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San bernardino. i know we see our kids in the faces of the young people killed in paris. and i know that after so much war, many americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure. well, here's what i want you to know. the threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. we will destroy isil and any other organization that tries to harm us. our success won't depend on tough talk or abandoning our values or giving into fear. that's what groups like isil are hoping for. instead, we will prevail by being strong and smart. resilient and relentless. and by ...

>> reporter: facing criticism that his strategy is not working and needing to reassure anxious americans in a rare address from the oval office president obama laid out what he says the u.s. and its partners are doing. >> we will destroy isil and any other organization that tries to harm us. our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. >> reporter: still tonight critics say president obama only defended existing strategy including air strikes, supporting syrian opposition and iraqi soldiers but laid out nothing new. >> i was disappointed last...

It is one where we have seen them use social media, for instance, to recruit, to radicalize and indeed to plan and plot. which is why we are applying relentless pressure on isil in iraq and syria and other areas so they cannot establish a safe haven, which is exactly why you have seen our military take action, take lethal strikes against leadership targets in iraq and in syria. including against jihadi john just last week, the brutal murderer of, we assess, of american citizens, of american journalists. which is why you've seen our military take strikes against and take out leaders elsewhere, ...

And al qaeda terrorist plotters wherever they are. >> why do you think this paris plan slipped through the cracks here? obviously you guys have been very aggressive. do you have issues now in monitoring cell phones? do you have issues that you're facing that stood in the way of you being able to break up this plot? >> well, time will tell as the investigation of the paris attacks continues. and obviously the french are leading that and are very focused and we're working very closely with them, sharing intelligence. i personally have been in contact daily with my counterparts in france and in p...

The fbi director saying there are now surveillance operations under way in all 50 states against suspected isis or other terrorist plotters. that's pretty shocking wink about that as well. >> well it is pretty shocking although i do think we have to put it in context. i would imagine probably almost any year we have investigations in all 50 states of a variety of terrorism cases. what makes this unique is that these are isis related terrorism cases. i was in the u.s. attorney's office back in the '80s and '90s in los angeles. we hadrorism cases in l.a. they were about blowing up the federal bu...