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Away with? an embassy or hotel near an em b bar see in mali is one thing. when they say they will burn the white house black, that seems like bravdo. one thing they love is deployment by isis ground troops in such a way that wouldn t really pose a direct threat to raqqah but that would give the opportunity to do what they did with the jordan airmen, take a hostage and turn it into the propaganda spectacle that i don t need to tell you or you viewers to expect. absolutely they are looking to go after and kill americans wherever they can find them. michael stand by. we have more to discuss. there is more breaking news coming into the situation room , as well, including details of the terrorist attack and the american among 21 people killed. we ll also go back live to paris on the breaking news from the ....
so let s get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. that s not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. congress didn t consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. that s a lot of paperwork. that s a lot of reports to prepare. that s not adding value. it s not making us safer. well, congress will have to approve a rewrite and republicans promise a careful review of that. military investigators say that they have tracked down and interviewed at least two of the marines seen urinating on corpses in afghanistan. the video has gone viral. today the deputy commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan issued a directive, reminding troops, and i quote, we must treat the living and the d ....
John mccain did that. as well four years ago. what is it about some republican voters who won t accept this fact of life about barack obama? it s stuck in their craw. i have no idea. i mean, i don t know what more the president can do. than what he did. which, in my view was wholly unnecessary. but, okay, there it is. but the reality of it is for some people they just they believe the conspiracy is real. they think it s deep and dark, and they won t get it go. and i think for the romney campaign, and for all of these candidates, they do not need that associated with them. it doesn t help, it only drags it down and makes it harder for them to have a national conversation about unemployment, job creation, wealth creation in this country, and they don t want to talk about birther issive k59s. and also, michael, when you look at the nbc/marist poll today, do you see any chance that evangelicals and other ....
Immigration and how the others kind of went after him and really chopped him up. that has not happened with mitt, and he s the beneficiary of that going into this weekend. but he s at 23% which means that the core of the party, the conservative vote has not coalesced around him, is not coalescing around him, and that still does not bode well for him coming out of iowa. wean a nice a nice day, and going in to new hampshire, it could be a problem. michael stand by. matt romney did apologize for that comment. andrea mitchell rejoins us. we ve got satellites working for us? satellites are back working. the wiring is fixed. thanks so much, richard. michael, just to ask you, about this whole birther issue, though, it just doesn t seem to die out among some republicans. we saw newt gingrich handling it with someone asking him about it and he really knocked it out of the park in putting it down, ....