Started asking questions about him. And the future of scotland will be sealed by the end of this hour. Polls closing soon. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. The house approved a similar plan with wide bipartisan support and hagel was asked what this aid package will buy and his reluctance to use the word war. We initially provide would consist of small arms. Like communications as well as tactical and more advanced training. What i care about is not what we call it but what we do. If youre calling it a war against this enemy of islam, please do so. Todays hearings and vote on supporting the moderate Syrian Rebels led to the fascinating sight of some democrats questioning their own president and his strategy and rarer sight of some begrudgingly talking about it. Im glad he came around to listening to general dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs, that basically told him we cannot defeat isis unless we go into syria. What turned me around was the fact that we are going to train the moderate sunni muslim to combat the extreme sunni muslim. And its their fight. I find it pretty disturbing that were having this hearing after we had a vote. Ive been through this, guys. I saw the coalition in iraq. We used to chuckle at each other, to come at these countries with one person. I dont know, training dogs, maybe a bomb expert. But coalition of who, what . How much . Which are the combat troops . How are they going to get there . I would like to know those things. Lets bring in loretta sanchez. She voted against the measure to arm and train moderate Syrian Rebels in the house yesterday. Congresswoman, thanks for joining us. Secretary of defense chuck hagel, once again today, warned that isis presents an immediate threat to u. S. Citizens in iraq and american interests in the middle east. Do you agree . Certainly. Isis does present a problem. They are a problem. We need to do something about it. I just dont believe that the plan that theyve put together to arm these moderates, as they call them, syrians will work. Why not . And what do you think should be done . Well, for example, some of the moderates have gone over and supported isis. I was told they wont be fighting each other. Some of these moderate syrians supposedly will turn weapons on assad. Thats where their real focus is. Who are these moderates . Who will have a command and control structure . Who will be the commander in chief . These are all questions that i would like answers to and we certainly didnt get them yesterday before we voted and i didnt get them out of secretary hagel yet. Congresswoman, if it is a threat, isis, and you dont trust the socalled moderate Syrian Rebels, then what should be done to stop isis, which you acknowledge has to be stopped . It does need to be stopped. But even a larger question, if we can stop it and we really need the neighbors in that neighborhood to actually stop them with us. It cannot just be ourselves. But when we stop them, there will be a void, just as when we thought we had eliminated, to a larger extent, al qaeda. So what comes into a void . Something else will come unless people have rebuilt their lives, rebuilt their homes, gotten education, g education gotten jobs. I do not believe these countries like saudi arabia, qatar and others are willing to do this to the point where they have agreed to put aside their differences and Work Together to get their region into a better spot. Okay. But that doesnt really answer the question, with all due respect, of what needs to be done. What needs to be done is we need to get buyin from all of these countries, first and foremost. Otherwise, were going to have the same problem were having in eye bei iraq, same problem as afghanistan. I dont believe we should be there, if thats the case. If these countries cannot sit down and get their act together with respect to this, we have no business being there. You seem frustrated by the process. You noted that the vote was yesterday while the hearing was today. Do you think theres a rush to war here . Is the Obama Administration giving this enough consideration . Look. Some people want to get back to campaign. We have seven weeks now. Were leaving early. Were leaving tonight. We could have stayed over the weekend, we could stay next week, as were supposed to be here still on the 1st of october so, yes, i do believe that this is a rush. A rush to war . By any other, you know, any other name, i believe that we are getting ourselves into another war. Congresswoman loretta sanchez, thank you so much. Thank you. Now i want to turn to senator bob corker, Ranking Member on the Senate Foreign relations committee. Senator, thank you for joining us. You just heard your colleague from across the capitol there, saying theres a rush to war in congress right now. Do you think thats fair . Not really, jake. I dont think theres a plan. I think theres been a rush for the president to appear to be addressing this isil threat but its evident to me that they dont have the pieces put together. The hearing yesterday was very clear that thats the case. And on this arming the moderate opposition, ive been a longtime supporter of making that happen. Weve tried to push the president towards that back at a time when the advocacy of this would have been much greater. I think that they have done, on this one little element which is, you know, clearly not the way were going to have a ground effort in syria that really matters, they are trying to take this little thing and make it look like its a really major component of what its going to take to deal with isil. I think its all convoluted and its mostly being done for optics and i do hope at some point they had get serious about telling us how they are going to deal with isil so the planning deals with the rhetoric with what is happening over there. Senator, if you were commander in chief right now, would you send in u. S. Combat forces . Well, heres what i want do. I wouldnt say that were never going to do that. I just think we know that the joint chiefs have recommended special ops. We know that. In some ways, we kind of have boots on the ground. I know they are not necessarily in combat positions in iraq. But i think if youre serious, if you say the kind of things that he said on television a week and a half ago and then as cabinet members continue to repeat, i dont think you say all these things that are very strong rhetoric but then have all of these caveats about what is not going to happen. It just makes it all appear not very serious. I dont want to see boots on the ground. At the same time, when youre sitting down and laying out how youre going to defeat an enemy like this, you dont start caveating everything. So i just think this whole thing, to me, i hate to say it, has not been very serious. A top leader of the Free Syrian Army who will be armed and trained by this package wrote a letter yesterday indicating that they will use u. S. Aid not just to fight isis but assads regime as well. Do you think your colleagues know that, that they are voting to give money to people who are not only going to fight isis but to get rid of assad . Jake, look, ive been to these refugee camps. Ive met the general right across the Syrian Border in syria who was the first general there that we were, quote, supposedly supporting. We never did support him the way we said. Weve left the Syrian People out to hang. Weve allowed them to be butchered and slaughtered. Weve encouraged them and then, again, never followed through. The rallying point to them is they want the freedoms that americans have and they want to overturn assad because we had no syria policy because the administration was just right. Had no policy. I get that, senator. My point is, of course they are going to fight assad. My point is, thats the rallying, thats the reason they are doing what they are doing. I think anybody paying any attention to this at all would understand, thats what is driving them, why they are on the battlefield and they are having to deal with this other development but its assad that they care about. Senator bob corker, thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. Coming up, a plot to behead random civilians foiled in a country that has close ties to the u. S. Could the u. S. Be next . Plus, she radioed for help and she was never heard from again. The desperate Search Mission under way right now for a Police Officer swept away in a flash flood here in the u. S. And more rain is on the way. 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The threat from the islamist terrorists of isis, a plot said to be inspired by isis to behead more innocent people. Not on their knees in the desert but in the streets of one of our closest allies. Authorities raided a number of homes in australia rounding up suspected isis supporters and accusing them of planning to mutilate randomly selected victims. Australians Prime Minister said that they wanted to fulfill a nightmarish Vision Leader who is calling these demonstration killings. Here is cnns ivan watson. Reporter as the Obama Administration works to gather up an International Coalition to combat isis, a key american ally, australia, announced that it foiled an alleged homegrown terrorist plot. Australian Authorities Say it was linked to the isis militant group. Predawn raids across australias largest city, authorities are calling it the biggest ever antiterror operation in this country. Armed with dozens of search warrants, at least 15 suspects were detained. The australian media reporting disturbing details. The suspects allegedly planned to film the public beheading of a random individual and then drape the body in the black flag of isis. This is of serious concern right at the heart of the communities we have people planning to conduct random attacks and today weve worked together to make sure that that didnt happen. We have, in fact, disrupted that particular attack. Reporter among the suspects detained, a man named ochl omarjan azari. He did not enter a plea. His neighbors shocked that a suspected terrorist lived next door. I never thought id see anything like this. My heart is pounding. Reporter Prime Minister tony abbott believes at least 60 australians are fighting alongside isis and other militant groups in the middle east. Hes repeatedly voiced fears these australian jihadis could pose a threat if they ever come home. Australian intelligence revealed isis was urging homegrown sympathizers to carry out attacks in australia. They were coming from an australian who is apparently quite senior in isil to network some support back in australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country. Reporter last week, australia raised its threat level to high for the first time in the countrys history. Warning a terrorist attack is likely. On thursday, the australian Prime Minister addressed australian troops that are about to deploy for what he described as combat operations in the middle east. He argued that by fighting isis in iraq, they would be protecting iraqi people and by extension, protecting the people of australia. Ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. Cnns ivan watson, thank you so much. When we come back, it was supposed to be a relaxing beach vacation. A young couple was staying in a hotel and now four days later they are still missing. A yet another nfl player accused of Domestic Abuse. His father begged Roger Goodell for help and got nowhere will more victims now come forward . 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Lisa vasquez and her fiancee were vacationing. Lisas last contact was a text message to her parents moments before landfall on sunday. It read, mom, i can hear the wind now. I hear all kinds of things hitting the building. Since then, her parents have called, emailed, and texted with no response. The situation in cabo remains dire with phone lines down and limited access to resources. The remnants of odile are bringing more rain to already waterlogged texas and more flooding could be in the forecast. The wet weather is closing roads and endangering lives. A deputys car was swept away in a food. Her empty patrol car was pulled from the water this afternoon. Joining us on the phone to discuss this is roger wade, a Public Information officer with the Travis County sheriffs office. Thanks for joining us. Can you walk us through what exactly happened last night . It was a very harrowing experience. The deputy called in, said that she was being swept down the creek in her patrol car just before 2 00 this morning when rescue units arrived, they found a submerged car. They had to wait for the water to go down in order to get to it. And then they found that she was not in the car. We have been frantically searching since then to try to find her downstream. She was conducting routine checks to are a situation like this . Yes. Every time we get heavy downpours of rain, we know that some of the local water crossings will flood. We have our deputies go out and check those. And the rural parts of the county, especially because a lot of them dont have arms that come down or barricades to block them. We go down and check those to make sure nobody is in the water and if there needs to be barricades, that we get barricades out to them. For people not familiar with lubbock, texas, or with the area, is this common places or is this a scene youve never seen before . This is not as unusual as you would think. And it didnt get as much rain in this instance as we did during the halloween floods last year where several people perished. The creeks rose so fast in that one that people actually swept away before they could even see where they were on a Lower Crossing or not. There wasnt as much rain this time and it was just nothing but 5 inches of rain in particular areas. Well, that sounds horrible. Roger wade in austin, texas, thank you so much. Best of luck in the search. Coming up next, he has a long history of abuse, including several arrests, but that did not stop the Arizona Cardinals from signing this running back after the ray rice scandal. Sweenjoy it all. 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