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i'm joined by tony blinken, white house deputy security national security adviser.anted to ask you first about the warnings that the fbi and dhs, homeland security, put out this week to local law enfor enforcement said be on the lookout because the more we do over here this may activate lone wolves, those people acting alone by inspired by what's going on. it occurred to me first of all, but second of all, what is the purpose of doing that? because it looks like let's just cover our bases here, if something happens, we'll have warned people, because what can they do? >> candy, first, there are no credible active plots we're aware of. >> which is my point. >> but second it's important for people to be vigilant, to have a heightened awareness and communicate with law enforcement if they see anything suspicious. that's a critical tool to ensure we can protect ourselves. >> it occurred to me this weekend i was out of town and someone who heard this bulletin said okay, so this week, we have a guy leaping over the white house fence, the most secure building one would hope

. >> but the administration's deputy national security advisor, tony blinken also spoke out today defending the administration's authority for the use of military force based on a 2001 congressional resolution, he also was defense on the comparison between today's military operation in the middle east and that of years past, he says the u.s.-led coalition does not resemble the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >> we're not going to fall into the al qaeda trap of sending hundreds of thousands of troops back. airpower, training and equipment, assisting them, intelligence. >> he went on to say if congress does create a targeted authorization, the president would welcome that. >>> the fox news political insiders are joining me earlier than usual this hour as i mentioned with the first live reaction to the president's interview. pat cadell, former pollster for president jimmy carter. doug shown, former pollster for bill clinton. and former campaign manager in ? fourth or fifty that we have done explicitly -- made expli t explicitly clear that we're not sounding ground troops at all, when we have hea

>> on cbs's "face the nation" deputy national security advisor tony blinken says the white house doesplan. >> we have a comprehensive strategy to deal with it. you've seen the president put together a broad international coalition. we had five of our countries flying with us the other day. we had more than 50 countries now part of this effort. not only dealing with the situation on the ground, but also trying to stop the flow of foreign fighters, stop the financing, delegitimate ice isil. it's a comprehensive campaign, and it has a broad coalition. it's going to take time, but we now have the pieces in place to do it. >> let's bring in senior political analyst ron brownstein who is editorial director of the national journal. good to see you, ron. so how can the white house continue to assure people that no u.s. ground troops will get engaged? >> because the decision belongs to the president, and the president has been as unequivocal on that as the president can be. now, you are seeing rhetorical shifts. i think today is an important day in several respects. what john boehner said to a

joining me now is deputy security adviser tony blinken.orted that this al qaeda splinter group, the khorasan, can make bombs without metal. is this the imminent threat that the administration is talking about? >> jake, we've been talking about this for some time. iraq, iran, they have taken advantage of the chaos in syria and have created a safe haven. plotting not directed inside syria or iraq but in europe and indeed in the united states. and so having developed the intelligence on them, having detected the plotting, having found out where they were, we took action against them. >> and did the strikes last night take care of that imminent threat? >> jake, i believe we've disrupted the threat but we're still doing an assessment of what we've accomplished and we'll have more of that in the coming days. >> an iranian official claims that the united states told iran ahead of time about this air campaign. is that true? >> well, i think the president told the world that on september 10th when he gave his speech, he said we were going to take a

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we'll ask white house deputy national security adviser tony blinken.vote to authorize this new war? we'll talk with two leading senators, john

we'll ask white house deputy national security adviser tony blinken.vote to authorize this new war? we'll talk with two leading senators, jo

i spoke just a short time ago with tony blinken. the president said the u.s. will degrade and destroy isis. he also said, though, that the u.s. can continue to shrink isis to the point where it's a manageable problem. to be clear, is the plan to destroy isis or shrink it to a manageable problem? >> the plan is to destroy it. on the way, we need to shrink it to a manageable problem. what the president said is consistent. you start by trying to disrupt it and we have taken actions to do that in iraq but the strikes we've taken and iraqi forces moving in to take a territory that isil abandoned. it moved from the toes to its heels and that's when it becomes a manageable problem and finally over time, with a large coalition, you get to the point of defeating it. so what the president was talking about is continuing. the goal is gear, we'll defeat isil. >> is what you're describing, though, possible without u.s. military action inside syria? >> what we're focused on right now anderson is building an effective coalition and getting effective partners. in the first in

we'll ask white house deputy national security adviser tony blinken. will congress vote to authorize this new war? we'll talk with two leading

. >>> outfront tonight national security adviser tony blinken. great to have you with us, tony, thank you. as you just heard deb reporting, this khorason group was reportedly in the final stages of planning attacks on the united states. now, apparently as you heard her reporting talking about a bomb of nonmetallic device, toothpaste container, clothes dipped in explosive material. how close were they to pulling this off? >> erin, let me say this. first, we've been track them for some time. this is a group of battle hardened veterans some from afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, iran and others from north africa. they have taken safe haven in syria, taking advantage of the chaos there and using it as a base from which to plot attacks not in syria or iraq but outside the region, including in europe and the united states. we had intelligence that they were very far along in plotting just such an attack. one of the things they had been experimenting with are explosives. so having this intelligence, being able to figure out where they were, we were able to ta

here's what tony blinken told my colleague andrea mitchell a short time ago. >> with regard to khorasanller group but these are very experienced folks, unfortunately, who have been in pakistan, in afghanistan, in north africa, chechnya. they are very focused on homeland attacks, attacks in europe and because the plotting was getting advanced, we thought it was very critical to take advantage of this opportunity to go after them as well. >> and i'm joined now by lathe, senior terrorism analyst. this new group, khorasan, which i'll now get the name correct s one most americans have never heard of. this is something that's just come up as of last night and of these air strikes. who is this group? what is their relationship to al qaeda? and if any, relation to isis. >> khorasan is a word that means the afghanistan/pakistan region. first to really splint eer jiha cell splinter of al qaeda veterans who have trained at their training camps in afghanistan. they are the true legacy of osama bin laden. they joined this path as a result of his influence over them. they include a number of saudi an

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and remember deputy national security advisor tony blinken told our wolf blitzer last week this could take some time, going into the next administration so that three-year timetable is something administration officials have been talking about for about a week now. as for conducting air strikes in syria, senior administration officials say the president has not made a decision on that yet but at the same time one senior administration officials tells us the president and his top aides have started working on the speech that will be on wednesday to lay out this new isis strategy to the american people. it's one that the president talked about somewhat yesterday in the interview on "meet the press" when he said he's ready to start going on offense. here's what he had to say. >> what i want people to understand, though, is that over the course of months we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of isil, we are going to systematically degrade their capabilities, we're going to shrink the territory that they control and ultimately we're going to defeat th them. >> the presiden

. >> that was president obama's deputy national security adviser tony blinken.he latest member of the president's team to dismiss the idea of sending u.s. combat troops to iraq and syria. joining me now, new york republican congressman peter king who's a member of the intelligence and homeland security committees. thank you for being on the program. i want to play this bite from speaker boehner and get you to respond to the other side. >> sure. >> i think he does have the authority to do it, but the point ei've been making is this is a proposal that the congress ought to consider. >> so to be clear, if the president put a resolution forward now, you'd call the congress back? >> i'd bring the congress back. >> do you think congress should come back from campaigning and recess and vote on whether to authorize strikes in syria? >> first of all, i would definitely vote to authorize the strikes myself. i think if the president think, it's necessary and we feel the votes are there, we should do it. but i don't want to get bogged down in a long debate and undermine wha

take a listen to tony blinken just today. >> in fact, there is as you know a doctrine of self-defenseasked us to take action. indeed, they asked the united nations, wrote to the united nations, asking the united states and other countries to act against isil because isil in syria threatens them. unfortunately, the border's been virtually erased. even as we take action against isil in iraq, if we're not able to do so as well in syria, they continue to plotted and plan and build attacks including on iraq from syria. and so this was at the request of the iraqis and fits into the theory of collective self-defense. >> now, if that's the argument, isn't the white house setting us down a path where we could do collective self-defense to go into multiple countries in the middle east. >> one of my colleagues at bloomberg reported right before i came on here that samantha power officially notified the u.n. that this action was done in self-defense for the united states and its allies, a formal letter saying that's the reasoning. yes, absolutely. i think, you know, you're right. there's a consti

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. >> do you think he should interview tony blinken right now?uestions for you. deputy security adviser tony blinken joins us. >> it's very good to talk to you. a lot concern not only on capitol hill but across this country. even though the house republicans joined along with the white house plan to arm syrian groups. a lot of concerns that those arms that support that money could end up in the wrong hands. what do you say to people in america that are concerned? >> joe, first, it was great to have a strong bipartisan vote yesterday. we had majorities of both parties supporting this program to train and equip the syrian opposition. but, sure, there are a lot of hard questions and good questions. but the fact is this, we've been working with these guys for the last 2 1/2 years. we built up a knowledge base. we have a better idea of who they are, what they're willing to do. now that they have other countries coming in, including the saudis, who also have tremendous knowledge, we'll be able to vet they, identify them, make sure they're giving arms a

one thing we learned just recently, tony blinken telling jake tapper in fact that in addition to giving at the u.n., the u.s. gave heads up to iran, warning them that the attacks were coming. not coordinating with them but letting them know that the attacks were coming. >> and certainly not seeking their approval, just saying, guys, this is going to happen? >> exactly. >> jim sciutto, thanks very much. let's dig a little deeper now. joining me is jane harmon, president and ceo of the woodrow wilson center in washington. also, retired general mark brivet, military spokesman in iraq after the u.s.-led invasion. he's now a security and defense adviser to a number of u.s. and foreign firms. and a senior adviser with the senior opposition coalition. welcome to all three of you. thanks for joining us. general, what do you make of the u.s.-led air strikes? it sounds like they are claiming to be successful but this is going to be a long, drawn-out process, isn't it? >> i think that's right. we also need to clarify, the word success came from the joint staff's spokesman but billy mayville who sp

i ask you this, because the deputy national security adviser, tony blinken, was on earlier in the shows. and he said over and over again, we're not having combat boots on the ground. we will not go back to the way it was when we were in iraq, that's not in the cards. however, secretary hagel speaking to our jim sciutto, he said this, to your larger point about just air strikes, no, just air strikes alone won't fulfill or accomplish what the mission is. do you think boots on the ground is an inevitability in order to destroy isis? >> i mean, you do a major military operation, you leave opportunities for all kinds of contingencies. it is clearly the intention of the united states that we are not going to put a land army in syria. but to achieve an objective, you have to give yourself the flexibility to achieve that goal that you're trying. now, right now, we're being very successful in iraq, by the employment of boots on the ground, by the iraqi forces and the kurds, with our air strikes. what we find in syria, we'll have to deal with at the time. so if the objective is to cut off the he

we're going to have the president's deputy national security adviser tony blinken to answer the questionsd. we'll talk to retired general jack keen to tell us what we're establishing on the battlefield now that we are striking in syria. and we'll talk to two senators, jack king and senator blassow. a jam-packed "fox news sunday." if that's not enough, we also have the power-player of the week, reese witherspoon. so it's a good show. >> who is now a brunette or was in the last movie. >> thank you, chris. nice to see you. >>> coming up on the show, apple's new iphone impossible to crack by the nsa and the federal government with a search warrant. is this a threat to the national security or a victory for your priva privacy? >>> and this funny man is not just any type of comedian. how his father's death on 9/11 is inspiring him today. [ hoof beats ] i wish... please, please, please, please, please. [ male announcer ] the wish we wish above all...is health. so we quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. expanded minuteclinic, for walk-in medical care. and created programs that encourage

. >> we just had the president's deputy national security adviser on tony blinken.oday with the senate expected to vote he said the government over the past couple years has built up a knowledge base so they believe they can better vet these rebels, they know what they're tapable of, how they will fight and what they can do. this moderate opposition in syria. there is a lot of skepticism on capitol hill. we heard that from senator susan collins today. do you think that the moderate opposition can be trusted? >> right now unless we know specifically who they are and in fact, have intelligence with people on the ground who are with them, working with them and feeding back into our intelligence apparatus, i would be very apprehensive, because we need to look at the second and third order impacts of arming them. when we arm the syrian rebels even if they are moderates if if we believe the weapons would only be used against isis and not the assad government i think we're deluding ourselves. >> hillary, what then? >> well, i agree, in fact, it's the so-called moderate syr