home. president obama standing with the american people. especially among the republicans who say president obama has consistently under estimated and they say mishandled the isis threat. we need to come to grips with the idea that we are in the midst of the next world war. president obama has said repeated that he has no strategy to defeat isis. he doesn t believe in american leadership. they blow up people and shoot people and kill people. i don t rule out anything. with us is the atlantic s molly ball, jeff zeleny, jonathan martin, and nia-malika henderson.
technically. he certainly has sounded tone deaf at a minimum at times. let s go back to the beginning january 2014. he said this about isis and famous quote. the analogy we use at times if a jv team puts on lakers uniforms that doesn t make them kobe bryant. that s not that long ago. trying to down play the isis threat. in the day before the paris attacks and days before the bernardino shooting the president said this. i don t think they re gaining strength. what is true is the start our goal has been to contain. we have contained them. right now we know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. striking as well just the other day. i covered the white house for nine years. the press secretary sits in his office and gets this incoming from the government m.
tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern prau president obama talks about terror threats. cnn special coverage begins at 7:00. and al 9:00 an all-star affair with cnn heros. inside politics with john king starts now. welcome to inside politics. i m john king. thank you for sharing your sunday morning. the president of the united states will deliver a rare prime time address to the nation tonight. he ll discuss the investigate into the bernardino shooting and the broader war against isis. the presidential address at 8:00 p.m. eastern from the white house comes at a critical moment. the california attack has raised fears about the prospects the of more isis-inspire ed bloodshed homeland securi
welcome back. there s an old saying that timing is everything in politics. that s why every time there s a tragedy everything goes up. my numbers go way up. because we have no strength in this country. we have weakness. we have a weak, sad politicians. that is what we have. that s why that happens. another thing often said in politics is the numbers don t lie. here they are. trump 36%. cruz 18%, carson 14%, rubio 12%, christi chris christie 4%. the military campaign against isis, and now the bernardino shooting. probably was related. radical islamic terrorism and i ll tell you what. we have a president that refuses to use the term.
as we do every sunday let s go around the inside politics table and ask our reporters to share from their notebooks. remember ben carson? a few weeks ago he was looking like the iowa frontrunner rising nationally. a series of missteps raised questions about his candidacy. this puzzling speech at the republican jewish coalition this week. there s been questions about ben carson s candidacy. whether it s a serious candidacy or combination scam and book tour. in the coming weeks we ll find out base order what steps he takes to remedy this. whether he s in it to win it. urms in going down at the moment. we ll keep an eye on it. presidential campaigns don t end as they begin on issues. we re seeing an issue set focussed on isis and terrorism. that could be good news for chris christie and bad news, potentially, for marco rubio. the one roadblock for rubio going forward is chris christie. we re seeing him emerge more and