On Wednesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, a discussion was held regarding comments about ISIS made earlier in the day by President Obama, who was speaking in Estonia. Ron Fournier, Senior Political Columnist and Editorial Director of National Journal, was not happy with the comments, saying the President was too passive and he found Obama's lack of understanding about the threat of ISIS to be unsettling. 

After showing a clip of President Obama's address where he said the ISIS threat could be reduced to a manageable problem, host Andrea Mitchell asked:

Mitchell: Ron, is it no longer a manageable problem?

Fournier: Well, that's awfully passive language to be using about this kind of brutality we're seeing. What I wrote about today, the single most important question we need to be asking ourselves and they've got to be asking themselves in Washington or at the White House, is do we see ISIS as a direct and immediate threat to the United States? The President doesn't seem to think so, or at least he's having a hard time articulating that. Members of his cabinet are saying it is. Members of both Houses of Congress, both the Democratic and Republican party are saying it is a threat. Obviously the answer to that question dictates how you respond to it, and I find it unsettling that the president hasn't been able to say whether or not this Islamic state is a threat to the United States. It appears to me to be that it is.