general tom mcinerney is here. map where we no longer have embassies, we are clearly in retreat which leaves a vacuum. what happens? >> well, that is a great question. personally have to have a good strategy and we do not have a strategy, 73% of americans agree 54% of democrats. it will be higher when people start asking what happened to our embassy in yemen, which was the poster child of our counterterrorism strategy as the president articulated months ago that we have to get a strategy and i would start with this identifying the threat, whether it is this or isis or al qaeda or hamas, they are radical islamists and we must focus our attention upon to and did the arab world to pick up their responsibilities. only they can defeat the ideology of radical islam. but if we don't name it and get them to do it we will not be able to defeat it. stuart: i don't think american people want him to do that and he's not going to do that. so can they be defeated by isis troops. >> let me explain why. first of all we have to hav

we'll have much more on this shortly when we speak with lieutenant tom mcinerney and arkansas senator tom cotton who's also an iraq war veteran. but first -- breaking tonight the obama administration has just wrapped a terror summit six months in the making meeting with dozens of countries as the world faces almost daily images of murder, torture, beheadings and innocence set on fire. and tonight it appears the administration believes a key to this fight is community outreach. the three-day summit on combatting violent extremism is now in the history books. three days of sessions focused on fighting terror with a focus on social media empowering communities and creating economic opportunity for would-be radicals. turns out marie harf was right on message. we have reports that vice president joe biden today called attention to christian hate groups and violence done in the name of the bible. while the president chose to key in on the need to expand human rights and peaceful dialogue. >> let's have voices of tolerance and peace especially online. we have to get serious about confronting

we'll have much more on this shortly when we speak with lieutenant tom mcinerney and arkansas senator tom cotton who's also an iraq war veteran. but first -- breaking tonight the obama administration has just wrapped a terror summit six months in the making meeting with dozens of countries as the world faces almost daily images of murder, torture, beheadings and innocence set on fire. and tonight it appears the administration believes a key to this fight is community outreach. the three-day summit on combatting violent extremism is now in the history books. three days of sessions focused on fighting terror with a focus on social media empowering communities and creating economic opportunity for would-be radicals. turns out marie harf was right on message. we have reports that vice president joe biden today called attention to christian hate groups and violence done in the name of the bible. while the president chose to key in on the need to expand human rights and peaceful dialogue. >> let's have voices of tolerance and peace especially online. we have to get serious about confronting

we'll have much more on this shortly when we speak with lieutenant tom mcinerney and arkansas senatorotton who's also an iraq war veteran. but first -- breaking tonight the obama

we'll have much more on this shortly when we speak with lieutenant tom mcinerney and arkansas senatorho's also an iraq war veteran. but first -- breaking tonight the obama

we have team coverage tonight with general tom mcinerney shepard smith in jordan and najid. we begin with ed henry about the uae story. >> reporter: bottom line administration officials have been putting out press releases for several weeks suggesting the uae was conducting air strikes. we know that was not true. white house spokesperson josh earnest said they may have been referring to the fact united arab emirates had been previously helping out with these air strikes and they weren't referring to what was happening in the current time. what's interesting though is that the uae wants more sophisticated search and rescue assets to make sure if their pilots crash they will not wind up like that jordanian pilot who so tragically was executed. we pressed josh earnest today on whether there are other arab nations like the uae that may now be pulling out. here's what he said. >> well, again, i'm going to let the individual countries speak to the details through day by day accounting of their military activities and their participation in the military operations. >> now remember

patti ann: general tom mcinerney said yesterday we've been given a warning, we have to take action. >ines i don't like my position. i'm not able to go on to fencive, i'm not able to expand my security perimeter, i'm not able to kill the isis fighters seeking to take me on. right now their hands are tied behind their back, and they're in a defensive posture, and they e know isis controls a town five miles away has attempted to hit the base -- ineffectively, but attempted -- and it's in a valley in that area with high ground surrounding it. there's no good natural defenses, so controlling that high ground's important. when we held that base when more u.s. marines were there, we would maintain observation posts there. in many ways the marines -- while safe right now in the immediate -- that situation could change if the wrong terrain falls into the wrong hands. patti ann: yeah. we should mention you served in iraq. last month the pentagon confirmed u.s. troops at this al assad base have been coming under regular mortar fire. they tribed it as ine -- described it as ineffective. nonethele