withdrawing from iraq, steady think will be remembered for redrawing the map of iraq. that country is presently as constituted is not long for this world. you make an interesting point, as americans, we like the idea of being influential in the world, we just don t want to be militarily engaged everywhere. especially now. let me make a turn to the story everybody s talking about, eric cantor, and the surprise defeat. let s listen and i ll bring you in. we ran my campaign the same way that you know, i m trying to focus my work here in the de wait bait in washington. and that s focusing on things that are problems. things happen for a reason. we don t always know right here and now why. i think the perspective of time will actually indicate something that may have seemed really bad at the time, can turn out to be really good. shira, you have the last word
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hitting america. now, we heard several members of congress, now, republicans this morning talking about just in fact how much of a threat that we are going to have to face isis in the homeland if we do not take out this threat while they re overseas. do you agree with that? i had a couple of officials here, some security experts saying it s a little alarmist at this point. where do you come in on it? i think this is a very, very dangerous terrorist organization. there s no doubt that david ignatius is right. they want to build street cred and attack the united states. but ultimately the best way to combat it is really for the iraqi government to take responsibility, the iraqi people to stand up and defend their own country and their own sovereignty. we can continue to be supportive of that. we ve done more than our fair share to train and prepare them. but what s happening today is a failure of the iraqi government and the iraqi people to stand up and defend their own country. so w
one, but trying to overcome that growing groundswell of ideological support from local residents in many of these towns and cities they re overrunning. ayman there for us. thank you very much. i want to turn to california where kristen welker is traveling with the president. on this sunday morning, as you expect, a lot of reaction from key lawmakers on these sunday talk shows. what is the administration saying at this point, and maybe countering what we re seeing op the talk shows from a lot of republicans saying we need to take care of what s happening in iraq? reporter: well, t.j., we reached out to the administration and they said they re just not going to weigh in on the debate we heard this morning on the sunday talk shows. as president obama continues to weigh his options in iraq. i can tell you that the president spoke with his national security adviser susan rice on friday and then on saturday, as he contemplates what the next step looks like. as you point out, he has gotte
maliki, but assad and iran because they re all fighting the same militant group. former head of the united nations monitoring team on al qaeda, and previously served british intelligence agencies. this is your business essentially, terrorism, if you will. what are their capabilities, isis right now? right now they have extreme capabilities, as we can see over the last two days in iraq. and over the last two, three years in syria as well. and their capabilities are not just in being able to mount terrorist attacks or whatever you d like to call it. clearly, also in making strategic alliances with other prospective groups in iraq. what should the level of concern be right now for americans who are very familiar now with al qaeda and what their capabilities were? they were off in some foreign land at some point, that maybe americans on a day-to-day basis didn t pay attention to, and