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For debate. senator ted cruz said he would launch an indiscriminate campaign against isis known as carpet bombing. would you carpet bomb where there s lots of civilians? yes or no? you use air power directed and you have embedded special forces to direct the air power. reporter: but directed strikes, as he calls them, are the opposite of carpet bombing. we need a president reporter: the senator also blamed the obama administration for not identifying social media posts made by san bernardino shooter, tashfeen malik, before being granted a visa to the u.s. we didn t monitor the facebook posting of the female san bernardino terrorist, because the obama dhs thought it would be inappropriate. she made a public call to jihad and they didn t target it. reporter: while it s true ....
Securities. this president hasn t kept us safe. reporter: still their command of some of the defense topics was, well, up for debate. senator ted cruz has said he would launch an indiscriminate bombing campaign against isis, a tactic known as carpet bombing. as opposed to the surgical strikes the u.s. currently uses. would you carpet bomb raqqah, the isis capital, where there are a lot of civilians? yes or no? you would carpet bomb where isis is. not a city, but the location of the troops. you use air power directed, and you have embedded special forces to direct the air power. reporter: but directed strikes, as he calls them, are the opposite of carpet bombing. we need a president reporter: the senator also blamed the obama administration for not identifying social media posts made by san bernardino shooter, tashfeen malik, before being granted a visa to the u.s. we didn t monitor the facebook posting of the female san bernardino terrorist, because the obama dhs thou ....
There are a lot of civilians? yes or no? you would carpet bomb where isis is, not a city, but the location of the troops. you use air power directed and you have embedded special forces to direct the air power. reporter: but directed strikes, as he calls them, are the opposite of carpet bombing. the senator also blamed the obama administration for not identifying social media posts made by san bernardino shooter tashfeen malik before being granted a visa to the u.s. we didn t monitor the facebook posting of the san bernardino terrorist, because the obama dhs thought it would be inappropriate. she made a public call to jihad and they didn t target it. reporter: while it s true that malik s social media trail was not reviewed during the visa process, her views on jihad would not have been found without a warrant, because they were expressed in private direct messages, not in one public social media postings. cnn s jake tapper pressed cruz on the issue. that s my understanding, ....
Posts made by san bernardino shooter tashfeen malik before being granted a visa to the u.s. we didn t monitor the facebook posting of the female san bernardino terrorist because the obama dhs thought it would be inappropriate she made a public call to jihad and they didn t target it. reporter: while it s true malik s social media trail was not reviewed during the visa process, her views on jihad would not have been found without a warrant because they were expressed in private direct messages, not in public social media postings. cnn s jake tapper pressed cruz on the issue. that s my understanding is that the message that she wrote was, first of all, in another language, second of all in a pseudonym and third of all in a private message she was sending back and forth with friends. if we re not capable of understanding urdu, we shouldn t be processing visa applications but this wasn t posted on her page. this was a private message. ....
The president should maybe ask for a resignation. greta: doesn t seem to be a lot of action. i mean, it s astounding to me there s no sense of honor, saying we failed, we didn t monitor, we had a dumb idea we, cost the taxpayers, and now it s time for me to go. what people are saying at the department of energy and the white house is this program will still prove to be a success. more loan guarantees out, just today they approved another billion dollars in loan solar companies in the western potentially next 48 hours. greta: there s so much cash in this country, people sitting on cash, if that s such a great idea, the federal government doesn t have to do that lending, because these are such great business ideas, so much cash out there, that it s astounding that the federal government is still doing this. anyway, i hope i m wrong. greta: coming up, your money, your rights, all and your ....