that s something we will continue to push them on in the coming days. when it comes to defeating isis overseas, train and assist local partners has not worked so far to try to defeat isis and their growth. is this the beginning of an intensified campaign to get war-weary americans back into a mindset of the fact we might have to put boots on the ground to combat isis in a more doll declarative way? there s no question we are in a new phase. over the last couple weeks since paris, the united kingdom, germany, several of our other partners have stepped up military efforts. there s more that needs to be done. we also announced plans to put in special operations forces and the president made clear that we will continue to invest in areas where we feel it s working. that doesn t change the fact that as you said last night, what isil wants is they want to see an increased ground war and ground game. that s something that would add to their recruiting, add to their efforts out there.
with a look at the responses. asking our viewers in light of the supreme court development and also the president s address last night, is gun control an effective tool against terrorist attacks? asking our viewers. here s how we re looking so far. 81% of the viewers say, yes, is an effective tool. 19% say, no. we re just launching this now. feel free to weigh in. pulse.msnbc.com to chime in and we ll check that later on. frances, thank you very much. still ahead for everybody, big news in the republican race for president. a major shakeup in iowa polling. ted cruz takes the top spot for the first time in that key state. do americans feel safer after president obama s speech to the nation last snigt steve kornacki joins me with a panel of voters and what they re telling him about it.
situation and the need for a strategy that goes after and kills these people, isis. and he did not articulate that last night and it s very, very disturbing and i can tell you the calls i m getting today from my constituents, they re more concerned than ever. you put out a statement saying the speech was used to lecture americans for compassion and tolerance to muslims and gun control. coming to the topic of gun control and we look at massacre patterns in this country, schools, clinics, churches, army bases, shopping malls, an agency for the disabled, isn t it common sense to evaluate who cares what these extremists are, mentally challenged or religious zeal zealots, they have too much free and easy access to build an arsenal to massacre americans?
nancy pelosi and barack obama and john boehner or the israeli people? joe, it was an insult to the american people to think that they are so stupid that they don t get what s really going on with that speech. that s all i m saying. has nothing to do pelosi said it was an insult to even come here under these circumstances. and lecture americans about security in israel. who better to talk about security in israel than the prime minister of israel? and he is more than welcome to talk about that, he has a huge platform. he has a big stage, and there are many he could have chosen to do that. he chose to use a politically destructive platform. it s not politically destructive. please. please yourself and your destructiveness and destructive that. if you interpret the speech, iran was not the target obama was. thank you. and the point, no which is fine, except that what netanyahu was trying to convey jeffrey would appreciate it
works at a venture capitalist and a guy that goes in and restructures company. that has nothing to do with the economy. are you drinking again? are you nuts? be careful. she has a point. mitt romney restructured companies. did it take lay offs? sometimes it takes layoffs. you ended up with a healthier firm. and he restructured, why? why? why? because he would fail. because companies . eric is right. he went into troubled 16s. but democrats like to be able to lecture americans on when and when it is not appropriate to make money. look, capitalism is based on wins and losses. not just based on wins. now, obama will tell you let him take your taxpayer money and gamble and he will never have a loss but with solyndra and sun power .