heard people from social media tell us mixed messages about what they can hit us at home and high level white house officials saying the threat is not going to hit us here at home, we just don't believe that. with the internet, the way isis is using social media to radicalize muslims in this country is very, very scary. >> i think the reluctance to root out this evil is based on a fear of their own making, which is islamophobia. the fbi is willfully obliging, essentially they have us by the throat with our own political correctness. but could i interest the why the media missed this? and i include fox news on this, we didn't talk about it i think until yesterday, and it would have been nice if we had done one less sharpton story and one more of this brendan story. so the most important thing i'm going to say today, why do we focus on issues like race, ray rice, trayvon, ferguson while we ignore the radical islamic threat? because these others speak to a greater evil in which the media can indict all of us on. the media has been trained to degrade america has flawed. if you're at war with radical islam, then you cannot be at war with yourself, that's why

these are people who want to kill us here at home. john: and russia's vladimir putin moves to consolidate portions of neighboring

could see a good amount for us here at home, we'll pick up -- i think amounts very similar to last week. i'm gonna show you in the afternoon. mostly sunny for today. by tomorrow we wake up with partly to mostly cloudy skies. notice where the rain line is, already entering northern california there. ride along the northwest corner into the corner. here we are at 8:00. it begins to creep in over parts of the north bay. late wednesday we may see the showers develop over the north bay and then while we sleep, it begins to slide south right over the bay area. thursday morning still on track to be the wet time and definitely that possibility of having slick roads on the morning commute for thursday. temperatures right now, 69 in oakland. 77 in novato. 67 san francisco. for the afternoon today, upper 70s to low 80s to the north bay. we have 70s along the east bayshore line. low to mid-80s for our inland communities. how about the south bay? 79 san jose, 82 saratoga. for the peninsula this afternoon, 80 degrees, redwood city, 74 san bruno and san francisco, you will go to 72. nice weather there

a credible, comprehensive plan to deal with this menace that clearly wants to amen us here at home. and that is only becoming stronger by the day. >> on wednesday senate democratic leaders started working on a bill that would let the u.s. train foreign troops on the ground. it is clear that president obama is looking to build a coalition in the region, including saudi arabia, jordan and turkey. >> i think we all know that we come here with great confidence that our global coalition will succeed in eliminating the threat from iraq, from the region, and from the world. >> secretary of state john kerry in iraq on wednesday talked about regional cooperation. >> this is a fight that the iraqi people must-win but also a fight that the rest of the world needs to win with them. it's a fight that the united states and the rest of the world need to spor--support every step of the way. >> secretary kerry is seeking saudi's support. there is a reluctance, in the time that the u.s. started striking islamic state forces the air americans have started seeing the militants as a serious threat espec

these are people who want to kill us here at home. john: and russia's vladimir putin moves to consolidate portions

know isis is a threat overseas but what kind of danger could it and other terror groups pose to us here at home? and what is the federal government doing about it? we're live with an update on that. and flooding fears in arizona as that state gets pounded by more rain. the remnants of hurricane odile, how bad is it going to get? we're live at the fox extreme weather center. >> we have clouds in the sky. we're trying to be prepared this time around. >> i'm praying that it won't do what it did the last time. i'm too tired. >> i don't need more rain. when i heard there was more rain coming in, i panicked. it's horrible. ♪searching with devotion ♪for a snack that isn't lame ♪but this... ♪takes my breath away co: until you're sure you do.you need a hotel room bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is why i put the hotels.com mobile app on my mobile phone. hotels.com i don't need it right now. >> still ko to mean, the growing threat of isis and how the feds plan to keep us safe here at home. we're live with an update. watches and warnings posted as arizona deals with more rain. you won't belie

will make us safer here at home? in this same poll. way more people believe it will make us more likely to be attacked here at home if we take military action here against isis. but, still, the public broadly supports taking that military action. i told you these politics are changing fast. joining us now is andrew basovijc. he's currently a fellow at columbia university. he's currently the author of breech of trust, how americans failed their soldiers and their country, as well as a number of other books, all of which i have read and liked very much. >> how is the debate going so far? you've been a pretty harsh critic of how well we debate matters of war and peace in our country now. how 1 this debate going? >> i have think this confirms how peaceful the congress is. i mean, you've made the point that they are roughening away from the president's initiative. we're facing an off-year election in another what? less than two months? but it seems to me that it's very unfortunate. over the course of the past basically 60-

these are people who want to kill us here at home. john: and russia's vladimir putin moves to consolidate portions of neighboring ukraine. >> russia's aggression against ukraine has been a wake-up call. john: but is nato poised to stop the kremlin? covering these global flash points, indira lakshmanan, foreign policy correspondent for bloomberg news. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." yochi dreazen, managing editor of foreign policy magazine. and john dickerson, chief political correspondent for slate and political director of cbs news. >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen ifill." corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we asked people a question. how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. >> pull it a little further. >> got me to 70 years old. i would have to rethink this thing. >> i

will it make us more likely to face a terrorist attack here at home or do you think it will make us saferere at home? in this same poll, way more people believe it will make us more likely to be attacked here at home if we take military action against isis. but still, the public broadly still supports taking that military action. i told you these politics are changing fast. >>> joining us now is andrew baseovich. a george mcgovern fellow at columbia university. the author of "breach of trust." as well as a number of books all of which i have read and liked very much. professor, nice see you. >> thank you. >> how is the debate going so far? you've been a harsh critic of how well we debate matters of war and peace in our country now. how is this debate going? >> this confirms how the congress is. you made the point that they are running away from the notion of voting on the president's initiative. we kind of understand why they are doing that because we're facing the off-year election in another, what, less than two months. but it seems to me that it's very unfortunate. over the course of t

it can surprise us here at home. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and we continue our coveragereported david haines beheaded on a video and uk trying to verify that video from the sources we are speaking to and most likely it is legitimate. mr. haines was a father of two daughters. úsh-[ ages 4 and 17. he was abducted alongside an italian colleague and they were traveling in the car on the way to safety at the turkish border. syrian translator described how gun men the shot out the tires and surrounded them and his identity was secretís2ç for 19 months to avoid worsening the situation. but the kidnapping was made public following the video's release. we'll have much more after the break. work with equity experts who work with regional experts that's when expertise happens. mfs. because there is no expertise without collaboration. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. fi

that's up to a local middle east experts and in 30 minutes how isis could affect us here at home. reporting live in the digital operations room, christine maddela. >> you've heard the conflicting acronyms, isis and isil. so here's how it breaks down. isis stands for the islamic state of iraq and syria. the group is linked to al qaedaa and involved in the syrian civil war and iraq as well and isil stands for the islamic state of iraq and levant. it is being used by the state department and the united nations since the group wants to extend that influence further independent nbc.com has comprehensive coverage. count on updates on your computer, smartphone or tablets using the nbc 10 news app. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> a cooler first day of fall. nbc 10 along the brandywine river in wilmington. people enjoying the outdoors and walking along the newly reopened foot bridge over the river. it was a cold start to the day. so will it be a cold overnight? sheila parvine has the answer for us. >> it will still be cool tonight and it will not be as cool as it was last night

that if we don't destroy them, they will get stronger and hit us here at home. it's just not about iraq and syria. i just don't know how we destroy isil given what i heard today. >> what did you hear today? what did general dempsey tell you and secretary hagel tell you is how the obama administration intends to destroy -- >> in iraq, we use the kurdish forces. we regenerate the iraqi army that's fallen apart. we pull the sunni arab tribes away from isil and hit them inside of iraq. >> let me stop you right there. the sunni people are not wild about the iraqi forces. >> no, they're not wild about isil either. >> well, but they're more -- >> can i just tell you what they said. the way you win in iraq is you reconstitute the iraqi army from the south. you have the sunni tribes in the west, abandon isil and fight with us, fight with the iraqi army and you have the kurds hit them from up north. then ask them about syria. two-thirds of isil is in syria, not iraq. so to destroy isil you have to hit them in syria and this is where it all fell apart for me. there's suppo

at home. something along the lines of the ft. hood shooter. he tried to purchase firearms and silencers so he could use them against returning troops and take isis' war abroad to us heres is a guy who is a naturalized u.s. citizen from yemen who managed a convenience store in rochester, new york. how does this guy find himself entangled with fbi agents undercover who blew the lid off af allx this? >> this is a standard joint terrorism task force operation. they hear about this, they investigate, they open a case, then they put what they call confidential informants. this has been done. >> this is the future. >> this is what's been going on and now it's ramping up because of isis' cyber jihad. you mentioned this guy owns a convenience store. but trained jihad abroad, people he's never met. as a result of the internet. quite honestly he's also accused of being involved in using twitter to convince others to wage war in the name of islam, al qaeda. >> in addition to being a terrorist, he was stupid. he was putting his views out there and calling attention to them. >> this is what bring to us the unsettles point, the dumb ones are the ones that get caught in these situati

. >> well, you know what, that will change a lot if they hit us here at home, this is the problem, theresident is not dealing with the threat, he has allowed a threat to fester and become creative on his watch. he allowed them space. this is the group that we had defeated in the surge in 2007 and he allowed them to rebrought and reconstitute themselves and they have beheaded two american citizens, if he doesn't do something about this threat, they're going to come after us. everyone from dianne feinstein to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says this is an imminent threat. he went to a fund-raiser this last weekend and said, we're pretty safe. the world isn't in danger. if he's wrong, those words are going to come to haunt him. >> nine days before 9/11, mark, thank you. >> now we go to lanny davis. good to see you, your thoughts on that. >> hi, megyn. first of all, i respect mark, i love his writing. i didn't hear mark criticizing president bush after 9/11 that he received an intelligence report before 9/11 woorning about an airplane terrorist attack. the reason i never joined

should deploy to a foreign country to fight a formidable enemy that is dead set on attacking us here at home because that's the issue at hand. our president has reacted to public opinion. the same poll and article that is followed it talked about if we feel like deploying again. we made that choice, and we raised our right hand and said we'll support and defend the constitution and american people. that choice has been made since this war began. we understand that deploying and going to war is a part of searching in the military. we just need a plan, a goal and the right support from our government. we don't feel that the last ten years has been that or last ten years has been there. before we go to another eight years for our lead days, scheduled around the funerals of our brothers and sisters, we want to plan in some leadership and know what the goal is, and we need to know what the enemy is. in this case it's not just isis, but the lone wolf terrorism, not just domestic violence that is spurring here at home. we need to defeat that across this globe. the idea that you can intimidate and s

and eight, if areas an imminent threat, the job of our government is to protect us here at home.y going overseas in bombing, we become more of a target of extremist groups. ask you are organizing protest groups a year ago to pressure congress to vote against the united states striking syria, that is bashar al-assad's government. now we hear u.s. government, at the very least, notified the syrian government that they were going to attack in syria. nearly, the syrian government did not strike them, even as they attacked. what about this shift of u.s. alliances right now? >> it is totally unclear what the u.s. is doing. there are some reports that by targeting khorasan, the u.s. will actually be strengthening other extremist groups because they're fighting internally with each other. endgame toolutely no this. the endgame we see is one like libya where it is a total failed state that is spreading extremism throughout the middle east. so there is no well-thought-out policy here. there is only a military mindset . it is counterproductive and will lead to more extremism. the u.s. becom

they do in the middle east, how concerned should we be here in america that they may threaten us here at homes is necessarily an imminent threat. but i would say first of all as they bring westerners into iraq and syria to be trained in further radicalized, some of those westerners are going to come back. and we have to be careful to monitor them and make sure they don't become terrorist activists here in the united states. i also think frankly as we step up the pressure on isis in syria and in iraq, they're going to feel some impulse to try to even the score. and i think that we have to be prepared for the fact that they're going to try to strike at americans either overseas or in the united states. >> a lot of people hear that and then say what are we doing? why are we going over there then? >> because if we don't eliminate the problem now, it's only going to get worse. when we went into afghanistan after 9/11, we found laboratories where al qaeda was experimenting to try to come up with weapons of mass destruction. if we let isis build a state, build laboratories, sell oil in order to rais

i have a strong suspicion that eventually it's going to threaten us here at home. so there is an imperative now to begin to strike isis with increasings from per rossity and i think how long before the president starts to ramp things up? i think the case has been made for the last several weeks, if not months, that the time is now. >> okay. jonathan, thank you very much for joining us there on the phone. >> pleasure. >> eric. >>> catherine herridge joins us now from washington. in the sense, they are defiant by doing this. but in a way they only embolden the resistance and the opposition against them and not perhaps we'll see if there is more reaction from britain as being part of this coalition. what are your sources telling you about what has happened in this tragedy with mr. haynes? >> reporter: the u.s. intelligence community is clearly aware of this video and while it's not an american citizen, it's part of the same pattern that we've seen with the two previous executions. i've now seen the video myself and i'd like to go into some detail so people understand

there's another particular organization that may pose a greater threat to all of us here at home. it's a crazy news friday. let's get to it: >>> now on texas news channel, live look at the hilton a hotel to a block away. the nfl commissioner, roger goodell, is about to make his first public statement in more than a week. he is scheduled to take questions from reporters, and there are lots of them are there. the league is facing a ton of pressure over domestic violence incidents involving not one but several players. here. this was the beginning for all of us. now former ravens ray rice, knocked out his then-fiancee in an elevator and the league suspended him indefinitely. then there's adrian peterson who admits he beat his four-year-old son with a tree branch. investigators say he left cuts on the boy's sides and hands and lower back, even his scrotum. peterson says he was disciplining the boy, and he missed and the switch wrapped around the child's leg and hit his private parts and he was sorry. the vikings b.ed him, brought him back, then benched him again. then there's the panth

they may attack us here at home. it's part of the real world we live in. the world we don't live in is total security at home. no ground engagement overseas. no involvement in iraq or syria or investigation. we stay in and win an air battle or with drones. you can't win a war that ima image -- i hope the president brings that to the american people's attention. a war is a war and people get hurt and killed. any oh kind of a war is a lose i are, i think. >> thank you for your time. stay with msnbc tonight. our live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> and those new nbc news polls we were referencing also show what americans think about the president and the gop's foreign policy. nbc senior political editor mark murray will join us live to break down the numbers. also ahead. >> we assumed there was a video. we asked for video. but we were never granted that opportunity. >>> nfl commissioner roger goodell speaks out and tries to defend what he knew and didn't know about ray rice's attack. and his then fiancÈ. the owner of the baltimore ravens is als

here and abroad. they are two questions. >> in your view, that was being taken in iraq is not the piece that is going to keep us safer here at home. >> that's right. they may be justified or essential in terms of protecting our interest in the mideast. they are not really relevant to protects us at home. whether isis captures or is kicked out does not enhance or detract from the likelihood that that is here. that is a separate problem. that does present a major threat to the emirates and maybe to israel. why do we seem much more concerned? that's a part of a truce. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> another nfl player arrested and hit with domestic abuse allegations. we will look closely at the latest scandal for the week and whether the response is pleasing anyone. stay with us. ♪ ♪ tigers, both of you. tigers? don't be modest. i see how you've been investing. setting long term goals. diversifying. dip! you got our attention. we did? of course. you're type e* well, i have been researching retirement strategies. well that's what type e*s do. welcome home. taking control of your retirement? e*trade gives you the tools and reso

urging the president to take decisive action against isis terrorists who some fear could hit us here at home. i'm arthel neville. critics on both sides of the aisle slamming the president's response to isis. limiting air strikes are still under way if iraq but the president admitting late last week he has no strategy yet to deal with the isis threat. and there are concerns about how to stop the terrorists before they can launch an attack on the west. senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell go goler. >> reporter: the president said the u.s. and its allies have not agreed yet on a strategy. that's the focus of this week's nato summit in wales. but while republicans have accused him of being late to recognize the threat from the terrorist group, it is true some democrats suggest they'd like him to be more forceful. >> i think i've learned one thing about this president and that is, he's very cautious. maybe in this instance too cautious. >> reporter: the president has authorized bombing strikes against isis targets to protect groups of people and critical infrastructure in iraq

as they recruit more followers from the west there are new fears they can still hit us here at home.g, it sounds like the criticism of the president's foreign policy is on both sides of the siel. >> it sure is. the criticism of the president you just cited is coming from dianne feinstein. feinstein. here is what she had to say on "meet the press." >> i learned one thing about this president and that is he's very cautious. maybe in this instance too cautious. i do know the military, i know the state department, i know that others have been putting plans together. and so hopefully those plans will coalesce into a strategy that can encourage that coalition. >> reporter: even stronger words from the chairman of the house committee mike rogers who took a shot against his entire foreign policy. >> we find it consistent with his past policy and actions on foreign policy. it shows i think that his foreign policy is in absolute free-fall. if you look at china and isis and russia, you look at iran, north korea, we have a serious host of problems presenting itself and our traditional allies are

and our allies in the middle east and europe, and if left unchecked, it will surely threaten us here at home. this amendment is congress' opportunity to demonstrate unity in support of the president's strategy in providing him with the authorization he needs to help train and equip our regional partners to go on the offense against isil. isil has already murdered, captured soldiers, innocent civilians, journalist, including, of course, two americans, and members of religious communities targeted for their faith. there are no more -- they are no more than a collection of terrorists imposing their fanatical objectives on others by force, violence and barbarism. isil constitutes a duo threat. they pose a counterterrorism threat to the united states and our regional partners, and they represent a destabilizing force in the region. madam speaker, we cannot ignore the challenge that isil presents to america and to the world. there is no question that there will be challenges, but we no impurecally that the cost of doing nothing is far too great. the president was right to wait until the government

unless isil poses a direct threat to us and iraqi insurgents in the region and potentially at us here at home, the group's rack id success on the battlefield and their claim they are the knew ideological leader of the global jihaddist movement and all counts for the threat it presents. beyond isil, other terrorist networks in syria pose a threat to us that even as we continue to monitor, terrorist organizations across the middle east and most of north africa. i'm going to talk now about how we at ntct regards the threats. i want to begin with the background of isil because it's important to start there. so the veteran sunni terrorist zarqawi founded the group in 2004 and pledged his allegeance at the time to bin laden. al qaeda in iraq targeted u.s. forces and targeted civilians using suicide bombers, car bombs and executions to pressure the u.s. and other countries to leave iraq and quickly gained a reputation for brutality and sir annie. continuing 's targeting sunnis in iraq caused a widespread backlash against the europe referred to as the sunni awakening. d this involved into a surge tha

better, it's certainly better to take the fight to isis abroad rather than wait for isis to strike us here at hometerms of the amendment that was before us, relating to arming and training the so-called moderate syrian rebels, i had several concerns with it. when you think about that part of the world and in syria right now, in particular, you've got an incredibly broad set of bad actors, whether that's the assad government, iran, hezbollah, elements connected to al qaeda and isis, that's just a toxic mix, tough neighborhood and hard to think any good can come of intense engagement and involvement. the second problem i had is that even if you could identify moderates as part of the free syrian army, which is unclear, that's a question mark, it still remains uncertain that you can convince the rebels to turn against is is because their state objective has been to take down the assad regime. the syrian rebels have been fighting alongside isis as part of the objective of taking down the assad regime. lastly to governor's dean's point. if you are able to convince and identify moderate syrian rebels in

i've seen first hand the hard work of putting in the crop that feeds us here at home and countless others across the world. as we stop and consider all the products here at home we've come to enjoy that include rice, let us also remember that our rice producers export over three million metric tons of rice to markets over the world this year. they are feeding us here at home, mr. speaker, and they're also feeding the world. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. quigley: mr. speaker, this week the american people, through their representatives in congress, will welcome an ally and a friend. when ukraine's new president, petro poroshenko, addresses a joint session of congress on thursday, he will do so at a pivotal moment in his country's history. kraine is facing an -- a threat against russian's aggression. president's putin's arming of separatest --

a credible, comprehensive plan to deal with this menace that clearly what start of us here at home andhat is only becoming stronger by the debt. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general tipsy, has shown that it will require military action within syria the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general tmz, has said that it will require military action within syria. the president has now declared that defeating isil is his objective. the president is to set forth a military strategy in the means required to defeat isil and to link those actions to additional authorization and appropriation he would like to see from congress. and if the president develops a regional strategy, build a combat effective military coalition and explains how the strategy will lead to the defeat of isil i believe he will have significant congressional support. if congress is asked to support a strategy, it needs to be a strategy that is designed to succeed, not a mere restatement of current policy, which we know is insufficient to the task. the president must seize this opportunity to lead. this is n

threat that's metastasized into a threat to our allies in the region, including israel, and to us here at homefortunately, the president's failed foreign policy is not isolated to isil. the president's reset with russia was worthless. obama's leading from behind intervention in libya has created another haven for terrorists there our allies in yurp are threatened by russia and our allies in air force base are threatened by china. iran doesn't seem to be slowing its efforts to destroy israel. none of these are easy problem bus president obama has failed to provide clear and strong american leadership in each case and in each case, america and the world are worse off as a result. let's provide training to moderates who will fight isil and hope the president's slowness of action hasn't made it too late. thank you, mr. >> on the next washington journal, we will talk with dr. scott gottlieb about the ebola outbreak. plus, lmi congressman luis gutierrez joins us to discuss immigration. ourill continue conversation on higher education and the big ten conference. provostty of illinois will be our gues

at a time. that takes real professionalism on the part of our intelligence law enforcement, military and others to protect us and keep us safe here at homeugh day at a time, that's a good segue. the first day of attacks on targets in syria was big. some 200 pieces of precision weapons mostly dropped first against khorasan and then isis targets. we heard about one or two missile strikes against trucks in syria. that seems not to be an accelerating pace. >> i'm a little concerned about this because we went in really big the first night. normally in one of these operations what you want to do is continue that tempo throughout. you want to start big the first night, continue the next day, go in the second night and keep up the level of pressure on these guys. they want to disperse but make it difficult for them to do that. i'm not seeing that right now. we're not get. ing anymore announcements from the pentagon. we're seeing social media chatter from u.s.ist, but not seeing the big strikes or the shock and awe or impact. and i think that's important. the khorasan part was good. you got to knock them down while you can. but they will >> i am

the people who would be coming back from the front lines are also would have a need for us purpose to do here at home our foreign policy it's not really shortsighted but it's always has history to taking up his feet his movements not only islamic but also the life in america in other places which happen to serve you know political interests in common interest i'm sure unfortunately in many other peace like most before there's definitely blowback and this is what's really happening with in syria and iraq right now it's a perfect example of this. over the fence more stories for you an online including why day to day jobs could be more dangerous than warfare a report from the u.n. international labor organization finds that more labor is dying factories and soldiers on the wild battlefields the full story at all t. dot com. also that revoked conic eruption in papua new guinea forces people to flee their homes and planes to change their routes would put all that entails on the best pictures online. please write the scene. first street. and i would think that you're. on a recorder's twitter. and instagram

that people who would be coming back from frontlines are also who would have a need for us purpose to do here at homeour foreign policy is not only shortsighted but it's always has history to extremist movements not only islamic but also life in america in other places which happen to serve you know political interests and economic interest too sure unfortunately in many other cases like it was before and there's definitely blowback and this is what's really happening with in syria and iraq right now it's a perfect example of this. and other news poaches around the world are making millions of dollars by illegally slaughtering wild animals but those who stand up to the criminals often fear for their own lives an online website called wild leaks aims to change that by shedding light on the bloody business spoke to those behind the international project. wildlife crimes are serious crimes and in many countries there are organized crime networks that are orchestrating these crimes and there's key individuals involved who are very powerful and very influential have a lot of money and they're being protec

and our allies in the middle east and europe, and if left unchecked, it will surely threaten us here at home. this amendment is congress' opportunity to demonstrate unity in support of the president's strategy in providing him with the authorization he needs to help train and equip our regional partners to go on the offense against isil. isil has already murdered, captured soldiers, innocent civilians, journalist, including, of course, two americans, and members of religious communities targeted for their faith. there are no more -- they are no more than a collection of terrorists imposing their fanatical objectives on others by force, violence and barbarism. isil constitutes a duo threat. they pose a counterterrorism threat to the united states and our regional partners, and they represent a destabilizing force in the region. madam speaker, we cannot ignore the challenge that isil presents to america and to the world. there is no question that there will be challenges, but we no impurecally that the cost of doing nothing is far too great. the president was right to wait until the government

i think that had make us less safe here at home. >> under what circumstances would you support any kinddirect military involvement by the united states? >> i just have to look at the history of u.s. military involvement. i know i've written a book on drone warfare, for example, to see how the u.s. involvement in the case of yemen where president obama said it was a successful case is laughable, because when obama started bombing in yemen, there were maybe 200 adherents there. and now there are thousands. every time there was a strike there would be an entire village if not an entire tribe that would turn to the extremist groups and hate the united states. it's recruitment for extremism. that's why i say under no circumstances would i support u.s. military involvement. >> i'm not saying i agree. i'm not saying i disagree. but i wish we had this debate in 2003, before the iraq war, because i don't think, at least in this country, that debate was ever really held. >> yeah. that's really the case. >> i think these are important issues to talk about. >> and i think as you say this, it's diff

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