“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough ripped President Obama’s Sunday Oval Office speech, insisting “he’s got to give Americans a reason to believe that he’s not just going to stay hunkered down in his ideological bunker and continue to ignore this threat.”
Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Scarborough explained that Obama was “slow to respond on ISIS, he was slow to respond to Paris, he said ISIS is contained. There’s a report out now that we’re going to be talking about in a little bit from the intel community that what he is doing is not working and ISIS isn’t contained.”
The host of “Morning Joe” called for “something new” from Obama. “We needed something new, post-San Bernardino. We needed more. (RELATED: Republican Presidential Candidates Rip Into Obama Over Oval Office Speech)
“What did the president do last night? He talked about status quo at home,” Scarborough lamented. “We know that he supports gun control. He’s been talking about that for seven years. That’s not new after San Bernardino.” (RELATED: Obama Calls Gun Control ‘A Matter Of National Security’ [VIDEO])
Talking about “Status quo abroad,” Scarborough referenced Richard Engel and said, “it’s staying the course which has not worked. And his own intel community is saying it’s not working.” (RELATED: MSNBC Terrorism Analyst Rips Obama’s ISIS Strategy: Not ‘An Incredibly Strong Prescription’)
Scarborough explained “many people were watching last night saying, ‘is that really it?’ And I don’t know what new — if the president doesn’t want Americans to be consumed by fear, here we are on Pearl Harbor, the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, then he’s got to give Americans a reason to believe that he’s not just going to stay hunkered down in his ideological bunker and continue to ignore this threat.”