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Dec. 12, 2014: Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill as the Senate considers a spending bill. (Photo: AP)
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-AL, is calling for an investigation into after a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that since 2009, 5.5 million foreign worker permits have been issued above the yearly flow of 1 million green cards and 700,000 guest workers. The figures amount to a massive surplus beyond existing numerical limitations, or in plain English, beyond what Congress has legally authorized the president to do.
“This request has unearthed the operation of a shadow immigration system previously unknown to the American public,” said Sessions, one of Capitol Hill’s most outspoken critics of President Obama’s immigration policy. “A full investigation is warranted.”
According to recently released documents obtained by the conservative-leaning Center for Immigration Studies, Obama has created a shadow amnesty or “parallel” immigration system policy, which critics say has been stifling wages and taking jobs from Americans.
Congress authorized an estimated 5 million green cards and 3.5 million guest worker permits during the 2009-2014 period, in addition to the 5.5 million issued by administration action, a Senate staffer said Wednesday.
Sen. Session has largely framed his argument against Obama’s immigration policy as hurtful to American workers, most of whom suffered under stagnant wages in the alleged post-recession economy.
“This massive increase in the labor supply has occurred simultaneously with a steep drop in family incomes and a sharp rise in the number of Americans pushed out of the workforce,” Sen. Sessions said. “All jobs gains since the recession have gone to foreign workers, while the slack labor market has depressed median family incomes almost $5,000 in that time.”
Jessica Vaughn, the center’s director of policy studies, discovered the administration seized power to issue work permits outside the legal limits authorized by Congress. Vaughn says the process is now “the vehicle” for Obama’s executive actions, which as PPD previously reported, have been hidden in presidential memorandum as not to tout excessive executive orders. Obama has used the process to offer deferred deportation to millions of people now in the country illegally.
“There’s no reason to issue (work permits) to people here illegally or whose status is unknown,” Vaughn also said. “And if the government agency issuing them does not know or will not disclose how the bearer arrived in the country how can others rely on the authenticity of an individual’s identity? It is equally disconcerting if the government does know and chooses not to disclose it.”
A whopping 23,215 parolees, nearly 1,000 stowaways and 49 people suspected of document fraud received permanent or “pre-permanent” work permits. It is the largest group of recipients.
Further, 531,692 students and 470,028 students received temporary work permits over that period. And those in both groups we neither originally admitted to the U.S. for employment nor qualified for admission, according to the study.
She said 1.7 million have either not been recorded or their statuses have not been disclosed by the Citizenship and Immigration Services, but “are on track to get a green card.” which is cause for outrage because work permits are “gateway documents” to driver’s licenses, voting rights and even benefits, including welfare.
While Vaughn admits “some of those people are on track to get a green card” already,” she agrees with Sen. Jeff Sessions on the pro-American worker argument, adding “the vast majority of them entered illegal or on a tourist visa or the visa waiver program. It’s not like there’s a labor shortage here.”
Particularly concerning is that the three biggest bloc ineligible for work permits, yet somehow still receiving them are illegal immigrants (928,000), people of “unknown” immigration status (1.7 million), and those on a temporary visa (1.8 million).
“The coming days will test whether congressional Democrats can claim to represent American workers,” Sen. Sessions added, “or whether they will complete their transformation into the party of open borders.”
Citizenship and Immigration Services did return a call requesting comment.
Source: Center for Immigration Studies
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-AL, is calling for
Jan. 10, 2010: Brian Williams from “NBC Nightly News” answers a question during the panel for NBC News at the NBC Universal sessions of the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo: Reuters)
NBC Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams said Saturday that he is temporarily stepping down amid revelations he lied about being shot down in Iraq in 2003.
“In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions,” Williams said in a statement to NBC staff. “As managing editor of NBC Nightly News, I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days.”
“The admission raises serious questions about his credibility in a business that values that quality above all else,” says Howard Kurtz of Media Buzz on FOX News.
The publication “Stars and Stripes,” which covers the U.S. military, published a story earlier this week based on accounts of the servicemen actually involved in the incident. A number of U.S. servicemen said Williams was lying when he repeatedly said a helicopter in which he and his team were traveling during the invasion of Iraq was hit by rocket propelled grenades.
Williams apologized — sort of — on air Wednesday night, but calls for his resignation increased when revelations he lied about a Hurricane Katrina experienced surfaced, as well. Williams claimed that he saw a body or bodies in the Hurricane Katrina floodwaters that hit New Orleans while he was in the French quarter, except that particular area was spared of the flood levels he cited.
NBC News President Deborah Turness said in an internal memo Friday that the network has assigned the head of its own investigative unit to look into Williams’ statements. The 55-year-old Williams said NBC-TV newsman Lester Holt will fill in during the evening broadcasts until he returns.
“Holt has kindly agreed to sit in for me to allow us to adequately deal with this issue,” Williams said. “Upon my return, I will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us.”
NBC Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams said
Cheryl Mills, left, walks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, center, Senator Patrick Leahy, and Hilda Solis, the U.S. Secretary of Labor as Clinton arrives at Caracol, Haiti, Monday, October 22, 2012. Photo: Newscom)
The Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi announced they will begin interviews with requested State Department personnel as early as next week.
“I am announcing an ambitious timeline for interviews consistent with my plan to speed-up the pace of the investigation” said Chairman Gowdy. “I intend to stay with this schedule and will issue subpoenas if necessary.”
Notable names on the list the House select committee intends to interview are top aides to Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell told The Daily Signal that Mills and Sullivan were present at late-night Benghazi document-sorting session that he witnessed in the basement of the State Department. While neither the State Department nor the Justice Department, or the national media for that matter, have bothered to investigate the claim, it would appear Chairman Trey Gowdy intends to do just that.
But what of the former Secretary of State, herself, Hillary Clinton?
Sharyl Attkisson, a senior independent contributor to The Daily Signal, reported that both Democrats and Republicans want to schedule the appearance of Hillary Clinton “as soon as possible.”
However, Chairman Gowdy, a former prosecutor, said the State Department must provide documents that were initially subpoenaed in 2013 but yet to arrive. Gowdy says he wants time for the documents — which include those related to the State Department’s Accountability Review Board investigation and other relevant emails and the like — to be reviewed in order to “constructively ask questions of Secretary Clinton.”
The Benghazi committee also announced that next week it will begin interviewing three dozen firsthand witnesses, including “brave Americans who survived the attacks … and others who can provide indispensable firsthand accounts of what happened before, during and after the attacks.” However, the committee has not publicly provided the names of these witnesses, who will be interviewed between Feb. 10 and April 1.
The below list of names, which appears in alphabetical order, were sent in a letter to Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., seeking Democrats’ input on witnesses in what the chairman said was another bipartisan attempt to get Democrats to focus on the substance of the investigation at hand, instead of process complaints.
“I welcome input from the minority and hope they will provide it expeditiously,” Gowdy said. “If not, I have been forthcoming and transparent about the Committee’s plan to move forward.”
1) William Burns: former State Department deputy secretary (Hillary Clinton’s No. 2). He retired from the State Department on Nov. 3, 2014.
2) Jay Carney: former White House press secretary, who was the face of what many, including Jon Karl at ABC came to realize were inaccurate political talking points pushed ahead of a president election. He resigned May 30, 2014.
3) Gen. Martin Dempsey: chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
4) Tom Donilon: former Obama national security adviser, who resigned on June 30, 2013. He was replaced by Susan Rice, who infamously repeated the “spontaneous demonstration” lie on at least five different Sunday shows.
5) Benjamin Fishman: former member of White House National Security Council, and principal officer responsible for U.S. policy toward Libya. He left the NSC in 2013 and is now a consulting senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
6) Patrick Kennedy: undersecretary of state for management, who reportedly transmitted the order to hold back the U.S.-based Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) during the Benghazi attacks, which contractors on the ground contend costs the lives of 4 Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Obama officials argue they couldn’t have gotten there in time to help, but that has been directly refuted by military personnel.
7) Charlene Lamb: deputy assistant secretary for international programs, and the boss of the office that denied repeated security requests by U.S. personnel on the ground in Libya, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. He is the man that Clinton and others claim intercepted the requests the former secretary claims she never saw from her “good friend.”
8) Denis McDonough: White House chief of staff and former Obama campaign adviser.
9) Cheryl Mills: former chief of staff to Secretary of State Clinton and former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser. Mills has a long history with the Clinton machine, which goes all the way back to her days as deputy counsel to President Bill Clinton. She defended him during his 1999 impeachment trial, and left the State Department on Feb. 1, 2013. She joined BlackRock’s board of directors Nov. 20, 2013.
10) Michael Morell: former deputy director of the CIA, who not only coordinated the Benghazi talking points, but removed all references to Islamic terrorism. He has been caught giving Congress conflicting testimony regarding the talking points. While Morell retired from the CIA on June 12, 2013, he joined Beacon Global Strategies in November 2013, which is a public-relations group run by Clinton and Obama lackeys.
11) Michael Mullen: retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who served as co-chairman of the Accountability Review Board. Mullen acknowledged coordinating with Clinton chief of staff Mills on at least one witness at the same time he served as independent co-chair of the ARB investigation. He didn’t, however, see fit to even speak to Clinton during the investigation.
12) Matt Olsen: former director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a top Obama terrorism adviser. Olsen left that job in July 2014.
13) Leon Panetta: former defense secretary. He left that post Feb. 27, 2013.
14) David Petraeus: former CIA director who resigned Nov. 9, 2012, amid a sex scandal the Obama administration knew about nearly 6 months before the controversy over the talking points. However, he was only sandbagged shortly after Obama’s re-election. It is thought that Petraeus was only fired and had his character publicly smeared because he refused to play ball with the administration on the talking points. His deputy, Michael Morell and others, were all too eager to do so instead.
15) Thomas Pickering: former U.S. ambassador who co-chaired the Accountability Review Board with Mullen.
16) Ben Rhodes: Obama deputy national security adviser. It is because of emails sent by Rhodes that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, even agreed to vote on establishing the select committee. In emails the administration either refused to give to Congress or severely redacted, Rhodes coaches Susan Rice on a political narrative involving a spontaneous protest, which he said must be used in place of a greater foreign policy failure in answering questions from media.
17) Susan Rice: former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who repeatedly claimed — on five Sunday shows and beyond — the attacks were the result of a spontaneous demonstration )that included RPG fire) rather than coordinated acts of Islamic terrorism. Yet, in July 2013, she was promoted to Obama’s national security adviser.
18) Andrew Shapiro: former assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. He left that post in 2013 and co-founded Beacon Global Strategies, which should sound familiar. It is the same firm of Clinton and Obama officials that employs Morell.
20) Mark Thompson: leader of the State Department’s Foreign Emergency Response Team (FEST), which was not allowed to respond to the Benghazi attacks. He is also deputy coordinator for operations in the Bureau of Counterterrorism.
Chairman Trey Gowdy of the Benghazi select
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is under fire after he was caught lying about his helicopter coming under fire while covering Iraq in 2003. David Webb, Tamara Holder, and Kirsten Haglund join Hannity on the Great American Panel to discuss whether the stolen valor lie is comparable to Hillary Clinton’s lie about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia in the 1990s.
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David Webb, Tamara Holder, and Kirsten Haglund
Friday morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough tore into President Obama’s comments from the annual prayer breakfast in Washington D.C. this week. Obama said Christians, who committed violent acts during the Crusades and the Inquisition, shouldn’t get on their “high horse” about Islam.
“It’s unbelievable, the moral equivalency,” said the host of Morning Joe. “The president having to go back 700, 800, 900 years? You see this when you have people that somehow want to paint a broad brush. ‘Uh, yes, radical Islam is bad but look what Christianity does.’ Really, you have to go back 800 years to a Crusade which, by the way, most historians say Christians launched in response to years and years of Muslims taking over their former land.”
Scarborough’s liberal co-host, Mika Brzezinski, attempted to downplay the president’s comments as a timing issue only, as if it didn’t conflict with historical and logical accuracy.
“I think the timing’s bad. I think it’s a bigger conversation as to whether or not it’s okay to have, you know,” she said before a visibly disturbed Scarborough responded in kind.
“Why does he feel the need to go back 800 years?” he interjected. “This stupid, left-wing moral equivalency. Sometimes you can just say — sometimes you just say, ‘hey, you know what, there are some really, really bad Muslim extremists.” You don’t have to go to the other side, ‘oh, and Christians are bad, too.’ There is such a desperate plea for some reason on the left to do that, for some people on the left.”
Scarborough went to cite an example of how liberals desperately sought an example of Christian and Jewish extremism in the wake of 9/11, but ended up equating Islamic extremism with a Christian school that was allegedly making women wear skirts below their knees.
“How ghastly,” he added. “Let’s see. Wear skirts below your knees on this side at fundamentalist schools, blow up the World Trade Center on this side.”
After Brzezinski tried to dismiss the point by simply saying, “Okay, okay,” a seething Scarborough expressed the feelings of millions of Americans.
“No, no, it’s not okay,” he fired back. “It’s not okay for this president. You almost have to ask the question, where did he go to church? Where would he get such ideas from?”
Friday morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough tore into
Real estate magnate and reality television star Donald Trump speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference at Gaylord Center, Maryland, on March15, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Breitbart News reported that real estate magnate and reality television star Donald Trump will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Trump, who has flirted with his own run for the GOP presidential nomination on several occasions, joins a long list of potential 2016 GOP contenders. CPAC 2015, which is hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU), will be held from Feb. 25 through Feb. 28 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, a long-used venue located just outside of Washington, D.C.
“We are honored that Donald Trump is coming,” ACU’s Chairman Matt Schlapp told Breitbart News. “I’ve had the opportunity to sit down with him and talk to him on a number of occasions. He is a true American success story. Whenever he speaks at CPAC, he is a crowd favorite because nothing is sacred and he tells it like it is.”
The annual national gathering of conservative activists will include non-politicians such as Media Research Center president Brent Bozell, radio host Mark Levin and Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Confirmed politicians to speak include Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Dr. Ben Carson (though not yet a politician), Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
Other high-profile confirmed speakers include Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.), Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Trump has been making the rounds to early presidential primary states slamming both 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. At the Iowa Freedom Summit hosted by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Citizens United, Trump said “the last thing this country needs is another Bush.”
He made similiar comments, according to Breitbart, at a press conference aboard his private jet last month.
The last thing this country needs is another Bush. We’ve had it with the Bushes, and the last Bush did not do a great job. He gave us Obama, he gave us—as you know—Justice [John] Roberts [of the Supreme Court] who approved Obamacare. He’s got a second shot at it but who knows what’s going to happen, it’s not as good as the first one. But he [George W. Bush] gave us Justice Roberts who approved Obamacare. We’re all saddled with Obamacare, the country is saddled with it. And it really kicks in in 2016. It’s going to be a disaster for the country.
Trump will visit the Granite State to meet with statehouse Rep. Bill O’Brien, the former state house Speaker, and several conservative activists in March. Trump is also scheduled to visit Iowa again for the Iowa Agriculture Summit in Des Moines on March 7.
Breitbart News reported that real estate magnate
President Barack Obama will ask Congress to authorize the use of military force against the terror army ISIS in the days ahead, a move lawmakers on both sides of the aisle welcomed.
“When it comes to fighting a war, the Congress should not tie the president’s hands, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Thursday morning. “It’s also incumbent on the president to make the case to the American people on why we need to fight this fight. This is not going to be an easy lift.”
While some lawmakers expressed criticism, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she believes an agreement will be reached in the end.
“I’m not saying anybody’s come to an agreement on it,” Pelosi said. “I think it’s going to be a challenge, but we will have it.”
However, many Republicans say they want a broader authorization of military force against ISIS, the terror group currently in control of large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, and say the president and Democrats are considering the bare minimum as a political reaction, not a military strategy.
Pelosi, herself, admitted talks with the administration are focusing only on an authorization time frame that spans three years, which already ties the hands of the U.S. military, weakens allies’ resolve, and allows the enemy a “light at the end of the tunnel” argument.
Obama has been relying on congressional authorizations that President George W. Bush used to legally justify military action after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Critics have called the White House’s use of post-9/11 congressional authorizations is illegal, though Obama has previously argued that a new authorization isn’t legally necessary.
The developments come after Islamic militants released a horrific video of the murder of a Jordanian Air Force pilot by pouring gasoline on him and burning him alive in a black cage with white phosphorus. Jordanian King Abdullah met with 26 lawmakers this week after the incident and found a warm audience.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House intelligence panel, has already introduced legislation rather than wait for Obama’s version. His bill would authorize the use of force against ISIS in Iraq and Syria for three years, but prohibit the use of ground forces in a combat mission in either nation. He has said if the president later decided to deploy ground troops, he could return to Congress to ask for new authority.
“It is my hope that the administration will be willing to accept important limits in a new authorization as well as the sunset or repeal of the old [authorizations], as this will be necessary to ensure strong bipartisan support and meet the goals the president set last summer of refining and repealing the prior authorizations,” Schiff said in a statement Thursday.
President Barack Obama will ask Congress to
Americans seeking full- and part-time work fill out job applications at a workshop. (Photo: REUTERS)
The U.S. economy added 257,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased to 5.7 percent in January, but there’s a good reason for that. The labor force participation rate, which remains at a 36-year low, rose by 0.2 percent to 62.9 percent.
Economists had predicted 234,000 new jobs last month and that the unemployment rate would hold steady at 5.6 percent. But with the civilian labor force increasing by 703,000 in January, which translated to more Americans re-entering the labor force, the headline number advances.
Unfortunately, despite this marking the 12th consecutive month in which the U.S. gained more than 200,000 jobs, it hasn’t translated into bigger paychecks for U.S. workers. Wages remain a serious fundamental weakness in the U.S. economy.
Average hourly earnings for all employees on private non-farm payrolls rose by 0.5 percent in January, a turnaround from December, when wages fell by 5 cents to $24.57. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have risen by just 1.7 percent, well below the 3 percent rate economists say is healthy.
Low wages are also symptomatic of the chronic, low-paying jobs that are by majority fueling job creation in America. While the U.S. has numerically regained the estimated 8.8 million jobs lost during the Great Recession, the quality of those jobs are not comparable. Further, such superficial analysis omits the impact of population growth.
The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons — which is sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers — was again unchanged in January at 6.8 million. These individuals prefer full-time employment, but were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.
The government requires just one hour of work per week and $20.00 in income to be considered “employed.”
In January, 2.2 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, of which 682,000 are “discouraged workers.” These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. However, they are not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
When factoring for the government’s methodologies, the real unemployment rate rose to 11.3 percent.
Meanwhile, because average hourly wages have been stagnant for years, which has kept the Fed’s 2 percent inflation target out of reach, wages have emerged as perhaps the key indicator to determine when the Fed might start raising interest rates.
During the past year, at least, average hourly earnings growth has come nowhere near the 3 percent – 3.5 percent growth rate the Fed views as necessary to keep inflation at its desired target. While the inflation target has not yet been hit, the Fed is still expected to raise rates in mid-2015, or June.
The U.S. economy added 257,000 jobs and
On Hannity Thursday night, conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin slams Obama for his comments at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday. Obama compared Christianity during the crusades and even the track-record of India, a primarily Hindu ally he just visited, to the acts committed by radical Islamists.
“This man is a nihilist and a narcissist and an extremist,” Levin said. “Why don’t you walk the rows and rows and rows of the dead heroes [Arlington Cemetery] who liberated peoples who were facing genocide and tyranny of all kinds… the overwhelming majority, Mr. Obama, are Christians.”
Mark Levin also broke down the president’s logic in comparison to the actions of American’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. If Lincoln would have shared Obama’s logic, Levin explained, then he would have concluded that slavery is almost a human natural act and, “might say, why in the world would I send hundreds and thousands of men to their death to end slavery?”
“What Obama is saying and doing is the lowest of the low now,” Levin said. “He really is not a leader of a great people. He’s not a leader of a great nation. He is stuck in his own ideology. He’s stubborn and ignorant at the same time.”
(Correction: A prior version of this article replaced Hindu with Buddhistic)
Transcript Below:
SEAN HANNITY: You talk about moral relativism. The terrible deeds in the name of Christ, he can’t even say the Islamic State is ISIS. Would he ever say the terrible deeds committed in the name of Muhammad? Did you ever hear those words coming out of his mouth?
MARK LEVIN: No, we won’t. This man is a nihilist and a narcissist and an extremist. And I would like to suggest that — Mr. Obama, here’s a suggestion for you as the leader of the United States. This weekend rather than going off and campaigning or going on vacation, why don’t you go across the Potomac River into Arlington National Cemetery?
Why don’t you walk the rows and rows and rows of the dead heroes who liberated peoples who were facing genocide and tyranny of all kinds, World War I, World War ii, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and all kinds of wars. Those young men, if you look at those headstones, the overwhelming majority, all religions, but the overwhelming majority, Mr. Obama, are Christians. Why didn’t you speak to them today, Mr. Obama?
And ironically you brought up slavery in the United States. And what’s ironic about it, Sean, is if Abraham Lincoln took the position of Barack Obama, it would have been something like this. Lincoln saying we’ve had slavery on every continent in every country since the beginning of mankind. The Egyptians enslaved the Jews, the Romans enslaved Christians. Slavery is almost a human natural act, is it not? And Lincoln would say, following Obama’s argument, don’t get on your high horse.
This is not an existential threat, Obama said the other day of the genocide in the Middle East. And Lincoln might say, why in the world would I send hundreds and thousands of men to their death to end slavery?
What Obama is saying and doing is the lowest of the low now. He really is not a leader of a great people. He’s not a leader of a great nation. He is stuck in his own ideology. He’s stubborn and ignorant at the same time. There are black Christians and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered. They don’t want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don’t need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.
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HANNITY: Let me show you two maps. Savannah Guthrie, during the Super Bowl, interviewed the president and talked about how his strategy is not working. The president vehemently denied it, but there you can see on the map the increase in ISIS-controlled territories and the battle for both big cities and small and the control that they’ve taken.
Then we look at radical Islam in January 2015 and its worldwide influence now, all around the world. The president denied that advancement as well. If America doesn’t lead, are we going to count on the Jordanians? Are we going to count on Middle Eastern countries to take up this battle, this fight? Don’t we need America to be fully engaged to actually win this war against modern fascism in our time?
LEVIN: There’s no question about it. And the fact of the matter is for all of his talk that he thinks is in defense of Muslims, this president because of the way he left Iraq, this vice president has started to get a status of forces agreement, they have, in my humble opinion, lots and lots of blood on their hands. Many, many Muslims, Christians and others have died as a result of their actions. He can give as many speeches and issue as many bumper stickers as he wants. And here’s the other point, we are going to get hit if we do not hit this enemy where this enemy is. We are going to get hit again.
Conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin
