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A new poll shows 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the way President Obama is handling the current situation with ISIS

A new poll shows 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the way President Obama is handling the current situation with ISIS. With anxiety about terrorism on the rise, the White House is on the offensive. The president said Monday that the U.S. is strengthening its strategy against the terror group. He is also holding a string of national security-related events to reassure Americans and rebut critics who claim that ISIS is winning. Margaret Brennan reports.

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The FBI is now investigating the San Bernardino shooting massacre as an act of terrorism. Investigators say one of the suspects, Tashfeen Malik, declared support for the Islamic State in an online post

The FBI is now investigating the San Bernardino shooting massacre as an act of terrorism. Investigators say one of the suspects, Tashfeen Malik, declared support for the Islamic State in an online post. The Los Angeles Times also reports that the other suspect, Malik's husband Syed Rizwan Farook, also had contact with people from the Nusra front in Syria and the radical Shabab group in Somalia. Julianna Goldman reports.

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As the U.S. prepares to spend special forces to Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS, it raises the question: how did the terrorist group become such a global threat?

As the U.S. prepares to spend special forces to Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS, it raises the question: how did the terrorist group become such a global threat? Joby Warrick is a national security reporter for The Washington Post and author of "Black Flags: The Rise Of ISIS," and joins CBSN with more details on the man leading ISIS.

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