it is a messy situation because there is no doubt that those syria a thes in syrian army, hezbollah, whose parent organization is labeled as a terrorist by the u.s. and the european union. so, if the u.s. and others are and trying to degrade, as they say, isis, they are obviously helping ease groups. also, at a certain point, if there is a battle between -- these two groups. also, at a certain point, if there is a battle between these groups, is the u.s. not going to do anything, or effectively engage on the side of the syrian government? so, this is an extraordinarily messy situation. i think that hezbollah is clearly under the syrian government suspicious and wary of what is happening because if the u.s. can unilaterally bomb syria against isis, it could bomb syria against them. so, they are worried about the president that is being set, -- precedent that is being set, even though it may be pleased that the u.s. is attacking their main enemy. >> and is the u.s. working with president assad right now, the president of syria, who president obama was going to attack last year? we know

hezbollah? >> beg your pardon. >> hezbollah?hezbollah, we don't know much about hezbollah -- i don't know them as a terrorist group. >> what about hamas? hamas' charter -- >> hamas is a democratic -- well, if they called for that and they did -- but hamas is a democratically elected representative of gaza. >> obliterate is their word. >> i haven't seen their charter. >> you need to read it. >> well, send it to me, sean. send it to me and i'll look at it. >> if people were killing in the name of my religion, i'm catholic, and radicalizing my religion, i would condemn them. i would think as a muslim you want to do that. >> you didn't condemn the "duck dynasty" yesterday. >> what did he say yesterday? he was talking about radical islamists -- >> now, wait a minute -- >> either they change their minds or we have to kill the people that are beheading innocent americans. >> doesn't that sound like isis? >> no, it doesn't. >> isn't that what isis is saying? >> how would you deal with isis beheading americans? what would you do? >> i wo

so far so good. >> just a comment on the hezbollah drone attack over the weekend. it was reported by an iranian government news agency that hezbollah deployed a drone against a nusra base on the lebanon/syria borders and, in fact, there is footage which i'm not sure how, if it's legitimate or not, of the attack. i think that is very, very interesting. because if this is true, the first time that a nonstate has used an armed drone in combat successfully. i think it raises some pretty big issues for this discussion because this is not the end of this. this is the beginning. if you're a western country with a relatively sophisticated air defense system and jet air fighter aircraft drones are not a problem. in fact the pakistani air force could have shot down our drones. they chose not to. however, if you're let's say a some kind of western target somewhere around the world in a country without those things, and a militant organization acquires an armed drone, we're in a different scenario. a number of organizations have been using surveillance drones. isis used one la

because they believe they need assad to have hezbollah. that is the channel that all the weapons go through to get to hezbollah. >> from iran to syria and lebanon. >> this is the terrorist wing of the iranian government. >> what do you think worries the president the most? >> i think, let me say what i think should worry him. if i am not inside of his head. >> if you find out who is, let me know. >> what i think should worry him is that isis is the tip of the iceberg. what i mean by that is, if you think back to september 10, 2001. al qaeda was at one place and one place only at the time, afghanistan. today, al qaeda is -- islamic extremists are in northern nigeria, up into the sehel, mali, mauretania, tangier, tunisia, to libya where they are in huge numbers, in egypt where they are back for the first time in 25 years, down into east africa, in somalia and kenya, across the gulf of aden into yemen, up into syria and iraq and still in south asia and pakistan-afghanistan. and bangladesh. they just announced a new cell. >> not to mention asi

back in 2006 from hezbollah, it's less than we experienced from them. in the last two rounds in 2008 and 2011, it's much vow to make a differentiation between the harassment, the fact they had on the population, which is quite meaningful. but you have to bear in mind that we have to think about qualitatively and quantitatively in the future. this is one thing. the second thing has do with the range. they are quite capable of introducing into the picture a rocket in the range of more than 70 kilometers, reaching, you know, north of tel aviv. and even at one time, hifa and other central population in the state of israel. so the range issue is very meaningful. and you have to remember that basically now israel is in the -- i mean, in the populated areas of israel is under rocket range fire. in times of conflict. and this is very meaningful because even in this summer, more than a% of the citizens of israel, more than 4 million people are under fire. and under this harassment kind of project. this is very important. of course, as you know, we will speak abo

hezbollah supports him. if you are going to fight and win the war and isis is the main threat, you have to deal with them the way we dealt with stall lynn in world war ii. >> there are multiple civil wars going on in the middle east. one is in islam itself, between the radicalized version and the version that isis represents which is so barbaric that even the more radical muslims can't stand isis. i think the u.s. has to capitalize on that division within islam. >>> the bottom line here is syria is complicated. it is complicated. it is not easy to say we are going to go in there without assad's authority and it is not easy to say we should go to assad and get lids authority. >>> i have concerns about the iranian political strategy. in terms of ideology, they will strike back. do we have to try and have diplomatic relations? yes. the real key is engage with the tribes in eastern syria. the tribes there subscribe to a very different ideology than isis and we are already seeing fundamental dissatisfaction with

hird, is iran and hezbollah. iran and hezbollah have -- are waging war against isis today and embody a greater long-term threat to the united states than isis. keep in mind hezbollah killed hundreds of marines during the reagan administration in lebanon. hezbollah and iran, working together, have conducted operations on a variety of different continents. there's all this talk about how there are members of -- numbers of people fighting with isis that have american passports and they might come back and conduct an operation. there are those fighting with isis who have european passports and could come back to europe and conduct operations. that's might. iran and hezbollah have been conducting operations in south america, europe, asia for decades. and iran came close to effectuating an assassination right here in washington, d.c. just within the last decade. so yes, it would be good to destroy isis. but let's not kid ourselves. those who would be empowered by those -- by that destruction include entities nearly as

>> well, hezbollah plays exactly the way iran wants him to play in this equation.ence for hezbollah, who is fighting inside syria, along the side of the president -- or the regime of bashar al assad. so, these are the guys that are fighting with isis are against isis. so, it's a very interesting position here. they want the united states and its allies to go and beat up on isil, isis, et cetera, but they really don't want to look as if they -- as they are accepting to be excluded from the coalition. they want to be part of it, legitimately, if you want. they want to legitimize the continued al assad in power where president obama says, no, he's lost legitimacy. so, they hide behind issue of sovereignty. they say, have you to have the consent of bashar al assad before you go in. even if you are going in to do him a favor by getting rid of his enemy. i think this is not the end of the game. i think it would be -- it's a long haul. i think we're going to be seeing so many different things developing including hopeful liv if the united states clarifies for us, what are

. >> so they've brought hezbollah into it. they've trained mill ashe-- militias in iran and brought them to syria. very effective shi'a militias. and they brought their own guys and solamani is in damascus all the time advising assad what to do. they do not want to lose assad, why? because they believe that they need assad to have hezbollah. that's the channel that all the weapons go through to get to hezbollah. >> rose: from iran through syria to lebanon. >> right. and hezbollah is essentially a terrorist wing of the iranian government. so when. >> rose: so when you look at-- what do you think worries the president the most? >> i think-- i think, let me say what i think should worry him. if i'm not inside of his head. what-- . >> rose: if you find out who is, let me know. what i think should worry him is that, is that isis is the tip of the iceberg. and what i mean by that is if you think back, charlie, to september 10th, 2001, al qaeda was at one place in 1 place only on the planet, afghanistan. today al qaeda is-- al qaeda

does hezbollah want to control that? how do we stop that? >> well, certainly not -- we would never favor obviously iran and hezbollah extending their authority over other parts of syria or even northern iraq. i think you're exactly right. air strikes have been successful in the last month in containing isis, preventing its armored columns from moving, but they can't defeat isis, it's too well funded, too well organized. it has its own mission and it has thousands of people who will fight for it. so you need ground forces. the administration is left with the kurdish peshmerga forces. they need to help reconstitute a failed iraqi army. and you'll see the administration trying to arm moderate syrian rebel groups to take on isis and some of these other terrorist groups, radical groups inside syria itself. that's a very tall order and will take a long time. it does mean, shep, that we're looking at a multi-year conflict here. >> nicholas burns, it's great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> don't you love specificity? when they show us the ma

so far so good. >> just a comment on the hezbollah drone attack over the weekend. it was reported by an iranian government news agency that hezbollah deployed a drone against a nusra base on the lebanon/syria borders and, in fact, there is footage which i'm not sure how, if it's legitimate or not, of the attack. i think that is very, very interesting. because if this is true, the first time that a nonstate has used an armed drone in combat successfully. i think it raises some pretty g issues for this discussion because this is not the end of this. this is the beginning. if you're a western country with a relatively sophisticated air defense system and jet air fighter aircraft drones are not a problem. in fact the pakistani air force could have shot down our drones. they chose not to. however, if you're let's say a some kind of western target somewhere around the world in a country without those things, and a militant organization we're an armed drone, in a different scenario. a number of organizations have been using surveillance drones. isis used one last month an

on the contrary, or to the contrary, there is also hezbollah. hezbollah is standing with the syrian regime. >> but is it more important to defeat isis than it is to overthrow assad at this moment. >> at this moment, we can't really say this is more important than the other. i think we have to analyze this situation correctly. we have to make sure that we try: -- dry out the swamp. one part of the swamp is in syria. the other extension of it is in iraq. and we must work to insurance that all this swamp is no longer there. now what can the u.s. do? what can turkey, france, italy, saudi a yabia, jordan, lebanon or qatar do? we work on these matters at this moment we have to end this terror. >> rose: is it doable and how long will it take? >> i can't tell you how long. but there is no question that it has to be done. we have to make a decision. once that decision is made, we can move forward. >> how serious do you believe the split in islam between shi'a and sunni is today? >> there is significant sectarianism. i'm as the president of turkey i am co

hezbollah came in and supported assad. the question is, are they opposed to isis?secretary kerry says we should look for ways that iran should be part and all nations should be part of an effort to stop isis. to the a what happened previously. taking the steps regarding the , we see today that iran is not taking a step against syria. hezbollah is standing with the syrian regime. >> is it more important to stand against isis then it is to overthrow assad at this moment? moment, we can't really say this is more important than the other. i think we have to analyze this situation. we have to make sure that we drive out the swamp. one part is in syria. the extension is in iraq. we have to make sure all of it is no longer there. what can the u.s. do? or lebanon or qatar? we work on these matters. end this. and this - en- >> is it doable? ?ow long will it take ech wei can tell you how long do got to make a decision. then we can move forward. split in believe the between shia and sunni is as it is today at co >> there is significant sectarianism -- today? there is signific

they see iran as empowering the lebanese shiite movement, hezbollah at the expense of the state.s is not the first time iran has offered to help. in the past the lebanese government refrained from accepting that assistance. we'll see if the government does agree this time, since the army really is facing a threat and doesn't have much equipment at hand. >>> now to yemen where a houthi rebel spokesmen says fighters will not be withdrawing from the capitol. and the rebels want to work alongside the leaders. houthis are maintaining their grip on sana'a after signing a peace agreement. a small anti-houthi rally took place in the capitol, after houthis managed to stifle a similar protest last week. >>> coming up, take a look at this, the dangers of getting to school for children in nepal. plus driving into a high-tech area in south africa so taxi drivers stay cool and more secure. and bad news in the champions league. we'll have sport in about half an hour. ♪ >>> protesters in hong kong say they want to hear from the chinese government by wednesday about their demands. their want free

in the middle east -- iranians as shi'ites sponsoring hezbollah and other militias, saudis and qataris as sunnis sponsoring al-qaeda and other jihadists -- including isil, where they have helped to unleash a monster that threatens to devour them all. by acting carefully, not bombastically, and by making common cause with both saudi arabia and iran to confront a common isil enemy, britain could even help realign middle east politics to overcome the bitter and violently corrosive sunni-shi'a fault line in the region. it is a big ask, and an even bigger task, but an immensely valuable one. >> i do not think there is any significant controversy about the moral and legal case for what is proposed, and in five minutes i will not set it out. the world would be a better place if isis was destroyed, and britain would be a safer country without doubt. the legal case for intervention in iraq is clear with its government's inviting us, and i think it is pretty clear in syria because of the genocide and the humanitarian disasters being inflicted on that country. i do agree that it is artificial to

yes. >> you support hezbollah, al kwaeda.u once said about september 11th you were clear you're on team bin laden. not team obama. sou supported what happened on september 11th and ed it was a good thing. i just want america to have an opportunity to see you for who you are. you're the enemy of free people. >> i'm the enemy? >> and innocent people. you support terror. that makes you an enemy of freedom. i don't want shaira law. >> so you're threatening to come get me? is that what you're say something >> i'm saying sharia will be implemented in the whole world. >> that is what you want? you answered my question. >> you want a world wide islamic kalife? >> of course we do. promised by the message of mohammed. >> and infidels goodbye? >> you will be liberated. >> i don't want to be liberated by islam. i don't want your religion. i believe in womens' rights and freedom. >> prostitution, gambling. >> your version of morality is cutting people's heads off you don't agree w >> oh, really? how many times with your drones? >> i don't

the rise of hezbollah in 1980s. and i was in beirut in the embassy when it was blown up. i was still in beirut six months later, october 1983, in the marine barracks, blown up by hezbollah. hezbollah is still with us as a scourge in syria. the '90s brought us bin laden. and then 9/11. since then, as ranking member noted, we have done a lot to degrade al qaeda. by al qaeda is a very, very formidable force and we have seen it metastasize, as you have pointed out. in two various franchises and sub franchises. now we face the islamic state. something new and even more dangerous. and i would point out, mr. claireman, members of the committee, it is all in the name. it started out as isil, as isis, islamic state in iraq and syria. then bolder in its ambitions, as islamic state in iraq and levant. now it is simply the islam ek state without borders. they know no bounds. so we must show leadership. we must con front a menace and threat that we have never seen before.front a menace and threat that we have never seen before. understand that we can't do it ourselves. that we need to

they're going to be the assad forces, the hezbollah forces.hat's why i'm saying tonight in damascus and beirut and tehran, those units are saying should we move? should we wait?it should we wait for the americans to destroy them and then shouldo we be the first to move?as >> bret baier in washington for us, this is a difficult prospect what the president called the fantasy players won't be ready for a year. now we've got bombs in the air a and the possibility of all these other fighters coming in from these other nations. >> yeah, shep. i mean, it is serious. it's a three dimensional chess game here that they are trying to get these fighters on the ground.on but as you mentioned they're nou a trained force as of yet. there are some estimates they could be in country in three months.e but it's going to take some time. a couple things to think about t after these bombing runs happenn about these as we mentioned har targets for isis, command and control, their arsenals also training grounds that have been spotted and intelligence has singled them

hezbollah, iran. >> you just added hezbollah and iran to the united states, jordan, united arab emirates, qatar? sounds reek onn-- regional. >> it's a moving vacuum situation you're going to see a lot of the players now. at some point, how much do i extend my forces into this area? how much do i risk inflaming domestic opposition to what i'm doing? jordan is having to crack down on its own islamic population. it's banning certain mosques so it can keep it's domestic population under control. we have to assume that the calculation on most players in this, but some aren't visibly bombing syria is let's see what happens. let's see what type of border situations will be events. >> are there other vacuum >> are there other vacuum regi who's going to do it? >> are there other vacuum regi who's going to make it happen? discover a new energy source. turn ocean waves into power. design cars that capture their emissions. build bridges that fix themselves. get more clean water to everyone. who's going to take the leap? who's going to write the code? who's going to do it? engineers. that's who. that

onel did an article hezbollah, which i thought was interesting. >> lebanon, yeah.here is a strong contingent of militants inside of lebanon that have made some noise for many years, but there are not a lot of them, and a number of them, particularly down south, has been co-opted by the government. there were fears early on that a lot of this contingent was going to be activated by the war in syria, and in fact, the whole society was going to go down the tubes. that is still a worry, and the longer the war goes on, the longer that were increases, but i have been really surprised that lebanon's resiliency, actually, whether you attribute that to actors we do not like lid onzbollah keeping a things, or the sunnis now wanting to ignite another civil impressive toen me that they have managed to stay out even though iran and --nusra and the united states have tried to kick the hornets nest and drag lebanon into the war, but so far so good. >> just to comment on the hezbollah drone attack over the weekend, it was reported by an iranian news agency that hezbollah deployed

now, hezbollah is a party in the country of lebanon. justice 2006, the system in my country, following the creation of the special byestigation unit headed up president tischler to investigate the attack in 1994. it is 24, -- 20 years, in fact, this year, since that attack him but we have not been able to bring those that are responsible. on the basis of that investigation carried out by the public prosecutor it was decided indictjudge decided to eight iranian citizens living in and ran and then present [indiscernible] we asked in each of the assemblies here at the united nations that there be cooperation with the islamic republic of iraq, so that we iran so that we could interrogate. we offered alternatives such as the lockerbie phenomenon, third countries to do this, and finally in 2012, and foreign minister proposed with a bilateral meeting, and then in produced a memorandum of understanding for judicial cooperation between both countries. the sole objective being that the iranian citizens would be able to give the testimony to the j

tonight, the leader of hezbollah gave a speech saying, "yes, we are against i.s.i.s.nd fighting i.s.i.s., but don't want the u.s. to fight them." so is the case with iran. >> very interesting. >> interesting reactions. >> interesting times and voices. i expect we'll hear more. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >>> when we return, our indepth coverage of the strikes on syria, a key figure on capitol hill tells us whether the president has gone far enough. can i.s.i.l. be stopped without hitting harder. also ahead - the view from syria. images from the tart site delivered to the world from social media and act visits about their >> my name is shaquan mcdowell i'm a 17 year old teenager. i go to a public high school outside of the city limits of atlanta. it's 99% african american we do get a quality education. you know we have teachers that really care about us as far as the african american stereotypes, all the music they listen too is rap, they only use ebonics, they don't know how to speak proper english, they've never read a book in their life, all they do is get hi

hezbollah, iran. >> you just added hezbollah and iran to the united states, jordan, united arab emirates, qatar? sounds reek onn-- regional. >> it's a moving vacuum situation you're going to see a lot of the players now. at some point, how much do i extend my forces into this area? how much do i risk inflaming domestic opposition to what i'm doing? jordan is having to crack down on its own islamic population. it's banning certain mosques so it can keep it's domestic population under control. we have to assume that the calculation on most players in this, but some aren't visibly bombing syria is let's see what happens. let's see what type of border situations will be events. >> are there other vacuum regions to explore? our coverage continues from new york, washington and around the world coming up. when i had my first migraine, i was lucky. that sounds crazy, i know. but my mom got migraines, so she knew this would help. excedrin migraine starts to relieve my pain in 30 minutes. plus, sensitivity to light and sound, even nausea. excedrin migraine works. welllllllll, not when your travel

the differences on human rights, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, peace process, israel, hezbollah, all of the issues with the european. officially -- unofficially with journalist, scholars, officials, and i came back 2009 to the u.s., it was completely different because i didn't have official hat, access to hundreds of american foreign policy think tanks, journalists, to sit with them and to discuss very, very openly, sincerely, frankly, the disputes, problems between iran and the u.s. definitely these four or five years gives me great understanding about american perception, how americans view the iranian policy, iranian foreign policymaking system, and the disputes between iran and the u.s. in this period, it was very clear for me the reason -- big gap on correct understanding of iran, and rarely could find foreign policy in the u.s. with correct understanding of iran. of course, no one can blame anyone because, first of all, we have had no relation during 35 years. and there has been no exchange between scholars,, journalists and iranians and americans. that's why i am in a per

hezbollah is a hardened group of fighters and they are in a very deep conflict with them.this is why if you are president obama you are sitting there getting these briefings and you say -- really? i have to fight these terrible people and use other groups of terrible people to fight these terrible people? if i succeed against this group of terrible people than another group of terrible people will come in and take advantage? of course if you are an american president you are wary of this. that's the fundamental issue. i'm not sure you can rollback in some significant way isis without becoming, in effect, iran's air force. it depends by what you mean partner. will there be open activities with them? >> for shared military objectives. >> it's completely plausible to imagine intelligence information being surreptitiously slipped in one direction or the other. it is plausible there will be communications to make sure that when u.s. planes are flying over that iran understands they are u.s. planes. on that level -- remember it's very important for the u.s. not to ally openly or

i sometimes say tongue-in-cheek the ground consists of hezbollah, iraqis training by hezbollah. >> wowthere is some degrading of isis. who fills the void. the void is created, who fills that void? the rag tag group that the united states is going to be training and equipping, the free syrian army? >> well, right now i don't think assad has the manpower or resources. >> to take back the country. >> to get overextended. i don't see assad moving outside of the populated areas into the syrian desert. that's the euphrates river valley, that's a reach too far for him. and really, right now i see nobody who is ready to fill that void. as i said the kurds might try to take advantage of any isil retreat, but in syria itself there is a number of disparate groups, and you could see a certain amount of warlordism. >> is that a strategy? you know the area so well, is that a real hole in the strategy? you can start a fight. you can degrade a force, but there needs to be something to fill that void. and then on the question of who goes in on the ground and does the fighting, boy, is there a viable pr

embassyrut in when it was blown up, i was beirut six months later when the barracks was blown up by hezbollah. still with us as a scourge, in syria fighting alongside assad. brought us bin laden. and then 9/11. as a ranking member noted, we've done a lot to qaeda. al veryl qaeda is a very, formidable force, and we've seen metastasize, into various sub franchises. islamic state. something new and even more dangerous. out, would point mr. chairman, members of the committee, it's all in a name. started out as isil. iraqis, islamic state in and syria. then it got bolder in its islamic state in let levant. the islamicply state, without borders. know no bounds. so we must show leadership. must confront a menace and a threat that we really have never before. understand its ante seed ent. under that we can't do it ourselves, that we need to lead but that we must lead. this will not happen without strong american leadership. for bringing some of that leadership here today. rogers and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me. serviceu also for your during the difficult and challenging work o

tonight, the leader of hezbollah gave a speech saying, "yes, we are against i.s.i.s.nd fighting i.s.i.s., but don't want the u.s. to fight them." so is the case with iran. >> very interesting. >> interesting reactions. >> interesting times and voices. i expect we'll hear more. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >>> when we return, our indepth coverage of the strikes on syria, a key figure on capitol hill tells us whether the president has gone far enough. can i.s.i.l. be stopped without hitting harder. also ahead - the view from syria. images from the tart site delivered to the world from social media and act visits about their impact. >>> it's a weekday morning in harlem. people form a line for food. inside the pantry the number needing food is growing. congress withdrew funding to snap, and because of that a 26 increase in recipients was confirmed. new york ran fourth in a group of cities. joe berg, who heads the new york coalition against hunger says as the city gets to the 100,000 plus food kitchens, it's increasing. >> we are able to see that the demand goes up,

and then, for example, hezbollah ready to talk this afternoon and make a statement. your thoughts?> well, this is really a fascinating moment. there are no more clear, traditional patterns of idealogical rivalries or political alliances. everything is turned upside down. so the u.s. notified the syrian government, which the u.s. wants to overthrow, has been trying to overthrow for thee years, the u.s. notified the syrian government it was going to attack isis in northern syria. the iranians are the big supporter of the syrian government and the u.s. wants to overthrow it by arming and training the rebels, so there's just a real mumbled situation of people who have no clear idealogical linkages to one another. the fear of isis by everybody in the region, americans, iranians, syrians is so great that everybody is forgetting traditional rivalries for the moment to fight this common enemy. but the consequences of this war in syria and iraq is going to be enormous, because it's going to unleash all kinds of new forces in the region, and we don't know what those -- for instance, the oppo

they saw iran's surrogates, hezbollah from lebanon there on the ground. what were they doing? to start with, they were buying influence, spreading money around, trying to figure out what was happening. later the next year when they saw weapons going to syria, the syrian rebels who were their enemies, remember, iranians working with bashar al-assad and rebels were against them. they saw the weapons leaving benghazi and going to syrian rebels and iran said we'll put an end to this this is coming out benghazi. we know how to stop it there. were approximately 50 or off u.s. national classified intelligence reports, something i learned about from people who had access to them, mentioned money and arms flowing from iran and hezbollah into benghazi in the weeks and months before the attacks. i've spent many years of my life working with defectors from iranian intelligence. a former senior cia officer once said of plea, i like to think it was in jest and it may have been serious, timmerman has spent more face time with iranian defectors than anybody in the u.s. intelligence community

in fact, they have military forces in syria, as well as their proxy hezbollah.you go back two years, bashar assad was about ready to fall. it was only through the efforts of iran and hezbollah that he was able to stop the free syrian army from winning that civil war. let's move over to iraq. they stand to gain the most if this works for the iraqis to push isis back out. in the power vacuum that the united states left in 2011, the iranians were very quick to move in there. so the iranians are on the verge of getting just about everything they want, and it appears that the coalition is helping them to do that. now, if they do this politically smartly, and he's a smart guy, i think he sees that. i don't know why he's been so confrontational here, when if he would just sit back, a lot of this would fall right into his lap. >> that's kind of what i was getting to. the comments he was making to christiane amanpour, he said all of these air strikes are theater, really, they're not doing anything to address the issue, while knowing full well his country could do so much

you have isis and you have hezbollah. you have the iranian government troops of assad and american air strikes. there so many players on this battlefield. without having sufficient ground forces there, it's going to be a very, very difficult thing for the u.s. to know from above who is who and who is bombing and who is helping and trying to hu hurt. >> thanks so much for reporting. the threat here at home, rudy giuliani joining me coming up next. >> they are focused on homeland attacks and because the plotting was getting advanced, it was critical to take advantage of this opportunity to go after them as well. >> how advanced was the plotting regarding the united states? the homeland. >> we were tracking it carefully and had intelligence suggesting that they were moving far along in their plotting. that's as much as i can say, but given that, it was important to act and to try to disrupt what they were doing. >> deputy national security adviser about the threat from this al qaeda off shoot known as the khorazan group in e

hamas, the islamic state, hezbollah, boko haram, all these terrorist groups are basically masks for the same face. the islamic ideology. this is our long-term fight should be against -- the free world should unify against this radical islamic ideology, and this is my recommendation. >> well, you've led an incredible life. it's been an incredible journey for you. we thank you very much for joining us and sharing your story with us. >> thank you. thank you. >> now i want to know what you're thinking at home. what do you fear more, the threat from isis overseas or homegrown terrorists? tweet me your answers @uma pemmaraju and i'll definitely read some of your responses later in the show. >>> breaking today, white house officials are now saying president obama will not act on immigration until after the november midterm elections. the president pledged executive action by the end of the summer. immigration advocates -- this will offer some relief to vulnerable democrats in tough senate re-election contests. the new timeline for action is to happen by the end of the year. >>> well, a search

tonight, the leader of hezbollah gave a speech saying, "yes, we are against i.s.i.s.nd fighting i.s.i.s., but don't want the u.s. to fight them." so is the case with iran. >> very interesting. >> interesting reactions. >> interesting times and voices. i expect we'll hear more. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >>> when we return, our indepth coverage of the strikes on syria, a key figure on capitol hill tells us whether the president has gone far enough. can i.s.i.l. be stopped without hitting harder. also ahead - the view from syria. images from the tart site delivered to the world from social media and act visits about their >> we pray for the children in the womb >> a divisive issue >> god is life , so it's his to take >> see a 10 year old girl who's pregnant, and you tell me that's what god wants... >> a controversial law >> where were you when the babies lives were being saved? >> are women in texas paying the price? >> who's benefiting from restricting access to safe abortions? >> fault lines... al jazeera america's hard hitting... ground breaking... truth seek

lebanon's hezbollah and iran. joining us. is the former ambassador to syria the george bush administration. before that he was serving with bill clinton. currently he is a ceo of training services. mr. ambassador, let me start off the with question talked about four of the five arab he understood. but qatar did not drop any order in a place and he was concerned about the fact that qatar may be financing isil, isis, what's your take on the fact that qatar was not quite the full player in the air strikes last night. >> well, we know that qatar has been on the outs to some extent with the other allies, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates and bahrain precisely because it has supported groups like the muslim brotherhood and other islamic groups. however, i don't see any points that isil has received aid from qatar, and i think qatar knows that would be a huge mistake foosm. so i think we should withhold judgment on that. >> all right. so they might get involved mosh. how about turkey, nato alley. they justed what was it 49 pris

in one sweep we could cut the knees off of hezbollah and half a dozen other groups that i can think ofi think they can do that for a chance to be involved. they're in the region. they're like syria. isis is much closer to home for them than it is for us. >> considering how much funding they have put towards hamas and hezbollah and the statements of their leaders that they want to wipe israel from the face of the ma' map. i hope there could be something, but i will be very, very reluctant unless they repudiate some of those comments about israel. kemp colonel great to have you back. what can our government do to prevent americans suspected of terrorism from traveling back and forth from iraq and sere kra and then come back as they please? i'll ask former law professor all all allan dersiowitch when we come back. bayer back & body provides effective relief for your tough pain. better? yeah...thanks for the tip! oh hey craig, i need to talk to you. hey jake. you know how you won't let me touch your dart? well i've got some things that you can't touch. is that right? whatchya got there? ju

>> who are the syrians, syria is now a client state and iran controls the whole area, syria and hezbollah lebanon has a tremendous influence in iraq. the whole point of the coalition was to organize sunni arabs who have seen us as an adversary because we topled their saddam.v sunni arabs to join in the fight ge against isis against sunni arabs so we are not seen as joining the shiites, meaning iran and hezbollah against isis which is sunni. the idea is to have sunnis on our side. the saudis have said if there is any coordination with iran, we're out of here. we're talking behind the scenes. look the reason there's a coalition of the unwilling is because obama is unwilling. everyone knows it. he telegraphed it in his speech, everybody understands, he's ambivalent, they're all looking to what he did in afghanistan and in libya. and they say if thew this coalition is ambivalent and reluctant, why should we join? >> is the sense now this is going to take a long time before we actually see this move, these air strikes. >> air strikes in sere yarks you meaning? >> yes. that's a good question, l

it doesn't matter what name they go by, whether they're isis, al qaeda, hezbollah, hamas, boko haram, they all wear different names but they are all the same, following the commandments of the koran and that's why we need to open our eyes and realize we are fighting an ideology. all these people operating out of the same doctrine. that's why we must do whatever we must do to protect ourselves. >> bridgete, thank you. >>> now, time to hear from you. do you think we can trust moderate syrian fighters who will be now u.s. armed and trained to be loyal in our fight against isis? you can send me your tweets to @umapemmaraju or @anhqdc. >>> a major security breach at the white house. how did an intruder get so close, through the front door, in fact? details coming up. after a torrent of criticism over the nfl's handling of domestic violence cases, beleaguered commissioner roger goodell admits he botched the job. >> i got it wrong in the handling of the ray rice matter. and i'm sorry for that. okay. >> but will that be enough to silence critics calling for his resignation? all that and more