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CSPAN Washington Journal September 14, 2014

Host if not by phone, you can contact us using social media. Here is the photo, courtesy of the associated press, published in the Washington Post this morning. And all to type of alltoofamiliar type of photo here. A britishing of hostage, he is 44 in his name is david haynes, a father of two from perth, scotland. This video, titled a message to the allies of america, opens with David Cameron talking about working with allied Kurdish Forces to to sleep to defeat the Islamic State. This kurdish man has to pay the price for your decisions, cameron. The man dressed in black with a british accent stands over haynes, shown kneeling and wearing an orange jumpsuit. The video then shows the beheading of the kneeling man. Anotherd of the video master and is shown and they say he will be killed if cameron continues to support the fight against the Islamic State. David cameron came right out with this tweet last evening saying we will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and make sure they face justice, however long it takes. They are again meeting right now, today in london, with security chiefs to decide the. Ext steps forward here is one headline cameron in emergency talks after killing of david haynes. What do you have to say about this latest chapter in the story involving isis . Paul, wisconsin, you are up first. Good morning. Caller i hope today gets pregnant britain to come along with us. Host come along how . Caller with their military. These murdering parasitical plugs need to be killed. It is just disgusting that there are people on the earth that are breathing the same air as everyone else that are like that. Thats just disgusting. I hope they help the u. S. In killing these murdering thugs. Host how did you feel about the president s comments the other night about the direction the coalition might take . Pose a question anyone, i think the caller is gone. James, grand forks, good morning. Good morning. I wanted to make a comment, talk of all, i wanted to about fox news pincus liked by so many people who dont talk about things that arent pleasant. There was a story of a guy, an allamerican boy in new jersey. Urdered by three black muslims they were debating whether this was a hate crime or an act of terror. It is funny how with ferguson we spent weeks talking about that, but we dont talk about the kid. I dont even are member his name. Maybe you guys can talk about him. I have talked about this before. The seven to 1755, years war, the french and indian war, going back to the conflicts going on in europe, the building up of militarism in world war i we halted migration from certain areas that were hornets nests because you just didnt bring those people into our country. During world war ii, you know that we didnt have ellis island opened for italians and germans. We were fighting them. Could you imagine roosevelt giving a speech like obama or george bush, saying that we are fighting a small militarized person version and that the german people are peaceful and wonderful which was by the way true, the majority of japanese people were peaceful, it was a small group that took control. You didnt bring in people from the countries we were fighting. You halted migration. 100 years ago in 1914 we halted emigration from germany because it was just a stupid idea to bring in germans. We had saboteurs turning world war i that were germanamericans that were blown blowing up ships and railroad ers ash railroad yards. He hunted down saboteurs with the fbi. Even the mafia helped the fbi root out the germans. I final point, you halted migration from terror friendly countries now. Just for 10 years. We have 7 million muslims. We have enough diversity. Lets halt the visas from those countries. The point. Want to get some other views in here. President obama reacted to the beheading last night. We strongly out condemn the barbaric murder of david haynes host a little bit of congressional action, this from california is on the line now from cleveland. What is your reaction to this latest execution . Morning, sir. Isis should feel all the might of the United States. They are horrible. They are evil. They need to feel the full might of the United States. What is that might . Just airpower . Ground troops, perhaps . Sir, i at this point, think that boots should be on the ground. U. S. That question about airstrikes, you hear so many different perspectives. To john mccain and the other republicans, i think that boots need to be on the ground. Unfortunately, war is not something that mr. Obama wants to go through, but i think it is necessary to wipe those people off the face of the earth and they need to be dealt with. Thank you. James, your reaction this morning . Caller good morning. Yes, im calling. I just want to say to the Haines Family i am sorry, i give my condolences. But this might wake up Prime Minister cameron. He was kind of slow. He pulled back with obama when he went in to get assad, you know . I think that obama needs help. He cant do it alone. The airstrikes are good, but these other countries need to come in with the boots and go and get these young guys. These are like thugs. Young guys with weapons. Take away the weapons, slap them on their, they will be ok. Thank you for calling, james. We will get some excerpts there once we once it is over with. To our facebook page, we have this reaction host frank is on the line now. Thatr my thoughts are when we see these beheadings, the only thing that they understand this fear. Just like when Saddam Hussein was in control. They feared him. And i am so sorry that we have doesntistration that devastate them of bombing attacks. They have parades. Get have groups that together. We should be devastating them with bombing attacks. Not one or two or three. Leadership,e the im sorry to say. The world doesnt trust us because the Administration Says and doesnt follow through. Joyce, good morning. Michigan, reaction this morning . Caller as the mother of a son veryid time in iraq, i am concerned about this. As a teacher it seems to me that the more attention that you give these people, on television and on media, the more theyre going to do it. So, take away the attention. Take away what they want. Up, get ticked off, do this stuff, throw the money into it. Do in michigan someone commits suicide . We just say there was a death. We dont play it up. There are copycat things. We dont give them attention. Youve got to withdraw that. Take the attention away. Dont give them what they want. Host that was joyce in michigan. Gary writes back here in the u. S. , the Washington Post has a frontpage story about something being discussed throughout washington. How big of a threat is the Islamic State . Host al has been on the line from castle on hudson, new york. Good morning. I have a couple of issues with this. One, we are always hearing about cyber crime, breaking into the banks, stores and all of that, why not use cyber crime tip steal the money that isis has, destroy all of their blackmarket Oil Resources going to turkey, and have the saudis and the qatar ends and all the rest of them that have been feeding the tiger, hoping that it wouldnt eat them, have them finance all of this. When they start stepping up to the plate, then i will believe this is a worthwhile endeavor. , we allas in vietnam knew it was not going to work out because it was just a rice bowl to these troops. Bute are some good ones, are there enough . I am disappointed in the iraqi army to turn tail after we spent 25 billion and thousands of lives getting them in shape. They turn and run . That only shows me that it was just a rice bowl to them and they have no guts. Host to thomas and glenn and eight, maryland. Your reaction . Glenbrook, maryland. Your reaction . Hearing David Cameron, on and criticize other countries invading a sovereign country when britain has been in Northern Ireland now impressing and imprinting catholics over there for over 100 years, he is a worldclass hypocrite. There are other western countries to ignore the occupation of Northern Ireland and are just as much hypocrites as cameron is. As far as isis, i am more concerned about these black thugs that might come down to my city from baltimore and attack us. Thank you. Host kathy, alpine, california, and your reaction to this execution . It is devastating, terrible, but the reason im calling in is i dont even know why we are in all of these wars anymore. Seems like they are corporate wars. Talking about attacking and doing things like that . The point is getting out of them completely. There are other ways to deal with this man have this constantly on television every day. Thank you. More voices from congress steny hoyer, who will be our. Est today on newsmakers here is a short piece from the halfhour interview about how congress should address threats from Islamic State militants. [video clip] the twostep process is what we will pursue. There will be a consideration from the president s request to train and equip regional players that is, people who are from syria, from iraq, and from other middle eastern countries, arab nations, who i will think be the boots on the ground that people talk about. Be the facilitators, the supporters, and yes, we will help to coordinate a Large Coalition that the president and secretary of state are now putting together. Significant number of nations to have already indicated they want to participate. Theink that that will be first thing we will consider. Probably and hopefully next week, that is, authorizing the insident to equip and train an overt way as opposed to a covert way people to take on isil. Secondly, i think at some point in time when we come back after the elections i think that there will be a consideration of a larger authorization for the use of force. That is just part of the interview with congressman steny hoyer, our guest on newsmakers today. The meantime, ruth marcus writes a piece in the Washington Post about congress. Dont duck this vote, congress. We are not quite sure what will , or when, anything but she writes the following host mark, hyannis, massachusetts, good morning. Caller good morning. Host what is your reaction to his latest execution . Caller it is obviously horrible that this happens in the first place. But i think that a lot of this problem with isil, isis,hatever they are known as now when they started out in syria they had the backing of the free syrian army. Read i dont know if theres any truth to it, but maybe assad let these guys do their thing because maybe it made a pact or something that they wouldnt go into damascus or something of that nature. That thereigured out was nothing left in syria for them to conquer, they just went over the border. The previous caller from new that then he mentioned iraqis lay down their arms and had all this firepower, it sounds like they did so because they had a lack of trust in their government. I think that is a big part of it. If you dont trust the government and dont have faith in it, why would you die for it . Thanks for calling. Fred, you are up. Thank you for taking my call. This is obviously a horrible situation. But in this case i agree with steny hoyer. I dont know why we have such a short memory. During bill clintons presidency, we defeated serbia with air power alone. Not a single soldier was on the ground. We dont need boots on the ground. Think that isis is any more powerful than the serbian army. We defeated the serbian army in the 1990s. It took six to nine months, but bill clinton was resolved and he stayed with his resolution. We defeated serbia with air power alone. I dont know why people cant remember this fact. It is not rocket science. Host x for calling. Sorry for cutting you off there. Didnt mean to do that, but you are finished with your point. Wartime for this topic in a couple of minutes, but we want to take a step off to the side to talk about politics. There is a very big event happening in iowa today, something we are covering at 3 30 p. M. Eastern time, hillary and bill clinton making a joint appearance. This is actually her first appearance there in many years. This headline was from the des moines register. Hillary clinton, looking back and forward. Kate henderson is the news director at radio iowa and joins us by phone this morning. Good morning. Caller good morning. This happening today . The harkins steak fry . A pretty big event, no . Caller yes. Organizers told me yesterday that ticket sales in advance were about 7000, so perhaps about 7000 people will gather to hear bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as tom harkins and his swan song. He is not seeking reelection. Host give us a reminder. Explain for us the history of Hillary Clinton in iowa and what she is hoping to accomplish. Who may havehose forgotten, she ran for the nomination in 2008. In the first contest she finished third. Barack obama won with about 38 support. John edwards was in second. You just mentioned that she hadnt been here for several years. Actually, the last time that she was in the state of iowa was on caucus night on january 3 of that year. This will be her first reappearance in the state. Merely coming here has raised all sorts of speculation about her residential intentions and 2016. Actually, many people just think that being here is really all she needs to say, if you will, about those intentions. The we are looking at headline here from politico so, people feeling pretty good about her in iowa right now . She is the prohibitive favorite here, as she is nationally. There have been a parade of other democrats who come to the state and made statements like jim webb, that we need to have a broader conversation with more people coming to iowa. Martin omalley has been actively working the state, if you will. Back to the 1980s, gary hart he worked for as a campaign organizer. Said the same sentiments as the former senator webb. We need to have a broad conversation and the way that one does that is by having a multitude or more than one candidate seeking the partys nomination. If she runs, she could have someone challenging her here. We will have live coverage starting at 3 30 p. M. Eastern time. Put on by senator harkin in iowa , the 37th and final senator harkin steak fry in iowa. You mentioned the crowds, the several thousand people. How does the event play itself out with the clintons there . Well, they actually serve steak. Its grilled. But what people go for is having a pep rally no less than a couple of months out from the election. Tom harkin will serve up assert a series of oneliners. The punchline will be republicans. A little bit be different. There is always a bit of a tight rope that headliners at this event have to tread because this, of course, is the tom harkin steak fry. It is an annual fundraiser for him. So, by how much do you upstage the host of the event . And this, of course, as you have been speaking this morning about to someone inned britain, this will present her an opportunity to talk about Foreign Policy. Perhaps a platform from which she will be able to launch her president ial bid. I think that what with what has happened internationally, she can really address it in a way that will be different than it would have been 24 hours ago. I dont think that people will expect her to differentiate or draw clear distinctions between her andignpolicy objectives the obama administrations current objectives, based on what happened. Thank you for the preview harkin37th and final steak fry. Appreciate it. Caller sure. Live coveragehave later today and be reairing it later. Particularly the speeches by the clintons. Going back to the topic at hand here, the execution from yesterday by isis, who put out a video claiming to have beheaded a british citizen, the third westerner to have met this fate in recent weeks. We are getting reaction this morning. Doug in ohio. Good morning. Caller hey. Firsttime caller. Host the you for waiting. What is your reaction to what happened . Caller it is unfortunate, it is a difficult the operation difficult operation, but i also believe it was his choice to be there. Basically, this is a holy war. We need to get focused on the fact that this is a holy war. Americans those callers out there, those around the country, those around the world, to begin to do it with their money on their time, just like the man who risks his life to go over there to fight this cause. We need to get focused, quit being a coward, and if my money and thoseo over there fighting against them, i can find me commission or a ministry that can do such and such. Thats my comment this morning. Thank you. The line nows on from foley, alabama. Hello. Thank you. Caller i want people to know people have to understand that foley will be finished. West,wer from the treating islam the way that it is, it is not a religion the way they are treating it. The comedian bill maher, editors name is, he had a piece on real clear politics where he talks about that. He absolutely got it. Were doing it everyone thinks they are radical. They are not radical. There is no such thing as moderate islam necessary as there is moderate economies him. This wont go away. People are living in a fantasy world. Just the idea, delegitimize that idea. Spoke moredent obama about this yesterday, the u. S. Strategy against isis, during his weekly address. [video clip] our Intelligence Community has not checked and specific plots, but the leaders have specifically gone against the United States. They could pose a continuing threat. So, we are staying vigilant and moving ahead with our strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist organization. To meet a threat like this, we have to be smart and use our power wisely, avoiding the mistakes of the past. American military power is unmatched, but this cant be americas fight alone. A ground war in the heart of the middle east would not serve our interests and would only risk fueling extremism. What is needed now is a targeted, relentless Counterterrorism Campaign that combines american air power, contributions from allies and partners, and more support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground. That is exactly what we are doing. We are moving ahead with our campaign of airstrikes and are prepared to take action against isil and syria as well. Helping iraqi and Kurdish Forces wi

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