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And northern iraq and find a replacement government for the islamic state. but they are just not helping. >> so you hear from really military experts across the board, bob, who say you need the local forces to defeat isis. particularly sunnis. and you have republican presidential candidate calling for this effort, he said the similar thing to jake tapper yesterday on "state of the union". >> there must be a ground force put together to confront them. and it must be a ground force made up of prim...

>> the threat from terrorism is real. but we will overcome it. >> reporter: president obama admits the isis threat is evolving. his strategy, air strikes, arming iraqis and syrian rebels, special opes forces, cutting off finances, ending the syrian war. but not treating muslims differently here. >> we must enlist muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate. >> reporter: hes urging congress to end gun sales for those on the no-fly list...

We can defeat them. if we employ the power of the united states in a true coalition with others around the world, we can defeat this group. but it will take a combination of things. it will take a substantial ground force to which the primary bulk of it must be made up of local sunni arabs, but there will be the necessity to significantly increase the number of u.s. special operators embedded alongside them. >> do you have a number? >> i think thats why you ask military officers to design a stra...

I think what we want to do is make sure we have every tool at our disposal to, number one, destroy their would-be caliphate in syria and in iraq, number two, do everything we can to dismantle this very effective, virtual jihadist network that they are using on the internet. >> weve got a growing crisis on our hands in the middle east with isis. so i think its important that the president begin to outline how theyre going to be defeated. air strikes alone arent going to do it, certainly not the l...

The president tonight? >> that hes going to change his strategy and come up with a regional army to go in and destroy the caliphate in raqqah, syria. that hes going to abandon what is not working. hes overwhelmed by radical islam in general. he doesnt have a strategy to destroy isil. i just came back from iraq with my 36th trip, and here is what i can tell you. the paris attack was highly sophisticated, well planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11, and theres a 9/11-...

I hope the president will work with us to reverse that so the intelligence agencies have access to a full picture. hes issued a series of presidential directives that have weakened our ability to gather intelligence. i hope that will be changed as well. when it comes to isis and around the world theyre a growing threat in multiple countries. theyre beginning to pop up in yemen. theyre growing their influence in afghanistan. they have a significant influence in libya, as i pointed out for months ...

The police are playing that down, though the chief did tell the juneau empire newspaper that that assault is one of the possibilities out there but it also could have been a fall or something else. the deputy mayor will take over his duties. she was a long-time friend of guess fisk, even taught his son in the sixth grade. >> we are devastated. he was a wonderful person and friend. from the calls ive been seving, im not the only one who has felt hes a wonderful person and good friend to juneau. >...

Radicalizing british muslims. so let me take this head on. british muslims are appalled by daesh. these women-raping, mud limb-murdering, medieval monsters, they are hijacking the peaceful religion of islam for their warped ends. >> reporter: ten-hour debate, carol, ahead of this vote tonight. and a few people skeptical about what he has to say, what sort of plans has he got for after the attack? and will it work without ground troops? he argues theres enough rebel forces on the ground that they...

While the president is overseas sounding alarms on global warming, an attack is imminent in afghanistans capital of kabul and thats according to our embassy there. its received credible reports it may happen in the next 48 hours. residents are asked to move with extreme caution about the city. lindsey graham is urging more troops to fight in the middle east before another attack happens here. >> there is no ground force being formed in syria, and if you dont look at iraq and syrias battle space,...

Impact u.s. interest as well. breaking isis territorial control over iraq is the key concern and that has to, i think, require substantial, thousands of well organized conventional forces that go and drive them out of their control. >> where would the soldiers be positioned and how many are we talking about here? ball park. >> im a retired military guy. i spent 25 years in the military. me as an individual is not going to map out an entire campaign for iraq. looking historically and logically on...