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## Video: Obama Takes On ISIS

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_Published 2014-09-06. Obama returns home to face Congress after discussing ISIS with leaders in Europe._


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## Transcript

Returning from talks in Europe over how to deal with the ISIS threat, President Obama now faces a returning Congress and lawmakers demanding a strategy. There was uniminity over the last two days, that ISIL poses a significant threat. To NATO members. The strategy alluding the president for weeks, becoming clearer. What, we can accomplish, is to dismantle this network, this force that has claimed. To control this much territory. So that they can't do us harm. and, and that's gonna be our objective. But achieving that goal in Syria, with a government the U. S. doesn't support remains a challenge.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle including Republican Frank Wolf in the House and Democrat Bill Nelson in the Senate already are preparing legislation ahead of any Presidential request to " authorize U. S. airstrikes inside Syria ." So far Mr. Obama pledged no U. S. ground troops. Will enter Syria, stressing that the US and an international coalition will prop up partners on the ground there, like the relatively moderate Free Syrian Army to take the fight directly to ISIS. They have been to some degree outgunned and outmanned, and that's why it's important for us to work with our friends and allies to support them more effectively.

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