comprehensive plan to defeat isis as quickly as possible. i know the chairman of the joint chiefs with the joint chiefs worked on this. they have briefed the white house on it. the white house is not gonna disclose all the details of it, for obvious reasons. but we will begin to see more installments on this plan as we go after isis at raka and all undermind their finances, under mind their ideology and work with our allies to defeat isis in the countries it s expanded into. sandra: talk about the central region and the security challenge that we face there. cent com commander spoke ab this on the threats in the middle east. listen to this. the central region has come to represent many of the security challenges our nation faces. most importantly, the threats in
immediately. both sides say the case is headed for the supreme court. john roberts joins me. john, how is the white house laying out its case? reporter: you heard the president there laying out one of the arguments saying we need strong programs of people coming into this country. that was met with applause, cheers from the gathered crowd there at cent com. the white house is preparing a brief that it s going to to the 9th circuit court of appeals laying out its case to get a temporary restraining order to have the ban lifted. white house sources tell me among the things they will argue is as follows. that the president acted within his constitutional powers when he signed that kpeufrbg order. that the constitution gives him broad authority over national security which includes, within limit who, is let into the country and when they are let into the country.
2013. he led cent com. because he is only three years uniform he needs a congressional waiver to serve as defense secretary. he isn t the only general who president-elect trump is surrounding himself these days. he already named mike flynn to be his national security adviser and retired general david petraeus is in the running apparently for secretary of state. so is retired general john kelly. trump said in the campaign he knows more about isis than the generals he seems to be leaning on a lot of them during this transition. the question ask is there a point of too many generals as far as congress is concerned? my next guest from the washington post david ignatius who understand why we have these laws. let s go into that. what makes our democracy different from others where we allow the military to be in our governing system and where we
know when to run. you never count your money, you know, some people call them when you re sitting at the ta. rednecks. you re not going to take my gun. what? you get it? well, there s no way in tar i get the gist, yeah. nation that the government can geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent take all of the guns. or more on car insurance. our family we have a lot of guns. shotguns. breaking news to report for you know? the kids start out with bb guns, you right now. one year after the u.s. launched a $500 million program to train with air rifles. sounds like guns mean family. rebel fighters in syria, a major they are. i ve brought both of i bought detour. officials just announced a three semiautomatic pistol dramatically scaled back new strategy. the pentagon had hoped to train pistols, .22s, and gave both of some 5,000 rebel fighters each my son-in-laws these to have. year for three years. shy cheyenne was shot by this today, cent-com said only 20 rebels
don t know. the devices he had, electronic devices have being flown up here to the fbi s crime lab in virginia just a short distance from here in washington. and they will go through them very thoroughly to try to see if they can reconstruct the recent communications. without that, so far, they say they don t what his motive was. we ll wait to see what new details we ll get with that. and now, pete thanks so much. you bet. we want to go into what we have just gotten in from cent-com, chairman mccall with an update about what he knows on the situation. let s listen to that. i have a lot of emotions about what happened yesterday. this is the event we have been most worried about and then it happened. i don t know how many more of these could happen but i can tell you there are isis investigations in all 50 states across the united states of america. they re permeating our society and this country through the