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Acknowledged his low key approach and led americans to believe he wasn't doing enough. let's bring in new york times colu colu columnist. what do you make of the president's actual strategy verses the optics? >> i would start at 30,000 feet. i think the strategic dilemma this president has in contest to his predecessors is they all had to manage strength. american strength and the strength of our allies in europe and japan and adversaries in russia and china. he said to manage weakness. american weakness, weakness of our european allies, weakness of

Specific and credible information about an attack on the homeland. that said, we have to be vigilant. that said, we cannot give into fear or change how we live our lives because that's what terrorist want. that's the only terrorist we have. we have to remind ourselves when we stay true to our values, nothing can beat us. so anyone trying to harm americans need to know they need to know that we're strong and resilient and will not be terrorized. we've prevailed over much greater threats than this. we will prevail again. >> that comes as the new york times reports that president obama in a priva...

Core strength. u.s. economy. i think where we are right now if you compare what the economy looked like seven years ago is night and day. we've created over 13 million new jobs, we see strength in many parts of the economy. consumer demand is good, auto sales at historic level, housing is coming back in a stronger way. i think we're seeing a u.s. economy that's doing that much better. we're not satisfied until the benefits of growth are shared by all americans who want to work and are able to work. we're not there yet. but the u.s. economy is doing well. there are international headwinds. we a...

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Young student whose coming here to study so he can go back. >> to just stay on this point, there's been a lot of polling on this question. most americans are against this idea trump has put forward. a large number of republicans are for it. what does that tell you about how much does that concern you by a lot of measures maybe the majority of the republican party thinks this is a good idea? >> it tells me america is becoming more polarized and