White House Defends President Obama's Claim That The Islamic States In Now Contained

Daily Mail: Obama meant that ISIS had only been 'contained' GEOGRAPHICALLY, claims his adviser in damage control interview after the President was criticized for comments

* President Obama said in an interview that aired Friday that ISIS was 'contained' and he didn't believe the group was gaining strength
* On Friday, more than 125 were killed in Paris at the hands of ISIS terrorists in a series of bombings and shootings
* Today Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said the president specifically meant that ISIS wasn't gaining ground in Syria and Iraq

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was forced several times today to clarify a comment made by President Obama that aired Friday morning hours before ISIS terrorists murdered more than 125 in Paris.

'I don't think they're gaining strength,' Obama had said of the terrorist organization on Good Morning America. 'What is true is that from the start our goal has been first to contain them and we have contained them.'

Contained, said Rhodes, was simply meant in terms of geography.

'The president was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria,' Rhodes told ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos.

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