Topic at the White House Briefing. Were keeping an eye on it and will be taking you there live. First, lets bring in White House CorrespondentMichelle Kosinski as well as security correspondent jim sciutto. The president said he had no strategy yet and now hes preparing to move for a speech on wednesday to explain the isis game plan, as he put it. Heres what he said on nbcs meet the press. What i want people to understand is that over the course of months we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of isil, were going to shrink the territory that they control and ultimately were going to defeat them. So what more will we hear from the president this week about the plan to defeat isis . Thats really the question, michelle, what are we expecting . Were not really sure how much more detail were going to hear. We know what we have heard from not only the president there in that address over the weekend but also from different members of the administration, kind of ever since that fateful day when we heard him say that he didnt have a strategy yet. The white house has been careful to say, okay, those words only related to a military portion for syria but the white house has repeatedly said there is a strategy. Its going to be a phased approach. First to degrade and destroy isis in iraq and its interesting to hear the kind of evolution of how the white house has framed that plan. I mean, first it was degrade and destroy and now they say degrade and ultimately destroy. Over the past week or so, weve been hearing them really manage expectations because they want to say, yes, the goal is to destroy isis. Theyve been putting that ultimately in there and weve heard different members of the administration saying its going to take time. The president himself, weve heard him say that. Specifically, one of his top advisers last week said it could take years, especially dealing with the syria component. They want this to be wellplanned out. It could be long beyond this administration. We heard john kerry, during the nato summit, when he addressed the coalition, these ten nations meeting together on the last day to come up with this plan and the administration has repeatedly emphasized that coalition is a key part. We heard kerry say, okay, we do have the ability to defeat isis but it could take one years, two years, it could take three years. Brianna . And michelle, you know, we hear president obama, hes repeated that there will be no u. S. Combat boots on the ground. I want all of you to listen to this and well talk about it on the other side. This is not going to be an announcement about u. S. Ground troops. This is not the ee kwquivalent the iraq war. Its similar to the kinds of counterterrorism campaigns that weve been engaging in consistently over the last five, six, seven years. So no boots on the ground. Thats obviously going to mean that the u. S. Needs some help from its friends. Saudi arabia, jordan, turkey, the uae . He wants to have allies on the ground. The west u. S. Interacting from afar. This is why secretary of state john kerry is going to the region to help build that kind of support. So far its been largely humanitarian. You have them sending millions of dollars to help buy humanitarian aid. They want help on isis. They want the saudis to support syrian rebel groups fighting assad. This is key. While the president is saying no boots on the ground, you need some sort of ground force to help take back and hold territory as you if youre successful, as you degrade isis from the air in the coming months and years. Who is that group going to be . Its not going to be american troops. The u. S. Does not expect the saudis to be sending in their forces. But also crucially, you want the sunni tribes on your side. If not fighting along isis, theyve been helping them progress. You need to get them on the other side of this battle. These are very tall orders going forward. Is there really a belief that, for instance, the syrian rebels, who have been fighting the assad regime, who have come up against isis and who have been so diminuitive compared to the military mite of isis. The performance has not been great. They have been overmatched by isis which is the decision not to arm moderate groups earlier. Had you done that earlier, would isis have been weaker . Would those groups have been stronger . You cant rewrite history at this point but thats left the administration open to criticism. But also theres a question as to how good are they even if you do arm them. Can they stand up to isis possibly with the power of the u. S. Air force and other support, special advisers on the ground, maybe. But still an open question. Ron, this no boots on the ground, this seems to be the key when you hear politicians talking about this. They say, no boots on the ground. That obviously is speaking to the concern that Many Americans have that they may be war weary. We also saw with the targeted strikes in iraq around the mosul dam, trying to push isis back from those areas, the majority of the americans were in support of that. So what really is the landscape here when the president and politicians are looking at what the American People will go for and what they wont . Its a great question because the politics of the middle east seems to be shifting to a point. If you look at the first five years plus of the Obama Administration, clearly the defining, controlling force in the political environment on the middle east was the widespread sense of dissolution about iraq and afghanistan and therefore all of the impetus was towards getting out. And i think the public is still skeptical of a broadscale military invention. Everybody is making clear that is not on the table. But two things havie shifted. The establishment in both parties are increasingly coalescing. And theres questions for the president about why this strategy is coming right now when isis has been consolidating territory for many months. Clearly after these twin savage and if they start to get wrong at any point in the intervention. As we await the White House Briefing, really the First White House briefing that president obama laid out his case for taking on isis in syria on wednesday. Up next, congressional reaction to president obamas coming plan on isis. 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Because if theres one concern ive got, is that the president left early in iraq, he was on track to leave early in afghanistan, he pulled back from syria and, more important than me, other countries, our own military wants to be reassured that whatever plan he comes up with, hes going to stick with it until the job is done. Did you hear that when you heard in his interview yesterday with meet the press, hes talking about defeating isis, hes talking about ultimately defeating isis and obviously there appears to be a management of expectation of the fact that this isnt something that happens overnight or quickly at all. Did you hear that to a satisfactory degree . Well, its certainly Getting Better and the bipartisan criticism that the president has gotten over the lack of strategy, lack of articulating what was at stake i think is starting to sink in but youre hitting on another key point. In addition to looking to whether the president is going to stick with whatever course he lays out, the other question is, is he going to articulate a strategy for the broader Terrorism Group and the world. If were just looking at isis as an organization, were ignoring the growth of terrorism in a whole variety of places. So what we need is its like a virus and the suggestion has been made by Newt Gingrich and others that we need to treat it as a virus and look at how you control a biological epidemic. That broader, longer strategy for dealing with this threat of terrorism, isis, yes, has our focus now but beyond isis is what i really hope we hear from the president. I guess we got a preview yesterday when he was talking about a diplomatic element to his plan, an Economic Development to his plan as well as the military aspect to it. What do you think the u. S. Needs to be doing in iraq and syria to combat isis . Well, there has to be those elements, without question. And a military alone element, especially, you know, dropping a few bombs with air power is certainly not going to get the job done. But if we go to other countries, whether youre talking turkey, saudi arabia, jordan, whoever, and say we want you to help with some money, with presence on the ground or whatever, they are going to be looking to us and say, okay, we may be willing to take that risk but are you going to stick with us . And thats why i think the crucial thing is for the president is to reassure all those other countries and our own people that hes going to stick with it even though it will be tough, there may be some losses but hes got to reassure that hes going to stick with the plan that he lays out. And i wonder tomorrow, what is the view there on capitol hill for this meeting that the president has with congressional leaders . Hell be meeting with the big four. Mcconnell, reid, pelosi, boehner. Is this just a courtesy, hey, guys, this is what im going to say tomorrow or do you think theres going to be any incorporation of ideas here . Well, i hope so. If all of the consultation is is a preview of what hes going to say in his speech, thats not really consultation. The key for success for the president here at home is that hes going to make this a team effort. That means reaching out to congress in a way that he has not done before, certainly in the last several years. So he needs to listen as much as he needs to talk and he needs to broaden it out beyond just the top four leaders because hes going to have to have bipartisan majority supporting his strategy and thats going to require some effort because theres a lot of questions about the president as a commander in chief. Youre also a member of the intelligence committee. Th are you hearing anything that could coincide with the nin9 11 anniversary . Theres always a heightened concern when we approach 9 11. So theres always a heightened awareness. But the truth is, the threats that pose a threat to the United States is greater now than before september 2001. A tightened vigilance, a heightened intelligence effort is really critical. Not just this week but in many, many weeks and months to come. Congressman, well be watching this speech along with you on wednesday and waiting to see what comes our way. Thanks for being with us. Ahead, as we await the White House Press briefing, isis pushes ahead on its social media campaign. This time its online video of the key Syrian Military base. And next, the Fragile Coalition among palestinian leaders may be coming apart. Well fine out what is causing the rift. In life, its how you get there that matters most. Its important to know the difference. Like when i found out i had a blood clot in my leg. My doctor said that it could travel to my lungs and become an even bigger problem. And that i had to take action. So he talked to me about xarelto®. 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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas slammed the leadership at an arab meeting accusing them of a shadowed government in gaza they are saying that Mahmoud Abbas is running the government and operating inside and thus violating the agreements and elections are supposed to be at the end of the year and how are you thinking that may affect this process and abbas, a recent poll shows that the president ial elections right now would meet Mahmoud Abbas but its also important to note that we do not know the entire story about what is going on behind the scenes here. This could be a political ploy by the palestinian president. And all of this comes, this spat is coming a few weeks after the major conflict that lasted for 50 days between israel and hamas. How is israel reacting to the news of this rift . Reporter well, israel is pleased with this rift. They were calling hamas a terrorist organization and urging abbas not to deal with them. They are also wanting the palestinian president to rejoin a dialogue with them. But if we go back to this ceasefire agreement, a big part of it was that Mahmoud Abbas man would take up security along the border thus allowing humanitarian aid. The Palestinian Security forces are not on the gaza border so this could also have consequences for that ceasefire. All right. Ian lee, thank you so much. Russia could start forcing planes to fly around the Russian Air Space for retaliation for the new sanctions against ukraine. The ceasefire which was announced on friday is still technically holding. Prorussian separatists have turned over 1200 prisoners of war as part of the terms of the ceasefire. And were going to hear from president obama on wednesday about his new strategy for fighting isis in syria and iraq. In the meantime, isis is continuing its battle against forces in both of those countries. The Extremist Group is continuing its relentless Public Relations campaign and this time its a video of the Syrian Air Base that isis overran last month. Brian todd joining me now to talk about this latest video. One of the first things we notice is we see it from the eye in the sky point of view. Right, brianna, showing that isis has a drone capability. Theyve put something up in the air, an unmanned vehicle and they are showing that in this video and we believe this may be from the air base capture near raqqa last month. You can see some of the drone video that they have. This could have been after the battle but experts say, look, the fact that they have eyes in the skies at all means that they might be able to, at some point, be able to map out what is over the next ridge. Were going to get a deeper dive into this look at 5 00. And were also seeing some of the