With anyone. A statement he has to retract hours later since the white house just sent a war authorization to congress and is in the midst of a Bombing Campaign in iraq and syria not to mention afghanistan. On top of that the state department has been relentlessly questioned over the last 48 hours after Deputy Press Secretary marie harf seemed to suggest that the key to ending the Terror Threat is to create more jobs in the middle east. As if walmart could make a real difference in syria. Here is the president just a couple of hours ago. Al qaeda and isil and groups like it are desperate for legitimacy. They try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of islam. Thats why isil presumes to declare itself the Islamic State. And they propagate the notion that america and the west, generally, is at war with islam. We are not at war with islam. We are at war with people who have perverted islam. Of course the terrorists do not speak for over a billion muslims who reject their hateful ideology. No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism. Poverty alone does not cause a person to become a terrorist. Any more than poverty alone causes somebody to become a criminal. There are millions of people, billions of people in the world who live in abject poverty and are focused on what they can do to build up their own lives and never embrace violent ideologies. Chief White House Correspondent ed henry joins us live now. Ed. Megyn, the bottom line is this was the president as Community Organizer trying to bring local Muslim Leaders together to help them stop the recruitment of young jihadists. But he offered little urgency about christians and jews being slaughtered in realtime. Instead framing the battle against isis as what he called a generational problem. Were told tomorrows conclusion of the threeday summit will be much more focused on actually putting out a strategy to defeat isis. But a good chunk of today was about helping muslims deal with what the Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson said was hardship and discrimination. The president writing an oped in Los Angeles Times today declaring the only way to succeed at countering violent extremism is to address what he called legitimate grievances muslims have. Something i pressed josh earnest about. Legitimate grievances of isis or any other extremist group. Ed, i dont have the oped in front of me. But i believe thats actually a reference to the efforts of the administration and obviously local Law Enforcement and other community leaders. Here in this country. To prevent isil from succeeding in recruiting and inspiring people to join their fight. Now earnest said he could not explain why this weekend he put out a statement about the 21 who were beheaded and did not mention their christian faith. Nonetheless the president today again in his remarks talked about the three Muslim Students who were tragically killed at the university of North Carolina recently and mentioned their faith even though earnest admitted at the podium today they dont know what really happened in that investigation. They dont have all the facts yet, megyn. Ed henry, thank you. Very quick to mention their faith and suggest that religion may have played a part. But no mention of the egyptian christians. Which they came under fire for. Joining me now to react bernard, democratic pollster and ceo of whitman inside strategies and bret stevens, Foreign Affairs columnist for the wall street journal and author of america in retreat. So you tell me, bret, this was clean up in aisle 7 on a number of controversies that this administration has faced due to its own making this week alone. I dont think though its helped itself particularly with this conference on violent extremism because it plays to the basic fact that this is an administration that is desperate to evade the core nature of this conflict, which is groups of islamic militants, islamic terrorists who are at war with many muslims that are at war principally with the west with christianity, with the jews. And when you heard the president make his remark saying, you know, these people are not religious leaders theyre terrorists. That raises a question well isnt it possible to be both . As a matter of fact it is. So i think what theyve done in the last week is actually going to create more problems for them both politically as well as strategically than resolve them. Overall, bernard, the problems that have bubbled up have had critics saying they look like theyre trying to downplay the threat and they dont know how to handle the threat. Because youve had, you know, jen psaki came on the program and told me that the evacuation from our Yemeni Embassy it wasnt hasty. But Catherine Herridge reveals exclusively that they were in a panic when they evacuated that embassy, we did not plan for it and left perhaps classified information. And then weve got libya a country that once reached out for us for security help in complete chaos. Thats where the beheadings of the egyptians of 21 christians. Then people who themselves seem like the jayvee squad speaking out regularly. And the president wants us to fight this war while his attorney general saying were not at war. And the president wont identify the enemy. Well, i have no idea what possibly got eric holder to suggest we arent at war because we actually are at war. And the fact we do not anticipate the fall of the regime in yemen is shocking and unbelievable to me. I think the president made one point thats fair today when he talks about not giving the legitimacy of religious cover to these extremists. Your point is well taken. You can be a religious claim to be a religious leader and still be a terrorist. I think the reason why the president is hesitant to say were waging a war against radical islam, which in fact we are, which is in the way the world works today its too easy for that to morph into suggesting were at war with islam. The truth is were not at war with islam were at war with terrorism and violence. I think isis clearly uses the notion that the u. S. And the west are at war with islam to recruit. So i think thats why the president s tried to stay away from it. Its a tough war of words. You know i remember when bush was president liberals constantly mocked him for saying were at war with terrorism. Terrorism after all is only a method. And i think its wrong for the administration to treat americans, whether theyre christians muslims whatever, as children. Obviously we recognize the clear distinction between the vast majority of muslims who want nothing to do with groups like Islamic State at the same time that we recognize the Islamic State does in fact represent a real and growing strain within the muslim world. President obama today seemed to be stressing that the terrorists dont recognize that. So if we come out and say were at war with radical islam, theyll use that to recruit young jihadis saying thats an admission theyre at war with islam. Theyll do anything. Groups like Islamic State. They will take hold of any pretext whether legitimate or not. Whats important now is for the president to speak clearly to americans, to the western world saying we have an enemy, it has a name it represents a branch of islam that we have to fight, we have to delegitimize, but we dont help ourselves by pretending its something other than what it is. And anyone who studies groups like Islamic State seriously know the deep theological roots these groups have. Look, read the 9 11 commission report. Chapter two talks about whos bin laden where does he get his ideology . All of this is rooted in a strain in a branch of islamic theology. You cant just pretend to look away from it and play a game of like harry potter where evil cant be named. Was the president playing small ball today, bernard . So many have come out and called on him to acknowledge this is a global fight. And to lead an International Coalition with his words, with his actions to try to mobilize the globe to fight radical islam with us. And today what we heard from the president was, you know, if a teacher sees someone whos disaffected in his class and hes withdrawn, thats the time to reach out its like what is he doing . Im frankly worried that the focus of today and this week really should be around the authorization of the use force. I think the summit took that off message. What this country needs is an open, honest, candid debate about the direction of use of force in iraq, syria, afghanistan and elsewhere. We need to have Congress Debate this. The majority of the American People, 78 , want this use of force authorized by congress. Thats what we need to do and move on. Theyre going to get something authorized. The only question is how expansive it will be. Good to see you. Dramatic testimony in the trial of the man who killed chris kyle the american sniper. Today what his family said about his behavior on the day he murdered kyle. And a key immigration advocate has issued a stark warning about what to expect now that a judge has slammed the brakes on the president s plan to allow millions of Illegal Immigrants to stay in the United States. Wait until you hear what congressman Luis Gutierrez is threatening when he joins us live. Plus, on this Ash Wednesday both the pope and archbishop in washington. Well speak about the fallout next. Were all christians. We all same radical conviction jesus christ has lured. But because we share that we should not have to die for it. They call it planning for retirement because getting there requires exactly that. A plan for what you want your future to look like. For more than 145 years, pacific life has been providing solutions to help individuals like you achieve longterm financial security. Bring your vision for the future to life with pacific life. Talk to a Financial Advisor to help build and protect your retirement income. Pacific life. The power to help you succeed. Every truck can tow a boat. Every truck can climb a hill. Every truck can haul a trailer. But not everyone can say theyre the fastestgrowing truck brand. In america. Guts. Glory. Ram. Breaking tonight christians around the world are marking Ash Wednesday. Many with heavy hearts amid growing violence and threats from terrorists. Todays Services Come days after merciless thugs murdered 21 christians in libya for the supposed crime of being a christian. The terrorists forcing the men to get on their knees before they slit their throats and vowed to conquer rome next. At the vatican today pope francis paid tribute to the victims. Translator i would like to ask you again to pray for our egyptian brothers killed three days ago in libya for the mere fact that they were christian. Here in the u. S. The archbishop of washington remember urging to remember the prosecuted. When we walk out these doors onto rhode island wearing these ashes, let us deeply in our heart pray for those who cant do that, or do it at the risk of dying. Earlier i spoke with texas senator ted cruz potential 2016 candidate, about this atrocity and the initial white house response. Senator cruz, thank you for being here. And as we see that act take place, 21 christians beheaded and as we see 45 people burned to death by isis in iraq, the white house refuses to identify the religion of the first group of victims and holds a summit on violent extremism without identifying that it is radical islamists that we are fighting and that is committing these horrific acts. Your thoughts. Well, megyn, you are exactly right. Isis is the face of evil. And these latest atrocities our heartbreaks. And to see 21 Coptic Christians murdered, beheaded by radical islamic terrorists, to see 45 people lit on fire this is horrific. And it is deliberate. And it is targeted. It is targeted at christians. It is targeted at jews. Its targeted at muslims in the region who do not acede to the radical islamic views. Unfortunately this administration and president dogmatically refuses to utter the words radical islamic terrorism. You cannot defeat an enemy if you refuse to acknowledge what it is. Why cant you . Why not . Because you cannot focus on who you are targeting and what you are trying to do. You know this week we saw the spokesperson for the state department say we cannot defeat isis by killing them. Instead, we need to give them all jobs. Now, with respect, that is idiocy. The solution here is not expanded medicaid in iraq. The solution is the full force of u. S. Military power to destroy the leaders of isis. They have declared war, jihad on the United States. Jihad is another word the president doesnt say. Instead, you know a couple weeks ago i was at the National Prayer breakfast where the president spoke. And bizarrely he compared these atrocities to the crusades. In this strange act of moral relativism. Last i checked the crusades began a millennia ago. And i dont think its too much to ask the president to stay in the current millennium. They ended over 700 years ago. What did you make of this act . What did you make of the fact he refused to call the 21 victim victims who had their throats slit by isis citizens he didnt call them christians. Absolutely. This is a president and administration that has turned a hard heart to the persecution and suffering of christians abroad, to the persecution and suffering of jews abroad. You look at the christians where is the president speaking up loudly and consistently for pastor sayida in prison for expressing his faith. When sentenced to 100 lashes and hanged by the neck until dead for her faith the president would not speak up. Just a couple weeks ago the president made reference to the horrific terrorist attack in paris where radical islamists went into a kosher deli and the president said it was a random act of violence. Theres nothing random about it. These were radical islamists going to a kosher deli to target people because they were jews and to murder them because of their jewish faith. And this bizarre, politically correct, double speak is simply not befitting a commander in chief whose first obligation should be to protect the United States of america. You know his argument on this, which is theres no reason to admit were in a holy war because that gives the terrorists what they want. And hes worried about alienating those muslim countries that right now are willing to stand up and fight isis. Does it undermine our global effort of the coalition hes trying to build to pit the world against islam . Even the radical form of islam . What undermines the global effort is for the president of the United States to be an apologyist to terrorists. What would be far better to see is the kind of courage that was demonstrated just a few weeks ago by egyptian president el sisi. Now, president el sisi in cairo gave a speech that was courageous. When he called out the radical islamic terrorists. And president el sisi is a muslim. He said we muslims need to stand up together against these radical terrorist who is are perverting our faith and turning it into a mandate for murder. Why dont we see the president of the United States demonstrating that same courage just to speak the truth about the face of evil were facing right now. Senator ted cruz, always grate great to see you, sir. Thank you, megyn. We have breaking news involving bruce jenner, a deadly car crash and the shock Police Reportedly got when they looked at video of the whole thing. That is still ahead. 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