[Daily Caller] Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Barack Obama, doubled down on comments Obama made earlier in the week claiming ISIS was "contained" in Iraq and Syria by suggesting on Sunday "we were able to halt" their expansion.Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked Rhodes how ISIS could still be “contained” if there were three terrorist attacks potentially committed by ISIS in the last ten days in locations other than Iraq and Syria.
In response to Todd referencing the bombing of the Russian airliner bombing, the Beirut bombing, and Friday’s attacks in Paris, Rhodes explained, “the President was referring very specifically to the question of ISIL’s geographic expansion in Iraq and Syria.”