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Momentous debate. this is a debate about whether or not a warrant with a single name of a single company can be used to collect all the records, all the phone records of all of the people in our country with a single warrant. our forefathers would be aghast. >> i worry about privacy, too, but i also worry about the safety and security of the united states of america, and i watched the nation vilify the men and women who work at this agency. >> joining us now with reaction former white house chie...

Americans. then they could convince every muslim that theyre recruiting that the united states is against islam. it isnt true. and we dont want to play that game. so we have to be smart when we fight against this. time is on our side. big time is on our side. lets dont get panicked into doing something that makes it worse. >> general clark, thank you so much for joining us today with your insight. really appreciate it. all the best. >> thank you. now to another deadline. the patriot act set to...

Killing at least 15 people and then leaving dozens more injured. the deadly blast coming just hours after the white house says in no uncertain terms that the u.s. wont be responsible for the security situation in iraq. lets bring in retired four-star general wesley clark, the former supreme allied commander of nato. great to have you here on the program. >> thank you. >> the president saying we are not responsible for iraqs security. and believes that a 60-country coalition will be in his words ...

Areas like mosul and heres what he had to say. i would like for the audience to take a listen. >> because of course look there are several things that surprised us about isil. the degree to which they were able to form their own coalition both inside of syria and inside of northwestern iraq. the military capability they exhibited. the collapse of the iraqi security forces. yeah in those initial days there were a few surprises. >> whats your reaction to those remarks, the fact that the administra...

>> do you see evidence they might change strategy because the current doesntsome to be working. >> i dont see they have any intention on changing the course. and if that is the case then i think one has to turn to alternative explanations. >> for why they are not changing course. >> for why they are not changing course is that the obama administration expects their partner in the mideast i.e. iran to take the lead. a shiite combination of iran and southern iraq and to fight isis. in other words ...

Cant monitor, much less control. thats one of the things we have to realize, that were not omnipotent. no matter how good our special forces are, no matter how good our technology is no matter how brave our service members, no matter how much we sacrifice, 100,000 americans or 10,000 americans are not going to be able to handle the transformation involving tens and hundreds of millions of muslims as they go through the throes of modernization and compete geostrategically in this region. the wise...

These also wanted to bomb assad which would have made isiss job even easier. they created these people. >> did the u.s. create isis joe? >> sort of a strange theory of the historical causation. hawks havent a modicum of influence on policy for the last seven years. you might as well blame the imperialists who redrew the middle east after world war one. the truth is we know where the islamic state came from. the predecessor was al qaeda in iraq. this was the insurgency that was largely defeated i...

This has echoes to remember who remember to the fall of saigon. could we see a black isis bag over the u.s. embassy in baghdad? >> i think its possible. in ramadi they sent seth off six or seven truck bombs. it was as though a nuclear bomb had gone off. totally disrupted. they can go baghdad and at least start doing that sort of thing. that causes complete chaos inside the city. and at that point it is hard to predict whether we would be able to defend say, the american embassy. >> i want to go ...

Syria and then with the connivance of other powers they attacked mosul. they did that to go after malaki and he suffered and was removed from office and replaced. isil became like a frankenstein. it was started for one purpose, it transformed itself its become larger than life now and its drawing in recruits from all over the world. so it is a problem but its more than a terrorist problem. its a problem for the region first and foremost and its got to be dealt with in the context of the transfor...

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