this is the general coordinator for kobani reconstruction. we re building this new neighborhood for people who lost their homes, he lsays. we ve stopped because we can t import any cement from turkey. wary of kurdish ambitions to build a state on the ruins of northern syria, turkey has closed the nearby border crossing. as a result, desperately needed building materials are in short supply. rebuilding this town could take a very long time. but like a phoenix rising from the ashes, tell rise again. ben wedeman, cnn, kobani, syria. fighting isis isn t just about dropping bombs. it s also about blocking cash. cnn money senior reporter explains the u.s. treasury is
at the italian level because they can call in air strikes and make sure the airstrikes are precise. many of our sorties are coming back without dropping bombs. bill: why isn t it happening? that s a good question. you can t double down on a strategy that s not working. unfortunate live we didn t hear anything new sunday night. i want to hear from our secretary of defense. what are we going to do and how are we going to make sure our men and women in uniform, that we are doing all we can to make sure we stop their momentum. bill: twice you mentioned the oath address sunday evening. john mccain was on our program talking about a national conversation needed to tell people what s going on and how and what they are doing to battle back. that s part of what they are doing today. did the president miss a moment
states of sunni radicals. the united states needs to understand the only way to defeat this, and i know, i ve been a ground combatant in these wars, you can kill a man, but you can t kill his ideas. we have to go after what i call counterideological operations and warfare. we must expose and destroy the ideological cuttism that is anti-islamic, that is anti-islamic. they have bizarre traits. they say there s seven pillars of islam, not five. they are a cult. until we in the muslim world engage that to the point where no one will deal with them, we re going to be dropping bombs. up next, the new report on isis related arrests here in the united states. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension. your blood pressure could drop to an unsafe level. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you
go going to strike. you can t just start dropping bombs on the empty forest or something. so you have to have the intelligence on the ground. that s one of the things that this the additional increment of forces from the pentagon should be able to help with. a nato ally france was just attacked by isis, and these terror attacks in paris, and shouldn t nato respond and as an organization as it did after the u.s. was attacked on 9/11 and nato went into afghanistan, went after the taliban and went after al qaeda, and shouldn t nato be doing the same thing now as opposed to m.i.a., missing in action? well, this is requiring the major power to call on nato, and right now we have not done that. and what happened after the 9/11 attacks, a nato member nation came to say we would like to declare article 5 so that we
terror attacks. right now he has the back of the french people as he vows to crush isis. the question is, will president obama back him in doing the things president hollande wants to do to accomplish that? reporter: i think so, president obama may sound a little more aggressive on going after isis today after getting criticism from his own party. remember that hollande went to his parliament and managed to get three knowledge weeks of specific emergency rules and regulations, allowing him to go after isis more aggressively in paris. that s significant for the french parliament to do. they also have been dropping bombs inside syria and raqqa, the hometown of isis. jon: no two-minute warning yet