CBS "Face the Nation" - Transcript: Marco Sits Down with CBS's Face the Nation

Interview

Marco sat down with John Dickerson of CBS this Sunday, November 1, 2015.

On President Obama's recent decision to send 50 military advisers to Syria:

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It's an important start from a tactical perspective, but I think the broader issue is, what is the strategy? And I think the strategy has to involve more coordination with the Kurds and also with Sunnis. We're not going to defeat ISIS, a radical Sunni movement, without a robust anti-ISIS Sunni coalition. So I do think it's an important tactical step forward, but it needs to be backed up with increased air strikes and so forth. So I don't have a problem with the tactics of it -- the numbers might even have to be larger at some point -- but the bigger issue is, can they arrive at a strategy? And that's what I think the administration is still struggling with.

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The job of a President is to craft a vision for America's future -- to put the right people in the right positions and hold them accountable for carrying out your agenda, but also to rally the people behind big causes. Entitlement reform is a huge undertaking; it'll never happen without presidential leadership. Not to mention national security -- the role of commander-in-chief is the most important job of a president. In the context of Barack Obama, he has now been president for seven years, he has significant executive experience, and he's still making mistakes, in my opinion.

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