us to send in special opes to destroy those training centers, social media centers do that, destroy them, protect our freedom and get out. how long would you be willing to commit u.s. troops to fight isis? i don t want to see us occupy a country. i ve been to iraq a couple of times and afghanistan. the first time i went, i had an uneasy feeling when we went there, we were liberators. as we stayed, we became occup r occupiers. i saw american troops move into some of saddam s old hideous marble palaces. i thought that was exactly the wrong message. we do not have to occupy. we do not have to nation build and create a democracy where one hasn t existed. destroy isis, protect our safety and freedom and then get out. senator graham, you called for u.s. ground troops in iraq and syria. two years ago. as you know, there is a growing isis presence right now in libya. yes. are you roady to destroy u.s.
a million soldiers, ten years, $1 trillion, trying to create a democracy where one hasn t existed. but to destroy the recruitment areas, destroy the area, destroy where they plan to attack us, and get out. mishandling be he is making the case the country was better off under george bush. isis didn t exist when my brother was president. al qaeda was wiped out when my brother was president. there were mistakes made for sure but the surge created a stable iraq that president could have built on. on his speech on climate change he stayed clear of the strategy and argued that global warming is a national security threat contributing to the area in syria where isis took root. syria descended into civil
post 9/11 you showed where new republicans would be. it was a more muscular policy the dick cheney policy marco rubio clearly put his feet in that camp. ted cruz goes back and forth on some of these issues. lindsey graham is in that camp. george pataki on this program yesterday, former governor of new york, we think of him as moderate to more liberal republican. george pataki saying look at the isis threat look at the isis gains, maybe the president of the united states the next commander in chief if the next one won t do it think about ground troops. i don t want to see us put in a million soldiers spend ten years, a trillion dollars trying to create a democracy where one hasn t existed. but send in troops destroy their training centers, destroy their recruitment centers, destroy the area where they are looking to plan to attack us here and then get out. and leave a little note behind you come back so will we. again, a fascinating, interesting and important substantive divide amon
taxing the wealthy and then redistributing that wealth is somehow going to trickle down. we ve seen those policies for the past two terms, the past six, almost seven years now. and income inequality has wide widened widened. poverty has worsened. people are skeptical as a sell. when bernie sanders says that or hillary clinton comes out and lays out policy i think people are going to want a little bit more behind that idea. it just hasn t played out the way that democrats have thought. raising the minimum wage taxing the wealthy isn t the economic boost. the economy is getting better but the wage gap persists and obama administration and democrats haven t been able to solve that problem. it s true. they ve solved more than the republicans did. the president has gotten unemployment rate down and people back to work and you see wages creep up. what people want to know poverty is worsened. how have they solved it more?
reporter: republican senator john mccain slammed the president for allowing isis to seize the key iraqi city of ramadi. and laid into white house press secretary josh ernest for snapping back at critics this way. are we going to light our hair on fire every time there is a setback? we are seeing a dark chapter in american history. and it s getting darker. because in response to a slaughter in ramadi the answer seems to be let s not set our hair on fire. reporter: frustration with the battle against isis has some gop presidential candidates floating the idea of sending u.s. troops into combat in iraq. something the white house has ruled out. i don t want to see us put in a million soldiers spend ten years, $1 trillion trying to create a democracy where one hasn t existed. but send in troops destroy their training centers, recruitment centers, and then get out. reporter: jeb bush who