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This controversy now two days in a row, making his case against calling this fight a fight against islamic extremists. You heard him make the point that that just feeds into the terrorist arguments who are trying to say that this is a war against the west and islam. President obama saying that that only encourages more young people to sign up and join the fight with isis. So this is going to be a debate that will likely continue to play out, but president obama clearly trying to put that debate to rest to some extent today. Now, critics are also claiming that this summit wont have any tangible...

We are not at war with islam. We are pat war with people who perverted islam. They propagate the notion that america and the west generally is at war with islam. Thats how they recruit and try to radicalize young people. We must never accept the premise that they put forward. Because it is a lie. Nor should we grant these terrorists the religious legitimacy they seek. They are not ridge leaders they are not religious leaders they are terrorists. Martha what do we expect to hear today from the president . Reporter the white house has been hard pressed to explain the deliverable on this conferen...

Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. Happening now in the newsroom, a live look at the final day on the white house meeting on extremism. A source of controversy . The one phrase you wont hear the president say, islamic extremism. More on that in just a minute. Last hour secretary of state john kerry weighed in saying the 60 countries assembled here cannot ignore that the root of terrorism is in the recent surge in recruiting. You have to do everything. You have to take the people off the battlefield who are there today, but youre kind of stupid if all you do is do that a...

Which is really about social media because so much success has been had in recruitment by groups like isis in doing that. So he talked a lot about this new Digital Communications hub that the United States is putting together with the united arab em irates and its really going to be looking at ways to counter what has been an incredibly successful social media strategy on the part of those terror groups. The second part is this Virtual Exchange where he hopes to bring together 1 million young people from around the world, the point of it being that you often fear things you dont understand and...

Against islam. Speaking on the final day of the white houses terrorism summit. The white house is also reaching out to muslims around the world. Announcing a Virtual Exchange program now named for the late ambassador Chris Stevens who was killed in the benghazi terror attacks. Ed henry, live from the white house today. So ed did the president bring more urgency now to defeating isis . Reporter no the critics say this is another ivory tower sort of speech, going through academically and explaining why young muslims embrace terror and what we need to do to stop poverty and stop that than actuall...