targeted right now? well, number one, you need to revive the nsa program so we can intercept transmissions from overseas inside to the country to direct or recruit people to help isil or any other terrorist organization. you need to have better intelligence gathering apparatus. but all i can say to our police officers, you re a part of this war. you re a symbol of our country. you represent the good guys and gals. and just be on your toes to any military member and their family. these guys are after you too. so what i want to do is disrupt them. i want them to be worried about today being their last day by having a ground component that would be more effective in putting pressure on isil so this ends. and it will never end as long as the caliphate exist. senator graham, one political question if you will give me the chance, you just got out, you suspended your presidential campaign. sure. your friend, senator john mccain, has been saying that
yeah, well, he s wrong. they re positioning you to the hawkish side of obama. you read fred on the washington post yesterday positioned you as someone a notch to the hawkish side, because he said you were for a no-fly zone in syria, you said you were for ground troops, not necessarily our troops, but you need a ground component to tell them where to drop the bombs. exactly, right. does that make you more hawkish than the president? i think most of what i have been advocating, the president is now doing. well, not that. but we have special forces on the ground, he sent them. but no fly zone? the no-fly zone for me was an idea i developed with some advisers. is it dangerous with the russians flying around there? of course you would have to have the russians sign off on it. and we were making progress. i don t know what the result will be of the conflict now between saudi arabia and iran, but, you know, for the last four years, we ve been pushing to try to get a pe
yeah, well, he s wrong. they re positioning you to the hawkish side of obama. you read fred on the washington post yesterday positioned you as someone a notch to the hawkish side, because he said you were for a no-fly zone in syria, you said you were for ground troops, not necessarily our troops, but you need a ground component to tell them where to drop the bombs. exactly, right. does that make you more hawkish than the president? i think most of what i have been advocating, the president is now doing. well, not that. but we have special forces on the ground, he sent them. but no fly zone? the no-fly zone for me was an idea i developed with some advisers. is it dangerous with the russians flying around there? of course you would have to have the russians sign off on it. and we were making progress. i don t know what the result will be of the conflict now between saudi arabia and iran, but, you know, for the last four years, we ve been pushing to try to get a pe
troops. you are going to do the fighting this time and we ll help you. we paid for the last two wars, you pay for this one. they get it because isil wants to cut their heads off, too. the point i m trying to make is, there needs to be a ground component. we need to be smart. we need to fight the war over there. to the people in my party to believe you can withdraw from the battlefield like senator cruz and paul and we would be safe, you don t understand this war. governor huckabee, you have said as president you would tell isis, we will take you down and we ll try to get it done in ten days. do you really think the u.s. can defeat isis in ten days? i d sure want them to think we would. i d want to make sure we did everything we could. we can t do it with our current military strength. we have to haven t most robust, well trained, well equipped, well prepared and ample military force in the history of the world. we not fighting a known enemy in
petraeus. thank you for being here with us. i m curious, do you think the president s strategy is tough enough? and if not. what would you strategy be? i have to give the administration credit. they are doubling down on their chosen strategy. they are not not backing away from it. and they are saying if we just do more of it and explain it louder that it will work. you know, i they that everyone agrees there has to be a ground component to the fight against isis. the disagreement is over who should provide it. the administration says we can develop it over time and they can assist us. but the key adjective there is eventually. and eventually may be ten years. and the new normal is a massive terror attack in the west. once a month. and i just county think the