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President obama is being widely criticized, especially in france, for calling the horrific attack in paris a quote, setback. while saying he will not change his strategy. how important is communications to being commander in chief? jon meacham joins me, the pulitzer prize winning author of "destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush." its the first authoritative examination of george bushs life and presidency, including access to the former president and barbara bushs ...

>> nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely earlier today from paris. highlighting what he describes as big differences between the french and american governments on the steps against isis amplified by comments from president obama on monday. >> we have always understood that this would be a long-term campaign. there will be setbacks and there will be successes. the terrible events in paris were obviously a terrible and sickening setback. even as we grieve with our french friends, however...

Saying hes ignoring our reports. >> this white house has taken the fight very seriously. >> it was just a setback in paris, i know. >> even the fact checker of this network has documented -- >> thats not our fact checker. >> its been used. they said president obama was correct when he said isis is being contained in iraq and syria. >> the point is the suggestion that isis has been contained in iraq and syria is completely blind to what they are doing in other parts of the world. in beirut, the r...

Least 26 states have moved to suspend or restrict any syrian refugees from reset elling in their state. alabama to arkansas to massachusetts and maine. some of the states previously did not object to the presidents plans but that all changed after the terror attacks in paris. >> we are probably the best to find out what happened especially when you know the terrorist posed as a refugee. >> we received almost little or no security information about the refugees, on their backgrounds even possibly...

Because they spent a half a billion dollars training the rebels and they trained five. >> you shouldnt try that. >> i got to hit this. as the chart from the global terrorism database shows, isis is on the rise, juan, and its grown faster than any other global terror organization. faster than the taliban, boko haram and al qaeda in iraq. intelligence and defense officials have been sounding this alarm to the president about americas isis strategy for quite sometime. but will president obama liste...

In places like new york and in places like washington, d.c. theyre very, very well organized. this is the problem of letting the world go to hell and assuming it wont come back to bite you in the rear end. and frankly -- and im going to be very candid here, sean -- our amateurish foreign policy has its own place of responsibility in the mayhem that were seeing right now. the president, to stand there and say that our strategy is working against this vicious, vile enemy is absurd. its absolutely ...

No one is asking for velacosity, theyre asking for some kind of urgency. the friend said this is an act of war and he calls it a setback. >> juan? >> i disagree so strongly. it seems to me weve had a strategy here. weve been bombing. we had 40,000 since 14. we put together an international coalition. weve got special forces on the ground. were trying to get negotiations together in syria, and then you have people saying -- and i think they are in search of velacose rhetoric because i think thats...

That has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the american people. >> that was president obama today, defending his plan for taking on the terrorists in a news conference that ran almost an hour and was dominated by events in paris. the president spoke from the g-20 summit in turkey and was forceful when it came to rejecting calls for the u.s. to strange its strategy. glenn beck is here with reaction but we begin with james rosen. >> megyn, a setback. a terrible and sicke...

The terrible events in paris were obviously a terrible and sickening setback. even as we grieve with our french friends, however, we cant lose sight that there has been progress being made. >> france is at war, we are not in a civilization war. these killers are not belonging to any nation, we are at war against terrorism. the jihadist terrorism that is threatening the entire world. >> bill hammer, co-host of "americas news room" joins us now. i want to ask you about the trip that president holl...

>> there will be setbacks and there will be successes. the terrible events in paris were a terrible and sickening setback. even as we grieve with our french friends we cant lose sight there is progress being made. bill: president obama saying we have our strategy and we are sticking to it. senator john mccain a strong critic from washington, d.c. he had you and several others in his sights when it appeared he knows his strategy is a tough sell. but he stood there and took the questions for almos...