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And he said that the middle east transformation that is underway is going to play itself out for a generation. i thought this was the president trying to lessen fear and add perspective. >> there was one line that stokes the fear. the line that is rhetoric, when people talk about the enemy gaining strength that's rhetoric and hot air. that plays into the trump base and plays into people who fear an attack on our homeland. >> let's play what he said about isis. it relates to what we're talking about. >> masses of fighters on the backs of pickup trucks, twisted souls plotting in apartments or ga...

Something about it. they send it to congress and iran says all bets are off and they go back to congress and take the sanctions back. if you don't think that has implications for u.s. national security you are wrong. >> that same country under the last administration was steaming toward an atom bomb and now they are a good distance from it because they had to ship -- >> as a guy who sat in every one of those meetings, absolutely inaccurate. what happened was the administration pulled back on a whole set of decisions because they wanted an iran deal. some of those decisions included action on a...

What republican candidates are talking about. the political setting in this country right now is republicans trashing president obama's legacy every day. calling him a terrible president. and so he was kind of spiking the football here. he was really taking, you know, to use a sport's metaphor, a victory lap. if a republican president had accomplished a lot of the things president obama has on the economy, republicans would be touting it as a success. and that's the point that he was basically making here. it was a last chance for him to sort of put that in the face of this congress that's obs...

They increased funding for the national institutes of health. >> all of us are much more threatened by cancer. >> you can't deny, here's where i agree with mike. you can't deny that the american public is anxious. >> yes. >> whether isis, you know, is an existential threat or not, the america public is afraid. >> you fight fear with facts. you don't -- >> he said it's rhetoric and hot air. >> it is the role of the president to cater to anxiety or address the anxiety with facts. that's what he tried to do tonight. >> some notion he laid out a list of facts is wrong. he had great rhetoric. but i...

Have a huge problem internationally. >> hold on one second. >> get -- >> his point -- >> wait, wait -- >> no, sir. he is going to turn over a much better country than the one he inherited. >> not on foreign policy. >> are you insane? come on. >> you're arguing the position of the u.s. in the world is better than what it was. isis in 20 countries and 50 states. you have attacks in paris. you have the chinese -- >> let van respond. >> you can run through the list of horrors you are concerned about iran. >> and china and russia. >> can i finish? >> iran -- you want to talk about iran, iran got th...