threat like isis? >> well, i think it's clear that the u.s. military has been planning on this since the civil war in syria got into high gear and there has been a debate in washington about whether to go into syria. clearly the president hasn't made that decision up until this point but they have been planning for this. what the pentagon has said over and over again, you tell us what to do and we can do it and we're waiting for the order. we'll give our input on whether we think this is a good idea. if we're give the order, we'll be able to do it. >> what about in the larger country? i think one thing that the president feels acutely is that there is a gap between what many in the foreign policy community

would like to see and combat to sis is to eliminate the threat and root them out in iraq and syria and what the american people are ready for. >> this is a function of that foreign policy debate here in the beltway. there is a lot of pressure here in washington to do something about isis. there are arguments about air strikes and how many people to deploy. this is a major undertaking, even if they have a low end of 10,000 isis fighters between syria and iraq, this will require a significant american and boots on the ground will be a requirement. it's clear american people do not want to get involved. there was a big debate this time last year about military action in syria after the assad regime used military weapons and the american people wanted to help and be a humanitarian help and do want to help the kurds and

iraqis fight isis but don't necessarily want to send americans there. >> that folly or prag ma tix. you heard david cameron talked about the threat posed by isis and the danger of having american and european soldiers joined isis, have passports to get them here more easily. do you think isis poses a clear and present danger to americans here. >> we can never be too careful. in july of 2001 there was a famous op-ed saying the terrorism threat was decreasing and six weeks later we had 9/11. we can't bring our guards down. at the same time we need to look at the situation in a broader perspective. does this really pose a significant threat to the united states? thus far, thus far, isis is concerned with building a caliphate, whatever that means to them in the middle east. it's not in their dna.

unlike al qaeda that wanted to go after states in the middle east and its supporter. we don't get that as much from the islamic state in iraq and syria. they are focused on solely building a caliphate. to this point there hasn't been a direct threat to the united states other than these poor journalists who have been held. >> you hear these terms, like isis wants to build a caliphate and islamic state on generally medieval terms and maybe they have 10,000 fighters or 20,000 and control a territory the size of maryland. it seems impossible, when you hear those numbers, they seem so out of whack to the territory, out of proportion to the territory they control. how is it 10,000 or 20,000 people can in a very violent region with a lot of armed folks and american air strikes flying overhead control and hold on to a terlt the size of maryland? >> this is a big question, whether they have staying power

now that the united states is enengaged in air strikes and we have been since early august. that said, isis does have a world view. does appeal to a certain set of people. as they have marched through iraq and syria, they've been able to attract fighters to join them in their fight. >> do you think there is a possibility for america to get the kind of regional cooperation from players that are currently at odds with one another? >> let's be clear. our regional allies and saudis and egyptians have helped create this regionwide mess. the turks as well. coraling them to now help clean up the mess is going to be extraordinarily difficult because they have all of their rivalries. it is going to fall to us. now it's up to the administration to determine the cost benefit analysis and qul we can get that cooperation from the regional positivers.

>> does secretary of state kerry have the leverage or prestige to get them to do something -- >> in the abstract he does. islamic state poses a threat to each and every one of the states in the region. it would appear that kerry can conjole these groups. but the fact of the matter is, there is regional politics. will the saudis and qataris put aside the rivalry and cooperate against the islamic state? what about the rivalry between turks and gulf states, primarily over egyptian politics? and united arab emirates, what is it they want out of the region? we don't have the answers to the questions. they are playing out their regional rivalries in syria and iraq and libya that is creating may hem everywhere. >> something you're seeing in isis' propaganda is take kind of

gitmo theme, orange jump suits and they use tactics made famous at gitmo like water boarding. how crucial or how present within their recruitment efforts and within sort of -- within the sort of the feelings of radical islamists toward america, how important is the gitmo is the abu ghraib? >> this is one of the real churning aspects of this phenomenon and the orange jump suits and revelations that journalists have been water boarded. almost as if it's payback time for americans as a result of what the united states did iraq in 2003. this situation is as you pointed out a direct result of our invasion of iraq in 2003. it has been reported widely that the islamic state of iraq and syria has a fair number of former saddam hussein military

officers and clear they are using this as a tool to recruit and motivate fighters. >> that is a surprising thing to hear, that they are thick with members of hussein's elite because that was a -- i don't want to say secular but not known for being an incredibly islamist state. >> it's not but of course there was as a result of our attacks on both a common cause that has been created. and as united states has pulled back, there is an effort on the part of both saddam hussein's former elite and islamists to have their way in iraq. >> is this a kind of fisher in is s d isis that could lead to infighting? >> thus far we haven't seen that. we keep waiting for the fight to happen and it hasn't happened yet. >> steven cook, thank you very much for being here. >> my pleasure. >> coming up, bob mcdonnell

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there's some good news today for a million low income residents in pennsylvania, the state is expanding medicaid coverage. which according to state officials means an estimated 600,000 residents will be eligible for health care subsidies. pennsylvania becomes the 27th state to expand medicaid coverage although tom corbett is the ninth to sign on. the 23 states that refused it left millions of low income citizens without the opportunity for coverage as my colleague at vox sara cliff notes, the ten largest states denying coverage to 3.6 million people. joining me now is senior editor sara cliff. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> what did pennsylvania's governor get in return for this. you've written eloquently about the way that republican governors are trying to extract

big changes in return for expansion and corbett had some he wanted. >> he had a very big ask. the thing he did not get to do was tie medicaid eligible to employment, you had to be working on looking for a job. that's not going to fly. we're not going to do that. what he did get permission to do is charge premiums to higher earning medicaid recipients, we're talking about people earning 11 to $15,000 a year, not rich people but those people -- >> not rich people at all. >> they can be responsible for paying up to 2% of their income as a premium which is not a normal feature of medicaid, something you have to get permission to do. he did get some flexibility, but this tejerring of employment to medicaid, the administration will only go far to bring republican governors on. when they hit a point where they

feel they are damaging the medicaid program. >> corbett found the limit of where the obama administration would go but he also didn't walk away, said we're not going with this medicaid expansion at all because they unreasonableably wouldn't let me refuse to cover people who weren't looking for work for whatever reason. he decided it was important enough tore the state that he went for it. that seems like actually a big deal. pennsylvania is a big state. >> definitely. and i think that was an option in the negotiations, he could have said, we're not getting what we want and that's the administration's fear, they do the waiver negotiations, if they say no too much, they want these states to sign on to medicaid and it's been a concern as they negotiate that they could scare states out of it. the corbett example suggests that they don't have to bend over backwards and they don't have to break the medicaid program, there's a lot of money for republican governors, the white house is working with billions of dollars and they

have a very strong bargaining case on their side. this is the first example, i've been following these waivers for a while, first time you see them say no to a big ask and came away with what they wanted. tennessee says they are submitting a waiver as you see other states negotiating, this could affect how those negotiations go. >> is there an expectation that a bunch of these states are going to start coming on. there's an interesting number from new york times, upshot which found that lawmaker press releases last summer mentioned obama care 530 times. this summer despite the fact we're in an election year, only 138 times, which is an interesting sort of piece of evidence and piece of data that some of the energy around the obamacare conversation is lea leeching out of it. >> it's unfortunate for us who cover health care. it is becoming less heated.

it's interesting about tennessee, it's first southern state you see kind of coming on, that that's an area that the obama administration haents been able to crack. you might see movement in the region but see obama care deescalating as an issue and even as governors and republican governors are signing on to medicaid expansion, you often see them go gs to great lengths to not talk about obamacare. if you ask if he's xpapding medicaid, he'll say 100% not but even though he wants to take medicaid expansion dollars. you'll see a lot of this in different areas of the country and it will be framed differently and avoided as a conversation about obamacare and new conversation about look at the reforms we extracted and we're going to reform medicaid to look like private insurance. >> what fascinates me about the politics here, each time republican governor expands

medicaid, it commits the state fiscally to obamacare surviving. if it did happen, states would lose sometimes billions of dollars. >> it's a growing recognition that repeal doesn't seem to be on the table. one open enrollment did not go smoothly and we survived and it is solidifying its position in our political world. even if you were to have a republican president or republican run congress in 2016, i think it's pretty difficult to see, i'm guessing you think it's pretty difficult to see a world where millions are getting insurance through obama care and see someone say no we're going to take that away. they are staking their fate with that because it would be a difficult situation to expand medicaid and lose billions in funding that they've had. >> i don't think we've seen any politician take that much away from that many people all at once. great to see you, thank you. >> you too.

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not hillary clinton is fit to lead the country. is hillary clinton fit to be demander in chief? if she wants to be commander in chief and cannot protect our embassies, i don't think she could or should be. i think it precludes her from ever being considered as commander in chief. >> that was kentucky senator rand paul speaking at the annual summit at the koch brothers backed americans for pros spert. he sounds like a man running for president and seems to know who he's running against. the kentucky junior senator slammed the so call interventionalist that embedded the rise of isis and who are those? he writes, we are lucky hillary clinton didn't get her way and the obama administration did not bring about regime change in syria. that regime might well be isis. mrs. clinton was eager to shoot

first in syria before answering important questions. he won't say so outright it places him shoulder to shoulder with president obama. the entire op-ed outlines a stance towards intervention that is similar to barack obama's than george w. bush's or any republican presidential candidate for that matter. here's how rand paul described his vision yesterday. america cannot police or solve every problem across the globe, only after recognizing the practical limits of our foreign policy can we pursue policies that are in the best interest of the u.s. and here is president obama describing his in may. >> u.s. military action cannot be the only or even primary component of our leadership in every instance. just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every

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hurricane kristobal is bringing rough surf, expected to cause life threatening surf from south carolina to long island. high waves from hurricane marie pounded the island. nine years ago a deadly storm, its name of course was katrina and utterly devastated one of the -- and claimed lives of 1800 people and displaced a million more. how has the city recovered? that depends who you ask. new orleans economy grew at the rate of 7.6%, it is astonishing, the fastest growing big city in the entire country and 90% of the population they had before the levees failed. but many of those who are most devastated by the storm have yet to come back.

bureau of labor statistics report found half of african-american evacueeses did not return to where they lived compared to 18% of white residents. that applies to all areas affected by storm but even in new orleans itself, the disparities are stark. a study in amnesty international found residents of nonwhite areas paid thousands lesson average than majority white communities. joining me now is new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. good to have you here. >> great to be with you. >> how do people in new orleans feel today, nine years on? >> every time this day comes around the first time we remember is the 1800 brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles and children we lost and it is a sacred day of commemoration. secondly they take stock of where we live. everybody living here now wants to live here. they made a complete commitment to stay here and come hell or

high water and we had both and more and it's really important. as you noted, in many ways the recovery has been miraculous. but not everybody is back. and so we continue to really think about 300th anniversary, three short years away and making sure we use that as a goal post to make sure every part of the city recovers. some incredible things have happened. our economy growing at the time three times the national eviden average, 35,000 people have come in. and the bones of the city, but as we said we have a long way to go. one of the great things about it, the city seems to pull in the same direction ats this point in time but continues to be a struggle. >> has recovery policy neglected some of the communities prior to the hurricane or in the roughest shape? >> i don't think so. what happens is communities in tough shape before the storm had a harder time coming back as the

general said, when it gets cold the poor get colder and when it gets hot, the poor get hotter. you'll see this recovery across the country, the idea is to make sure everybody comes along. i can tell you this, everybody in the city wants to be one team and want to be one city and work together. that's really the beauty of why new orleans is so culturally rich. >> what is behind the tremendous economic growth in new orleans in the last couple of years? >> there's a couple of different things, first of all the one miraculous thing the people of the city did was not to fall into the trap of just trying to rebuild the way we were. any time there's a natural disaster or have a near death experience, your first reaction is to cling to the thing you had and get back to it right away. what we did was take a moment and think about the fact that katrina and rita didn't cause all of our problems, it made them clear enarea all of discrepancies we had before the storm were here after.

what we thought of doing building the city we always wanted to be. we took it as a moment to do the hard thing that takes longer rather than the short thing that made us feel better. and that in large measure is the reason we're beginning to actually grow at a faster clip than other places in the country. >> you mentioned the identification of the 300th anniversary as a goal post. are there efforts to try to recruit back the folks who left during hurricane katrina or is it more just a general effort to encourage immigration into new orleans? >> not at all. your numbers were a little wrong. 85% of the people in the city are back in the city, right in the metropolitan area of new orleans which in many ways is much smaller than other major american cities. secondly we want everybody to come back. we don't want anybody to be left out. thirdly, we are a little different in the sense that new orleans is opening up. we want other people to come to the city as well. that's creating a new thing. but new orleans has always been a place that's been open and inviting.

one of the things that's special about us, how multicultural we've been since the beginning of time. we were here before the united states became the united states of america and were always a very diverse population. we want everybody back and want other folks to come and want them to enjoy what we have to offer. >> mitch landrieu, thank you very much and congratulations and all you have achieved. >> thank you very much. >> that is all for "now." the ed show is up next. >> good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show" live from detroit lakes, minnesota, i'm ready to go. let let's get to work. >> now calls him the come back kid. >> the race to be michigan's next governor is taking a new turn. >> the democrat is getting 10% support from gop voters. >> wisconsin, one of the tightest races and closely

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