he doesn t have to give away trade secrets don t want to broadcast to isis how we are going to defeat him. more details would have comforted everybody. i agree on that point. one of the other points for fighting isis is achieving a cease fire in syria. that s great. that needs to happen. we are also as far as i understand very far from achieving a cease fire there s a significant point of disagreement between the u.s. and european countries on one side and the backers of the assad regime like iran and russia who say assad would say. until we work it out we can no the have a cease fire in syria. a cease fire would be fantastic but how with are we going to achieve that? what you have is the president sighing ice sighs is attained there s no credible threat san bernardino after that. isis is a jv team. i think the american public is trying to figure out is this president uninformed or is he
major policy innishty. he s on one hand saying threat is evolving getting more serious, i am on top of it but didn t offer anything new to confront it. ed henry, thank you so much. with me is republican presidential candidate former arkansas governor mike huckabee. good evening. thank you for being with us. you heard the president tonight. first of all if you were the president what would you have told the american people different from what this president did. i am going to be telling people something different for the last search years. i would identify we are at war with razz cal islam. that s who we are fighting and we have to take the fight directly to them. we have heard people say it is better to fight there than here. we are fighting this em here. they are here. that s what happened in san bernardino. it may not be isis but it is radical islam. we saw it in fort hood. we saw it in little rock. we saw it in boston. finally the president at least makes an attempt to acknowled
they want to hit us here at home. are we prepared for it? no. we are gutting the fbi s budget. we are bringing down the nsa program at a time when we need to beef up homeland security we are gutting it. when the president said we pardon our defenses that s a lie. we are cutting the fbi, the cia and nsa by 20 percent. we are going to reduce fbi spending by 15-20 percent. the president started out by saying we are taking out the isil leaders and heavy weapons and oil tankers. we have had tactical auk successes in iraq and syria. if authorities are not dropping bombs. that is beginning to change. you don t destroy them from the air. he says i don t want to get drawn into a ground war. if i am president in the united states we are going to have a ground war against isil.
organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home. but it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization embracing a perverted interpretation of islam that calls for war against america and the west. threat from terrorism is real but we will over come it. we will destroy isil and any other organization that tries to harm us. our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. in iraq and syria air strikes are taking out isil leaders. we will continue to provide training and equipment to tens of thousands of iraqi and syrian forces fighting isil on the ground so we take away their safe havens. in both countries we are deploying special operations forces who can accelerate that offensive. we have stepped up these efforts since the attacks in paris and will continue to do more on the ground.
sharing with european allies. we are working with turkey to seal the border with syria and we are cooperating with muslim majority countries and with our muslim communities here at home to counter the vicious ideology isil promotes on-line. the international community has begun to establish a process and time line to pursue cease fires and a political resolution to the syrian war. doing so will allow the syrian people and every country including our allies but also countries like russia to focus on the common goal of destroying isil a group that threatens us all. this is our strategy to destroy isil. chief white house correspondent ed henry joins me now with more on the president s address. the president didn t layout anything new here but he reiterated what we already know. why a prime time address?