behind donald trump and trailing senator ted cruz. why the focus on marco rubio gavin coles alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show at fox news contributor, blakeman is a former assistant to george w. bush. is this because they perceive him as the greatest threat? seems like they re two primaries in the republican side. there is the establishment primary and the anti-establishment primary and their different lanes, like the ted cruz, donald trump, on their own language at some point they go against each other but there might be a perception, forgive my voice, i might be losing it, in the republican establishment that the anti-establishment candidate can t win so let s go after who we think the likely nominee would be. lea: talking about the establishment, what makes marco rubio so attractive to the
jon: president obama once again defending his strategy against isis but in a wide-ranging interview he does admit some criticism of his policies are legitimate. as the president says he understands why americans are worried about the terror threat. but he puts some of the blame for that on the media. listen. the media is pursuing ratings. this is a legitimate news story. i think that, you know, it s up to the media to make a determination about how they want to cover things. now, on our side i think there is a legitimate criticism of what i ve been doing and our administration s been doing in the sense that we haven t, you know, on a regular basis, i think, described all the work that we ve been doing for more than a year now to defeat isil. jon: joining us now, our media panel. alan colmes host of the alan colmes show, and tammy bruce,
bruce, radio talk show host and fox news contributor, alan colmes is also with us, host of the alan colmes show, nationally syndicated by fox news radio. does chuck todd have a point? well, it sounded a little bit like talk radio there. [laughter] an unbiased journalist. look, i don t know if he i would love to hear him approach barack obama that way or even brian williams who he sits with over there at npc. it s an interesting attitude to have. look, this is what they prefer to have, i suppose, it gets them all upset. i know the president now is talking about the weather in paris, and we ve had, of course, these massacres there and terrorism around the world. seems like the priorities are a little screwed up. you ve got the media and the democrats, they don t want you talking about the nature of the world and what s really going on. i think that chuck todd on meet the press as a supposed journalist, to approach any guest in that fashion is absurd it s exactly what he should
martha: so president obama is now in the final 14 months that he has in the oval office and he is facing a lot of backlash right now, not just from conservatives, not just from republicans but increasingly from within his own ranks. here is ranking member of the senate intelligence committee, dianne feinstein. i have never been more concerned. i read the intelligence faithfully. isil is not contained. isil is expanding. they just put out a video saying it is their intent to attack this country and i think we have to be prepared. martha: alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show, fox news contributor and tony sayegh, fox news contributor as well. gentlemen, welcome. good to have you here. i want to start by playing a little leon panetta, on with neil cavuto yesterday and former
bastards? well, jim, i just, i just spent the last three questions answering that very question. so i don t know what more you want me to add. jon: joining us now with their take, tammy bruce, radio talk show host and a fox news contributor, alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show nationally, syndicated by fox news radio. it may have been lost upon the president that maybe he got asked the same question because he didn t provide a satisfactory answer. well, i thought he did, quite frankly. in fact, i m glad that he was rational, that he was nonplussed, and he was or should i say plussed and he was even-tempered about it. he was talking about how we d be playing a game of whack-a-mole. you go into these countries, you bomb them, you take them out. there s no government to take over, there s no peace partner, then you wind up in yemen or some other country which has been happening in the middle east for how many years since 9/11? he s being dragged over the