and indeed to tear up the entire world. we must deny the terrorists safehaven, transit, funding and any form of support for their vile and sinister ideology. we must drive them out of our nations. it is time to expose and hold responsible those countries who support and finance terror groups like al qaeda, hezbollah, the taliban and others that slaughter innocent people. the united states and our allies are working together throughout the middle east to crush the loser terrorists and stop the reemergence of safehavens they use to launch attacks on all of our people. last month i announced a new strategy for victory in the fight against this evil in
in iraq and syria. our objective is clear. we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil. reporter: key elements of the president s plan include sending 475 more u.s. troops to iraq to train and advise the iraqi security forces. expanding u.s. air strikes in iraq. training moderate rebels fighting isis in syria. and in the biggest escalation, white house officials say the president has decided to launch air strikes on isis safehavens in syria. although they won t say when. if you threaten america, you will find no safehaven. reporter: in iraq, isis controls 1/3 of the country stretching deep into northern syria where they spread fear with a sophisticated social media campaign. u.s. officials say isis is the biggest terror threat since 9/11. these terrorists are unique in their brutality. they execute captured prisoners. reporter: the videotaped
who were harboring osama bin laden, in the overall scheme of things, it s probably a mino bump in the road because what the u.s. is really trying to develop is a more trusting relationship and a more cooperation from the pakistani military and intelligence services in going after some of those bigger taliban and al qaeda targets who still enjoy those safehavens inside pakistan. they emphasize that is the primary goal here and not these five who are taken into custody. jim, thank you. okay. politics now, gop favorites chris christie and marco rubio making waves. we ll tell you where and why. congressman anthony weiner comes face to face with his wife for the first time since the sixting scandal escalated. will he resign or hold study? my doctor told me calcium
9/11. it became too hot for them after 2004. they went to the tribal regions. now they re going back into the cities. which is, you know, a good news/bad news story because the cities, there are a lot of people, a lot of eyes, if you make phone calls, these kinds of things, signals intelligence, so, you know, they re really sort of stuck. their previous safehavens have become less safe over time. and as you pointed out, in a city, in karachi, a city of 13 million people and the influx of more and more people coming across the border every day it seems, how do how does this change how we tackle this war on terror and how we try to route out those that have south safe haven in pakistan? there was a phase between the fall of the taliban in the winter of 2001 and 2004 where all these guys, all the al qaeda leaders were being captured in pakistani cities, whether it was karachi or other big pakistani cities, and, you know, logging on to the internet, making cell