129 people were killed in paris on friday night. Isil claimed responsibility, sending the message that they could now target civilians all of the world. Is it time for your strategy to change . Pres. Obama keep in mind what we have been doing. Thatve a military strategy involves putting enormous pressure on isil through puttrikes that has assistance and training on the ground with iraqi forces who are now working with Syrian Forces to squeeze isil and cut off their supply lines. We have been working internationally to reduce their financing capabilities, the oil they are trying to ship outside. We are taking strikes against highvalue targets, including most recently against the individual who was on the video executing civilians who had already been captured as well as the head of isil in libya so its not just iraq and syria. Front,on the military we are continuing to accelerate what we do as we find additional partners on the ground that are effective, we work with them more closely.
Happened. The two iraqis in kentucky was were the most shocking example. They had done bad things in iraq, lied to get into the country, and had our Current System been in place, they would have been caught before they got here. That is why the system has been improved since that episode. You had said few things in life are riskfree, i heard the governor of Washington State say you take a risk when you get out of bed in the morning, there are a lot of dangers in the world, absolutely, but i think the program we run does as much possible to reduce the risks of bringing refugees to this country. We have great confidence in it. We invite members to come out to the field and meet some of the people and sit through some of the briefings by leon steen that i sat through leons team that i set through. Ms. Richard, that is what hates that is what makes me hate waste, fraud, abuse, deception so much. When anyone engages in it, it impacts those that would never consider engaging in it, because i
Message back to congress and it was please give us the resources and the funding we need to do this job. Do not cut our legs from under us. So we cant continue to say we appreciate your service and work, but yet we will not give them the resources that they need to do the job. So undersecretary taylor, you mentioned that not fully funding the department of Homeland Security would have a crippling effect on Homeland Security, could you explain how if the department of Homeland Security is not provided with the fullyear funding, efforts to prevent foreign fighters and their travel would be affected, since that seems to be a great concern on the other side, how not funding the department will impact that ability. Sir, i think the secretary has made and i have tried to make here today is working under the c. R. Flexibility and investing the threats as they evolve over time and the Grant Funding and our ability to respond to add money to the secret service for additional protection and thos
The field and youre playing a different sport. You go wow. Today it is soccer. Tomorrow it is baseball. It is that stunning of a difference. You no longer are going to be able to protect your ability to one thing and go out there and it is going to be very frustrating to people and that is why the structures and roles of leaders are going to be so dramatically different. To re they are going catch themselves looking at headlights and they are going to get run over. A question for about relations. Some people think it is an institutional issue. Some people think it is personal relationships that you have talked about so much. Im curious, where do you think t falls on both . Yeah, well, i think they are related. If you go back in history and look at what president lincoln put together and we remember how good it was when he and ulysses s. Grant the last couple of years of the war, it took some painful years to get to that. I think that ultimately it takes really good relationships. It ta
Slow and steady pull out at the time. That enter ocular test forced people to be more clear about things. I give a lot of credit to steve hadley for running a very that wasprocess inclusive of peoples views but got to frame up a distinct set of decisions. One of the things we love to do in washington is a model things together. Take a little bit of this and a little bit of that and muddle them together. Everybody walks out thinking their position prevailed. Quite frankly, you saw a bit of that in the Bush Administration where people walked out thinking their position had revealed and therefore there was not a clear vision and direction. Examplesork, a lot of that has encouraged that creative ambiguity among their advisors. Bill clinton is famous for that stop for that. Of examples a lot in american politics of it. It does not mesh with the award. It can be very dangerous in a wartime. If you did take away something specific from watching that surge decision in terms of your own persona