>> unfortunately from the beginning of this, we have seen president obama being fundamentally unserious. he dismissed isis at the outset as the junior varsity. that turned out to be very wrong. then last week he told us they had no strategy to the surprise of nobody. >> in syria? >> well, and for dealing with isis. and he hasn't had a strategy for dealing with isis. and at this point, we have seen isis declare war on the united states. they are crucifying christians. he they are beheading children. they have beheaded two american journalists and they have done so on the world stage, policemenning an intent to take jihad to america. to get isis you have to go to syria. you are opposed to boots on the ground, right? >> my we have to set the objective of taking isis out. >> assume set the objective we don't want isis. secretary of defense hagel has been scary the way he has warned everybody. assuming he wants that, boots on the ground or not? >> we can do this predominantly through a concentrated air campaign. isis are diffuse. they are covering too much territory. they are 10 to 15,000 pe

tonight continued the president's approach to this crisis, which is that they were fundamentally unserious. they were devoted to a defense of the failed obama/clinton foreign policy. >> clinton, right, and marco rubio will have a piece in "the washington post," also saying this is part of the obama/clinton doctrine, which isn't tough enough, which isn't something that has worked. i think for republicans, you know, they are sort of going back to the sort of default, which is to being hawks and one of the things you're seeing in the polls is they do have an advantage in terms of who voters trust more in protecting the country against terrorism. >> what was so fascinating, showing how far to the right, how far to the hawkish side the gop has become. rand paul wrote an op-ed in "time" magazine headlined "i am not an isolationist." he was a few months ago and now not, shows how far to the hawkish side. >> we watch the policy play out. we talked about this with taxes and spending issues, immigration issu issues, guaranteed to carry over into 2016 where we will likely still be in the middle campa

even when i felt like a very unserious sort of person, which i spent a lot of time living my life feeling even then, i knew that i had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. maybe it needs -- people need to have that kind of a particular core driving them. but i felt i had talent. >> yeah. >> you were very -- were and are -- very active. very politically and socially and culturally engaged. you were at the march on washington. >> i was there. >> how did you get so active? >> tavis, how? >> yeah, what got you into this? >> i had a roommate, a roommate who vwas political. i met her in therapy. >> yay for group therapy. >> yay for neurosis. >> she was very political. i learned being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you, is what makes a person complete and whole. >> uh-huh. >> and the very first thing i ever did in terms of activism was for an anti-atom bomb rally. 100 years ago. and i felt wonderful after it. and i helped her raise funds, and i was told that the people taking movies of me and taking pictures of me were not friends. it was the fbi. >

republican senator bob corker: >> do you realize how unserious the things that you have laid out and the things that were laid out yesterday sound. >> i must say to you, i-- i really find it somewhat surprising as we have come back from a week of very serious meetings with nations around the world, all of whom are committed to this, that you sit there and suggest that it's not serious. >> the amendment is adopted. >> reporter: across the capitol, the house voted to authorize arming and training moderate syrian rebels, but only after dozens of lawmakers expressed their opposition, including democrat loretta sanchez. >> we don't know if somewhere down the line they will turn our guns right back on us. >> reporter: and republican duncan hunter: >> the last thing that we should do is arm islamic rebels to fight other islamic rebels. >> reporter: hunter is a former marine who served in iraq and afghanistan, and several other veterans in congress sided with him. but supporters of the plan argued it is the best of a bunch of bad options and that it's certainly preferable, scott, to sending

one was less serious, but not unserious at all, depression, and also had addiction problems. another was just a complete alcoholic. all five struggled. it is just unconscionable that so many people are locked away in these institutions that simply some -- simply struggle with and to illness. i'm not finished with the work we did in virginia this year, not at all. what we have done should be seen as the beginning of the work that must be done, not the end. in the words of mike scott of the water boys, that was the river and this is the sea. i'm determined that every virginian who is in need, no matter who they are or what they look like, no matter what the circumstances of their birth, no matter whether they have health insurance, every virginian receives the services they need when mental health strikes -- when mental illness strikes. we will make it possible that those people can lead productive lives through struggle with the help they need. this morning, you heard from congressional records and it is on the hill. don't stop there. take the conversation back to your state c

>> unfortunately from the beginning of this, we have seen president obama being fundamentally unserious he dismissed isis at the

from the beginning, president obama's response to isis has been fundamentally unserious.hether it is golfing while terror attacks or whether it is admitting candidly to the world that he has no strategy. this administration is not doing the job that we need of a commander in chief to defend our nation. today we had secretary hagel, we had general dempsey before the armed services committee. i try to press them hard on the very simple question, if the objective were to destroy isis. not to degrade them, not to limit their ability, but to destroy them within 90 days, what would be militarily necessary to do that. i'm sorry to say neither gentleman could say that. general dempsey said the military can't do that. focus focused on issues of political reconciliationsed on side issues. they were more of a social worker than military leaders. >> senator, i guess, if you look at the bombings that took place yesterday, so close toghdad, but that's only because isis has now accumulated all this territory that our troops died fighting for. >> yes. >> where is the sense of urgency for

senator bob corker took kerry to task yesterday saying this is unserious, you said all along these guys can't do it. now you're saying they're going to do it for you. >> yeah, and let's talk about another foreign policy challenge, the u.s. finds itself on the same side as iran in confronting isis. ann curry got an exclusive interview with the president of iran who condemned isis but at the same time had blistering criticism for the u.s. for forming a coalition with countries he says have been propping up isis. take a listen to this. >> translator: it is ridiculous and there are people that have created these terrorist groups and are inside this coalition, they have been financing these terrorist groups. in this coalition, there are people who are supporting them politically and they are equipping them with weapons. >> do you think rowhani has support for that position on supporting isis in the past? >> he is criticizing the united states, too. taking it back to the u.s. invasion of iraq more than ten years ago. all of this began and now things are messy. they're going to try to root out

this might have come when the kremlin tried to muddy the waters saying it was unprofessional and unseriouss european diplomat to tell newspapers what vladamir putin said to him. is the kremlin denying that putin said this thing? no. they are not denying that he said it. so it's true that on the eve of president obama arriving on russia's border in parts of prussia-russia to back off its war in ukraine, russian president vladamir putin is bragging that if he wants to, he can take that whole huge country in two weeks. that one's true. next up, the last time a u.s. president visited the balkans is when george w. bush visited albania in 2007. the thing that most people remember about that last trip is it resulted in this 9 1/2 foot statue being elected to honor president bush. it shows president bush over nine feet tall with pleated pants and a tiny little head. but beyond the giant statue, is it true or false that the last trip by a u.s. trip to the balkans by a president resulted in his watch being stolen. here's the video. president bush shaking hands in an albanian crowd in seven. here's b

. >> which is just fundamentally unserious, not surprised, from this congress.t allows them politically, of course, to check a box and say yeah, i did something a little bit hawkish, but they can still run back around and obviously criticize everything that comes out of this strategy, whatever it may be. looking at some of the senators who did vote against it interestingly, you had liz best warren, senator brown and gillebrand, leahy, who's got tenure and old enough to do what he wants. senator chris murphy on foreign relations. we showed senator rand paul there, cruz as well. lee, a tea party person, and interestingly, pat roberts who we've been covering all night tonight, heading back for what is a difficult senate race. people do not know what the politics are on this long term. >> right. and i think the pat roberts vote to me is the most significant one. and the most impressive in a kind of symbolic way. this is a republican running in kansas in a tough reelection fight. and he made the political calculation that a no vote on war was what was going to help h

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. >> do you realize how unserious the things that you have laid out and the things that were laid out yesterday sound when you're discussing training 5,000 in your own words, doctors and dentists and others, in saudi arabia, over a year, i don't know whether they're being trained for offensive or defensive, i would like for you to clarify that, activities? my understanding is they will be given higher tech equipment after they prove themselves on the battlefield. do you understand how unrealistic and how that effort on the ground where they are based, where isil is based, doesn't match the rhetoric that the administration has laid out and, therefore, you're asking us to approve something that we know the way you've laid it out, makes no sense. we have a strong sense that our army, our military leaders, have urged you to put special forces on the ground but no, we're not going to do that, so this doesn't even seem serious. it seems like a -- it seems like a political answer to the united states as they cry out about this uncivilized activity but it doesn't seem real to me and if you're

. >> do you realize how unserious the things that you have laid out and the things that were laid out yesterday sound when you're discussing training 5,000 in your own words, doctors and dentists and others in saudi arabia over a year. i don't know whether they are being trained for offensive or defensive. i like you for clarify that. my understanding is that they will be given higher tech equipment after they prove themselves on the battlefield. do you understand how unrealistic and how that effort on the ground where they are based, where isil is based, doesn't match the rhetoric that the administration laid out and therefore you're asking us to approve something that we know the way you laid it out makes no sense. we have a strong sense that our army, our military leaders have urged you to put special forces on the ground but we're not going to do that so this doesn't seem serious. it seems like a political answer to the united states as they cry out about this uncivilized activity. it doesn't seem real to me and if you're willing to get in a classified setting and lay out these de

. >> fundamentally unserious. >> 61% of americans believe it is time to do something about isis. >> to do something to destroy the terrorist group known as isis. 475 american troops will head to iraq to advise the security forces. >> i am very worried about half measur measures. >> he wasn't tough like cheney and bush. thank god. >> that does not prompt confidence. >> that threat does not yet justify the wholesale occupation of iraq or syria. >> frankly, we ought to give the president what he's asking for. >> if you threaten america you will find no safe haven. ♪ ♪ >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. president obama lays it out and it will be degrade and destroy isis in iraq and syria. until this point, u.s. airstrikes have been against isis in iraq and have been limited in scope and defensive in nature. that changed last night. >> with a new iraqi government in place and following consultations with allies abroad and congress at home, i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. our objective is clear. we will degrade and ultimate

. >> fundamentally unserious. >> 61% of americans believe it is time to do something about isis. >> to known as isis. 475 american troops will head to iraq to advise the security forces. >> i am very worried about half measur measures. >> he wasn't tough like cheney and bush. thank god. >> that does not prompt confidence. >> that threat does not yet justify the wholesale occupation of iraq or syria. >> frankly, we ought to give the president what he's asking for. >> if you threaten america you will find no safe haven. ♪ ♪ >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. president obama lays it out and it will be degrade and destroy isis in iraq and syria. until this

. >> do you realize how unserious the things that you have laid out and the things that were laid out yesterday sound when you're discussing training 5,000, doctors, dentists and others, in saudi arabia over a year. i don't know if they're being trained for offensive or defensive. i would like you to clarify that, activities. my understanding is they will be given higher tech equipment after they prove themselves on the battlefield. do you understand how unrealistic and how that effort on the ground where they are based, where isil is based, doesn't match the rhetoric that the administration has laid out. therefore, you're asking us to approve something we know the way you've laid it out makes no sense. we have a strong sense that our army -- our military leaders have urged you to put special forces on the ground, but, no, we're not going to do that. so, this doesn't even seem serious. it seems like a -- it seems like a political answer to the united states as they cry out about this uncivilized activity, but it doesn't seem real to me. and if you're willing to get in a classified set

remarks tonight continued the president's approach to this crisis, which is they were fundamentally unserious. if you look at the president's remarks tonight they were devoted to the defense of the failed obama/clinton policy, the policy that featured the united states leading from behind as he put it and has led to most of the world being on fire. he then sought to diminish the threat of isis to suggest that they're primarily a regional threat. and what we didn't see tonight was a commander in chief focused on u.s. national security interests who stood up and said there are radical islamic terrorist who is have declared war on the united states who are murdering christians, who have murdered two american journalists and who have promised to take jihad to america. and we will respond with overwhelming air force to take them out. instead he suggested targeted attacks and focuses frankly on political issues that are peripheral from the central question of how we protect america from those who would take jihad to our nation. >> but what more would you have him do? speak to a greater air power, t

one was less serious, but not unserious at all, depression, and also had addiction problems. another was just a complete alcoholic. all five struggled. it is just unconscionable that so many people are locked away in these institutions that simply some -- simply struggle with and to illness. i'm not finished with the work we did in virginia this year, not at all. what we have done should be seen as the beginning of the work that must be done, not the end. in the words of mike scott of the water boys, that was the river and this is the sea. i'm determined that every virginian who is in need, no matter who they are or what they look like, no matter what the circumstances of their birth, no matter whether they have health insurance, every virginian receives the services they need when mental health strikes -- when mental illness strikes. we will make it possible that those people can lead productive lives through struggle with the help they need. so they have safety and can feel real hope. this morning, you heard from congressional records and it is on the hill. don't stop there

one was a less serious but not unserious at all, depression. and also had addiction problems and another was just a complete alcoholic. all five struggled. it is just unconscionable so many people are locked away in institutions that simply struggle from mental illness. i'm not finished with the work we did in virginia this year. i'm not finished at all. what we have done is the seen as the beginning of work that must be done, not the end. in words of mike scott, of water boys, that was the river. this is the sea. i've determined to make virginia the leader in mental health. i'm determined that every virginian who is in need, no matter who they are, no matter who they are, no matter what they look like, no matter what the circumstance of their birth, no matter whether they have health insurance, every virginian receive services they need when mental illness strikes. i'm determined to intervene as early as possible, to make sure people who have mental illness can lead a productive life and families can have support and feel safety and real hope.

. > do you realize how unserious the things that you have laid out and the things that were laid out yesterday sound when you're discussing training 5,000 in y'all's own words, doctors dentists and others in saudi arabia over a year, i don't know whether they're being trained for offensive or defensive. i'd like you to clarify the activities. my understanding is they will be given our tech equipment after they prove themselves on the battlefield. you understand how unrealistic and how that effort on the ground where they're based where isil is based doesn't match the rhetoric that the administration laid out and therefore you're asking us to approve something that we know the way you've laid it out makes no sense. we have a strong sense that our military lead rs have urged you to put special forces on the ground but, no, we're not going to do that. so this doesn't even seem serious. it seems like a political answer to the united states as they cry out about this uncivilized activity. but it doesn't seem real to me. and if you're willing to get into a classified setting and lay out al

. >> do you realize how unserious the things that you have laid out and the things that were laid outesterday sound when you're discussing training 5,000 and your own words doctors, dentists and others in saudi arabia over a year. i don't know whether they're being trained for offensive or defensive. i'd like you to clarify the activities. my p understanding is they'll be given higher tech equipment after they prove themselves on the battlefield. do you understand how unrealistic and how that effort on the ground where they are based. we're asking to approve of something you know. the way we've laid it out made no sense. we have a strong sense our army, military leaders have urged you to put special forces on the ground. no, we're not going to do that. so, this doesn't even seem serious. it seems like a -- it seems like a political answer to the united states as they cry out about this uncivilized activity. but it doesn't seem real to me. if you're willing to get into a classified setting and lay out all these details and tell us which of these countries are going to be flying their f