of a doubt and that this leak was perpetrate for the purpose of influencing this campaign and helping donald trump and donald trump has encouraged the russians to do more and we it s reported he was briefed on this breach and he continued to deny that it was the russians in the debate. he said it was some person in their basement so that should be the major concern to american voters that the russians are actively trying to influence this election. as it related to your question about the content there, look, hillary clinton went to the floor of the nasdaq in 2008 and called out the financial industry in very clear terms for the swaps and derivatives, saying they should crash the economy. they did. she s been against the carried interest loophole for a long time now, she s been consistent on that. so the russians can try to mix things up and distract and create diversions in this election for the purpose of helping donald trump. hillary clinton s going to keep talking about the thing
simon, former middle east adviser to president obama and currently a visiting professor at dartmouth college. hillary, what is your reaction to what the president said today? i think that he is doubling down on what i see as a failed strategy, a strategy that embraces militarism and all of its aspects. symbolic aspects by going to the pentagon, surrounding himself with the top brass, dispensing our defense secretariat again to our so-called allies in the persian gulf like saudi arabia, countries that are really part of the problem. and saying essentially telling the american public that this embracing mitt tearism is working and will continue to work. when, in fact, the data just proves the opposite. the number of attacks that isis has been able to perpetrate, their complexity, their geographic scope around the world, the number of recruits, the number of foreign fighters have surged to the battlefield to join isis has increased with his further embrace of militarism. it didn t work
has been able to perpetrate, their come plesity, their geographic scope around the world, the number of recruits, the number of foreign fighters have surged to the battlefield to join isis has increased with his further embrace of mill terism. it didn t work under bush. and unfortunately president obama, i think, under domestic criticism here has instead of focusing on the diplomatic strategy, has really focused most first and foremost on this embrace of militaryism. steven simon, in your article that you entitled why washington s middle east pullback makes sense you wrote, the administration s unwillingness to use ground forces in iraq or syria constitutes not so much a withdrawal as a correction, an attempt to restore the stability that had endured for several decades thanks to american restraint, not american aggre aggressivene aggressiveness.
those networks would radicalize and recruit and plot and perpetrate operations such as the one in paris and the other side of it is i mean, i sort of recall this crowd sourcing jihad. all of this prop, the propaganda and literature isis puts out, they have a monthly magazine they publish in multiple languages and they have all these videos, in fact, the last isis video that i saw is one of the most startlingly impressive pieces of propaganda i ve seen and i study this for a living to be honest and the goal here is to simply do essentially what happened just now, get people to becomrakocome radicalized with isis agents. this is the thing. while isis goes to bed in raqqah and people are plotting these attacks. in away, it s sort of an invisible army of soldiers and, you know, they don t have to all
if you talk about these 15 checkpoints, that s pretty significant, but probably most outside egypt of that region didn t know anything about that. so is there a feeling that the incidentsy rate involving isis in egypt has been underreported or perhaps even underestimated? well, i mean, look, egypt has suffered from, you know, islamist terrorism for the last several decades. this is not terribly new. there have been cases, in fact, of egyptian army soldiers or officers defecting, and essentially going over to the other side, either al qaeda or some offshoot. but i think what worries me the most, apart from, as i mentioned before, that there s people on the inside of the government who might be working with isis is that this is really a new debut for isis. this is exactly what they wanted to perpetrate, right? it s not just about emigration to the kacaliphate and expandin