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>> i dont want to say its a lie but let me just say it doesnt smell of the truth. because the department of justice has already stated it didnt ask for these tapes to be withheld. the fact of the matter is, there are way too many inconsistencies in this. my frustration is that we keep coming back and ma kail michael have these conversations every other month. yes, this young man was carrying a knife in the street. we also know that is a crime that the sentence is not death. that is what the youn...

Destroying their space. to destroy their space you have to have a process, a political process, like it or not in syria, that means there will be some international coalition that owns space once you retake it. you can bomb all you want. my question is who will take over that space once you bomb it and clear it from isis? the easy answer is bomb the hell out of them. my answer is you have to get to the hard question. whats the political process to ensure when you bomb the hell out of them, who i...

>> that was president obama standing by the current strategy to fight isis in a rare oval office address. he vowed to destroy the terror group but a new intelligence report finds isis is not contained. joining us now is nicholas burns, the former undersecretary for political affairs, also former state department official and former u.s. ambassador to greece. good morning, mr. ambassador. thanks so much for being here. >> good morning. thank you. >> critics say this speech was short on specifics ...

Strongly condemning isis and calling wednesdays mass shooting in san bernardino a terrorist attack. >> it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization. this was an act of terrorism. >> reporter: obama doubling down on his four-point strategy to defeat the terrorist group. >> the strategy that we are using now, air strikes, special forces and working with local forces fighting to regain control of their own country, it wont require us sending a new generation of ame...

Shootings. >> reporter: the policy gop presidential hopefuls are calling insufficient to tackle the evolving threat. donald trump tweeting is that all there is? he needs to stop all visas, not look at them. jeb bush proposing a more aggressive strategy, calling the fight against isis the war of our time. >> this is a real problem that muslims must confront without excuse. >> reporter: president obama ending his 13-minute speech with an appeal to muslims to root out extremist ideology while also ...

We saw in the past where this worked, get our public money out of those companies. they should be making assault weapons for military and law enforcement only. lets go to the root of the problem. then you have a chance to deal with these issues much more effectively. law enforcement should not have to come up against terrorists with that kind of weaponry. its as simple as that. >> can we talk about your beef, your ongoing squabble with donald trump? he has said unkind things about you. he tweets...

Speak to that and what this does to further issues in the region. you have stability in turkey morls and now this. >> well, i think this is going to destabilize turkey. i mean, the kurdish problem is a serious one. and it has gotten serious over the last six months you have almost 20% of the population are kurdish. these dividing lines in turkey are very, very scary at this point and could turn to martial law? thats certainly whats got a lot of people afraid at this point. but really, you have t...

How do you envision the leverage, not only of the u.s., but the leverage of the west, relative to the middle east and particularly iraq, going into the next six months. >> you know who i hope president obama is calling up is the president of turkey. i think that turkey is the most potentially positive actor in the region. >> why? >> its a democracy, its a muslim country, the economy is growing very, very vigorously. its crucial as far as iraq goes, because of the kurds, and the turkish/kurdish p...