Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers appeared on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday and warned that ISIS is a "very real threat" and is currently "one plane ticket away form U.S. shores."

Amidst the ongoing debate within the mainstream media of whether or not ISIS is a "real threat" to America, Rogers clearly indicated to MTP's guest host Chris Jansing that the threat is as real as it gets:

It's a very real threat and you saw the very barbaric behavior. And one of the problems is, it's gone unabated for nearly two years and that draws people from Britain to across Europe, even the United States, to go and join the fight. They see that as a winning ideology, a winning strategy, and they want to be a part of it. And that's what makes it so dangerous. They are one plane ticket away from U.S. shores. And that's why we're so concerned about it.

Jansing indicated that the Pentagon does not believe that ISIS is in a position to launch an attack on the United States. Rogers was happy to dispute that claim. According to his intelligence numbers, well over 2,000 Westerners involved with ISIS have Western passports and can travel abroad, through Europe and into the United States -- even without a Visa. Add to that the fact that the whole reason that al Qaeda and ISIS fought and split in Syria was over the fact that they desired "Western-style operations," as Rogers indicated. Al Qaeda considers ISIS "too barbaric" -- a notion that Rogers said seems "laughable" in light of the fact that they were the ones who flew planes into buildings killing 3,000 people on 9/11. Now the two organizations are competing for "points," as Rogers put it, to see who can attract the most people and money. Once this "game" reaches the next level, it would be safe to assume they will plan attacks that one-up each other and all sights will be set on America.

However, Jansing presumes that the U.S. is safer from terrorist attacks than when 9/11 happened. And while Rogers agrees that America "might be" safer now, it is the sheer number of recruits that ISIS is attracting on a daily basis. Couple that with the fact that they had "nothing deterring them for years" to train, recruit, and finance, being safer is beside the point. Rogers warns that, for instance, the people involved in making the video of the beheading of James Foley, believed to be a British citizen, could get back home and then fly to America without ever being found out until it is too late. "That's what's so dangerous about this," said Rogers.

Concluding the segment, Rogers slammed the Obama administration's failures in stopping these terrorist groups. "There's no mulligans in foreign policy," he said. Rogers reminds that this is not only about Foley's brutal execution, but not forgetting that these terrorists have slaughtered, beheaded, executed, what have you, thousands of people and sold women into slavery. They will continue this practice. Stopping them, or "disrupting" them as Rogers says, is the key in dealing with ISIS.

Rogers said President Obama now has an opportunity to change his policies -- those same policies that have led to missing "dozens and dozens of opportunities to take really bad people off the battlefield in the last two years."

Jansing's final question asked Rogers's confidence level in the U.S. defeating ISIS. "We have the capability to defeat it, we now have to have the political will and we have to have the policy to do it. We have the first, we don't have the second two," Rogers said.