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Able to pinpoint a link between those killers and isis commanders overseas but says it's a major threat facing the country and one he described as being a new threat, new era on the war on terrorism, that is self-radicalized terrorists who draw their inspiration from isis. the president is recommending -- i thought this was a key part of the speech. i think it's a policy space that perhaps republicans, democrats can rally around and that is this recommendation that law enforcement and social media companies work together more closely to be on the lookout for isis extremists or extremists in th...

>> there were two things that struck me. one, obviously there are going to be a lot of conservatives who take issue with his call to make it more difficult to get a semiautomatic rifle or what he called assault weapons and the idea that if you're on a no-fly list you should not be able to buy a gun. there are a lot of republicans and conservatives who have issues and concerns about that and i think a lot of their focus is going to be on that. some other things that i thought were interesting from the president's speech is he was more forceful in his rhetoric in talking about terrorism than i h...

President said about the aumf i think is critically important. not for the reason gloria said, to build the political background, but because when you're a soldier on the ground, you want to know the people that are behind you and the government is behind you. right now, the soldiers on the ground don't know the government is behind them because everyone is fighting about different approaches to take. one of the other thing president might have said was we ought to limit congress from going on different shows expressing their views and force them to legislate on aumf so we can get this thing m...

His presidency. he lost the american people, the democrats then lost his fellow republicans. if president obama cannot rally the american people, he's already lost the republicans. the democrats are skittish and nervous. this could be a very defining moment in the president's political standing not just on the terrorism/isis question but the president's political standing at home. we don't know the answer to that question yet. we know after the president's speech he did not change the conversation. the republican presidential candidates are saying this is a bad speech, told us nothing new. lea...

>> no, he didn't. >> which presumably would protect syrian refugees and not make them leave that country. >> i don't think he wanted to get into a foreign policy argument with his own former secretary of state at this point in the campaign. also it wasn't that kind of speech, if you will. i think this is a white house that has been completely frustrated by its own inability, and maybe dan pfeiffer could talk about this, by its own inability to communicate what they believe is the policy that they have that is gradually working. and so the president had to come out tonight without saying, oh, m...