National Journal Senior Political Correspondent Ron Fournier said that President Obama’s comments that ISIS can be made “a manageable problem” were “awfully passive” and “unsettling” on Wednesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “That’s awfully passive language to be using about
Wednesday at a ceremony to appoint Texas lawyer Shaarik Zafar to be special representative to Muslim communities, Secretary of State John Kerry said it was the United States’ Biblical “responsibility” to “confront climate change,” including to protect “vulnerable Muslim majority counties.”
President Barack Obama said that ISIS can be shrunk to “a manageable problem” if the international community works to “isolate” it on Wednesday. “If we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence,
Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” former CIA director Mike Morell warned not enough attention is focused on events in Libya because the ISIS takeover in Iraq is being replicated by al Qaeda groups in Libya. Morell said, “What’s happening in
In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage weighed the pros and cons of a potential Scotland independence from the United Kingdom. According to Farage, the Scottish people should be allowed to determine
President Barack Obama vowed the United States “will defend the territorial integrity of every single ally” in Tallinn, Estonia on Wednesday. The president promised, “As free peoples, as an alliance, we will stand firm and united to meet the test
President Barack Obama expressed his support for a bolstered US military presence to defend NATO allies, including “American boots on the ground” in several Baltic nations during a speech in Tallinn, Estonia on Wednesday. “The United States is working to
The United States played New Zealand in basketball on Tuesday. The Americans took the game 98-71, but the New Zealanders took the pregame. The Kiwis performed a Maori warrior’s dance prior to their contest against the United States at the
On Wednesday’s “Good Morning America” on ABC, network White House correspondent Jon Karl pointed out the mixed messages President Barack Obama has sent in deal with ISIS in that in the same set of remarks he conveyed two different takes
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Wednesday broadcast of “Fox & Friends,” Breitbart’s Dr. Sebastian Gorka discussed a recent report of nearly a dozen missing Libyan jetliners, which have raised concerns over suicide airliner attacks. Gorka laid out two
“Duck Dynasty” patriarch and author of “unPHILtered: The Way I See It,” Phil Robertson, said that the only solution to deal with ISIS is to either “convert them or kill them” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News
KMSP-TV According to a report from Minnesota Twin Cities FOX affiliate KMSP that aired Tuesday night, Abdirahmaan Muhumed, the second known American killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria, previously worked for Delta Global Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta
UK Independence Party (UKIP) Leader and member of the European Parliament, Nigel Farage declared that international regulations will prevent the UK from keeping ISIS militants out of the country on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Farage commented that
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Brett McGurk said to “stay tuned” for the Untied States’ plans to combat ISIS. “We are putting the features in place,
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that President Barack Obama should “continue to follow the law” in order to help “create an environment where you could do immigration reform in a responsible way next year” on Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.”
In his commentary segment on Tuesday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Special Report,” Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume explained how in his view the Obama administration has been able to downplay the threat of terrorism and therefore avoid taking more
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued that democracy may not work in Iraq and that attempting to form American-style democracies in the Middle East tends to lead to “chaos” on Tuesday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” “A strongman, Hussein, ruled disparate people …
Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the director and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center, said President Barack Obama needs to “say more and do more” to address the treat of ISIS. Harman, the CEO of
On Tuesday’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer slammed President Barack Obama on the heels of a second American journalist being beheaded by ISIS for his seeming reluctance to acknowledge the threat of terrorism around the world. “[Obama is]
Transcript as follows: British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday warned that his country needs new counter-terrorism tools to confront a threat currently assessed as “severe.” Mr. Cameron described “the root cause of this threat” as “a poisonous ideology of Islamist
