down that detention facility. yes, it is a campaign commitment he promised to do so in 2008, and promised to do it in the first term, but it has not happened, and we will see if he can achieve that in the final year of office. we want to bring in the anchor of the lead our own jake tapper, and our own correspondent gloria borger, and also our national security correspondent jim sciut sciutto. once he finishes this news conference, he is headed tout san bernardino to meet with the families of the terror attack there, and then he is going on the vacation in hawaii, but he has spent the last week or so event after event after event to reassure the american public that he is on top of the isis threat. indeed, he spoke with a number of columnist m columnists in an off of the record conversation, and peter ba baker did put that very public,
is going to suspend his access, and we will have that address. and also, following the anxiety following the terrorism in san bernardino and the president s plan to destroy isis, according to a washington street journal poll, only 34% of americans approve of the way that the president is handling is isis, and 60% disapprove. we go to gloria borger and jim acosta at the white house. what do you believe that the president is going to try to get across? well, it is another way of him assuring the american people that he is on top of it in securing the homeland and taking the fight to isis, and you have heard it in several settings, the oval office, the pentagon, and at the national counter
significant, but it is not enough to justify what would be the cost of human lives and the cost in money if the u.s. were to go forward with this kind of deployment, and does he make a good case from your perspective? is he backing a wway from th stated goal of defeating isis, because if he wants to defeet isis, it is going to be taking ground troops, but we need american leadership to assemble the coalition of the willing like george h.w. bush did in the first gulf war. they provided one-third of the troop strength, and paid 75% of the effort. that is a true committed coalition, but because president obama has not led sufficiently, people are holding back, and you cannot defeat isis and deny them that territory and it away without the troops on the ground, and you simply cant no do it. so president obama has to be level with the american people, is he committed to the goal of defeating the isis or sit here in the holding pattern for next 11 or 12 months to the end of
terrorism center yesterday. and this is a unique opportunity for the president to talk about what he feel s ths that the accomplishments were over the last year, and they want to talk about the climate deal inked in pari paris, and they want to talk about the iran nuclear deal, and the diplomatic relations opened up with cuba and tim the improving economy, but it is against that backdrop that the president has to address the climate of fear and concern out there in the american public about what is happening with the fight against isis, and there not a lot of confidence of the president s strategy for taking out the terror army, and growing concern whether or not the government can protect the homeland against the lone wolf terrorist attacks, and you mentioned the nbc news and wall street journal poll, and there are a number of americans who are confident that they can prevent a lone wolf attack. i suspect, wolf, that he will be looking at the executive order
handling the foreign policy and even less 34% approve of his handling of isis. so they underestimated that the president needed to talk directly to the mile an hour people. that is why we have seen him come out lately, and we have seen him touring the counter terrorism center, and all of the rest, because they want the american public to have a sense that there is a robust response in this administration even though the president has not been out there detailing it. very interesting, and jake mentioned it, the new york times story detailing this off of the record two-hour conversation. so-called off of the record. that he had with the columnists in which he outlined the concern of sending the ground troops to the syria and iraq and according to the nos t york times there would be 100 military personnel would die every month, and 500 coming back wounded, and it would cost $10 billion to the launch this attack, and the threat while