Obama Sets Primetime National Address On Strategy Against ISIS

President Barack Obama speaks about H.R. 3230, the Veterans’ Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, at the Wallace Theater in Fort Belvoir, Va. The bill... President Barack Obama speaks about H.R. 3230, the Veterans’ Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, at the Wallace Theater in Fort Belvoir, Va. The bill gives resources to the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve access and quality of care for veterans. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS
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President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak to the nation on Wednesday night at 9 p.m EST from the State Floor of the White House about the terrorist group ISIS (also called ISIL), which recently executed two American journalists they captured in Syria.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the president will “discuss with the American people the threat posed by ISIL and to lay out the United States’ strategy for degrading and ultimately destroying the terrorist group.”

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