Mike McCaul: ‘I Don’t Think the President Has Got It from the Beginning of ISIS’

ROBERTS: "Chairman, the president has said several times in the past that terrorists are on the run. You said at George Washington University the other day that they are not on the run, they are on the march. Is the White House not getting it?"
McCAUL: "I don’t think the president has got it from the beginning of ISIS. I mean, he wants to deny that it’s going on. They are the jv team, you know, the caliphate — the day that al Baghdadi declares a caliphate, he declares a war on terror over. The president did. It’s been expanding not contracting. We are making some limited success in Iraq and Syria, but as in Tunisia, right next to Libya with our team in exile or ambassador in exile, they talked about the 6,000 is in Libya. Libya is a failed state and becoming a launching pad for external operations, as is Sinai in Egypt where we see ISIS that pulled off the Sharm el-Sheikh. I’m worried mostly as homeland security chairman about external operations conducted by the safe havens that are now being created in the Middle East and Northern Africa from which they can launch external operations in the U.S. And aviation security is the biggest threat."