Companies like burger king from leaving the country. Real money. This is real money. You are the most important part of the show, to tell me what is on your mind by tweeting me or hitting me up on facebook. 20plus countries gave a pledge to defeat isil. The french president said the threat by isil is global and the response must be global. Today france sent two fighter jets over iraqi space to con flukt reconnaissance. Australia says it will send tep aircraft and 600 personnel to help. Other than that the details are still sketchy. Several arab countries have also make vague pledges help, but john kerry is working overtime to get them to do more. No one really know howes much costing. So far u. S. Situations in iraq since june including air strikes and surveillance flights have run up costs topping 562 million, thats until the end of august. With pentagon estimating operational costs in the order of 7. 5 million a day, the bill has probably gone up another 113 million since then. Over the weekend a new isil video came out pur porting to show the deheading of a british aid worker. All of this serves to remind us that isil is weeking havoc in syria and iraq, by neither syria, nor iran were invited to todays meeting in paris thats because the u. S. Objected to them participating even though both have long borders with iraq. Secretary kerry said the u. S. Is open to discussing isil with iran by washington still insists on working with Syrian Rebels opposed to isil and not the government of bashar alassad. For more lets get the view from washington where Mike Viqueira is standing by. Mike is little bit complicated that you dont have two Key Countries involved in this. But they seem to have a lot of countries in the region supporting them. It really underlies the complexity. Countries that are nominally allies with longstanding animosities towards one another certainly. And the policy, you have to say still does rest on tenuous assumpti assumptions. First of all lets start with the arming of the free syrian army. Supplying them with overt arms now. Something that will require authorization from congress. Congress looks like they are set to vote on in perhaps as early as thursday of this week. And when you ask the white house whether that will happen before air strikes take place in syria, they say that is not a precondition. We heard the chief of staff say that Ground Troops are going to be necessary to route isil out iraq itself. And what do we call this thing . Do we call it a war . Secretary kerry said it is not a war. The white house spokesmen said, yes, we are at war. If you call it a war, you escalate the rhetoric, and people will be a lot more nervous about getting involved. What is the picture visavis congress right now . Where is congress on this . First of all, a couple of things to really look for this week. President obama meets with general john allen, the former marine general, meets with him here at the white house tomorrow. He is now going to be in charge of this military operation that this coalition eventually undertakes. John kerry will reveal a lot of things namely who are the members of the coalition. When he speaks wednesday and thursday before the respectful house and senate committees, and one big thing to look at, the white house has made it clear they are not in a hurry to expand these air strikes, they say well do it at a time of our choosing. Next week the president will speak to the united nations, care a meeting of the security council, all indications are pointing to a major meeting there, and start to look for action after that. Right. It will be a very busy week. Organized coordinate approach is critical in the view of lee hamilton. He recently wrote that the u. S. Needs to spell out who our partners are and what they are prepared to do in this fight. He represented indiana in congress for 34 years and later served as vice chairman of the 9 9 11 commission. He is now a member of president obamas Homeland Security advisory council. I was a congressional fellow in your office. I learned most of what i know about politics initially from you. So you tell me, this coalition, is this the right move and will it . Lets keep in mind, first of all what he said our objective was. Our objective is to degrade isis, and destroy it. The first objective can be accomplished by largely air power. The second objective cannot. If you say you are going to destroy isis, you set the bar very, very high, and we are setting that bar high, even though we do not know what the essential components of it are, and they can assembled. As your Program Reported we dont know where the troops on the ground are going to come from. Everybody i think would say that if you are going to destroy isis, you are going to have to have troops on the ground. Secondly, the strategy needs a component of public relations, if you will. You cannot beat an ideology, and isis is an ideology with nothing. You have to have an affirmative ideology and we better get into the idea if we are going to destroy isis. Isis, and isil, theirs is about creating a state, and that seems to be attracting more western fighters to their ranks. They seem to have an adeology thats attractive. They do indeed. Their recruitment efforts have been remarkably successful, and we better understand why that is the case. But we have to counter that can a message that is better. Their a ideology cannot appeal to good, moderate, peaceloving muslim people across the world. Its a brutal horrific ideology. So we have with our espousal of democracy and liberty and decent treatment of human beings, a far stronger ideology, and we better get into the game if our objective is to destroy isis. We did it with naziism and fascism, but its very, very hard to do, and you have got to get your ducks in order. About ten years ago the 9 11 commission wrote the following, the u. S. Government must im dwelling on that last sentence, we should reach out, listen to, and work with other countries that can help. With we doing that the right way . Well, if the objective is to deny them a safe haven that can be accomplished probably with means far less than if your objective is to destroy. But we have gone beyond the safe haven rationale for what we are doing, that would be a strong preference for everybody. We all want to deny them a safing haven. We have gone far beyond that. Were saying we want to destroy. And that means much longer term. Much more money being spent, and a longterm effort. Congressman you were the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee and the chairman of the house intelligence committee, how would you deal with the fact that we are gathering this coalition, but both the government of syria and iran are not represented . I think it presents very difficult obstacles for us if we have to work with syria and iran. I dont think that is necessary in this case provided the other allies and friends step up to the plate. Its hard to judge. I know the secretary and president are working very hard to put this coalition together. So far my impression is they are dragging their feet with some amusement. I saw the story today that the arabs are going to offer air power. Well thats what were offering, air power. What they did not offer is troops on the ground, and thats what were going to need to accomplish our objective, which is to destroy isis. That objective can only be reached with a most formidable coalition, and we do not yet see that in place. From your lips to washingtons ears, lee hamilton thank you so much for joining us. Stay with us, we want to continue this conversation. I want to talk about how terrorists could attack americas vital infrastructure without ever stepping foot in this country, and i want to talk about tax reform. Keep it right here as real money continues. My name is Shaquan Mcdowell im a 17 year old teenager. I go to a Public High School outside of the city limits of atlanta. Its 99 African American we do get a quality education. You know we have teachers that really care about us as far as the African American stereotypes, all the music they listen too is rap, they only use ebonics, they dont know how to speak proper english, theyve never read a book in their life, all they do is get high, smoke weed, no. Ive never been exposed to anything like that. 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One of the voices calling for greater action belongs to lee hamilton, the congressman who joined us at the top of the show. He is now cochairman of the bipartizan policy centers Homeland Security project, and a member of president obamas Homeland Security council. Congressman good to have you back. You were out of congress before anything like a cyber attack became relevant, and you and your former cochair feel this is one of the biggest threats affecting us, but you cant feel it, and it doesnt have the immediacy of isil. Well, tom kaine and i recognized as we talked to National Security officials, present and former, how often they would bring up the Cyber Security challenge. They spoke of it really more than any other challenge. Now america faces a lot of challenges, including isil, but the Cyber Security challenge is formidable. We have not hundreds but thousands of attacks every day in both the go and the private sector. We are seeing an enormous drain of intellectual property. We are seeing attacks on our security systems, like airplanes and the most advanced weapons that we have, and it is a problem where we have in this country, enormous vulnerabilities because were so closely tied to the network. Our water systems, our electrical systems, the internet itself, elevators, airplanes, radios, television, they could all be interrupted with a very smart attacker. So we have got to up our game, and play a more aggressive defense and offense in dealing with this threat. What do we you know, how should we think about this . Is there anybody out there i know you wrote about statesponsored cyber terrorism. Is there anybody out there who has hacked enough stuff to really be problematic to us . I think what we have to do is get a sense and assessment of how serious this attack is. We recommending a national Cyber Security center, and we also recommending a commission. The purpose of the commission would be to bring together the top people in the country, go and private, who really know what is happening to our testimonies here, and get an assessment of how serious this threat really is. We think its quite serious. Maybe more serious than we know. Then we need to move into an operational mode, and were doing that to a considerable degree now but not enough. Our response to this threat has been to lag. Were too far behind the curve here, and the purpose of our article in the journal the other day, was to increase awareness of the threat. And get us moving. Here i read it with great interest, but ill tell you what struck me. We are dealing with a government that didnt do the best job with obamacare, we are now the white house is now on its third chief technology officer. I was with you all the way through the article until the part of it being a private public partnership. Do we have confidence where the government can be involved in this, and by the way were talking about a congress that couldnt agree that today it actually monday. Well, we better get the government reacting, but we also need to get the private sector reacting, because much of the infrastructure, far more than half f out is in hands of the private sector. So we have to get the dialogue between the private sector and the government seemingly moving ahead. This is a National Security threat, and it could even be an existential threat, i doubt very much if the isis threat could amount to that, but we could have terrific interruptions in our systems. Thats interest. To say this is existential, this is yet bigger thats thats saying something coming from you having studied 9 11 and alqaeda more than most. Well, it could be localized, but it could be very widespread, and it could bring our systems down. All you need is one fella working in one laboratory, he can let lose biological weapons that would have devastating effects, and you can go on and on with the examples. We have been very fortunate, we havent had an attack like 9 11 since 9 11. Our record is good so far in protecting the Homeland Security. Now we have to get ourselves in a position that we have a good security. Lee hamilton, good to see you, sir. Us. Thank you. Voters in scotland have a chance to vote on a new independent country this week, well talk about the financial impacts coming up. On tech know, fire, devastating and out of control whats at stake here . Theres approximately 360 homes. But now experts say they can predict how a blaze might spread this has been in a fire, now we gotta get the data out of it playing with fire. You guys are working just to save lives. I hope so. Tech know every saturday go where science meets humanity sharks like affection spot on. Dont try this at home. Tech know, only on Al Jazeera America its decision week for scott lank on thursday scots age 16 and older go to the polls to vote yes or no the question, should scotland be an independent country. Polls showing the out come too close to call. At the heart of the questions lies a theme that is very familiar to americans, growing wealthy inequality. Patricia sabga has the story. Reporter scots hip hop artist released their latest track, son, i voted yes. A song that captures the issue at the heart of this weeks referendum. Can a independent scotland create a more equal society . Scots really feel they have an interest in equality, and that westminster has not allowed them to pursue it in their social policies. Reporter the acts of union that merged scotland and england into one country, guaranteed scots continued sovereignty over many of their internal affairs. A sense of autonomy that began to erode under prime margaret thatcher, whos shakeup chipped away at benefits, and destroyed thousands of skilled middle income jobs thatchers policies gutted support for the conservative party in scotland and left a legacy of distrust that would fuel scot land to take control of its own affairs. In 2010 the Coalition Government under David Cameron announced the biggest state spending cut since world war ii, including reductions to Social Security benefits and the elimination of hundreds of thousands of government jobs. By 2011, the oecd determined that income inequality among workingage persons had risen faster in the United Kingdom than any other developed country since the mid1970s. The austerity and social programs revealed how great the divide had gotten to be. Reporter National Services have been hotly debated in the run up to the referendum with the yes and no camps both claiming to be superior guardians of scotlands social safety net. But whichever way scots vote, creating a equal society is likely to remain a hot button issue. So the social and wealth inequality is important. Its not the full story. Frustration with centralized government isnt just isolated to people in scotland there are people across the globe that feel frustrated. Ben barber says we would be better if we looked closer to your home. If his book, if mayors ruled the world, barber proposes a Global Parliament of mayors that would enable cities to have a stronger voice in global affairs. If it were up to you, you would probably propose a third way, a way that devolving power to a place where people can be greater effect of their own governments. Thats right. Dont break up great britain. You cant make smaller independence. We need interdefensance to deal with inequality. Scotland has a more progressive labor party, but by themselves they are going to find it even more difficult to meet their ends. Moreover scotland by itself is going to find it becomes a hub of people who need welfare, and their policies and the burdens fall on it. So we need collaboration. And when you look at the modern world where you find collaboration is in cities working with one another. Why dont you find it in larger entities . Because they are too big and unwielding . And cities the people that run for mayor know you need your garbage collected, and you need your police . As you say, cities are closer to peoples real problems. Its about collecting garbage, keeping open the schools not necessarily about ideology. No. Nation states were invented 400 years ago in an age when within the jurisdiction of britain, america, france, germany, japan, you could deal with most problems. But in the modern world the problems all cross borders. Global warming, the worldwide web, and the nations states separated by their borders, proud of their sovereignty find it harder and harder to solve problems together. We see that in the ukraine and the middle east, where cities, the hands on, realize when they can cooperate, they can find solutions that states dont. How much of this has do with the people involved in cities versus National Politics . Thats a good point. Because cities shape majors. Some mayors come in quite eye lee logical. De blasio, who i admire, he found out he couldnt just be a socialist, when bloomberg came in h