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The first was in september around the time of the iran nuclear deal. she gave a big speech about that, big q & a afterwards, made a bunch of news. her second major national security address as a presidential candidate was today in new york on the issue of isis. that starts with a more effective coalition air campaign with more allied planes, more strikes, and a broader target set. we may have to give our own troops, advising and training the iraqis, greater freedom of movement and flexibility in...

With more allied planes, more strikes, and a broader target set. we may have to give our own troops, advising and training the iraqis, greater freedom of movement and flex bilt including embedding in local units and helping target air strikes. we should immediately deploy the special operations force president obama has already authorized and be prepared to deploy more as more syrians get into the fight. >> hillary clinton has said in this campaign that she is not more hawkish than president oba...

That facilitates the flow of fighters, financing, arms and propaganda around the world. three, harden our defenses and those of our allies against external and homegrown threats. let me start with the campaign to defeat isis across the region. the united states and our international coalition has been conducting this fight for more than a year. its time to begin a new phase and intensify and broaden our efforts to smash the would-be caliphate and deny isis control of territory in iraq and syria....

And in the wake of the attack in paris, its possible that those rules were loosened a little bit. but i think you saw pretty good creativity out of the air component commander because we still want to avoid collateral damage wherever we can. the enemy wins when we cause collateral damage. but i think you will see the more willingness to accept a little more risk in that area, which will open up the target set. >> thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, andrea. coming up next, more on t...

Target. so you have a target set. you go in. you strike it. and then you return. you maybe refuel and do another pass. now that we have aircraft and we have more observers on the ground, youre beginning to see what are called tics, troops in contact. they are feeding more information. an airplane can come over, do a rapid engagement of something thats fighting on the ground or a rapid intelligence target and return. so youre going to see more and more as you get more and more information. thats ...

To think that okay, im going to look at a man and im going to say hes a military age muslim man, that then hes inside my target set. the intelligence processes that we use and the way that we collect both inside the united states and outside the united states actually gives us the ability to draw down and try to isolate targets on the basis of the ideology that theyre bringing in. this is why the fbi has over 900 active investigations. they are watching the people who are consuming isis ideology...

Might be radicalized. of course, also some people were demanding very strong reaction, especially after the fact that isis claimed responsibility for these ating thes and the french government itself also said it believes isis is behind the attacks. and were getting information that three of the attackers seem to have been inside syria and possibly had contact with isis there as well. michael? >> yes. >> of course, many people wondering what the implications might be of france declaring this an ...

>> let me jump in there. do we know, they do the little secret meeting as i mentioned at the top. do we know what they look to? they look to their evidence and data and we have the board minutes, right? >> we do know. >> do they look to commentary and what larry summers thinks? >> looking at economists and opinions about the economy. one thing is inflation. you know? they have a 2% target set for that. were not there yet. we know what think look at and discussing. probably reading a lot of same ...

So this is an effort to get a target set, thats a little bit from their perspective, a little bit more legitimate than just a an innocent civilian. >> where do they stand as far as youre concerned, in terms of a threat within the organization these two? >> chump change. >> chump change. >> chump change. theres two sides to this coin. theres the good side of this. if you look at the criminal complaint and ive read it these are no-talent clowns they made every mistake you could make. i feel like i...

Probably, which indicates clearly there was intelligence to indicate that al- shabaab was planning these attacks. when you look at the target set, a university its very very difficult to protect that and in essence, theres too many soft targets in the area and just not enough military or police to protect them all. >> talk to us, fred, about the strategic importance, the symbol symbolic importance of them staging this attack at a university. the only university in fact in that region. >> well it...