we had a conversation earlier with jane harman and dan sen interestor, jane harman said there cob bootsn sen interestinteresor, if it's not our boots on the ground? >> we have to some extent some boots on the ground already. they just aren't on the front lines and whether there are other coalition partners that are willing to put boots closer to the front line is another matter. i think they have to be assured we will being them up and most of all,itative got to be assured that they've got to be assured we are in this to win this and the signals said over the past couple of years have not been good in that regard some it's going to be more difficult to put together a coalition that will actually fight than it would have been a couple years ago. >> all right. senator jeff flake. thank you so much. we look forward to hearing what happens later today. still ahead, she has her sights on climbing one of the highest money tain, it's nearly an impossible feat, the sister of our own peter sal alexander, she joins with us her incredible story. >>> up next as wall street soars, are millennials le

we are joined by jane harman now at the woodrow wilson senator, former senator joe lieberman who is heading up a new anti-terrorism group called the counter extremism project, cbs contributor mike mor mohr reall, formerly number 2 at the cia along with robert kagan of the brookings institution. welcome, well, samantha power says that other nations have agreed to participate in air strikes into syria. any guesses as to who that would be and i would take that as good news in a week when there hasn't been much, jane. >> welshes france is one. the uae is two and i think some other groups in the neighborhood would be very welcome there, but the challenge is, who would be on the ground? that is the murky piece of this, as you covered in the last segment with dianne feinsten and mike rogers, there are several groups on the ground that could harm us, and if the al nusra group or part of a corson group affiliated with the al qaeda group mixed with yemen and i know this is complicated that bowp could harm the u.s. even sooner than isil. so we have to be very careful on the ground and we need muslim b

i should point out jane harman is also the head of the wilson center here in washington.hy, paul, you studied this. the beheadings. we remember in 2002, daniel pearl, the reporter from the "wall street journal" was beheaded by al qaeda in pakistan. what's with the beheadings? why do they do this? >> it's not for religious reasons. it's pure and simple to terrorize their enemies and also to satisfy the blood loss of their supporters. we've seen this several times with daniel pearl but also with nicolas berg, an american beheaded in iraq by this same group in 2004. >> jane, you agree with dianne feinstein, the chair of the intelligence committee that maybe the president is being too cautious right now. your fellow californian? >> i think it's time for him to say more and do more. i'm sad he ducked questions on his way to the airplane. it's true there's no conclusive proof yet that sotloff was beheaded and perhaps that's why he waited. but delivering his first remarks in estonia rather than in america at a time when this corrupt is grieving about this i think perhaps was not

he and joe biden brought in sandy berg in, tom don lon, jane harman, looks like the review of our guest list here at "andrea mitchell reports". john boehner brought in dick cheney to brief house republicans. joining us is contributor and managing editor and white house correspondent for the associated press. why did the president reach out and bring in all of the different voices on foreign policy. >> it was a pretty unusual thing for the president to do. not only does he not reach out to folks like this, he criticized the washington chattering class. this was a real attempt by the president to bring the people into the fold and let them hear directly from him. hear from them. get advice a lot of these people on the list are great guests on the show. people who have been through a lot. they might have advice that he could learn from. >> there is a new "washington post" abc poll that shows a dramatic change. supporting air strikes in june and went up to 54% in august. now 71%. >> remarkable. >> it's the isis video reaction poll. >> you are right because i asked the pollster about it. his

. >> of course, the president being oversees got criticism from jane harman talking about his first remarks about this being in estonia. she says perhaps that was not the best decision. dianne feinstein has called the president too cautious on isis and adam schiff, a senior democratic on the house intelligence committee said that isis must be confronted and destroyed. is the president willing to go to war in the traditional sense, boots on the ground, american lives at risk, to destroy isis? >> the americans and the united states is not going to go it alone. no one in the american public wants us to do that. but there are a range of steps we've already started taking. the president has authorized 120 strikes in iraq. of course those have a range of purposes including providing humanitarian assistance and addressing those needs and protecting the american people who are there, but part of that impact has been on impacting isil and their growth there, but one of the main topics of discussion that the president will have, the secretary will have, secretary hagel will have will be about how the

former democratic congresswoman jane harman, director of the wood row wilson center. syndicated columnist george will. and chuck lane, charles lane from "the washington post." so, brit, what do you make of the new barack obama? do you buy the rhetoric? >> and beyond. so it's something new. the plan, it seems to me, is different in the sense it is an -- enveries a relatively maul though it is manifestly true you have to have ground force toss dislodge people from territory. they might have sufficient to roll back isis there. they would be trained, according to this plan, but it seems at a glasht pace compared to what has been the meteoric growth of isis. so i think it remains doubtful. in his news conference this week, the chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey said it would make a force of between 12 and 15,000 to fight isis on the ground in syria. s that's triple the force we would have accumulated in a year. is this a apology for defeating or containing isis? >> the debray piece is happening now by air. the defeat piece has two parts. part of it is on

. >> congresswoman jane harman offering some criticism of president obama for his policy towards the militant terror group isis. let's discuss with the former speaker of the house, one of the co-hosts of cnn's "cross fire," newt gingrich. newt, thank you very much for joining us. would you support an immediate decision by the president to launch air strikes against isis in syria? >> absolutely. but i would also call on the president to design a real strategy which has to recognize that isis is a lot like a virus. it's not just a nation state. the islamic state by itself is not the key. there are over 10,000 foreign potential terrorists now operating with the islamic state. there are 600 i think britains. over 100 americans. we just had two people from minneapolis killed. we don't appreciate the degree to which this is a viral epidemic spreading across the plantet pla plantet and it's very dangerous to all of us. >> does the president need congress' go ahead to effectively go to war against isis in syria? >> the president, with his commander in chief power, has the ability, as long as

and jane harman herself echoed that when she said that the nato response has to be strong. there has to be a strong but careful push back on russia. so this is a very delicate dance that nato and russia and ukraine have to do at this point. and as one three-star general pointing his finger at me said, we are not going to war with russia, peter. >> all right, mik, thank you very much. we like this administration juggling a serious of issues right now. on the topic again of isis and the beheading, that barbaric execution of the journalist steven sotloff, we are now hearing from secretary of state john kerry putting out this statement just moments ago. it says yesterday the world bore witness again to the unfathomable brutality of isil terrorist murd rerz when we saw steven sotloff, an american journalist who left home in florida to tell the story of brave people in the middle east taken from us in an act of medieval savage reby a coward hiding behind a mask. joined again by ayman mohyeldin, who spent so much time in this region. i want to ask you more specifically about this

joining us our chief analyst gloria borrower, our chief congressional correspondent dana bash and jane harmanber of the house intelligence committee, now the pfts of the wilson center, a think tank in washington. the president really has been forced to change his rhetoric if you will over the last several weeks, why? >> well, he's -- >> simply the video of these two americans beheaded. >> i think that was part of it but isil is expanding territory, membership, and ambition and it's a social media campaign is relentless and better than any countercampaign against it. so it's a bigger challenge. as commander in chief he has to protect our country and the circumstances are different. >> would he be doing this, gloria, if there had not been videos of two americans being executed? >> i think public opinion would not have shifted as dramatically and in this case the president's actually -- public opinion was there before the president was. the larger irony is he didn't want to be giving this speech last night. he came into office as the peace president, the president who got us out of two wars, who

jane harman, thank you very. as well. >>> much more of the breaking news coming up. >>> the family of a british hostage held by isis receives another new threat. we're going to ask britain's foreign secretary, he's going to be joining me here at the united nations, about effort to free him and why his country, britain, didn't take part in today's air strikes against isis in syria. hi! can i help you? i'm looking for a phone plan. it has to be a great one, and i don't compromise. ok, how about 10 gigs of data to share, unlimited talk and text, and you can choose from 2 to 10 lines. wow, sounds like a great deal. so i'm getting exactly what i want, then? appears so. now, um, i'm not too sure what to do with my arms right now 'cause this is when i usually start throwing things. oh, that's terrifying at&t's best-ever pricing. 2-10 lines, 10 gigs of truly shareable data, unlimited talk and text, starting at $130 a month. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the

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senor and now the director and president and ceo of the woodrow international central for scholars jane harman. >> let's give dan sen oar support for barak obama over wellingly. dan, you believe the president has all the authorities he needs to do whatever he wants to do? >> i do believe -- >> and these airstrikes. >> the president has, the commander-in-chief has the responsibility and authority to protect our homeland. >> should he come back and have an authorization from congress for a vote. >> if he wants to, he didn't have tom to declare war he doesn't need an act of congress. he is not declaring war. he can use previous authorizations that enable him to do what he needs to do to protect our homeland. the operations she conducting is wage to threats facing our homeland. >> you supported the previous authorization, not for something 11 years later. >> when i voted in 2001 for those who attacked us. i never expected it to be in effect ten years from now. >> should he call congress back in a special session? >> yes. also, i can't believe it. dan wants to write a blank check to a president. >>