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The back "fracture." joy, as we listen to the president, we talked about this last hour, there was a lot of optimism there. there was a kind of a lightness at the end as we walked out to go see "star wars." where are we at in this presidency. >> this is a man who wrote a book called "the audacity of hope," who came into office in january of 2009, riding an election that was offering the country a complete turn away from the george w. bush era in all things domestic and in terms of foreign policy...

Destroying isis. from your perspective, you have been on the ground in iraq, how -- do their heads and strategies seem wrapped in reality to you? im curious your perspective. >> the biggest problem in iraq and syria is isis sees it as one battlefield and so does iran. iran is sponsoring shia militias in iraq. in syria, iran is propping up assad with russia. so when you talk about a strategy, we dont have a capable ground force in either syria or iraq to actually fight isis. you have to did it wi...

Theology. you say this sounds like gobbly gook, its what they believe. if we dont take it seriously, well make mistakes like invading syria with a ground force and bringing them into the battle they deeply desire. >> dead men dont preach anything. if you dont understand we need a ground force to go into syria, youre not ready to destroy isil. rick, theres nobody left to train inside syria. let the arabs fight this fight, pay for this war, but they need our help. the difference between me and you...

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Administration, certainly a backdrop of great tension and the consensus among just regular americans in the television viewing audience seemed to be that it was missing something. >> reporter: well, there is an acknowledgment and i think given the fact that he was speaking from the oval office, there was an anticipation that he was going to say something new. that didnt happen. so that opened the door for a lot of criticism, particularly from republican candidates. the white house has acknowledg...

>> we are hitting isil harder than ever. coalition aircraft our fighters and drones have increasing the pace of airstrikes. nearly 9,000 as of today. last month in november we dropped more bombs than any other month since this campaign started. were also taking out isil leaders, commanders and killers one by one. the point is isil leaders cannot hide and our next message to them is simple. you are next. >> lets go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, live in washington who w...

Of syria, working with the kurds forces there primarily to improve the air strikes targeting of isis targets there in syria, but to better coordinate u.s. efforts with those on the ground in syria and the 50 special operations forces that the president also authorized to go into iraq not only to provide aid and assistance to ground forces there, but to conduct raids against high value targets in iraq and syria, isis targets, in an effort to gather more intelligence. but we dont have any idea tha...

Iraq was his seminal experience and that, i think, explains the difference between them. >> as we watch the debate on tuesday night, it is all about national security. what are you looking for for some of these other candidates aside from trump to break out and break through on that front? >> what im looking forward is people to talk about the day after. its one thing to say you can bomb isis into oblivion. you cant. even if you had a ground force strong enough to defeat them, we have to talk ab...

Ill be reviewing with your defense secretary, ash carter, later today. >> do you see a scenario where the uk would put boots on the ground? >> no. we said western boots here are not the answer. in iraq, too, the government there made it clear. they dont want british or even with respect, they dont want american troops doing their fighting for them. we have to re-assure the sunnis, particularly, that the security that they need is provided locally by forces that they trust. in iraq, youve got the...