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Able to pinpoint a link between those killers and isis commanders overseas but says its a major threat facing the country and one he described as being a new threat, new era on the war on terrorism, that is self-radicalized terrorists who draw their inspiration from isis. the president is recommending -- i thought this was a key part of the speech. i think its a policy space that perhaps republicans, democrats can rally around and that is this recommendation that law enforcement and social media...

>> there were two things that struck me. one, obviously there are going to be a lot of conservatives who take issue with his call to make it more difficult to get a semiautomatic rifle or what he called assault weapons and the idea that if youre on a no-fly list you should not be able to buy a gun. there are a lot of republicans and conservatives who have issues and concerns about that and i think a lot of their focus is going to be on that. some other things that i thought were interesting from...

President said about the aumf i think is critically important. not for the reason gloria said, to build the political background, but because when youre a soldier on the ground, you want to know the people that are behind you and the government is behind you. right now, the soldiers on the ground dont know the government is behind them because everyone is fighting about different approaches to take. one of the other thing president might have said was we ought to limit congress from going on dif...

His presidency. he lost the american people, the democrats then lost his fellow republicans. if president obama cannot rally the american people, hes already lost the republicans. the democrats are skittish and nervous. this could be a very defining moment in the presidents political standing not just on the terrorism/isis question but the presidents political standing at home. we dont know the answer to that question yet. we know after the presidents speech he did not change the conversation. t...

>> no, he didnt. >> which presumably would protect syrian refugees and not make them leave that country. >> i dont think he wanted to get into a foreign policy argument with his own former secretary of state at this point in the campaign. also it wasnt that kind of speech, if you will. i think this is a white house that has been completely frustrated by its own inability, and maybe dan pfeiffer could talk about this, by its own inability to communicate what they believe is the policy that they h...

The ft. which we have not really seen any kind of passion before which i think we saw tonight. will that convince the american public that were safer or that were going to be safer? im not so sure, wolf. >> he did wrap up his speech with these words, john. he said "lets not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear, that we have always met challenges whether war or depression, natural disasters, or terrorist attacks, by coming together around our common ideals as one nation, as one people. ...

And as being president, as you say, the world looks a lot different from the holiday inn in des moines than it does from the oval office, being president habeen forced, in his view, to use american military might more than he thought he ever would want to. >> lets bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta over at the white house right now. jim, was the speech that the president delivered from the oval office, was it what you expected based on your briefings going into the speech? ...

House with benjamin netanyahu monday. a 10-year defense deal reportedly worth $30 billion will be discussed. in a jewish newspaper county forward," hillary clinton promising to meet with mr. netanyahu in her office during the first move her presidency. many are seeing this as a direct slight to president obama who wanted three months to meet with the israeli leader. mr. obama concluded according to one white house official, for the first time in two decade the american administration facing a re...

Collaborating on a fellow ship program, aid for haiti, building on a relationship that happened when he was still president. >> george burn would call me to talk politics. >> now question is whether they can weather a 2016 campaign where bushs brother could end up facing down bill clintons wife. >> remember the woman and the candidate asked us about and said what about another clinton-bush matchup and my answer was the first one didnt turn out too good. >> now in 2000 even and also obviously in ...

Speech he gave in 2012. >> this is a situation where, of course, both of the families have made lots of money with speeches that they have given over the course of the years theyve been out of the oval office n this particular case george w. bush was the architect of the war in iraq. he gave a speech to a veterans group. he actually took money in exchange for that speech. the group is defending them self for doing. this they have taken criticism for veterans. take a listen to the attorney saying...