he was in a good mood or a bad mood, it s childish at this stage. we are the united states of america. we used to represent something and i think it belies the headlines you see abroad, belies the reporting from someone like jim and rest of your cnn comm t commentators and reporters that this is not having an impact on how the world perceives us. our credibility is our national security. let me go back to president obama. when president obama made a promise to the world about the use of military intervention in syria if the syrian dictator used chemical weapons, there s a real-life example of it right there. and what happened? did the world cave? the president walked completely away from it, abandoned his statement. were you outraged then? that s all you ve got? i m asking you. there s a concrete example of a president who drew a line in the sand. if you use chemical weapons, we will use military force against
presidential race highlighting a deep and often justified fear of radical and violent islam some say has morphed into mainstream islamophobia. take a look. i would not advocate we put a muslim in charge of this nation. i absolutely would not agree with that. controversial but carson raised $1 million in the 24 hours after making those comm t comments. islam was front and center again at a national conference on religion in iowa last week. we need to identify the enemy as radical islam. we cannot pretend it is not a radical form of islam. it is. when democratic candidate bernie sanders hosted a town hall recently a muslim american student took to the stage to vent. hearing the rhetoric going on in the media makes me sick. i am an individual constantly trying to raise awareness and make sure everyone is treated equally in this country.
from now on, we re going to look for a brighter fuehrer. we re going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, what happened today in the helmand province? we re told the soldier was part of a coalition force working on stability in the helmand province. they were going to meet some of their local afghan contacts when they were shot and killed. right now the isaf, the u.s. military is looking for the gunman, the man who shot and killed these troops. the taliban claims that the troops were lured in by an afghan police commander under the ruse of having dinner and being friendly when he turned on them
on issues of the economy over the course of the last two months alone. they are looking down the barrel of a huge problem if female problems get more alienated from the republican party. mitt romney does not want to be in that place, it will doom his campaign. he is trying to get ahold of a barge pull and get away from this issue, both because of what he believes and the politics of it, but the party tries to keep pull him back in, like the godfather thing. it s bad. the entertainment in this industry of politics and comm t commentary is to catch a guy like romney, in this pir owe wet to what he is to what he should be. it shows you why a lot of conservatives have trouble warming to him and don t trust him but it also tells you he would be the most formidable against the president. when you want to be the first romney, not getting into the contraception debate romney
republican moderates. there aren t many. this is really important. meanwhile, rudy guiliani is fueling further speculation over who the president-elect will choose for secretary of state. here s what he said this morning about taking his name out of the race. he also had a message for one of the top contenders. i knew he had good choices. if i thought he didn t have a great choice and needed only me which was probably always true they only needed you, if i thought that i d do it in a minute. if mitt romney, i voted for him and supported him and thought he would be a better president than barack obama. i do think as huckabee does he should apologize and the comm t comments he made when i was campaigning for my friend, donald trump. and we have news on secretary of state. let s go to andrea mitchell on