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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20151001 03:06:00

What are the russians really up to? where they struck is not an isis stronghold. that s very concerning to the u.s. they struck in areas where there are anti-regime forces, mill milita militias fighting bashar al assad. as of now what is the u.s. doing beside watching, being a spectator in the region? i know the u.s. is continuing its on strikes against isis. number one, continuing with the strikes that it wants to do, that the u.s. and the coalition want to do. but in his press conference earlier today, defense secretary ashe carter is pretty clear one of his next steps is to be able to sit down with the russian military. he s assembling a team to do that. they want to have this sitdown as soon as possible, talk to the ....

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Transcripts for CNN Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20150929 21:17:00

Committee, mike mccaul of texas. a chilling, new bipartisan report on the threat posed by foreigners who have gone off to join isis, including about 250 americans. mr. chairman, this report, among other things, it says, and i m quoting now, that the united states lacks a national strategy, a national strategy, for combatting terrorists travel and has not produced one in nearly a decade. why hasn t that happened? well, that s this is six months of investigations and to find out we don t have a national strategy is very zis tushing, given the high threat environment we re in now. not only to eliminate the threat over there as the president s been talking to world lead to deal with isis and mr. assad, but also strategy to deal with the violent extremist here in the united states, radicalization of individuals in the united states who we know individuals in syria are directing through the internet to activate people, followers, ....

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Transcripts for CNN Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20150929 21:07:00

These very sophisticated air defense capabilities are not about isil. they re about something else. reporter: the blunt general breedlove indicating his military assessment is the russians may be ready to strike against forces, militias fighting bashar al assad, to beef up, assad. all of this comings the u.s. struggling to figure out what to do with its program to train and equip moderate syrian rebels. we learned that program is in a pause. no new recruits coming in. they ll train ones they have. but until the white house makes some decisions about the way ahead, no new syrian recruits coming into that very troubled program. wolf? thank you. joining us now, the chairman of the house homeland security committee, republican congressman, mike mccaul of texas. he also serves on the foreign affairs committee. thanks very much for joining us. your quick reaction what we heard from the nato supreme ....

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Transcripts for CNN Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20150929 21:01:00

Donald trump will slash income taxes, many americans will wind up paying nothing. but some studies say his tax plan will cost the country trillions. i ll ask trump s campaign manager about that. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. shocking, new evidence that the united states failed to stop the flow of would-be jihadys to syria and iraq. a bipartisan congressional task force reports more than 2550 americans have gone to join isis or other terror groups and some have returned home. more than 25,000 foreign fighters travelled to the region. 7,000, so far, this year alone. the grim numbers come as president obama vows to prevail over isis, chairing an anti-isis summit a day after meeting president putin. al assad s ally, russia has ....

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Transcripts for CNN Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20150929 21:09:00

Equipment, economic aid and everything else the u.s. has done for iraq. are you surprised by that? not really. when i was in baghdad last may, meeting with the prime minister a week before ramadi fell, he told me they are relying completely on the shia militias to figisis. shia militias are a proxy of iran. iran is intent in moving into the region, into iraq to contro baghdad and it s again, been a complete fail our of foreign policy and completely withdrawing from the region that has allowed this power vacuum to exist, which i believe created isis, created this problem, and now most disturbing thing is that russia now is in damascus, in syria, they are propping up mr. assad. i think assad eventually has to be part of the solution. he is a magnet for the jihadists. if we can t effectively deal ....

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