A LOT OF WHAT WE HEARD

TONIGHT WAS A REINFORCEMENT OF

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S POLICIES, BUT

HE DOES SAY THAT HE NOTICED

SOMETHING NEW.

PRESIDENT OBAMA DROVE HOME THE

POINT THAT THIS IS NOT A WAR

BETWEEN AMERICA AND ISLAM.

IT IS A RESTATEMENT OF THE

KINDS OF THINGS HE IS DOING,

INCLUDING SOME OF THE THINGS HE

WOULD LIKE TO DO IN TERMS OF GUN

CONTROL, GETTING CONGRESS TO

ISSUE A DECLARATION OF WAR

AGAINST ISIS.

A TERRORISM EXPERT AND

PROFESSOR AT JOHNS HOPKINS

UNIVERSITY DID SHARE SOMETHING

NEW.

-- HERE'S SOMETHING NEW.

THAT HE CAN'T TREAT AMERICAN

MOSLEMS AS ENEMIES.

HE SAYS THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT

POINT FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA TO

MAKE.

THOUGH HE DIDN'T SAY IT,

PRACTICALLY IT'S NOT IN

AMERICAS INTEREST TO DO THAT.

THE GREAT MAJORITY OF MUSLIM

S

DON'T SUPPORT THESE ACTIONS.

THE ADDRESS COMES ON THE

HEELS OF THE ATTACK IN SAN

BERNARDINO, 14 KILLED AFTER A

HUSBAND AND WIFE STARTED

SHOOTING AT A HOLIDAY LUNCHEON.

DOZENS WERE HURT.

THE SHOOTING IS BEING

INVESTIGATED AS AN ACT OF

TERRORISM.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE

THAT AMERICAN MUSLIMS

ARE

AMERICAN, AND WE DON'T WANT TO

DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN THE

NON-MUSLIM COMMUNITY AND

EVERYTHING ELSE, IN-SWERVE SOME

OF THE RHETORIC FROM DONALD

TRUMP AND OTHERS SEEMS TO BE

FOSTERING THOSE DIVISIONS.

PRESIDENT

OBAMA'S MESSAGE WAS

FOR AMERICANS TO LIVE FREE AND

NOT IN FEAR.

THEY WANT EVERY AMERICAN TO

THINK THAT COULD BE ME, SO

THEREFORE I WILL NOT GO TO WORK

OR MALLS OR MOVIES, AND WE

CAN'T

LET A HANDFUL OF FANATICS

DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIFE.

HE SAYS HE WOULD HAVE LIKED

PRESIDENT OBAMA TO TALK ABOUT

TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AND