After the president admitted he didnt quite have the a strategy yet to fight isis in syria. How should the president respond now . And also in world news, while the pentagon still has plans to deal with isis on the drawing board, the u. S. Dollars carry out a strike on a different terrorist target, no not in the syria. Thousands of miles away in somalia. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Well begin with a horrific world lead. It is not as if the world needed more proof of the savagery of the terrorists of sifs but they have given it anyway. A video appearing to show a second american beheaded by these terrorists days after president obama says he doesnt have a strategy yet for fighting isis in syria, that americans name is Steven Sotloff. Isis threatened to kill him if the u. S. Did not stop its air strikes against isis in iraq. While the u. S. Has not confirmed the authenticity of the video, theres very little to doubt that isis would follow through on tha
Coming well, i think our head of the Intelligence Community, jim clapper acknowledged that i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. And a weekend into the expanded strategy john boehner raising the stakes saying u. S. Ground troops may be needed. I think its going to take more than air strikes to drive them out. At some point somebodys boots have to be on the ground. We have no choice. These are bar bar begans. They intend to kill us. If we dont destroy them first, were going it pay the price. A new nbc news poll finds 72 of americans believe the u. S. Will eventually have to send in Ground Troops to defeat isis despite the president s insistence of no u. S. Boots on the ground. Lets bring in Ayman Mohyeldin who knows the region and the enemy well. Its a week of u. S. Led air strikes. What impact have they had, do you think . I think they have certainly slowed down some of isis push in some of the areas. Its slightly begun to weaken their hold in positions theyv
And held for questioning. Yeah, why such a fuss . That was the official line from the white house. Wasnt that many people, why did everybody make such a big deal out of this. Were talking about a universe of 109 people. There were 329,000 people that came into the country, 109 of them were stopped for additional screening. Uhuh. That was monday, that was bull pucky. On tuesday, badgered by recorders, the press secretary said okay, the 109 number was referring only to people initially detained but he gave no more numbers of who else got stopped or stranded thereafter. Thats the only number theyve ever copped to. 109 people temporarily showed down. Weve all had delays in life. 19 people, you can imagine the shock in a federal court in virginia when a lawyer from the Trump Justice Department cleared up that actually its more like a thousand times that number. The admission by the Administration Lawyer today reportedly leading to an audible gas in the courtroom. Apparently in addition to w
Response after last weekend. Only 109 people were detained and held for questioning. Yeah, why such a fuss . That was the official line from the white house. Wasnt that many people, why did everybody make such a big deal out of this. Were talking about a universe of 109 people. There were 329,000 people that came into the country, 109 of them were stopped for additional screening. Uhuh. That was monday, that was bull pucky. On tuesday, badgered by recorders, the press secretary said okay, the 109 number was referring only to people initially detained but he gave no more numbers of who else t stopped or stranded thereafter. Thats the only number theyve ever copped to. 109 people temporarily showed down. Weve all had delays in life. 19 people, you can imagine the shock in a federal court in virginia when a lawyer from the Trump Justice Department cleared up that actually its more like a thousand times that number. The admission by the Administration Lawyer today reportedly leading to an
Protests last weekend. We had this weekend of chaos and confusion and protest and recrimination and the white house walking parts of it back and not others and lawyers flooding into airports across the country to help people who were stranded. After all that, the white house tried to say, geez, this is no big deal, geez, you people just calm down. This was the white house response after last weekend. Only 109 people were detained and held for questioning. Yeah, why such a fuss . That was the official line from the white house. Wasnt that many people, why did everybody make such a big deal out of this. Were talking about a universe of 109 people. There were 329,000 people that came into the country, 109 of them were stopped for additional screening. Uhuh. That was monday, that was bull pucky. On tuesday, badgered by recorders, the press secretary said okay, the 109 number was referring only to people initially detained but he gave no more numbers of who else got stopped or stranded ther