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James A. Baker, III
Honorary Chair, Baker Institute for Public PolicyFormer secretary of state James A. Baker, III — the honorary chair of Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy — discussed President Obama's strategy to combat ISIS on the Sept. 14, 2014, broadcast of NBC's Meet the Press.
In his 28th appearance on the program, Mr. Baker said the president's plan has “some problems … the biggest, of course, is who are ‘our partners on the ground’ the president referred to in his speech? You’ve got to have some people on the ground, you can’t do this just with air power … If they’re not going to be Americans, who are they going to be?”
Watch the interview below: