Fighting isis. What it will take to defeat the radical islamic movement. And the refugee crisis. The congressional battle taken to the next level. Thank you for joining us from washington, d. C. Cong. Keating good morning. Janet let s get right to it. Will the fight to close the borders to muslims, syrians, or iraqis going to define all other major issues, be it budget or otherwise for the foreseeable future . Cong. Keating you have to be very careful. Donald trump s comments are offensive, illegal, and unenforceable. But do they have effect . They do. Years ago after 9 11, i realized that the apprehension among muslim faith was very real. There was an incident when they tried to blow up a gas station. I spent that day praying in a mosque in quincy because it was important to do. I will never forget the apprehension that was there about retribution or somebody might attack them. It was very real. When you have a president ial candidate making those statements, that is very real. People deserve high security, peace of mind walking around. Iti is used as a propaganda arm. Isis is very sophisticated in propaganda. This was a dangerous and every this is not we are and it is hurting our efforts against isis. Janet they are adamant about they deal. Do you think this is going to define the debate, over the budget or otherwise, for the next few months . Cong. Keating i think we should learned before. There are reasons to look at our about it. After the boston bombing, two major agencies missed a red flag because they did not communicate with each other. Border control said they never received a communication from the fbi. We could not find out whether it found out. They were leaving a postit on someone those things have been correct it. We should be looking back and seeing what we can do to improve our security. That is not mutually exclusive in protecting people s ci ivil rights. I hope in congress that can be divisive. That divisiveness will hurt our efforts. Ed you are very critical of donald trump. You think what he says this qualifies him from running for president of the United States . Cong. Keating yes. Ed flied out disqualifies him. Let me talk about present trends. What do you predict is going to happen on this front . Cong. Keating well, in terms of putting troops on the ground . Cong. Keating i think that every person on the committee and dealing with these issues, foreign affairs, homeland, they agree that putting american Ground Troops there is not going to be successful, to a person. We hae ve to learn the lessons of iraq. We have to be able to hold that ground. If it is u. S. Troops, there is no end game to that. That has to be done by the sunni, turkish individuals coming together. The president was right about his comments on Ground Troops. Ed can he wage war against isis without further action by cong. Keating yes, i think the that. But really to show the support. We have a debate in congress and it has to the resolved on what kind of limits we put on that. It seems to be halting action. I think we should have a vote. We can have an honest debate about how much of a limitation we can put on that. Janet let s go back to San Bernardino. Americans are now fully aware that isis has serious homegrown terrorists waiting to act here. Or a way to bring them in. What can you tell us from your Intelligence Briefings as to how serious and how many there are . Home when i have been saying and other people have been saying for a while. Our greatest threat is with the homegrown violent extremist. There is 900 investigations in the country right now in all 50 states. This is significant and our greatest threat. We have to fight it on many fronts. Janet what is your information telling you . Cong. Keating several hundred that the fbi has indicated. There are thousands of people who interact with these websites, radical websites, isisrelated websites, al qaedarelated websites. We have to approach it here. Cong. Keating perhaps this was an arranged marriage. Cong. Keating without getting into classified information, we had two individuals that were radicalized. From the information, to have been radicalized separately themselves, and then the marriage came later. That is the information we re dealing with now. There is no evidence this was not directed by isis. We had harris, south beirut paris, the russian airline. That was a different situation. We saw the external arm of isis being able to reach out and orchestrate these kinds of attacks. That is not what happened in San Bernardino. That is coming back to what our security people have been the homegrown terrorists present the greatest danger right now. Ed it is time now for the pop quiz. We have a holiday version. Did i hear an uhoh . For the nation s postal workers, one of the busiest times of the year. You worked as a letter carrier to put yourself through Boston College. Let s see what you know now about the u. S. Postal service. Question one. What is the current price for a firstclass stamp . Cong. Keating oh, man. I think it is 50 or . 60. Ed . 49. Cong. Keating i am in washington. That might change. Ed multiple choice. How many cards, letters, and packages does the u. S. Postal service expect to deliver during the Holiday Season . 750 million. 15 billion. Cong. Keating ed we continue with the pop quiz. A Popular Series of holiday stamps this year features wellknown characters from a beloved comic strip. Which comic strip . Cong. Keating ed charlie brown. Cong. Keating i am not doing well. Ed you are perfect so far. Question four. Many people refer to the famous quote chiseled onto the General Post Office in new york city. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night cong. Keating will stop us from our appointed rounds . Ed that is close. And the final question. You went to bc. What is the zip code for Boston College s main campus in Chestnut Hill . Cong. Keating 02179 . I wouldn t have known that one either. Play that number in the lottery. Janet it just goes to show you. [laughter] janet back to more serious ve been to russia twice. What do you think america should be doing right now in light of syria, and is there an opportunity to partner with russia, or is that fantasy . Cong. Keating well, it is not we both have a common enemy in isis. Russia is targeting the Syrian Rebels that are opposing bashar alassad, who has to be removed. He killed 1 4 of the Million People of his own people. His ability to get territory. He really has to be removed one way or the other a order for us to have longterm success. Russis wa a was months away from being taken down. Here s where personal opinion i do think there is a commonality. Russia are better served having assad out of there and having someone else and keep their alliance with if it there are diplomatic talks and maybe we can find some commonality where he can leave. You just have to deal with the him. There is that area of commonality. Control. With San Bernardino, do you see any support in congress for a federal ban on gun permits for those on nofly and terrorist watch lists . Cong. Keating there is a discharge edition to get a bill on the floor that would not allow this to occur. In the 10 plus years, over 2000 people that are on the terrorist watch list that have legally obtained guns. If we can get it to the floor for a vote, and that is the real ed after sandy hook for gun control and after the massacres in colorado, columbine high school, is there an appetite after San Bernardino . Cong. Keating we ve had procedural votes for the last several weeks. That is the way the democrats can get bills on the floor. We help people change the equation. It is beyond common sense that we do not have that kind of limitation on people on the terrorist watch list. People are saying, well, the list makes mistakes. That is the real issue. Would you get on a plane knowing it had people on that list on the plane . The issue is not the list or security. Handle those kinds of issues. The issue is the gun lobby. This is something i know the American Public has strong feelings about. Ed congressman, we appreciate your time. Thank you for joining us from washington. Cong. Keating happy holidays to everyone who is listening. Ed bill kea come on in pop pop. Happy birthday. T i just had a heart attack. And now i have a choice. For her. For them. And him. A choice to take brilinta. A prescription for people whove been hospitalized for a heart attack. I take brilinta with a baby aspirin. No more than 100 mg. As it affects how well it works. Its such an important thing to do to help protect against another heart attack. 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I hope for the best and pray for our country. You re more likely to be shot by a white person on american soil. No reason to blame all muslims for a few extremists. We should reconsider our self ed to the political roundtable this morning. Our Roundtable Democratic analyst mary anne marsh and republican virginia buckingham. Janet has donald trump opened pandora s box on this issue, and where do you see it going . Mary anne i think he will be the nominee. Half of the sample questions after he made this announcement, he went up eight points. Janet what this is tell you . Virginia he has a ceiling. This did not happen after 9 11. President bush was on the offensive and people felt safer. There is no effective strategy. Ed radical islam is that a phrase no one should be afraid to use anymore, or is it still going too far . Virginia Political Correctness has given rise to people like donald trump. Let mary anne we did not do it on many other occasions. When you look at this, they have this west versus us. That is how they recruit everyone. Janet i spoke with a counterterrorism expert this past week who s also a strong Second Amendment supporter. He claims that nofly and terrorist lists are often outdated and inaccurate and do nothing to stop the most dangerous among us. Is he right . Virginia to the extent they are wrong, it makes total sense to have such a list. And to give the domestic need. Janet will it take forever to fix these lists . Mary anne there is Something Else going on. Ed ted kennedy was on the let s talk about Hillary Clinton. Let me ask you this question. Is she in trouble in New Hampshire . A new poll this week show she s running 10 points behind bernie sanders. Can t you lose the primary and then still win the nomination . Tell me the last time the poll was right about anything. She can if she wins iowa. Ed is there any danger it not winning . Virginia it is the Outsider Energy that is still floating around out there. She is going to be fine. Janet let s move the conversation to jeb bush. Republicans will not nominate donald trump, that the party would never let that happen because he suggests Hillary Clinton would win the election. Is he right . Is two months still a long way off . Donald trump is not going to be the republican nominee. The worry is he will become an independent candidate. Ed donald trump has not been the nominee i have heard that for six months. It almost is. Trump will be in the general election one way or another. If it is clintontrump, a lot tougher fight. A different year. The democrats are hoping that donald trump will be the nominee. Look at this whole thing with muslims and trump going up. Janet jeb bush s superpac right to rise spending 1 million in this tv market on a threeprong attack ad, calling donald trump irresponsible, criticizing ted cruz for his votes and marco rubio for not voting. Can this salvage his campaign . Virginia it is the beginning of the comeback of jeb bush, a very smart ad. Janet could this change his fortunes . Mary anne 30 million on tv and he is up 3 . Ed let s get to best week. Hillary clinton. As long as donald trump is sucking up all of the oxygen janet on the same table here. Compared to dollar chunk and everybody else. Ed that is great consensus. Last question. Patriots lose three in a row today . No way. Ed we get consensus. I am worried. I am, too. Matter of fact with Fernando Espuelas is up next. This week s guest, republican president ial candidate lindsey graham. Every sunday we go on the