we will be coming back to you. let s talk a little bit about the military angle we may hear discussed when the president and members of his national security council come out that side door and take their places around this podium there. jack jacobs, retired u.s. army colonel, recipient of the medal of honor in the vietnam war and our military affairs analyst, jack, what can, i know you have been asked this before, what can the president do militarily if it was you and him and he was coming to you asking for a list of options? not very much, quite frankly. at the end of the day, it s interesting that isis is rooted in territory. you can t have a caliphate unless you control territory. so just bombing discriminately even will not get you where you want to go. you actually have to control the territory that isis wants to control. that s going to take people on the ground. we are not going to put our
use of our diplomatic means to convince others in the region to actually get serious about combatting isis and other movements in the region, that s going to have to get better. we are great at using the military instrument of power as far as it goes, but by itself, it s not going to get it done. retired u.s. army colonel, recipient of medal of honor, jake jacobs, our military affairs analyst, thanks. we are, i should tell you as we watch this door, we are inside the two-minute warning. an official came out to the podium. that means the president and his entourage, specifically members of the national security council, are on their way to the room. we should be hearing from them shortly. again, you will see a lot of braid, presumably, among senior military officials. some will remain off to the side. you will see the secretary of defense but you will also see quite a sizeable domestic