Independents can dial in at 2027488002. Do you trust the government to protect against terrorism . cspanwj. If you want to get through on twitter, make a conversation on acebook. Com cspan. You can always send us an email. Pew research center, view of government handling of terrorism post9 11 low. Here, you can see it for the first time. More americans do not trust the government. 52 as opposed to 48 that do. You can see variations over the years since 2001. Over all of those years, americans have trusted the , a majority of americans have trusted the governmentprotect against terrorism except for now. The New York Times this morning looks at the president s press conference, his statement yesterday. His defense response to terror attacks. Mr. Obama now realizes he was slow to respond to public fears after terrorist attacks in paris and california, acknowledging his lowkey approach led americans to worry that he is not doing enough to keep the country safe. He is engaged in a blitz of Public Events to try to convince them otherwise, including a visit on thursday to the National Counterterrorism center. He had a private session with columnists that was off the record. The president s remarks were recounted on thursday by several people in the room after one of ius ofiters, david ignat the washington post, described some of the president s thinking in a column without intervening it to president obama. His defense of his approach came as republican president ial candidates have been raining him as weak and repeating in their calls for more robust action to combat the Islamic State in syria and iraq. In tuesday nights republican debate, donald trump said even the families of terrorists should be killed. Carpet bombpose to and holdouts despite the risk of civilian casualties. Ben carson argued for sending ground troops. Mr. Obama made his comments during the nearly twohour meeting with columnists and other opinion writers on tuesday afternoon, about 10 in all. Just hours before the debate. His frustration with republican criticism was evident. He appeared exasperated with mr. Trump who has called for a temporary ban on muslims entering the u. S. Mr. Obama said that mr. Trumps comments on muslims to not make him an outlier in the president ial field, but represented the culmination of many years of a republican strategy of division and fear mongering. The people in the room who described the president s comments asked for anonymity because of the ground rules among those attending the session. Opinion columnist and an editorial writer for the New York Times, but they were not sources for this article. This article is by peter baker in Gardiner Harris in the near times. 2027488001 four republicans, democrats,r fo 2027488001 four independents 2027488002 four independents. Lets begin with a call for mary judith and dansville, virginia. Republican line, go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am a republican for one reason. I am prolife. I voted for president obama twice. Pickgoing to try to somebody who is going to do away with abortion. I trust president obama for now. Rousinga lot of rabble coming out of people like trump. The minute anyone says we should terrorists family without due process, this person does not belong in the white house. To carefully research the situation. A lot of why president obama and democrats have been so careful about condemning islam in general is the minute you do that, you give the terrorists their holy war. They can say they are against all of his long all of islam. Host here are the Facebook Comments that have come in. This is michelle. I dont trust the government to protect anything except itself. Pauline says i wouldnt trust this government to protect a hen since they themselves are the wills the wolves. It depends on to say on what type of terrorism. When it comes to white power terrorism, not really. They are part of the kkk. This senator probably has a white power agenda. He takes it in that direction. Steve says no such thing as perfect security. You might as well believe in unicorns. I trust this government not to make the same blunders george w. Bush did. An softer line, democrat line. Caller democrat line. Caller i trust the government. There is a lot that we have to do. Look around, see what is going on. The government is doing things behind the scene. Barack obama is doing stuff. They are working on it. They dont tell us a lot of stuff they are doing. There is a lot going on. Republicans keep preaching dont trust the government, dont trust the government. We have to turn this around. We have to do something together, work together. That is what this president has said since he was given office. We are not a red state or blue state. That is my comment on it and i trust the government. Host here is a little bit more from the president of the National Counterterrorism center. Barack obama at this moment, our intelligence does not have any specific and credible information about an attack on the homeland. That said, we have to be vigilant. As i indicated in my address to the nation last week, we are in a new phase of terrorism. Loan actors and small groups of terrorists. Lone actors. Because they are smaller, often self initiating, self motivating, they are harder to detect. That makes it harder to prevent. The threat of volts, so do we. Thethreat peoples threat evolves. Host back to the New York Times article, mr. Obama is fast in a message to reassure americans he is battling the Islamic State while avoiding the alarmism voiced by some president ial candidates. Polls suggest Many Americans do not believe he is taking the threat seriously enough. Nationald the Counterterrorism Center on thursday following a similar trip to the pentagon earlier in the week in an Oval Office Address to the nation last week. He is trying to make the case that his administration is succeeding in its fight against terrorism and the Islamic State. Even some members of his own party are grumbling that he needs a new strategy. Mr. Obama said that he it is understandable that americans are concerned, but that they should be reassured. Here is what i want everyone to know. Since 9 11, we have taken extraordinary steps to strengthen homeland security. Mr. Obama emphasized that vigilance against terrorism should not lead americans to sacrifice values that define the nation. A direct response to remarks from republicans. Jim in chicago, independent line, what do you think . Caller good morning, peter p peter. I want to say you are my favorite host. I dont trust the government one bit. Democrats or republicans. How can you trust their government that does not take care of the middle class . Lets illegals into the country . Doesnt take terrorism seriously . Doesnt take care of vets . This country is hurting financially. It seems like the people on wall street, capitol hill, they dont care about the average person. The problem should be the economy. Host that is jim in chicago. Diane on Facebook Says i dont trust any government. Id rather take care of my own security. It is called smith wesson. Democrat in baltimore, high, youre on the washington journal. Trust obama because i think he is always sound and thought out. Thater, we have to know anybody who wants to do harm in this country is already here. They are already here. They have guns tanks to the nra. This is the question i want to ask. This man in South Carolina that killed all of these people in the church, what terrorist group did he belong to . We quickly forget and separate things. We have groups right here in this country that want to harm africanamericans. I. E. , the police. This individual was an operating alone in South Carolina that kill people. He wasnt operating alone. Lets be real about this. The terrorism going on against africanamericans in this country, they havent stopped. Anybody who wants to do harm to people in this country are already here. Host do you feel tense in baltimore with the freddie gray trial going on . Caller i dont feel tense at all. Nobody else did. She said lets prosecute the police. That is the only way we are going to stop it. Prosecute them, convict them. I dont feel any tension at all. Think that office is working very well on our behalf. Host thank you, maam. Maryland, republican line. Do you trust the government . Caller hello, good morning. Largely about the perception of the understanding haramigious war by boko and isis, whatever we call them. I am originally from nigeria. I came to the United States about 10 years ago. Dontlamic extremists need anybody to incite them. It is the religious ideology. I lived with boko haram before americans in the west knew about it. They were in the other parts of northeastern nigeria. These killings started a long time ago and they will not end. It is whether or not somebody says something supportive or unsupportive of islam or muslims in general. We christians go out and do our evangelization, carry our bibles around, talk to people. The way islam goes about it into through evangelization is through holy war. It doesnt matter what the democrats or republicans say. It is just the way it is. We have to accept the reality and do what we can as americans and hopet ourselves that the government would also do what is right. Host randallstown, maryland. The question this morning, do you trust the government against terrorism . Showing thatl out americans for the First Time Since 9 11 do not trust the government to do so. Posted on facebook, i trust the government to protect us from terrorism. The question is, can the government protect us from terrorism while playing within the rules . Larry, tennessee, democrats line, go ahead. Caller i trust the government. I think the reason on the radio, the republican candidates. That they still over in their hatred for the removing the trust, the reality on the ground. I saw a statistic that 43 people were killed in the United States since 9 11 due to terrorists. How many years have gone by since 9 11 . It is pretty evident that they do. Doing what they need to host a little bit more from the pew poll. Growing partisan on whether islam encourages violence. You can see that 68 of republicans agree that it does. Independents are at 45 . Democrats are at 30 . Steve, north charleston, South Carolina, republican line. Do you trust the government to protect against terrorism . The independent line, so i dont know how that happens. Anyway, i am going to try to keep with the question. I will leave politics out of this if i can. Put, i dont completely trust the government with my security with regard to terrorism. I dont think they can keep up. I dont think i have a total capability. I dont think they can do it all. I think we have to rely on ourselves to some degree. Here is my point. After the paris attacks, who did terrorists threaten . I will say the president got up after that and said we have no credible threats. To your viewers and listeners, we didnt have a credible threat before the Boston Marathon commerce, before fort hood, chattanooga, and we didnt have one before San Bernardino. This is a great argument to keep the Second Amendment intact. We have to protect ourselves. I do hold the president a little bit responsible for getting up in front of the nation and single about your business. This is your mongering. Listen, we have a credible fear, that is for sure. I trust the government to some degree with air travel coming into the country. Terrorism that is being sources onby outside our soil, they can do it all. Lets face it or it i dont blame the president. Host that is steve in north charleston. Poll, gope pew on gun control, democrats on Climate Change. The republicans have a 12 point advantage when it comes to a terrorism threat. They have a six point advantage when it comes to gun control. Ron is calling in for miami. Hi, ron. Caller if you can let me finish what i have to say. The problem is the majority of the ones congress, with the state solution in israel, the ones against the two state solution, vote them out. The terrorism started in palestine. Thank you. Host ron, in miami. Republican line, helen, you are on the washington journal. What do you think . In, 35 yearsored ago, in middle eastern history and american foreignpolicy. This was before the idea of jihad and the restoring a caliphate was a popular concept. The professor i had said that this would happen. Because of our foreignpolicy in this region for the last this was back in 1985 the last hundred years had created a ,estern hegemony in this region setting up those governments propped up by western powers, britain and in the United States. , theeaction to that ruthless foreignpolicy, would create an era of uprising. Their identity would be through their religion. He said it wouldnt be terrorist on nationald borders. It would be based on religion and a political religious ideology, but especially fueled by religious ideology. Government maye do its best, but i dont how you are going to control the thoughts, hearts, souls, minds of someone who is convinced, regardless of where they live or what culture they grew up in, whether it is in San Bernardino. They are inspired to commit terrorism against what they have historical oppressor. It is going to happen. I dont know how the Government Program is going to be able to protect us completely or even 50 of the time from terrorism. Either in the United States or other parts of the world. Host helen in fullerton, california. The this morning, obama to the country, we cannot give in to fear. In this article, it says that the Un Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution thursday aimed at disrupting revenue that the Islamic StateExtremist Group gets from oil and antiquity sales and other criminal activities. Senator john mccain took to the senate floor yesterday to talk about terrorism. John mccain we may well look we were2015 and realize present at the unraveling. We were present at the unraveling. At the beginning of this year, president obama was still committed to degrading and ultimately destroying isil. Couldt unchecked, they pose a threat to the middle east including United States. In 2015, that is exactly what happened in paris and San Bernardino. It will not be the last. I promised my colleagues under with thenistration present policy and lack of strategy, there will be other attacks on the United States of america. I regret deeply, deeply regret having to say that. I hold my constituents and americans that i know and respect to tell them the truth. More than one year into the campaign against isil, it is impossible to assert that isis is losing and we are winning. If you are not winning in this kind of warfare, you are losing. Stalemate is not success. Witnesses before the Armed Services committee, is it contained . It is not. Isis is not contained. Contrary to the statements bizarrely made by the president of the United States literally hours before the attacks on San Bernardino. The openingpic for segment of the washington journal this morning, do you trust the government to protect you against terrorism . For republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 independents. We are basing this question on a poll telling that the majority of americans for the First Time Since 9 11 do not trust the government to protect against terrorism. Here are some more inside poll results from this pew poll. Terrorism is now the most important problem facing the nation. In one year, terrorism grew from 1 saying yes, it is the most 18 ,t problem to 15 sorry about that. This month. The economy dropping six points, defense and National Security also raised six points. Bill, lake ariel, pennsylvania, republican line or go ahead. My answer to the question is do we have a choice . Decide whether we are at war were not at war. Are we at war . If we are at war, we have to go over there. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We have to go over there and destroy them. Stop farting around. We could do it. Americans have to be vigilant and be behind what they do. Give the general state power to clean them up. Host bill and lake ariel, pennsylvania. This is herbert and humble, texas on the democrat line. Stop being so afraid. Reporting of the news is totally different on the bbc. Can you read headlines from their . Winning up north, the kurds are kicking butt. Conduct, america. Host what is the bbc saying . Caller read it. Let the American People know. The european papers are totally different in the states. Humble, texasin on the democrat line. Back to the pew poll, and across the board drop in efforts to reduce terrorist threats. Percent saying the government is doing fairly well introducing the threat of terrorism, democrats, 64 , republicans, 27 , independents are in between those two numbers. You can see it divides people that they have done between the george w. Bush administration and the barack obama administration. A huge increase in the democrats after barack obama was elected and a big decrease in the republicans when barack obama was elected. Georgia,berryville, republican line. Do you trust the government to protect against terrorism . Caller absolutely not. I think the government has failed to realize that not only us but the whole world is at war people who have gone haywire. We know in our country and across our unsecure borders that being at war with them takes away their rights and freedoms in the United States. We ought to be able to go in to their homes,