from a containment strategy to a defeat strategy. we ve been trying to contain the islamic state inside syria and iraq. it s obviously not contained given the extraordinary terrorist attacks and brutal terrorist attacks of last friday. so the u.s. needs to articulate how can we and coalition defeat this group? but how do you do that when russia is already pretty much calling the shots? i don t think they are calling the shots. they are a consequential player. you do it by intensifying the air campaign and by arming the syrian kurds the peshmerga and reconstitute the iraqi army, that s the ground force that will have to defeat the islamic state on the ground. countries are looking for a natural leader and my view that natural leader has to be the united states given our military power, given the credibility that we have, much more credibility than russia in the
3-year-old orphans. that doesn t sound very tough to me. meanwhile, congress now taking action, seeming to support governors opposed to refugees. tomorrow the house is expected to vote on legislation aimed at strengthening the oversight of syrian and refugees hoping to come to the united states. brad sherman, a member of the house foreign affairs committee. pleasure to see you, sir. good to be with you. before we get to the matter of refugees, what can you tell us about the private briefing you received regarding these attacks? well, the briefing was mostly about the refugees and the security of the homeland. and i think they were convincing that those who are admitted as refugees to the united states get far more scrutiny and vetting than those who enter the united states and tens of millions of people do every year as tourists and business people,
following friday s terrorist attacks in paris, new questions are being asked how they were able to pull off such a sophisticated attack. one question deals with money and how the organization is funded. cal perry, what do we know? we ve broken this down into five food groopz. this is incredible what took place in paris and this global operation and it s extensive. where does isis get its money? let s talk about the territory they ve taken in syria and iraq and amount of banks they overran, $400 million, maybe upwards of $500 million of cash disappeared from these banks. infrastructure and businesses,
union. is that something that maybe countries will be looking at in this part of the world? the regime is the regime that provides for the free movement of people throughout the 2 28-european countries, it s a very important aspect of europe s identity. i think the europeans will not want to give that up. what you will see is temporary closures of the borders. that s what france has done since last friday night on the french/belgium frontier, checking cars as they go through. they have to do this because they know much of a threat em natures inside their own countries, from these radical groups rooted themselves into the suburbs of paris or into places like molenbreek. and the wider dimension, the french are looking for a much stronger effort against the islamic state in the middle east itself, both in syria and iraq. this may bring the french together temporarily and tactically with the russian government because putin is now saying they ll do more against
responsibility of bringing toxic materials to the united states, why don t they do it? reporter: president assad also talked a lot about what he calls, terrorists. and that is the foreign fighters, namely hardcore jihad its who are coming into syria to fight. they say they want an islamic state inside syria. to his point just today, turkey shut down one of the main border crossings. turkey long supported the rebels in the civil war. they say it is just too dangerous as al qaeda-inspired fighters moved into the one of the border villages in syria. kicked out all the moderate-backed, western-backed rebels inside of this. this goes to the core of the problem for the united states here as things look, in a sense while president assad certainly committed awful atrocities in his attempt to stay in power, jenna, the people who are best armed, best equipped to take over if president assad leaves probably aren t any better and in some cases we ve seen even worse. back to you. jenna: leland vi