do not expect the mideast to fall in place in 15 or 20 years.but here is what you can expect, with our help things will change. so here is what i am wanting to tell you. that we can't disassociate ourselves with this struggle for social justice and there is a fight for the heart and soul of islam taking place before our eyes. the christian religion went to a reformation hundreds of years ago. there's a fight now within islam for the heart and soul of religion. take sides. take sides with those who practice their faith will find a place on the planet for you too. after 36 trips, i, i am here to tell you they are all about the same. i have lost a lot of good friends in iraq and afghanistan were judges, policemen, lawyers, trying to impose the rule of law is to replace the rule of gun. when they fall, someone else takes their place. i am very hopeful that over the arc of time, radical islam will be defeated. but it will require american leadership until that day comes. after 33 years years in the air force, 140 days on the ground, when i call for m

do not expect the mideast to fall in place in 15 or 20 years.but here is what you can expect, with our help things will change. so here is what i am wanting to tell you. that we can't disassociate ourselves with this struggle for social justice and there is a fight for the heart and soul of islam taking place before our eyes. the christian religion went to a reformation hundreds of years ago. there's a fight now within islam for the heart and soul of religion. take sides. take sides with those who practice their faith will find a place on the planet for you too. after 36 trips, i, i am here to tell you they are all about the same. i have lost a lot of good friends in iraq and afghanistan were judges, policemen, lawyers, trying to impose the rule of law is to replace the rule of gun. when they fall, someone else takes their place. i am very hopeful that over the arc of time, radical islam will be defeated. but it will require american leadership until that day comes. after 33 years years in the air force, 140 days on the ground, when i call for m

you can never have a stable mideast or peace at home until we take the land away from crisis. that is going to require -- isis. that is going to require ground forces. the good news for you -- this time around, if i am your president, the arabs are going to do most of the fighting. the difference between now and the past is that every arab leader knows what is coming that way if isil continues to grow. they never believed saddam would take their country over and cut their heads off. he was there crazy cousin. , overo believe that isil time, will try to destroy their societies, and they are ready to fight back. they will not fight without us. they cannot win without us. there were two threats the president has acknowledged that needs toith, that isil be degraded and destroyed, that is the right goal, and assad needs to go. aside is a puppet of iran. the arab world is not going to get damascus to the irradiance. -- to iran.regime the uranian regime is a bunch of religious nazis and the iranian people are decent folks. how do you believe he is building a power plant? plant,s buil

this after ongoing mideast violence clouded christmas celebrations in bethlehem where hotel bookingse down some 25% compared to a year ago, which was also a weak year. but this year christmas came in the midst of three months of violence. since mid september, at least 20 isrealis have been killed in attacks, as well as at least 127 palestinians. israel blames the palestinian incitement while the palestinians remain frustrated living under isreali military control. today alone the isreali police say they fatally shot a palestinian who tried to stab them in jerusalem. while in the west bank, the palestinian protestors clashed with isreali security after a funeral for a palestinian woman killed on christmas when the isreali forces say she attempted to drive a car into them. back in jerusalem today, the police used rubber bullets to disperse protestors demanding isreali hand over bodies killed by the troops. [ singing ] >> reporter: and now a new threat from isis, issued saturday, threatening an attack against israel, the obama administration weighing it as the president continues his ch

if the ayatollah gets one bomb, what happens in the mideast?every arab is going to get a bomb, too. north korea is a nightmare. it should be a wake-up call. this is what happens when you let rogue regimes get away with bad deals and blame both parties here. the effort to control the north korean nuclear program was a miserable failure. so will the iranian nuclear deal. would you do it differently? but we are where we are. and once they get a nuke, they are in a safe harbor because nobody wants to deal with them the same way if they didn't have a nuke. so north korea, sharing the technology worries me. that the guy will wake up one day on the wrong side of the bed and might actually use it. i don't know how to fix that overnight other than press the regime over time to change. hoping that people in north korea can take back their country and replace this nut job with somebody more stable. i will end with this. iran is a nightmare in the making worse than north korea. if they get a nuclear weapon, you are going to start a nuclear arms race. and u

to protect this country from those who want to harm us and defeat those who are radicalized in the mideast. >> our only answer is to go after isis. >> if i'm president of the isil, you're going to get killed or captured. >> governor pataki mistakenly referred to donald trump as the president. >>> hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin owe 'malley will make the stage on saturday night. >>> tense moments at nashville airport when a southwest airlines plane rolled off the runway. the boeing 737 was arriving from houston before 5:30. the passengers were safe. they evacuated from the plane. eight people were attorney to the hospital with minor injuries. one person reported having chest pain. >>> the feds investigating a laser strike in new jersey. someone pointed a laser at a united airlines flight 8:00 p.m. this evening. the pilot managed to land the safe safely. >>> cities shut down today because of an e-mail threatening a large-scale attack. did los angeles overreact? opinion is mixed. >> if you ask officials in new york, they'll say yes, l.a. overreacted. tonight officials in l.a. are s

if you want to leave the mideast and turmoil forever, lead him in power. to those who believed him being in power is good for us, you do not know what you are talking about. it means the war never ends. extremists.ni he is allied with iran. if you want to keep the war going, keep assad in damascus. besides the biggest benefactor -- the terrorist organization that threatens israel. in bottom line is that assad power creates an imbalance in the middle east that will make sure the war in syria will never and and other biggest factor of terrorist organization -- if we do not and this war, the king of jordan and lebanon are at risk. what would i do? first things first. isil is a direct threat to the homeland. do you believe that? could, they would attack us. let's destroy them. they would attack us hard. a planned terrorist attack is coming our way if we do not take the caliphate away. in turkey have finally woken up to the threat, because they are coming after these guys as well. i would take a caliphate down inside of syria using arab armies with turkey to ho

. >> coming up next, the saudis launch a military in the mideast. mideast. can we t it's a highly thercontagious disease.here. it can be especially serious- even fatal to infants. unfortunately, many people who spread it may not know they have it. it's called whooping cough. and the cdc recommends everyone, including those around babies, make sure their whooping cough vaccination is up to date. understand the danger your new grandchild faces. talk to your doctor or pharmacist about you and your family getting a whooping cough vaccination today. his privileged upbringing. now back to more forbes on fox. >>> saudi arabia announcing a new anti-terror coalition. the bloc will coordinate and support military operations to fight isis in the region. john,le should we let them foot the bill? >> without question. this is true whether or not we trust them or not. this is their part of the world. if they want to commit treasure and more important blood to vanquishing isis that's a good thing. i think we have hopefully learned from iraq and afghanistan that when you com

read here to keep principles when deciding on foreign policy in particular as it pertains to the mideast so here are three core principles that would be my approach. number one national security of the united states as the single most consideration to determine foreign policy. [applause] not running for president or secretary general of the united nations or any other position of the president of the united states to all tele bear the responsibility to defend our nation hence all foreign policy decisions must be made within our interest. i am a man and a devout faith the teaches morals and ethics i believe a foreign policy can maintain our interest also being able to take the high ground and we should pursue that if they are at odds national-security mr. trump other consideration in. [applause] as you may have heard i visited the syrian refugees over the thanksgiving weekend. my heart goes out to these people who want to live their lives did go to work and have dinner with without the shadow of war over them that moral and compassion instinct to welcome them but we don't have the tools t

still in the mid-60s in the carolinas and drenching the mideast and north atlantic through the second half of today. and we have to talk about christmas week for the eastern half of the country p. . >> a little turkey outdoors or whatever you cook on christmas. >>> stay tuned for this. last night, jimmy kimmel live had another installment of celebrities reading mean tweets. here are some of the highlights. >> sean penn, you're dumb, rude, and full of far. >> elizabeth banks is a who. >> daniel radcliff is one of god's most unattractive creations since the aardvark. >> julianna marg leze is one of the finest ugly women i've seen. >> colin farrell sounds like depressed couch far. >> really? >>> so there's that. thank you for your tweets, people. towards more invasive wire tapping in the war on terror? >>> and look at google's top trending items. in the movie category, jurassic "jurassic world" is one. and top trending diets, 20/20, and in the dogs category, why do dogs wag their tail and how to krat train your puppy. and the top trending searches were lamar odom, "jurassic world," ameri

north america, the mideast and some parts of asia will see temperature increases of 6 to 7 degrees compared to current levels. the study forecasts that parts of japan will have summer daytime highs go up around five degrees. temperatures in tokyo and osaka may reach 42 celsius or higher. they predict more extreme rainfall. parts of japan now seeing the most rain in 30 years will get the highest rainfall in a century. this could happen two to five times more often. scientists say there will be less snowfall in japan, but heavy snows of 60 to 70 centimeters a day could happen in northern japan more than twice as often. >> translator: the earth will have finally entered an area of full-fledged warming. >> professor kimoto worked on the studies and hope the findings will be useful to combat global warming. >>> people in northern europe are seeing delays and may see a lot of that before the holidays. they seeing strong winds. robert speta joins us with more. >> we are looking at the possibility of widespread airport delays. take a look at this report. this was out of poland here on monday. upwar

. >> these comments are aired across the mideast and isis is pointing them on social media, known isis sympathizers are the remarks donald trump made and it is making us less safe. poll says 50% of americans would be embarrassed if donald trump was president. an historic moment in the space race. a falcon rocket -- canaveral and the booster landed on earth. can musk says he drastically reduce launch costs by reusing rocket parts. and a group of people trying to sing christmas carols outside of shown onon clinic, video. >> i would encourage you to be reconsider. and >> carolers were performing the clinic on a public sidewalk when a business called police to complain. to officer asked the group move. he was citing a city noise ordinance. church officials are working with the group and tomorrow will be allowed to sing sidewalk. jonathan: the gift of a lifetime for a 13-year-old girl born right hand. she has made due without it until now. with the us live story. loudonkah jenson is a county middle schooler with a use for thehe can first time. unbelievably, it came from a computer and print

daca program, it will fund all of the president's desired refugee programs, it will fund all of the mideast immigration programs, all of the alien resettlement andh2b foreign workers visas. tax credits for illegal immigrants will be included. i'm thinking, what is it about the republicans that they're so unwilling -- they have this inordi inordinate fear that if they shut down the government -- if you become president what will you say? how will you get them to stand tougher on these issues? >> first of all i've never seen anything like it. if there's a shutdown it won't be very long. the biggest problem is every time anybody mentions that just as a threat immediately the republicans say it will never happen, it will never happen. now they've already lost the negotiation. once they admit it will never happen, they've lost the negotiation. i'd like to ask you, does paul ryan know these things? does somebody know what's being approved in this budget? when you talk about sanctuary cities will continue, to me that is a no-brainer. you look at some of these incredible people that are just being

allies in the mideast need to do more to fight isis. the recent polls show if the pentagon meant to try to make americans feel safer. the president says 9,000 airstrikes have hit isis targets in syria and iraq and allied forces are taking back territory. the president also named some isis leaders recently killed. and he added some tough talk. >> the point is, isol leaders cannot hide and our next mesnl to them is simple. you are next. >> reporter: president may clear allies in the region should be doing more. but some analysts say the president needs to do more to engage rivals like russia and iran to try to stop isis and bring some order to the chaos in syria. >> i think sometimes you have to make a deal over the short term with people you don't like in order to get the kind of things you both like. >> reporter: nbc military analyst jake jacobs says one nearterm option is for the u.s. and allies to delay their demands, serious leader who is backed by iran and russia be removed from power. priority must be stopping isis first. >> perhap

that has hurt him in the mideast ost recent polling. >> let me talk to you about outside candidates and their resilience. this year politics has really why specifically do you think that's such a big issue this year? and why are they so resilient? >> sure. i think people are really concerned about the stalemate, the gridlock in washington. they're sick of politicians. the anti-establishment politicians like ted cruz are trying to portray themselves as against washington. it is the year of the outsider so far. that could long term hurt hillary clinton. so she is trying very much to play to her natural strengths not only in foreign policy but among women. we'll have to see whether that works out. >> indeed, we will. andrea, thank you so much. stick around for "meet the press" at 10:30 right after "today in new york." >>> overseas, police are stepping up security in vienna, austria. an intelligence alert has been sent to several european capitals about a possible shooting or bomb attack sometime between christmas and the start vienna police say they found in no evidence of a plot but incre

. >> verse we go to the mideast were a huge fire is burning at a hotel in dubai across the street from a new year's eve fireworks show supposed to take place very soon. not clear what caused that fire which ran up 20 stories. khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper as firetrucks raced to the scene. rejecting nationalists that have hate in their heart towards refugees. the german chancellor says that coping with the refugee crisis will take time, effort, and money. she will use germany's economic power to turn the crisis to the nation's advantage. you have been arrests in the paris terror attacks. arrested in the brussels neighborhood. authorities say about 10 cell phones were seized during a search and are now being examined. and an air canada flight from shanghai to toronto rain and a heavy turbulence and was forced to land in calgary. 21 passengers were injured. in 150 news bureaus around the world. david: most of blaine this year, energy. the commodity self has been the story of the year. as you take a look at the bloomberg terminal, a list of global commodities. they are seeing som

opec is a cartel form the mideast. we we were not supposed to whole mantra after that was let's become energy independent. we have an opportunity now to be energy independent. this is sort of personal with me. i have a 19 year old son and a 16 year old son. i don't want them or anyone's sons or daughters for oil when we have it domestically here. i'm in favor of this pipeline for a lot of reasons. imminent domain, my understandin g, almost 77% of the land has been acquired by voluntary negotiations with the company. i'm sure the company would like to have 100%, but you can't let a few landowners start stepping away and be in the way of a project like this. i hope they don't have to use imminent domain. i hope they get everything resolved, but if they have to they have to. we wouldn't have an interstate system without maybe we should go ahead and talk about the process of imminent domain and for the purposes of our viewers, they should understand that imminent domain is the taking of property owner's rights for somethin

i am an old mideast counterterrorism specialist. as ast visited jerusalem young reporter before the 1967 war. it was a pretty deadly city, frankly. i have been there since then. there has been a fair amount of integration. you see arab families in the malls and things of that sort. is the recent outbreak of violence, i understand that the barriers have been put up between the two sides of jerusalem. do you foresee that things will go back to "normal" their we quickly if the violence ends? jerusalem see functioning as a city? reueven: unfortunately we have seen waves of violence before. when the waves were higher, the security measures were also tighter. what the government is trying to keep normal is to life as much as they can. i will give you one example. this is the movement from palestinian workers to israel. 120,000 palestinians from the west bank to israel to work every day. even though a small number of them, 1 or 2, have been involved in stabbings, israeli government is was standing -- a lot of pressure on the respectiv west

he wants to eradicate all signs of terrorism in the mideast. >>"you have to wipe out their homes where they came from. you have to absolutely wipe 'em out. it's the only way you are going to stop terrorism." >> grant:the controversial comments americans weary of the seemingly endless war on terror. >>"are you in favor of bombing terrorists' homes?" >>"absolutely. absolutely. people will continue to reproduce and they will raise children in their beliefs." >> grant:with the first primaries less than two months away, trump's numbers are going up. cnn says he's jumped out to an 18 point lead in new hampshire. >> grant:in a national poll. two thirds of his supporters say if he leaves the republican party and runs as an independent. >>"why do you think he's the guy to take on isis?" >>"he's the guy who's got the guts to take it on, he can build the coalition also to take them on as well." >>"somebody just needs to go in there and take control of this. i just think it's going rampant, i'm worried about america, worried about our safety. they're getti

john: there is a debate about immigration from the mideast with relation of muslims. was we should resettling of the syrian refugees. guest: is that still your posture? ,or the past several weeks being a member of the homeland security committee i was in a position to get information the fbi on the record, sworn testimony saying we don't have the intelligence to be will to close the gaps to know who these people are. we shouldn't be a line people to come into this country. we can close the gaps. it is going to take efforts. that is a small number of syrian refugees. john: christian refugees mall syrian refugees. guest: it is not a question of religion, it is a question of security. john: what most needs to be fixe d? guest: we don't have a relationship with the government in syria. we do have people on the ground who can cooperate. we have no intelligence services. as compared to iraq where he had a lot of the information, we need to be much more cautious. that is the point i have made. with regard to iraq, a few weeks whotwo guys from kentucky were iraqi refugees wer

causing damage and power outages in the south and the mideast. several tornadoes have touched down in indiana and mississippi. the country is experiencing a lot of wild weather at the moment. in the west, skiers are being rewarded with some fresh prechristmas powder though. while it has been unseasonably warm but the wet northeast remains, though. >>> now puerto rico's cash strapped utility finally reached a deal with creditors to restructure it's debt. a key move to helping fix the island's economy. they have more than $8 billion in debt. puerto rico is facing $70 billion in debt. it has a poverty rate of 45% and has been in recession for more than a decade. they face a $1 billion bond payment on the first of january. officials warned of a partial default on that paper. and palantir technologies raised $880 million in the latest round of funding. it's valued at around 20 b$20 billion making it the first venture backed private tech company and it's also among the most secretive firms founded in 2004. the data analytics and security company helped

i led a congressional delegation to the mideast in europe and saw those security loopholes firsthand in places like the istanbul airport, the transit hub for foreign fighters and throughout western europe. we found widespread failures. many countries were not scre screening travelers against terrorist watch lists. they were not checking passports for fraud. and didn't have access to the intelligence they needed to stop the, our task force issued over 50 recommendations for fixing these vulnerabilities in america and overseas and today, i'm pleased to announce we are turning these recommendations into law. we are start iing with the bill this week to tighten the visa waiver program. which allows travelers from 38 countries to come to the united states for 90 days without getting a visa. and think about that. the majority of the paris attackers had western passports. with those western passports, they could get into the united states without a visa. this bill has strong bipartisan support and i believe will address the problems identified. this people will also a force high risk indivi

tornado-producing storms across the mideast. travel plans, if you're heading off to atlanta, stay tuned. we could see more severe weather causing more delays for travel around the country through christmas day. back to you. >> all right. thank you. rob, at least 14 people are dead, dozens others injured after a rare series of tornados in mississippi, arkansas, and tennessee. we have a look at the damage that was done. >> they are images we are used to seeing in early spring, not during christmas. homes ripped apart from tornados. all part of a powerful storm system that swept across the south and parts of the midwest. >> this should be a joyous holiday. and it will not be for me. >> the worst of it hit late wednesday with deadly tornados touching down in three states. in perry county, tennessee, west of nashville, rescuers search for people buried under the rubble. >> we spent much of last night trying to extract the people out that was trapped. after several hours, we were able to get them to safety. >> in marshall county, miss

. >> well, then you're where most people are at in the mideast. they don't want isil.rship for our convenience anymore. you know what they want? they want a chance to raise their children without fear. they want their daughters to be able to get educated. they want to move on with their lives. they don't want to be led around by a dictator where few people get most and everybody else gets nothing. they don't want to be living in the ninth century. the surge did work in iraq. bush made mistakes going in. leaving too soon was obama's mistake. i've been there 36 times. i want to leave you some optimism. most people are not buying what isil is selling or the taliban. they just need our help to fight back. we can destroy the caliphate, but you need ground forces. under my construct it would come from the region with some american help. i would not give damascus to the iranians. the russians would not fight for the butcher of damascus. there is a way forward in the mideast and it's helping young people, offer them a hopeful life versus a glorious death. destroy isil militari

i go to the mideast a lot. 36 times. nobody is talking about this. he is helping the enemy of this nation. he is empowering radical islam. and if he knew anything about the world at all, you would know that most muslims reject this ideology and they have died in -- by the thousands trying to contact this radical ideology. you are slanting their sacrifice. you are marginalizing what they are trying to do to make the world a better place. do you know how you win this war? you side with people in the faith who we jekt this ideology, which is 99%. and do you know how you make america great again? tell donald trump to go hell. >>> fbi investigators say the massacre of 14 in san bernardino last week was well planned and the attackers were well trained. the husband and wife killers honed skills at nearby gun ranges even just days before that attack. dan simon is live in san bernardino with a lot to get to. >> michaela, investigators say both of these shooters were radicalized. in the days before the shooting they went to a shooting range and practiced their

they are young men and women in the mideast who want exactly what you want. they will be culturally different but they want a better life. they want to raise their kids and have a say as a mother about what happens to their kids. they are not radicals lammas. that is such a small string in this great religion. there are people demanding a better way of life, you know who they want to be like more than anybody else? you. us. not isil. america is the greatest idea on the planet. that is what we are, an idea, not a race or religion. we do not represent a religion, we do not represent a race, we represent an idea. that out of many can come one. that one is best represented by the soldier. the fbi agent, and the diplomats, who leave the comforts of their home, the safety of their families, to protect everybody else in this room. so let's dedicate this election to them. let's dedicate this election and the way we conduct ourselves to those who we ask you to risk our lives. if we remember what they need, then we will get this right. god bless you all. [applause]. >>

john: there is a debate about immigration from the mideast with relation of muslims.e for a while i believe -- it may still be, we should halt resettling of the syrian refugees. is that still your posture? senator rob portman: for the past several weeks, being a member of the homeland security committee i was in a position to get information the fbi on the record, sworn testimony saying we don't have the intelligence to be able to close the gaps to know who these people are. case, of course we should not be allowing people into the country. we can close the gaps. it is going to take some time and resources. that is a small number of syrian refugees. refugees, syrian refugees? senator rob portman: it is not a question of religion, it is a question of security. john: what most needs to be fixed? guest: we don't have a -- senator rob portman: what the fbi has said, is we don't have a relationship with the government in syria. we do not have enough people on the ground who can cooperate. we have no intelligence services. as compared to iraq where he had a lot of the infor

. >> president obama also noted that defense secretary ash carter is traveling to the mideast today to enlist more help in the fight against isis. >> right now, 14s ph friends, f and fellow officers are paying respects to noah leotta. he died because of a severe head injury. he was 24 years old and hit by a suspected drunk driver. it is wrapping up at the covenant life church at gaithersburg and we're hearing there is another viewing tonight at 7:00 and his funeral is scheduled for tomorrow morning. >>> a 17-year-old sits in jail charged in the murder of a man in fort washington. police say graden hawkins and 44-year-old keith williams got into an argument and hawkins ended up stabbing williams. police found williams inside a car and he tried to drive off from the scene and hawkins is being charged as an adult. >>> in fairfax, gun control advocates are gathering outside the national rifle association demanding stronger gun laws. the parents of allison parker were right there with them. parker was the reporter who was shot to death. today's protest comes exactly three years after the sh

is hitting the terrorist group harder than ever, increasing air strikes on isis strongholds in the mideast, cutting off its oil supply lines and training local forces to fight the ground -- fight the fight on the ground. adding that his administration is continuously reassessing its multi-point strategy against isis on the battlefield and abroad as well as radicalized followers here in the u.s. >> we're also taking out isil leaders, killers and commanders. they cannot hide and our next message to them is simple, you are next. >> he also announced he's sending the defense secretary to iraq to view the ongoing fight. today's point emphasized made during last week's address from the oval office. >>> also happening today a special ceremony marking three years since the deadliest mass shooting at a grade school in our nation's country. in 2012, today is the first time this anniversary fell on a day when school was in session. the first and second anniversaries fell on the weekend. parents received talking points to help discuss the weighty issue with their kids to commemorate lives lost there w

okay, two essentially unwon wars, mideast blowing up. economic collapse, indications on education, et cetera, all of them. you know what they are. a culture, more bizarre. who gave us that world, i know, the most credentialed experience established political figures in america gave us that world. so do i think what republicans are doing this year without swharticulating -- articulating, oh-oh, broaden the indicators of what you're looking. trump benefits from that and so does ben carson, he's a neurosurgeon, so does carly fiorina, former ceo. trump has a natural earthy political sense understood the moment we were in. i don't know what's going to happen there. because i've been out on a book tour and i worked for ronald reagan i get asked about him in a specific way, ronald reagan was successful because he was optimistic. i miss his optimism and i will say to people, actually what you miss is not optimism and he was not always optimism. believe me, this was a guy who took a stern look at the history of man and what it might produce, he w

to get ahead of what he'll say tonight, but he's been rear about what we should be coming in the mideast syria specifically, creating a safe zone for moderate rebels that we can cocan work with. but the problem has gotten harder. >> a lot of the things are what they're trying to do right now. >> and that's what he will be talking about tonight. the more sub tan tistantive the can be, the more he can talk about specifics. i think that will really go to our benefit. >> a lot of talk about him going head to head against cruz on the campaign trail, he's referred to cruz as an isolationist. should we expect to hear that again tonight? >> well, we'll see what wolf wants to talk about. but there are big differences between senator cruz and senator rubio on foreign policy, on national security. senator cruz voted against the defense authorization bill every year he was in the senate. that funds the troops and the iron dome for israel. he voted to gut our u.s. intelligence programs, to rip out the patriot act that our intelligence agents use to keep us safe. his record on foreign policy isn't as

also, a report entitled, a dark pool in the mideast, the problem of isis oil sales. today i'm rereleasing them for public education and review. i think it is just kind of a historical walk through understanding some of the ties that we have. but it's not just funding of terrorism by isis that we will explore this morning. i'm concerned about continued violence in libya, which is a significant source of light crude for our allies in europe. if we're smart enough to lift ban on our oil export, we could sell to our partners in europe. terrorists are active in west arry canar ry africa why nigeria could threaten the suez canal or elsewhere. that's why in part why i have been so determined -- and i think my colleague here, senator cantwell, to make sure that we don't make reckless mistakes when it comes to sales of oil from our strategic petroleum reserve. it's there for a reason. the word strategic is there in a very significant place. on that front, the proposal by some to permanently ban production in a small sliver of the non-wind lderness, which co be the strategic r

he and ted cruz have totally different versions on how to deal with the mideast.hey don't get along. they're colleagues in the senate. sure, the fighting with trump but see if there's disagreement between rubio and cruz. >> there was a real rubio moment after the last debate. has it faded just a little since then? >> it's interesting, talking to his campaign, just months ago, they said, you know, we're going to play the slow game on this one. we don't need to get involved with donald trump. they neve did until recently. we're just going to sit back, raise money, try to build ground games in the states then catapult up. if you watch what happened, that seemed to have worked. of course there is the trump phenomenon and the ted cruz element going on in iowa. chris christie a little bit of a bump in new hampshire but i still think marco rubio is well positioned. >> we'll come back to that in a second. i want to talk about the other people on this stage, which could be the other big dynamic, the third big dynamic. this could be the last best chance for a few of these c

many mideast leaders are dismissing the plan as frivolous and not fully thought out. >> this is a strange historical remark create the terrorism themselves and planned its seeds in this region using money and agents. >> reporter: here in the uk, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for trump to be barred from entering the country and the idea is gaining some support in parliament. >> this whole idea spreading islam ma phobia and blamin blamn entire religious for the act as consult is simply unacceptable. >> reporter: legal experts are debating the constitutional will the of the plan. most say only congress has the power to issue the type of blanket ban trump is proposing. and the court boss almost certainly strike it down. >> the supreme court would curtail that authority. what he's expressing is actually a thought something could not actual lies in law. >> reporter: british prime minister david cameron also condemned the proposal. but would not comment on the drive to ban trump from british soil. trump is not backing down saying he's putting american's safety from terr

terrorist attackers slipped his way in through the refugee flow coming from eastern europe and the mideast. and obama just said yesterday that we should not, quote, somehow start equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism. and i just wanted to get your take on that given that according to the president we should be obligated to take tens of thousands of such refugees. >> it's always that reflex that he relies upon when something like this happens. however, that reflex is missing when it comes to gun crime. when there is an act of gun violation, it's not like he says, whoa, let's not go after all people with guns. he does the precise opposite. [laughter] he becomes this strident superhero about gun control. but he has, he doesn't have that same emotion and strength when it comes to terror control. terror control, to me, is more important than gun control, because gun control generally targets people who are law-abiding citizens. and we are about targeting violent people who want to end our life. look, i am, i am for an open society and a strong border. the metaphor that i al

closely paraphrasing, i agree with president obama that it isn't time to send 100,000 troops into the mideast and point of fact, president obama's position is that it is not time to send any troops don't go, even though there are some ground troops now that he chooses to call special operatives. his point is zero ground troops. the 100,000 figure, these kinds of things are never plucked out of the air. ,n the debate on saturday night secretary clinton said, it is not time to send tens of thousands. well, the most belligerent candidate is lindsey graham and is only for sending 15,000. so you wish the mainstream press did a little bit better at parsing the syntax, but i think the only fair inference is that secretary clinton is more than ready to take a position that lindsey graham is taking holding down the right of the republican debate. her readiness, her apparent readiness to send in some ground troops under whatever nomenclature, i think she has made very clear. the question of the no-fly zone, again, you have two countries here, syria and iraq who have invited the soviets into their airsp

you build small schoolhouses for young, poor girls throughout the mideast you wouldn't send your dogo to give them an education, to give them a voice about their children. it's about empowering people, not just killing terrorists. i've got that. but you can't do it without security. >> senator lindsey graham, great to have you here with us. before you get to new hampshire, the cnn debate next week in las vegas. >> i'll be there. little short guy. you can't miss me. >> tuesday night. senator graham, thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> we have brand new clues this morning into the san bernardino attackers. and if the wife tashfeen malik could have been the driving force in these attacks. this is what we know at this moment. she was born into a wealthy pakistani family. she grew up in saudi arabia. she returned to pakistan in 2007 to earn her pharmacy degree. according to "the new york times," after she left, her university was so concerned about radicalization that officials began monitoring the campus for extremist activity. >> one of malik's professors described her as just an ordin

it may game out in a general election, most americans do believe president obama's approach to the mideast is not working but they also felt that way about george w. bush's approach. the velvet glove hasn't worked, the iron fist hasn't worked. so each side doesn't have a lot to fall back on in terms of having confidence that they have an answer to a problem that americans increasingly wonder anyone has an answer to. >> i do think we're going to be seeing a very exciting debate tonight and a very important debate tonight on national security. thank you so much to all of you. that is it for me. for our international viewers, amanpower is next and brook baldwin in the newsroom is after this. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic, why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're doing to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. plus cialis treats the frustrating urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditi

i led a congressional delegation to the mideast in europe and saw those security loopholes firsthand in places like the istanbul airport, the transit hub for foreign fighters and throughout western europe. we found widespread failures. many countries were not scre screening travelers against terrorist watch lists. they were not checking passports for fraud. and didn't have access to the intelligence they needed to stop the, our task force issued over 50 recommendations for fixing these vulnerabilities in america and overseas and today, i'm pleased to announce we are turning these recommendations into law. we are start iing with the bill this week to tighten the visa waiver program. which allows travelers from 38 countries to come to the united states for 90 days without getting a visa. and think about that. the majority of the paris attackers had western passports. with those western passports, they could get into the united states without a visa. this bill has strong bipartisan support and i believe will address the problems identified. this people will also a force high risk indivi

and 250 american troops are heading to the mideast.s the birth of his daughter by announcing he will be giving the bulk of his fortune to charity. 10:00 eastern, hour two, "varney & company" starts now. ♪ >> how about this? big news in politics, it's a new quinnipiac national poll, national, repeat that, please. trump 27%, rubio 17%, cruz, jeb bush, carson. the g.o.p. says they're in a standoff with donald trump and virtually in panic mode. joining us mia love, congresswoman welcome to the program, where have you been? >> congratulations to you, becoming a u.s. citizen, that's exciting and i'm so proud. stuart: thank you, i appreciate that, thank you. are you in panic mode because trump is pulling ahead? >> no, i'm not in panic mode. i don't think that anybody should panic. the g.o.p. field has something for everyone. they offer something for everyone. i'm not surprised that marco is starting to move up. everyone who hears him, hears his positive agenda and knows he's strong on national defense, exactly what we need and strong on his e

he also mentioned that hundreds of european passport holders known to have traveled to the mideast andria don't even have to obtain a visa to travel to the united states. and he questioned the potential allegiance of a significant number of refugees streaming into europe from the near east. >> the minister of information of lebanon some months ago estimated 2% of all the refugees going into europe from the near east were jihadis. you run the math on that, it's a frighteningly high number. so in this case, i think we see people coming into the united states, you say the fiancee visa, isn't that nice, but in fact it's a hole in our defenses that they've opened up. >> in his oval office address tonight, president obama is not expected to announce any major shift in this war on terror. his attorney general, loretta lynch, said today it will focus on what government is doing to ensure our highest priority the protection of the american legal. leland? >> earlier this week she said one of her biggest fears was the backlash against muslims because of these attacks rather than if there were goi