right now about the president s i said he was in a bubble by himself. but his isolation? the single biggest criticism from american of foreign policy under barack obama is syria. it s not just now. it dates back when he didn t cross the red line. he actually had the french who were in the vanguard of european countries saying we should now bomb syria because they are using chemical weapons. he left them out to dry. so there s long misstanding mistrust from european allies about the white house s rochester to syria and it s sla escalated when europeans felt the threat and feet america has been divorced from it because of the atlantic ocean and harder for refugees and militants and jihadis to come here. as willie mentioned, president francois hollande arrives in washington this morning.
generators, for electricity, to run water pumps, for asphalt for roads. cam, it s willie geist. the question is how do they pull this off? how are they running an international oil company effectively out in the open as they are under attack from the united states, from the west, from the iraqi army, from rebel groups. how are they doing it so easily? i mean, again, you can t really stop them from earning income on territory that they control until you retake the territory. and i don t think anybody has the political will for that. you know, it seems like a financial war when we can talk about being tough in a financial war, a war that doesn t put any lives at risk, any american lives. the reality is you can win that war. it s not possible. i think we can reduce the revenue stream from oil alone down further than where it is although we dramatically miscalculated as mika said in the opening, the damage that we did to their oil infrastructure a year ago and dramatically
he will meet with president obama at the white house and the two leaders are expected to discuss greater cooperation between america and russia in the fight against isis. the u.s. hasn t ruled out cooperation but has been skeptical that president vladimir putin will focus on the militant group rather than the forces fighting syrian president bashar al assad. and the president will also pressure francois hollande to keep sanctions against rush in place for its recent actions in ukraine. let s bring in kerry simmons. what s prompting this? reporter: well, willie, the reason they are doing this is because effectively believe there continues to abby hadi cell on the loose and fear, the words are they fear an imminent attack. that s what it means to be at the highest state of alert. i suspect one of the questions
2016 candidates americans trust to handle the threat of terrorism, democrat hillary clinton bests all of her top republican opponents. jeb bush comes within three points for the republicans, 43% to clinton s 46 while ben carson performs the worse, down nine points to clinton on the question. that does surprise me because as ben carson said yesterday, willie, when thomasern w jeffer was drafting the constitution he saw it on the news reel. the video. exactly. he took it back. was he the one that stitched the flag. or was it betsy ross. hillary clinton did herself a lot of good with that speech a couple of days ago where she unlike the president she was direct, she was forceful, she
targeting iraq and syria. fighter jets talk off from france yesterday. the charles de gaulle ship is the only one of its kind. fighter jets destroyed two targets in iraq early in the day. later on monday another air strike was carried out in raqqah, syria. these new missions come after french president francois hollande vowed to intensify air strikes against isis following the deadly attacks in paris. u.s. officials say american war planes destroyed nearly 300 isis oil tanker trucks yesterday along the syria-iraq border. officials say 24 precision guided bombs were dropped on the trucks near a fuel collection point. i just have to ask a question and other people ask the question at the white house briefing yesterday. willie, we ve been asking the question for over a year now. why are you allowing isis to