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Interpretation of islam that will create a need for muslim and preachers to really take on this ideology. >> tom, as you know, authorities including the fbi, which is the lead investigative agency, they dont know if the wife of this case, tashfeen malik radicalized her husband syed farook or vice versa or they both were radicalized for a long time. they do suspect that. was there an intelligence failure here? >> i dont know how you could determine that because this is inside their heads. they ha...

A -- this is a powerful idea and were talking, the president was talking last night about military options. we need to talk about the idea and its -- you cant kill an idea. we have to be combatting it. i thought that was the one missing piece of the presidents speech and i thought he did a good job of laying out the strategy and talking about how he got where we are but one missing piece is we need to be fighting on the battle field of ideas and thats where as i mentioned before, we got to have ...

Radar. as you look at this, several days into this incident, any sign of an intelligence failure, an intelligence gap that was exploited? or is this just something that we couldnt find? >> thats something well be looking at on the committee, the oversight, to see what could have been missed. could we have done a better national security check over in saudi arabia on the female suspect to find out what her background really was before we let her in on a fiancee visa? these are a lot of things in ...

They underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> you were d.i.a. at the time? >> yeah. do you think it was an intelligence failure? >> no, i dont. i really look at that and -- its easy to -- i mean, ill take one for the team, you know? the president has to decide who hes going to listen to and what information hes going to use. and i think that he was poorly advised to say that. >> the president makes no apologies for being measured and deliberate about committing u.s. military resour...

Action would that have triggered? part of what the president has brought, his approach to national security is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. >> the white house did underestimate isis. and republicans seized on the issue, excoriating the president, growing increasingly strident. >> our strategy will fail yet again. this president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home. >> even form...

Is not the way we want to go. you really want to keep a clear delineation between people who have been radicalized by a cult of crazy killer fanatics who have very tenuous ties to islam, and the muslim religion overall, and the 99.9% of muslims who live in peace around the world. >> try 60%. >> i do agree with jillian. i do think theres a radicalization process. i think its very different in this country. i talked to experts about it. and they say that its happening so swiftly in this country, s...

Brought, his approach to national security, is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. >> the white house did underestimate isis. and republicans seized on the issue, excoriating the president, growing increasingly strident. >> our strategy will fail yet again. this president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home. >> even former top officials in the obama administration had tough words. >>...

But biggest intelligence failure the biggest underestimation was not of the strength of the self-style islamic state but of the weakness of the iraqi state. in the middle of 2014 when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army essentially laid down its arms and ran away. remember, this was an army that the united states had spent more than $25 billion building up, an army more than 200,000 strong. thats more than six times the size of isis and maybe more. and it was all rendered...

Is not the way we want to go. you really want to keep a clear delineation between people who have been radicalized by a cult of crazy killer fanatics who have very tenuous ties to islam, and the muslim religion overall, and the 99.9% of muslims who live in peace around the world. >> try 60%. >> i do agree with jillian. i do think theres a radicalization process. i think its very different in this country. i talked to experts about it. and they say that its happening so swiftly in this country, s...

Take on isis. but the biggest intelligence failure, the biggest policy failure, the biggest underestimation was not of the strength of the self-styled islamic state but of the weakness of the iraqi state. in the middle of 2014, when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army essentiay laid down its arms and ran away. remember, this was an army that the united states had spent more than $25 billion building up, an army more than 200,000 strong. thats more than six times the size ...