Security team, National Security team the 4 Big National Holiday like the one we are about to experience tomorrow. What is out of the ordinary is to have that meeting after a terrorist attack like the one that was planned and executed in paris. Officials are said to be worried, we will hear more about this, they are said to be worried about copycat attacks, copycats of what happened in paris. Bolognese nothing is flash on your screen, that is white house talk for a plea to minute warning to the president. So we will see if he does that lead to minutes from now. That said the white house has been careful to point out before the meeting took place and the last couple days that they have nothing specific, no credible or specific threats against the United States homeland. In terms of a copycat attacks there were reports the visible and sent to 18,000 Law Enforcement officials warning them about homegrown threats saying these lawenforcement officials should be even more on the lookout than they ordinarily would be for suspicious people who might be conducting surveillance around what are known as soft targets like the targets that were attacked in paris, the concert hall or cafes that were attacked. That is reportedly went out to Law Enforcement officials. As the president wraps up this meeting, we expect in a minute to come out, what americans should be thinking about, not word of the ordinary to have Something Like this, but with a travel warning from the state department, see if theres anything more specific we should be thinking about have thanksgiving. Neil report on what theyre doing in the area to be put security, the president of the United States, what changes might be in store. Good morning, everybody. I had a chance to meet with my nationalsecurity Team Including my secretary of Homeland Security, and my attorney general loretta lynch, for a regular update for Security Posture post paris going into the holiday season. All of us recognize how horrific pan what took place in paris was and as i said yesterday many of us, the events touched the deep chord given the connection between the United States and france, the degree to which americans see in paris a way of life so familiar to us, given shocking images i know americans have been asking each other whether it is safe here, to fly or gather. I know families discuss their fears about the threat of terrorism around the dinner table, ready for the First Time Since september 11th. And it is understandable people worry something similar could happen here, watching the events in paris made the threat feel closer to home. As we go into thanksgiving weekend i want the American People to know we are taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe. First we are going after isil wherever it hides. That has been our strategy for more than a year. I will speak about this in more detail in coming week but let me remind the American People what our coalition of 65 nations i doing to destroy these terrorists and to feed their ideology. Military partners have conducted 8,000 airstrikes on isil strongholds and equipment, those airstrikes along with efforts of partners on the ground have taken out key leaders, taken back territory from isil in iraq and syria. We continue to choke off their financing and their supply lines and counter their recruitment and messaging, and as america is supporting french air strikes in c rea, we agreed our countries are going to step up that coordination even further and do more of that work together. So we are stepping up pressure on isil where it lives and we will not let up. Adjusting our tactics where necessary, until they are being. That is our first goal. Second, we continue to do Everything Possible to prevent attacks at home and abroad and prevent foreign terrorist fighters from entering the United States or other nations. Since 9 11 we have taken extraordinary measures to strengthen our Homeland Security, everything from Aviation Security to border security, and information sharing. We have improved upon these actions over time. Anytime there is an event we learn something from it and we continue to refine them, continue to improve upon our approaches as we speak. Right now we know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. That is based on the latest information i just received in the situation room. It is similar to the information, the briefing i received on saturday before i are left on my trip last week. As americans travel this weekend to be with their loved ones i want them to know our counterterrorism, intelligence, Homeland Security and Law Enforcement professionals at every level are working overtime, they are continually monitoring threats at home and abroad, continually evaluating our Security Posture, constantly working to protect all of us, their work has prevented attacks, their efforts have saved lives, they serve every hour of every day for the sake of our security, they did so before paris and they do so now. Without fanfare or credit and without a break for the holidays. The bottom line is this. I want the American People to know entering the holidays that the combined resources of our military, our intelligence and Homeland Security agencies are on the case. They are vigilant, relentless and affective. In the event of a specific credible threat the public will be informed. We do think it is useful for people as they go about their business to be vigilant. If you see something suspicious, say something. That is always helpful. But otherwise americans should go about their usual thanksgiving activities, spend time with family and friends, celebrating our blessings and while the threat of terrorism is a troubling reality of our age, we are both equipped to prevent attacks and resilience in the face of those who would try to do us harm. That is something we can all be thankful for. Happy thanksgiving, everybody. Neil the president saying we know of no credible threat, enjoy it thanksgiving, we got or back, we got you covered, authorities are looking at anything and everything anyone and everyone or something should go on this and if that ever escalates to that level he will let us know. Reaction from former new york States Robert strain on what the president just outlined. What do you think . It was reassuring for the cops and special agents, military and private security people working all this weekend. He is right because everybody is working overtime, everybody is out there 24 7 making certain this american holiday, this unique holiday is safe at such a crucial time with isis really developing and reaching out and trying to get things going around the world so it was reassuring, it was nice to hear but at the same time we still know we are on heightened alert and we know isis is here, al qaeda is here, we worry about copycat issues and things that may happen this holiday weekend. Neil a big thanksgiving day parade in manhattan getting ready for that. There is a beefed up police presence. What does that do to potential terrorists . It is helpful. In new york we have 1300 units for counterterrorism right here just for the parade and then all your regular Police Officers working the streets, very visible and clearly they will go somewhere where the cops arent. More cameras you have, the more Police Officers, more agents, the more security, the less likely these terrorists will pick, they will always look for the softest target, look where they get the most exposure and the least resistance. Neil thank you very much. Not to ambassador bloomfield on the global threat here. York since having been assistant secretary of state in the early 90s what we look for in these moments . If we are safe here obviously we learn there are vulnerabilities abroad. What is the Global Environment like right now . It is similar to what we have seen in paris, thanksgiving is here. It is a holiday in america. Terrorists like to get attention. The president and Homeland Security forces are all on alert. I am grateful to them for that but by the time you are playing bully trying to prevent the next attack the question is how are we going to stop this in the long run . Neil in light of the global alert we know from chatter, from actual incidents, that even though we can say we are on top of things we are not, things go by, things miss us, the difference with the beat of presence 3 much everywhere, pre, it gives bad guys pause. They only have to succeed once and will be on 24 7 on all the media. We need to judge if we have a policy and a plan to go after isis and the countrys that are supporting or enabling isis, whether their friends are or not, we need to do something comprehensive and i dont think the president is there yet. He is moving from being very passive to be more active after Francois Hollande was here but this is not an all in policy at this point. Neil when the president talks about we are taking the fight isis, para freezing here, talking about these airstrikes and how effective they have been, i dont want to be cynical or jaded but they were not affected enough to stop what happened in paris or belgium or what might happen in belgium. And bragging about that. Isis, i have not seen what you could call a decisive operation to end the isis presence in iraq and syria. I have not seen a decisive operation to stop Bashar Alassad from using isis as a diversion. We of the transition under way but it is not a real transition until he is gone and the refugees wont go back even if we defeat isis. The rigor and out by Bashar Alassad regime and syrian military. Until we have a real transition in syria they are never going back. If we do have a transition in syria that takes the tall level of of the regime we can persuade the refugees to create a better stereo which would be the beginning of fighting isis. Iraq is the same thing. We have problems there. The sunnis have no place to go, the corruption is endemic, she at militias are driving the into the arms of isis and iran is behind an Vladimir Putin is guilty as well so theres a lot we have to do. We have to figure out and get serious. Neil thank you. Hope you have a safe thanksgiving. When we come back, karl rove on the search for another ronald reagan. You know there were couple ronald reagans. You might not know William Mckinley might have been one of them. Karl rove connects in history. That is down right historic and timely right about now. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. 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Neil the president backing of a brief statement in the roosevelt room of the white house saying as we get ready for thanksgiving be careful, be vigilant, look around, we are on top of things, everything is okay. The thing is with this president , growing concern on the left and the right that she is isis strategy isnt exactly working. You here in the Campaign Among republicans there is a search for another reagan. Leave it to karl rove to go back further to a guy, until reading karls latest book, that there was another reagan. William mckinley was the author. Not a lot to get into, parallels are interesting. This line treated me near the end of the book, mckinley would naturally be optimistic. And settle in political conduct. If he seemed above the fray and genuinely respectable, engaging guide. Iran at campaign unchanged american politics, gilded age politics looks like today, two Political Parties right against each other divided government with one party in the white house and the other Controlling Congress or branches of it and five president ial elections, five in a row where nobody gets 50 of the vote, two president s elected with minority of the popular vote and majority of Electoral College, when president when the Electoral College and popular vote, popular vote by 7,000, mckinley win the election which is up in the air and the political system changes and for the next 36 years republicans dominate the political landscape. Neil between the capital they controlled the white house for 28, and they only get neil interrupted by woodrow wilson. Republican party splits in 1912, control the senate for 30, 26, more governors and state legislatures than the next 90 years. Neil why is he like the Rodney Dangerfield of the president. By the way comes across as a little obsequious worm. He is. Neil you hit him. I like him but you got to acknowledge this man, Theodore Roosevelt has become an ambitious weasel to rescue his political career. Is impossible for him to become the man he becomes to dominate the american political stage unless he does what he does in the 1890s 6 campaign. I like roosevelt but winced at these letters he writes. Neil he seems like a funny but wormed his way onto the ticket. Wears his way into the good graces of mckinley and mcginley gives them, rescues him political oblivion even though he tells the couple from cincinnati who are promoting him for the assistant secretary of the navy i do not trust your young man roosevelt, he is too pugnacious and saw in him the challenge of the future and is not the only man. He berates a letter just after mckinley gets nominated, he says he is a good man but, quote, he is weak and i worry about him in a moment of crisis and shortly thereafter one of his closest friends as we must do everything we can end when we do you must be in the cabinets. Neil everyone knows what happened. He is not the only exceptional young man. Another one runs the campaign who by the time of the election just turned 31, the son mckinley never had a completely obscure in the 95 when mckinley put him in charge of his primary campaign in the gettysburg contest that has run his general Election Campaign because at 32 the comptroller of the currency for is directed a bureau in the budget, Vice President of the United States, ambassador of great britain, head of the reconstruction finance corp. And fourth american to win the Nobel Peace Prize the mckinleys and out of obscurity and says this young man neil karl rove of his time. We think of candidates to succeed inbecoming president as the sort of put offish figures but they deal with a great deal i didnt realize he was two children and then one born on christmas day. He called the geek who died at the age of 5 his favorite christmas present. The death of his two daughters causes his wife to spiral. Neil she sees worse in terms of stability. She suffers some kind of concussion or traumatic brain injury and suckers epilepsy and is completely depressed the rest of her life. Neil he stands byher. He was in an enormous integrity, one of the great saving graces, people looked at him, one of my favorite lines, my opponents in congress always apologize to william before they attacked him and this was the kind of man he was and he had at unifying message in the election that brought the country together but more important than that, he took on the toughest economic issue of the times, the battle over what kind of money we would have, gold or silver and put the conservative economic case in words the ordinary working people could understand and as a results with the labor bill, the swing election. Neil very unusual for a republican, very unusual now. A message from his presidency that republican candidates should take. Three. One is pick on the big issues and find a way to talk about them in a way that will win the middleclass. The middle class or later. Second of all be involved in addition, not subtraction, first republican president , the Republican Party was a lost party, white anglosaxon protestant. He becomes the first republican candidate for president endorsed by explosive when the bishop of st. Paul endorses him. Reach out to the new immigrants, new voters in america and that those