Video Transcript:

On Thursday, CIA Director John Brennan told the Senate Intelligence Committee that U.S. efforts against ISIS are not reducing their “global reach.”

BRENNAN: Unfortunately, despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach. The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses on territory, manpower and money for its terrorism capacity to decline significantly. In fact, as the pressure mounts on ISIL, we judge that it will intensify its global terror campaign to maintain its dominance of the global terrorism agenda.

This was very different from what President Obama said on Tuesday.

OBAMA: ISIL’s ranks are shrinking as well. Their morale is sinking. As one defector said, “ISIL is not bringing Islam to the world and people need to know that.” Thanks to international efforts, the flow of foreign fighters – including from America to Syria and Iraq – has plummeted. In fact, our intelligence community now assess that the ranks of ISIL fighters has been reduced to the lowest levels in more than two and a half years.

Brennan also said ISIS is planning on entering the U.S.

BRENDAN: We judge that ISIL is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks. ISIL has a large cadre of Western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the West. And the group is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the West including: in refugee flows, smuggling routes and legitimate routes of travel.

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