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Why not? but i don t think they re trying to overplay their hand to terrorize people. i think they want to destroy these things and will destroy them, if possible and will sell them if they can carry them away. this is not new. there has been tens, there has been a tendency you know in many religions to have these moments of iconoclastic violence. but it was the kind of thing you saw in the early christian era, hundreds if not thousands of years ago. if you go to museums now, any museum, you see a lot of statues don t have heads and arms on them. that s because they were broken by people. but they were broken by people hundreds or thousands of years ago. not today and tomorrow. on more pedestrian terms, is it strategically important either, should we look at it strategically important that isis has now taken a city from bashar al-assad s troops and is ....
Disturbing news news the tree are teaming up. senator kelly ayotte joins us. good evening senator. good evening, greta. all right. well u i guess we should have expected this but this is a nightmare. well, it is. i mean, you know if this is true and they are collaborating we are in a situation where beam who have civilized individuals and civilized everywhere. this trifecta from hell as far as these terrorist groups joining together. i think if you look at this it really shows you that the obama foreign policy of leading from behind is not working. the disturbing thing is who is really surprised by this? this is not really sort of breaking news because everyone expected this because if you look at the growth of ice in syria and iraq and the troubles in libya. tunisia, boca haram all over nigeria. and people from western europe joining isis. what s the big surprise that these three horrible groups would join up? it s not shocking given that all three of them want to cause terr ....
They are in a situation where if you look at the types of horrific acts that they have committed, all of them want to oppress women. they want to oppress religious minorities. they all have this idea, i mean i think if you look at what isis is trying to do in spheabing establishing the islamic caliphate and what boko haram is doing. we have literally run out of yemen. yemen the president says it was a successful for counter terrorism last september. we literally have fled. i mean, what are we going to do now? we have run out of yemen. the government we were trying to cooperate with, iran you can thank iran for helping that, too. with their support for the houthis. who we have outsourced fighting ice sisz with in iraq. recently general petraeus identified that he believes that iran s presence in iraq is just as much of a problem, if not a longer term greater threat to us than isis itself. ....
Come back and, of course, we will be watching to see what you decide. thank you, sir. all right. greta. thank you. and straight ahead, this will and should alarm you. there is news isis, al qaeda and boko haram have all teamed up. so what s their plan? hey, what s ours? senator kelly ayotte is next. plus, donald trump goes on the record. he has big news. shear a hint. the next inaugural parade. donald trump coming up. ....
Auto who are are a we doing? are you trying to get the president s attention on. this we are trying to get the president s attention. what we should be doing on the floor greta we have the budget. if you look at what is happening around the world the last thing we should be doing is slashing our military and really this sequester, the threats we face is a disconnect between that and the resourcing the military. in the committee, we have given more resources for defense. that s important the budget committee. because if we don t have the strong military defense defense how are we going to address these? look it map up there. that s the situation. that red part that is the map of the world. it is getting worse. has president obama sent any plan for isis? asked for the authorization of force a while back. i mean, this is getting redder. it s getting redder. and i think that he has to change his strategy. the united states has to be more engaged. has to be a leader. has to support grou ....