Americans approve of the job president obama is doing. Thats lower than george w. Bushs numbers in 2006 and bill clintons. Martha if you work in the white house you cannot be very happy. These are stunning numbers are. Reporter these are appalling numbers for a sitting president. Im sure the white house has seen numbers like this in their relentless polling. It becomes apparent, though, to us, that the president badly misjudged his initial response to the beheading of one american until and then the second. The round of golf, the detached attitude, the some of the language. What you are seeing tonight as americans are peopling intense awareness of those two murders that the president is going to try to respond in a more forceful tone. Martha one of the things we learned is the story of the beheading of these two journalists grabbed americas attention like no other. The decision to go golfing afterwards was a continue ear the likes of which we have not seen in a long time. It was an ate
Headed back to the federal prison about 30 or 40 miles away from where i am standing. As you said, it was march 31st when tahmooressi crossed border with his guns in his vehicle. Today, the two customs agents who stopped him who went through his belongings, they took the stand, under crossexamination, by tam reissys attorney fernandez. He attempted to undermine their credibility by claiming they had falsified certain reports and admitted that they admitted unstable information. The attorney for the Customs Agency said that was not accurate. That in fact these guys were following protocol. The attorney claims that the search was illegal. That the agents violated tame reissys civil rights by denying him a lawyer. Access to the u. S. Consulate and a proper translator in over 8 hours of custody trying to convince the judge that that evidence should be thrown out o. Thats the argument that he is making as we know he this has been probably go on, greta, for several more months. Back to you.
Varsity. That turned out to be very wrong. Then last week he told us they had no strategy to the surprise of nobody. In syria . Well, and for dealing with isis. And he hasnt had a strategy for dealing with isis. And at this point, we have seen isis declare war on the United States. They are crucifying christians. He they are beheading children. They have beheaded two american journalists and they have done so on the world stage, policemenning an intent to take jihad to america. To get isis you have to go to syria. You are opposed to boots on the ground, right . My we have to set the objective of taking isis out. Assume set the objective we dont want isis. Secretary of defense hagel has been scary the way he has warned everybody. Assuming he wants that, boots on the ground or not . We can do this predominantly through a concentrated air campaign. Isis are diffuse. They are covering too much territory. They are 10 to 15,000 people on the ground. And but what wep simply lob a missile, dro
Good evening, sir. Good evening, greta, how are you . Great. Lets talk about the wisdom of calling isis or isil or anyone else doing terrorism in january as jv. Well, when ive listened to those comments made by josh earnest, those were inane, incompetent and idiotic. Can you imagine if we had sat back in england and they said, look, lets allow Adolph Hitler to take Everything Else he wants, hes not really serious and well just wait until he drops bombs on us. Thats exactly what chamberlain did wi hitler. They gave him over to czechoslovakia. What josh earnest is doing, and the Obama Administration is doing, is trying to relegate and define isis, and in a term, or ideology that fits into their own National Security strategy. So they dont have to take an action. If i was our allies in the middle east such as israel, jordan, egypt, and also the uae, i would be very nervous as well as the people in europe who are going to start seeing this terrorism exported. Id be very nervous about the s
Which, by the way, recently ambassador ryan rocker, among others we could have left a stabilizing force behind and has continued to misjudge and is continuing not to do enough could i just talk about whats happening now for a second, greta. That is we are going to need more boots on the ground. We are going to need more robust air strikes. Isis is still on the move. They cant take baghdad but its very possible that they could attack baghdad. Were going to have to have more boots on the ground. In syria, tragically, there is no coordination or cooperation with the Free Syrian Army for the air attacks there. In fact, bashar assad is moving into these places that the attacks are moving isis out of and making it worse for the Free Syrian Army. Finally some of those shots you see of buildings, hit why the missiles so accurately, some of those buildings were already empty because they we gave them ample warning senator i dont mean to kick him when he is down he said on 60 minutes two nights