Jon welcome to the daily show. Im jon stewart. Glad to be back. Excited to be back. My guest, former secretary of defense, leon panetta a new book called ready to fight. With iesz isis. Thats them. Terrorist army rampaging across the middle east. An organization so vile, just thinking about it is enough to make you vomit nonstop for hours on end. Sitting on the toilet drenched in sweat. I had a bad day yesterday. [ laughter ] why is it seafood newberg is not all it should be. What is it . This group is a grave threat to all of civilization. President obama this group has terrorized all who they come across in iraq its more frightening than anything i think ive seen. They are an imminent threat to everybody interest woo have president obama we will hunt down terrorists wherever delay are. Jon wherever even under your bed. Look out should have taken it. Well have to change that. Heres how serious the threat it. The entire International Community is coming together to stop it. The United States boasts a coalition of more than 40 countries as part of this antiisis effort. Jon i dont know if were boasting. I dont know if were boasting. Yes, bigger than the average coalition. [ laughter ] if you were to measure our coalition, we dont you know. We dont need to measure. Lets just say i havent heard any complaints about the coalition. [ laughter ] [ applause ] so, two weeks after the United States started an all out bombing campaign, what has been the glorious result. Isis is advancing quickly on the city of kobani which is right on the Turkish Border. Isis has already prepared a huge flag to fly over kobani once it captures the city. [ laughter ] jon have they taken over the city and preparing it for a rain delay . What kind of rolling out the tarp whenever it rains. I thought we were taking care of these guys. Whats going on . Maybe the terrain is too tough, or isis is in the shadows. They will fall to the militants. The isis fighter quite casually walking up to kobani. Hey, kobani, moving through fairly open spaces. Isis tanks, isis vehicles freely roaming around the countryside for the last five days. Jon isis fighters saying yoo whoo, taking numerous sunbathing breaks. What happened to the all destroy and degrade plan . Dont they realize if they take over kobani, our entire yogurt supply will be in jeopardy. [ applause ] kobani is apparently a kurdish town on the border of turkey. It does not have real blueberries. My point is this. You guys said isis is the most evil thing since hitlers sliced bread. For gods sake, you broke into dancing with the stars to tell us were hunting down members of isis wherever they are. Theyre burning tank don uts do a hilltop. Whats up. The kobani could fall, and United States is not concerned. U. S. Officials saying its not a top priority. Broadly focused, not just on one city and one town. We have to stay broadly focused. Its important for the United States to step back and remember our strategic objective. Its not a key city strategically. It matters because a lot of people get slaughtered and thats an awful thing, but isis coming to the Turkish Border is not a major crossing. Jon so kobani falls between the greatest threat weve ever seen, and a drip from a kitchen sink. Senior war correspondent is in kobani tonight. Jordan, thank you for joining us. [ jordan the town must be near panic. No, they totally get it. Kobani resident told me, what are you going to do . We chose to live in a place of no strategic importance. Our bad. Jon that sounds a little passive aggressive frankly. Not at all. Theyre completely at peace. Sure, you might think, border town right between our ally and our enemy might be worth staking out a tank or two, but youre wrong, jon. Because you dont have a well thought out plan to fight isil. Jon which is what again . Classified. Or its still in development. Or jon kobani is exceptional. Theyre doing whatever they can to streamline the process. Painting targets on the roof. Preweakening schools and hospitals. Jon why dont they just knock the city down themselves. They dont want to emasculate isil. They want to set them up to succeed. Theyre just loosening the lid on the jar a little. When isil comes along, its look, honey, youre so strong, you did it all by yourself. [ laughter ] jon so at this point whats the attitude in kobani toward the United States. Its bleep . Jon jordan klepper, well bebe automotive innovation starts. Right here. With a control pad that can read your handwriting, a widescreen multimedia center, and a headup display for enhanced driver focus. All inside a newly redesigned cabin of unrivaled style and comfort. The allnew cclass. At the very touch point of performance and innovation. Its part of a hersheys bar. We break it. We bite it. We sneak it. We smoosh it. We savor it. We love it. 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Now the midterm elections the midterm elections, and i know youre all really excited are only a month away. Their outcome is in the hands of one constituent. Women will decide the election. The importance of women. Women will decide who gets ahold of the senate. [ applause ] jon seems awfully high pitched. Women are a top Interest Group in 2014, and in last place once again now usually women are a sure thing for democrats, but this year the gop is launching a rebranding effort to change that. Republicans are trying to leverage the womens vote. Its a rebranding effort. Ran an add to attract voting republicans. The idea sponsored by a well funded conservative group featuring women. A nearly 1 Million Campaign ad to draw young female voters to the gop. Ill give you 1 million to spend just five minutes in the voters booth. We turn to senior womens correspondent, kristen schall. Kristen. [ applause ] thank you. Jon kristen, how is this republican ad Campaign Outreach to women going . Its so great, jon. Republicans have finally figured out whats most important to women. Men folk. Women arent just potential leaders. We see them as possible soul mates. And republicans are finally running ads to welcome to the candidate. Actually, now must make the final decision. Its always my fave. Reading my emails. Well send the democrats packing. The republicans who work for her future. Oh, my god. Theres so dreamy. Jon so far the gop, and women think the election is just about getting into relationships . No, no. Thats insulting. Women dont just think about getting into relationships, we also think about getting out of them. Like the one were in with obama. 2008 i fell in love. His online profile was so perfect. I trusted him. By 2012, our relationship was in trouble. [ laughter ] weve all been there. Mails and text messages, spying on me but ignoring three threats. He thinks the thing i care about is free Birth Control, but he wont let me keep my doctor. We gave him a heart and all we got was free Birth Control . [ applause ] jon isnt that too many . Not for democrats. [ 678 applause ] jon you know this whole campaign [ laughter ] really opening up. What . Jon i just saw something under the table move, and then i heard them hit the floor. I dont know what happened. This whole angle. It feels like, you know when they wanted more girls to play pacman so they slipped lip stick and a bow on pacman and called is it ms. Pacman. Ms. Pacman is a feminist hero. Its the idea of what a womans body should look like. Pineapples, pretzels. [ laughter ] jon i didnt know her courage. I forgive you, john. Face it, jon. Republicans figured out how womens brains work. Science shows this part right here is devoted to thinking about, and the small part is [ laughter ] jon were those scientists men . Yes. They were scientists. Women scientists . Whether o whoo hoo. Theyve designed an ad for when you meet the perfect candidate, you know right away shes the one, and then its time for everybody little girls wet dream to, buy the wedding dress. This is pfsh. Perfect. Its overpriced and a little outdated, but i know best. And dont forget the additional costs. Theres increased taxes. Mom, this is my decision. I see a Better Future with tom corbett. Saying yes to tom corbett. Im so happy for you britney. That does look so much better on me, but you look beautiful. Congratulations. Jon this is outrageous. Why dont men get these kinds of ads . Dont worry, republicans are targeting the men the same insulting way. bleep bleep im up with that. We want to get you. Youve got to get through the curves. Senlcentrist democrat . What is that . Its so confusing. Republicans, if you want to rock vote republican. [ laughter ] who was that guy . I want to vote for that guy. That jon well be right back. Kristen schall. Well be right back. This is the iphone 6. And this is the iphone 6 plus. They come with a thing called health, so they can help you track a lot of stuff. Like today, i walked 3. 8 miles. Well, i ran 4. 2 miles. Well, i climbed 11 flights of stairs. Well, i drank a smoothie that had 362 calories in it. Well, i had a funnel cake that had 1230 calories in it. You know thats not good, right . It was good. It was delicious. Jon the director of the cia from 2009 to 2011, and then became secretary of defense until 2013. The new book is called worthy fight. Welcome to the program, leon panetta. Sir. [ applause ] nice to see you. Youve written a book called worthy fight. Talk about you. Talk about your book. You were with the cia, so obviously, you already know everything about me. Why . When you write a book like there, and then you want to promote it, does the president call you and say or what happens . What is the push back . Not much. Jon really . They havent called to complain and say youre speaking ill of our strategies . No. Jon really . So do you worry i was the cia director. Jon so theyre afraid of you . Let me ask you a question. What are we doing . [ laughter ] it seems like we have a relatively incoherent strategy for quite some time now. Typically when you have strategies like that you change it to make it coherent. So we have an idea. Were going to fight isil. Its incredibly evil, and were scared of them. But were only going to fight them from the air, and only in certain places at certain times. Does that sound coherent . I guess it will depend on what happens with kobani. You know, look, when youre dealing with Something Like this, and threats like this that frankly moved as quickly as it did, i think what happens in washington is, how do we move on this . How do we deal with this . How do we confront it . The president decided were going to confront isis and put troops on the ground in iraq and try to train the Iraqi Security force. Jon not troops on the ground. Were calling them advisers. Yeah, but they wear boots. [ laughter ] [ applause ] jon we have troops on the ground in iraq. But apparently syria which is generally their safe haven is a separate entity. It is. Syria is chaos right now. Nobody quite knows whos in the opposition, how many numbers there are. Thats how isis developed. So that strategy is, you know, we have decided the president has decided that were going to go in and train and try to arm those elements that hopefully will represent a more moderate Opposition Force that can then help us in defining the targets there and going after isis in searia. Its going to be a much tougher challenge. No question. Jon what are we to make of the difference between the rhetoric that we hear and the reality . Because the rhetoric is, were in the fight of our lives. This is an extential threat, but were not going to involve the whole country. It seems like theyre trying to get the go ahead to do what they want to do without making the commitment and getting the entire country involved in whatever this battle is. Jon, i think when we confront this kind of threat, and because its going to be long and sustained, this is not going to happen were not going to be able to win this overnight. This is going to take years to be able to do this. I think the president has to prepare the country for a long and sustained battle against isis, and i think the best way to do it, frankly, would be to have congress, republicans and democrats come together to give him the authorization. Jon what was the name again . Congress . Those guys that are up on the hill that cant decide what to do. Jon so heres what they do. Were in the fight of our lives. They dont come back from a recess to debate this on the floor. How in gods name can that be okay . Well, everybody is going through the dance as to whether or not they should do it. You know, wed like to do it. We think its the right thing to do. We would welcome it happening. I think frankly, the president should say to the congress, come back, lets make a decision here with regards to the authorization to take this on. Jon what about the congress . Theyre not babies. They can call themselves back. They dont have to be invited to the Capitol Building to do this. Well, unfortunately, this congress has a hard time trying to find the bathroom. [ laughter ] [ applause ] jon and it brings me to another idea. If only we had kept 5,000 troops in iraq and trained some syrian rebels, none of this would be happening . To my mind, that seems unbelievably unrealistic. We were in iraq 10 years, and spent trillion dollars, and the idea that this one small solution would have completely avoided this crisis is incredible. Yet you have senators out there championing it as though its dogma. No one knows what the results would be. I happen to believe we should have maintained a presence there, because frankly, we didnt know whether the Iraqis Security and Intelligence Forces would, in fact, continue to move in the right direction to protect their country. And i think it would have been better to be there and put on pressure. Jon they wouldnt give our troops immunity. No, Prime Minister maliki said if we need an agreement to protect the troops, and maliki continued to resist it, and said weerkd have you do this, but im not sure. I have to send it to the parliament, and it was obvious that he continueed to oppose it. At the same time, i think probably we could have with the leverage we had on him, we could have pushed them a little more in the direction. Jon but did he have the leverage in his own country. His coalition was weak to begin with. The sunnis didnt care for him. He was playing the shia game which is basically, im going to confront the sunnis. I would rather do it without the United States present. Jon the shiite one of the worst children games ever made. [ laughter ] will you stick around. I know you have a book party to go to. Stick around, and well talk about this. Worthy fight is on the bookshelves. Leon panetta. Well be right back. Well be right back. [ applause ] rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. All aboard. Rolo. Get your smooth on. You want i fix this mess . A mess . I dont think whats that . Snapshot from progressive. Plug it in, and you can save on Car Insurance based on your good driving. You sell to me . No, its free. You want to try . I try this if you try. Not this. Okay. Da Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org jon thats the show. By the way, before we go, i want to give it up for jason jones and samantha, apparently they called and those two stepped up, and knocked it out of the park. I really appreciate it. Anyway, here it is, the moment of zen. Tom corbett is perfect. And just praise. The rich guys. 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