unfortunately. he s seemed to see this as a reason to go back to extreme vetting. this is somebody who radicalized within the united states and once here lawfully. it s a lahard problem and a different type of problem. the rhetoric that divides us and can lead to divisive conversations on religious lines, that s the kind of things terrorists want to attack. and president trump said the u.s. military is hitting isis ten times harder. but record don t support the claims. does this concern you? i m all for hitting isis pretty hard, but i m also all for appropriate transparency about what we re doing. so it is hard to square those comments with, as you say, the information that gets provided about the coalition activity in
accountable but congressional action on this front is probably good politics and the president might very well sign it because it indicates that he s going to be tough on russia. but most of the foreign policy experts i talk to say it s better, just like with president obama. he had the ability to change sanctions on iran. i disagreed with him on the policy, but i think there are times when the president should have that authority. why wouldn t the president want to go so hard on russia right now? it s not what he wants to do. i don t think that s right. if you look at the geopolitical question once again, i m not a foreign policy expert, but experts i talk to regularly tell me the big problem we have on the globe, our adversary is china. russia is an adversary but we can t fight both china and russia simultaneously so, just like hillary clinton and barack obama tried to do at the beginning of their administration, if we can at least get on the same page with major questions with
there is any, to today s action, the russian strikes occurred in a place where there s not much coalition activity. that doesn t seem to be a risk today. that could change. okay, mikey, let me go back to you. obama and putin, we all remember the picture from just two days ago, shaking hands. kind of icy, but they met behind closed doors. we re just two days later, and it would seem this is a major affront by putin. this is a sort of in your face move. i think we have to, in getting in putin s mind-set, we have to understand what his natural interests are. we have to understand there s been a jihadist insurgency on his doorstep for a long time. in 2004, 1100 people taken hostage, 700 of them being children, 380 of them being killed. he s had a serious problem. assad looks at the future of syria and says, is that jihadist
drawdown. we ve got about 1500 other troops going into iraq, who are going to help advise the iraqi military on dealing with isis. i think you re going to see a big surge of u.s. military capacity, if not soldiers and troops on the ground inside iraq. i think then the bigger question is what do you do with syria? syria s always been the big question mark in dealing with isis. i think you ll see increased military activity. but then you ll need to see some kind of coalition activity inside syria that squeezes isis out of of that terrain and deal with bashir al acssad there, wh has been the 900-pound question that people have not really thought through. the scene has been growing for almost a week now, with friends, family and fellow officers still paying their respects. today, a wake will be held for one of those officers, officer rafael ramos. we will go live to brooklyn,
this just in to cnn. another violent attack by boko haram is under way in nigeria. this time it s in a northern city. social media report the say the fighting is going on near a university. nigeria government television is reporting ongoing gun battles and explosions, and we will of course continue to monitor the situation and bring you any developments as they come in to us. want to turn to syria now. war planes from the u.s.-led coalition are striking the city of raqqah. the northern town is the declared capital of isis. it s the home of training and depots for isis. a sharp increase in coalition activity in the area. the attacks follow several devastating air strikes there last week by the syrian government that killed almost 100 people.