rsc poll 76% phil of americans think americans does have terrorists in the united states. some say that number a huge number like that 5urdalready represents a propaganda effort for isis? somein some ways. this reflects the confusion we talked about. people in the congress say we can t figure how to pass a law, which suggests that the threat is diminished and then have the american people say we think the threat is increased. the most confused situation i ve seen in national security any at least a couple years. we have to resolve this. fran what do you think? i think it s right, wolf. you imagine, to phil s point, what happens when they when these provisions expire is the government those inside the government fighting terrorism revert to the programs and processes in place before these capabilities even existed. and you re talking about a pencil a pen and paper kind of system that is just lethargic.
there s not unanimous support in either party. one the shenanigans from senator paul, this passed a year ago in the house, bipartisan and they couldn t get it done in the senate. what should the president be doing now? he wants the bulk data collection lone wolf collection all this kind of stuff, he wants to make sure that it continues. i think he s going to get it. i think the people are working behind the scenes as i understand it to get the results sooner rather than later. i saw your report from michelle kosinski i think it will be the next couple of days and that will be good. the president s approval numbers in the new cnn poll that we have rating how he s handling the isis threat it s down to only look at this, 32% approve of the way the president s handling the war against isis 63% disapprove. that s a disturbing number if you re with the president, right? well i think it s a disturbing number but important to understand that polling the not security afternoon you end
to last summer every time we give the iraqi weapons they bleed out. my view would be if we decide we re in this it s either go in ourselves and be responsible or give it to the iraqis and let it bleed. i d give it to them and let it bleed. the speaker of the iraqi parliament says publicly it there was an order given to thousands of elite iraqi troops in an bar province ramadi an order to evacuate and leave their weapons behind and run away in the face of a few hundred isis terrorists who were there. how do you explain that? if that happened it s abhorrent and it s an absence of leadership of those in ramadi. this is shameful. jabari is the sunni speaker
involved folks on our side against it being involved in iraq and syria with isis and folks who oppose the president simply because he s a democrat. you can t worry about poll numbers. you have to try to have the most successful strategy you can. another poll 61% say the fight against isis is going poorly right now. in october only 49% of americans thought it was going poorly. that s an increase pretty disturbing as well. this is going to take a long time. i worked with the president when we initiated these efforts last year and it s going to he always said it s, this is a long-term effort going to extend beyond his presidency so we ve had some important successes, i think the operation in syria against one of the top members of isis was very important, there have been setbacks in ramadi and other places. it will take time but progress is being made. when there s a major setback like the other day in ramadi major city in the anbar province which falls into the hands of isis like m
explosive-laden tank showing new tactics by isis leaving the iraqis in a very tough struggle to make any progress against them. air strikes by iraqi forces against suspected isis militants designed to show iraqi forces in the fight. a disturbing sign even in government-controlled baghdad the reality is different. isis claimed responsibility for two hotel bombings in the capital, unsettling residents in a city ringed by 100 iraqi battalion battalions as many as 50,000 troops according to u.s. estimates. the fact is that isis has a lot of momentum right now, so what we re dealing with is a central government that has in essence practically lost control over large sections of the country and large sections of its armed forces. it s a very dangerous situation to be in. from fallujah and ramadi in the west and beiji and mosul in the north, u.s. military