Senator Scott Releases Statement on Paris Attacks

The president spoke in Antalya, where he’s meeting with other leaders of the G-20.

The Obama administration has said all refugees underwent thorough screening. “But…it’s going to take time”.

Obama has been criticized for his administration’s handling of the current turmoil in Syria and Iraq, with a few Republicans calling for a more aggressive approach that would include more USA troops on the ground in the region. More likely than not, a slowdown in Internet connections and signal interruptions will be highly noticeable in the areas where the delegation of US President Barack Obama will be present as high-tech surveillance and monitoring will be ongoing within the perimeter to monitor the flow of “chatter”. “It is not just my view, but the view of my closest military and civilian advisers, that would be a mistake”. If we make it easy for them to enter the country amid a flood of beleaguered Syrian families, clearly they won’t hesitate to do so.

“France is at war”, Hollande declared, indicating he would ask parliament to impose a three-month-long state of emergency.

In the wake of the horrific Paris attacks, leaders from the world’s top economies ended a two-day summit at this Mediterranean resort Monday with a vow to step up the fight against terrorism.

U.S. President Barack Obama said the militant group was “the face of evil” and urged other nations to do more to combat the threat it poses. “And the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers who are brutalizing local populations”.

“The more we shrink that territory, the less they can pretend that they are somehow a functioning state”, he said in the interview. The group says that it blew up a Russian plane over Egypt, which took 224 lives, and that it carried out a pair of suicide bombings in Beirut last Thursday, leaving 44 dead. I don’t mean that they want to fight the Islamic State – they want to fight anyone who disagrees with them on whether Obama is a useless squish or Islam is a peaceful religion corrupted by a tiny percentage of evildoers or the need to carpet bomb Syria or the importance of standing silently, holding a candle and praying. Still, he resisted calls to escalate USA military action and open a large-scale ground war, saying he would instead intensify the American-led airstrike campaign, as well as efforts to train and equip moderate rebels.

“There were no specific mentions of this particular attack that would give us a sense of something that we could provide French authorities, for example, or act on ourselves”, he said.

The fruits of that cooperation were borne Sunday night, when French jets began a bombardment of Raqqa, the Syrian headquarters of ISIS.

“We have the finest military in the world and the finest military minds in the world”, he said. And they’d secured a key highway between Iraq and Syria preventing ISIS from resupplying.

John says President Obama is too passive when it comes to ISIS.

“Even as we grieve with our French friends, however, we can’t lose sight that there has been progress being made”, Obama added.

“Whether you are European or American, you know, the values that we are defending, the values we’re fighting against [ISIS] for are precisely that we don’t discriminate against people due to their faith”, Obama said. “What’s been interesting in the aftermath of Paris, as I listen to those who suggest ‘something else needs to be done, ‘ typically the things they suggest need to be done are things we are already doing”, he said.

CORNISH: And the president’s strategy’s come under a lot of criticism from Republicans.