Nov. 17, 2015
Good morning from the nation's capital, where Republican lawmakers are pressing for congressional action to halt President Obama's plan to relocate Syrian refugees in the United States. More than half of the states, meanwhile, are shutting their doors. Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint calls Obama's response to the Paris attacks a "dereliction of leadership." We also have a Q&A with a homeland security expert on risks to America. You’ll find these stories and more in today's Morning Bell.
The movement, overwhelmingly spearheaded by Republican governors, came after French prosecutors discovered a Syrian passport on one of the suspected Islamic State suicide bombers in Paris.
The president is proving more artful at destroying straw-men dressed up as GOP presidential hopefuls than he is at targeting terrorists, writes Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint.
President Obama's plan to include at least 1,000 Syrian refugees among a total of 85,000 over the next year doesn’t include proper scrutiny of who the refugees are and which ones are likely ISIS recruits, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., wrote in a letter.
The protests, which spawned from a social media movement called the Million Student March, hit 110 colleges throughout the U.S. and quickly rose as a top trending topic on Twitter.
After the coordinated attacks in Paris, this raises a number of troubling concerns about the prospects of another major attack on American soil.
President Obama is projecting confidence in his strategy against the Islamic State. Critics, meanwhile, believe that America needs to respond more aggressively or risk losing its credibility.
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