Transcript for Martin O'Malley on 2016 Presidential Race

running third behind Hillary Clinton and Bernie sanders. In our latest ABC news/washington post poll. Governor O'Malley, thank you for joining us this morning. Even though your poll Numbers are hard, you're striking hard at Hillary Clinton. Saying she's demonstrated a total inability to understand what happens after dictator falls and what our country needs. Total inability? Well, yes, George, secretary Clinton voted for the Iraq war and notwithstanding what she now regards as a big mistake. None themselves, you find these circumstances. Can you point to one instance as secretary of state, secretary Clinton had an understanding of what was coming after the toppling of the dictator. She could be very gleeful at the fall of Gadhafi. I also said yesterday, that secretary Clinton has one foot stuck in the cold war. Look, this is a new era of warfare, fourth generation warfare, and it requires a new sort of diplomacy a far-seeing national strategy that is not the old, cold war mentality. How would yours be different? She's called if security surge. She's called with greater cyber efforts against Isis. She doesn't want ground troops in the region. How would you be different? And again, in the speech that she just gave, George, it was an everything than the kitchen sink, peppered with the same old thinking, old state department thinking when it comes to this. Look, we need a foreign policy that not only talks about a greater human intelligence but actually delivers it. How long have we been at this war? Yet our human intelligence capacities on the ground in Syria and other places -- But she's calling for the exact same thing. When she had the opportunity to do something about it, George, she did not. She's stuck in the old cold war thinking. This new era requires new thinking, fresh approaches. This is very different than the conflict of the 1990s. This is asymmetrical warfare. In Syria and Iraq, it's one top of war. Beyond that, and with these global terrorists, it's more akin tracking down drug organizations. So, be specific right here. Name three things that you would do that Hillary Clinton wouldn't do. This new age requires network intelligence, it's obvious from the fact of the attacks in France that we still have not gotten to the place where we have this sort of network intelligence that we need to defend ourselves, and an immune system is strong because not it outnumbers the bad germs but because it's better coordinated. It's not the old way. Where we get memos and eight months later, we make a decision. This requires much more nimble thinking, a new age of rapid communications, intelligence sharing with neighbors that in the past lot of security agencies thought ran contrary. When it comes to fighting Isis on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, we need to up the battle tempo and we also need new alliances that are open-ended and ideally work through the U.N. Security council and it's not a better of big divisions fighting off in the desert. This is a matter of special forces and working in coalition with many other nations and other partners. And it also requires an open-endedness to allow the Russians to come in and help us where provided that short-term political solution that directs that firepower. Washington post shows a poll, your campaign is perilously close to financial collapse. Are you certain you're going to stay through Iowa? I am. This week, after we had our second debate, we had the best week of fund-raising that we have ever had. With high school kids across Iowa we garnered 24% of the caucus going vote. And finished ahead of Hillary Clinton. As you know from your own experience, the people of Iowa make up their own mind. They're not intimidated by big money and so-called inevitable front-runners. And come caucus night, we're going to emerge as the democratic alternative to the Hillary Clinton, this year's front-runner. I just begun to fight. I'm looking forward to the Iowa caucuses. Governor O'Malley, thanks very much for your time this morning.

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