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CSPAN Washington Journal September 25, 2014

Shortly after air strikes starts, some lawmakers start to push again for authorization vote but so far, leaders are not gearing up to bring members back to town. It says that speaker of the house John Boehners office deferred to the white house when asked about the issue. The speaker said he thinks it would be good for the country to have a new authorization for the use of military for the but traditionally, requested by the commander in chief and president obama has not done that. From role call, their story about congress not likely to come back to vote on isis authorization. Richard in georgia, democrat, good morning to you. Caller good morning to you. Host go ahead. Caller okay. What is your confidence level . Caller i think hes done everything in the world to try to help the United States in all the countries, allies. He backs everybody up. And hes tried to get the congress to act. And he aint washing away. Hes not turning his back. As far as the level about the troops that was lost all over seas and for no reason, the last 22 years id be damned that. All these veterans that give themselves and give their time to do what Congress Needed to do and what we had to do and now they, some of them are gone, know, lost their life forever, i just you just cant throw that away. I understand what the caller meant is that we threw thousands and millions of dollars away but we didnt. We didnt throw nothing away. Host okay. All right, richard. Lets listen to a little more of the president s speech yesterday morning at the United Nations. Here he is talking about islam and the role that middle east countries can play. President obama president obama it is time for the world, especially muslim communities to explicitly, forcefully and consistently reject the ideology of organizations like al qaeda and isis. It is one of the tasks of all great religions to accommodate the faith with a modern, multi cultural world. No children are born hating. No children anywhere should be educated to hate other people. There should be no more tolerance of socalled clerics that call upon people to harm innocents because theyre almost jewish or christian or muslim. It is time for a new compact among civilized people of this world toker rat cade war at most fund mental source and that is the corruption of young minds by violent ideology. President obama yesterday in his speech. We get your reaction today. And your confidence level of the president s strategy against isis. Laying it out there in his comments before world leaders. If you want to watch the whole thing, go to our web site. Cspan. Org. U. S. A. Today weighing in. In their opinion, the air strikes degrade isil but can they destroy. Southeast man ticks aside, he has already committed to one and once youre in, theres no sense in tying the hands of the generals charged with winning it. Obama can hope that success could be obtained by lesser means but odds are that is wishful thinking. He better be prepared to move rapidly to plan b. Other are view by a democrat from massachusetts. The Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Sub Committee for oversight and investigations and the congresswoman writes this. Ultimately, u. S. Military action is not the solution. All the military might in the world will not eliminate this threat. The adjustable players must take the lead in reestablishing the stability and security of their region and if not willing, we have to ask if we should have been fighting that fight for them. Answering that question requires a Robust National dug and Congress Must have opportunity to debate the administrations overreaching strategy. That in u. S. A. Today. Financial times, their Editorial Board weighing in. Saying president obama runs the risk of miss creep in syria. Financial times Editorial Board with that comment. Levi, illinois, republican, go ahead. Caller yes, good morning. Im trying to mention that the air campaign, any air campaign you have needs clear targets. Which are usually brought out by a ground campaign. In other words, theres a war going on, if theres a battle going on, there are tanks, artillery, stuff like that. Now theyve come out in the open, thats where you can hit them. Obama is not paying any attention to the generals. And hes worried about like everybody else, worried about getting bogged down or Mission Creep and stuff like that. Shouldnt worry about cleaning up the mess. We should worry about our air mates we need. And once weve done enough damage, we just get out. Everybody says everybody might be mad at us but dont worry about it. The world is blowing up because were not doing what we should be doing. Host on twitter. Isil has destabalized the misand provoke 0 a war. Obama is heading it off. In other news. Politico has this web site. Republicans okay war money. White house plan to tap into war funds to pay for the u. S. Response to ebola cleared important hurdle in Congress Wednesday as republicans in the House Appropriations committee glide it was acceptable use of dollars. A total of 1. 06 billion is at stake comprised of woman to requests on september 8 and 16 to fund the role in providing hospital equipment, personnel and air lift capacity in west africa. That have money cleared and important hurdle yesterday. New york times this morning has a lengthy piece about liberia and fight against isis and the role the United States is playing with the headline in liberia, deaths in homes spread the serbcal of contagion for ebola. Take a look at the picture here. Members of a burr yelp team removing body and there are six teams of burial teams and they report in the New York Times that every day each team reat leaves to half a dozen to a couple dozen bodies, delivering them to a crematorium at the end of the day. 18 of patients are cared for in medical centers. Only 18 . This from the New York Times if youre interested in that story. Also from the front page. Washington times. The Obama Administration approved excessive pay for top executives in bailouts. Reporting that the Obama Administration approved excessive pay for top executives at General Motors and allied financial ink as the at two companies were falling behind in repaying taxpayers for being rescued after the wall street collapse. Says the special Inspector General that overseas trouble asset spending says the Treasury Department office of the special pay czar ignores president obama own stated goals of limiting salarieses of executives. 11 executives of ally made at least one million more than comparable executives at similar companies. That in the Washington Times this morning. Also yesterday, we talked with the National Institute of health, to its director, dr. Francis collins and he talked about security at labs, nih labs in bethesda and across the country. The headline this morning is that the white house issued new regulations nor dangerous biological research, this for specifically the National Institute of health. If you midnight that yesterday go, to our web site and the washington journal web site and watch it there. Darren, tennessee, i want, talking about the president s isis strategy. What is your take on it . Good morning. Youre on the air. What is your take on it . Caller good morning. Im glad that for wong the president is taking quick action. Do i support . Not sure. But how is my confidence level . I sure dont have any confidence in the president or Congress Running a war. I wish they would adopt dont ask, dont tell. They wont ask the military what to do and the military doesnt say it. Let them go over there and do their job and thats my basic idea here. Host okay. Well go on to tony in texas. Democrat. Hi. Caller good morning. I have about a 90 confidence level in the plan of the president. Now the execution is Something Different. You know, because i see a couple of countries want to provide air strikes and training and those kind of things to support the president in this effort but unless somebody can put boots on the ground, its not going to work. Host okay. All right. John in washington, republican caller, what do you think . Caller i think it was a great speech. The only problem is it doesnt have anything to do with the agreement they signed. Had to do with taking away everybodys rights, right to go between borders and all that. I think he went there, sounded great but i dont think it accomplished anything good for us. Host okay. What about swaying countries like britain to get more involve. The Prime Minister David Cameron calling back parliament to vote on getting more involved, more air strikes. Caller i guess that is good, try to get other feel do the war now because he wants to get out of it. I guess thats good. Host lets listen to what David Cameron had to say yesterday. The defeat of isil will only come about if we use all the weapons at our disposal. Yes sanctions against isil and i believe we should do more but we must use our aid to feed and help the apresident elected and use our diplomacy to settle the countries of the region and governments that represent all of the people. The United Kingdom is committed to meeting this challenge. Only a coordinated effort. One part of a comprehensive strategy to dismantle and destroy isil. Must work in tandem with arab states, in support of local people n line with our legal only dayses and patter of a plan that involved aid, diplomacy and military. We need to act and we need to act now. David cameron at the University Security count i will talking about the role that countries need to play. He tweeted out he would be calling back the parliament to vote on more action from the United Kingdom. Heres ban key moon out of the United Nations. Saturdays say free and i want societies free from such erring oppression and occupation will kill Tropical Storm and the leader of iran tweeting isis born out of destruction of iraq and afghanistan did not exist prior to at 2003 and would likely not have come about in absence of invasion. That is what the iranian leader had to say on twitter. Your take on president obamas strategy against isis. What is your confidence level. Part of the strategy is bombing the Financial Resources of isis and the u. S. A. Today front page this morning, obama united against terror. Below that the Headline Coalition strikes isil Oil Refineries in syria, including 12 modular Oil Refineries. Used Fighter Aircraft and street cents to tarts in the remote eastern part of syria. Another strike hit Islamic State vehicle. Latest attacks early wednesday. Five targets connected to the Islamic State. White house had seen social media reports that the allied air strikes killed the leader of cover don in these strikes that khorasan but they did not have confidence. Theory lying on social media reports. Tim in lansing, michigan. What do you make of the strategy. Independent. Caller i think the country has to get together. We should declare war on isis and since this war is so expensive and the weapons are so expensive, go nuclear like we did in world war ii and that red area that is isis, turn it to glass and those opium poppiness afghanistan, do the same thing, poison that earth for 1,000 years because that is where theyre getting their money from. Host okay. Carol, democrat. Florida. Caller lets face it. President george w. Bush not only blew up the economy but blew up the middle east by invading a Muslim Country that did not attack us. As far as the strategy, president obama, i give him 100 . He inherited total chaos and also a Republican Congress blocking him from day one. I think the man is a saint but it would help if israel was held more accountable. You know, muslims for many, many years have been angry because israel given a green light by past administrations. 2,000 dead in gaza. Made a land grab three weeks ago. 1,000 acres in the west bank, yeah, muslims are angry, but lets hold israel accountable when they put our security at risk by their actions. That was carol in, a democratic caller. Well keep getting your thoughts on the president s isis strategy but also want to go to campaign 2014. Many article in the newspapers this morning about that. Out of north coast, reporting for the New York Times, kay hagan showing surprising strengths in at this race. Leads her republican challenger in nearly every survey over the last three months by average of more than 3 age points. Suggest that she has compensated for turnout problem fearing well among voters 65 and older. Goes on to say the idea that she may be doing well among older people isnt completely inex applicable. Democrats still have a Voter Registration advantage as they do across much of the society. Goes on to say about tom till list, her opponent, not a lot of recent data but a u. S. A. Today poll from august found 24 of respondents had a favorable impression and 39 unfavorable. Despite her lead and his weakness, she has only a 44 of the vote and getting 48 performs or 48. 5 . Probably magic number in a race where Minor Party Candidates are poised to fare well will be a daunting task for her around the New York Times saying that she is a modest favorite heading into november. And then in North Carolina, heres a headline from the New York Times as well. The former governor of florida, jeb bush is visiting North Carolina to campaign for tom till list, the republican there but the two disagree on immigration and common core and the candidate there trying to distance himself from jeb bush on those two issues. Also in campaign 2014, pat roberts race in kansas getting a lot of attention. This from the Washington Post, a picture of the incumbent talking with a voter, giving his pitch for november and says that many are on the fence in cass are kansas about reelecting pat rockets to the senate. Many more want him gone, even if it means replacing him with a wealthy investor running as an i want who declined to say whether he would caucus with republicans or democrats. The backlash knots from any issue but from a widespread feeling he has grown too insular in washington and fallen out of touch. In the last paragraph of this piece, they report about boesch does, former senator from kansas, campaigning for pat roberts recently and while they try to look chummy, tried to appear chummy, dole calls robert my goto guy. But theirs is hardly a brotherly relationship. In late 2012, doel personally urged roberts to and came on the floor in is wheelchair. Rockets voted it down. People thought gosh, why couldnt he are are have done that for bob. A among some prominent republicans, she said that just triggered emotional disappointment that carried on has not been changed. That from the kansas race. And george will weighing in on the kansas race as well. In his column, saying the Kansas Senate check dilemma, saying greg orman very smart. Senate intellectual voltage would be increased by his election but improving 1 of the senate less important than taking 100 of the Senate Control from harry reid. His column about kansas this morning. By the way, c mann coverage of campaign 2014 very robust this season. Trying to cover minor than 100 debates for the control of congress. Tonight we have a debate, the nebraska second house seats there. The debate there between brad ashford and representative litery tonight on cspan at 9 00 p. M. Then we go to oregon for the governors debate on friday. 2 00 p. M. Other than time and sunday as well. 6 00 p. M. Eastern time,s iowa senate debate. Lets go to cspan. Org. For more of our coverage of campaign 2014. Sam in mississippi, republican. Youre on the air. What is your confidence level in the president s isis strategy . Caller sear good evening zero confidence. I dont evening think he believes his own rhetoric. I bet the guy is completely overwhelmed with this job and another thing too, the lady from florida, she needs to quit watching sponge bob square pants and start paying attention to what is going on. She is a low information voter and i think this guy is completely overwhelmed with his job. Sheila, interested caller from los angeles. Caller i want to say to the American People, were going over there bombing isis. Dont you realize that isis is likely already here. We have people here that we dont even know who are in this country. Our borders are wide open. No, i dont support it. A lot of money and will make things worse and i also think people need to be concerned about him sending 3,000 troops to africa. Theyre going to bring that back over here. Are people not concerned about that. Host decke democrat in florida, ken, what is your take . Caller 100 in favor of what were doing. The only problem i have is i think congress, the people. Country should get rid of every congressman that does not come back and support this. Im an arm

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