ISIS Paper Trail

US Rep. Michael Capuano of Mass. 7th District joins Jim Braude to discuss the governor's race and the tracking of ISIS

It seems a paper trail is emerging of warnings about the growing threat of ISIS as far back as last winter.

The discussion comes as President Obama made a notable admission on national television, which is now raising questions about how the red flags went unheeded by the intelligence community and the White House for so long.

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano of Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District joins Jim Braude to discuss the tracking of ISIS and issues in the commonwealth.

"These Monday morning quarterbacking things always get me," said Capuano. "ISIS was on the list of 100 different groups to look at. One of them was going to break out. ISIS was the one that broke out. And I'm not saying we shouldn't ask these questions to try and get it right the next time, but we didn't see the Viet Cong, we didn't see the German Reichstag - I just don't find it as big a deal as some people want to make it."

Capuano, a Democrat, also discussed a Boston Globe report of his "lukewarm" support for Democrat Martha Coakley and positive comments about Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker.

"If politics is only about having your candidate be the only good person in the entire universe, and the other candidate being the horrendous person of the world, count me out," "Sometimes, that's the case, but more often than not, it's a question of degrees. I have supported and endorsed Martha Coakley, I will continue to do so. I don't have to hate and disdain Charlie Baker to do that."

Capuano explained that Coakley's policies were more in tune with his own, but that he is close friends with Baker and thinks he is a fine man.

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