Characterizing Isis News Today

One of the things i insisted on the day i walked into the oval office was that i dont want intelligence shaded by politics, i dont want it shaded by the desire to tell a feel-good story. we cant make good policy unless weve got good, accurate, hard-headed, clear-eyed intelligence. >> welcome back to "hardball." president obama wants to get to the bottom of reports u.s. military officials may have altered intelligence reports on isis after "the new york times" revealed the inspector general is wi...

With two wars going on. right now after paris, we certainly see the public opinion shifted toward the need for some kind of ground troops. that concession is no longer banned like it was before from public discussion. folks dont want somebody too hawkish. thats how hillary has an advantage over donald trump, for example and others who want to bomb the whatever out of isis. she has an image for more sensible experience with foreign policy and not that eager to get us involved in a deeper war. >> ...

Altered reports may have been. white house is greatly pushing back on the notion that this intelligence informed the presidents decision-making. >> dozens of analysts have come forward at centcom which oversees our military operations in iraq and syria and said we were providing assessments that werent making it into the final product. our assessments were not as rosey as the intelligence rising up going to policy makers in washington.rosy as the intelligence rising up going to policy makers in ...

They cannot let paranoia take hold of them. the reason isis keeps releasing these videos, they released seven videos in the last eight days. they keep doing this because they want to create a drum beat. they want to spread fear. they want to spread paranoia. its one thing to take into account a serious threat and take reasonable precautions. its another thing to go out and start denying refugees any right to come here, to start talking about not going shopping, these are not reasonable reactions...

As forensic experts further their investigation. we did speak with several witnesses on the scene. there was an area students, there is a dormitory in and around that area. several students were told to leave their homes early in the afternoon. the entire street was cordoned off. this is a city that has been on edge since these attacks ten days ago that killed 130 people. you see the memorial behind me. this is a city that tried to bounce back. today french president francois hollande hosted bri...

Camera crews fan out every day. their ubiquitous presence distorting the events that fighters and executioners often perform multiple takes and read their lines from cue cards. does this sound like something you ever heard of? >> no. it its risen to a level. as they had people join isis in syria and iraq with 20,000 foreign fighters, we have not as a whole of government, ngos or communities really gotten together and help counter this narrative isis has been able to send across the internet from...

Right now after paris, we certainly see the public opinion shifted toward the need for some kind of ground troops. that concession is no longer banned like it was before from public discussion. folks dont want somebody too hawkish. thats how hillary has an advantage over donald trump, for example and others who want to bomb the whatever out of isis. she has an image for more sensible experience with foreign policy and not that eager to get us involved in a deeper war. >> how did you read the num...

There is not just one solution. responding to this to help turn the tide. >> thank you. >> thank you. coming up, fear and loathing in the republican party. 2016 front-runner donald trump says thousands of people in new jersey were cheering after the september 11th attacks. it is just not true. it never happened and yet donald trump is only getting stronger in the polls. plus, did u.s. military intelligence cook the books on isis to paint a rosier picture about the fight against the terror gr...

Their ubiquitous presence distorting the events that fighters and executioners often perform multiple takes and read their lines from cue cards. does this sound like something you ever heard of? >> no. its risen to a level. as they had people join isis in syria and iraq with 20,000 foreign fighters, we have not as a whole of government, ngos or communities really gotten together and help counter this narrative isis has been able to send across the internet from syria and north africa. we have ye...

Maybe everybody would have ignored at one point, right? >> its certainly clear the administration seemed like they were caught off guard in the summer of 2014 when there was beheadings and we found ourselves back on a war footing in iraq and syria. because of there there are a lot of questions. was the administration ignoring things? what intelligence were they getting? why didnt they anticipate isis was going to be as powerful as it was? there have been a lot of questions. republicans have wond...