senate to be a little bit dispassionate about this. do not get out ahead of the facts whether you are a democrat or republican. let the public know what the facts were about the russian hacking about the alleged coordination with the trump campaign and about alleged surveillance of trump officials. the public deserves to know. exactly. should not be a debate about devin nunes the media and very happy to make it. we have to get back to what happens. melissa: let s end on a note we can all agree on. it is a mess. let s leave it there. we all agree on that. thanks a lot, guys. appreciate your time. eric. eric: the biggest humanitarian crisis in decades we are told is now sweeping central africa even as critics point out president trump s proposed budget for the united nations looks to cut american relief for such emergencies. three african-american nations are on the bridge of famine. my gearia, somalia and south sudan according to the u.n. if the u.s. does not help, the drought a
a political entity that has a border. you can debate where it has. it has borders. when you speak of isis. we are speaking of a state in a political region. a caliphate makes claims. makes moral claims on muslims throughout the world. now obviously only a small minority of muslims think that this self-declared caliphate has a claim on them. but it means it s geographical expanse is basically universal. it s basically worldwide. that s one of the reasons we are seeing essentially self actualized isis groups popping up not only in europe, north africa, my gearia, afghanistan, pakistan and, of course, now most infamously in san bernadino, california. all right. let me bring in mr. woolsey here because bret is right and we is should properly think of isis now paris and
january, president obama kicking off the year with an interview in the new yorker compare ago rise in islamic movement in iraq to a jay vee team. a comparison the president would later regret. ultimately we are going to defeat them. a long way, a long way from when you described them as a jay vee team. was it bad intelligence or your misjudgment? keep in mind i wasn t specifically referring to isil. eventually the president authorizing military action. hundreds of air strikes, even deploying troops to the region. in what some say is a failed reentry into iraq. then, in april, the boko haram terrorist group strikes in my gearia, kidnapping more than 300 school girls. we thought they were soldiers and they asked us to board a vehicle. my friends and i jumped in the vehicle and ran back home because we realize they don t like innocent to us. ruthless killers holding the girls hostage in the name of jihad. july 1st, controversy. the united states swapping
interview in the new yorker compare ago rise in islamic movement in iraq to a jay vee team. a comparison the president would later regret. ultimately we are going to defeat them. a long way, a long way from when you described them as a jay vee team. was it bad intelligence or your misjudgment? keep in mind i wasn t specifically referring to isil. eventually the president authorizing military action. hundreds of air strikes, even deploying troops to the region. in what some say is a failed reentry into iraq. then, in april, the boko haram terrorist group strikes in my gearia, kidnapping more than 300 school girls. we thought they were soldiers and they asked us to board a vehicle. my friends and i jumped in the vehicle and ran back home because we realize they don t like innocent to us. ruthless killers holding the girls hostage in the name of jihad. july 1st, controversy. the united states swapping key taliban prisoners from
this discovery and announces it in an important speech, the white house acts like it s really something new. and sadly, the speech was simply a recitation of what the president has already he e bit differently. i m one beat off on this. i see speech different. i think the president owes it to the american people to lay out foreign policy. i would love to see it at the press conference in the white house press corps asking probing questions about syria, my gearia, you name it, everything. but i see this as just sort of his opportunity to sort of give a speech and we don t get to hear more and it s not even a commencement speech. well, it certainly wasn t a commencement speech. i thought the reaction by the graduating cadets was about as tepid a response to a commander and chief as you can politely get away with. but i think people looking for the explanation of the obama doctrine, which was basically what the white house promised are going to be sorely disappointed. because there is