On Monday’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie grilled Secretary of State John Kerry on the United States’ strategy to defeat ISIS yet the NBC host failed to question Kerry on his recent inflammatory comments in which he suggested a rationale existed for the terrorists that attacked Charlie Hebdo's headquarters in January.

In addition to Guthrie failing to ask Kerry about his supposed legitimization of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, it took NBC nearly 48 hours to initially cover the secretary of state’s remarks last week when correspondent Peter Alexander devoted a mere 33 seconds to Kerry’s gaffe. ABC and CBS have yet to mention the secretary of state’s comments once on either its morning or evening newscasts.

Guthrie’s omission of Kerry’s controversial comments was the only problematic portion of her tough interview with the secretary of state in which the NBC anchor repeatedly challenged the Obama administration’s strategy to defeat ISIS. After the Today co-anchor asked Kerry about the likelihood of another terrorist attack in the near future, Guthrie pressed the secretary of state to admit that the U.S. strategy against ISIS was not working:

Let's talk about this strategy against ISIS. In recent days ISIS has managed to pull off attacks in Paris, in Beirut and brought down a Russian jetliner. By definition, doesn't that just show that U.S. policy is not working, that there needs to be a better strategy?

The NBC anchor also hit Kerry on the administration’s ISIS strategy and even pointed out how former Obama officials have acknowledged the U.S. isn’t doing enough to defeat the terrorist organization:

The president talks about his critics popping off and saying they have a better idea, but he's getting criticism from former members of his administration, Leon Panetta, the former CIA director and defense secretary, Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state. A top counterterrorism official in his administration Michael Vickers as well as Dianne Feinstein who is now the Intel chair of the Senate saying it's not sufficient. It's not enough, and it's not happening fast enough.

See relevant transcript below.