joining me now, jamaal simmons and dana milbank.you both for being here this evening. >> hi, reverend. >> good to be here. >> jamaal, the right wants it make this into a battle royale. is it? >> oh, i don't think it is. look, the reality is, senator, secretary, first lady, whatever title you want to put on her, can't be separated from barack obama just like she can't be separated from bill clinton. the one thing she has to do is stay focused on the few tour. of course she will have differences with barack obama. that's the nature of the game. but i think sort of like george h.w. bush back in 1988, she has it find a way to be focused on what her version of the future will be and not al gore in 2000 and try to separate herself from the previous president. >> dana, you've been writing about this. what's your take on this. >> i think you need to keep this in a little bit of perspective, reverend. if we are looking at over all field of foreign policy views here, you've got in one end zone dick cheney who says, make war on anybody for any

how will republicans react to that, jamaal? >> i think the republicans will be just as hypocritical at that moment as they have been at every single moment. the only thing that seems to unite them is opposition to barack obama. barack obama says the sky is blue, then they will say the sky must have been green or red because obama is for it, they have to be against it. same thing will happen here. they want the president to go out and do something about this but the minute he does it, they will turn on him and say he abused his power as president. >> maria, and what would be the response from this huge latino voting block, if in fact there's a real aggressive fight by republicans against the president during anything, daca or anything else? >> there's a reason why mitt romney received the lowest voter turnout and why he doesn't have a shot at white house last time. that's because he promoted vefl deportation. that doesn't pass with latino voters or asian voters or allyes. they are trying to find solutions to the broken system. d

. >> host: lets go to jamaal waiting in indianapolis indiana. morning and thanks for calling the washington journal. >> caller: good morning. that's a tough act to follow. as a 53-year-old black man come and also on talk radio that's why i'm here in california because of my duties as a radio producer and personality, but it might be held different people in the community can dismiss racism when if we change the colors around if there was a town with 53 black policemen and three of them were white and a white kid got killed, there would be the cause for concern. listening to the attitude of the lady how she quickly dismissed the racial component of this and wanted to blame al sharpton and the typical thing that happens whenever people try to circle around and dismiss the racially motivated situations and try to blame al sharpton and the black community that is tired of being depressed. the call before her made a great point why do the police departments need all of this military stuff if they are out here to protect? they are out here because the

minneapolis community leader omar jamaal who knew mccain said he's not unique. many young people influenced by social media have left to fight in syria. >> it happens a lot. it's just happening right now as we speak here. very active propaganda machine that are targeting our members of the community. >> around the same time mccain left for twitter, he said, ya ya ya ya ya ya ya a ll laa, when it's my time to go it's my time go. have mercy on my soul. have mercy on my brothers. fbi director james comey said the bureau was having difficulty tracking them. >> they don't come from a particular gee grach ikaria they're not of a particular ethnic extraction or particular age. it's a very diverse group of people. >> he was on the terrorist watch list and he was known to the fbi. it's interesting that isis chose to use this american on the battlefield in syria not to launch an attack here in the u.s. >> it certainly is. thank you, margaret. >>> one of the largest groups of westerners fighting in syria comes from great britain. at least 500 british citizens are thought t

minneapolis community leader, omar jamaal who knew contain said he is not unique.y young people have left to fight in syria moved by social media. >> it happens a lot, it's very active propaganda machine that are targeting the members of the community. >> reporter: around the same time that mccain left for turkey, he posted on twitter. when it's my time to go have mercy on my soul have mercy on my bros and later retweeted, it takes a warrior to understand a warrior, pray for isis. u.s. intelligence estimates there's more than 12,000 foreign fighters in syria, and dozens of them are americans lining up with terrorists groups. but it was said that the borough is having a problem tracking them. >> they are not of a particular ethnic, or age, it's a diverse group of people. >> now, mccain was on terror watch lists and he was known to the fbi, and gale it's interesting that isis chose to use this american on the battlefield in syria, not to launch an attack here in the u.s. >> it certainly is. thank you. one of the largest groups of westerners fighting if syria comes fr