Its degrade and destroy, then its, well, we need an International Coalition and then its managing the threat and then chase them to the gates of hell. Whats going to happen on we say . Sean, as you lay that out, youre right the president fumbled his first couple of attempts if you will to sort of explain this strategy to the american people. It took three news conferences over about a week here at the white house all the way over to europe before he did finally settle on that strategy. Now as we press for details about what hell say wednesday to flush all of that out, the white house is being very vague. All theyre really saying is what he will not say, which is that he will not send in u. S. Combat troops to either iraq or syria. That leaves the door open to what you referred to as that threepart strategy, continue the u. S. Air strikes in iraq number one. Number two, try to stand up the Iraqi Government so they can start taking care of some of this on their own, their own military ta
Our people. And to defend our home land. The president has not yet approved air strikes . Syria. The absence of intelligence over syria has hindered the air forces ability to conduct targeted air strikes against isis in northern syria, should the president authorize them. Syrias government warned any planes flying over its airspace would need the president s approval. A notion that the state department and the pentagon rebuffed. We are not coordinating with the assad regime on the operations we are conducting in iraq. Or the operations or any efforts to combat isil. When it comes to the interest of the american people, the interest of the United States were not going to ask for permission from the syrian regime. The Syrian Civil War has been raging for more than two years, and yet this is the first time the president has authorized the Defense Department to send Surveillance Drones over syria. Other than to provide support for the failed Hostage Rescue Mission in july. Defense official
Before dragging her out. Were going to have more later with espns steven a. Smith. But first, senior officials are now saying the administration is preparing a threephase campaign to destroy the isis terror network, which could outlast the eremainder of president obamas term in office. The president is expected to address the nation on wednesday and inform the American People of his strategy. Foxs own ed henry is standing by at the white house tonight. He has the details. Ed, first its no strategy then its degrade and destroy, then its, well, we need an International Coalition and then its managing the threat and then chase them to the gates of hell. Whats going to happen on we wednesday . Sean, as you lay that out, youre right the president fumbled his first couple of attempts if you will to sort of explain this strategy to the American People. It took three news conferences over about a week here at the white house all the way over to europe before he did finally settle on that strat
Recently about the fence jumping incident that really started all this did not disclose what had happened in atlanta. That was a problem. But ive pressed josh earnest on why it took a resignation from the director. Why didnt the white house push to get her out if they were so troubled by this . Listen. Why didnt senior people here at the white house including the president determine on their own . Why were you waiting for her to give a resignation . Isnt a person with a criminal record and a gun getting inches away from the president enough to say somebody needs to be fired here . Well, ed, i can tell you that that incident that youre referring to is something that the white house was made aware of only yesterday, less than 24 hours ago. That occurred just minutes before that report was published for the public to review. But also changed today was growing pressure from the president fellow democrats, not republicans. Elijah cummings, the top democrat on that panel thats investigating
Are fleeing amidst that chaos. You have the right to free speech unless you are preaching from the pulpit about politics. Im shannon bream. Americas news starts now. We want them to channel that fear into being incredibly meticulous about Infection Control. Top u. S. Health officials are trying to calm worries about the eye rainfall of ebola in america. So far only one diagnosed case of the deadly virus here on u. S. Soil but that is not stopping some from calling for travel bans to and from infected african countries. Cdc director tom frieden is not in favor of that kind of travel ban. He says it could prevent medical workers and equipment from getting to places that need it to try to get this Ebola Outbreak in africa uncontrol. As for the situation here in the u. S. , frieden says he expects more reports of possible cases but he believes the American Health system can handle it. Here in the u. S. , i remain quite cough depth we will not have a widespread outbreak. We will stop it in