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Reasonable. 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 reasonab...

Plan to defeat isis in a speech to the council on foreign relations in new york last week. the republican party long held an advantage in national security issues a new poll out today suggests they might not have that edge in 2016. the poll finds americans trust hillary clinton to handle the threat of terrorism over all her gop rivals. clinton leads donald trump by eight points, ben carson by nine, ted cruz eight, marco rubio by four and jeb bush by three. while the former secretary of state is ...

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...

Voters arent sure who is the gop. we have a huge field with more than 12 candidates, a new speaker of the house. its not surprising at this point she might get a bump in terms of those numbers. we have to remember there is a year until election day. there is a lot of time once there is a nominee chosen to make their case. it is hard to see where hillary will be the one seen as more hawkish or trustworthy on foreign policy and defeating isis. >> if there is a deeper dive into foreign policy, hill...

Paris. a new poll found more than 4-5 americans fear a large-scale terror attack in the near future. over the weekend, president obama urged americans not to give into fear. characterizing isis as a bunch of killers with good social media. >> we do not succumb to fear. thats the primary power these terrorists have, of course. the most powerful tool we have to fight isil is to say that were not afraid, to not elevate them. to somehow buy into their fantasy that theyre doing something important. t...

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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 british prime minister david ca...

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While we are doing that, we need to have better intelligence collection and sharing among all the intelligence agencies cooperating in this fight against isis. >> the sheer multiplicity of this threat almost seems impossible to conquer. we have investigations around the world, all 50 states, the travel warning including boko haram. >> unfortunately its only because of what happened in paris people paid attention. its extremely important to understand more americans die from ordinary things like ...

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