Graham On National Security: We Must Up Our Game

and good morning again South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham is in cottonwood Arizona this morning and %HESITATION senator thanks for coming I want to start wed

that some of these details more details now coming out on the %HESITATION they Russian bombers and their family it now turns out that not only was one of them %HESITATION

was on a U. S. terror watch list but also his mother as well %HESITATION what do you make of this and where are we on all of this well

the mother's someone to be worried about I think %HESITATION information sharing felt the FBI investigated the older brother but never share the information with

system pains at DHS but DHS doesn't share the information with the FBI or the CI a %HESITATION

%HESITATION extremist videos that he's watching and interacting with so is a failure to share information and

and when he comes back in two thousand twelve he creates a YouTube channel of his own making where you got radical %HESITATION

%HESITATION extremist videos that he's watching and interacting with so it's a failure to share information and

missing obvious warning signs were going back to the pre nine eleven stove pipe well where do what we do what

what needs to be done a post mortem we need to find how could you miss the fact that the guy you

you were informed by foreign intelligence service you got a radical in your midst we can't track him to Russia we lose him going to rush and coming back for is an interview and

websites how did we miss that so we're going to have to up our game implement when these guys goes into the system and they leave the country we gotta make sure we know where they're going and

interview them and when somebody in the database like this begins to openly enter at were radical Islamist websites an

FBI agent should knock on his door and say you told us before you wanted to be an Olympic boxer you

love this country what the hell's going on here were watching you like this begins to openly enter at were radical Islamist websites an

FBI agent should knock on his door and say you told us before you wanted to be an Olympic boxer you

love this country what the hell's going on here were watching you let me turn out to Syria and the situation there where there are now reports that the Syrian government was using %HESITATION %HESITATION

chemical weapons on its right people the president %HESITATION said last week this could be a game

changer %HESITATION are you satisfied with the approach the administration is taking no I haven't been satisfied for long time but

having said that serious difficult after the briefing with secretary of state Kerry fortress powerful for things are going to happen if

going to be compromised and fall in the wrong hands in the next bomb it goes off in America may not have nails and glass and the

third thing I worry about is the king of Jordan he's had five hundred thousand refugees fled his country from Syria they

could be up to million to three million in the next six months to a year and his kingdom could fall when he's a moderating influence a good ally doesn't Syria in

the fourth thing if we keep this hands off approach to Syria this indecisive %HESITATION %HESITATION

meaning we're not serious about their %HESITATION nuclear weapons program we need to get involved in there's a growing consensus Bob in the U. S. Senate that