efforts to combat the militant group overseas in iraq and syria i'm joined by brett mcguirk, president obamas point man on the coalition to counter isis. thank you for joining us. we talk about the front lines being over there, and they are, but now you have u.s. bases under threat here. is this the new front line in your view in the fight against isis? >> well jim, look, the threat of the challenge is enormous. and it's really something we've never seen before. i'll give you some numbers. we have about 22,000 foreign terrorist fighters have gone into syria and iraq to fight with isis and affiliated groups. about 3,700 of those are from western nations. we've had about 180 americans have tried to travel to iraq and syria and just in the last few weeks 15 americans, the justice department has filed charges for supporting isis. so this is a multifaceted international federal, state, local challenge. that's why we put together a multifaceted, multilayered approach to combat it. since september we built the global coalition to combat isis, and myself and general allen, we have been to abou