And republican candidate scott held this seat after winning the Congressional Election in 2015. Prior to serving in congress, he represented Virginia Beach in the house of delegates. Taylor served overseas as a navy seal sniper. He received a bachelors and a masters degree in International Relations from harvard. The debatemoderate is National Political reporter joe st. George. He has covered National Politics for a number of years. Thank you for being here. Joe should be a fascinating hourlong discussion. My job is quite simple. Ask questions on the minds of voters as they vote. We know plenty of virginians are already voting. My second job, enforce the rules. 90 second answers, 62nd report 60 secondrt rebuttals. First, opening statements. Congresswoman luria, you won the coin toss. Rep. Luria thank you so much for hosting this important conversation tonight. Luria. Is elaine im currently your representative in the virginia Second District. Im a 20 year navy veteran. I served in the o
Jordan, saudi arabia and qatar. Three of the nations were involved in the airstrikes. Diplomatic who or victory for the white house. There was a lot of fear that if we went in this alone, the u. S. Would be seen as launching another war in the muslim world. A war in the arab world. To have these key arab states participating was a big deal for the white house. I think youll hear the president build on this and the idea of the threat by isis. And the need to cut off funding of the organization and the foreign fighters. To thell be the focus u. N. Speech. We talked a lot about this idea of coalition building. Thoughts,s for your we had a list on the screen a couple moments ago of the nations that are aired. Countriesno western involved. Is that something you expect to change . Guest the french have been involved in the attacks on iraq in recent weeks. There have been western european involvement. Germans, and the french have been heavily involved in providing weapons or humanitarian aid
If youre going to preach the stuff, you need to live it. Host our last caller in this segment. Up next, Susan Crabtree joins us. She is the White House Correspondent for the Washington Examiner. Isisll talk about recruiting western fighters. We will be right back. Here are just a few of the comments we have received from our viewers. The historical educational informative and highly educational. They are invaluable to a Young Society today. I highly encourage you guys to show more. I am watching nancy pelosi. I accuse cspan of being a liberal. This is a classic example of what i am talking about. We dont need her giving a weekly briefing. Dietn sees that we get a of nancy pelosi. Most of the time she never tells the truth. Give us a break. I enjoy your programming. The examination of little bighorn and all of it is very good programming. Whatntinue to let us know you think about the programs you are watching a. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Cam
To understand the nature of the threat were facing from this group and also syria, which is involved with the group, you need to see that his is one of the few times we have watched a different affiliate in the greater Al Qaeda Network in order to carry out a specific threat against the United States. We have other sources we can look at and say, they have been quite grating or coordinating with each other on local issues. There are all sorts of reports of alshabaab members in africa or even in yemen helping out with fights there, and you have also reports of aqim pretty much all over north africa, cord knitting with different grips. This is the first time we have seen a specific plot against the United States where two different groups are coordinating with each other. But this is not the only place we are seeing this. We have also had a threat from both aqim and together to the United States for their attacks on isis. This is again an unprecedented that we have these huge groupings o
Experience on an iowa farm kas traiting hogs, she was using that to make the point that she would go to washington and cut pork and the tag line of that was, lets make them squeal. I think that not only got a lot of air play nationaly, but it was big in iowa. A lot of the polls have shown that she is doing very well her men and i suspect that and the to enof that tone of thatd may have helped a lot that ad may have helped a lot. I think ads are very influential in this race. Y were familiar with iowas 99 counties, every four years theyre first in the nation in president ial caucuses. Can you give our audience an overview of the political geography of iowa and what youre looking for as the numbers come in on Election Night . Iowas a purple state and one of the most purple in the country. We still have a divided legislature, house is held by the republicans, the senate is held by the democrats. And by a very brief majority. The republican governor is cruising for reelection. His race is